The official Hasbro Transformers Facebook Page has posted a video showcasing the evolution of the Movie Voyager Optimus Prime figures.
While the first image is clearly from the Titanium line, the final image is our best look yet at Transformers: The Last Knight Voyager Class Optimus Prime.
Check it out, after the jump.
ssjkazer
The idea probably was to make the toy look better then the previous, which that mold kills it lol
Automorpher
Well, I think that outta all the Voyager Optimus Primes/Convoys, I still like Movie Advanced (AD-12) Revenge & Evasion version the best.
Seth Sunthay
YOU are pretty amazing
Cheebs
Wow. The new voyager is pretty amazing!
fake
Just realized that every Movie Optimus Prime Figure, other than the SDCC DOTM Prime that I bought, is now in a garbage dump(or recycled plastic) or donated to Goodwill…I dont think I will bother with the TLK toys…
User_136440
I think that's what makes it so frustrating, it's a decent mould with a much better transformation than the AOE figures, but doesn't shine like it should due to the paint job.
Ironhide1234
Minus the 80% true colouring. It doesn't look a bad figure to be fair.
Seth Sunthay
q1
I really Hope that the platinum editions have a better quality in every aspect, the PE's for AoE just were new paint with worse plastic. (cough cogh evolution pack optimus cough cough)
User_136440
Though the HFTD figure was much better painted, I still don't get why the G1 homage deco was the regular version of that figure, other than the fact that it required a lot fewer paint apps.
I'm waiting for the inevitable Platinum Editions. The AOE Takara figures were slightly better than the Hasbro mass releases, but still not nearly as accurate as they could've been.
Seth Sunthay
Yeah, NOW, i want to see what it's going to do Takara with this mold.
User_136440
Exactly. As crap as the dark grey looks, they could've left the collar piece as bare plastic rather than painting it blue. The sword is in silverish plastic but they go and waste a load of paint with all that unnecessary orange when they could've just used a small amount of red on the hilt. Same for the shield, why that light blue? The amount of red and blue needed on the shield would be much less than that. All I can think is they have to use roughly the same amount of each colour for some reason, but I don't see it happ ending with other toy like nes.
Seth Sunthay
Another problem with the evasion are the joint of the forearms, technically when you spin them, the paint is stripped in a while.
closetrat
#mindblown
Have we ever had a mainline OP that did this miracle?
Chaos Prime
That actually looks pretty cool. I passed on AOE Leader Optimus, bc I just didn't like it, (So far imo Hasbro hasn't been able to 1-up ROTF Leader Optimus Prime yet). But I think this voyager looks pretty good. Might go well with my Galvatron.
Fallout
they're in the legs. look at the inner side of the leg.
closetrat
Seriously – where are the rear tires…
Unless they're on the backpack?
Fallout
i'm probably in the minority but i hated that hftd mold was not too great. parts placement was accurate but the proportions were way off and the arms were seven shades of fucked up.
Ironhide1234
Why do they tamper with the pissing colours of Transformers all the time, If it's because "it's hard to paint", paint the bits the colour they should be before you put it together ffs.
User_136440
It's quite funny thinking back to when the upscaled TFP cyberverse figures were first announced, Hasbro (can't remember the name of the guy at the time) said that they'd been trying to make Transformers appeal to everyone and failing (such as the ROTF figures being too difficult for children), so henceforth they would be targeting different lines to different markets.
The simplification for kids has definitely happened, we can all agree, but things like the Movie Generations figures (which I'm guessing this figure is part of) don't actually show much commitment to making items aimed at collectors with the paint jobs being minimal and deviating from the on screen appearance. In fact I'd say that if anything they're even more trying to make Generations appeal to too many different people, now stating that they're for adult collectors and older children, which to me explains why they're scrimping on paint so make them cheaper.
If you compare them to something like the Star Wars black series, there doesn't seem to be as much care and attention to detail being put in, which is quite sad when you think Transformers is Hasbro's own property and not licensed to them like Star Wars and Marvel. I don't think in either of those lines would they give the characters as basic as possible deco, only to release them again months later with a screen accurate paint job in a box set like they do with the Platinum Editions (and even half of those aren't any more screen accurate).