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Dave Van Domelen
Mar 4, 2018, 4:49:46 PM3/4/18
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Dave's Transformers Power of the Primes Rant: Leader Wave 1
Evolution Optimus Prime with Orion Pax (Tractor and Trailer)
Permalink: http://www.eyrie.org/~dvandom/BW/Gen/LOptimus
Okay, not the first Leader class Optimus Prime in Generations, but I
named the Titans Return file PMOP. While I was still reviewing Rodimus
Prime, I found Rodimus Unicronus...and Deluxe Wave 2. So it was really
tempting to put this one off, do the quick retool review and then dive back
into Deluxes, but I'm gonna finish wave 1 before I move onto any wave 2, by
gum.
CAPSULE
Evolution Optimus Prime: Pretty good robot modes, but the vehicle modes
(especially the cab) suffer from the fidelity to G1 animated Orion Pax.
Mildly recommended.
RANT
Packaging: Same as Rodimus Prime.
AUTOBOT: EVOLUTION OPTIMUS PRIME
Assortment: E1147
Altmodes: Semitractor, Tractor-Trailer
Transformation Difficulty: (Orion Pax) 15 steps, (Optimus Prime) 33 steps
Previous Name Use: None with "Evolution" IIRC.
Previous Mold Use: None
Prime Master I Got: Megatronus (ah, irony)
Prime Master Ability: Harnesses the Fallen's strength for noble purposes
Weapon: Rifle
Function: Archivist/Autobot Leader
Motto: "I'm a Prime playing a Prime using the power of another Prime."
When the humble ORION PAX becomes the bearer of the MATRIX OF
LEADERSHIP, he evolves to become the noble leader OPTIMUS PRIME.
Aside: I guess he got the Fallen's power along with his face?
Packaging: A rattan string around the combined robot's waist holds a
plastic shield over the entire torso. Technically six ties supplement this,
but the two on the smokestacks don't need to be cut. One tie on the Matrix,
two on the combined rifle.
Robot Mode (Optimus): Well, from the front, it looks very much like the
various Masterpiece Primes out there. Once you pan to the side a bit,
though, there's a lot of gray trailer panels folded onto various places, plus
a backback made up of Orion Pax's legs.
The figure stands 9" (23cm) tall, in pretty much the classic Optimus
colors aside from the aforementioned extra gray. The main additions are two
sides of each forearm (the back of hand side and the underside of fist side),
most of each boot, the outer and rear facings of each shoulder, and the big
plates at the shoulder roots (which are extended to help cover up some of the
Orion bits folded up in back). A lot of the red parts are painted gray
plastic, too. Red plastic is used on the lower halves of the upper arms
and...um, that's it for the non-Orion parts. It's used on a lot of Orion,
though. The feet, ankle joints, boot fronts, and head are made of darkish
blue plastic. Some visible hinges as well as the Orion legs on the backpack
are also blue plastic. The chest is clear light blue, the rifle is black
plastic. Pretty much everything else in this mode is silvery medium gray
plastic. The matrix holder is silvery gray plastic, the core is clear light
blue plastic.
Lots of red paint, a bit less saturated than the plastic. Most of the
torso except for the unpainted window bits and the grille, the shoulder
fronts, the forearm parts that aren't covered by panels. Silver on the
grille, the shin vents, the face, the forehead tablet. The eyes are painted
bright blue, and there's dark blue (good match to the plastic) paint on the
lower pelvis. The usual "belt" details are bright yellow, but there's no
yellow on the roof lights molded into the top of the torso. The Matrix core
is mostly painted over in golden yellow paint, but on mine the paint is so
thick it makes it hard to get the core in and out of the holder. There's
some decent small stickers on the forearms, kneecaps, and toes, and slightly
wrinkled Autobot symbol stickers on the shoulder fronts.
