Toy Review - OPTIMUS PRIME (TF One Leader)

Brave Commander OPTIMUS PRIME
Series - Transformers One
Size/class - Leader
New/remould/redeco - New
Wave - N/A
Released here - October 2024
Approximate Retail Prize - 9680JPY/$95
Approximate Size - 20.5cm
Allegiance - Autobot
Alt-mode - Cybertronian truck
Main Features/Gimmicks - changeable face, rotating smoke stacks, pop-out cannons
Main Colours - red, blue, silver-grey
Main accessories - x1 axe

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The larger Leader Class size/price allows for a lot of nice features on this toy. This includes:
+ Face-changing gimmick, allowing for Optimus Prime to show his face or have a battle mask.
+ The Matrix chamber on the chest has two doors which opens horizontally rather than having the usual vertical split. This allows the chest window to remain in tact and not end up with any seam lines.
+ Very poseable figure, including waist ratchets and double-swivel ankles.
+ Triggerbot style gimmick that can be deployed from the shoulders in robot mode, or the sides of the cab in truck mode.
+ A more complex transformation which better conceals robot parts, especially the forearms and hands, which are completely concealed on this toy.
+ Greater screen likeness, better than even the Studio Series figure.

The main downside of the toy is that it's out of scale with other TF One toys, at least until HasTak releases a Leader Class Megatron, Sentinel Prime etc. (which I doubt will happen). It is a very nice Leader Class figure in its own right which I think is worth the price of admission.