Chimera245 wrote:So I recently got Voyager Grimlock, and inside his box was a blue cardstock background featuring all the symbols of the Prime Masters that the toyline revolves around. I noticed that each of the symbols had Cybertronian script next to them, and sure enough, I went to the Transformers Wiki, and translated the script into english, and all the words were names of the thirteen Primes. Or twelve of them anyway...
Given the rather... fluid roster of the Thirteen, depending on which story you're in, I was excited to actually have a definitive list of them for this toyline. Then I realized that the list matches exactly the list of the Thirteen in the Aligned continuity. (Transformers Prime, War for Cybertron, Covenant of Primus, etc.)
Or twelve of them, anyway. And if you've read the Covenant of Primus, you'll know that the missing one from the list in the Voyager boxes is...
Optimus...
So, is the missing Prime in PotP the same guy, as bad as that would be? Is there any word one way of the other?
Does this imply some sort of connection to the Aligned universe?
And what of the actual figures? They don't look anything like the characters they represent. Alpha Trion is not a white and yellow guy with no mustache. I think I remember reading somewhere that these figures "inherited the sparks of the original Thirteen" or some such thing. Does this mean they're reincarnations of the original Thirteen? Does this mean ALL of the original Thirteen (or at least the first twelve of them) are canonically dead now in this storyline? Including guys like Alpha Trion and Vector Prime, who are still around in most stories?
Or does this just mean that they inherited their power, like some sort of direct descendants, or that the Thirteen (or twelve) somehow passed their power on, similar to the Matrix of Leadership? (Which they, in turn can temporarily pass on, Mini-con style according to the toyline gimmick. The fact that the Prime Masters can fit into the Matrix on Leader class toys would line up with this.)
Also, are there actually going to be thirteen (or twelve) of them? On the Wiki, it stops at Wave 3. (Megatronus, Quintus Prime, and Solus Prime) Will there be another wave or two after that? It doesn't seem like any Prime Masters are being packaged in with bigger toys... This only brings the total of Prime masters up to 8. (9 depending on who you're counting...)
Also x2, does anyone else have trouble getting them out of their Pretender shell "Decoy Armor"? I've got Micronus, and it's hard to actually find a good way to grab or pry him out once he's in...
zodconvoy wrote:>:oP 12 + Optimus, Rodimus, and Primal make 15. Just sayin'.
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