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Post by Llama God on Dec 2, 2016 22:46:32 GMT
You can't go around choosing the leader of your planet on the basis of who a doddering, rusty, old fossil of a robot throws a shiny Geode at! To be fair we're seeing right now democracy works. I think we should go with that and see where it leads. ;-) Of course, inevitably this'll simply set up the next civil war in the IDW-verse. This new Prime will somehow have more legitimacy than Optimus, and will become a direct challenge to Starscream's leadership. At which point we will truly see the violence inherent in the system. |
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Post by Baron B of Triple B on Dec 3, 2016 0:16:17 GMT
Unless the line gimmick for POTP is...HOLOGRAMS! -Ralph Transformers meets.... Visionaries? TRANSFORMERS MEETS VISIONARIES!!!!!!Now we're talking. |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 4, 2016 0:08:54 GMT
We should run our own poll!
-Ralph
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Post by Llama God on Dec 4, 2016 1:05:02 GMT
I'm pretty sure we do fairly often. And also that Hasbro wouldn't release a toy of Sausagemus Prime.
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Post by Shockprowl on Dec 4, 2016 9:05:12 GMT
The bastards....
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Post by Bogatan on Dec 4, 2016 12:40:22 GMT
Sausagefistimus Prime. The leader we deserve.
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Post by Shockprowl on Dec 4, 2016 13:09:34 GMT
Sausagefistimus Prime. The leader we deserve. ALL HAIL SAUSAGEFIST PRIME!!!! |
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Post by Toph on Jan 23, 2017 16:24:41 GMT
I thought for sure there was a dedicated PotP thread.
Either way, transformers.com has the "vote for the next prime" vote live. You can vote in each category:
Honor- Ultra Magnus, Hound, Arcee
Order- Megatron, Shockwave, Star Saber
Chaos- Thunderwing, Optimus Primal (Really? Screw you hasbro), and "Unknown Evil."
I don't give a crap what hasbro makes IDW do, I voted for toys.
We just got a decent enough Ultra Magnus, a good Thunderwing is coming one way or another, universe Hound is perfect in every way, and we get several Megatrons a year.
We need a good Arcee (because generations suuuuuuucked), we've never gotten a Classics Shockwave, and I will always vote BW, even if as a screw you to hasbro's current "We hate BW" team.
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Post by blueshift on Jan 23, 2017 16:34:03 GMT
So I guess Hasbro are redefining the word 'prime'
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 23, 2017 16:41:36 GMT
Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime! Hound Prime!
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Post by Jim on Jan 23, 2017 16:47:10 GMT
I'm a little wary of votes to influence stories, but I went with:
Arcee - female prime, feels like it would be a good moment for that
Star Saber - religious zealot has interesting story possibilities
Unknown Evil - better the devil you, er...
Most of the other options felt inappropriate; IDW Magnus would not fit at all, Hound is a bit random, Megatron _could_ be interesting but it might mess up his current arc, Shockwave and Thunderwing would require some serious story convolutions.
Arcee is my top pick. Good opportunity for publicity, too. Would also rile the MRAs, which would be fun to watch.
-Jim
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Post by Toph on Jan 23, 2017 17:03:02 GMT
So I guess Hasbro are redefining the word 'prime' "Prime" has been used as a military rank, elected leader, robo-pope, demigods, and some combination of all of the above. Without context, however, this seems to be consistant with a few of the above. So I'd respectfully disagree as there seems to be no redefinition here. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 23, 2017 17:24:45 GMT
I thought for sure there was a dedicated PotP thread. There is and it was pinned at the top of the Toy Forum. Merged. |
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Post by Toph on Jan 23, 2017 18:33:51 GMT
Except is wasn't a dedicated PotP thread. It was a speculation thread.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 23, 2017 18:42:04 GMT
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Post by Toph on Jan 23, 2017 18:52:21 GMT
Except the thread never got retitled, and I never found one with a proper title. Thus it remained a speculation thread when I tried to find a proper PotP thread.
That's my point.
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Post by Toph on Jan 23, 2017 18:57:10 GMT
I kinda wish Hasbro had put Windblade or Magna Pyra up for vote just to hear the wailing and male tears of the TFW board.
