Transformers Legacy toyline

[Donocropolis]

it is a fantastic new Optimus mold. I love having him as Christmas Prime, but it's so well done that I wouldn't be opposed to seeing it as a more traditional mainline figure. Give it a new short trailer with a missile launcher and call it Sureshot.

 

[Powered Convoy]

Going to say this now:
Holiday Optimus Prime is the best toy of the year and if you think otherwise you are wrong and that's your problem.

He is fantastic. Hope to get some more out of this mold.

 

[Robogeek1973]

I want that new Prime mold in Pepsi Prime colors...

 

[Lobjob]

 

[Steevy Maximus]

My old Siege Combat Hero Megatron needs his partner! It would be SO MUCH more interesting than another red/blue Optimus.

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

My old Siege Combat Hero Megatron needs his partner! It would be SO MUCH more interesting than another red/blue Optimus.

Siege? Wouldn't the Takara Tomy Legends "Archforce" be a better match for Sureshot?

 

[Lobjob]

I'd like the legs flipped around in a perfect world but its still workable.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

It does have waist rotation. Flipping the legs around might be trivial.

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

I'd like the legs flipped around in a perfect world but its still workable.

They can be rotated to the "correct" position, via waist swivel (as said above), BUT the front of the cab opens to allow the legs to flip up (forming knee pads), so these would hinder knee movement. You can see it in the review below.

I hope there's a way to mod it though, if Hasbro releases it in Sureshot colours.

 

[Shadewing]

Based on Transformation, I could see the possibility that Hasbro might have planned it with a retool in mind. Of course that's just conjecture but it doesnt seem like it'd take much to reverse the legs if they wanted to do an accuracte Sureshot/Hero Prime

 

[Sabrblade]

Forget retooling Optimus into Optimus, make it Energon Rodimus!

 

[Shadewing]

Forget retooling Optimus into Optimus, make it Energon Rodimus!

I think the ammount of retooling needed to make that accurate would just straight up be a new mold at that point.

 

[Superomegaprime]

Forget retooling Optimus into Optimus, make it Energon Rodimus!

I think Legacy G2 Optimus could pull that off more than this mold, thou I expect we won't see another Rodimus for a couple of years as a toy, so maybe 2024 or 2025 going by the time span between the last two figures, but then, some characters have gone decades in between new toys that aren't just name dumps!

 

[Steevy Maximus]

Siege? Wouldn't the Takara Tomy Legends "Archforce" be a better match for Sureshot?

Screw Archforce AND Sureshot!

I’m talking the Blue and red unproduced Combat Hero Optimus Prime deco that compliments this beauty we got back in 2019

File:Selects-Voyager-CombatMegatron.jpg - Transformers Wiki

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[MrBlud]

They did that one on the “increasing less impressive as time goes on” 2010 Laser Prime version.

 

[Donocropolis]

Screw Archforce AND Sureshot!

I’m talking the Blue and red unproduced Combat Hero Optimus Prime deco that compliments this beauty we got back in 2019

File:Selects-Voyager-CombatMegatron.jpg - Transformers Wiki

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If they ever do release the mold as "Amazon Prime," the cab would already be pretty close:

 

[Lobjob]

Also, the more i look at the original cab for optimus/sureshot, the cooler it looks. The angles, the wicked vents; its just a pretty awesome cabover for Prime. Makes me wonder if repainting this would even be worth it when they could pluck this entire design out of obscurity and do it real justice.

And yeah, if they ever do that Amazon one, the dark blue is the way to go.

 

[Lobjob]

They did that one on the “increasing less impressive as time goes on” 2010 Laser Prime version.

Also realizing that design is 12 years old is...quite something.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Also realizing that design is 12 years old is...quite something.

I had a similar moment in the EB games a week or so ago. I was holding the box for the original BW scorponok, and while inspecting it I came to the conclusion that I wasn't going to buy it because I still have the original... the original I bought in high school... 25 years ago.

 

[Lobjob]

Its wild. Time just gets faster and faster and gauging it by toy releases surely ramps it up.

I have to tell myself that when my instinct is to go "they just released that character!" when its actually been six years, or whatever. Its tough.