Yes, yes he does make a good protoform mode.

 

Optimal Optimus has that same feeling that the two wave one leaders, in that photos don't seem to do the deco justice. As soon as I had my hands on the box I could see that. Classy!
Then I opened the box and went "yeeesh!"






The engineering solutions are all very well thought out and the design team have obviously out some real effort in here. But the end result still feels a bit joyless. Like a stifled yawn. "No, I'm not bored. Carry on." None of the modes works all that well. The ape mode has a massive gaping hole in his back. Massive! The surfboard trick is cool, but not when it leaves your figure without a back. The inner bot is just an awful joke. A joke that hangs off the big lad's back. It should have been Starsaber, right? They really weren't expecting this. It feels like a bit of a disservice to all the Beast Wars fans that were excited. It'd almost have been kinder not to put Optimus Primal in the running.

And I'm not that impressed with Outback or Cindersaur either. Sad face! Outback's facesculpt is very well done. But it just doesn't feel like that character I loved. It's probably an incredibly petty and fussy thing to pick at, but I loved Outback in the run up to TF:UK #100. Now this may just be QC issues on the figures I received, but both of them seemed to suffer a peculiar mixture of stiffness in joint and tabbing and incredibly easy limb popping.

 

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Meant to post these too!

 

c/o @burningheartsam on twitter.

 

Hasbro is taking a huge beating on Facebook over their Wave 2 distribution.

Toy News: Hasbro promises more "Power of the Primes" Wave 2 shipments this summer

Promising more Wave 2 later this summer.

 

  That's great.

 

Orion Pax, seen here in his publicity shot from his days at the Jim Henson Workshop

 

Nice! Both bots look so much cleaner that way. How do the alt-modes hold up for OpOp? Any regrets?

 

As Peaugh mentioned in my review thread, Primal still attaches sturdily to every single mode.

As you can see in this pic, hoverboard stays firm even when I lift it.


Remove this pin:

 

I just did.

 

Compared to the garbage that is POTP Predaking, this looks wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy way better to me.

 

This is easily the best combiner weve gotten from hasbro

 

I agree, although I'm still pining for a UW animation-accurate boxset.

 

Custom Straxus Primemaster

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