Sabrblade wrote:This... is a touchy subject, given the examples you gave.TK415 wrote:The comic advertises/represents the toy, the toy came first, not the other way around. Masterpiece toys are the exception, in these cases the toy tries as hard as possible to look like the media. Most of the time it is the media that works to look like the toy. The media can and does embellish or look different from the toy. G1 Cartoon Optimus sure looked a lot better than his toy (though the toy was pretty nice). Transformers Prime and CW Prime media both look better than their toy counter parts. Comic Megatron looks better than toy Megatron.
While you are right on the money with Victorion and G1 Optimus having had their toy designs created first, with their fiction designs coming second and being modeled after their toy designs, more recent years have seen a lot more of the opposite cases happen with toy designs coming second, being modeled after fiction designs. Most of these kinda of cases that occurred in mainstream format were for all the Movie lines, Animated, Prime, RID 2015, certain Generations, and certain Rescue Bots. For the examples you listed, the TF: Prime designs were show first, toys second, Combiner Wars were mostly toys first, comic second, and Megatron's Leader class toy belongs to neither case since its design is unrelated to his comic body's design.
Alright, fair enough, I was wrong on a few of those, thank you for the clarification Sabrblade (no sarcasm on my part at all), I do want things to be correct.
It is interesting how more Transformers are being model after the media. Even when they are modeled after the media, the media still typically looks better since it is media and not a affordable kids toy.
I am confused about Megatron. Sabrblade, you are much more knowledgeable and read than I am about Transformers (and I’m fairly knowledgeable, but you still far exceed me), I am a year or two behind in the comics reading. I haven’t seen Autobot Megatron yet. But from images on the internet, they sure look close enough (for Hasbro) in robot mode. Megatron toy and IDW MTMTE Megatron, both have treads on legs and on back, both have similar torsos. I am not trying to argue with you, really what am I missing? They seem pretty similar. I wouldn’t be surprised if their alt modes were a bit different, but we’ve seen that before.