New Leaked Image of Simplified Generations "Evergreen" Optimus Prime Toy in Vehicle Mode

Looks like it has the intricate molded details of a Generations style figure and the weight of a Warrior Class figure (except the outside of the truck looks more solid).

MR Optimus Prime wrote:I was really hoping for no huge robot feet off the back of the truck mode this time, but oh well.

Its basically the same as the Generations Legion Optimus Prime mold they have been rereleasing for years now but bigger and with odder proportions.

LordPrime99 wrote:I kinda hope power of the primes is crap so I can focus on getting all the older figures I missed out on.

With the success if the previous two lines and wish this ending the "Prime Trilogy"... Ha! With all the respect, good luck.

william-james88 wrote:

MR Optimus Prime wrote:I was really hoping for no huge robot feet off the back of the truck mode this time, but oh well.

Its basically the same as the Generations Legion Optimus Prime mold they have been rereleasing for years now but bigger and with odder proportions.

I think the new one has much better proportions than this.

Zeedust wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:It looks cheap because it's probably meant to be for a generic dollar store line.

I hope you're right. but those don't usually get new molds, do they?

My suspicion is that this line is called "evergreen" because they're designing 6 molds or something for it that will remain in circulation/available for order for 5-10 years. So they may have upfront design costs but then they're simply not going to phase the line out or necessarily introduce many new figures, since production is cheap and the designs are "timeless".

MR Optimus Prime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

MR Optimus Prime wrote:I was really hoping for no huge robot feet off the back of the truck mode this time, but oh well.

Its basically the same as the Generations Legion Optimus Prime mold they have been rereleasing for years now but bigger and with odder proportions.

I think the new one has much better proportions than this.

I am referring to the bot mode which we saw in the leaks that have since been taken down. The bot mode was atrocious.

Emerje got it, but otherwise I think the entire meaning of the term "evergreen" has been lost completely by everyone else.

Basically, these were designs done as an update to refresh marketing materials while keeping the same core characters/concept/identity. An "evergreen" Bumblebee design just means a new general Bumblebee design will be used in various content. Will that end up being a toy? Maybe, but not necessarily. More likely, it's a design used to go on marketing material (see: Hascon), miscellaneous merchandise like backpacks, shirts, etc, and even toy packaging for various figures of the character. It'd be well within the realm of possibility to see that art on a Market Six Legends/Legion figure, while at the same time appearing on a re-release of the RiD Warrior in some other generically branded packaging. Maybe it does extend to some other newer line too, we don't know.

My point is that this thread would be much less confusing if this term "evergreen" wasn't getting thrown around as a proper noun. It's not.

Zeedust wrote: and tail-dragger stance all really kill any enthusiasm I could have had for it.

Train dragger or nothing, screw the stupid retcons of dumb scientists like non trail dragger t-rex, feathers on any dino, and de-planeting pluto. STOP KILLING MAH CHILDHOOD!

Optimum Supreme wrote:

Zeedust wrote: and tail-dragger stance all really kill any enthusiasm I could have had for it.

Train dragger or nothing, screw the stupid retcons of dumb scientists like non trail dragger t-rex, feathers on any dino, and de-planeting pluto. STOP KILLING MAH CHILDHOOD!

Kurona wrote:Some dude in the 16th century: stop ruining my childhood Galileo, the planets revolve around the Earth :/

Y'all make me laugh!

Many Lines get called what they are not actually called - often because what they are actually called is unknown, poorly stated if at all, contradictory or miss leading, called different things in different markets or just darn right annoying.

For example the toyline of 2010 is called "Transformers" or perhaps "Transformers 2010" but everyone and their dog calls it "Hunt of the Decepticons" instead - as it's a lot easier to do that.

The Toylines of 2006 & 2012 are both (in whole or part) called "Robots in Disguise" but they get called "Classics" & "Prime-RID" or they just get called Prime toys and the preceeding ones get the First edition moniker slapped on them instead.

Poor old RID 2001 gets pretty much ignored now and even the IDW comic to some extent has been mentally overwritten buy RID-15 which has in the last year of so increasingly just been called RID / Robots in Disguise - sometimes still with the year attached - but often not. so now the original RID gets a date stuck on it - the "Robots in Disguise" Branded Universe like Sub-segment gets pretty much ignored completely - I think many people never even noticed it existed in the 1st place.

I hope they don't reuse Generations - it's bad enough they keep re-using Titan so much - and Cyberverse is going to be plenty confusing too when it was an easy way to refer to Cyberverse Commander and Cyberverse Legion classes.

I wonder if new fans are going to get very confused by the whole "Legends" over use thing too.

People are still bickering about what the Combiner Teams and Decepticon Jet brand segments should be called..Gestalt seems to have gone completely out of fashion - but I don't mind that as it wasn't helpful so long as there were things combining in numbers less than 5 too.

But even 'Combiner' as a term requires you to use terms like Micromaster as a Modifier. Heck one of the south american Cyber series classes is called Commander too - just to give us yet another headache.

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Anyway I like these - I do look at them and smile and think "When are their pretender shells coming out" ?

The cool thing is if they wanted to be sneaky someone could make Pretender shells for the Busy Book toys too.