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Mkall wrote:I'm never one to care about the box artwork, 98% of it ends up in the recycling bin anyways.

LOST Cybertronian wrote:I say quit complaining about why or why not a figure is in a certain line and just be glad we are getting these awesome figures in the first place.

whacko wrote:I am definitely going to have to pick up each of these except Scourge (well.. maybe scourge.. don't like the wings though). I want Wheeljack and Jazz too if they ever bother coming out.

Sideswipe 00 wrote: But can anyone confirm Wreck-Gar is the same Hasbro and Takara?

No, they're different. the first Takara images of Wreck-Gar were simply using the Hasbro images as placeholders. Then scans came up of this magazine;



You can see that Wreck-Gar's head is orange and has some other different miscellaneous paint applications.

Caelus wrote:Clever - Maintaining two sublines means they get to keep two colors of packaging on the shelf, meaning we can't just ignore the old HftD figures, we have to rifle through them to find the RtS figures.

As to who and why, I'm guessing the reasoning was...

Scourge - he's unambiguously evil (being, essentially, a demon), and needs to aesthetically match Cyclonus and Galvatron released previously, so standard symbol. (Though a rubsign would have matched him to the Cyclonus Repaint).

Kup - His paint job is way to cheery to have an ambiguous faction, and he's too old to truck, with any of that gimmicky, sneaky stuff, so standard symbol.

Wreck-Gar - Not technically an Autobot anyway, so rubsign.

Bumblebee - Same figure has already been released with standard symbols a couple of times, and he's a spy, so rubsign.

Perceptor - I got nothing, but I like how you have to flip down his chest panel to rub the symbol.

Optimus Prime - The rubsign is just silly, though it will make sense for the Nemesis Prime repaint.