We hope all fans and members of TFW2005 had a great Thanksgiving day, and if you were at The Detroit Thanksgiving Parade, we hope you didn’t miss the impressive G1 Optimus Prime Giant Float.
We are sure this enormous float will impress the optics of any fan. The public at the Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit sure enjoyed this G1 inspired Optimus Prime (sponsored sponsored by Chemical Bank) which hovered over the streets and accompanied by a group of people dressed in Age Of Extinction/The Last Knight Optimus Prime disguises.
You can check out a video below, and some screencaps after the jump. TFW2005 wish all of you a happy Thanksgiving day!
lambi
One shall stand, one shall fall. Then stand up again
Fallout
just eyeballing it i'm pretty sure that'd be prime's real size irl, which is neat. also representative of how society would immediately reinvent itself to appease these metal gods
Master Farr
Does this count as paying respect animated since it\'s in Detroit
MrNiceGuy
Evergreen/G1 Optimus being paraded around by an army of terrible quality AOE Optimus costumes.
This feels… wrong
Furnace
Gotta say, I agree. The Evergreen designs themselves aren’t bad, but as the default TF designs for the foreseeable future? Meh. That said, it’s cool to have a TF presence at a big event that isn’t Bayverse centric.
KnightHawkke
What did they do to his feet?
galvatran
Puftimus Prime
And turkeys too by the look of it.
Many turkeys died to bring us this Puftimus Prime.
Grimusaur
Know it's a bit counter-intuitive given the name but man I cannot wait for this Evergreen stuff to get phased out. Establishing 'permanent' design/brand baselines for these characters is a laughably anemic idea for a brand whose continued success for over three and a half decades is owed to constant radical reinventions and new additions.
Not to mention that the G1 designs have been serving the same purpose just fine for years without that annoyingly insincere and manufactured "we're moving into ~☆the future☆~ without forgetting our past " type of soft and floaty corporatespeak around the Evergreen stuff, just make the Macy's float G1 Prime my guys.
Chillyn
Looks like Optimus was hitting the eggnog a little hard xD
Mirimus
I'm afraid I must agree…I keep forgetting Animated was pretty much all focused in Michigan (wasn't Isaac Sumdac from Coldwater…?)
jayacon
It was
JLvatron
Pat & Don are truly the Puffy Shirt twins!
JLvatron
Cool OptiBalloon Prime!
And shame on the commentators saying he was trying to lie down.
If they were true fans they would have said he was Transforming.
Spillatron
Sooooo, where can i order one of these things?
Q Prime
I feel like this should’ve been Animated Optimus Prime because it’s in Detroit.
96megatron
"Alright Prime, show the fans what they want to see."
*Dies* but not really.
Cliffjumper
"Autobots, FLY OUT!"
Fc203
He almost died this year
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Fallout
hey, disregarding the fact that this is just straight up a g1 prime float, can we talk about this poor soul probably fucking dying or way too high from paint fumes in this picture?
it's like something out of a fucking weird music video. this poor mindless slave carries our new overlord optimus prime through the streets. he has no choice. for their family to live, they must die. slowly. bitterly.