In-Package Images - Hasbro Platinum Edition Year of the Monkey Optimus Primal

I'll pass. Never a fan of this mold and those colors are terrible.

You have Wreckers, Lightning Strike Coalition, Minicons, Omni-bots, Unicron people, Predacons, Maximals, and now apparently Monkey bots.

Still to this day I have no idea who the omni-bots were and it was handled so badly.

Very cool looking boxart. The colors are meh, don't know how good the mold is really.

If they did this in Primals colors I would have been a little interested. But those colors and that mold are awful. And I would never pay $120 for it. It pains me to say it, as I would be interested in a cool version of Primal, but this just looks like a knock-off to me.

What was wrong with thrilling 30?

william-james88 wrote:I am surprised nobody mentioned the big "20th Anniversary" emblem on the box. I guess this is how hasbro is commemorating Beast Wars' 20th anniversary. Feels like the 30th anniversary all over again.

Here's to hoping that this isn't the only thing with that emblem next year.

RhA wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:What was wrong with thrilling 30?

I do not recall being thrilled in the slightest.

And I hope that this isn't Hasbro's best and last effort to remember BW by.

Zero Wolf, the thrilling 30 exclusives were lame beyond belief. Hasbro said we would be getting 30 exclusives that year. And we did, but a few of them were ridiculous repeats (2 exclusive Metroplexes?!) and some were just downright nonsensical. I don't see how silver knight optimus from AOE would be considered relevant to the 30 years of transformers history, when that deco only ever appeared as the exclusive toy itself. All it really did was just add a number to every exclusive released that year at Comiccon, Botcon or to specific retailers. It was the same as any other year really. Just imagine that this year, Devastator had a number next to him, and so did SDCC Devastator, as well as the platinum coneheads or the G2 box-sets coming out later, the TRU Clash of Transformer RID toys and the TOTG platinum Optimus and Soundwaves too. Any year's exclusives could have substituted for those without being less or more special.

The actual Generations line which had thrilling 30 on it was nice though with callbacks to G1, RID, Armada, BW and BM, fully new figures (Windblade, which is also one of the 30), as well as a redo of G1 toys we can never see reissued (Whirl, Roadbuster and Jetfire).

Admittedly it was the generations line I was thinking of mire then there exclusive list

It's Primal Prime

I like this mold in beast mode a lot. I like Gorilla's, and this one is nice and big. 'Robot' mode not so much. I mean, it's an impressive action figure and cool toy, but I was never a fan of Primal's robot mode from BM. Wonder what this could look like with a more traditional 'Prime' head?

LegendaryAntiHero wrote:I'm glad Hasbro is repainting this. I always keep forgetting to pick up the original

Does the same for me, but are you picking up this one or the original?

The punching gimmick ruins this figure for me as it basically makes his arm useless with posing.


It does look pretty neat though.