Hasbro has finally announced the finals who will go for the final poll. We have a winner for each category: Ultra Magnus for Honor, Optimus Primal for Chaos, Star Saber for Order, and “Unknown Evil” (who looks like Deathsaurus) as a “wildcard”.
Be ready to cast your vote on the Hasbro’s site starting on February 1st. Remember that the final winner will be revealed in the Hasbro’s presentation at Toy Fair on February 18th.
While you wait, click on the bar and go to the 2005 boards to share who you are voting this time!
Fenrys
ah thanks for the clarification, i think my confusion came from seeing that image in a thread recently about portal
G1StarSaber468
Its not its from the animated transformers robotmasters webepisodes and btw theres only 2 episodes
Fenrys
It's from a Russian web comic/series called transformers portal
Ramberk Magnus
Where is that image from? That's G1 Convoy shaking hands with Optimus Primal and Star Saber in the background, right?
Convoy
(this time in CGi)
I do miss the excitement of 'walking into a toy store and buy a toy off a shelf.' I remember seeing Generations Rattrap & Rhinox at TRU and getting all nostalgic, I would definitely be up for more of that. I took for granted at the time we might see more beasties mixed into generations. I reckon IDW did too, cos they totally wasted Rhinox. I remember really liking the bar scene in Windblade vol.1 where there were characters from all different timelines. That's what I thought the generations line was going to be about but all this gimmick led stuff in the last few years has relegated generations to just updates of specific lines. And like most people here I wouldn't be super interested in a totally Beast line
Windsweeper II
Dont forget about all the Powermasters, beastcombiners, double targetmasters etc that could still feature in Potp.
I would love good updated Pretender toysthat stay true to the gimmick, but seeing all the hate i'd rather enjoy my G1 Pretenders than having a line full of Susanoo's.
WishfulThinking
If there was ever a gimmick that caused the line to suffer, it would be Pretenders. But that's neither here nor there as it sounds like we're probably heading into Micromaster/Micron territory for PotP, if the rumor holds true.
Verno
It's all good mate.
G1StarSaber468
Ok I will admit I was a little harsh, so sorry about that
Murasame
Pretty sure in one of the interviews they stated that it's exactly their plan. Year after year getting remakes in the Generations line.
G1StarSaber468
Galvatron really needed an better helmet honestly an power of the primes inactually I thought it was going to pretenders before the title reveal, but now I'm not sure at all it could be and either way the figures may suffer from the gimmick in some way
Verno
Indeed. I can assure you, @G1StarSaber468, that had Star Saber won, I'd have done the reverse of this gag, with Primal unhappy face and Star Saber's name on the card.
SgtLemon
How can you be mad at someone who styling all over you.
Super4Ever
It's really funny, actually. @Verno does these images in jest and obviously in good natured fun. Then @G1StarSaber468 replies, usually angry, and makes a heated comment about what Verno posted usually criticizing him. Or you know, he could just ignore him or take it for what it is, a joke. Definitely implies there are some very hard feelings about someone's preferred character not winning.
Cosbydaf
I'm really hoping there's no line-wide gimmick for POTP. Forced gimmicks lead to compromises that don't need to be made.
Like poor Galvatron and his helmet.
Verno
It's topical, however. And it gets such a rise out of you.
Verno
He didn't look happy about having to give it back:
AnonymousDwell
I agree with both Verno and Magnus here. Bring on the sprawling Generations line with representation of multiple G1 (and G1-ish) eras and lines, BW, Masterforce, Victory, Micromaster and Pretenders included! Right now, that actually (finally) seems worth hoping for… and even reasonable, since surely movie toys will get mixed in too shortly, meaning multiple themes and styles coexisting on shelves…
…I hope.
Ramberk Magnus
Obviously Generations have immensely been focused on G1 and ignoring everything else. BUT its not like Generations has only been focusing on the same G1 characters. In 2015 we got real updates to combiners and last year we got real updates to Headmaster characters. We're getting Masterforce updates now! That's pretty amazing in my opinion. I'm not saying that Beast fans or fans of other lines shouldn't be inpatient, I just want to point out its not the same core G1 characters. We're getting some really cool but ignored G1 characters updated. And that trend really looks like its going to continue.
I'm optimistic that other lines will get their updates, albeit slowly. I know I might get "teased" for saying this but I actually have a lot of trust in Hasbro and Takara. I know Hasbro is just here to make money BUT for a big American toy company they sure do like to give us fan-oriented stuff (albeit with the typical compromises but its still something).