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I wish they had just done Orion Pax and D-16 (post cogs) for the deluxes and then done Optimus and Megatron at voyager scale.

Hasbro gave up on the Early Bird special. Everyone gets Tully if it funds!

My head canon is he starts off as Orion Pax, dock worker, like in the toon. Gets blown up by Megatron and rebuilt into Optronix by Alpha Trion (who doesn't have the matrix in my head canon.) who takes him under his wing as a data clerk (using his "Humble Origins" form.) Eventually, things get...

Yeah, but that's because they were lazy and didn't give them pre-earth names. (Outside of B-127 in the films) They went out of their way to give Prime a unique name that he would never use on earth and it's still loaded with Earth references.

It's not even the faux latin, it's that he shares the name of a bloody earth constellation millions of years before any human even walked the earth. :)

I like Optronix better, TBH.

My copy of the CW version sucked. Several figures can't hold up their guns, including Devastator himself and Bonecrusher's legs never went together well either.

Core Dinobots just got beaten with the budget stick. Had they been able to have just a little bit more articulation, clean up their propotions a tiny bit and include the better accessories from Dinoking, he'd be a rockin' little dude. As is, he's alright for what he is, but for a $72 combiner...

He was actually named Optronix in Dreamwave.

I was bummed we didn't get the arm mounted neutrona wands as a toy, but it's in the movie so little that I'm not surprised.

You said we were getting studio series figures "soon" and unfortunately that's not the case for all of them.

Studio Series Elita-1 isn't supposed to come out until Fall next year.

Depending on what day you ask me, I will no joke say Ghostbusters 2 is the superior film. The biggest knock I've seen against it is that it repeats a lot of the same beats as the first film, which okay it does, but it does them better. 1. Vigo is a bigger presence in the movie - Gozer was more...

Yeah, I guess the Ultra Pretenders are just an extension of the "combines with trailer into a super mode" aesthetic started with PM Optimus. Really it's the normal pretender "Transformer hiding in an action figure" that seem hard for Hasbro to pin down.

Just finished this. Man, they really saved up the animation budget for that two parter. Some of the animation in the early episodes of "Season 3" (It's Season 2 part 2, I don't know why they're doing it this way) was pretty awkward. Plot-wise

Was lightning collection selling well? I was under the impression that after the first few series, the popularity of the rangers goes down a lot, and so eventually Hasbro just ran out of characters with fanbases big enough to sustain sales and that's what killed the line. Well, that and poor...

The eOne purchase was in 2019, in the before times when money was cheap. It wasn't until four years of pandemic and inflation that they wound up divesting themselves. (I wonder if the D&D movie tanking had something to do with it.) ...man, that's ANOTHER great movie that didn't do well. Even...

I have to wonder if how Power Rangers (oof) and Ghostbusters (6" line dead at retail, only haslabs, reissues and some upcoming o-ring toys) turned out during his tenure played a role in his being let go, but I feel like bringing that up is kicking a guy while he's down.

it wouldn't shock me if they just eliminated his position entirely. He oversaw the GI Joe and Transformers teams and likely acted as the go-between between them and the higher-ups; so cutting him out means the people running the teams would just answer to whoever was his boss now instead of...

Who leaked that? Because anyone could guess obvious repaints and be right a percentage of the time.