by Sabrblade » Tue Jun 27, 2017 9:40 am
- Motto: "Can't do a job halfway. What's worth doing is worth doing well, I say."
- Weapon: Saber Blade
I plan to make a more formal report on the con later, but here's what happened with SG Starscream from what all I can remember from the panel.
Basically, the original plan for the 7th figure was for it to be CW G1 Sunstorm from the Unite Warriors Starscream figure. At the time that that was planned, it was not yet known that that was going to be the absolute final Fun Pub Transformers figure. By the time that was found out, Pete and friends tried to get Hasbro to let them change the mold out for something else so that Fun Pub could create a much better figure for the conclusion of their tenure with the Transformers license, a figure that would better serve to represent Fun Pub's tenure. Specifically, that "something else" that Pete wanted Hasbro to let them switch out the Starscream mold was the Generations Springer mold to create one of Pete's two biggest unproduced figure regrets: Shattered Glass Rodimus Prime.
Unfortunately, Hasbro said no to that request because they said that the request came too late for any molds to be switched out. The Starscream mold was set in stone at that point. So, Fun Pub tried to see if they could move around some of the set molds and change one of them into being the the special final Fun Pub figure. Once such attempt was to move Counterpunch around and have Optimus be the special last figure. Not simply as he ended up being, but to keep the Pretender shell as is and instead have the inner Optimus figure be Shattered Glass Optimus. But that wasn't doable so late in the game either.
Therefore, they were stuck with having the Starscream mold at the end as the final Fun Pub figure, so they had no choice but to try and do something uniquely Fun Pub-ish with it. After much brainstorming, t hey decided to turn it into a new SG Starscream, one who exists not in the main Marvel G1 comic-based SG universe that we've had since 2008, but in a new Sunbow G1 cartoon-based SG universe, which was first glimpsed at in the bonus two-page Transformers comic that was included in the back of the Diamond Edition of the G.I.JoeCon 2016 comic book.
Though, the way Fun Pub pulled off turning Sunstorm into SG Starscream was not as direct as simply asking Hasbro to let them change the former into the latter, but rather Fun Pub simply asked Hasbro if there could be "a few color changes made to that mold's deco". Hasbro never got back to them about that, so since Hasbro technically didn't say "No" that time and didn't make a fuss over it afterward, Fun Pub took the initiative and were able to successfully get the overseas production to color the figure as SG Starscream, to celebrate the end of the Fun Pub Transformers era.
"When there's gold feathers, punch behind you!!"Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
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