My only other gripe here is the lack of a regular Autobot insignia. I think it should have been painted closer to the side striping with a little metallic silver finish. The grey used for the bumper and grill is a little jarring to me. He’s mostly red and blue, with some added silver. I do like the deco used here quite a bit, as it’s fairly faithful to the original toy colors. I think the head could have been hidden with something a lot less cumbersome, and as we’ll see the gun that it forms isn’t a great pay off. My main issue with the cap is that it’s basically there to hide the head and create an extra gun. Initially, I wasn’t a big fan of the cap on the roof, but that’s grown on me a little bit. They just don’t seem to fit with the rest of the design and it’s obvious the discrepancy has to do with the transformation engineering. If I had to pick one thing that bothered me the most, it would be the windows. It’s a slightly sexier and modern look and I’m cool with that.
#CLASSIC OPTIMUS PRIME WINDOWS#
He’s less boxy and more rounded at the edges, and his windows in particular are pretty stylized. Yep, he’s still a red semi-truck cab which offers a solid homage to the original character toy, but Hasbro certainly went off the reservation on a few significant points. The packaging has been gone for a long time, so let’s jump right into Prime’s alt mode. Let’s see if he’s grown on me any after all these years… I was hooked on the Classics line from day one, but I was never entirely smitten with this version of Prime. However, in Prime’s case, I think the omission may have been by design.
Most notable of all is the big cheese himself, Optimus Prime. A couple of weeks ago, I looked at Classics Jetfire and realized that there were still quite a few Classics in my collection that have escaped being featured here on FFZ.
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