The Evil Autobots Facebook page has been updated with a close up look at that new head on Shattered Glass Ultra Magnus. The new head is an interesting one – on closer inspection, it’s a crystal skull with a cracked and warped version of the Optimus Prime helmet around it. It’s two parts demonic Optimus Prime head and one part medieval war helmet. While it’s not much like an Ultra Magnus head, it does a good job at being some kind of corrupted, dark reflection on a Prime – and perhaps that’s the character behind this take on Ultra Magnus.
In any case, does this change your view on the toy? Does it make it easier for you to accept as a different character (or repurpose as someone else entirely in your collection)? Sound off on our 2005 Boards by hitting that discuss button!
Bass X0
SG Straxus is the freebie.
ex dtw2003
At least they explain the the super weird head sculpt in the bio.
Stepper
Yah,why is Ultra Magnus called Usurper Warlord,weird name.
Anguirus
The only FunPub bio cards I have list functions of "car" and "dinosaur.
G1_Cindersaur
a copy of his brother's newly augmented body?
bet the freebie is a SG prime made with this mold!
Kaijumaster
GAH! I need transformed images, his shoulder colors keep changing with every picture!
Starscream NZ
It's not, and it's a pretty ridiculous name.
I can just imagine someone listing a job as 'Usurper Specialist' or battling hard in war to earn the rank of Usurper….
RedAlert Rescue
I don't typically think of 'Usurper' as a rank or job title.
Scaleface
Optimus Prime took his face! So SG Optimus are movie Optimus… same guy?
Scaleface
The design of Optimus Prime in the end of issue 12 of Marvel G1 was the G2 Hero toy, but colored like the G1 toy – blue lower legs, no yellow stripes, or the words OPTIMUS PRIME on the chest.
Anguirus
^ I think my point still stands though. It's an Optimus-y design, and one I like, but it's not OPTIMUS PRIME the way that the original character model and toy are. The Laser Prime body has been Optimus Primal and it has been Scourge, and it has been a source of inspiration, but Laser Prime has never played the character of Optimus Prime.
I like this mold and own it already (and I own Car Robots Black Convoy) but I have always wanted the mold to be used for, if not Scourge, some sort of non-Optimus truck-former swordsman. This would seem to qualify, but I also wouldn't mind seeing it as Motormaster.
Sol Fury
I believe actually it was a mixture of both designs, neither one or the other.
trebleshot
Blame it on a fuzzy memory, but I could have sworn he was rebuilt into the Laser form, not Combat Hero.
Eh, I stand corrected.
Scaleface
On the last couple pages Optimus Prime is rebuilt as G2 Combat Hero Optimus Prime.
General Tekno
Referring to the Marvel US comic?
As they used the G2 version of the G1 mold, not Laser Prime.
trebleshot
Uh, what about the G2 comic?
payton34
^ LOL.
Scaleface
G1Prowl
I'm so glad I hate this mold, I'm totally indifferent as to what they use it for and how.