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Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed!

Transformers News: Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed!

Sunday, March 1st, 2009 3:10AM CST

Category: Toy News
Posted by: Dead Metal   Views: 17,994

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Solscud007 from tfw2005.com has posted two very interesting and awesome images. The images are scans from the Japanese Transformers Generations vol1 book. The interesting thing about these images is that it shows us the rumoured Classics deluxe class Optimus Prime that was never released.
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Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed!

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Re: Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed! (891782)
Posted by Dreadwinglord on March 1st, 2009 @ 3:26am CST
Looks good

Btw, Deadmetal, what on earth are you talking you about?
Re: Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed! (891786)
Posted by astig on March 1st, 2009 @ 3:42am CST
Dead Metal wrote:Why did we get the stupid helicopter Prime instead of this?


because voyager size toys makes more money for hasbro and with a similar deluxe design, they are giving their voyager sized prime some competition in the market. and because prime is a "must buy" other people would settle on just buying the smaller sized toy to save money. So by not releasing the deluxe, all the payments they get are voyager prices!($_$)...they released the crappy one instead...just IMO :grin:

i wonder if there is a deluxe megatron with voyager design. :-?
Re: Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed! (891789)
Posted by Megatron Wolf on March 1st, 2009 @ 3:49am CST
I had no clue this even existed. Wish we got em. Should've been part of a two or three pack. That way hasbro wouldnt have needed to worry about losing money. Oh and the Helicopter Prime mentioned above is the Prime from the Classics Megatron Vs Prime 2 pack that came with a DVD.
Re: Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed! (891790)
Posted by Dead Metal on March 1st, 2009 @ 3:51am CST
Megatron_Wolf wrote:I had no clue this even existed. Wish we got em. Should've been part of a two or three pack. That way hasbro wouldnt have needed to worry about losing money. Oh and the Helicopter Prime mentioned above is the Prime from the Classics Megatron Vs Prime 2 pack that came with a DVD.

And he sucks, royally!
Re: Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed! (891819)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on March 1st, 2009 @ 6:14am CST
Dreadwinglord wrote:Looks good

Btw, Deadmetal, what on earth are you talking you about?


The deluxe Prime we got had a punching action which involved him spinning around his chest wildly; thus helicopter. :P
Re: Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed! (891858)
Posted by mattyc1007 on March 1st, 2009 @ 7:53am CST
to me it looks like the two pack prime, cant see a difference between the two aprt from the colour, anyone explain to me how the difference is?

EDIT; crap i didnt see that photo i was looking at the far left on their website, strange why it didnt load that photo on here or my computer, anyway now seeing it, i quite like it.
Re: Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed! (891883)
Posted by Valandar on March 1st, 2009 @ 8:58am CST
Nice, about the only difference I can see is the simplified knee structure on the Deluxe.
Re: Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed! (891903)
Posted by PlasticAddict on March 1st, 2009 @ 10:28am CST
mattyc1007 wrote:to me it looks like the two pack prime, cant see a difference between the two aprt from the colour, anyone explain to me how the difference is?

EDIT; crap i didnt see that photo i was looking at the far left on their website, strange why it didnt load that photo on here or my computer, anyway now seeing it, i quite like it.


I guess you don't know what the "2-pack prime" is referring to. No, it's not the 2 optimus primes in the background of this picture. There was never such 2-pack. The 2-pack that the previous posters were referring to is the classics deluxe 2-pack with a fugly green megatron (that turns into a tank) and a pathetic looking prime with a wide-eye confused look. Look it up and you'll know why they suck so bad.
Re: Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed! (891908)
Posted by Swiftpaw on March 1st, 2009 @ 10:38am CST
astig wrote:because voyager size toys makes more money for hasbro and with a similar deluxe design, they are giving their voyager sized prime some competition in the market. and because prime is a "must buy" other people would settle on just buying the smaller sized toy to save money. So by not releasing the deluxe, all the payments they get are voyager prices!($_$)


And yet, in several of the other lines in recent years we get a crap-load of various sizes or recolors that are pretty much the same thing for the Movie line and so fort. There were HOW many versions of both Leader and Voyager size Prime released? I know he's awesome and popular, but still...

Armada is excluded from this rant, because Bendimus Prime is awesome enough to make up for it, and I'm not a big fan of the autoforming trailerbasepants anyways.
Re: Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed! (891910)
Posted by Solrac333 on March 1st, 2009 @ 10:40am CST
They HAVE to release this. He'll go with the deluxe Galvatron.
Re: Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed! (891931)
Posted by Deszaras on March 1st, 2009 @ 11:54am CST
Dead Metal wrote:Why did we get the stupid helicopter Prime instead of this?


What the hell is "helicopter prime"? Anyone have a pic?
Re: Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed! (891938)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on March 1st, 2009 @ 12:46pm CST
Deszaras wrote:
Dead Metal wrote:Why did we get the stupid helicopter Prime instead of this?


