BEAST
MACHINES: 2000 SERIES, WAVE 1
REVIEWS
THEORANGE
| PHIL BOND | TRAEGORN
| REVIEWED:
06.01.00 |
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Well, let's face it. He's
wrong. Dead wrong. The best
thing this figure has going for it is
its robot mode, which is wrong as
well. However, apart from
the show version, it isn't quite so
bad. The redone paint job to make
it "pretend" it's the show
version is a bit reaching. If they
had just stuck with the original design
specs, it might have been better.
One might think that all the translucent
blue is overdone at first,
but it works rather well in his Robot
Mode. His transformation is pretty
simple, and involves a torso flip much
like Cheetor's.
However, this is the first time where
Optimus's robot arms come from his Beast
legs and vice versa. In this way,
he is sort of a glorified Optimus Minor.
And he's so small! Stand him next
to Optimal Optimus.
He's puny! Miniscule, even!
He IS a silverback gorilla,
though. The paint job makes it
obvious. Still, I am worried with
the direction Beast Machines is taking
its Beast component.
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| REVIEWED:
19.01.00 |
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Chagrinned were we all, no? Our
poor, poor leader-monkey reduced to
deluxe stature could only be horrific,
and we knew it. Look at Cheetor standing
there all smug and treacherous...
sickening. I am personally insulted by
the new direction that Beast Machines is
taking in its Cheetor-hypeyness, and
sickened that he rates above Optimus...
above!
Hasbro clearly feels
fallout from the poor sales of the
ambitious Optimal Optimus project, and
has misjudged the fact that they've
found the maximum parents are willing to
pay in their $20 Ultra price point. They
should not be fooled! Cheetor sells well
because he's cheap! Optimus sits on the
shelf because most people draw the line
for how big a toy they want well before
$30-$40! Oh well... I do so hope they
learn their lesson some other way,
because this flimsy little thing isn't
going to impress anyone.
The new Optimus Primal
suffers from such elemental detriments
as being see-thru (hands, legs, skull,
shoulders), and having the most
overly-gnarly beast mode expression I've
ever seen. We're talking WWF wrestler
here. His "energy shuriken" is
a visual contradiction in terms, and
he's got a gigantic hump-backpack thing
in robot mode.
Overall about as
disappointing as one could imagine it to
be. *sigh* Way to go, Mainframe.
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Okay, this is an OK version of
Buddha Monkey. The only reason it
got a six was because it isn't *that*
bad a toy -- it just ain't the Buddha
monkey. I'm sorry, but my Buddha
Monkey is not Blue, has big gray
pad-thingies, and can get into the Lotus
position without resetting the arm/leg
in Beast mode! Sheesh! At least
the head looks okay... |
You will notice that Primal's review is
indeed a 666, which proves that he's the Anti-Christ. The mark
of the beast is the pile of poo that he flings at you. Or the
indentation in your face left by the Boastful Fist. I haven't decided,
yet...
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OPTIMUS PRIMAL