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Post by blueshift on Jan 23, 2017 19:06:01 GMT
Eh, I'd be with TFW if that was the case, for Windblade at least. Windblade isn't bad because she's a female character. She's bad because she's a boring nothing character constantly rammed down the throat of fandom by Corporate. Thank goodness she's not there!
I have no opinion on Magna Pyra besides her awful colour scheme.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 23, 2017 19:12:36 GMT
She's that colour cos she's a Tesh!
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Post by blueshift on Jan 23, 2017 19:16:18 GMT
She's that colour cos she's a Tesh! Who is the Sevateem one then? |
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Post by Toph on Jan 23, 2017 19:34:11 GMT
Eh, I'd be with TFW if that was the case, for Windblade at least. Windblade isn't bad because she's a female character. She's bad because she's a boring nothing character constantly rammed down the throat of fandom by Corporate. Thank goodness she's not there! I have no opinion on Magna Pyra besides her awful colour scheme. I feel the opposite. She's a breath of fresh air, and way more interesting than most two dimensional G1 characters. |
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Post by Llama God on Jan 24, 2017 8:36:55 GMT
I will have to agree with CJ there. At least the way that she's written in the IDWverse, she's pretty interesting, especially given her developing relationship with The Prime. Having not really watched nuRiD though, I'm not sure how she fares in that cartoon...
I'm definitely going Arcee though, for reasons of both timeliness, TFW tears and getting a decent mold. (Although as I have probably elsewhere, she looks good in the Combiner Hunters colour scheme.)
As to the others, I'll definitely go Primal in Chaos. And then... yeah, I have no idea.
Megatron would be interesting for IDW (he could be made Prime in his absence from Cybertron, and that'd be interesting when he got back), but it's true he has had a lot of decent toys recently. Star Saber would be good because he'd finally get a US toy release, and he's a nutter in the IDW verse, which'll take things back to the whole corruption of the Primes thing. And Shockwave it'd be good to have a decent classics toy of, and OF COURSE he's going to come back from the dead in the IDWverse at some point, and that'd be a great redemption arc. So... yeah. Tough one, that one.
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Post by Dezzeh on Jan 24, 2017 9:42:09 GMT
Star Saber ftw!
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 24, 2017 11:31:26 GMT
Sorry, I'm confused: where on the Hasbro poll page does it state this has anything to do with IDW versions of these characters?
-Ralph
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Post by Benn on Jan 24, 2017 12:00:31 GMT
It doesn't. And in all fairness will probably only have as much to do as Combiner Wars and Titans Return have, which is pretty negligible.
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Post by Llama God on Jan 24, 2017 15:10:04 GMT
I personally am extrapolating and speculating as to what might happen in the comics. Although indeed, it's not a given that IDW would incorporate everything about Power of the Primes into the comics.
That said though, given they did indeed incorporate Windblade and Victorion, I'd be surprised if they didn't in same way reference the arrival of a new Prime. But as I say, it's just speculation. But not speculation to discount completely, either.
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Post by Benn on Jan 24, 2017 16:21:01 GMT
I haven't actually read anything from John Barber or Maigread Scott since Combiner Wars due to my LCS closing, so I don't really know integrated those two characters are. I'd assumed Victorion had faded into the background a bit at least, because I don't see too much about her on the old social medias.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 24, 2017 17:13:54 GMT
Anything but, prominent in former RiD/Optimus Prime
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Post by blueshift on Jan 24, 2017 17:20:55 GMT
Oh wow. I'd dropped that book at 50
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 28, 2017 11:02:48 GMT
Round 1 votes are in already. Round 2 voting on Feb 1st will be between:
ULTRA MAGNUS
OPTIMUS PRIMAL
STAR SABER
UNKNOWN EVIL
Hmmmm. Magnus won't win as he just had a toy. Primal just got an MP toy (though not in the US) but I think that rules him out. Keeping UNKNOWN EVIL mysterious means he clearly is an upcoming story point in some media. Star Saber got an MP toy.
Therefore, UNKNOWN EVIL will win and as he wins his name will be revealed.
-Ralph
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