Optimal just showed up in my mailbox.
Man, this is the best potp leader, if not the best potp at all.
I don't understand all criticism about him.
He is not perfect, he suffers all the current hasbro issues : stickers, hollowness.. but it's not specific to this one, it's the current description of hasbro releases.
But outside than that ?
I've the feeling the BW fans who made fun about Geewun guys are just being the same now, they complain not because it's a bad figure, but only because it's not the same as the old one they got during they childhood.
Yes, it's not the old toy, it's a new interpretation of Primal. An interpretation I love a lot.
Optimus Primal does not transform to an ape, but into a shuttle. Is it a problem ? It looks like a bit the classic "truck no monky" but in reversed state from BW fans. "monky no shuttle".
We already had several interpretation of the classic primal who turn into a gorilla, the Cybertron one, the robotmasters one, repainted and re-released several times, and the original one which was already very good, retooled recently for show-accurateness.
After all that did we needed another new version of it ? getting his cybertronian form is a good idea, I always regretted to not have the fantastic 2006 botcon set for that, so it's a good alternative.
Ok this shuttle mode is far from being perfect and I would have been very critical if it was a standalone deluxe release, but itsn't, he's supposed to combine with his armor, so compromises are always necessary in this kind of case.
Then we have the gorilla. Best potp armor until now. Orion and hotrod's armor do nothing. They're either armor or trailer, not even a base mode. Here the armor is independant or cna be merged in several ways.
Let's compare,
Orion/Optimus :
- Cab
- Cab + trailer
- Orion
- Optimus.
Primal/Optimal :
- Shuttle
- Gorilla
- Armored Gorilla
- Surfing Gorilla
- Plane mode
- Optimus Primal
- Optmal Optimus.
Clearly not the same play level.
Tell me it's not the best looking Leader of Potp:
And I've read that Warden team did terrible job because they hate beast wars ? I don't even understand how can people can say this kind of things when a same toy merges Classic Primal and Optimal Optimus while even have some time to hommage Transmetal Optimus.
Get him. Period.