Magnus Prime
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| This subject of this article goes by multiple names that apply to other articles as well. See Prime (disambiguation), Ultra Magnus (G1). |
- Magnus Prime is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
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Magnus Prime is a City Commander!
Fiction
Titans Return marketing material
With the Decepticons besieging Cybertron, Magnus Prime used his missile launchers to protect Autobot defenses and strike back at the Decepticons.
Toys
Generations
Titans Return
- Siege on Cybertron (Gift set, 2017)
- Accessories: Two blasters, two shoulder cannons, Ginrai Titan Master
- Released as part of the BigBadToyStore exclusive 5-pack, "Magnus Prime" is a redeco of 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 is 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 Godbomber. Although the stock renders and promotional photos shows that the upper section of the waist is painted red, the final product does not possess any.
- At least some units are missing a peg that stabilizes his combination with Godbomber's leg mode parts.
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Who is Magnus Prime now?
So, just who is Magnus Prime anyway? There are a lot of competing facts, none of them conclusive:
- The Siege on Cybertron box set calls him a City Commander. That, combined with his name, implies that he might be Ultra Magnus.
- But complicating this, there's also an 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.
- On the other hand, Hasbro's John Warden stated in an interview that the figure was intended to be Ginrai, and further suggested that the figure belonged with G1 Optimus Primes or maybe Armada Primes. Oy vey!
- His Titan Master partner, meanwhile, is Ginrai, which suggests that Magnus Prime himself can't really be Ginrai.
- Unless he's the Transtector come to life? Or maybe it's just the name of the Transtector? Who knows!
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 head canon because there's no definitive answer on this question... yet.
