New Images of Studio Series AOE Leader Prime Confirm Scale and Show Removable Backpack

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:A ton of in-hand images are in for SS AOE Prime! Here’s some of the highlights:

- He’s scaled to SS AOE Galvatron, so a little shorter than him and just barely taller than SS-32/44 Optimus

- The truck bed actually looks really good! Probably the best truck bed for a Studio Series truck mode, , (though that’s not exactly a high bar to clear)

- the back kibble is removable! Honestly I don’t think I’ll display him like that since I think they handled the kibble really well, but it’s cool that it’s an option!

Thanks for this. I turned your post into a front page article

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:In other news, I received and have been enjoying the RotB Nemesis Prime. I like this mold a lot more in black.

This is the first time I've seen him and I am liking what I see! Thanks for sharing.

william-james88 wrote:[
Thanks for this. I turned your post into a front page article

You’re welcome, glad I could help!

Spider5800 wrote:Wait, so he's shorter than the TLK voyager? At a leader price point? That's...disappointing.

He is smaller to keep with Studio Series scale, but the engineering, articulation, and accessories are all massive improvements over the TLK Voyager IMO. I think it earned the leader class scale!

Found Shadow Raider not too long ago, it's a pretty fun figure! The right forearm snapped on the first transformation, though. I'm generally not one for redos in Studio Series, but the fragility issues with Lockdown do make me want to see a new one. Either way, I painted Shadow Raider up!

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

william-james88 wrote:[
Thanks for this. I turned your post into a front page article

You’re welcome, glad I could help!

Spider5800 wrote:Wait, so he's shorter than the TLK voyager? At a leader price point? That's...disappointing.

He is smaller to keep with Studio Series scale, but the engineering, articulation, and accessories are all massive improvements over the TLK Voyager IMO. I think it earned the leader class scale!

And this is why hasbro is able to get away with this.

To charge a leader class price for this is INSANE. There is not a full deluxe figures worth of extra “engineering” in this, a figure that has a “we gave up, so we just made the backpack removable”. And even the paint is terribly disappointing. I mean.. it’s crazy that not only is this acceptable, but that there are people who are justifying and defending it.

This is exactly how hasbro’s ceo is able to rake in $15 MILLION in total compensation for one year. And people will gladly justify it. This is why I can’t bring myself to collect transformers anymore. Stuff like this, to me, is just blatant greed. I can’t justify paying $20 more for something to aid in someone making more money in one year than the average person would in 200+ YEARS. And I know you can say that about most CEO’s. But to me, this is just so blatant it’s indefensible. It screams that they’re just trying to specifically take advantage of the die hard fans.

Indeed, that Devastation Optimus should have been at least a voyager. As a deluxe, it's full of cancer growth in both robot and truck mode.

They could have just repainted the SS86 Commander Optimus in cell-shaded deco and release it without the trailer at a leader price. It would have been much better, and much easier.

Rtron wrote:That would completely miss the point of this release, which is to have a deluxe-priced, cartoon accurate Optimus Prime on shelves all year long.

If they had to have at least a deluxe Optimus, they could have just shipped G1 Universe Optimus again in another wave and call it a day.

Whifflefire wrote:When I was a fledgling collector in the late 2000's, I went years without a true Optimus Prime because they were always too big and out of reach for my child's allowance.

Well, then, you should have given your child a bigger allowance.

I have nothing against small optimusses. I'm against BAD DESIGNS. And there's a lot of small optimusses that are really good. So, they can do them.

Snarl is a definite buy as I missed the first release somehow. Astrotrain is a total pass just like the last time, and as long as they continue using that horrible looking sculpt. Soundwave I don't really get since we just got one as a Voyager pushed to Leader due to two extra cassette inclusions. I fail to see what they can do at the $55 price point to make it worth getting even if it is an all new sculpt. They've already ran out of my goodwill for repurchasing in order to get a needed Cassette.
It's time they bring back the Cassette multipacks for this!