Transformers Legacy toyline

[Future_Erika]

I want to become the next person to continually pester hasbro about making a specific gimmick Arcee toy.

We eventually got Titans Returns Arcee(still my favorite official Arcee) so clearly that strategy works, eventually.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

POTP Rodimus is unpolished gold. I would love to see that design get another chance.

 

[Steevy Maximus]

POTP Rodimus is unpolished gold. I would love to see that design get another chance.

I'd buy it again in a heartbeat if they got rid of the damn stickers

 

[Exatron]

I do love PotP Rodimus. There are a few things I would have liked to see done better, like the backpack and eliminating the stickers, but it's just a great take on the character overall. I like the Powermaster comparison. That's really appropriate. He doesn't fill in for the SS86/Kingdom toys, but he isn't replaced by them either.

My thoughts on the Prime poll haven't changed since when it first came out. Evolution gimmick or not, Primal is and always was the most boring possible option for that poll. The toy worked decently enough, even if I would have preferred not having an S1 Primal backpack as part of the Optimal robot, but there were at least 7 better options in that poll. (Hound is debatable, but I tend towards saying he was a better choice too.)

 

[Swerve]

I would have loved to see Hound as a Prime. Most of the others were too obvious and the weakest one won in my opinion.

 

[Shadewing]

What I liked about the poll in general, was the options. You had the obvious ones, you had interesting ones, a few 'becuase they are popular', and then you had Arcee and Hound, the two never gonna happens, but would have been the most interesting options becuase 'htf do you make the gimmick work with those two?', while Thunderwing is still my choice... I kinda wanna see the universes where they won.

 

[unluckiness]

The poll was full of untapped potential. We never even found out who or what Unknown Evil™ was.

 

[Future_Erika]

need to rerun the poll with only the options that haven't gotten appropriate figures yet
which I guess would be Arcee, Hound, Thunderwing, and maaaybe Megatron?
(operating under the assumption that Unknown Evil was Deathsaurus and that it probably wont be too long until he pops up as the next haslab or something)

 

[Superomegaprime]

The poll was full of untapped potential. We never even found out who or what Unknown Evil™ was.

Which is why its unknown evil, but my guess is likely Megatronus, as he is the only character who appear in the show but never had a toy based upon that desgin!

 

[Sabrblade]

We never even found out who or what Unknown Evil™ was.

You're joking, right?

 

[Exatron]

It truly is a tragedy. Whoever, or whatever, that unknown evil might have been has surely been lost to the ravages of time by now. For he, she, or it hailed from those ancient, bygone days that preceded the great plague, and even the reign of the dear leader who trumped all who came before. History scarcely remembers that ancient era.

...

Seriously, that was only five years ago?

 

[unluckiness]

You're joking, right?

It’s hard to joke about such serious matters. Unknown Evil™ could be anything or anyone. It could even be a Known Evil™!

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

I love POTP Rodimus, he's got his flaws, yes. Optimus probably does have the better Super mode of the two of them; but I agree that Rodimus works very well as a hypothetical 'Powermaster' Rodimus Prime. I almost prefer him to Kingdom Rodimus, just becuase I feel them just not doing anything interesting with the trailer after Sky Lynx had a base mode he didn't have before, and now even Motormaster has a base mode for his trailer. Like Kingdom Rodimus is a better version of the character, but POTP is a better /toy/.

I feel like Rodimus has about as much of a base mode as Optimus, and then some, being a mobile version of largely the same basic thing.

That said, I've got both because hell yeah, Powermaster Rodimus, but also because hell yeah, OG Rodimus.

As for Primal winning the poll, I was happy to see him get to officially become a true Prime in fiction (even if... you know), and that's why I voted that way.

But yeah, had the whole toy thing been known... might've voted differently. In fact, I think I was backing Arcee until she was eliminated (that's how that worked, right?).

 

[TriBlurr]

Hound and Arcee were definitely the most interesting options in that poll. I voted for Hound. But after they were both eliminated in round 1. And it was Primal vs 3 G1 dudes. I voted Primal cause Beast Wars.

They really should have told us the leader class gimmick beforehand though.

 

[The Phazer]

POTP Rodimus was definitely the right idea, just let down by rampant cost cutting.

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

Someone has improved Skullgrin by giving him his "correct" noggin.

 

[Dake]

I wouldn't say removing the giant demon skull is an improvement; I mean, now he's just another robot dude.

If they hollow out the other head so he can wear it like a helmet/mask...

 

[unluckiness]

I guess the blocky head is more consistent with the body made of rectangles but the body is still made of rectangles.

 

[Donocropolis]

Yeah, I have no overwhelming desire for "Inner Robot Only" Skullgrin. The giant demon skull is the best part.

 

[The Phazer]

I wouldn't say removing the giant demon skull is an improvement; I mean, now he's just another robot dude.

If they hollow out the other head so he can wear it like a helmet/mask...

They did, but said it doesn't quite work right yet and needs another pass.

I would probably do this - the skull doesn't work as it is, so at least if you can think of it as the inner robot then there's some value in the toy.