Toy Review - TFPrime Voyager Optimus Prime

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Toy Review - Optimus Prime
Series - Transformers Prime
Sub-line - none
Size/class - Voyager
Wave - 0 (First Edition)
New/remould/redeco - New
Released here - Maybe not here at all (Released globally Nov/Dec 2011)
Approximate Retail Price - ($45-50?) US$20
Approximate Size - (18cm)
Allegiance - Autobot
Alt-mode - Truck
Main Features/Gimmicks - none
Main Colours - Red, blue, black, grey
Main Accessories - Sword, gun

[Paulbot]

One of the nice things on TF:Prime toys is the way that there's little tabs and grooves that show you've got things in the right place. The Optimus toy is a great example of this. The transformation gets a bit complicated in the front of the truck area, but as parts lock together its really easy to see you're on the right track.

In some ways this reminds me of the various movie Voyager Primes, but is more fun. I do find I'd have liked a more 'traditional' Optimus head though on this.

[jaydisc]

This is a fantastics toy. The change between a rounded, animated robot and a straight-edged realistic truck is excellent. Great folds abound during the transformation with, as Paul points out, everything tabbing into place. Unlike Paul, I would have preferred the non-faceplate version of Prime as I think it matches the fiction's characterization of him more aptly.

[Sutton]

Unlike Paul, I would have preferred the non-faceplate version of Prime as I think it matches the fiction's characterization of him more aptly.

This.

It always confuses the hell out of me that there aren't more Movie Prime's released without the faceplate. It's how he is on screen 90% of the time. If they weren't prepared to back the design in toy form they sure as hell shouldn't have backed it on screen. The same applies to the Prime show.

[Sutton]

Still looking forward to this one A LOT regardless of the above gripe!

[Paulbot]

Unlike Paul, I would have preferred the non-faceplate version of Prime as I think it matches the fiction's characterization of him more aptly.

I didn't mean "needs faceplate" I meant smaller proportions. The large creast and pointy spikes makes this head look interchangable with any other movieverse Voyager Prime. I've not seen enough TFP to have an opinion about faceplates but did think most Animated Prime toys would have been better without one, so I'd probably agree here.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I like it, Transformation is really nice, and aesthetics are good.

I agree with Paulbot on the face. Even though I was thinking he is mucho ugly in the cartoon with no nose (as the crest covers it), I was really looking forward to that ugly coming through on the toy as well. The faceplate is under the crest and points out hinting at a nose. Therefore, I can see PB's point about it being any other movie-verse Prime. He can also only look left and right on mine, probably due to a massively thick neck. That sucks a little bit.

My only other gripe would be his wobbly wobbly sword, which when plugged onto his hand is upside down, yet when plugged into his gun as a bayonet is the right way up. Although not too well on mine. Never seen the bayonet on the show, but always see the sword on his arm.

Aside from those two points, a great toy!

[jaydisc]

I didn't mean "needs faceplate" I meant smaller proportions. The large creast and pointy spikes makes this head look interchangable with any other movieverse Voyager Prime. I've not seen enough TFP to have an opinion about faceplates but did think most Animated Prime toys would have been better without one, so I'd probably agree here.

Sorry, I didn't mean to insinuate you had a faceplate opinion . You said "more traditional" and a lack of a faceplate to me is "less traditional". My bad.

[UltraMarginal]

I think as far as the toys go, a faeplateless face might be more expensive to mold and paint to a satisfactory quality level. my 2c