Just in via Reddit user u/typenext, we have a VERY suspicious image of what appears to be a repaint of the Transformers War For Cybertron Earthrise Optimus Prime leader class figure WITHOUT colors, AKA Dead Optimus Prime. Upon close inspection of the image, it doesn't look like a custom figure, but it could be.

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I don't see this as being a normal retail figure, this is certainly not going to be targeted for kids mainly. (Not that kids can't have it.) Likely, this would either be a Selects figure, or some conventions will be doing it online, so this might be an online exclusive. I expect this could be released with SDCC if I could guess, much like the Ghostbusters Prime before.

9 hours ago, TFanPage101 said:

I don't see this as being a normal retail figure, this is certainly not going to be targeted for kids mainly. (Not that kids can't have it.) Likely, this would either be a Selects figure, or some conventions will be doing it online, so this might be an online exclusive. I expect this could be released with SDCC if I could guess, much like the Ghostbusters Prime before.

I agree, SDCC has a tradition of doing repaints, and Nemesis Prime has been an exclusive before. What's probably put Hasbro in a pickle is a Dead / Sick / Sleep Prime figure is off-color (no pun) for time of a Pandemic. So it is curious what / IF they will make this aferall.