The head is on a somewhat restricted ball joint, and can nod and lift a
bit...and hey, I just noticed a bit of mold flash on the jawline. Optimus
has a cyberzit. Easily removed with a knife. (PSA: do not remove organic
zits with a knife.) No waist articulation. The shoulders are hinge and
swivel universal, with the swivel being at the lower rear corner of the
shoulder box. The top panel of each shoulder is hinged to get out of the way
when lifting the arms, letting Optimus lift his arms straight up without
rotating the shoulders. The smokestacks are hinged for transformation, but
this also lets them get out of the way when lifting the arms way up. There's
a swivel at mid-bicep (where the gray plastic meets the red), hinge elbows,
stiff swivel wrists. Universal joint hips, with the swivel part soft-
ratcheting and the hinges smooth. The swivels below the hip joints are a bit
restricted because they're mostly hidden inside the thighs. The stiff knee
hinges can bend a little past 90 degrees. The ankles have both forward-
backwards hinges and limited side-to-side hinges, plus transformation struts
for a little more range of motion if you really need it.
The rifle is mostly the classic G1 Optimus rifle in design, but with the
addition of a second handle near the front so that it can split into two
shorter weapons, as Rodimus had. Combined, it's a bit over 4" (10.5cm) long,
the rear piece is 2" (5cm) long and looks like a hairdryer, the front piece
is a decent 2.5" (6cm) pistol. The rear half or the combined rifle is held
by a peg that is a bit too thick, I had to sand mine down a bit. It also has
a pair of 5mm peg holes on each side for choices of positioning in trailer
mode (the rifle goes into a gap between the arms), and a 5mm muzzle hole.
The front piece has a 5mm peg, as well as a 5mm post in back for connecting
to the back half (unlike Rodimus's rifle, which uses non-5mm pegs for
combining). The muzzle of the front part is also 5mm, so another copy of the
front end could be plugged in, or a sword for a plug bayonet, etc. Optimus
is not flexible enough to hold the rifle by both pegs at once
To get at the Matrix storage, first open up the chest panels. Then open
up Orion's chest panels. Then, for some of us, wait for the Get Smart theme
song to stop playing. But now the Matrix can be accessed, although getting
it firmly in place without tiny fingers is difficult. As with Rodimus, the
holder will fit most Prime Masters and Titan Masters, so of course I used my
Diac for this: http://www.dvandom.com/images/primeception.JPG
Transformation (Optimus): Unlike Rodimus, there's no difference between
the Orion vehicle mode on its own and when connected to the trailer. The
trailer just goes onto the tractor part, using the peg hole in the back of
Orion's helmet as a hitch.
Orion pops out of the torso after you push down a latch, and then
transforms to either of his other modes as described below. The remaining
"someone shot Optimus with a really big cannon" framework does a lot of panel
folding to turn into the trailer. I was briefly confused because I tried to
keep the smokestacks out, but they're solely for combined robot mode and are
hidden inside the trailer. The "lift the arms all the way up" motion is
needed for this, as you have to get it so that the shoulder fronts end up IN
front when you fold the shoulder baseplates around to the front.
Note, the rifle is meant to go into a gap in the roof, but it's
difficult to get it in and out with the trailer fully transformed, you need
to pop it apart a bit.
Reassembling everything into Optimus robot mode is pretty easy. It's
much more obvious where all the panels go on the limbs.
I've seen a few base modes for the trailer, but mostly they look like
Optimus had a horrible accident. If you put the chest facing down, this
reduces that effect a little: http://www.dvandom.com/images/PoPOPbase.JPG
Turning the chest and head chunk into the cab isn't too hard. Fold the
legs down and rotate them so that the shins face each other, tuck the Optimus
head away (helps to turn it backwards first), fold the arms back behind it.
Optimus chest unfolds and becomes the cab sides. Orion's head becomes the
trailer hitch.
