Sabrblade wrote:Back near the beginning of POTP (but AFTER Optimus Primal won the fan poll), there was an interview with John Warden that implied Star Saber and/or Deathsaurus to be in the works for POTP, but this was before it was confirmed that POTP was going to be a short line ending with Optimal Optimus and Novastar. So, perhaps if POTP had been allowed to last as long as CW and TR, we might have gotten Star Saber and/or Deathsaurus in that line in spite of their both having lost the fan poll.Skritz wrote:I mean, let's be real here: with Dai Atlas now existing in CHUG form (even if he's a Legends-EX boxset) its really Star Saber who is shining with his conspicuous absence. That he was on top of the Prime vote poll and very much the guy Hasbro intended to win show he was in the pipeline somewhere.
What I wonder is...did Hasbro take his loss as "Well people don't want him so lets shelf him indefinitely"?![]()
In the meantime, Star Saber's MP toy is perfectly scaled to fit better with CHUG toys than with MP toys, making it a decent CHUG stand-in.
I'm really hoping they still are in the work because to be quite honest I'm rather unsure on who else would fit for the Leader size class in the next two installments. Originally I'd have said 'Jetfire' but we know he's the first of the new Commander Class. Rodimus seems unlikely as we just got him (even if a Siege-styled and scaled Rodimus would rock!) and I want to say maybe Grimlock but we also just got one (even if he was a bit disliked being a combiner torso) so who does that leave at such a size class?
Unless Hasbro just plan on remaking Optimus Prime at the Leader class forever...
