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A strange tradition has emerged in recent years where any halfway decent mold used for Optimus Prime gets reused in white and blue as Ultra Magnus.

All the more strange when you consider that 'Ultra Magnus' is traditionally depicted as an Optimus Prime-like truck/robot combined with a trailer that becomes armour, creating a much larger robot. It began back in Generation 1 days, with a car-carrier trailer that upgraded its cab into a robot with very limited articulation, carried on in Robots in Disguise, where Ultra Magnus was an entirely different mold, entirely legless without his trailer, and could combine with Optimus. Other than that, though, Ultra Magnus has tended to be a white repaint of Prime. Even 'Masterpiece' Ultra Magnus was just MP01 repainted, with no extras.

So when Classics Ultra Magnus was released, I was rather underwhelmed and only bought him because he was part of a two pack with Skywarp, and I was quite keen to have more than one of the original three Seekers.

Who knew that, a year or so later, a fan-made version of his Generation 1 armour upgrade would become available?

Furthermore, who knew that it would be so damned good?