Quote Originally Posted by BigTransformerTrev View Post
And slag it, I KNEW UM would get Prime's old alt-mode, lazy-arsed animators and Hasbro trying to sell the new toy. I wanted to see him as a flatbed truck at least!
I was unhappy with that too. Having the BH robot transform into the TFPRiD truck would've been better, because then the 1 screen character would actually be promoting two toys! But it may not be the animators' fault; more likely Hasbro didn't want to pay for a whole new CGI model to be constructed for TFPRiD Ultra Magnus, so they might've told the animators to simply retool the old Optimus Prime model instead.

That's why Beast Wars had a lot of 'redecoed' characters appear, such as Tigatron/Cheetor and Tarantulas/Blackarachnia. Even Ravage was an extensive 'retool' of Transmetal Cheetor (hence later Takara followed suit with the toy). And we saw Michael Bay recycling CG models of characters, even after they supposedly died! (e.g. Bonecrusher, Constructicons etc.); and everyone's just assuming that they're the same "type" of Transformer, but not the same individual. :/