Zeedust wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Jesse:Yeah, it's not like there wasn't an attempt to change tools... *Sniff* SG Rodimus Prime will never be... but everything was too late in the process for it to be anything other than the Seeker mold.
Didn't a similar thing happen with Unit-3 from Botcon 2016? He was supposed to be Razorbeast, but the head wasn't close enough.
Heck, you can almost make a full combiner out of guys who were originally supposed to be someone else. Offroad started the design process as Ruckus, Toxitron was going to be Nemesis Prime until Grand Scourge got released, so them plus Unit-3 and SG Starscream, all we need is one more limb.
Just whipped out my TCC magazine #69 to see what was said in its article about how BotCon 2016 Unit-3 came to be.
Basically, Razorbeast was indeed Fun Pub's first pick for the third Maximal souvenir exclusive (which explains why Razorbeast was among the BW characters who was featured in one of the Axiom Nexus News Facebook posts that led up to the convention) based on the very first images of the Streetwise toy that were shown online way back before the finalized toy was released at retail. However, once the Streetwise toy did come out at retail, things changed. The finalized headsculpt wasn't as close a match to resembling Razorbeast's noggin as was originally believed at the time.
But since Fun Pub had already committed to the specific new headsculpts they had set for production by Four Horsemen, there was no chance of getting yet another new headsculpt made by the time this change of mind occurred. Thus, Fun Pub made eleven digital mock ups of the Streetwise head to see which other Maximals it could be made into. The first of these choices was Under-3, as he had been a considered candidate for other molds in the past. The other ten were Armordillo, Stinkbomb, Optimus Minor, Polar Claw, Stampy, BW Grimlock, Lio Junior, Ramulus, B'Boom, and Wolfang. Ultimate, Under-3/Unit-3 won out as it "allowed us the opportunity to introduce a little known character into the larger Transformers mythos."