In Hand Images of Transformers Power of the Primes Rodimus Unicronus

So I just picked up Rodimus Unicronus today. He holds together much better in truck mode than Rodimus. Im pleasantly suprised. He makes a great new character to the fiction. Smart move by Hasbro getting rid of that dumb SG logo and making him a Decepticon. He is like the new Nemesis Prime for the late G1 era.

Sabrblade wrote:

Rated X wrote:So I just picked up Rodimus Unicronus today. He holds together much better in truck mode than Rodimus. Im pleasantly suprised. He makes a great new character to the fiction. Smart move by Hasbro getting rid of that dumb SG logo and making him a Decepticon. He is like the new Nemesis Prime for the late G1 era.

He's just the G1 Autobot Hot Rod turned evil by Unicron.

I really dont think he cares.

Opened my Battleslash and Roadtrap today.

Holy moly I'm impressed.

Great figure in Battletrap mode.

And the engineering.. I hope there are more Duocons in this line. Flytread and Skywheels?

Just picked up optimus and Romimus unicronus from Wal-Mart. They also had the wave 2 voyagers but I passed on elita1 since I already got starscream, however elita1 looks better in box.

As for the leaders. Optimus is great. Probably my favorite autobot since I've started collecting again. The cab is a bit messy especially when viewed from any angle other than the front, but the Orion pax figure is really nice on it's own. My only complaint with optimus is the left shoulder didn't tab in all the way but I was able to fix it.

Rodimus however, is lacking. The inner bot thighs becoming the shoulders greatly restricts the articulation. Still a cool toy but even the deluxe hot rod has restricted articulation in the shoulders.

For starscream; I have no attachment to the g1 character but the jet mode is really bad, literally a midget starscream hiding under a jet. But the other modes are great. I really like the robot mode but it probably works better for elita1.

Rated X wrote:
You guys are so "official" cmon now gimme a break. Hasbro gives us a one sentence bio and the rest is up to your imagination. The bottom line is he is a new character for your G1 chug shelf. Same concept as Nemesis Prime....an evil Prime.

Not really he's just another evil Rodimus borrowing SG Rodimus colors only difference is that he's in the mainverse now.

He's anything but new.

Won't stop you from doing what you want I'm just saying.

Deadput wrote:

Rated X wrote:
You guys are so "official" cmon now gimme a break. Hasbro gives us a one sentence bio and the rest is up to your imagination. The bottom line is he is a new character for your G1 chug shelf. Same concept as Nemesis Prime....an evil Prime.

Not really he's just another evil Rodimus borrowing SG Rodimus colors only difference is that he's in the mainverse now.

He's anything but new.

Won't stop you from doing what you want I'm just saying.

Outside of Shattered Glass has evil Rodimus ever appeared outside of Japan?


Also, I oddly want a black repaint of Ultra Magnus now.

And I need to get that Combiner Hunter Arcee.

Rated X wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Rated X wrote:So I just picked up Rodimus Unicronus today. He holds together much better in truck mode than Rodimus. Im pleasantly suprised. He makes a great new character to the fiction. Smart move by Hasbro getting rid of that dumb SG logo and making him a Decepticon. He is like the new Nemesis Prime for the late G1 era.

He's just the G1 Autobot Hot Rod turned evil by Unicron.

I really dont think he cares.

You guys are so "official" cmon now gimme a break. Hasbro gives us a one sentence bio and the rest is up to your imagination. The bottom line is he is a new character for your G1 chug shelf. Same concept as Nemesis Prime....an evil Prime.

I mean, you're the one always talking about the importance of the cartoons in this brand. The Titans Return cartoon already showed Hot Rod get turned evil, and he'll carry over into the Power of the Primes cartoon.

In case anybody wants them, here are the links to the Wave Legends on Amazon:

Tailgate
https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Aut?tag=seibertron07-20& ... dpSrc=srch

Battleclash
https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-E11?tag=seibertron07-20& ... attleslash

Roadtrap
https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Leg?tag=seibertron07-20& ... s+Roadtrap

I wonder what Hasbro has planned for a theoretical reuse of the PotP Optimus Prime mold. Would they just do another black repaint in the same line to get a "Nemesis Prime" use out of the mold? It would be kind of fun to have a "Nemesis Orion Pax" figure because of that. I'd like to see instead a retool into Ultra Magnus, though admittedly, that would be a VERY extensive retool. The truck cab could be left largely untouched, but an entirely new trailer would be needed, and they'd have to do at least some resculpting of the Orion Pax robot parts. Or, and I know this is hard to believe, Hasbro might just leave well enough alone and not try to cash in on a double-dip on this mold?

Cracked open Elita-1 last night. HOLY SCRAP! I'm shocked at how much of her is new parts over Starscream. I'd call them shared engineering over retool at this point. I'd say they are 8% the same.

I was already cool with Starscream, but Elita is a home run!