ZeroWolf wrote:To be completely fair, it is a prime after all plus Takara could have a say in it for obvious reasons
See, this is what I was thinking. Making Powermaster Optimus Prime out of Ultra Magnus is fine and all, but if there isn't at least a small regular Prime that fits inside the Japanese are going to angry. They're going to want both Ginrai and Super Ginrai in this, the later alone isn't enough. And don't even think of remolding Minimus Ambus into Ginrai.
So did anyone else pull out their Magnus figure and play around with it to see if it could be done? The truck cab is about the size of a Deluxe which is fine with me if they were to make a simple Deluxe Optimus Prime that transforms like the original PM OP with minimum articulation (neck, shoulders, elbows, hips, knees, and ankles) it could be done pretty cheaply and easily.
The arms are the easiest thing to modify. They can make completely new arms, but leave the way they're brought together. Then instead of folding them back to make the top of the carrier slide the hands in (like the Japanese figure) and point them straight down to make the front of the trailer. The rest of the trailer could possibly be done through a series of folded panels to make a box which can double as ramps and whatnot in base mode. People have mentioned the UM chest panel being in the way, but it isn't an essential part of the transformation in either mode so it can be removed completely.
So yeah, it can be done, but is it really worth doing this way instead of starting over?
Emerje
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