After I posted the stellar figure of Arcee from Hasbro's upcoming Transformers: Prime line, several other figures debuted on various sites: UGO had Starscream, IGN had Bumblebee, and AICN had Optimus, Megatron, and figures of those three horrible fucking kids that make it impossible for me to take the show seriously, or even watch it. They all look good (except the kids, of course), although none of them look quite as great as Arcee.
Now, somewhere in the midst of all that hubbub, io9 got the first pic of Optimus Prime from the Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon line, which was sent to me by astute Topless Roboteer Ken T. The good news: Optimus has a trailer in his vehicle mode.
That's a nice nod to the classic series, admittedly. The bad news... well, the bad news is his robot mode.
There is absolutely nothing I can say about this Optimus Prime toy that Ken T. didn't already say perfectly in his brief but brutally accurate email to me: "He looks like a magical butterfly."
Now, somewhere in the midst of all that hubbub, io9 got the first pic of Optimus Prime from the Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon line, which was sent to me by astute Topless Roboteer Ken T. The good news: Optimus has a trailer in his vehicle mode.
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this figure stink but in the movie it rocks that figure looks nothing like the one in the movie and by the way im 10
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lol your fucking nuts, good luck with that phone call, i bet you cant even call your mum without help.
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u bitch
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i don't think he's going to look like that when he's walking probably he's going to look like that when he's flying
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hey he does look just fine if u watch the 2nd movie you'll know y he looks like that and it would be plain stupid that the parts he gained in the 2nd movie just disapeared that would be really stupid. now you're calling self really stupid. now that is not cool.
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you're right. r u a boy or girl. i think that optimus prime looks just fine
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wat the fuck r u talking about u bitch. he looks just fine and better now shut up or I'm going to call the cops i did it to a different guy doesn't mean i won't do it to u
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Look, Bay... if you're not gonna do it right... http://transformersbase.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/optimus_prime1.jpg Don't fucking do it at all!!!!
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Actually Optimus is Gundam X... http://i876.photobucket.com/albums/ab330/Enchanter468/GundamX.jpg
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Leader Class Jetfire and Optimus Prime cost a combined total of about $120.00 just to replicate a winged Optimus mode that was only in the movie for maybe 30 seconds. I didn't say it wasn't going to be in the film, just that you probably shouldn't expect it to be his main look through the entire thing.
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THERE IS SOMETHING ON YOUR BACK!
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This thing costs 80 bucks. Of course it's going to be in the movie.
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WHAT. THE FUCK. WAS I READING?
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OPTIMUS PRIME AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! HE TOTALLY LOOKS LIKE A BAD COPY OF NOVA PRIME WITH THOSE WINGS MY EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Apparently. Geez, sorry for that guys, it didn't look like it was posting at all. Derp!
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I see what you did there.
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Sentinel Prime?
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so, you love his wings in the ad, but hate his wings here. why, I ask myself, does the web make other people dumb?
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But he's got a new hat!
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Because, as we all know, nobody ever suspects... the butterfly!
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The Monarch's new ride after his budget fell through....
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I was thinking Wing Zero too.. or Evangelion Unit 01 when it goes all angelic. http://animehistory.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/eva-seraphic-wing.jpg
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Hey! Stop taking about my gear! Next thin you know you'll be talking about my Aga.
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I know I know, this is hardly the forum for cooler heads prevailing when it comes to the TF films. But do you people honestly think Optimus is going to walk around like that for the entire film, or have you stopped to consider that At best this is probably a one shot type thing in the movie (Like the Optimus/Jetfire combination) and at worst this is something entirely unique to the toy (Like Scorpinok's shit awful Robot mode from the first movie toyline?)
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Optimus is one of those bots who only focuses on the upper body. He's got those skinny girly legs. Crom laughs at Optimus' wind mill. He laughs from his mountain.
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Now he will forever be Magical Butterfly Prime.
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I though it was an insecticon first time I saw it's robot mode.
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....um, BEFORE Beast Wars, not after.
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LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU AND I DON'T SEE THIS AND TRANSFORMERS ENDED AFTER BEAST WARS LA LA LA.
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You don't need to integrate Prime's trailer into the transformation! It just rolled away in the series, occasionally being used to store that little buggy thing or as a battle platform (or was that just another toy?).
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The fucking windmill in question: http://www.toplessrobot.com/gf13-066no.jpg
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Dear Christ on a pogo stick...Optimus 3.0 sucks more than a bowling ball through 40 ft of garden hose... on the other hand, if no one claps their hands and everyone chants,"I don't believe in faries!". Maybe he'll drop dead.
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I actually...don't hate it. It accomplishes something I've always wanted -- Optimus to combine with his trailer. Powermaster Prime did that, but it was a brick. Battlepants Prime did too, but it was another brick. It's kind of silly, but it's not awful. Except for the price. If it's really $80 and that's really a Voyager size Prime, there's no way I'm getting it.
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oh, you'd be surprised what Doc Braxy is capable of, Mr. Eastman. you'd be surprised indeed. DX
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at the very least, the trailer indicates him landing from a very, very high place before going on a slashing frenzy. so yeah, it's possible.
