o.supreme wrote:Sabrblade wrote:o.supreme wrote:I wonder why ( aside from cost) they chose SS86 Hot Rod as the template and not Kingdom Rodimus? I mean even if they didn't want to include the trailer and all the extras, they could have sold the Rodimus body/ vehicle by itself.
Probably because the character was always Hot Rod in all but name and never truly Rodimus Prime. The original toy was released at the time when Hasbro no longer had the name "Hot Rod" available to use, and were instead using just "Rodimus" without the "Prime" to refer to Hot Rod. Such was the case with the original 2006 release of the Classics Rodimus mold, which was also used for the original 2008 SG figure.
I guess that makes sense. I was just thinking back to the previous Rodimus Unicronus toy in PotP which was both a Hotrod & Rodimus Upgrade.
Yeah, but with that toy, Hasbro went out of their way to say "No no, this isn't SG Roddy, no siree, this is totally a NEW form of normal Roddy who's instead a Unicron-corrupted version! Look! He even has a
Decepticon symbol, too! No
SG Autobot symbol here, no siree! And look! He's even the main big bad of our new Machinima cartoon's third season! Where he's definitely not SG Roddy, no siree; he's totally Unicron in normal Roddy's body! Why don't you give it a watch, eh? You might like it, yeah? It's the third season, yes? We pulled out all the stops for this one, yep! So why don't you watch it? Why don't you like it? Why don't you love it? WHY U NO LUV IT?
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