Toys Age of the Primes Acolyte of Unicron Behind the Scenes

"As our lord and master decrees, 'Speak like Orson Welles and carry a big stick'!"​

Ah, after 10,000 years, he's free! Markclonus is back on Instagram to bring us the dirt from behind the scenes of the making of the newest additions to our collections, complete with images and commentary!

"You call that a spoon? THIS is a spoon!"

"Carving knife... check. Double-barrelled baster... check. That Thanksgiving turkeybot's never gonna know what hit it!"​

The Thirteen has awakened the almighty chaos bringer, Unicron’s acolyte has spawned and formed himself an army of heralds. Prepare for the ultimate beatdown!

"From Hell's heart, I stab at OOH! HOT! HOT! Put it out! PUT IT OUT!!!"

"They say a midsection that doesn't turn is a terrible thing to waist."

"Oh... oh no... The little flesh creature in the red mask was right. My knees do not like that!"​

My Takara Tomy bretheren Yuki Hisashi did an outstanding job putting togther this vision I had for a new Unicron toy. I’ve always loved the whole design aesthetic of Unicron and I thought it would be remiss if I didn’t activate a strong evil contender to face the primes in battle. This is a partial retooling of The Fallen Megatronus item and I honestly thought it wasn’t going to come to life as the team decided we were trying to keep all the 13 as never reused for anything. Errrrrr wrong! Had to force this one through!

"...is there a problem, minion?"
"Er, no, my lord. None at all. I just thought you'd be... you know, bigger."
"I'm big where it counts!"

"Go, Unicron Acolyte #25967097655! We have them on the run! Cybertron is ours! Leave none standing!"
"Wait, 25967097655? I thought you were 25967097655! I'm 25967097656!"
"...okay, cancel the entire operation. We're going back to our lair, and we are going to get this right!"

"...and that's when I told 'im, 'tanks for the assist!'"
"Then what happened?"
"He shot me."​

I showcase some of the initial process here in trying to envision how we could utilize the ol’ Cybertronic tank version of Unicron that was done by the homey @aaronarcherofficial , to make this herald special. The Prime series also had such an original take on the character it inspired me to dream up this version.

"Finally! I've become a Super Saiyan GOD Super Saiyan! Wait, is that one too many 'Super Saiyans'?"

"That's right, ladies -- I've got ABS for days!"

"You're the reason for my life, you're my Furman-spiration!"​

Colors on this guy just really pop and brings the whole halloween vibe but the red and purple accents with the gun metal greys, oh boy, the teams cooking up some marvelous new gems to drop. So please stay tuned and dive in, the evil is coming back in a big way! More soon!!!

Ah... I missed doing these... especially after that rat-fink Donocropolis stole the last one we'd get for seven months when I wasn't looking!

Anyway, you saw it right there: Markclonus promises more are on the way, so hopefully it won't be longer than half a year again before we see another.

But hey, dude put way more work into this than I do, so if you've got an Instagram account, why don't you be cool and go over and drop a Like on the original post? If he doesn't do what he does, I can't do what I do (which is make bad joke captions on them).

Until then, remember the Unicron Acolyte's creed: "Til All Are Yum!"

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