Ask Vector Prime was a mistake.I'd rather we got a Trannis that actually looked like what Simon Furman may have hypothetically had in mind when he came up with the character, instead of the goofy purple Junkion generic from the "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4" flashback that Ask Vector Prime just casually slapped the name onto.
Maybe THAT’s why Earthrise Prime is getting rerun later this year!That looks perfect, honestly.
Too bad said rerun already sold out before this Deluxe toy was revealed.Maybe THAT’s why Earthrise Prime is getting rerun later this year!
We got a Carnivac in 1988. I'm not saying he couldn't use an update, but he's not a comic-only Transformer to begin with.Carnivac had a decent run in the comics, your basic Wolverine type of character. I can't believe we've never gotten him out of any of the various wolf transformers.
We got a Carnivac in 1988. I'm not saying he couldn't use an update, but he's not a comic-only Transformer to begin with.
I’m still waiting for them to do a new take on Thunderclash
A Missing Link one would be amazing.I just want that for the obvious Machine Wars Prime repaint, but I'm losing confidence that we'll see either one.
Wasn't that an unproduced prototype, though? Obviously, it existed enough to make it into the magazine that the pic is from, but is anyone known to actually own one?A rare toy is still a toy.
Honestly, it not looking quite right is part of the charm to me, since they're supposed to be undercover. It's just the right level of "off" to make him feel like something is amiss...Please do not take this as an insult to those who do like Animated, but I have just never liked the Motormaster design because I hate Animated aesthetics. The only animated toy I still have in my possession is a heavily customized Arcee figure that I turned into a new character with Prime Airrachnid's head.
That being said, I can respect what they were trying to do with him. They were trying to give him this big, bulky persona of a wrestler (which I despise wrestling as well so that's another negative against him) which I think they did a decent job with back with the original BotCon design. Hasbro was just trying to stay faithful to that original design, which even if you question the aesthetics, I think they did a good job of.
The box kinda makes me think of Scott Steiner's chainmail hood. Wrong wrestler (and Steiner's a dick), but I can at least sorta make a connection.
Ah, damn it, now THAT'S got me vaguely interested, him hitting folks with The Motor Math.
Honestly, it not looking quite right is part of the charm to me, since they're supposed to be undercover. It's just the right level of "off" to make him feel like something is amiss...
That's precisely what I was thinking...
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"You know, they say that all bots are created equal, but you look at me and you look at Optimus Prime and you can see that statement is not true. See, normally if you go one on one with another Cybertronian, you got a 50/50 chance of winning. But I'm a genetic freak and I'm not normal! So you got a 25%, AT BEST, at beatin' me. Then you add Sentinel Prime to the mix, your chances of winning drastic go down. See, the 3-way at Sacrifice, you got a 33 1/3 chance of winning, but I, I got a 66 and 2/3 chance of winning, because Sentinel KNOWS he can't beat me, and he's not even gonna try!
"So Optimus Prime, you take your 33 1/3 chance, minus my 25% chance and you got an 8 1/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice. But then you take my 75% chance of winning, if we was to go one on one, and then add 66 2/3 per cents, I got 141 2/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice. See, Op, the numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for you at Sacrifice!"