"Sleep mode"? Ugh. The bots and cons were offline for millennia aboard the crashed Ark, and I don't recall them turning grayscale during that time. Call it what it is: Corpse Mode Prime.
First Gen wrote:Hasbro has never released a Sleep Mode Prime, so to think we may be getting this, and people are complaining about it, makes me remember why I left the boards to begin with.
I don't think Hasbro has ever released a seafoam/coral decoed Optimus Prime, either, but that doesn't mean people should feel obligated to like it if they did, especially when there are other desirable decos out there that most people have not had access to.
And an *action* figure of a dead guy is inherently just... Kinda dumb. You can't even argue 'he's a zombie' because Optimus is back in his normal colors in "Dark Awakening".
Dead-Optimus on a medical cot would make for a good accessory in a movie-themed gift set, but all he needs is neck articulation and a light-up removable matrix. A $50 figure of a very, thoroughly, completely dead Transformer seems like a waste. And unless it's got busted up antennae, cracked windows, and a gaping abdominal wound, it's not even screen accurate.