Vehicle Mode (Optimus): Yeah, they definitely put a premium on
reproducing the rounded lines of Orion Pax's animation model, which hurts
this mode a lot. Everything rearward of the cab on the tractor is just a
mess of really obvious limbs folded into a very vague trucklike shape. The
trailer is a bit better, working fine from the sides or rear, so-so from
above, and only really bad from the front. If it could snug up against the
cab more, that wouldn't be as much of an issue, but Orion's arms prevent that
even if they'd set the connection peg farther back inside. Also, using the
rifle to fill the gap in the roof is a bit weird. The heel spurs that lock
Orion's boots in place in Optimus robot mode stick out from the sides of the
very back of the tractor's rear fenders, almost scraping the surface.
Separately, the cab is 5" (12.5cm) long, the trailer is 7" (18cm) long
ignoring the rifle barrel sticking out the front (it adds about an inch/3cm),
and all together the vehicle is 11" (28cm) long. While it's got some wonky
proportions, assuming that the trailer is standard width gives about 1:40
scale. The colors are the standard Optimus Prime set, mostly, although the
front of the trailer roof is red. There's actually two shades of red plastic
in the cab, with the rear section being slightly darker.
The cab has silver paint on the bumper, grille, and most of the
mid-height stripe running around the cab front and sides. The side windows
are painted bright blue with silver edges and silver side mirrors. There's
silver windshield wipers, and yellow headlights with silver borders. The
window pieces are clear light blue plastic, so they have red paint around the
borders, fairly decent match. No paint on the roof details or the
smokestacks. No other meaningful paint on the cab. The trailer relies on
okay foil stickers along the sides for the stripes and Autobot symbol.
There's some robot mode red paint on the front and top of the trailer. No
paint on any of the wheels.
The trailer hitch peg has enough freedom to let the cab turn about 45
degrees away from the direction of the trailer. There's a pair of 5mm peg
holes on the rear half of the roof, and four 2mm pegs on the rear half of the
roof. If you don't want to mount the rifle between the robot arms in trailer
mode, it can split up and mount in the roof peg holes.
The trailer has no fold-out legs to let it sit on its own without the
tractor.
Robot Mode (Orion): Well, from the front it does a pretty good job of
looking like the more rounded G1 animation design of Orion Pax, although as
noted already it really hurts the truck mode. He doesn't quite have the full
lips from the cartoon, just a pouting lower lip. He has some issues with
hollow parts, mostly in his arms, and stable standing depends too much on
fairly loose toe hinges. But hey, this is really the first major release
Orion Pax to try to look like the G1 version rather than something more
IDW-inspired or whatnot. So points for making a very obviously non-toyetic
design into a toy. They did darken the colors to match Optimus (in the
cartoon, Orion had very light blue and had white/silver instead of gray), but
the Optimus mode would have looked a bit weird with those light blue bits.
It's possible to stow the Orion head and fold out the Optimus head, but
it sits too far back on the torso and leaves a gap in front of it. This also
looks really creepy and knockoffy.
A lanky 6.5" (16.5cm) tall, standing above the height of most Deluxes
but below Voyagers. As noted, he's mostly in Optimus Prime colors. Most of
the torso and arms are bright red plastic. The chest front is clear light
blue plastic with red paint on most of it. The collar, elbow joints, and
thighs are silvery gray plastic. The head, fists, hips, boots, and some
hinges on the backpack are dark blue plastic. There's armor pieces over the
hips that are red plastic.
In addition to the red paint on the chestplate, there's also yellow
details below the chest-window, and silver abs. The face and "bell bottom
cuff" details are painted silver as well. The eyes are painted bright light
blue. The shin details are crooked (on mine) stickers, and there's a foil
Autobot symbol sticker on the center of the chest. There's no paint on the
fake wheel details on the outer facings of the boots (the real wheels are on
the backs of the boots).
The head is on a restricted ball joint, the waist does not turn. Ball
joint shoulders, upper arm swivel, double hinge elbows. The transformation
hinges on the wrists don't really grant meaningful articulation. The hips
are ball joints, but the armor pieces over them are swivels to follow along
with the leg movement. Swivels just below the hips, soft-ratcheting hinge
knees, somewhat loose pinned hinge toes.
Transformation (Orion): Legs connect together shin-to-shin and swing
forwards, and you don't need to store the Optimus head from robot mode,
otherwise basically the same as going from torso core to cab.
