I remember reading online that many people believe that the AOE Evasion Optimus was originally going to be the design Optimus would have in Bumblebee before his final design was made, explaining why this guy and all the BBM Optimus toys besides the Studio Series are based off the Evasion design.
@@Spike-Primewell, they changed up a lot of details to distance itself from the bayverse. Bumblebee was already supposed to be on earth with his jeep mode from ww2, and the entire Cybertron scene was basically last minute
The original evasion mode prime was pretty bad. His shins looked , broken, unnatural, and would fold back. He had a chicken neck, his elbows were preposed, and kibble was blocking the bottom of his hand that wouldn't allow him to hold long handled weapons
@@bigboi4488 and yet he would still make him look amazing (I had an evasion mode Prime, actually one that looked a lot like that one, and it wasn't too bad, but then again I had it when I was a kid, and as a kid you don't really care about that kinda stuff, it's just a lot of "ooo cool good guy toy fight other cool bad guy toy *slams toys together*")
Weijiang M-01 really made me appreciate just how good this and the original were, there really aren’t a lot of major changes besides fingers and paint (and size). Nice to see the progression from evasion mode to one of my favourite figures
I think they're also very visible in his knight form. I can't remember if it was in aoe or tlk that I noticed it though (something tells me it's tlk when he's getting rekt by the other knights for siding with quintessa)
I actually prefer the blue lower legs because the overall more G1ish deco works better for me than trying to force the usual Bayverse colors onto this design or it being rusty
G1-ifying movieverse designs doesn't work for me at all. It just makes them so bland looking and highlights all the unpainted or similarly painted details.
I find this funny that Takara went full "K.O 4P" and upscaled-improved the AoE Evasion Optimus. I have the Nemesis version and I customised a YOTH Platinum Optimus (MP-10 repaint) trailer for it. It work and looks awesome!
Still remember the KO made by the late Weijiang. Never got a chance to buy it, yet, but I did modify my EM Optimus Prime to have shoulder flaps that become the truck's back.
The "teeth" he has isn't really teeth actually, they were trying to do the internal wave line thingies the cybertronians have in their mouths when they speak. its kinda clear to see in an up close shot of them speaking, its a neat detail but looks odd on the toy.
I sold this figure for the reasons you mentioned. He was disturbingly loose in some areas, and the paint job in robot mode was so boring. I think they tried to please everyone and pleased no one. Trying so hard to make a movie prime but make it G1-looking. It just highlighted all the reasons why breaking up the color scheme helps a lot in live action.
I have the leader class sized bumblebee from the BB movie, I won it in the comics drawing competition back in 2018, fun figure, standard articulation but the plastic snapped off twice on the front bumper. Definitely a figure that would fit well with the other leaders.
Given how mediocre the AOE line was this was still one I picked up because it was the first time Prime was getting a G1 aesthetic in the movie line. Despite being bland in the paint color department it was still surprisingly a well done articulate enough toy. The additional paint on the upsized version go a long way in both modes, but really too bad about those lose hips. Really like the original, and always liked the missile firing shot gun looking like it literally carried over from the one he blew away Sentinel Prime, and Megatron in DOTM.
I think the mold is more known as the weijang version than bumblebee leader Because i honestly thought they took down weijang to use the mold for bumblebee
I had a Japanese evasion mode Optimus Prime colored to look like Nemesis Prime but while transforming it, it’s right arm and left leg broke, and it was a gift from my great grandma
Leader class AoE Evasion Mode Optimus Prime needs to be repainted and be re-released in the Studio Series toyline under the name AoE Leader Class Scrapyard Optimus Prime. That would be really cool!
that’s not teeth, movieverse Optimus always had those lines that move while he talks, it’s like a music song, like sound waves, watch any scene he talks close to the camera
I remember getting the original evasion mode Optimus Prime for Christmas. I loved it so much. But then one day, when I was transforming it (like you would) the left arm broke. You know how the arms on this mold are connected to the body via flat plates/side of the truck mode? Yeah well that snapped off and I couldn't put it back together. I ended up throwing that Optimus prime away and now I would do anything to get it back. I need to buy this new model (if I can still buy it)
I wish they would have loved to see them reissue this on the bb line so people in America can get their hands on them without paying ridiculous after market prices. He's a great figure
the grey looks really cheap though. the legs and the area around the head. would be better if it had that gunmetal colour/dark grey from ss44 or ss05 i think it was
You probably got plenty of comments about this but, you are putting the gun on the back upside down. Also, Bayverse Prime had teeth, they were a set of gears in his mouth. You can see them in the scene where the Autobots meet Sam and Michaela.
