Beelzeboss has updated their Weibo page with a glimpse at what appears to be the final product images for their Combiner Wars Optimus Prime upgrade kit. This kit is intended to give your Combiner Wars Optimus Prime a more IDW comic inspired look and comes with the following; Ion Blaster, IDW Style Head, G1 Style head and add on pieces for the legs, thighs, knees, Shoulders, chest and abdominal section. One thing of notice, but not mentioned in any product listings, is what appears to be articulated hands. It’s unclear if that will be coming with the kit, or is an add on from another group.
You can check out the pics and join the discussion after the break.
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Folks, I am so sorry. I never saw these questions about the arms.
The pieces on the arms are some custom parts that I added. They were made from portions of a RiD Ultra Magnus cab.
BrutiKing
I just got this guy off a hobby store for $35 CAD, and honestly it’s better than I thought. I just hate the face plate on the straight horns head.
BrutiKing
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The thing attach to the side of the arms are different; they don’t come with the kit.
DeGoisis
The forearms pieces are not from Beelzeboss' kit
Crim
The kit we're talking about in the thread….?
BrutiKing
What are the pieces attached to CW Optimus’ arms?
C16
Yes it does.
Crim
My SND Prime is a tad taller then Tarn, BB's kit doesn't really add as much height over stock Prime then SND's kit does.
C16
Yeah, ultimately I wanted to see if MMC Megatron and Spiritual Leader were the same size. Prime is a bit taller.
BrutiKing
MMC megs is 20cm CW megs is 23cm Beelzeboss prime is a bit shorter than cw megs. I hope this helps! Doing a bit of research goes a long way.
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1) Those are MP scaled.
2) That's based off Don's ongoing design, which Orion was also based off of.
The design I'm talking about is the one this kit is based off of, by Andrew Griffith for RiD/AHO/Optimus Prime Ongoing.
timorvitae
I hope we see something related to his very soon:
Crim
There are two IDW Primes already out there.
Generation Toy GT-03 OP EX
GCreations GDW-01
bluesymetal
I'd be happy with a good IDW Prime in this scale. I'm not a fan of Orion, and I actually think he's a little too small. This kit will do for now.
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I would love to see another 3rd party whip up this version of Optimus from the ground up.
bluesymetal
Here's mine, looks good but yeah not worth the price for the quality.
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That is absolutely what happened to mine. And a few minutes later, the chest-piece snapped where I was trying to insert the left-side chest-window.
Fragile, fragile, fragile. Beelzeboss really cheaped-out here.
bluesymetal
So I bit the bullet and tracked down a CW Prime, nonnef ratchets and this kit. I got this one over SND because I liked this IDW better and the height scale fits way better for my CHUG/ IDW collection.
The hips on mine aren't nearly as bad as everyone says, they actually stay on fine. However while putting it together, one of the ball joints that attaches the chest panels just snapped right off with minimal pressure. I gorilla glued it back together.
I think it looks great, but can't recommend to buy it, no way it should have broke that easily.
Scott_XIII
What's it done to the other modes?
bluesymetal
I'm looking for the red version if anyone wants to part with theirs!