I still remember when that figure came out and everybody hated it, whining about how it wasn't a new mold with Barbie doll proportions, saying that the Blurr mold "wasn't feminine enough" or made her look "too butch" to be Arcee. :rolleyes:
With the hindsight we have now, it is clear that that was when Hasbro was firmly in their "early Binder work" mindset of "Everything (sans Animated) must be as grounded in reality as possible, like the 2007 movie was."
Giant-sized Powerglide predominately colored gray was the biggest sign of...
The OG Super Saiyan God:
(Yes, I know it's not the original toy, but the Kingdom redeco looks so good!)
His bio describes this as a body he took on after having his Machine Wars body, so it's a "post-Machine Wars" Starscream (the only fiction ever to entertain the idea of a Machine Wars...
If they knew it was a bad idea, why even bother entertaining the idea in the first place? Why add it to the Binder's lore at all if they didn't like it? They could have just written the 13th as some nebulous, unknown figure of prophecy (like they originally did!) and left it at that. If they...
The changeover to the current Hasbro Transformers team happened during the development of Kingdom, after John Warden left Transformers to go over to Ghostbusters and Power Rangers. Crosshairs was made back during his era. The current era of Mark, Evan, and BMac being the faces of the brand...
That probably was the plan, to see them get released individually, before the game was canceled. When the single Bumblebee was released, the game hadn't yet been officially canceled. But with the game's cancelation, Hasbro probably doesn't feel as strongly inclined to put the other three out...
I'm just saying how amazing it is that they would use such a name, as opposed to the older Hasbro teams who more often than not seemed allergic to using Takara-original names.
Like, they're making a new Big Convoy for mass retail and keeping his name as "Big Convoy". That's incredible!
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