Transformers R.I.D Air Attack Optimus Primal

Optimus Primal was never in the R.I.D series. The air attack was original intended for the beast machines line of toys but somehow someone in Hasbro or Takara fcuked it up and ended up deing in the R.I.D series. But anyway, Beast Machines is one of my favourite Transformers cartoon. The 3D was pretty amazing for its time. Character designs were more interesting than what the beast wars had. And the idea of mixing organic components into cybernetic entities was a daring move. And might I add that Beast Machines was also one of the original voices for saving the environment. Let's see some pics.

I like the head, very detailed. Despite it being a Hasbro line product.
Very good job Hasbro. If only you put the same effort into all your other toys...

half-assed?

The animal mode resembles the cartoon series quites closely using almost the same colour palettes. The arms especially gets high praises from me. Unfortunately the same can't be said to the back legs. which looks kind of weird. It looks like, pardon the pun, half-assed effort on Hasbro's part. Monkey mode doesn't do anything much other than look menacing and proud, articulation is stiff but still movable which sometimes scares me because I afraid of using too much strength and breaking the joints.

If all else fails, at least he can still show Megatron the finger.

In the show, the Maximals don't exactly 'transform', instead they sort of morph into their robot mode which fortunately the toy was not able to do or else I would have freaked out. But the toys still transforms although a little practice is needed because the joints are really very stiff. Its not really poseable because only the left arm is articulated. The right arm has the redundant spring punching action built into it, a real turn off. Hasbro seems to like putting spring-loaded punching arms into all the Optimus Prime toys. PLEASE STOP IT! I want 2 articulated arms. Because of this, You can't really do much posing. Really wasted potential. The fingers on the other hand is surprisingly articulated, more so than the Takara Masterpiece Figures. The downside is that all fingers look the same partly because it is required to rotate 180 degrees when 'morphing' to monkey mode.

Overall still a pretty cool toy, its huge, the colours are pretty damn close to the cartoon series, it also has electronic sounds that sounds real good. I just really like the design of the character. Anyone who wants to find one, try online, or you can always post me a message or email me to ask for availability. I'm sure to find you one.