Wednesday, January 06, 2024

Bigger, Better and a Whole Lot Primal-er

Getting back to the topic of Transformers from about a month ago, here's my final look at something from the Beast Machines line...

Air Attack Optimus Primal

Air Attack Optimus Primal

Air Attack Optimus Primal is a heavy, electronics burdened, 12-inch tall hunk of plastic. He's a bit less awkward than many of the other large figures from this line, and he's actually pretty easy to transform.

On the plus side, it's a reasonably well made toy with some fun light and sound gimmicks that don't confuse the basic play value. On the minus side, Hasbro (or Takara) once again decided that an already decent toy could be greatly improved by giving it a disk shooting feature. Why a big golden monkey robot needs to shoot disks from its stomach I'll never know.

3 comments:

Bubbashelby said...

"he's actually pretty easy to transform"

I would hope so - let's see, legs transform into...legs. Arms transform into...arms. Head transforms into...another head. Torso...stays a torso.

Lol - I never did like Optimus Primal because his transformation is so redundant as to be absolutely useless ;)

plasticfetish said...

So, what you're trying to say is that a gorilla-robot that transforms into a robot-gorilla isn't very exciting? Did I mention that it lights up and shouts things at you whenever you touch it? You've gotta love that ;)

kenchan13 said...

Dude i miss your posts etc. Hope all is well.