 ROTF Optimus prime |
| Review Date: June 17, 2009 |
| Reviewer: James Hurber, England |
This Optimus prime is very faithful to the 07 movie Optimus who appeared on screen in terms of looks and transformation. This toy has three sound features, one is in robot mode, Optimus saying, "I am Optimus prime" two is the classic transformation sound, three is truck sounds when pressing the button on the back of the cab mode.
Articulation is good, as you can see from the pictures, he has two blades one on each arm, they can be flipped up to be stored behind his arms thou they tend to get blocked by parts that make up his truck mode.
Transforming, this isn't for a rookie, it's pretty hard and the instructions aren't that clear because their done in 2D so they tend to be confusing, get stuck, YouTube it for help there's plenty of videos out there to help. I would rank him as a class 5 instead of Hasbro's rating system that rates legend class figures with the simplest transformations at 2, because of the complexity of his transformation
Truck mode, is only slightly larger than the 07 leader class toy but looks impressive.
I do recommend this toy for older children, for younger ones, adult help maybe required when transforming. The voice feature tends to get a little annoying during transformation due to how the head is designed to fit into vehicle mode so I recommend taking the batteries out.
Overall score 9/10 (voice gets on my nerves during transforming) |
Best Transformers figure ever
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| Review Date: July 17, 2009 |
| Reviewer: S. A. Robertson, |
Seems despite the figure from the first movie being pretty damn good, even Hasbro themselves felt like they could do better the second time round and they were right. I can't believe how much improved in accuracy this figure is. It's slightly bigger too and more posable with much less truck parts hanging off his back. Just overall much tidier and looks great. The truck mode too is an improvement looking far more seamless and even has the back of the truck done too.
Transformation to truck form is a little complex and there was only one bit I struggled with but I soon got the hang of it and have no problem whatsoever.
Lights and sounds are fun and it's nice to see his proper voice announce his name in robot form. Another great feature is that the figure combines with Leader Class Jetfire where Jetfire sorta becomes body armor/jetpak to Prime and makes the figure even more huge.
This is simply the most impressed I've ever been with a Transformers figure and it's worth every penny I paid.
Oh yeah, ignore the photo of the figure at the top. Hasbro's figure photography once again making the figure look far worse than it is and mistransformed.
The only things better on the 2007 model are that it had articulated fingers and rubber tyres. Everything else is far far better on this figure and it's easily by far the best Transformers figure I've owned since the series began in the 80's. |
Great Figure but extremely hard!
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| Review Date: August 12, 2009 |
| Reviewer: S. Lornie, |
Just by looking at this toy you can tell it's an impressive piece of work. It has to be one of the most accurate toys based on the movies that you can get and it has its good and bad points.
The good points would be it's looks which is extremely detailed and flexible. It's also got some great sounds and lights aswell as a cool looking vehicle mode.
Now onto the bad stuff. I love transformers, I'm a big kid (23) and I found the transformation extremely frustrating. This is because the amount of detail. As you can see there are alot of little bits on Prime, which means alot of fiddling and moving parts. Unfortunatly it's made even more difficult by the fact it doesn't ever stay in place until everything is snapped into place. Some parts dont fit properly and the instructions suck... for a lack of better words.
But don't get me wrong the Model in both forms looks excellent and it's worth having. The problem is this is a toy and no parent would give their kids this as it'd be broken due to frustration in no time. It's more of an adult collectors item to be honest. |
caution: for transformers fans only
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| Review Date: August 9, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Flix, Belgium |
this new mold of revenge of the fallen optimus prime is very screen accurate. and with the exception of the annoying sound effects, the fact that the arms aren't as movable as the previous movie prime and the unposable fingers I can't find anything bad to say about this toy. If you plan on buying one movie toy then this is it!
the transformation is hardcore, it takes me about twenty minutes to do it right... But that's what transformers should be all about in my opinion, I don't like the ones you can do in four steps.
I would not recommend this as a gift for a kid that does not have any "transformer-experience". I know it sais 5+ on the box but I think 7+ might be more appropriate.
its best to check youtube to learn the transformation.
I was going to rate this 5 stars but the fact that I needed to do some serious customizing to the chest before I was able to transform him costs hasbro the fifth star.
I know normal people would be pissed off and probably just send this back to the store. Out of the box it was not possible to complete the transformation successfully.... but due to the complexity of this toy I was very forgiving, it is very impressive that they were able to create this.
that being said does not change the fact that this verion of optimus prime is probably one of the most impressive transformers ever made. |
Optimus Prime
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| Review Date: October 30, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Josh, |
| Great toy, probably better for the older child, has some fiddly bits and is quitedifficult to change from 1 form to the other |
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US $49.96
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