Does this release use foil stickers? I don't know when Hasbro wised up to those.
It's a completely unchanged rerelease, even down to the packaging.Does this release use foil stickers? I don't know when Hasbro wised up to those.
Nemesis Prime and Star Convoy were great uses of that mold, which is why I bought them instead of the regular Prime version.Nemesis Prime is still by far the best use of that PotP mold.
I only wish that it had the Star Convoy version of the small bot, though. But the spiky mohawk was a nice touch.
Those would get my attention, though.Nemesis Prime and Star Convoy were great uses of that mold, which is why I bought them instead of the regular Prime version.
They chose not to because they had just recently already done Powermaster Optimus in Titans Return. Somewhere, it was said that if they hadn't done Powermaster Optimus in Titans Return at all, they would have done in him Power of the Primes since the Leader class gimmick in that line was more fitting of Powermaster Optimus than normal Optimus. But they simply didn't have that foresight at the start of Titans Return when they decided to do Powermaster Optimus for Titans Return, which was decided in the first place because of how Titans Return was a big celebration of the 1986-1988 era of G1, and the original Powermaster Optimus was the Optimus toy of 1988, so it only made sense to them at the time to do the 1988 Optimus in the line that celebrated 1986-1988. And then when POTP rolled around, they realized only then that, in hindsight, it would have been better to hold off on Powermaster Optimus until POTP when the Leader class gimmick would have been perfect for it. But they still wanted a big Optimus toy in the Leader class, so they went with normal Optimus instead. Hindsight's a real pain, sometimes.I always thought that they'd end up making a Powermaster Prime version of the mold. They had the guns from the Nemesis version and the remolded cab robot from the Star Convoy version. It was right there. It wasn't my IDEAL Powermaster Prime, but I would have bought it.
Heh, their having to do normal Optimus with Orion as the smaller form might have been where they got that "Matrix to Primes" gimmick idea from in the first place.Doing PMOP that would have kinda run counter to the whole "Matrix turning schlubs into Primes" gimmick,