I've been saying it like "XAAH-ron".
Well, that's just bizarre.
I just call him the X-man. Or I would if Disney wasn't ready to throw a lawyer at me if I tried.
Same here, I've always assumed it to be pronounced like "czar on". Apply it directly to the czar.
But he's an "Emirate".
Nah, there's no country for old mechs.
I've not encountered it said aloud, but I've always pronounced it zær-on.
Dropped the ball, Beasties!
Probably doesn't help that the AllSpark Almanac II initially misspelled his name as "Xarron" (it was corrected in the Complete version).
Simon Furman: "Why, yes, exactly. Why do you ask?"
Man, the more I see of the Legacy United G1 Optimus the less I'm impressed. He's WAY too small (shorter than Beachcomber) and from what I hear just feels really light and cheap. I like that there's an affordable alternative to Missing Link, but it feels like they really dropped the ball on this one.
The whole chest has to be hollow. Of course it feels light.
The desgin has always been hollow with the chest, the original had heavier plastic and metal incoperated into it, which is why it was heavier, he just another victim of the lost art of Diecast construction
"lost art"
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It's an old Beast Wars joke.
it isn't that old.... *goes and sits down to rest his arthritis filled typing fingers*
I know. But it gets tossed around with the implication that it's inherently better than not having diecast and/or the complaint that it doesn't show up in modern products. Which it does. Not mainline, no, but it's still very much used in modern Transformers today.
Just that expecting a toy in a retail line to have to it is a bit ridiculous. G1 Prime is supposed to mimic the original figure, but add joints ala Missing Link, but has to do it at a modern retail line budget. So that means both a hollow chest/truck cab and plastic construction.
So ofc it's gonna feel light. I don't think that's a mark against the toy. Just a reality of concept and budgets coming together. If you want an articulated figure based on G1 Prime and don't want to or can't spring for the ML release then this is the option. And I don't think it appears "too cheap" given both the reality of budgets and the idea the designers were going for.
anybody who earnestly complains about modern mass retail toys not having diecast aren't worth engaging tbh