My solution has been to only get the movie beast weapons-formers. They're small, cheap, and go well with anything.
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Me too. I bought the ones that came with some cruddy, Happy-Meal versions of Prime/Primal to get the wolf and tiger ones (and to qualify for the Japanese red Powermaster), but that's all I've bought from the line so far.
The old Takara Prime Armsmicron Ironhide was a fairly desent figure, pity Hasbro never actually did paint that mold in the Ironhide colours and did green and called him Kup, thou I gave the cannons to Ironhide as I bought a copy of the Takara verison of the old as Ironhide, the Micron got broke on my copy, thou giving him the arm cannons made him look better than that Micron
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That was such a hugely disappointing move to me. Much as I love Kup, why didn't they just recolor the smaller version instead?
Who knows but half the time, Hasbro don't even know what the heck they are doing, its like the right side of the brain refuses to talk to the left side of the brain!
I'm guessing it was some corporate/retailer excuse about there being "too much red" in the Deluxe range.
That is a BAD EXCUSE, because it doesn't stack up, just looking up Prime toyline of deluxes at the time that figure came out, there was only one other red figure and that was Knock out and he was in wave 3 while Kup was in wave 5
Do you think retail executives are smart enough to know that?
You forgot about Cliffjumper in Wave 1, who also shelfwarmed for a good while.
You'd think they'd pay attention to this. Red is usually more popular than green where vehicles are concerned. (I pulled up the year when TFP Kup came out.)
In Japan, it's white, black and silver and that's basically it. Oh, and most of the cars are Japanese, with little or no foreign cars.
I mean, I'm looking at North America here, where we got the BIG Kup and the little Ironhide.
Heck, Japan even got Ironhide at the full size! In red!
If he was black like in the movie, that would make more sense.
My point being, in North America, corporate and/or retail deciding "too much red" among their cars should probably look at what's popular in cars. Instead, they grabbed from the one listed next to "everything else not worth discussing."
It just doesn't make sense.
Maybe they just really wanted to secure the Kup name trademark and the line ended before they got around to Ironhide? When was the last Kup before that, anyway?
Correct, I believe that the hand lasers in var mode were, in fact, reserved for Classics Kup.
I have the Kup version. He's pretty cool and a fun little mold. I really do like the Ironhide color scheme better though.
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Would making the small release Kup not have effectively done the same thing?