I play with the encore and recommend it, the arms are a little different, the squares on the grill are bigger and some color differences but that’s about all you really notice even looking close. As a whole it really does feel just like the original, unlike Jazz even the encore to me is just wrong.

I still have a part of me that always wants an original G1 prime. I just got a new one a little better than my other one and it’s boxed, not entirely sure it’s my dream prime, I’ll have to wait till it arrives. I know it is what my prime would have looked like if I kept the box, so it wins for nostalgic value, I just dreamed of a cleaner one.

I messed up and didn’t completely understand the new (to me) make an offer on ebay and it was excepted. I’m just starting to get super excited now and the crap I probably paid to much for the toy feeling is going.