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| {{Disambigm|Magnus (rank)|Prime (disambiguation)}}
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| :''Magnus Prime is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
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| [[File:SiegeOnCybertron-MagnusPrime.jpg|thumb|350px|Schrödinger's Prime.]]
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| '''Magnus Prime''' is a City Commander! With the help of his [[Titan Master]] [[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]], he can unleash his Chokon Power!<ref>[[Trypticon's Titan Master Crunch]]</ref>
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| ==Fiction==
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| ===''Titans Return'' marketing material===
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| With the Decepticons besieging Cybertron, Magnus Prime used his missile launchers to protect Autobot defenses and strike back at the Decepticons.<ref>''Titans Return'' Siege on Cybertron pack-in blurb</ref>
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| ==Toys==
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| ===Generations===
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| [[File:TF-Titans-Return-Siege-on-Cybertron-Magnus-Prime.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Magnus's secret [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Sports_Label|Prime]] cosplay.]]
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| *'''Siege on Cybertron''' (Gift set, 2017)
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| **''Accessories'': Two blasters, two shoulder cannons, [[Ginrai (human)#Generations|Ginrai]] Titan Master
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| :''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' "Magnus Prime" is a redeco of ''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' [[Ginrai (human)#Legends|Super Ginrai]], and he transforms from robot to truck to giant base. Oddly enough, the Hasbro version names Ginrai as the small Titan Master partner. In comparison to ''Legends'' Ginrai's deco, Magnus Prime features a blue crotch and truck windows, and his Autobot insignias on his truck kibble are enlarged and moved to the center, and his guns are entirely painted in one color with the handles being unpainted. His Titan Master's head and legs are now blue. As a redeco of the said retool, Magnus Prime can combine with ''Legends'' [[Godbomber#Legends|Godbomber]]. Although the stock renders and promotional photos shows that the upper section of the waist painted red, the final product is unpainted.
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| :At least some units are missing a peg that stabilizes his combination with Godbomber's leg mode parts.
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| :Magnus Prime and Ginrai were only available as part of the "Siege of Cybertron" set, which also includes [[Fathom#Generations|Fathom]] & [[Tidal Wave (G1)#Generations|Tidal Wave]], [[Haruma Gō#Generations|Professor Go]] & [[Metalhawk (Masterforce)#Generations|Metalhawk]], [[Pounce#Generations|Decepticon Pounce]], and [[Thunderwing (G1)#SiegeOnCybertron|Thunderwing]]. In the United States, this set was exclusive to [[BigBadToyStore]], but it saw a wider release in Canada where it was available at [[Toys"R"Us]], [[Amazon (website)|Amazon]], the Canadian [[Walmart]] online store, book store chain Indigo and several PC retailers (seriously!). Additionally, it was also available at retail in Hong Kong and Singapore and even saw an official release in the Netherlands, where it was exclusively available from BOL.
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| {{CWUltraMagnusMold}}
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| ==Who is Magnus Prime now?==
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| So, just who is Magnus Prime, anyway? There are a lot of competing facts, none of them conclusive:
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| *The Siege on Cybertron box set calls him a City Commander. That, combined with his name, implies that he might be a new incarnation of [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]].
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| **But complicating this, there's also an [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/toys#Titans_Return|Ultra Magnus Titan Master]] figure created to be shipped in the same Strength/Intelligence/Fireblast/Speed matrix as the rest of the Siege on Cybertron toys.
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| *On the other hand, Hasbro's [[John Warden]] stated [https://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/transformers-titans-return-product-reveals-news-updates-rumors-leaks-and-more--p1911385.php#p1911385 in an interview] that the figure was intended to be [[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]], and further suggested that the figure belonged with [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Generation 1 Optimus Primes]] or maybe [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|''Armada'' Primes]]. Oy vey!
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| *His Titan Master partner, meanwhile, is Ginrai, which suggests that Magnus Prime himself can't really be Ginrai.
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| *Otherwise-accurate pre-release leaks, from before anything official was known of the Siege on Cybertron box set, claimed that Magnus Prime was going to be the Powermaster Optimus Prime toy in the colors of the [[Magna Convoy|inner robot]] of the ''[[Diaclone]]'' [[Delta Magnus|Powered Convoy]] toy. Though it can reasonably be inferred that plans changed after the Ginrai tooling became available, what the originally planned identity of the toy was is a mystery.
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| Anyway, the upshot of all of this is that we don't really know who Magnus Prime is, so we're plopping him here on his own page. Feel free to go nuts in your own [[Personal canon|head canon]] because there's no definitive answer on this question... ''yet''.
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| ==References==
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| {{reflist}}
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| [[Category:Exclusives]]
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| [[Category:Generation 1 Autobots]]
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| [[Category:Primes]]
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| [[Category:Titans Return]]
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| [[Category:Toy-only characters]]
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