Quote Originally Posted by Golden Phoenix View Post
I think they are looking at characters from the IDW comics. Sky-Byte did pop up in the Cybertron based ongoing series as an ex-Decepticon who left the war and was returning home after the war had ended. Perhaps he will start to play a bigger roll in the comics.
Yes I agree, and have been following the comics closely. My question remains, why devote so much limited comic-panel spacing for Sky-Byte? Unless IDW had a directive from Hasbro earlier on in the year to include and up-sell Sky-Byte's character, I don't see a particular reason why this character should get more glamour over a plethora of original vintage characters.

Quote Originally Posted by Cat View Post
As to the leader Jetfire being the ROTF one. Sure, that's possible, but it also seems like it might be a strange one to rerelease. Of course, that's also nullified by there ALREADY being strange choices for what we've seen in the Platinum line.

I think the best indicator that Jetfire and Megatron are new is that they're actually together as an assortment. Other Platinum stuff has just been single releases, and it looks like these two are going to ship together. To me, that's a very good indicator that we may indeed be looking at an all-new Jetfire, and an all-new Megatron. But as always, we're in for a hell of a ride to find out!
I certainly agree with Leader Jetfire being highly likely to be a ROTF re-release. With what happened to Jetfire a few issues back, and with his character design in those RID issues being so similar to the Classics Voyager release, I do not see the reason to pour limited mould development dollars into it. Would be extremely cool if they did, but unlikely to me.