![]() ![]() We do have bot mode images, alt-mode images, and even a video review of the figure, however. Despite the announcement of the entire fall wave, including Titan class Omega Supreme, we still don’t have an official reveal of Leader class Ops. Leader Optimus Prime is currently Hasbro’s worst kept secret. But who’s nostalgia is Hasbro targeting this time, if not old-timers like me? Look no further than 2001’s Transformers: Robots in Disguise.Ĭybertron Optimus Prime in the middle (Images: ) Picking up War for Cybertron: Siege Ultra Magnus, it was obvious that the alt-mode was drawing from something other than G1. War for Cybertron: Siege Leader Ultra Magnus Indeed, some of the characters we saw in that final wave could be considered a last gasp homage to the original 1980s toy line, with Action Master characters like Krok sliding in as a final nod. (The 1989 mini-Pretenders, incidentally, were some of the first toys I went back and collected, having missed them in my youth.) The last Power of the Primes wave even had the entire line-up of Pretenders. Up until now, the line of Transformers toys that doesn’t have a current cartoon associated with it has hewed closely to the old toy catalogs from the 1980s. ![]() You probably thought I was going to talk about the new pre-Toy Fair reveals, didn’t you? Don’t worry, I’ll get to that, but first, I’m going to dig into the origins of some of the current (and curiously unannounced) War of Cybertron: Siege toys. ![]()
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