Does anyone else want a DHL redeco of this Prime for no reason?

 

So Mark posted pics with the proper grill abs, while the official photos show that compartment open with green inside. I'm actually not sure which looks better.

 

Looks good enough, I'd be in if they gave it a new squat hero head

 

Um...I think you might be a bit wrong there. First of what Studio Series puts out probably has no bearing on Legacy/Generations and vice versa. Armada Optimus is already happening, he's pretty much all but confirmed and releasing next year thanks to the Legacy poster so that makes no sense.

Also if they did make one, a SS86 Optimus would probably come out in 2024 for the 40th anniversary of the franchise.

The dinobot comparison also doesn't work because they got carried away with making the SS86 versions over the bayverse ones as they proved more popular and look at Studio Series 44 Leader Class Optimus, he released just under a year before Leader Earthrise Optimus.

So the whole "Similarly named characters in the same size class don’t get made next to each other" is probably about characters in the same wave. Even then there's some evidence that's not quite the case as Kingdom wave 1 had a Leader and Core Optimus

 

Still needs better leg proportions and white legs.

 

He's kind of big. Yeah, I'm a scale nut. Working on a dio action display longterm and he doesn't fit in.

And, honestly, getting SS86 Ironhide and seeing Buzzworthy Hound has whetted my appetite for a better G1 Optimus and Megatron.

Besides, while I'm glad Armada Optimus is coming in 2023 (I have a lot of nostalgia for Armada -- and RiD and Alternators and Robot Masters, that whole era), I kind of feel like 2024 has to have SOME cool early G1 love.

Doesn't need to be everything.

I'd like...

In Legacy:
Buzzsaw
Windcharger
Gears

In SS86:
Optimus
Megatron

And somehow a Constructicon team that improves on Combiner Wars.

That's 11 figures across all lines, hundreds of figures. I'd be happy if nothing else is G1.

Although I'd probably also like it if they design any new Fembots so they can be redecoed as better versions of Elita-1's team with headswaps but I honestly think this would be better if they only did 1-2 a year and kept it in Selects so we could get mold variety.

And, well, I want the rest of G2 Menasor but that isn't likely to be mainline either. And it's debatable whether G2 is G1.

 

Plus, JG1 fans could call it Ginrai.

Um, now that your mention it, yes, for some reason.

 

yeah okay, chill

 

  there was nothing aggressive in my post, so there's no need to tell me to chill.

 

A bit more expensive than I'd like but I pre-ordered. He can go at bottom of my little (I'll likely have the other Optimus is ape form at the top of the tree doing his best King Kong impression, like last time*)

Generally a nice looking Optimus and truck. I wish the truck windows were the same as the chest windows. I accepted it with Laser Prime since his grey chest wasn't even trying to be the black top of the cab. I wouldn't mind the snow white on the top of his chest as well since this is a Christmassy figure anyway.

But to end on a positive note, overall looks good. Glad to order.

*Actually two Christmases ago. I didn't put up the tree last year. Have the Kingdom Beast wars figures really been out that long?

 

can anyone tell me that that Green blast effect is include with him or did they just put that in there.

 

There's no indication that he comes with effect parts, going by the product info on store pages.

 

That one is from the Tricranius pack, I believe.

 

That blast effect is from Tricranius

 

The CW Constructicons scale well with the SS86 Dinobots, so I'm unsure if Hasbro would do an all-new mold. I could see them taking the Unite Warriors edition with the extra articulation and weapons and doing a special SS86 release with it, though.

Otherwise, I think the Constructicons will go Core Class in SS86 and give us a 10" tall Devy. 12x6 is $72. And Hasbro has shown they're willing to release six individual Core Class gestalt figures. Alternately, he could be a Core-Class COMMANDER release.

G1 ain't done until the Omnibots show up.

It is G1, more or less. But the confusion you feel is why we need to stop labeling "continuity families" and think more in terms of "eras". 1984-90 is "G1 Era". 1991-1995 is "G2 Era". 1996-2000 is "Beast Era". Etc.

 

You know I gotta asked, is his matrix is called the Matrix of Festiveness?

 

It's the "EVERGREEN MATRIX".  

Actually, this Matrix is simply jealous of other Matrices. Why does the blue Matrix get all the love? And the red Matrix? There's a Nemesis Prime repaint nearly every year. But does the green Matrix get any love? No. It's just the stupid Creation matrix form the old Marvel Comics. Nothing to see here. Secretly, the Green Matrix waits for its moment to strike...stalking its prey...biding its time...

 

Epic