Burn wrote:I don't know how they got it so wrong when all the other combiners were pretty bloody solid. (More so when you give them decent feet)
I can take a good guess: Motormaster suffered from being the afterthought to Prime. Hasbro designed the MM mold with Optimus in mind, and Prime
had to have the correct truck mode, so they decided to try to shoehorn the torso mode into it. And it simply just wasn't enough real estate. Hence why he's so floppy.
What should have been done in Prime Wars was what ended up happening in Legacy: we should've gotten a Motormaster with a trailer, and that could have been redecoed into Powermaster Prime in CW. Then that figure could have been the central part of Optimus Maximus. And in TR instead of getting that sorry excuse for a PM Prime (also a retool of another figure), we could have gotten a properly designed voyager Prime.
And that gives me an idea: could Legacy Motormaster be somehow retooled into PM Prime?