Bumping this thread to respond to this post with some news that has been recently brought to light.
It's been revealed that the reason Solon and his King Solon mech weren't considered for an additional tier for HasLab Deathsaurus... is because Hasbro and TakaraTomy don't actually own the rights...
The idea was to make him look unsympathetic to what just happened to the other ship, as if to make viewers go, "Oh, he's definitely no Optimus."
But yeah, from a pragmatic standpoint, there was nothing he could do about it in the heat of the moment. But one can't help but wonder if maybe there...
Greebtron, Walruslaw, Jim Sorenson, etc. have all been yearning to find the full script for that episode for over a decade, now. It's one of the Most Wanted of all the G1 episode scripts that have still yet to be found.
Yeah, Unicron was definitely aware of the death of Optimus and his passing the Matrix to Ultra Magnus. We see Unicron observe this on the monitor screens of his brain, before he lets out his Incredible Hulk scream in outrage over this.
He was very much aware of the Matrix's existence by this...
Well, in the flashback shown in "Call of the Primitives", when we see Unicron rebel against his creators, we see an object that very much looks like the Matrix rising out of the destroyed body of Primacron's assistant (referred to by the episode's dialogue script as "Oracle").
Nothing has ever...
Funny thing about Galaxy Shuttle, when he was first introduced in the Victory cartoon, he was accompanied by an onscreen name caption that referred to him by a different name: "Shuttle Robo". And yet, he was only ever referred to as "Galaxy Shuttle", verbally.
The animation budget was generously higher than anything Toei had ever animated at the time. The opening scene of Lithone being destroyed is unparalleled. The movie has a lot of issues, but its animation is not one of them.
There's also some legal bureaucracy surrounding the notion of naming a bumblebee toy "Bumblebee". It's something like, if they were to do that, the name wouldn't pass legal due to it being more of a descriptor than a proper name since it would just be calling the insect by what it is.
My...
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