Voyager Optimus Prime
Series - The Last Knight Movie
Sub-line – Premier Edition
Size/class - Voyager
New/remould/redeco – New
Wave – 1
Released here - May 2017
Approximate Retail Price - $50
Approximate Size – 18cm
Allegiance -Autobot
Alt-mode – Western Star truck cab
Main Features/Gimmicks – none (sword and shield can attach to truck mode)
Main Colour – Blue, red, grey
Main Accessories – Sword, shield

A new mould, as the Voyager Optimus toy for TF4 was the one that turned into the square "Gen1" cab... it has a lot less backpack kibble than the Leader Optimus toys that turn into a Western Star truck cab.

The transformation is pretty much on par with Voyager and Leader class toys, with a lot of folding up of panels against each other, particularly on the legs and back panel. The entire sides of the truck are one long panel, split into three parts, so that the front wheel covers end up at the back of the feet, where the back wheels are.

The look of the robot mode looks nice, but the colour of the shield and sword spoil it, especially that bright blue shield. I don't know why they do that with the accessories, as they did that on a number of TF4 Optimus toys too.

It took a few transformations to get a fluid conversion going, but after that, it was fairly easy, and not too "fun-less" to do. (not too big, not too small)
It will make a good scaled pairing to the Voyager Megatron, and is definitely the better of the first two Voyagers (Grimlock is just a redeco TF4 toy).

Slightly bigger than the Deluxe boxes, and doesn't have the strip of cardboard at the top, making it easier to tell the two size classes from a distance.


The orange sword you can sorta dismiss as being like a molten hot blade, but that shield... the toy looks better without it.


By the power of Greyskull...


...I have the power!


Plenty of joints for plenty of poses...

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The photo above and below with the two-handed holding of the sword required unplugging of the shoulders for both hands to reach the sword hilt... but as a static pose, you wouldn't notice unless it was pointed out.