I also use him as a ghost, but not as Optimus, but rather as a semi-reformed, alternate future version of Scourge, since the black and gray plastics and silver chrome trailer are more reminiscent of Scourge's deco than Laser Optimus's.
The encyclopedia on the bottom and side even provided the first in-universe explanation for why Daniel never aged between the time of TFTM and Season 3 of the G1 cartoon, as the Japanese dub of Season 3 moved it to be set in the year 2010 instead of 2006, while TFTM was kept in 2005, creating a...
What's really cool in an uber-nerdy sense about Autorooper's packaging is what's on the inside of the box. The interiors of that set had something that the Convoy and Hot Rodimus sets did not have: Lore!
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And that shininess got lot of fans angry at Hasbro for going with flat blue instead.
Hasbro's Alternators Silverstreak had the same shiny silver that Takara's Binaltech Streak had, so it's kinda irksome that Hasbro didn't think to use the same shininess for Smokescreen.
Additionally, one less...
This is why I'm actually a little glad that Archer is no longer employed by Hasbro, as now whenever he shows up at a convention, he no longer acts like he's signed a million NDAs and is instead freely willing to gab about his time with the brand and reveal all kinds of behind-the-scenes stuff...
I only asked because you singled out Cyclonus, who predated Universe in a little-known separate line of four toys while leaving out both fellow Expanded Universe boxed figure CatSCAN and all of the previous packaged BotCon exclusives who were sold under the Generation 2, Beast Wars, and Beast...
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