There's an extra step that seems to have been left out, in which the
forearms fold down and tab onto the chestplate. Still doesn't look GOOD, per
se, but it's a lot more stable.
Going even farther from the instructions, when going back to robot mode
you can leave the cab side panels folded down and just move them to the back,
making it look like like he's wearing Optimus's chest on his back. This also
makes his backpack a little better spread out. It doesn't *quite* mesh
properly, though.
Vehicle Mode (Orion): Nothing extra to talk about here, unlike Rodimus
it's exactly the same whether or not it's hooked to the trailer. Note, the
trailer hitch hole is wider than 5mm so that the trailer is free to swivel,
so no mounting a gun in that.
Overall: Well, as I said earlier, points for doing a G1 cartoon Orion
Pax reasonably faithfully, and the Optimus robot mode is pretty good too.
The vehicle modes suffer, though.
Dave Van Domelen, got even more of wave 2 while working on this review.
Evolution Optimus Prime with Orion Pax (Tractor and Trailer)
Permalink: http://www.eyrie.org/~dvandom/BW/Gen/LOptimus
Okay, not the first Leader class Optimus Prime in Generations, but I
named the Titans Return file PMOP. While I was still reviewing Rodimus
Prime, I found Rodimus Unicronus...and Deluxe Wave 2. So it was really
tempting to put this one off, do the quick retool review and then dive back
into Deluxes, but I'm gonna finish wave 1 before I move onto any wave 2, by
gum.
CAPSULE
Evolution Optimus Prime: Pretty good robot modes, but the vehicle modes
(especially the cab) suffer from the fidelity to G1 animated Orion Pax.
Mildly recommended.
RANT
Packaging: Same as Rodimus Prime.
AUTOBOT: EVOLUTION OPTIMUS PRIME
Assortment: E1147
Altmodes: Semitractor, Tractor-Trailer
Transformation Difficulty: (Orion Pax) 15 steps, (Optimus Prime) 33 steps
Previous Name Use: None with "Evolution" IIRC.
Previous Mold Use: None
Prime Master I Got: Megatronus (ah, irony)
Prime Master Ability: Harnesses the Fallen's strength for noble purposes
Weapon: Rifle
Function: Archivist/Autobot Leader
Motto: "I'm a Prime playing a Prime using the power of another Prime."
When the humble ORION PAX becomes the bearer of the MATRIX OF
LEADERSHIP, he evolves to become the noble leader OPTIMUS PRIME.
Aside: I guess he got the Fallen's power along with his face?
Packaging: A rattan string around the combined robot's waist holds a
plastic shield over the entire torso. Technically six ties supplement this,
but the two on the smokestacks don't need to be cut. One tie on the Matrix,
two on the combined rifle.
Robot Mode (Optimus): Well, from the front, it looks very much like the
various Masterpiece Primes out there. Once you pan to the side a bit,
though, there's a lot of gray trailer panels folded onto various places, plus
a backback made up of Orion Pax's legs.
The figure stands 9" (23cm) tall, in pretty much the classic Optimus
colors aside from the aforementioned extra gray. The main additions are two
sides of each forearm (the back of hand side and the underside of fist side),
most of each boot, the outer and rear facings of each shoulder, and the big
plates at the shoulder roots (which are extended to help cover up some of the
Orion bits folded up in back). A lot of the red parts are painted gray
plastic, too. Red plastic is used on the lower halves of the upper arms
and...um, that's it for the non-Orion parts. It's used on a lot of Orion,
though. The feet, ankle joints, boot fronts, and head are made of darkish
blue plastic. Some visible hinges as well as the Orion legs on the backpack
are also blue plastic. The chest is clear light blue, the rifle is black
plastic. Pretty much everything else in this mode is silvery medium gray
plastic. The matrix holder is silvery gray plastic, the core is clear light
blue plastic.
