Quote Originally Posted by prjkt View Post
Quite a lot of pieces have been remoulded, obvious both his heads, but also the chest, parts of the cab front, cab rear doors, there's an airfoil now, new codpiece and combiner chest piece. Not quite a Springer/Sandstorm level of remould, but enough that the robot modes are different enough, even if they have the same silhouette.
This was something I didn't realise until Demonac held both next to each other at the Toyfair and pointed out all the panels that were different... a lot more than I was expecting, but maybe a waste of expense if the difference isn't easily noticed like Cyclonus, First Aid or Streetwise.
They could have done a redeco of Optimus and invested that remoulding into another toy that could use it, like Wildrider from Dead End or Breakdown.