Our good friends friends from down under at Ozformers have posted a picture from the latest issue of Toy Hobby Retailer Magazine. Along with several brands from Hasbro on the cover is a new image promoting Transformers Generations and the image is a Generation 1 Optimus Prime with a Targetmaster-type weapon! The weapon has wheels and appears to have a blue truck cab. Could the 2013 Generations line possibly see a have a gimmick of convertible weapons like the Powercore Combiners or Arms Micron figures? The design for Optimus is heavily inspired by the current design from IDW’s comics.
Is this a sign of things to come? Or just placeholder artwork? It’s all very interesting, and hopefully, we’ll find out more info next month at Toyfair 2013. For now, click the title bar and speculate away at the possibilities this could hold!
ex dtw2003
So was I.
Anyway, I'm holding out hope until SDCC. Hopefully Hasbro can turn it around _again_. This is the craziest rollercoaster. FoC down, Toyfair up, Botcon down again.
Impactor1106
Well they released a legends Bumblebee with a deluxe version coming out later this year, so there is a possibility they would do a voyager Optimus – we will have to wait and see. Seems kind of dumb to me to not do an Optimus for the 30th anniversary!!!
Murasame
And here I was hoping for some news in this thread.
ero
It would make sense as part of the 30th.
Grimlock_13
I agree, since the picture in that link is the Legends Optimus and Roller. Though who knows, I'd be surprised if HaskTak didn't try to push another Optimus out next year.
Shockwave76
Sweet! Can't wait to get my hands on one of these!!
Turnip
I would say there could be the smallest sliver of hope until SDCC. The last couple of years they have seemed to hold back one or two things to be the big reveals there.
LeoPrime
Dammit, why bump this and get my hopes up?
soundwavempl
Uh, I believe the Legends Optimus with Roller and Orion Pax deluxe will be the only Optimi we'll be getting in the near future.
ero
Now that we're past BotCon, anyone have feelings one way or the other about a new CHUG Optimus being on the way? Think we could see one at SDCC?
Shin Densetsu
Well Hasbro did state that TF 30th runs through 2014, but it begins this year. My feeling is that next year, there will mainly be the TF4 movie line AND the 30th line.
So I think we *could* see a Generations Optimus in a much larger scale. Maybe voyager, maybe even Ultimate with a trailer. Who knows.
I don't think Hasbro would stop at a Legends figure. After all, both Megatron and Bumblebee are in the Legends line too, yet have larger versions on the way(deluxe).
Stepper
Am sure disappointed but oh well,is something refreshing that for the Targetmaster though
Mechafire
Considering MP-10 didn't exist when Spotlight: Optimus came out…
Autovolt 127
Which one? MP-01 or MP-10?
Yggdrasil
No, the Spotlight Optimus Prime uses the Masterpiece Oprimus toy as it's design.
Fort Max
If Hasbro have gone to all the trouble of working closely with IDW for this line then I have no doubt that they'll be a bigger version of IDW's prime designcoming before long.
I'd like to say the same for stealth bomber megs but that just doesn't seem anywhere as likely.
ex dtw2003
You're right, but we really are only at Toyfair, AND we are _just_ starting to get info on a series of toys that will last into 2014.
We have at a minimum two big conferences left that usually give us big reveals.
Fort Max
Is there a spotlight prime that features this design?
Stepper
This Optimus Prime is a Legend class
bellpeppers
He aint freaking out.