Lots of red paint, a bit less saturated than the plastic. Most of the
torso except for the unpainted window bits and the grille, the shoulder
fronts, the forearm parts that aren't covered by panels. Silver on the
grille, the shin vents, the face, the forehead tablet. The eyes are painted
bright blue, and there's dark blue (good match to the plastic) paint on the
lower pelvis. The usual "belt" details are bright yellow, but there's no
yellow on the roof lights molded into the top of the torso. The Matrix core
is mostly painted over in golden yellow paint, but on mine the paint is so
thick it makes it hard to get the core in and out of the holder. There's
some decent small stickers on the forearms, kneecaps, and toes, and slightly
wrinkled Autobot symbol stickers on the shoulder fronts.
The head is on a somewhat restricted ball joint, and can nod and lift a
bit...and hey, I just noticed a bit of mold flash on the jawline. Optimus
has a cyberzit. Easily removed with a knife. (PSA: do not remove organic
zits with a knife.) No waist articulation. The shoulders are hinge and
swivel universal, with the swivel being at the lower rear corner of the
shoulder box. The top panel of each shoulder is hinged to get out of the way
when lifting the arms, letting Optimus lift his arms straight up without
rotating the shoulders. The smokestacks are hinged for transformation, but
this also lets them get out of the way when lifting the arms way up. There's
a swivel at mid-bicep (where the gray plastic meets the red), hinge elbows,
stiff swivel wrists. Universal joint hips, with the swivel part soft-
ratcheting and the hinges smooth. The swivels below the hip joints are a bit
restricted because they're mostly hidden inside the thighs. The stiff knee
hinges can bend a little past 90 degrees. The ankles have both forward-
backwards hinges and limited side-to-side hinges, plus transformation struts
for a little more range of motion if you really need it.
The rifle is mostly the classic G1 Optimus rifle in design, but with the
addition of a second handle near the front so that it can split into two
shorter weapons, as Rodimus had. Combined, it's a bit over 4" (10.5cm) long,
the rear piece is 2" (5cm) long and looks like a hairdryer, the front piece
is a decent 2.5" (6cm) pistol. The rear half or the combined rifle is held
by a peg that is a bit too thick, I had to sand mine down a bit. It also has
a pair of 5mm peg holes on each side for choices of positioning in trailer
mode (the rifle goes into a gap between the arms), and a 5mm muzzle hole.
The front piece has a 5mm peg, as well as a 5mm post in back for connecting
to the back half (unlike Rodimus's rifle, which uses non-5mm pegs for
combining). The muzzle of the front part is also 5mm, so another copy of the
front end could be plugged in, or a sword for a plug bayonet, etc. Optimus
is not flexible enough to hold the rifle by both pegs at once
To get at the Matrix storage, first open up the chest panels. Then open
up Orion's chest panels. Then, for some of us, wait for the Get Smart theme
song to stop playing. But now the Matrix can be accessed, although getting
it firmly in place without tiny fingers is difficult. As with Rodimus, the
holder will fit most Prime Masters and Titan Masters, so of course I used my
Diac for this: http://www.dvandom.com/images/primeception.JPG
Transformation (Optimus): Unlike Rodimus, there's no difference between
the Orion vehicle mode on its own and when connected to the trailer. The
trailer just goes onto the tractor part, using the peg hole in the back of
Orion's helmet as a hitch.
Orion pops out of the torso after you push down a latch, and then
transforms to either of his other modes as described below. The remaining
"someone shot Optimus with a really big cannon" framework does a lot of panel
folding to turn into the trailer. I was briefly confused because I tried to
keep the smokestacks out, but they're solely for combined robot mode and are
hidden inside the trailer. The "lift the arms all the way up" motion is
needed for this, as you have to get it so that the shoulder fronts end up IN
front when you fold the shoulder baseplates around to the front.
Note, the rifle is meant to go into a gap in the roof, but it's
difficult to get it in and out with the trailer fully transformed, you need
to pop it apart a bit.
Reassembling everything into Optimus robot mode is pretty easy. It's
much more obvious where all the panels go on the limbs.
