GetRightRobot wrote:I feel like we are all grasping. WW Grim? Power Master WW Prime? Personally, If it was painted white with blue and fusia, it would look like a Cybertronian mode Getaway.
Everyone is making some wonderful suggestions to who this might be. Hell everyone is right!
He does look like the suggested bots. But I have to wonder if FP is throwing out their first entirely unique character that pays homage to a gimmick (powermaster) instead of a character. This may some how be related to the launch of their new website where fans are supposed to be able to influence product development.
Yeah, it does feel like we are all grasping and as long as there are more than two people on this site we are going to get more than 2 points of view/ideas as to what it is.
Personally, I'm in the WW Grimlock camp on this one. It looks like he had a shipping container dropped on him though. He's broader and longer but the basic, fundamental elements are there whereas the WW Prime look, even stretched out in all directions, isn't going to have enough of the same elements. Different smoke-stack configuration and different cockpit and headlamp/grill styling. However Prime would be amenable to taking on a "Heartmaster" or Powermaster partner where Grimlock would just as soon lose vital parts of his anatomy before having a humanoid merge with him.
No matter what points we bring up, this figure isn't a ringer for ANY of the previous incarnations of characters, it simply has a small handful of familiar elements from one or two previous characters. I think permanently assigning it as either Prime or Grimlock would be rather insulting to those characters as this one is too scrawny to be either one. It's still cool looking but not Prime or Grim material.
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