Voyager Grimlock and Optimus from Transformers: The Last Knight Available at Walmart.com

That Prime looks really, really good actually. I don't need another Voyager Prime at the moment, but if they do him in Nemesis Prime colours I'll definitely buy that (and if they don't I'll repaint a regular one into him).

Black Hat wrote:

Voyager Optimus has ROTF level of engineering and a decent amount of paint (just in the wrong places).

Oh? That's interesting to know. I look forward to your expanded thoughts on him.

Here are my thoughts (started a draft yesterday)

That Voyager Optimus is a very good mold but somehow I still feel a bit underwhelmed. He definitely has the complexity I search for and I wouldn’t want something more complex than this. My problem is that it all feels incremental at this point. Unlike say TR Kup or Topsin or even CW Blackjack who give us new transformations I wouldn’t have thought of, this voyager Optimus has a bit of everything we have seen before. He is like a mix of AOE Galvatron and Powerizer Optimus Prime and somehow combining them made him more complex. I don’t mind it, but there is a slight added frustration with panel lining that wasn’t there before (and reminds me of the ROTF one). And the robot mode doesn’t really peg together well especially the arms and the backpack. He’s better than the leader that came before, but I would rather just have had this guy first (leader sized) instead of the previous leader. And it cost quite a bit too. Plus, the deco is odd. There is paint where we don’t need it but some parts badly need paint, like his feet and the flames on his chest.
Also, there are 2 pieces that keep coming off when transforming and they freaken knew that, hence why they give them these really easy ball joints that can be clipped back on. Doesnt make it less annoying.

So this toy is fine, but feels like an incremental step towards a great optimus toy, with odd deco choices and a robot mode that doesn’t clip together all that well.

Black Hat wrote:The build quality looks...questionable. He looks kinda wibbly wobbly in places, which concerns me.

I would say this is his biggest fault (you know, asie from the price )

Newsing some cool new TLK toy news soon

The only stock image we had of Legion Megatron from Transformers: The Last Knight was of him in his box so it is a real treat to get some new official images showing the finished toy in both robot and vehicle mode. We also see new images for his wave 2 wavemates Drift and Crosshairs which show us taht these Legion class toys have more articulation than usual thanks to some much needed knees. We also have new promotional images for Deluxe Drift and Steelbane in box as well as Voyager Hound and One Step Berserker. Its actually the very first image we ever had of One Step Berserker's robot mode. The listings, found on Toywiz and Forbidden Planet, also informs us that the release date of Transformers: The Last Knight wave 2, which includes most of these toys, is May 15 2017. So just one month away.

Love these legends. Bought on sight! Not a fan of new hound though... A more screen accurate figure sure, but not a pretty one.

That deluxe Drift looks really good to me so far. I love samurais, and the red with the awesomely-sculpted gold face just looks .

Hound looks pretty dope as well. I think it's really cool that his helmet actually removes!

So, the new legions figures look really good! dang about wave 2 being only a month away. not much turnover time there.

legion Drift and Crosshairs are definite buys to go with Legion Megatron. Now I'm not sure about getting the deluxe Barricade, with a Masterpiece one coming. May depend on how he looks when revealed.

Maybe if the Barricade figures looked even remotely like that artwork, it would be a figure worth owning.....

Bumblebee21 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:So, the new legions figures look really good! dang about wave 2 being only a month away. not much turnover time there.

legion Drift and Crosshairs are definite buys to go with Legion Megatron. Now I'm not sure about getting the deluxe Barricade, with a Masterpiece one coming. May depend on how he looks when revealed.

the mpm will look like the 07 version. it depends on if you like the look of the tlk too

It's more how the figure actually comes out. I like Barricade as a character in all of his designs, so if this one kills it, I'll go for it

SillySpringer wrote:Hey guys, I just noticed something. This new deluxe Drift shares robot mode parts from AoE Drift with the exception of the torso and AMAZING head, but vehicle mode is actually reversed. The back of the old one is the front of the new one. See the hinges for the shoulder armor?

Quite the creative change, never got my hands on the AoE version so I would have never noticed.

SillySpringer wrote:Makes sense since that one was supposed to have the car front as the chest, whereas this one can't do that because of the design, so they decided to reverse the alt mode a la TR Scourge/Highbrow. Except this impresses me more because it's real world cars!

Wait, do you think space boats aren't real??!?