Get a load of the toy's red missiles that look based on those spaceships that are flying out of his hand in that leftmost artwork.
Looks like the folks at Hasbro didn't realize that those were spaceships and that LM himself was originally a gigantic Titan-sized fellow, and instead interpreted...
Funny you should mention that, as artist Ken Christiansen was reached out to a few months back and asked about the art he did of Nexus for the Binder of Revelation, the same art that was later first revealed to the public in the Covenant of Primus book. This art:
Here's what Christiansen had...
And yet, Chinese sellers on eBay continue to churn out independently-produced upgrade kits consisting of individual pieces specific to the buyers' wants and needs, in contrast DNA's "more is more" approach.
About that head...
If anyone was ever wondering how we got from the original Fun Pub head design to the current one based on the TF One design, but which looks nothing like the original Fun Pub head design, this is how:
Strange choice removing the Liege Maximo's horns from his head and making them a collar that sits behind his head.
Nexus, meanwhile, is his TF One design with his Fun Pub colors.
Bumblebee and Cliffjumper are separate molds. They each got a cartoon-accurate redeco after their initial toy-accurate releases.
Ultra Magnus was also first announced and unveiled on its own. Delta Magnus was first announced much later.
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