Toy Review - Earthrise Leader Optimus Prime

[Kyle]

Earthrise Optimus Prime
Series - Generations
Sub-line - Earthrise
Size/class - Leader
New/remould/redeco - New, with <10% parts from Siege Voyager Optimus Prime mould
Wave - 1
Released here - FEB 2020
Approximate Retail Price - AU $75 - 100
Approximate Size - 17 cm
Allegiance - Autobot
Alt-mode - Truck cab
Main Features/Gimmicks -
Main Colours - Red, blue, grey, black, silver
Main Accessories - Blaster rifle, matrix of leadership, trailer

[Kyle]

Initial thoughts...

Siege Voyager Optimus Prime mould was a shellformer wearing truck parts on the outside of the robot body (mainly on the arms and the giant backpack).

Earthrise Optimus Prime, is a shellformer wearing truck parts (side doors and front grill) on the inside of the robot body, with the front bumper and front wheels folded compactly (and relatively unobtrusively) behind the hips.

The two robots only share less than 10% of the parts: only the head, shins and feet. Earthrise Optimus Prime is pretty much a very different toy with a different transformation. I think the transformation of the new torso is much more elegantly done, quite impressive considering it now also has the matrix chamber. The legs on the Siege mould had the more involved transformation though. Overall I think the new toy is nicer, and feels like a mini MP-10 toy.

I think I prefer the plastic used on the Siege toy. The Siege toy did have a more cartoony look (despite the silver dirt painted on), while the new Earthrise toy looks more grim with the darker red and silver details.

The trailer feels very cheap and too small though...

[Kyle]

L to R: Siege Prime and Earthrise Prime


L to R: G1 Prime, Earthrise Prime, and Bumblebee Movie Prime


Earthrise Prime with Earthrise trailer


Siege Prime with Earthrise trailer


G1 Prime with Earthrise trailer (cannot connect properly)


Bumblebee Movie Prime with Earthrise trailer


Earthrise trailer opened

[Gehirn]

If these are shellformers than they are the best shellformers ever.

[Sutton]

If these are shellformers than they are the best shellformers ever.

Hmm, they're not what I would call a shellformer personally - seems like a perfectly involved and fair transformation.

'Shellformer' has more of a 'weak' connotation to it, like where the entire altmode ends up on the back maybe folded in half (I'm thinking most versions of Scourge's 'Space Soap', the original Classics Megatron NERF gun, Siege Starscream, etc).

And now we've got Arcee and Cliffjumper leading the new category, 'Shitformer', which is worse than a 'Partsformer' since the parts don't even do anything remotely convincing...but that's off topic sorry...

https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Shellformer

https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Partformer

[Kyle]

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