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Lolli enjoys collecting Transformers toys, and writing new toy reviews for Transformers toys. Lolli also posts on www.tfarchive.com as Savannahtron where he reviews Transformers toys. 
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I saw this dude along with the other dude (sorry, just got off a fresh viewing of Tropic Thunder) at TRU this weekend, and was almost inclined to buy them, but I think I opted for some DC Infinite Crisis pocket heroes instead. However, I just might pick this up later…..
He is pretty large in copter form. Overall the figure is pretty decent.
Yeah, this pretty much sums up my feelings on the 1st movie Ss mold. Fat. and not in the cool (ph) way either. I thought the main body, both in plane and bot form, was way too large. The wings look so small and not too defined.
The 2nd movie revamp mold is much betterer IMHO.
Yeah, I don’t really like it. My son likes it, but he loves Starscream! I think I am going to give it to him.
Equally one of my faves as well- I had the reissues of Soundwave and Soundblaster; they were two of the pieces I was saddened to see go when I had to sell my collection last year. Superior in every way to the current movie version.
My initial reaction to the Bay design of the big D was the same as my
reaction to the new Cobra Commander look- initially, it was disgust, then a bit of trepidation, then final acceptance. I do think it is a very different devastator, and I like certain aspects of the redesign,
but there will always be the “well, back in my day, he looked like…”
attitude on my part.
Having seen the American devastator for $100 in Target, I was not impressed at all. Frankly, if I’m going to spend $100, I will buy the Pitt from GI Joe. However, I still would like a version od Big D, and I will grab the American version when it comes out. Awesome Review, and the detailed pics are absolutely great!
Great read. I’ve been cking out the new Joes, but have not bought any yet. I’ll pick up the dvd when it comes out.
Cobra!
So is this toy a rejected prototype? I’m talking about both color variations, not just the red version. I know it’s sold only at Target. But I see what folks mean when they say the transformation is almost nothing. Could this have been a rejected prototype, maybe for the Predacon Razorclaw? & they decided to make a deal with Target by giving it Optimus Prime’s face to help it sell more? I assume this isn’t related to Leo Convoy? Maybe influenced by it? It would of been interesting to have seen this toy in normal lion colors with the original head they may have planned on marketing with. While I thought the white version of this toy was alright, yeah the red version could well be one of the worst looking Primes I’ve ever seen! Yellow may have been better and more accurate to what the original version may have been meant to look like if in fact this is some sorta rejected prototype.
Is it posible that maybe they released the white version to test market for the posibilities of releasing that Japanese Leo Convoy related Beast Wars anime series? It seems kinda hard to believe after all these years that Hasbro would do that now. I’d like to see someone custom paint this guy in the normal yellow and brown colors to see what Hasbro mave have originally planned , if in fact this toy (not color variation) is a rejected prototype of some sort. I know it lacks quality so I can see why Hasbro may have decided not to market it on a larger scale. The robot made does look half decent in white color. It certainly does remind one of Leo Convoy, but even Leo Convoy looked more like a normal red Optimus w/o having to color the whole lion red! U R right, a red lion makes little sense. This ain’t Voltron! I wonder now if anyone ever colored red the original Primal apes or bat? I’d like to see that. However I suspect it too would look aweful.
I’ll be doing a review for the Target Exclusive repaint of The Fallen soon!