Image Of New Movie Optimus Prime Toy With "Mech Alive" Gimmick

Looks like a retooling of leader class Prime to me. Dosn't look like its got the Premium Prime head sculpt. I might have to put Premium Primes head on a new body.

No. Not a retooling. From that pic, you can see that the windows on the chest are slightly slanted, the doors swung forward, and the firewall pushed out below; all features of the movie model that did not exist on the first leader-class figure.

Looks promising!

This mode is unquestionably NOT a retooling - agreed.

The transformation might have similarities, but the mold is all-new.

As well it should; the leader-class mold from the first film got a couple things right

Glad I didnt pick up premium Prime, though I still have the original. Maybe I'll recolor him or something.

lol i actually like that phrase.....that and the little bit of the package that we see looks grittier and darker then the tf1 movie line .....i wonder if the sword swings out ...or does it pop out like a switch blade

This thing's so good I have no reason to search for an MA 21 anymore, awesome!

Uggh! I was hoping (perhaps naively, I admit) that Hasbro would simply rerelease the Prime, Bumblebee, Ironhide, Ratchet, Starscream and Barricade figures from the first film for RotF with no changes. I don't want to buy new figures of these characters...but if there are improvements made, I'll be tempted. Damn it, I was hoping I could just focus on new characters.

Dude, i am almost almost there with you. but just almost. i still feel the need to have the MA21. To this day, i can not understand why i never pre ordered the damn thing! sheesh...

But lesson learned from that, i'll pick this new Leader Prime 2 and get a chromed up Takara version, if ever...

Or Hasbro and Takara would bless us all and release a chromed up premium one the first time around.

I can dream.

better start saving up. looks like we're all in for summer tf toy movie extravaganza!

Looks intresting, wallet lives in fear now.

No more teasing..show us the full bot, somebody!

Do you think that this time, the arms will form the hood, like it is supposed to be in the movie?

Prime looks awesome, he gonna rock.

looks very accurate to the design so far...might buy it if it combines with jetfire.

Ditto! Common Hasbro STARSCREAM NEED SOME LOVE!!!!!!!!! I promise i will buy 2 if you make it as great looking as this new prime!

Hmmm, looks interesting. So far I dig it.

Gimmick sounds cool. As for the Prime, it looks nice but I'll have to wait before I decide if I want a ROTF one.

EDIT: It talks? That could be a selling point right there for me.

I am VERY intruiged by this guy!
GOtta see more before placing judgement, but I'm already excited.

TOTAL BUY!!!!! movie Prime is the most kick ass Prime so far, More experienced that Animated and more Badass then G1.

We could use a new, better scale Blackout........nevermind he is dead.

That Prime is awesome! I am so getting that one.

whatever Prime looks like, Grab it!

My god does anybody look at the info by the picture? It says at the first sentence "new leader class prime"

Whoa, new movie leaders are coming and I still need the first ones

Where do you see that? All I can read in the pic is
""Mech Aliv..."
"Reveal moving armo..."
and
"panels and internal ge..." (I am gessing "gears").

Nowhere in the pic is it mentionned the class of the toy.

I assume he meant that TFW's front page news mentioned that this was a leader class toy.

More badass then G1 Prime, think not! Optimus Prime got his ass whoped by Megatron in the movie. He was the weakest Optimus Prime I have ever seen. It was really annoying too see how big a doushbag Optimus was in the movie. Only time he rocked was when he slammed Bonecrusher.

Assuming you're talking about the front page part of the news, and not the picture itself (since the picture doesn't say anything about it being Leader class), that post of mine was before the news was front paged, and before I knew it was a Leader class figure. I have since acknowledged that:

im just glad this is more movie acurate.

I've noted that Megatrons have been getting increasingly (sometimes overwhelmingly) powerful with each new incarnation since Beast Wars.

I can't wait to see how more movie accurate this version of Optimus is. The leader-class toy from the first film was amazing, it's going to be tough to improve on that.

