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Back when they were hyping Star Sabre's HasLab campaign they called it the first time Hasbro had done a Japanese-exclusive character. Which... isn't even close to being right, however you want to qualify that. My guess is Mark knew Minerva was a Headmaster from Masterforce, knew that in Japan...

I still buy what I can at brick and mortar. Be it places like Target and Walmart, or hobby/comic book stores. ofc sometimes I get stuff online. Sometimes I have to, but I always try to get what I can in the wild. If nothing else hitting up a few big box stores is a good way to kill an afternoon...

She's a fine figure but I just never got around to getting my own.

Yeah but the Enigma is usually depicted as being spiky. You can still take someone's eye out.

FWIW the "statue" art of the Thirteen for AotP shows Alpha Trion holding what looks like the Covenant of Primus. Now that same art shows Optimus looking rather Powermaster-y instead of Star Convoy-y, so nothing there is definitive, but it is worth mentioning.

Yeah, that too. And IDW2 had a "everyone will be drawn as their most recent toy" mandate which meant that, unlike IDW1, there aren't many, if any, original designs to adapt. Still, I knew someone would be mad the moment I saw them slapping symbols from separate continuities on their IDW...

I thought this was going in a wildly different direction about how, in a pinch, a key can be an effective stabbing weapon :LOL:

There's gonna be some late AotP wave they just have to fill out product for and they'll toss it in that.

As much as he brand team is "in the know" these days, I think there's enough circumstantial evidence to suggest JG1 may be a blindspot. And as for IDW1 and IDW2... I think Hasbro tends to view the comics as a positive, but not something that they keep up with, if that makes any sense? I...

PM Prime/Ginrai had a lot of cool conceptual ideas. The head of the supermode was gonna transform into Roller. Which explains why you're just supposed to toss it in the trailer in vehicle mode and why it has nowhere to go in base made. Wouldn't shock me if the base robot having a faux cab...

That would have been easier but I think Mark wanted to emphasize that they were doing JG1 characters so they leaned into it being Masterforce Minerva. I'd put $5 on Mark not knowing Masterforce Minerva was actually a human piloting a lifeless transector when he made that comment.

I don't think Hasbro makes much distinction between IDW1 and IDW2. The pre-War capsule two packs that leaned on IDW designs included IDW1's Senate emblem and IDW2's Ascenticon emblem on the packaging. They're both just one big pot of story concepts and ideas and designs to draw from.

Mark giving us Legacy Minerva's backstory was hilarious because all he had to say was "this is the version of Minerva that became a sentiment transector and that's why she's not a headmaster" and it would have been perfect. Instead he said "Minerva lost the ability to be a headmaster when she...

Looks interesting but will hold out for the Fire Guts repaint.

I don't have a Nexus so the Enigma of Combination is filling in (ha!) for him.

I'm a sports fan. Which is, unfortunately, full of a lot of juvenile, sexist, and homophobic nick names and taunts. "Cowboys? More like Cowgirls amirite?" It is what it is. Never expect people to pass on the low hanging fruit.

There's always Piss Magnus...

Action Toys could have been putting forward a competing bid to handle the licence?