Optimus Prime

Had to share the Candy spinners. Love that M&Ms one. some kinda convoy by Tripredacus, on Flickr

Yea, its a hard call. But everyone has their ONE, or few. Which is your favorite mold / edition of ALL TIME? Feel free to pontificate on this below... And no, that Gold MP-1 is not my favorite.

Collecting Optimus Prime isn't all heroics and leadership. There is plenty of room for humor, though we don't get nearly enough of it. Today's shot takes a look at the funnier side of Optimus Prime with the Topps Garbage Pail Kids We Hate the 80s Series 1 #3B OPTIMUS FINE Trading Card from 2018. Topps is known for poking fun at things originally with their Wacky Packages stickers featuring crazy parodies of popular products, and then later the Garbage Pail KIds rife with their own crazy characters that take aim at the 80s Transformers Leader who's accompanied by the 2018 Mighty Muggs 2. Click Image to Read the Full News Story Now

When you get down to it, there are probably more little things to collect than big ones. Nothing beats, a big heavy piece on the shelf. But when a lot of the fun of collecting is in finding the bits and pieces we really want, the little guys can offer a lot of bounty hunting goodness. While Hasbro's Tiny Titans make for some good game with a handful of non-transforming PVCs we rarely see in America. Click Image to Read the Full News Story Now

Many who collected the Beast Wars toys have encountered the Optimus Primal Bat and Megatron versus pack that came with a mini-comic to introduce the series. Only to find, things didn't turn out the way they planned as the show debuted with and robot Gorilla and T-Rex leading the warring factions. Ironically, it happened again in when Takara Introduced the first wave of Beast Wars toys in Japan, they made another versus pack, Amazon Showdown: Convobat VS Megalligator VS-S1, with the same figure molds in different colors. Click Image to Read the Full News Story Now

Back in early the 2000s, just about anything Transformers was a rarity. Today, it probably seems a bit strange that Takara made gobs of Transformers Super Collection Figures figures. Sold in 10 different ACTs (waves), each character replicated faithfully from their cartoon robot modes, some from memorable scenes in the Transformers past. Click Image to Read the Full News Story Now

The Transformers Classics Voyager Optimus Prime from 2006 has been made over so many times by Hasbro, Takara, BotCon, and a near-endless array of KOs. I have lost count of how many there are. It has become a strange obsession of mine to find them all, even the KO variants. Arguably, the most desirable Classics molds of all is the BotCon Timelines Shattered Glass Optimus Prime (Optronix) from 2008. Click Image to Read the Full News Story Now

This is for fun since I always wanted to have pictures of these two guys together. The Gold Convoy Statue is the very first Gold Chrome Prime and its a pretty sweet piece. Had to take it out and match up with the Gold Henkei and thought i share some pics with you guys.

Many don't know that I have one of the largest Optimus Prime collections in the World with 1000s of toys and ephemera items spanning from Takara's Diaclone up to the latest Hasbro Earthrise releases. I have been wanting to show this stuff for years. So here goes, my first attempt at sharing the plethora of Prime goodies I have collected over the decades. Click Image to Read the Full News Story Now

For some of us, there will never be another Optimus Prime to match Takara's Masterpiece MP-1 figure. Many will argue that it is too big, heavy and is difficult to transform. These are all good points, yet it is not what makes this figure good or bad, it is that it set a new and very high standard for what an Optimus Prime toy could be. Click Image to Read the Full News Story Now