I'm still half expecting him to show up as a trailbreaker remold somewhere, maybe selects. We don't usually know about them this much in advance.
I'm still half expecting him to show up as a trailbreaker remold somewhere, maybe selects. We don't usually know about them this much in advance.
Won’t stop some from making the comparison. His Vehicle mode is more Animated than Primes big SUV. But does need the big green lower jaw to be more Animated.As in Prime Universe Bulkhead? Cuz that noggin sure ain't Animated Bulkhead's.
I generally don't care for the Animated aesthetic but that Optimus looks pretty cool.
Per leaked photos, the stingers can operate like they should, and can be combined while wrist-mounted.
Optimus sure seems to be skewing a lot closer to the Animated aesthetic than 'Bee and Prowl did, though that's not a complaint by any stretch. For one, it makes me actually want him. Wish he had his multi-purpose blaster, but alas.
Legacy Animated Optimus Prime looks pretty cool. Love the extended axe.
Well, crap. Closer inspection has got grill/headlight molding in the feet. It's not what I'd prefer, but it's enough to get me to walk my complaints back for the most part.
I'll never know what they were thinking there.
On the other hand, Prime looks okay to me. It does a much better job of sticking to an aesthetic. That's all I'm asking for here. Just pick a thing and do it well.
On the other hand, Prime looks okay to me. It does a much better job of sticking to an aesthetic. That's all I'm asking for here. Just pick a thing and do it well.
I really don't see his vehicle mode as similar at all to either of them. It's closer to movie
(It's also boxier than literally any of them, or than the majority of real-life similar vehicles.)
The fact that Bumblebee's feet are larger in the Legacy artwork than on the figure itself only makes it weirder that his legs transform that weird way (which is both the reason his feet are too small and the reason the stripe is on the wrong side below his waist).
It was even admitted in one of the designer Instagram posts that Legacy Bulkhead's altmode was indeed inspired by AOE Hound, and that the Amazon Wreckers redeco was made to give the figure an even bigger resemblance to Hound. So they just straight up admitted that they chose not to base the new Bulkhead figure directly on either existing Bulkhead.
It's made even weirder when one considers the fact that Animated Bumblebee having big boot-like feet was a nod to the feet of G1 Bumblebee, which were likewise made from the front bumper area of his own original toy, a toy that also had big boot-like feet. So the original feet were already a G1 homage. In fact, a vast majority of new-mold G1 Bumblebee toys ( and all of their redecos/retools) made since the original Classics mold in 2006 have all had big boots. Having big boots is simply G1 Bumblebee's thing (among other things), and the original Animated Bumblebee toys replicated that faithfully. Hasbro's attempt to G1-ify the feet of this new Animated Bumblebee results in eliminating something that was already G1-based.
AOE Hound feels like an honorary member of the Bulkhead family anyway.
The movies frequently suck with names anyway, so I just chalk that up to him actually being movieverse Bulkhead that they threw a vaugely related G1 name onto.
Finally a homophobic Transformer.
With Legacy Bulkhead, I wasn't impressed with the paint job trying to look like Prime universe, it was a complete failure on that part, while I got the Wreckers verison, which feels better overall, sure I know there is no differences in the mold, but the paint job, just feels right for that Bulkhead, after all he transforms into a miltray vehicle, so miltray camo colours work best for him if you ask me, but clearly I think there was some confusion with Legacy in the desgining and marketing departments of Hasbro, they didn't really know what to do, with the Netflix series ending after the third "Season" AKA completion of the amount of eps they ordered and not ordering any more, I think they not been sure what to do and the desginers were pretty much doing their own thing with very little idea of what comes next and there was the hold over from Kingdom in the remaining Predacons and the delay of the Rise of the Beasts movie likely caused some confusion as well!
I would say out of all of legacy thus far, I would say the best voyager is Tarn/Bundgeon, its such a posable figure and no kibble beyond the weaponary, thou Trashmaster is certainly intersting, thou I not messed with him as much as the Tarn/Budgeon figures
I would say out of all of legacy thus far, I would say the best voyager is Tarn/Bundgeon, its such a posable figure and no kibble beyond the weaponary, thou Trashmaster is certainly intersting, thou I not messed with him as much as the Tarn/Budgeon figures
That's not what happened at all. The people who made the Netflix WFCT cartoon pitched a Legacy cartoon to Hasbro, but Hasbro said "No". The Legacy toys were not made to promote a new cartoon, that's backwards. The cartoons are made to promote new toys.
TF Wiki states that Netflix were the ones who passed on a series based upon Legacy, so it could of been something in the middle.
None of us were there so short of an official statement by someone it's a mute point arguing.
What I do know, however, is that the toys always come first with Transformers. So I'm inclined to believe Sabrblade's analysis that the toys were created first, and any cartoon that would promote them would have been dreamt up after the fact.