Also, I'm curious, does it say anywhere on the box that he combines with Jetfire?

well its ok but the 1st leader prime was plain awesome!

i dont really like talking gimmicks or revving sounds at all. but i think the 1 st leader was great, if this ones alt mode is super spectacular or anything totally awesome about robot, then i might get it. although those features sound like an ultra or maybe like an ultimate Bumblebee-ish thing so maybe its not a leader voyager ultra maybe its an Ultimate/ supreme figure, i dont think the leaders would have a voice box or revving engine sound, it would be a little to small to fit, so i hope the leader is different in those gimmicks. i spent 80 dollars on prime so far the 1st and premium and i love the premium, i think i'll stay with this prime.

nope it doesnt.

I was super impressed by the first leader prime, just how accurate they got, and got all the electronics and automorph in there as well. The only thing that was off really, was the fact that they molded the toy around an earlier design, rather then the final CGI design used in the movie, but what can ya do, when you gotta start building the toys a year in advance.

According to the thread over at the Canadian site, no. Obviously they might want to keep the surprise, such as it is.

Run-on sentences are painful to read.

Leader class toys are larger than Voyagers and Ultras. Most Leader/Super class figures have had sound effects boxes for years. The three most recent Leader class figures, from the Animated line, had speech as well. Even the comparatively tiny Animated Bumper Battlers have loads of speech and sound effects.

Why would a leader class be too small to have voice and engine sounds? It's just a matter of programming the sounds onto a chip. Besides, you have a Leader class Prime from the first movie - it has sounds right there.

maybe it doesn't mention combining because there's an oncoming Voyager which does the combining?

Just a guess.

Armada, Energon and Cybertron Primes were designed specifically with combining with other figures in mind, but none of them advertised the other figures they would combine with. Usually it's up to the guys who combine with Prime to advertise the combination feature and provide the Optimus Prime cross-sell. Rather unlikely for Hasbro to not use the character's one big gimmick in this movie on his flagship figure.

Maybe both Prime and Jetfire have sealed combining instructions that say "WARNING! DO NOT OPEN UNTIL YOU HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE!"

"Mech Alive"? That doesn't sound like Automorph... The description makes it seem more like, "Move some panels and you get to see all the gears and parts inside the figure!" - like those gundam toys with removable panels.

hold your spendings fanboys... I bet a Premium version of this will also surface once every version of this ROTF prime is sold as reviewers complain of not having this... it should have been this they should have included this... and then everyone who had this figure will buy it again like a moth attacted to a candle light and everybody would said hey were not in a crisis... as most have predicted by 2009. Then repaints will come...

I knew someone was going to bring that up, he has the same weakness as "most" of the Primes and Primal, is his compassion for humans and since the Humans were ether too stupid to leave or Lennox made a douche call, There were too many innocents in the crossfire so he was weak, and besides, Movie Megs is awesome...not as much as Screamer or Blackout or Barricade or Bonecrusher or Brawl, but definitely better than Frenzy or Scorponok.

Movie Optimus is one of my all time favorite Optimus designs, I will definitely pick up another toy of him if it's awesome enough, I already loved both the TF1 Leader and Voyager Primes.

If it actually comes with a Cullen voice chip won't this be the first transforming Optimus Prime figure to have a Cullen voice built in? (Note I said transforming, so that doesn't include the Cyber Stomper from movie 1, also ignoring the anniversary G1 Prime with the separate voice box.)

Well i was wondering when we might see a figure from a more substantial size class. Gosh I could really use some more pics!!!

Mech-alive? Meh. Whatever. It doesn't make much of a difference name-wise. Though Auto-morph sounded a lot cooler.

But it's not automorph, it's something different.

I somehow have a feeling that this may have been intentionally leaked. Notice that the entire toy image was not leaked, but rather the special feature of the toy. This may have been used as a marketing ploy from Hasbro to sell to their retailers. Mech alive appears to be the successor to automorph. It would be pointless to have 2 features on a toy called mech alive and automorph that do similar things.

No, actually the entire back of the box has been leaked - it's in the hidden forum at TF08 apparently.

I give it a few days until the whole thing surfaces online.

The whole(or at least most of it) was leaked, but only to the people who have access to the VIP section of TF08.net.

Peaugh here probably only felt safe with posting a section of the picture.

Beat me to it.

Damned I wish I was a vip, id be like secret ninja! Making an account under an odd name, and posting the images everywhere! Then again the guy who posted them would get pissy like last time, and go and delete everything..........

I NEED MORE PICK OF THIS TOY! HE LOOKS LIKE GODIMUS PRIME!