Toys R Us Exclusive Masterpiece Rodimus Prime Released at Canadian Retail

[chaingunsofdoom]

Originally Posted by Pascal

Is the packaging multilingual?

All in English here in Calgary.

Sku is: " Transformer 3 Coll 370282"

[Goaliebot]

Originally Posted by malteselegacy

I do have a question, does anyone know what he is going for at TRU?

$69.99

[Maloknazh]

Still looking. Its being incredibly hard to find anything at my Toys R Us.

[RNSrobot]

Originally Posted by malteselegacy

I dont get why they call him MP Rodimus Prime? I get that his robot mode can make Rodimus Prime but without the alt mode it is rather pointless calling him that? I call it MP Hot Rod personally. I have the MP Rodimus Prime and its great. I will get this one and keep him in alt mode for Hot Rod to sit next to my MP Rodimus Prime who is also in alt mode.

Having said all that this is just my opinion.

I do have a question, does anyone know what he is going for at TRU?

Hasbro hasn't been able to call him Hot Rod in years due to trademark issues. So we get TRU Reissue Rodimus Major, Classics Rodimus, TFA Rodimus Minor, etc.

[ang3l3s]

Can anyone hook a brother up with one, Quebec probably won't get it due to the english packaging GROAN!!!

[malteselegacy]

Originally Posted by Ryan Ro

Hasbro hasn't been able to call him Hot Rod in years due to trademark issues. So we get TRU Reissue Rodimus Major, Classics Rodimus, TFA Rodimus Minor, etc.

I understand the trademark issue. What I meant was that due to the fact the figure cannot go through the full Rodimus Prime transformation and that Prime didn't have a targetmaster why call him Rodimus Prime? Call him MP Rodimus Major or just Rodimus or even Hot Rodimus.

I know it's a small silly thing to gripe about but just my opinion.

[Protoman]

Originally Posted by malteselegacy

I understand the trademark issue. What I meant was that due to the fact the figure cannot go through the full Rodimus Prime transformation and that Prime didn't have a targetmaster why call him Rodimus Prime? Call him MP Rodimus Major or just Rodimus or even Hot Rodimus.

I know it's a small silly thing to gripe about but just my opinion.

Oh where do I begin.........

Alright.

So Hasbro lost the rights to Hot Rod in 1989 to Mattel in which they now hold HARDCORE for their Hot Wheels line.

When Hasbro had to do something about the name in turn of the century in 1999-2000, they turned to all kinds of options. Variations (Rodimus Major), new takes (Side Burn), and even repurposing (Hot Shot)...

But in 2003, they went with straight up Rodimus for the Rodimus Convoy character of Superlink and it stuck. Over time, the idea of Rodimus for Hot Rod and Rodimus Prime for his leader form would slowly become accepted. Hasbro would license and keep both of these to this day.

In 2006-07 we had Classics Rodimus and the 3 inch Titanium (which had his Targetmaster Firebolt) both named Rodimus, and later the 6 inch Titanium of Rodimus Prime.

For Animated while both show creation and show "bible" the Allspark Almanac call him Rodimus Prime, the toy calls him Rodimus Minor (Hasbro would go on the record to say this move was to reduce the amount of "PRIMES", in the line)

When we now come to this and your questioning of the name of the USA released Masterpiece you have to keep in mind that Hasbro took the Rodimus Convoy mold and thus no doubt wanted to stay true to his Japanese name convention and keep it Rodimus Prime despite his lacking of a trailer. But he still turns into the Rodimus Prime robot mode, has the Matrix (and what's Rodimus Prime without the Matrix). Sadly it's the MP-01 ported larger Matrix rather then the too-scale fit in J-TF Takara MP-09 Matrix.

Anyhow I ranted enough...

[lars573]

Originally Posted by Protoman

Oh where do I begin.........

Alright.

So Hasbro lost the rights to Hot Rod in 1989 to Mattel in which they now hold HARDCORE for their Hot Wheels line.

Can't lose something you never had. In the 80's names of toys weren't trademarked. I've yet to see a G1 transformer with a trademarked name.

[Protoman]

Originally Posted by lars573

Can't lose something you never had. In the 80's names of toys weren't trademarked. I've yet to see a G1 transformer with a trademarked name.

The hell are you talking about

http://tess2.uspto.gov/

Do a little research before you come to stupid conclusions.

For shits and giggles, just type Ultra Magnus and enjoy.

[General Tekno]

Originally Posted by Protoman

When we now come to this and your questioning of the name of the USA released Masterpiece you have to keep in mind that Hasbro took the Rodimus Convoy mold and thus no doubt wanted to stay true to his Japanese name convention and keep it Rodimus Prime despite his lacking of a trailer. But he still turns into the Rodimus Prime robot mode, has the Matrix (and what's Rodimus Prime without the Matrix). Sadly it's the MP-01 ported larger Matrix rather then the too-scale fit in J-TF Takara MP-09 Matrix.

Anyhow I ranted enough...

Doesn't MP-09 have both Matrixes though? Pretty sure it has the small one as well as the larger one.