I really dislike Prime for wasting Peter Cullen's last "peak" years as the voice of Optimus. The movies are whatever but Prime could have been the show to give him one final sendoff and instead they turned Optimus into a boring movie trailer line reader.
"Primes don't party," "Optimus never uses contractions."
First, he's not Data from Star Trek. Secondly G1 had Optimus playing basketball and cracking dad jokes at the word "boobies"
So I have no idea what the hell they were thinking.
My favourite drama of all time is nu-Battlestar Galactica. The toys for it are bad. Really bad. But people who like the show buy them because you know... you like the show. These are characters from the show.
So if you look at Prime like that... yeah I can see it.
Except Magnus, who managed to get a cool hammer/gun out of it. But then he didn't even get to show up in the show with that character model so![Man shrugging: light skin tone :man_shrugging_tone1: 🤷🏻♂️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f937-1f3fb-2642.png)
"Primes don't party," "Optimus never uses contractions."
First, he's not Data from Star Trek. Secondly G1 had Optimus playing basketball and cracking dad jokes at the word "boobies"
So I have no idea what the hell they were thinking.
That actually makes a lot of sense.Prime's toyline issue was: This was designed to be a TV series first, a grand epic TV series to be taken seriously like Star Trek, Star Wars, or Stargate; and a toyline second. The toys were meant to capture the show and be stuff people wanted because they liked the show. Not because they were good toys.
My favourite drama of all time is nu-Battlestar Galactica. The toys for it are bad. Really bad. But people who like the show buy them because you know... you like the show. These are characters from the show.
So if you look at Prime like that... yeah I can see it.
That's the baffling thing. The one time the pre-BH Prime toyline tried to be toyetic they gave us these blocks of indeterminate tech that could fold out into guns, but never locked in place. So if I wanted a Prime shelf congrats all the Voyagers are wielding engine blocks I guess.That describes the First Edition ones better than the later ones.
I mean, the mainline Voyagers in particular actually had a weapon gimmick that made them worse as toys (literally just a worse version of a gimmick that was already bad in DotM), but also didn't have any basis in the show.
Except Magnus, who managed to get a cool hammer/gun out of it. But then he didn't even get to show up in the show with that character model so
![Man shrugging: light skin tone :man_shrugging_tone1: 🤷🏻♂️](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f937-1f3fb-2642.png)