The Energon Pub

optibotimus wrote:

Mykltron wrote:Optibotimus's scale knowledge is off. Leader IH is NOT in scale with Leader Prime in any way. He is in scale with HA though.

I'm really unimpressed with this but I may pick him up if I see him on sale.

Actually, my knowledge isn't as off as you might think it is...in interviews Optimus Prime is said to be, (according to ILM designers) roughly 32 feet tall. Ironhide is roughly 22-25 feet tall. When you scale it down to inches...10 inches that Optimus is compared to 9 1/2 inches that Ironhide is, really isn't too bad.

With those figures I calculate that he should be 7 or 8 inches tall. 22 feet = less than 7 inches. 25 feet = less than 8 inches. I still say he's way off and I'm sticking with the original voyager.

Apart from this disagreement, I like your review. More detail than your nemesis Also, editing it has made it much slicker, and cut out the waffle that Peaugh does.

man i knew he would awesome. every single other version of him has something wrong with it. this reminds me of leader class starscream. i hate all the other versions cept for the leader class one. go fig

It's kinda funny that you guys are more worried about scale than how nice the figure is and the great review.

Looks pretty good depending on how much it will end up costing. Also glad I can buy it at my leisure at the store rather than hunting all over for it

For scale in my pix, those metal railings are 3 ft. high. 3 1/2 feet tops if I'm wrong, but I'm 6' tall and those came up to my waist just about so i think they're 3'

LOST Cybertronian wrote:It's kinda funny that you guys are more worried about scale than how nice the figure is and the great review.

Yeah, well, scale is important to SOME of us (Hasbro, take note).

Mykltron wrote:

LOST Cybertronian wrote:It's kinda funny that you guys are more worried about scale than how nice the figure is and the great review.

Yeah, well, scale is important to SOME of us .

This.

Optibotptimus (or something) is my favorite reviewer. He's not boring like Paugh, he show everything about the toy, he transform them clearly and in both ways, and he don't do stupid theatrics. And, he say clearly what he think of the toy. I can also add great sound and picture quality.

As for the Leader Ironhide, I bought tWO because the second was 50% off. I keep one sealed and I played with the other. Very awesome figure, fun transformation and a lot of fun gimmicks. His only fault is the undercariage in vehicle mode. He also go very well with the HA figures, even if the humans are too small.

Also, why so many bitch about the scale? I never see anyone complaining about the leader Bumblebees for some odd reasons.

Toy Review,I finally transformed DOTM leader sized ironhide,Mini-highlight review inside thread.

Since this is a written up review & their's no u-tube video. i figured it belonged in this "toy forum", section.


My mini-highlights review:

1- This was a extremly pleasant transformation process for me. I didn't even need to read the instructions. So I'd rate the transformation level MEDIUM. not too hard & not too overly easy in transformation process. I did cheat a bit & look at the box pics to find out where a few parts went.

2- I was a bit scarred that the transformation into vechicle pick up truck mode would produce a fat & squat looking short pick up truck mode. THANKFULLY,The pics of the pick up truck on the back of the box art was EXTREMLY BADLY PHOTO SHOPPED. It appears the pick up truck could'nt squeeze into the box art on the back,so someone went into photo shop & distorted the pick up truck image on the back of the box art to make it squeeze into the box art. someone clearly used photo shop to distort the image by making the image tallen but less wider.

3- I honestly loved how everything pegged in so well on this toy in both modes. the designers/engineeers did a awesome job with having tons of pegs,ports & clip on parts. so that their were no loose parts dangling in both modes.

4-I really loved how the pick up truck flat bed parts lined up from robot mode to pick up truck mode. it just felt like a genious way to create the truck flat bed area.

5-Looking inside the pick up truck mode. the robot silver fist apparently do seem to form weird bucket seats. the ball joints from the shoulders appear to form somewhat weird car gas pedal/breaks.

6-the toy is very solid in both modes. so the over-all engineering seems superior in both structure,joints & moving parts.

7-I don't mind the slightly bent/distorted knees. It's not as bad as ROTF Devestator's hips nor as bad as ROTF leader sized jetfire's distortedly bent hips,legs & ankles.

8-I really love the superior joint technology structure in this toy. the toy is very poseable.

9- turning the robot head all around till you hear a breaking snap is hillarious & funny. I just find it funny & odd,takara/hasbro would go thru the trouble of created a turn around head joint,then at the last minute/decision put factory glue to make the head not turn around.

10-I like all the robot & pick up truck weapons & gimmicks. They don't appear to get in the way nor ruin any poseabilty the robot mode has.

11-deploying the pick up truck over head weapons was a bit hard to pull out into position. Perhaps the MOST FRUSTRATION part of this toy was trying to figure out how to pull back all the over head pick up truck weapons & squeeze them back into the cavities inside the truck mode. this was reallty frustration because one has to snap back together the entire front section of the alt mode again as it falls apart & beomes loose when pulling out & pulling back the over heard truck muissle launcher & gattling gun weapons.

12- I was pleasntly surprissed how long the pick up truck mode was. The badly distorted short & fat photo shopped pic on the back of the box had me worried. thamnkfully it was a bad photo shopped pic. the actual pick up truck mode is very long,slender & in decent liscensed pick up truck mode proportion.

13-I kinda wish the sword was a bit bigger & longer. I like the pop out side arm robot gattling gun. I don't like the robot mode pop out side arm missle launcher thing because it looks ugly.

14-I really like the two different faces the robot head head. I like both faces equally the same. I kinda feel like their's 2 beast mode mouths+noses. the face plate gives us a "BULL like nose+mouth. the inner/under neath face looks like a lion's nose+mouth.

15-I like the light up lights on the eyes & chest. the pop out chest gattling canon is beyond cool.

16-I don't mind that the robot legs are not black. I think the silver/turquoise blue robot legs look beyond decont & adda cybertronian robot style to the robot mode.

17- I really like how the toy doesn't have excessive kibble in neither mode.

18-This toy's transformation reminds me of a TYPICAL AEC toy's transformation. not to easy,not too hard. it's a medium transformation. I transformed this toy back & forth a dozen times in under 10 minutes. It was a extremly pleasant transformation process.

19-awesome toy,no complaints other than i wish the sword was longer. I'm seriously thinking about buying a 2nd toy.because it's so awesome.