What the hell is "helicopter prime"? Anyone have a pic?


JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:The deluxe Prime we got had a punching action which involved him spinning around his chest wildly; thus helicopter. :P


I hate it when I have to quote myself for people who don't read the whole thread :P
Re: Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed! (891941)
Posted by harvester on March 1st, 2009 @ 12:53pm CST
The helicopter Prime is forgivably in scale with G1 Grapple, G1 Inferno, and the legends like G1 Legends Jazz, Hound and all them, so I keep my HP in alt mode next to those guys [with the little Luke Skywalker that came with my StarWars transformers which is a human in scale with the previously mentioned figs =D]. I'm actually doing some cleaning/reorganizing and Ill put up some pics to show what I mean.

If this thing does come out though, Im sure he's roughly the same scale so it'd be awesome to have a bot mode Prime that's in scale with what I mentioned above =P

Right now my classics voyager Prime is standing next to G1 Ultra Magnus and the autobots that are to scale with that.
Re: Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed! (891975)
Posted by mattyc1007 on March 1st, 2009 @ 3:05pm CST
PlasticAddict wrote:
mattyc1007 wrote:to me it looks like the two pack prime, cant see a difference between the two aprt from the colour, anyone explain to me how the difference is?

EDIT; crap i didnt see that photo i was looking at the far left on their website, strange why it didnt load that photo on here or my computer, anyway now seeing it, i quite like it.


I guess you don't know what the "2-pack prime" is referring to. No, it's not the 2 optimus primes in the background of this picture. There was never such 2-pack. The 2-pack that the previous posters were referring to is the classics deluxe 2-pack with a fugly green megatron (that turns into a tank) and a pathetic looking prime with a wide-eye confused look. Look it up and you'll know why they suck so bad.


i wasnt talking about that after my edit, secondly i know what their on about ive got the set, and i dont know whats wrong with em, the megatron is one of my favourites and the prime wasnt that all bad in truck mode, the bot mode was great.
Re: Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed! (892003)
Posted by Primacron's Little Helper on March 1st, 2009 @ 4:35pm CST
I think it would have been pretty sweet if Ultra Magnus had been released in this size, then with a (rescaled) City Commander upgrade he would have been the same size as Voyager Prime.
Re: Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed! (892100)
Posted by Bumblethumper on March 1st, 2009 @ 8:57pm CST
I'm glad we got Classics Optimus in voyager class rather than deluxe.
And I'm quite happy with the 2 pack deluxe Optimus we did get, love the headsculpt, and I think the bot mode proportions are much better.

Truck mode needed some work, I'll give you that.
Re: Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed! (892311)
Posted by Overcracker on March 2nd, 2009 @ 10:11am CST
Everybody complains about Deluxe Prime, but he's not that bad. Yes his truck mode sucks, but he has a great robot mode, and a awesome looking gun to make up for that. and unlike Megatron, the spinning gimmick doesn't actually hinder the figure since it can be locked.

Megatron's arm on the other hand will just keep popping off



Anyway, while the mold looks good in Deluxe size, I think it works much better as a Voyager.

I did notice the similarity in the kneecaps of this deluxe Prime and Helicopter Prime.
Re: Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed! (892317)
Posted by Mykltron on March 2nd, 2009 @ 10:19am CST
Overcracker wrote: and unlike Megatron, the spinning gimmick doesn't actually hinder the figure since it can be locked.


Can It? How? I wedged a piece of card in the back.

I love the way the delux looks in bot mode, and he is so poseable.
Re: Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed! (892322)
Posted by Overcracker on March 2nd, 2009 @ 10:29am CST
Mykltron wrote:
Overcracker wrote: and unlike Megatron, the spinning gimmick doesn't actually hinder the figure since it can be locked.


Can It? How? I wedged a piece of card in the back.

I love the way the delux looks in bot mode, and he is so poseable.


Yes it can, just pull the black tab on his back out until it locks or clicks. This locks the spinning mechanism.
Re: Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed! (892334)
Posted by *Soundwave* on March 2nd, 2009 @ 11:03am CST
Overcracker wrote:
Mykltron wrote:
Overcracker wrote: and unlike Megatron, the spinning gimmick doesn't actually hinder the figure since it can be locked.


Can It? How? I wedged a piece of card in the back.

I love the way the delux looks in bot mode, and he is so poseable.


Yes it can, just pull the black tab on his back out until it locks or clicks. This locks the spinning mechanism.


:shock:
Is it made to do that? I wanna make sure I'm not breaking it before I do it.
Re: Classics deluxe Optimus Prime revealed! (892344)
Posted by Overcracker on March 2nd, 2009 @ 11:33am CST
Yes its meant to do that. You don't need to pull it hard. It notches and locks the gimmick in place, giving you a poseable ratcheting torso joint.

Just pull it out slightly until it clicks.

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