Not that it would make much sense with the line's theme, and having Hot Rod become Rodimus Prime and Optimus Primal becoming Optimal Optimus...
I can shrug off not redoing PMOP that soon, and the Evolution aspect of Orion Pax works well enough for me in tandem with Hot Rod/Rodimus.
But I might've been interested in a PMOP in Takara's Gen Selects instead of Star Convoy. (Although I suppose that would've changed the manga by a fair bit or something.) But then, with a G1 cab slotting in basically an Op torso, that's kind of what it ended up as anyway, just with some disappointing Star Convoy bits. Just give me some disappointing PMOP bits instead, lol. The body was never going to work for Star Convoys entirely distinctive proportions.
Of course this idea is a total lateral move vs SC, but it's hitting bronze while shooting for silver, not gold, at least. That was just one of the most underwhelming executions, especially up against the other Takara Gen Selects stuff.
Ah well. One can hope that with the Constructicons taking an SS86 Commander class spot, there's room in the main Generations line for this. (or is that Silverbolt already, idk? Whatever, just don't Haslab it.)
But I might've been interested in a PMOP in Takara's Gen Selects instead of Star Convoy. (Although I suppose that would've changed the manga by a fair bit or something.) But then, with a G1 cab slotting in basically an Op torso, that's kind of what it ended up as anyway, just with some disappointing Star Convoy bits. Just give me some disappointing PMOP bits instead, lol. The body was never going to work for Star Convoys entirely distinctive proportions.
Of course this idea is a total lateral move vs SC, but it's hitting bronze while shooting for silver, not gold, at least. That was just one of the most underwhelming executions, especially up against the other Takara Gen Selects stuff.
Ah well. One can hope that with the Constructicons taking an SS86 Commander class spot, there's room in the main Generations line for this. (or is that Silverbolt already, idk? Whatever, just don't Haslab it.)
I'm sure they're letting Commander Class SS Prime have some breathing room for a couple of years, but SURELY there has to be a Commander Class Powermaster Prime at some point, right?
Next year's is Silverbolt and then if the pattern holds, they'd want a bad guy after that or if not, to finish Nexus Prime.
40th Anniversary Lio Convoy
Damn, I kinda want that for the better looking Lion head. Yeah, its Anime, but its still much better looking the derpy thing the normal release has.
This is worth it for the lion head alone. I love you Hasbro that ghost horse face wasn't working.
Derpy?
Ghost horse face?!?!?
*checks his lio convoy*
... Yeah, okay. He kinds looks like Aslan's autistic younger brother...
Ghost horse face?!?!?
*checks his lio convoy*
... Yeah, okay. He kinds looks like Aslan's autistic younger brother...
I wish the PotP line hadn't been so truncated, as it would have been neat to see a couple of other characters get the Leader Evolution treatment (Arcee and Megatron would be two I'd be most interested in seeing)
Megatron would have been too cool. They wouldn't have been able to sell us Siege Megatron 20 times.
Hound was one of our votey choices, and I was super interested in seeing what they had in mind for him. I was guessing the evolved form would resemble Bayverse Hound / Animated Bulkhead.
I recall voting for (what we hoped to be, but wasn't confirmed to be) Deathsaurus.
I'm trying to recall if the vote happened before, or after, CW Liokaiser came out.
I'm trying to recall if the vote happened before, or after, CW Liokaiser came out.
To be fair, the voting came before we knew what the Leader Class gimmick was going to be. Had we known at the time, I feel like more would have voted for those with actual super modes instead.
It was after. Liokaiser released in 2016, the POTP fan vote was in 2017.
Somewhere, there have to be rough sketches of the preliminary plans for these. I can't imagine that they created the choices for the votes without at least SOME idea of where they were going. I'd love to see these revealed someday in a behind-the-scenes sort of deal. Don't know if Mark or Bmac has access to those sorts of things or not.
I still wanna know who Unknown Evil was supposed to be
Hard to say if "this gimmick makes sense for this character" would have been any better of a reason to vote than "this character isn't G1, I want to see G1 lose".