Nemesis Primal wrote:The Hasbro art for Ultra Prime isn't the same as the Ultra Prime on the back of the box.
Most significantly, his right arm is Firefly in Dragstrip's colors.
Which is just so bizarre that I want it in plastic.
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Just me?
Always looked more like an obvious Blastoff in blastoff colours. wings are on the legs, single tailfin not folded back on the outside of the arm.
And his left arm is Alphabravo in Vortex' colours.
*and* his right leg is Air Raid, who wasn't even in wave 1
*AND* his left leg is Skydive in Firefly's colours.
I remember hearing that they had originally only planned the line to last a year, so things they were going to do got extended out into 2 years.
That's why so many of the bots we're getting are repaints, they're basically filler waves to pad out the line because it's selling so well.
Maybe the Onslaught Scattershot wave was originally planned to be Wave 4 2015 and that's why Ultra Prime's original art has Vortex and Blastoff in it. It's a remnant of the original plans for 2015.
I wish I could remember the source where I heard that rumour, but there's so many of the damn things hanging around now it's hard to keep track.