I've seen a few base modes for the trailer, but mostly they look like
Optimus had a horrible accident. If you put the chest facing down, this
reduces that effect a little: http://www.dvandom.com/images/PoPOPbase.JPG
Turning the chest and head chunk into the cab isn't too hard. Fold the
legs down and rotate them so that the shins face each other, tuck the Optimus
head away (helps to turn it backwards first), fold the arms back behind it.
Optimus chest unfolds and becomes the cab sides. Orion's head becomes the
trailer hitch.
Vehicle Mode (Optimus): Yeah, they definitely put a premium on
reproducing the rounded lines of Orion Pax's animation model, which hurts
this mode a lot. Everything rearward of the cab on the tractor is just a
mess of really obvious limbs folded into a very vague trucklike shape. The
trailer is a bit better, working fine from the sides or rear, so-so from
above, and only really bad from the front. If it could snug up against the
cab more, that wouldn't be as much of an issue, but Orion's arms prevent that
even if they'd set the connection peg farther back inside. Also, using the
rifle to fill the gap in the roof is a bit weird. The heel spurs that lock
Orion's boots in place in Optimus robot mode stick out from the sides of the
very back of the tractor's rear fenders, almost scraping the surface.
Separately, the cab is 5" (12.5cm) long, the trailer is 7" (18cm) long
ignoring the rifle barrel sticking out the front (it adds about an inch/3cm),
and all together the vehicle is 11" (28cm) long. While it's got some wonky
proportions, assuming that the trailer is standard width gives about 1:40
scale. The colors are the standard Optimus Prime set, mostly, although the
front of the trailer roof is red. There's actually two shades of red plastic
in the cab, with the rear section being slightly darker.
The cab has silver paint on the bumper, grille, and most of the
mid-height stripe running around the cab front and sides. The side windows
are painted bright blue with silver edges and silver side mirrors. There's
silver windshield wipers, and yellow headlights with silver borders. The
window pieces are clear light blue plastic, so they have red paint around the
borders, fairly decent match. No paint on the roof details or the
smokestacks. No other meaningful paint on the cab. The trailer relies on
okay foil stickers along the sides for the stripes and Autobot symbol.
There's some robot mode red paint on the front and top of the trailer. No
paint on any of the wheels.
The trailer hitch peg has enough freedom to let the cab turn about 45
degrees away from the direction of the trailer. There's a pair of 5mm peg
holes on the rear half of the roof, and four 2mm pegs on the rear half of the
roof. If you don't want to mount the rifle between the robot arms in trailer
mode, it can split up and mount in the roof peg holes.
The trailer has no fold-out legs to let it sit on its own without the
tractor.
Robot Mode (Orion): Well, from the front it does a pretty good job of
looking like the more rounded G1 animation design of Orion Pax, although as
noted already it really hurts the truck mode. He doesn't quite have the full
lips from the cartoon, just a pouting lower lip. He has some issues with
hollow parts, mostly in his arms, and stable standing depends too much on
fairly loose toe hinges. But hey, this is really the first major release
Orion Pax to try to look like the G1 version rather than something more
IDW-inspired or whatnot. So points for making a very obviously non-toyetic
design into a toy. They did darken the colors to match Optimus (in the
cartoon, Orion had very light blue and had white/silver instead of gray), but
the Optimus mode would have looked a bit weird with those light blue bits.
It's possible to stow the Orion head and fold out the Optimus head, but
it sits too far back on the torso and leaves a gap in front of it. This also
looks really creepy and knockoffy.
A lanky 6.5" (16.5cm) tall, standing above the height of most Deluxes
but below Voyagers. As noted, he's mostly in Optimus Prime colors. Most of
the torso and arms are bright red plastic. The chest front is clear light
blue plastic with red paint on most of it. The collar, elbow joints, and
thighs are silvery gray plastic. The head, fists, hips, boots, and some
hinges on the backpack are dark blue plastic. There's armor pieces over the
hips that are red plastic.
