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Commander class Sky Lynx hangs out on my Prime shelf. It's the only fitting placement for him.

If the goal is "Optimus doesn't die but Hot Rod still becomes Rodimus" then I think that's what season 3 should be for. I'm quite partial to the idea of the Powered Convoy armour being used as a life support system for Optimus (sorry Ultra Magnus), so let's go with that. Have Optimus in the...

Prima's a headless prototype and we're probably not even seeing final colours. A long way to go before anyone can form an informed opinion.

Thing is I kinda love it? Like maybe not the circumstances per se but I like the idea of Rodimus being a deadpan snarker. Helps set him apart from Optimus while strangely feeling true to form? My favourite take on Optimus isn't the movie trailer quote machine Aligned turned him into but rather...

I love that idea.

Right. The Covenant said "Optimus is the Thirteenth Prime" and as soon as IDW was forced to work with the concept they mitigated it with "the Arisen" to try and not just say Optimus was one of them. IDW2 invented the idea that whoever held the Matrix was the Thirteenth Prime, so it "became"...

anywho Leaks of what is supposedly a prototype for AotP Prima. The front of the robot mode shares some design elements with his Aligned/Covenant of Primus design...

I know Hasbro is really investing in CAD, and it's informing how they manufacture moulds. At the same time given how conservative Japanese companies are... I wouldn't be shocked if TT, Bandai, and the like simply haven't bothered yet.

I'm quite fine with TFO's take of just making Zeta Prime the Thirteenth Prime. The name "Zeta Prime" is cool, and he's got just enough lore elsewhere where fans recognize the name, but nothing consistently established. Make being the Thirteenth Prime Zeta's "thing" and leave the Arisen nonsense...

I take the point of Optimus' spirit going "ARISE.... RODIMUS PRIME" as Optimus basically saying "I don't blame you for my death." I think Rodimus' main issues are twofold. The first is that season three does him no favours. There's the concept of a plan of a character arc but he never really...

Funnily enough I had an idea similar to what Shadewing and Sabrblade are discussing. My TFTM "What if?" would mostly follow the broad strokes of the movie, but without Hot Rod or Ultra Magnus. Optimus wins the fight with Megatron, who's badly injured and jettisoned by Starscream on the way...

One of my pet peeves with Bandai's Dragon Stars line is that different figures of the same character representing the same base body type will be moulded in such a way that the balljoints on the heads aren't interchangeable. I don't know Bandai, why WOULD I like to swap heads on Dragon Ball...

😐 You know what? Sorry I brought it up. Clearly something I stated outright as being anecdotal and never presented as otherwise while taking great pains to let it be known that whatever side you fell on I wasn't trying to attack anyone clearly deserves protest responses about how clearly a...

I'm looking at the last ten years, not the last thirty five. I agree that for most of that time it was rough going, but my point is that it's gotten better recently. Hasbro will never take the spotlight off of the '84-'85 guys just like Marvel will always have Spider-Man on the shelves. You...

It still exists in certain corners of the internet. There are TF fan groups on Facebook that, as David Willis' twitter says, are time capsules of 1995 Transformers online discourse where you can find pics of Hot Rod with WANTED FOR THE MURDER OF OPTIMUS PRIME being shared regularly. The people...

I love it when Sandstorm is mourning his home planet and Rodimus is just like "get over it, it sucked, Cybertron's where it's at." There's nothing wrong with that. Sometimes characters just hit us for some reason, and they become "our guy" for reasons we can't pin down. They just struck a cord...

I remember asking my dad for Optimus Prime for my birthday after seeing G2 for the first time and him being utterly confused about what an "Optimus Prime" was. He knows now though. Oh... he knows.

It's actually related to the Mandarin discussion 'cause Iron Man went into filming with the idea that the Mandarin would be the shadowy puppet master villain and Obadiah Stane would just be his heavy. Marvel Studios overthought the problem with the Mandarin though and decided to just not cast...

I mean yeah. Looking at ER CJ vs SS CJ, ER Ironhide vs SS Ironhide, KI Galvy vs SS Glavy... I'd say there are key differences in how the decos are approached. looks at blue Swoop and red faced Slag Slug I'm not sure about that. As for Hot Rod... a lot of his colours are very Sunbow accurate...