This proposal was more along the lines of Missing Link, keeping all the original toy proportions and transformation engineering but with modern levels of articulation added in. What Action Toys did was more akin to CHUG or Masterpiece.
Translating the tweet, apparently it's talking about some Japanese fan book that got made, and the first to sell out was a SG art version, with this art of Straxus being a sample piece from it.
Even when it comes to figures I'll never be able to afford, I still appreciate it when effort is made over no attempted effort at all.
Like, with my current financial situation, chances are high that I'll never get to own MP Dinobot or MP Beast Wars Megatron with how they're currently priced...
These were conceived before the TR Perceptor toy had been revealed, so it's understandable both why it was proposed and why it was rejected (regardless of the license being lost, too).
Though, basing his Titan Master on Nijika was kinda neat.
It was such a missed opportunity for Hasbro to not just name that figure "Vehicon", as those soldiers were basically, conceptually, pre-Earth Prime Vehicons in all but name, and labeling them as such would have added just one more piece of shared creative DNA between WFC and Prime, which is what...
Better than what Hasbro themselves gave us (zilch!) and the full set was still pretty cool. Especially the awesome Transmetal 3 Megatron that had been 11 years in the making.
And better than that hideous Platinum Edition Optimus Primal from Hasbro Asia (who are a different entity entirely from...
Maybe The Fallen's toy has a really simple transformation.
Something like how Cybertron Defense Scattorshot is a proper Voyager class figure with plenty of mass, gimmicks, and articulation for his size class, but only transforms in like 4-6 steps.
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