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News Credits: 1 · by **RhA** » Mon Sep 07, 2015 8:52 am

-Kanrabat- wrote:
RhA wrote:If anything, this release makes me want to hunt down the original. It's just the look of it that won me over back in 2002, but I never actually bought it. Judging from the reactions in this thread, I don't see people being very enthousiastic about it (cruel folks!). I'm hoping this means AA Primal goes down in price.

I could propose to trade you mine. He's 100% complete with his disk missile. He just have a slight split behind one of his calf. It wont change the look nor prevent transforming and posing. I'd only ask for 2 CW Protectobot deluxes, or one deluxe plus Legend Groove.

Still, I'm pretty sure shipping would be a deal breaker.

That would be completely awesome, but indeed... Le shipping would murder it. Still, you rock.

News Credits: 5 · by **welcometothedarksyde** » Mon Sep 07, 2015 9:54 am

Can't say I'm tempted. It doesn't have a place to go in my collection >:oP

News Credits: 11 · by **Overcracker** » Mon Sep 07, 2015 4:05 pm

SkyWarpt wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:
Overcracker wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:
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I feel bad for our Canadian bretheren

Indeed.

News Credits: 7 · by **Zeedust** » Wed Sep 09, 2015 9:14 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
OptimalOptimus2 wrote:I hate it when Optimus Primal possesses Optimus Prime's colors. It makes him look weird.
By the way, Optimus Primal is not a monkey, he's an APE!

It should be Year of the Ape!
Glad I got that off my chest.
No.

There is no Ape in the Chinese Zodiac.

Sounds like someone needs to brush up on their Jackie Chan Adventures
Or Digimon Tamers.

I'm fairly sure Makuramon was a monkey. (And CREEPY, especially in his human disguise.)

But an ape is closer to a monkey than a truck or tape deck is to a goat. :lol:

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 2:52 am

After we saw some tiny cropped images of the upcoming Platinum Edition release of Year of the Monkey Optimus Primal, a blog post on Autobase Aichi brings us an actual look at the figure in its packaging, too - check them out mirrored below, including the new Monkeybot symbol and the window box!

News Credits: 11 · by **RAR** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 3:26 am

I wish to know if he still speaks in Garry Chalk's Voice ?

by **Kup98ss** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 4:30 am

I'll pass. Never a fan of this mold and those colors are terrible.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 4:44 am

Kup98ss wrote:I'll pass. Never a fan of this mold and those colors are terrible.

Come on, yours for only 120$US! That's a bargain!

by **budmaloney** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 5:01 am

You have Wreckers, Lightning Strike Coalition, Minicons, Omni-bots, Unicron people, Predacons, Maximals, and now apparently Monkey bots.

Still to this day I have no idea who the omni-bots were and it was handled so badly.

Very cool looking boxart. The colors are meh, don't know how good the mold is really.

News Credits: 26 · by **reluctantyouth** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 8:24 am

I was a fan of the mold just not the screaming head sculpt. It would be very nice if Gary Chalk's voice was still used. :-?

"The seeds of the future lay buried in the past"
"Primal Scream"

I do not remember what else the voice chip said. I think it would have looked much better with a remolded head. I remember picking up the original mold in Target at half price. Wasn't he $29.99 back then originally or $39.99? I don't remember. I wouldn't pay what they are asking for him now...just like the Supreme Starscream that clogged the shelves forever. Back in the day I got Screamer for $15.00 and sold him two years later on Ebay for $55.00.

~reluctantyouth~

News Credits: 3 · by **Optimizzy** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 8:25 am

If they did this in Primals colors I would have been a little interested. But those colors and that mold are awful. And I would never pay $120 for it. It pains me to say it, as I would be interested in a cool version of Primal, but this just looks like a knock-off to me.

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 9:01 am

I am surprised nobody mentioned the big "20th Anniversary" emblem on the box. I guess this is how hasbro is commemorating Beast Wars' 20th anniversary. Feels like the 30th anniversary all over again.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 9:50 am

What was wrong with thrilling 30?

News Credits: 1 · by **RhA** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 9:55 am

ZeroWolf wrote:What was wrong with thrilling 30?

I do not recall being thrilled in the slightest.

And I hope that this isn't Hasbro's best and last effort to remember BW by.

by **Railbomb** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 10:01 am

william-james88 wrote:I am surprised nobody mentioned the big "20th Anniversary" emblem on the box. I guess this is how hasbro is commemorating Beast Wars' 20th anniversary. Feels like the 30th anniversary all over again.

Here's to hoping that this isn't the only thing with that emblem next year.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 10:02 am

budmaloney wrote:You have Wreckers, Lightning Strike Coalition, Minicons, Omni-bots, Unicron people, Predacons, Maximals, and now apparently Monkey bots.

Still to this day I have no idea who the omni-bots were and it was handled so badly.

How does that have anything to do with this thread?

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 10:14 am

RhA wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:What was wrong with thrilling 30?

I do not recall being thrilled in the slightest.

And I hope that this isn't Hasbro's best and last effort to remember BW by.

Zero Wolf, the thrilling 30 exclusives were lame beyond belief. Hasbro said we would be getting 30 exclusives that year. And we did, but a few of them were ridiculous repeats (2 exclusive Metroplexes?!) and some were just downright nonsensical. I don't see how silver knight optimus from AOE would be considered relevant to the 30 years of transformers history, when that deco only ever appeared as the exclusive toy itself. All it really did was just add a number to every exclusive released that year at Comiccon, Botcon or to specific retailers. It was the same as any other year really. Just imagine that this year, Devastator had a number next to him, and so did SDCC Devastator, as well as the platinum coneheads or the G2 box-sets coming out later, the TRU Clash of Transformer RID toys and the TOTG platinum Optimus and Soundwaves too. Any year's exclusives could have substituted for those without being less or more special.

The actual Generations line which had thrilling 30 on it was nice though with callbacks to G1, RID, Armada, BW and BM, fully new figures (Windblade, which is also one of the 30), as well as a redo of G1 toys we can never see reissued (Whirl, Roadbuster and Jetfire).

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 10:22 am

Railbomb wrote:
william-james88 wrote:I am surprised nobody mentioned the big "20th Anniversary" emblem on the box. I guess this is how hasbro is commemorating Beast Wars' 20th anniversary. Feels like the 30th anniversary all over again.

Here's to hoping that this isn't the only thing with that emblem next year.

I wouldn't be surprised if this were the only BW 20th thing we'd get from Hasbro, given how next year is also the 30th anniversary of the 1986 G1 movie, which I'd sooner expect to see Hasbro want to commemorate instead.

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 10:26 am

Admittedly it was the generations line I was thinking of mire then there exclusive list

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 10:34 am

ZeroWolf wrote:Admittedly it was the generations line I was thinking of mire then there exclusive list

Since this Primal is an exclusive, I was comparing him to the thrilling 30 exclusives. I WISH we will be able to have anything worth comparing to the generations line of last year in terms of Beast Wars. Though, we did get some Beast Wars as part of the thrilling 30.

by **hinomars19** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 11:30 am

It's Primal Prime

I like this mold in beast mode a lot. I like Gorilla's, and this one is nice and big. 'Robot' mode not so much. I mean, it's an impressive action figure and cool toy, but I was never a fan of Primal's robot mode from BM. Wonder what this could look like with a more traditional 'Prime' head? :-?