In addition to the red paint on the chestplate, there's also yellow
details below the chest-window, and silver abs. The face and "bell bottom
cuff" details are painted silver as well. The eyes are painted bright light
blue. The shin details are crooked (on mine) stickers, and there's a foil
Autobot symbol sticker on the center of the chest. There's no paint on the
fake wheel details on the outer facings of the boots (the real wheels are on
the backs of the boots).
The head is on a restricted ball joint, the waist does not turn. Ball
joint shoulders, upper arm swivel, double hinge elbows. The transformation
hinges on the wrists don't really grant meaningful articulation. The hips
are ball joints, but the armor pieces over them are swivels to follow along
with the leg movement. Swivels just below the hips, soft-ratcheting hinge
knees, somewhat loose pinned hinge toes.
Transformation (Orion): Legs connect together shin-to-shin and swing
forwards, and you don't need to store the Optimus head from robot mode,
otherwise basically the same as going from torso core to cab.
There's an extra step that seems to have been left out, in which the
forearms fold down and tab onto the chestplate. Still doesn't look GOOD, per
se, but it's a lot more stable.
Going even farther from the instructions, when going back to robot mode
you can leave the cab side panels folded down and just move them to the back,
making it look like like he's wearing Optimus's chest on his back. This also
makes his backpack a little better spread out. It doesn't *quite* mesh
properly, though.
Vehicle Mode (Orion): Nothing extra to talk about here, unlike Rodimus
it's exactly the same whether or not it's hooked to the trailer. Note, the
trailer hitch hole is wider than 5mm so that the trailer is free to swivel,
so no mounting a gun in that.
Overall: Well, as I said earlier, points for doing a G1 cartoon Orion
Pax reasonably faithfully, and the Optimus robot mode is pretty good too.
The vehicle modes suffer, though.
Dave Van Domelen, got even more of wave 2 while working on this review.
David Connell
Mar 16, 2018, 9:24:57 AM3/16/18
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On Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 4:49:46 PM UTC-5, Dave Van Domelen wrote:
> Dave's Transformers Power of the Primes Rant: Leader Wave 1
> Dave's Transformers Power of the Primes Rant: Leader Wave 1
> Overall: Well, as I said earlier, points for doing a G1 cartoon Orion
> Pax reasonably faithfully, and the Optimus robot mode is pretty good too.
> The vehicle modes suffer, though.
>
>
> Dave Van Domelen, got even more of wave 2 while working on this review.
I've been having a lot of bad luck with this mold. I just got my third copy. the ankle disintegrated on the first copy, which I exchanged. On the second transformation!
> Pax reasonably faithfully, and the Optimus robot mode is pretty good too.
> The vehicle modes suffer, though.
>
>
> Dave Van Domelen, got even more of wave 2 while working on this review.
The second lasted a few weeks, but the locking tab for an arm panel broke, likely due to me messing up the sequence. Left an unsightly gap in the trailer. Couldn't exchange this one in good conscience since it was basically my fault, and I'd started customizing the figure.
I just got my third copy, this time from Amazon. Let's see if this one does any better (I plan on watching the transformation order very carefully with this one!)
Zobovor
Mar 16, 2018, 6:44:28 PM3/16/18
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On Friday, March 16, 2018 at 7:24:57 AM UTC-6, David Connell wrote:
> I've been having a lot of bad luck with this mold. I just got my third copy.
> the ankle disintegrated on the first copy, which I exchanged. On the second
> transformation!
Where did it break, exactly? I've been trying to be extra-careful with mine ever since you mentioned this, but I don't know which part to be extra-careful with.
> I've been having a lot of bad luck with this mold. I just got my third copy.
> the ankle disintegrated on the first copy, which I exchanged. On the second
> transformation!
Zob (got DuckTales the Movie on DVD today for five bucks)
David Connell
Mar 20, 2018, 9:19:50 AM3/20/18
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The newest one has a slightly loose chest panel - mostly noticeable in Orion mode. It's a minor nitpick, really. I might just swap Orions between my two copies.
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