Cyberpath wrote:They release him in every size-class though,
They didn't always and even some recent lines that do still haven't covered every size class for him.
Cyberpath wrote:Although I want a Deluxe I'm talking more about the design. Why haven't they made a proper CHUG figure of his iconic incarnation instead (or in addition to) all the gimmicky toys of him -- combiner, headmaster, triple-changer, powermaster, etc.
They probably feel that they've already covered that ground with existing Deluxes that drew from his original look (like the Classics "Ultimate Battle" one, even if that one's lame), and want to do other things with him to keep up with the ever-changing nature of the brand that necessitates creating new and fresh ideas for old characters.
And, again, doing the old design at the Deluxe scale always ends up making him puny among his compatriots. Legends and Legions are like a separate scale on their own when it comes to making toys for big characters at those sizes since no one expects a Legion or Legends class Optimus to be hanging out with, say, a Deluxe Prowl or a Voyager Megatron. But a Deluxe Optimus doesn't really fit that with anything other than other Deluxe toys of similarly big characters, of which there are so few already since big characters tend to warrant big toys (and when they end up only getting small [non-Legends/non-Legion] toys instead, the fans usually complain).