I don't remember him being reissued before. I was unemployed when he was first released and couldn't afford it.
The repaint is irrelevant to me because I don't want to spend $200 on a literal non-character.
I don't remember him being reissued before. I was unemployed when he was first released and couldn't afford it.
The repaint is irrelevant to me because I don't want to spend $200 on a literal non-character.
I'm pretty sure they reissued him back in 2021 or so.
I'd be happy with a downsized version, as I believe he was smaller than Trypticon in the BW2 cartoon?
Okay, everyone except Echowarrior and Shadhausen.
A recent discovery has been made regarding discarded plans for a Leader class toy of Straxus in the pre-Evolution year of Legacy.
Originally, Amazon.com had a toy listing for a "TRA GEN Legacy EV Leader DARKMOUNT," (recall that all of the first-year Legacy toys were listed by stores as "Legacy EV" instead of just "Legacy"; this is not an indication that said toy would have been part of the second-year Evolution line). But when the final toy for this listing went live, it ultimately became the order page for Legacy Leader class Transmetal II Megatron instead, meaning that toy replaced the Legacy Straxus/Darkmount toy.
Awhile back, F.J. DeSanto (the head writer of both the Machinima Prime Wars Trilogy cartoons and the Netflix War For Cybertron Trilogy cartoon) had pitched a Legacy cartoon to Netflix that would have lasted for three seasons, but Netflix passed on the pitch.
More recently, a mysterious piece of artwork in the style of the Legacy toy packaging popped up online and DeSanto himself has confirmed it to have been artwork created by Hasbro to represent a character who would have been the main villain of the Legacy animated series had Netflix picked it up.
IDW artist Anna Malkova also chimed in to confirm that the artwork was none other than Straxus, for whom she had done preliminary design work. She created two different designs for this new Straxus, one being his "Original Body", and a Frankenstein-esque "After 'Accident'" design. The first one was used for "Straxxus" as he appeared in the 2019 IDW comics, while the second one went unused.
It is this second one that resembles the design seen in the artwork DeSanto confirmed to have been for the Legacy cartoon villain, meaning this monstrous version of Straxus with his head floating in a liquid tube inside his chest might have been what the Leader class Legacy toy may have looked like (the way it would have actually transformed, and into what, exactly, is anyone's guess).
Originally, Amazon.com had a toy listing for a "TRA GEN Legacy EV Leader DARKMOUNT," (recall that all of the first-year Legacy toys were listed by stores as "Legacy EV" instead of just "Legacy"; this is not an indication that said toy would have been part of the second-year Evolution line). But when the final toy for this listing went live, it ultimately became the order page for Legacy Leader class Transmetal II Megatron instead, meaning that toy replaced the Legacy Straxus/Darkmount toy.
Awhile back, F.J. DeSanto (the head writer of both the Machinima Prime Wars Trilogy cartoons and the Netflix War For Cybertron Trilogy cartoon) had pitched a Legacy cartoon to Netflix that would have lasted for three seasons, but Netflix passed on the pitch.
More recently, a mysterious piece of artwork in the style of the Legacy toy packaging popped up online and DeSanto himself has confirmed it to have been artwork created by Hasbro to represent a character who would have been the main villain of the Legacy animated series had Netflix picked it up.
IDW artist Anna Malkova also chimed in to confirm that the artwork was none other than Straxus, for whom she had done preliminary design work. She created two different designs for this new Straxus, one being his "Original Body", and a Frankenstein-esque "After 'Accident'" design. The first one was used for "Straxxus" as he appeared in the 2019 IDW comics, while the second one went unused.
It is this second one that resembles the design seen in the artwork DeSanto confirmed to have been for the Legacy cartoon villain, meaning this monstrous version of Straxus with his head floating in a liquid tube inside his chest might have been what the Leader class Legacy toy may have looked like (the way it would have actually transformed, and into what, exactly, is anyone's guess).
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Ehh, I'm kinda glad they didn't do that. A drone with Straxus's head floating in it is kind of neat, but it just looks far too mishmashy. If we'd have got that instead of a toy that actually looks like Straxus i'd have felt very disappointed.
Also Straxus has a mouthplate. Please don't.
Also Straxus has a mouthplate. Please don't.
Both of those are not what I desire in a Straxus figure.
I feel a special connection to that "Original Body" Straxus. It's like the artist reached directly into my soul and created a perfect embodiment of why I don't miss IDW.
Yay, I'm special!
Straxus doesn't even have a mouthplate. His head is like 50% neck.
I always thought of it as a Darth Vader-esque helmet.
I kind of dig the Krang-Straxus in theory, at least as something that would work in a comic or an animated show, but it would definitely be difficult at best to get that disjointed collection of limbs to transform into something cohesive as a toy.
It took me a moment to realize that was his head floating in liquid or something; I just thought he had a really elaborate necklace made from his own head.
Which, you have to admit, would be kinda hardcore.
Well, we can quibble about neck or mouth, but irrespective I think it's pretty core to how his head looks and I don't think the IDW2 head giving him a mouth hit the mark.
Takara has just released their "latest" (sic) TFs, including Armada Prime. It came in an additional slip case, which looks like the original Armada Prime boxart, I think.
Here's the original Micron Densetsu box art
I didn't know that we can store the (kind of redundant, IMO) base mode missile launcher on his back, rather than on his bum/skirt.
I'm not sure why the combined super-mode came with yellow eyes, when the show (and original toy?) had red eyes so I gave him a pair of them.
And I'm sure most of us here have already seen comparison pics, but here are some if you've not.
Here's the original Micron Densetsu box art
I didn't know that we can store the (kind of redundant, IMO) base mode missile launcher on his back, rather than on his bum/skirt.
I'm not sure why the combined super-mode came with yellow eyes, when the show (and original toy?) had red eyes so I gave him a pair of them.
And I'm sure most of us here have already seen comparison pics, but here are some if you've not.
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That third party one looks worse every time I see it.
It looks like they designed it in 2012 and shelved it out of shame, and threw it out there one day because they were out of ideas.
But that can't be what happened, unless they were bluffing when sharing all those prototype updates.
But that can't be what happened, unless they were bluffing when sharing all those prototype updates.