Magmatron was released under the "Dinobots" sub-line for BM in the US, so there's every chance he'll get a release. A rumoured Dinoking, plus several releases of Metalhawk, Haslab Starsaber/Deathsaurus, Japanese BW Shadow Panther and several other obscure Japanese TF characters into the US market means nothing is off the table.
...except an official subbed DVD release, apparently.
Hasbro hasn't finished their nonsensical dubtitle mandates yet.
I don't really collect Beast Wars, much less Japanese-only Beast Wars adjacent stuff, but I would absolutely buy a well done new Magmatron and/or Big Convoy. Those are both cool designs, and I have a particular weakness for dinosaurs (and other extinct prehistoric beasts, if I'm being honest with myself, which I believe is important if I ever want to change. Which I don't.)
Wow Dono, that last sentence of yours was a lot to unpack... 
Wow Dono, that last sentence of yours was a lot to unpack...
Just keeping it real!
Agreed...Deluxe Class Spychangers please Hasbro.
That would be neat!
Some places still have Encore Big Convoy in stock. It's a perfectly fine figure, and was made as a companion piece to go with the Masterpiece release of Lio Convoy, in lieu of an actual MP Big Convoy mold. And its deco is show-accurate. I recommend anyone wanting a Big Convoy to pick it up.
You could just watch both series on YouTube, courtesy of Karyuudo Fansubs.
Big Convoy is a pretty cool toy, and I would highly recommend it as well.
To me, I feel lime Magmatron has a good chance are being a Commander Class figure. He might not be the most well known character, but he has a lot going for him:
1. He's something different - we've not gotten any BW Commander classes, so immediatly he'll look different and sometimes that's important.
2. He's not a truck - this ups the varity of the line seeing as we've gotten 3/4 trucks in a row (is SS Ultra Magnus still in the pipeline?). It's kinda a repeat of 1, but not fully imo.
3. He's probably the best figure in BWNeo, and just trying true to that will give him a lot of value: 3 different dinosaurs, that can combiner to create a very cool and imposing looking villian, or into a mega dinosaur.
But who knows, maybe he'll be a future Haslab.
I can't see BW Galvatron as a Commander, even if we're going for scale. I'd love to see one of my favorite molds get a reworking to do him justice, but I'd settle for a leader class version that's at least as good as TM2 Legacy Megs.
THough if we get a core class Bw2 character, please give us Stampy.
1. He's something different - we've not gotten any BW Commander classes, so immediatly he'll look different and sometimes that's important.
2. He's not a truck - this ups the varity of the line seeing as we've gotten 3/4 trucks in a row (is SS Ultra Magnus still in the pipeline?). It's kinda a repeat of 1, but not fully imo.
3. He's probably the best figure in BWNeo, and just trying true to that will give him a lot of value: 3 different dinosaurs, that can combiner to create a very cool and imposing looking villian, or into a mega dinosaur.
But who knows, maybe he'll be a future Haslab.
I can't see BW Galvatron as a Commander, even if we're going for scale. I'd love to see one of my favorite molds get a reworking to do him justice, but I'd settle for a leader class version that's at least as good as TM2 Legacy Megs.
THough if we get a core class Bw2 character, please give us Stampy.
I got the Korean version of Big Convoy back in the early 2000’s. A lot of his joints are lose but he makes a cool display piece.
I wonder if Magmatron will get done as three seperate figures that could be their own robots but also combine into Magmatron, that way they can spread the figures out across the line and leave open the commander slot for another character
Apart from articulating the mammoth mode and not making it a shell-former, I'm not really sure how they could improve upon Big Convoy. I believe the last, anime-coloured version of that mold was meant to be an unofficial MP version, to compliment the MP Lio-Convoy release?
I also have a Korean Big Convoy. The clear plastic shoulder is a little loose but not too bad. The other joints are fine. If you find one that's cheaper than the Encore, it totally suffices.
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Make him a commander class, give him the kind of hands that ER Op has or Siege Jetfire's hands, the head of the Mamoth mode able to seperate from the buster cannon he has, a waist joint, ankle tilt, a mouth plate that moves up and down but not revealing a mouth type, similar to the original Armada leader OP, for name upon release, call him "Big Prime" or use "Big Buster Prime!!"