They did make an Optimus Prime. He might be on BBTS

 

There were Shogun Warriors Kamen Riders in Japan?!

 

It is, 25 dollar deposit I think.

 

Just found out how much this is going to cost. Never mind.

 

Shogun Warriors was called Jumbo Machinder in Japan and featured Super Robots from different properties within the line.

 

I guess Kamen Riders originally being cyborgs somehow makes them qualify.

 

I just got reminded of something rather important about Emiliano. Remember, I said He-Man is his first love, and I've seen fan art of his from as far back as 1989. You've obviously seen reams of Transformers fan art he supposedly did all the time before joining Hasbro, could you please post links, I'm sure we'd all love to see them. As an Emiliano fan, I'd genuinely like to see his early takes on them.

But Transformers was absolutely NOT his long-term plan, and here's proof that I'd forgotten about. Circa 2009, he and some of the other guys from his previous defunct comics company (which produced He-Man comics, naturally) worked extensively on a new bible for an all-new comic series for He-Man. It of course featured a tonne of drawings and all-new redesigns by Emiliano, a hell of a lot of work. It was presented to Mattel, but was rejected, it was simply not the direction they had in mind.

Emiliano went on to talk about all this in Toyfare magazine (magazines, remember those?) and Mattel gave him a shiny reward for that. Wanna guess what it was? It was a Cease And Desist notice. So that embittered him slightly, though to my knowledge he still kept buying the toys, so still remained/remains a He-Man fan.

Had his comics pitch been approved back then, things could have turned out very differently, and he may never have ended up at Hasbro. In some alternate universe he's probably designing He-Man toys as we speak. So yes, I think that adds to the story, and tells us exactly where he wants to be, but that he's probably also quite happy where he is too. We all have dreams of the grass on the other side.

 

...What does any of this have to do with whether or not he's a Transformers fan? He can be very into He-Man, and have it as his first love, and still be very into Transformers.

This whole discussion of trying to "prove" he's not """a true fan""" or whatever is really weird.

 

Because that other guy started in on me, so I had to provide sources on Emiliano's career, to somehow prove I don't hate his designs, or him. Yeah it's stupid. Damn stupid, and I'm an idiot for getting involved. Note I'm not arguing whether he's a 'true fan'. Just that his first love is He-Man, and the other guy has the sequence of events wrong. Then the other guy bit my face off and made up shit I'd never said.

But yeah like I said, I'm the fool here, to be honest.

 

oh!

 

A Marvel style Fangry could work well as an Ultimate, possibly with a removable Grimlock’s fist shaped hole in his chest to recreate his death!

 

I would kill for an Andrew Wildman Artist's Collection Series. Give me Scorponok, Bludgeon, Prowl, and Fangry all in his style and I'd be a VERY happy man.

 

Wave 2 preorders...
Any day now...

 

According to the interview it sounds like Preorders for wave 2 will be out by next month.

 

Thanks for sharing this update – especially since an hour and a half would have been a long video to scan through for that info. I’m very excited about wave 2; you can probably guess why.
(Hint vvv)

 

Still holding out hope one of Track's accessories is Basher - or at the very least that they plan to do an AM Tracks at some point as an exclusive or something.

 

I think it's likely, Bombshell came with his partner and he wasn't a character created for AM either.

 

True facts - but the only reason I'm hesitant is because they explicitly called Bombshell out as an Action Master on their wave lineups, but Tracks isn't-

 

Oh, I don't know then. I'd assume he's based more on the cartoon model then if that's the case. I would love to see an AM Tracks down the road though, it'd be neat if they gave him his G1 toy headsculpt.

 

Excited to hopefully be seeing Bludgeon soon, him and the Alligatorcon from wave 3 are the only other two aside from Banzai-tron I'm really interested in.