Overcracker wrote:I just don’t see Hasbro spending the money on a brand new Magnus mold in Commander price class, and not want to get some kind of Optimus Prime out of it.
Hence my suggestion of either or both SS86 Prime and a new Powermaster Prime. Regardless of which way they design Magnus (with or without white Prime inside) there can be an Optimus made out if it. With PM Prime they would have to cheat a bit in order to make the cab separate from the trailer, and the trailer have to be retooled, but it can be done, pretty much like Galaxy Prime came from Siege Magnus.
Magnus is really the only one that makes sense. Astrotrain is a possibility, but I just can’t see them going more expensive than Blitzwing for him, and the Siege mold is still there and is o.k. Not great, but passable.
Yeah, 2 good modes out of 3 is what we can expect at leader prices (the train mode for Astrotrain and the jet mode for Blitzwing are both giant failures) but I firmly believe that at commander price we would've gotten better engineering and a decent 3rd mode even if the figure itself stayed the same size.
But it keeps bugging me that it would technically be the fifth Magnus in what.. 3 years? Siege, Netflix, Kingdom, SG Selects. How much audience is there for Magnus? Magnus Saturation?
I agree that it's a big ask by Hasbro, but if it's not Astrotrain, then who else? It has to be Magnus, unless it is indeed SS86 Optimus with a snazzy trailer. And if it was Magnus,
technically it would count as a new figure with a new mold, whereas all the Magnus versions you mentioned came from the same mold with slight variations.
Legacy Evolution is going to Armada Prime.
