I'd agree with the sentiment about Prime's chest and Megatron's head. Both didn't pay off at all.

And the stupid thing is that Megatron's head could have been completely hidden easily. The head looks like it has descended into the body of the jet mode, but it is actually a panel with a hole that comes from the back and flips down around the robot head. That panel could have had a dome instead of a hole, to cover the face up... or at the very least, turn the head around. I can't even recall if that was even a feature of the character in the cartoon - to have his face showing, for a reason.

The front of the jet mode looked wrong to me when I first saw pics, but then when I got the toy, it sucked even more. Those left and right bits hanging off the front, just sit loose there. They don't even lock into anything.
The rest of the toy has locking tabs all over it, which act as a nice guide to where the limbs go in jet mode (if not following instructions)... but that front section is noticeably absent of any.

The colours are nice, and despite it not being an earthen mode or vehicle, I was eventually able to work out how to form the jet mode by looking at the box pics and going by all the tabs on the toy.


The Optimus toy I already had from the SDCC version, and the only difference with this one is a few minor colour differences. The Robot mode looks good, with minimal backpack & kibble - the big square chest is the letdown though. The transformation was a little fiddly, but easy enough to figure out.

Having human cast character figurines is good, as it doesn't happen often. It's just a pity that we don't often get good detailed, articulated figurines.

I haven't played the DVD yet... but am a bit disappointed that it is just one episode, and isn't even the first "Premiere" episode as the packaging claims. (it's episode 6)

Probably worth getting, if you don't have the SDCC Optimus, or don't want to wait about 6-8 months for the eventual large-sized Megatron toy (this is the largest one so far announced for Megatron, which would take us until June next year).