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Nice problem to have, potentially, but also a potential headache for everyone else. Glad they cancelled them for the time being and hope they can sort it out. I don't know if I ever found out more about this, but has there been an explanation for Star OP Hot Rod's spoiler gaps? Doesn't seem to...

I think "out of context, cool" is a low enough bar for something to become "iconic". Lots of the former have wound up as the latter. I do not think it's "charge for a Titan" level iconic. I'd sooner buy one of those 3P mini-AOE Optimuses that can ride the Leader class Grim. And honestly while...

That's true, but I think Scrap works by itself for a Dinobot, especially this one with a Junkion vibe.

Ooh, boy. I'd snap those up. My top five wanted Alts-era remakes are KP Hot Rodimus, Decepticharge, Arcee, Yellow Tracks, and Shockwave/Jazz. For redecos using current molds, I'll also take a Smokescreen from Earthrise Smokescreen, and a Dead End from Earthise Sunstreaker. And I still want a...

... Well, damn it, THAT illustrates my MOTU noobishness like nothing else. I've been saying "Triklops" while thinking of "Man-E-Faces" the whole time. I'll edit the above posts to reflect that.

I'm content to skip Grimlock, and excited to be looking at these Dinobots (word is they're open to making the rest in that size class) from afar. I'm good with my earlier Leader class one, and honestly this Titan is looking a bit off -- maybe it's just the prototype, but the face looks oddly...

Maybe "the Titanium line design team", then. There were separate teams for that and the main TF stuff, right? Man, it's frustrating that Titanium was basically the only outlet we had for War Within stuff. Which is now either in limbo due to Dreamwave being Dreamwave or internally viewed as...

That's partly my point. The line isn't used a lot there, let alone enough to be the shorthand face the humor is referred to by. But parroting the meme has created precisely the opposite impression -- a loud opinion used as a convenient wedge against something that's built up enough hype to...

And I suppose to be fair, one of the cool things about the franchise originally was the cool names. (The same brand has someone officially called "Steve From Accounting", which I will eternally appreciate) Although the "they should have named it" stuff tends to come from backlash over reusing...

Now I'm wondering if they'll also do Jetfire as a "figure with frame" situation, or something like Armada Op as well where the jetpants legs are in a "trailer" and not the main robot. Like the front half of the shuttle, maybe with its own shorter wings, turns into the main robot while the rear...

Having recently looked up the MOTU/WWE line, my first thought was to make Triklops Man-E-Faces, like, three Seekers. Maybe the coneheads. But really Triklops Man-E-Faces works well for (Animated/T30 style) Blitzwing. Two Bad can have Rumble/Frenzy armor. Fisto can have X-Brawn themed armor...

Media literacy and critical thinking in general is just in the toilet, including gauging the nature and nuance of even humor. There were always some voices shortsightedly ranting about things in message boards and the like, but the explosion of YouTube giving people with too little to say, too...

I thought that too about SS86 Commander class Op, but having one in hand it's pretty remarkable. I still like the Earthrise Op mold very much, as I rediscovered when I made the Pepsi Convoy custom. But the engineering on SS86 is interesting, like they took a bunch of tricks and ideas from the...

Now THAT was amazing, even to witness from afar as a non-collector of the line. The mashups were so good.

I wonder if they ever tossed the idea around of "Star Convoy Optimus Prime", with "Star Convoy" being like a function designation a la "Special Ops" Jazz. If nothing else, it'd be kind of funny.

Okay, I... I may be interested. (Photo from @Protoman) But maybe this time I can wait? There's going to be more Dramatic Capture-ing of this mold at some point, right? Maybe right before they debut the NEXT new new new Seeker mold? It's looking reasonably clean. Like, the same notion, but...

That bit was confusing, yes. Were we meant to get 3 AND 4? Or just 3? I continue to be surprised by, and kind of like (stock Eastern European?) accented Grimlock. Have we ever gotten that to go with his grammatical divergence? I think I'll view that as an upgrade of sorts to the character...

Just occuring to me now that "Star Upgrade Optimus Prime" might not have been too bad, and there's precedent for it too. Although hey, who cares, I know what I'm calling it regardless of what the box expects.

Big Poppa Prime, the Big Bad Autobooty Daddy. ROLL OUT, IF YOU HEAR ME!

Meanwhile, Star Optimus Prime... Or is that specifically to connect "Optimus Prime" to the Thirteen in the limited lore of the toyline, and not create any wrinkles about "who's Convoy?" ("He's just zis guy, you know?") (Also, I miss the Archer era and some of its trappings and philosophies...