Official Images of SDCC 2018 Exclusive POTP Throne of the Primes Set with Missing Prime Masters

Interestinf to note, the staff has slots for 4 Prime Masters in it Omega Lock style. Aai like that.

I want this. I want this a lot. But I bet it sells out immediately and is impossible to find.

EDIT: And you uys got it up while I was writing that post. Stupud work

I wonder if that plastic halo tray is fully circular and can spin? If so, you could put your Other Prime Masters inside it

DecepticonFinishline wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:SDCC 2018 it is.

*twitch*




Amalgamous: retool of Cloudburst/Micronus Prime (so he gets the Waverider shell...)
Nexus: retool of Submarauder/Alchemist Prime
"Matrix": retool of Metalhawk/Vector Prime, as extensive as Bludgeon
Prima: retool of Octopunch/Solus Prime

So mean, Hasbro, so mean...

So. If this is the way we're getting the remaining primes (based on Predaking's card, I think that it is (additionally, we are already getting a Special Edition of Prima)), what in the hell was the point in the pretender shells... What was the GODDAMN POINT?!

And why the Special Editions of the ones that have special editions?!

Hasbro has done a lot of good things to appease the fans this year. But man... This is so... tonedeaf...

The point of the Pretender Shells was to have Pretender Shells. Hasbro (arguably rightfully) believed that they couldbt justify a line of non transfirm8ng $18 Action Hero toys in their pimary toyline, but they knew the Fandom wanted the Pretenders and didnt want them in the dtyle of Classics Skullgrin and Thunderwing, or TR Metalhawk. So they did what they thought would be fair, but wouldnt cist them a ton if they didnt catch on with the Kids majority of the market. Sure they were CAALLED something different, and had odd power up abilities , but those Prime Master dudes are 100% the Pretender they are Pretending to Be so the Fandom can repurpose them. Its not any more complicated than that.

Its funny how they etched in the other prime candiates into the throne.

This probably going to be $70-80

Flashwave wrote:Interestinf to note, the staff has slots for 4 Prime Masters in it Omega Lock style. Aai like that.

I want this. I want this a lot. But I bet it sells out immediately and is impossible to find.

EDIT: And you uys got it up while I was writing that post. Stupud work

DecepticonFinishline wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:SDCC 2018 it is.

*twitch*




Amalgamous: retool of Cloudburst/Micronus Prime (so he gets the Waverider shell...)
Nexus: retool of Submarauder/Alchemist Prime
"Matrix": retool of Metalhawk/Vector Prime, as extensive as Bludgeon
Prima: retool of Octopunch/Solus Prime

So mean, Hasbro, so mean...

So. If this is the way we're getting the remaining primes (based on Predaking's card, I think that it is (additionally, we are already getting a Special Edition of Prima)), what in the hell was the point in the pretender shells... What was the GODDAMN POINT?!

And why the Special Editions of the ones that have special editions?!

Hasbro has done a lot of good things to appease the fans this year. But man... This is so... tonedeaf...

The point of the Pretender Shells was to have Pretender Shells. Hasbro (arguably rightfully) believed that they couldbt justify a line of non transfirm8ng $18 Action Hero toys in their pimary toyline, but they knew the Fandom wanted the Pretenders and didnt want them in the dtyle of Classics Skullgrin and Thunderwing, or TR Metalhawk. So they did what they thought would be fair, but wouldnt cist them a ton if they didnt catch on with the Kids majority of the market. Sure they were CAALLED something different, and had odd power up abilities , but those Prime Master dudes are 100% the Pretender they are Pretending to Be so the Fandom can repurpose them. Its not any more complicated than that.

But... They didn't even really commit to it. Why pick the shells that we got? Why not just do 12 Primes with Shells and then make these other ones special editions...

I hate Pretenders, but they did something cool with it in this line. I was on board as long as all they did one for each of the Primes. But. They didn't... So... Now they're just rando-bois on my shelf. It feels like they don't really serve a purpose anymore.

Yeah, not sure what Hasbro was thinking, other than a way to make more $$$ by possibly packaging a Big Item that fewer fans would want (Movie BB and PotP OpOp Repaint) with smaller items Many fans would want (Dino Casettes & remaining Prime Masters)... . If I do see the PM's selling individually for a reasonable price, I may try to get them. Otherwise, it is what it is...

Really not impressed with the smaller primal. Was hoping for something fun or different but now that means we end up with basically the same toy for that portion.

Ok, time for a bit a recap concerning the availability of the Prime Masters:

Micronus: 1.) general retail
Liege Maximo: 1.) general retail
Vector Prime: 1.) general retail
Alpha Trion: 1.) general retail
Alchemist Prime: 1.) general retail
Quintus Prime: 1.) general retail

Megatronus: 1.) general retail 2.) Special Edition with Blast Off
Solus Prime: 1.) general retail 2.) Special Edition with Repugnus

Onyx Prime: 1.) Special Edition with Predaking

Prima Prime: 1.) SDCC 2018 2.) 2.) Special Edition with Punch/Counterpunch
Amalgamous Prime: 1.) SDCC 2018
Nexus Prime: 1.) SDCC 2018

The final three are of those with the unknown symbols:

"Matrix Prime": SDCC 2018
"Unicron": ???
"The Arisen" ???

Jelze, that means we are still short of a non special edition Onyx prime.

Sorta reminds me of the Convoy Councel

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

o.supreme wrote:Yeah, not sure what Hasbro was thinking, other than a way to make more $$$ by possibly packaging a Big Item that fewer fans would want (Movie BB and PotP OpOp Repaint) with smaller items Many fans would want (Dino Casettes & remaining Prime Masters)... . If I do see the PM's selling individually for a reasonable price, I may try to get them. Otherwise, it is what it is...

That largely depends on the fans. I'm not into the movie line, but if I was, I would want the Bumbleebee way more than the obscure cassette's. Don't get me wrong, they are very cool, but without a G1 Soundwave/Blaster, they are virtually useless to me.

As for the generations line, I have a much different take on this. I was just meh on the regular release Primal. This one I like much better and ti comes with bonus prime masters and a cool looking scepter. Instant buy for me, and regular release is history, no interest any more.

I just want the gold Studio Bumblebee. That's all. None of this other stuff interests me in the slightest. Power of the Primes offered some characters i had wanted new toys of but ruined their potential by cramming in gimmicks i never wanted (like combining Dinobots) or by making them worse than the 30 year old previous toy instead of improving on them (the Pretenders). Those cassettes that come with Bee look like garbage. I can understand the appeal of Laserbeak or even Ravage (as much as I hated the G1 Ravage toy but liked his Marvel comics portrayal) but those dinosaurs have always looked half-assed crap from the then already very tired cassette concept. There's only so many ways to get a half-decent looking toy out of a transforming cassette and they'd already exhausted it by that point. That Optimal looks better than the regular release just by having a non-eyesore colour scheme and that grealy improves the look of the toy but I still don't care for it but can see the appeal for other collectors.

Latebrus-K wrote:Hang on, have we ever seen this symbol before? I don’t have the original reference handy, but this not being one of the 13 we know or Optimus’s face suggests Unicron or something else entirely. Could this mean there are even more prime masters to be released?

Kinda reminds me of upsidedown Fallen face But no, 15 is all we got.