Starsaber468 wrote:Railbomb wrote:Emerje wrote:Railbomb wrote:Emerje wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:To be completely fair, it is a prime after all plus Takara could have a say in it for obvious reasons
See, this is what I was thinking. Making Powermaster Optimus Prime out of Ultra Magnus is fine and all, but if there isn't at least a small regular Prime that fits inside the Japanese are going to angry. They're going to want both Ginrai and Super Ginrai in this, the later alone isn't enough. And don't even think of remolding Minimus Ambus into Ginrai.
Emerje
To be fair they did just release Ultra Magnus without a small prime cab AND Alpha Trion with fiction putting him inside Magnus. If they were making an MP Ginrai then they would be upset if the cab wasn't its own figure but this isn't a MP and cuts have to be taken somewhere.
Sure, but that was just them shoehorning it to the nth degree. The alternatives were to either leave the little figure out completely or try to explain who Minimus Ambus is. The whole thing was made by Hasbro's design from the comics where there isn't a white Prime inside. Takara Tomy themselves made MP Magnus without a Prime body so that was clearly acceptable for the Legends figure. On the flip side they've never made a Transforming Super Ginrai that couldn't stand alone as regular Ginrai as well. It'd be a lot harder to explain why human Ginrai's Transtector goes directly to Super Ginrai without regular Transtector Ginrai in between.
Emerje
Place it sometime after Super God Masterforce or Victory (sometime after the transector gets its own mind and the human Ginrai isn't needed) and have the human Ginrai placed in some situation where he has to fight the Decepticons again and he has a new transector made for him. bam. problem solved.
Yeah but in america we had Hi-Q so their not gonna get rid of the powermaster assuming this plus Ginrai still had the engine block attached to him after no longer being a transector
You do know I'm talking about the human Ginrai, the living person that controlled the Transtector, getting a new transtector, to justify use of a remold of Magnus keeping Minimus Ambus and the cockpit for the Japanese market, right? Hasbro would just tell IDW to figure it out. To be honest the original Powermaster gimmick wasn't really that great. The toys that used it were great but the whole "you need the engine to transform" thing wasn't. I'd just want them to come with some sort of partner so I'd have some toy version of those characters.