A mysterious image has made its way to us – you can see it at left. All it says is “Coming Soon – Firemaster – Keep Animation Alive”. The cryptic message refers to Transformers Animated, and the silhouette is a trace of the image of Animated Powermaster Optimus Prime as shown in the Allspark Almanac. According to 2005 Boards member Encline this may or may not be the same group responsible for the similar teaser of an Animated Menasor upgrade kit. Watch this space for more information as it becomes available.
03Mach1
Zombie threads=disappointment.
mariobros27772
Yeah, anything actually happening with this?
clankizle
I think they are more focused on Menace at the time being. Hopefully anyways.
Primus00
Any further info on this?
Sam Witwicky
Okay I think I've made my decision to hold off on getting wingblade prime and hold out for this awesome looking armor. I looked back at the earlier posts and saw the pic with him with the armor on and omg it looks fan-fucking-tastic. So getting the Firemaster armor. Please please let this be coming out soon.
Star Saber
I have Wingblade Prime, but if this comes out nicely, I'll probably go get one The Wingblade armor has it's share of nice accessories i.e. The Magnus Hammer, and I would think, allows for better articulation than the PM armor with all the bits.
Sam Witwicky
I'm wondering if this is going to be released and is better then Wingblade Optimus because I'm trying to decide if I want to buy Wingblade Optimus from ToyArena and I've been wanting Wingblade for so long so somebody help me lol.
caitlindevi
The only place they'd reall need to vary from the exisiting design is to create a new waist piece for the voyager (see above for the reason why) in Gestault mode
caitlindevi
Nope it IS animated Prime the voyager prime which would have been used as part of this would have been a remoulded and modified version which would have featured the front bumper of the truck mode on his arms in bot mode unlike on his legs like in the regular version.
This was so the arms could be transformed back into truck mode leaving the front bumper as the 'belt' for the Powermaster form. The Powermaster arms would have been completely separate from the voyager primes arms.
Its that same feature which makes me thing the Menasor trailer will be a variation of the powermaster armour (note not a recolour but using the same technique) and will have some kind of clip system to clip on the vehicle modes of the deluxes onto the existing frame.
Well thats how I would do it anyway.
Thinking of which I'm about to be made redundant again. i might give it a go anyway until i find a new job.
exomega255
and why would they say "keep the animation alive"?
SSR
i may be more excited about this one then i am the menasor one. if they can do a classics version that doesnt look like the dia one then it would rock also.
muffinhunter
The shadow is of the Animated Powermaster Prime drawing shown in the Allspark Almanac. This is definitely Animated.
Jigga
I don't think t his upgrade is for Animated Prime at all. I believe its for Classic prime. Look at the arms, it has the classic prime arm door things.
SSR
tough finding this thread with search disabled, having withdrawls. I took my wingblade prime and began smashing animated voyager prime into his connect point. I cant wait for this!
Sprocket
Yep! They were in the wave with Voyager Ramjet and Thundercracker, Deluxe Earth-Mode Wasp, and Volks!
…Oh, I'm a terrible person.
SSR
did they make a sentinel prime voyager? or ultramagnus voyager?
SSR
the possibilities with this are endless!
mx-01 archon
Already been confirmed.
Really, it was the only option. The only readily available versions of the Deluxe mold are either in battle damaged colours, or crystal.
The third option would be to replicate the design model exactly and create an entirely new Prime figure, but encline confirmed that this production group retains an "add-on only" philosophy to stay off of Hasbro's turf, so that's off the table.
Rodimus_Prime
I wonder if this is based on voyager prime. If it is then they'll have to work some magic to make it as close to that sketches in almanac. But I do hope they succeed. Cause that power armor is fantastic…
tehKOREANdude
That's great to hear. I'm sure getting that level of, for lack of a better word, authenticity is a priority when making an Animated add-on kit