The whole set looks really impressive, especially the fact that Blue Bolts was turned into a full-blown Weaponizer like Cog, Sixgun, Slammer, and Fasttrack were. That's awesome. And the Matrix Blade being an all-new mold when they could have easily retooled TR Fortress Maximus's Master Sword...
It's all because Hasbro made the robot mode cutting of the windshield too big and squared off at the bottom. If they had made the cutting smaller and more rounded, it would look a lot better.
Here is a crude illustration showing what I mean, with the official cutting on the left and my...
And such compromises shouldn't have even had to exist considering all the Beast Wars characters got to keep their aesthetic, which is completely different from that of G1 and the Unicron Trilogy. If anything, Beast Wars's aesthetic is much closer to that of Prime than any others.
Something that might get me to fund a new Omega Prime would be if it were actually a bit smaller than the original, so that the combined form wouldn't end up towering as much over the other three combiners of the original line.
I also kinda feel like using Omega Prime for the 40th anniversary would be a little redundant since the original was, in a way, already an anniversary figure, as Car Robots was originally the celebration of the brand's 15th anniversary in Japan, from 1985-2000.
So it would feel like if, for a...
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