Magmatron had a Target-exclusive retail release, a starring role in IDW's two comic mini-series, and most relevant to what I was saying, has a color scheme that that doesn't read as stereotypically "girly" to corporate America. He has way more advantages than Galvatron that made him a far safer bet for Hasbro to make big a new figure for him.
This is the very reason we got Tidal Wave in green instead of purple back in Armada: Aaron Archer himself told me that his boss at the time, Samantha Lomow, felt that Tidal Wave's original purple color scheme looked too girly for a boys' toyline, because to her, purple was primarily a girls' color.
Yeah, I mentioned that to him and he said that was only part of the reason, before mentioning Lomow telling him, "purple is for girls", which baffled me when I first heard it since purple is the color of kings and royalty.
A lot of things have remained the same in Hasbro and in the industry at large over the last... 23 years, but a lot has changed as well. Not the least of them being that neither Archer nor Lomow have even been at Hasbro anymore for years by this point.
"What would you say you do here?"
He was huge when outside of the ship. He shrank down with a size-changing beam when he entered the ship.
The dragon Scourge redeco sure was pretty.
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