You know, we blame the Covenant book or Alvarez or Aligned in general for first making Optimus Prime be one of the Thirteen, but the idea seems to go back to before Aligned started up in 2010, back to 2009 with Revenge of the Fallen.
In that movie, Optimus is called "the last Prime", and...
It seems that the whole reason it was decided to declare that all of the Thirteen were Primes was solely because of Vector Prime having the word in his name, despite not being a Matrix bearer.
What's even weirder is the fact that he is still called Vector Prime even in the Japanese version, as...
Well, it's not the first time someone other than Optimus was given the Thirteenth Prime status. Machinima's Titans Return cartoon willfully disregarded the Optimus option and chose to make Sentinel the thirteenth instead.
Think of it more like how Kingdom Rodimus Prime was a big throwback to his debut in TFTM, but also came with the non-cartoon/comic-only accessory of the Sword of Primus. It's a blending of different lores and continuities sold together in one package.
He comes with Micromaster Hot Rod because...
If my numerous dives into ancient ATT threads are anything to go by, lots of folks who were on there read and really liked Alignment. Not just as the long-belated epilogue to the Marvel G2 comics, not just as a bridge between said comics and Beast Wars, but as a story in its own right.
And more...
It's obvious Hasbro is aiming this Star Optimus release at people who have been at this long enough to have already bought and still own the Siege toys.
Dude's clearly Armada Unicron-sized, at least!
So, I just found out that the ancient FortuneCity-based version of Prime Saber's old website... is still up after all these years! 😲
Clicking the left image goes to a dead page, but clicking the right image goes to the still-live website itself.
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