Autobot N wrote:John Warden and his team are known for not liking Beast Wars. Why in the world would they rig a vote in favor of a character they didn't want to make? Plus, with the aura of mystery and the wild-card thing, it was pretty obvious they wanted Deathsaurus to win. As for votes, it's easy to explain Primal's victory. The G1 vote was split between 3 different characters (Magnus, SS, and Deathsaurus), whereas Beast Wars fans could all unite behind a single character.Galactic Prime wrote:I still think that vote was rigged, no way there's that many Optimus Primal fansOr maybe they had done design work on all 3, and just continued working on the one that won. I find it hard to believe that Trypticon was always planned to be the second TR titan, since both Omega and Scorponok would have made more sense in a Headmaster-oriented line.Rodimus Prime wrote:Just like the Trypticon vote a couple of years ago. The figure was already planned out and *surprise!* it won the vote. All these polls are rigged according to what the company wants. I do think there are a lot of Op fans out there, too bad Hasbro doesn't leave anything up to the fandom.
So Originally I voted for Arcee to become the leader, as I wanted to see what they could do with her. If I remember correctly she didn't even make it past the first round of votes, but If she had, I voted for her again. On the last set of votes, I voted for Primal since out of the characters I saw, he was the one I liked the best as far as characters went.
I believe there was an article on year a while ago explaining the surfboard for Optimal Optimus. As I recall, they couldn't figure out how to make Primal fit the gimmick with the smaller one before a gorilla, so they ended up making him into the surfboard, which is supposed to be a cybertronian cargo transport as far as the transformation from Primal is supposed to go.
my question is, can you transformer the combined Optimal into his jet and truck modes. I use those terms loosely here.