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News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:31 pm

Courtesy of valued site sponsor BigBadToyStore, their newest pre-order listing reveal a brand new 12" Generation One Optimus Prime statue from Diamond Comics. Check out the description and picture below.

A Diamond Select Release! Art Asylum design and sculpt! This exciting new series delivers the most iconic and memorable vehicles from Transformers history, and rolls out the excitement with the premiere release in the this line: the bravest and most noble of all the Autobots, Optimus Prime! Standing over a foot tall and perched on an Autobots-themed base, Optimus Prime stands ready to defend his adopted planet from all threats!

You can find the listing over at BBTS here.

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News Credits: 2 · by **Cliffjumper Prime** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 4:36 pm

great sculpt but the pose is too blah... something more dynamic please,more natural looking.

News Credits: 1 · by **DecepticonKing86** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 4:39 pm

It looks amazing, I mean 12 inches!!!! Might wanna get it to put it in my Prime area.

News Credits: 12 · by **GuyIncognito** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 4:40 pm

A transformer that can't be transformed or posed. What's the point? Unless it's got the most epic pose ever and is loaded with insane amounts of detail, I don't see why anyone would want a frozen un-posable statue of a TF.

The fact that it's $120 makes it even more ridiculous. Wouldn't you rather have $120 worth of actual OP figures?

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 4:47 pm

GuyIncognito wrote:A transformer that can't be transformed or posed. What's the point? Unless it's got the most epic pose ever and is loaded with insane amounts of detail, I don't see why anyone would want a frozen un-posable statue of a TF.

The fact that it's $120 makes it even more ridiculous. Wouldn't you rather have $120 worth of actual OP figures?

To each his own..

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 5:00 pm

Wow that looks like an up-scaled version of the Heroes of Cybertron line Optimus.
If I want to drop that kind of cash on a Optimus Prime statue there are better ones to choose than this.

News Credits: 7 · by **Chaoslock** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 5:32 pm

I second the "what's the point?" opinion. For the same price you can get a Masterpiece Optimus, which is much more detailed. This statue has a "help, I'm stuck in this pose!" feeling.

by **Ungie** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:44 pm

This is the pose he made after he shot Megatron! :lol:

BooYAH!!

by **Soldier of Shockwave** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 10:11 pm

[quote: Chaoslock]I second the "what's the point?" opinion. For the same price you can get a Masterpiece Optimus, which is much more detailed. This statue has a "help, I'm stuck in this pose!" feeling.[/quote]

Dang, beat me to it. Very true.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Pepsimus · by **Black Bumblebee** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 1:09 am

Gets a big "meh" from me.

I can buy quite a few 'bots for that amount of money. Bots that actually, ya know, Transform.

That's not to say that statues can't be good. It's just that this one, quite frankly, isn't. It looks kiddie.

News Credits: 9 · by **Mykltron** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 5:49 am

If I hadn't been told it was 12 inches I'd have guessed it was 4 or 5 - it just looks small, maybe it's the chunkiness. Why do we need one of these if we have MP Prime? It beats the statue in every way, including price.

by **Cobalt Prime** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:10 am

Oh, haven't you all heard?
Hasbro has decided to follow Mattel's 2001 MOTU business model.
They'll make so little of the Toy Fair stuff that it will all be nearly impossible to find, then will discontinue the actual toys in favor of Transformers third party "staction figure" statues!