I know I'd already read TFUK #83 where Galvatron says "I am Megatron" when I saw the movie, so I was fairly spoiled on that point. However, despite the fact that I'd seen both Rodimus Prime and Hot Rod on the 1986 catalogue, I still hadn't made the connection that they were the same guy (I thought Roadimus [I even misread his name] was Hot Rod's big brother.) Then, when I'm sitting in the cinema watching the film and Optimus Prime says "one day an Autobot shall rise from our ranks and use the power of the Matrix to light our darkest hour..." and drops the Matrix only to have Hot Rod catch it, at that moment, my Dad leans down from next to me and says "it's him." And of course he was totally right. But yes, I got spoiled by someone else while I was actually watching the movie.Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
When I first saw Hot Rod and Rodimus Prime in 1986 I did notice that they looked remarkably similar but I never thought that they were the same character another kid at my school told me (at that age I didn't care about spoilers - I asked him to tell me the story of TFTM before I saw it myself in the cinema). I also didn't know that Galvatron was Megatron... and even reading their tech specs didn't reveal that they're all the same character.
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