Optimus Prime

Back when Energon was cheap, we could count on leader class figures having some serious weight to them. Today's shot takes a look at one of the bigger and grander toys from the Super Link days of 2004. What fans dubbed "fattimus" Prime for his big body and skinny legs in his powered-down mode. Was more than made up for with his Super Modes combined with the Prime Force attachments from his trailer or in combination with Wing Saber. Click Image to Read the Full News Story Now

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I can't remember a more anticipated and copied figure than the Transformers Studio Series SS-38 Optimus Prime figure. This figure is so detailed and complicated, one would assume it would be too hard to reproduce. Yet, I have stopped following the many officially licensed and third party editions that have been made, with more in the works. Click Image to Read the Full News Story Now

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose. But you can't pick your friend's nose. Today's Optimus Prime shot is one of the yuckier figures in my collection. Not just, gross yuck, but funny yuck, yuck too. The Optimus Slime figure comes from a toy series that gets around licensing through the legitimate use of parody to copy well-known pop culture icons. Click Image to Read the Full News Story Now

In times of decision, the obvious choice should be BOTH! That's what BotCon gave us in 2017 with the Transformers Subscription Figures 5.0 Megatron w/ Spacewarp & Optimus Prime w/ Hi-Q set. We not only got BOTH Leaders Megatron and Optimus. We got DOUBLE Pretenders with inner robots, AND Mini-cons to boot! That's a lot of BOTH, so today we've got a shot of just the Optimus Prime side of things. Click Image to Read the Full News Story Now

The Transformers Pepsi promotion (see can below) to get an original Generation Optimus Prime toy with extra stickers for sweetening his trailer is, or was, a sort of grail piece for many collectors. Until G1 based versions were reissued first in 2005 from Takara as "Pepsi Convoy" in Japan. Then again, as the BotCon 2007 exclusive "Pepsi Optimus Prime" in America. Click Image to Read the Full News Story Now

When the Transformers rolled out in 1984, having a computer at home was an expensive luxury that very few kids had. As a result, there was no shortage of licensed Transformers writing implements such as finders, notebooks, pens, erasers, pencils, and sharpeners to keep things on point when it came to school. Click Image to Read the Full News Story Now

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

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