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Sooooo... Optimus Prime = Gundam Wing Custom Megatron = Deathscythe Hell Custom What's next? Ironside cosplaying as Heavyarms Custom? Starscream pretending to be Tallgeese Mk.III? Jesus CHRIST, Michael Bay, Gundam Wing is sooooo 1990s! Get with the times, will ya?
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he's FAAAAAAAABULOUS! -wrist swish-
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-puts up sign saying, "Do not feed the troll!"-
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Reading that line in his voice is fantastic.
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As long as it's wrapped in bacon. :)
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you know what? compared to the unarmored version, the armored version looks better. well, in a "gold-plated shit is better than plain shit" kind of way.
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Messianic Optimus is messianic.
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ahem. you're forgetting about the boys as well. females ARE the largest demographic for manga readers, and well, they tend to love that stuff as much as we love the girls. or rather, you NORMALS like the girls. >:3
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perhaps this is Michael Bay's way of forging a truce with people who hated his designs? still won't stop me from stabbing his voodoo dolls with a pin, though.
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and i'm pretty sure Bumblebee sold him out for 30 pieces of energon cubes.
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after the whole Bumblebee pissing scene? NEVAAAR!!
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no no, you're thinking of the ill-fated Gundam X.
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I'll forgive him for looking like the love child of a Gundam and a junkyard, as long as he keeps his battle mask on.
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<i>"and glue them to his back like a fucking windmill"</i> This made me laugh so hard I simultaneously choked and spat tea all over my keyboard.
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well as long as it has no voice and never shuts up......
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Why did you have to remind me that it's that time of year for creme eggs? I've been starving myself to lose weight for a con in 4 months.
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That's like the Elton John of Transformers.
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Nah, at this point tentacles are passe, it's underage *adorwabul* girls who never do anything naughty in the anime itself, but then get sexually explicit body pillows. Get with the times, man!
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Sorta, girls who need giant robot suits: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kiss_Players_%28franchise%29
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What's the other five percent? Tentacles?
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Oh my goodness. As I scrolled down and saw this I actually had to stop mid-bite into my creme egg and just... stare.
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It's the power armor from Aliens! Prime is gonna gear up to fight the Quintisson Queen and save young Bumblebee's life.
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Useless. Optimus Prime has a habit of not staying dead ;-)
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If Optimus Prime is Arthur, then who's The Tick?
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looks like he has dragonfly wings to me.......
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Optimus looks like an Ice Fairy...Why Hasbro, why?
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Not quite. He's still carrying his cross.
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His trailer turns into armor people, that's all
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Unicron's Ninja Star!
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He looks like something a ninja would throw.
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Not even Abraxes' sick mind could make this thing sexy, and that's saying something!
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No, Optimus died for Michael Bay's sins!!!! On another note, he kind of looks like an infinitely shittier version of Gundam X.
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I agree. It's Optimus Prime in Burning Gundam cosplay.
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HAHAHAHAHA Optimus Prime is the Xenogear.
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My God, it's full of stupid.
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This.
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BURN IT BURN IT NOW!
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so close to be a movie version of the gi optimus only to have the robot mode look like Optimus fantazing about being some other type of robot. bet the trailer does not open up either
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:D
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Stop being such hypocrites, you all. That picture is a Fan Fiction Friday waiting to happen and you know you want it.
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Please don't insult Wing Zero custom (I'm assuming thats what you are comparing this to) or any other Gundam by comparing it to this junkheap. Shit if they really wanted to add angel wings then they should have made the fucking trailer sections look like actually fucking wings rather than having Prime slice his trailer open pizza style and glue them to his back like a fucking windmill.
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PRIMUS SAVES US FROM THIS ABOMINATION!
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I don't want to know if he can fly; I want to know if he can WALK. Can you imagine him moving anywhere near anything? "Don't wory, Sam! I'll save y- Shit. I just knocked down eight buildings by turning around."
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So it's basically the same Optimus from the first two movies, with a trailer that turns into the jet pack he's wearing in the new trailer. Shock!
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its a gundam! http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/x/gx-9901-dx.jpg
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Yes, essentially.
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MAGIC BUTTERFLY OPTIMUS IS YOUR GOD!!! BOW TO HIM!!!
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HE'S A MAGICAL FAIRY.
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Now i am in the mood for some robot unicorn attack.
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I actually thought that my post had gotten a lot of feedback, but looks like the site just kept throwing up because of the post
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that's redundant.
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Wowee. I can see that getting in the way when Optimus is not flying. Wait, DOES he fly in this new movie?
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Well...there goes 95% of all japanese media...
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Bay just directs movies. Hasbro makes the toys/designs. Stop giving him more credit/blame than he deserves.
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Well, it still looks retarded, particularly the spindly legs. Just less so.
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It's like Powermaster Optimus Prime gone horribly, horribly wrong...
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Someone grab a net!
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I think he looks badass
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All Hail Mothramis Prime
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Yeah lets go with that.
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na, the thread was so aroused by the sight of Optimus Prime's body that it orgasmed a bunch of repeated comments.
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So ZADL we both had some commenting problems huh?.
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Waaahhhh waaaah you guys want some cheese with your whine?
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HERP DERP REPOST. That said, yeah, it looks like they were going for an angelic Seraphim-type look. It's bizarre, but at least the wings aren't feathery... now THAT would be stupid, even for Bayformers.
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LOL!! I think that's safe to say!
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