FIYAH! Oh yeah it’s happening. Today Hasbro announced their next Haslab crowdfunding project, and it is none other than Robots In Disguise Omega Prime (aka Car Robots God Fire Convoy). He was the ultimate good guy in the 2000 Japanese series Car Robots, which eventually came over to the USA a year later as Robots in Disguise (the first, and proper one). In that line, Optimus Prime was a firetruck, and he combined with his chip-on-the-shoulder brother Ultra Magnus into Omega Prime. As original toys, they were both old-school leader class sized (about current Commander or bigger), and to this day still hold up other than having a problem standing up. 🙂 It was a giant leap in planned engineering at the time, having a triple changer and a second figure combining at that scale, all with multiple configurations for weapons and accessories.
Today, that gets upgraded for modern times with the new Haslab project!
The price – $249.99 USD. Head on over to the project at Hasbro Pulse below and back it if you dig it!
Transformers Haslab RID OMEGA PRIME @ Hasbro Pulse
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This was the line that was active when TFW2005 started, and was the first line that started new once I returned to Transformers as an adult. It’s now almost 25 years old (as is TFW2005). So it holds a special place for me, and I’m super hyped they actually did it!
If you are new to Car Robots / Robot in Disguise OR you just want to take a trip down memory lane, check out our side project for the line over at RIDForever.INFO. It has toy galleries and documentation for a lot of the line. Just keep hopping around, you’ll run into a lot of cool stuff!