I'm not sure if you saw this already, but if you look real closely in the movie, Optimus actually has teeth. They also flutter around the inside of his mouth while he talks.
Wei Jiang COMMANDER, Oversized Evasion Optimus, anyone? Wei Jiang made an AMAZING version of this mold that address all of your problems. Much more chrome throughout, automotive grade paint with the flames on his legs, better weapon, dark metallic gray parts instead of.. That. Yup, he might be my best optimus.
I think it looks like a decent figure, and the colors are pretty nice too. However I do remember about the problem on the grill, it being a little fragile
I have this figure for 5 Years and it still holds up, Unfortunately his Gun Snapped in two Different Spots, I I tried fixing it, but it Broke some more, so I Gave him a G1 prime gun that's made out of Lego lol
I actually customize that exact figure to look screen accurate for Age Of Extinction an he looks good when i put him in a kneeling pose from that gas station scene when Optimus Prime drops off Cade, Tessa, and Shane when they were being hunted down by Lockdown and Cemetery Wind
Once I decided to add this guy to my collection about a year ago, the search for a deal ended up costing me about 150% of his aftermarket value and leaving me with two copies of him. The first I bought for roughly half price off eBay because the gun was broken - snapped in half at the hinge. No big deal, I'm used to fixing that kind of thing. But once the figure arrived, the chrome was scratched up and all of the ratcheted joints had an unpleasant degree of play to them. He just felt...bad. Then, despite repair efforts including careful disassembly of the gun (including pushing pins) so I could access the problem area, I could not get the repair to stand up to the stresses of transformation. I could have just stored the faux-gad tanks on his back permanently and lived with the shorter (and honestly more reasonably sized) gun, but man, I could not. It ate at me. After about two weeks, I found a near perfect copy for sale and paid the going rate for it. I am a broken man who craves plastic crack, but a broken man with a nice Legendary Prime on display and a not so nice one in a storage bin somewhere.
I think hasbro should have feet that are well posable, and that fold inwards for transformation or something, so it isn't all "Cool prime feet truck-bed" if you get what I mean, but the detail on this, excluding the feet for being weirdly blue, is so good I feel like I should pick this up for how good the paint is like... amazing.
Just bought this guy off buyee, hopefully it's as good as the hype I wish there was a good movie megatron in this scale EDIT: The loose joints and wonky transformation are big caveats, but the great bot and truck modes make up for it.
i bought the aoyi mech's 12 inch upscaled KO version of this mold and its much better than this figure cuz of the following reasons: - rubber tires - amazing paint job thoughout the whole figure. like theres a LOT of silver. it also has some flames in the robot mode too - truck mode front windshields is fixed but its very snug when transforming that panel in the middle front of the truck for robot mode - foot has ball joint which rotates for transformation (similarly to wei jiang M01) - slight remold to the right hand having a hole for the gun to slot in securely and it doesn't fall easily out of the hand, and a slight remold on the robot mode back panels - the middle torso area is diecast and it has a removable matrix of leadership (i think its the same matrix that came with MPM-4 but the matrix is also diecast) - it includes a gap filler right at the top of the shins. evasion mode optimus (original and the knockoffs) always have that weird gap on the top of the rotating shins but aoyi mech added a rotating gap filler for it which makes the figure look clean as possible - the joints (especially the ratchet joints) are really stiff out of the box, but after playing with the figure over and over again i got used to it. - its much cheaper than the original takara tomy legendary optimus prime. i got it for 30 bucks the only con i can mention is that when storing the gun for truck mode, the wheels can't roll and that usually happens to most upscale figures. and it's also a pain in the ass to unpeg from its own slot so i don't have the gun stored in the figure. but overall, the aoyi mech version of legendary optimus prime is a solid fig.
theres also a few selections for the KO mold. theres the barebones version (without flames) the normal version (with flames) battle damaged barebones version, battle damaged normal version, and nemesis prime
So when are you going to review Big Firebird Nicee and her clones and finally have the this video was made for adult collectors finally live up to its reputation?
I gave up trying to get this guy because everytime I looked it was either between $250 and $400 and if I could find it cheaper it was some Chinese seller with like less that 20 feedback rating!
It's interesting how they basically just copied all the improvements verbatim from the weijiang m01 commander KO. I usually don't like to overemphasize the importance of unlicensed KOs on official products, but in this case it can't be a coincidence. - new shoulder pads that cover up the back of the cab - face swap gimmick - wheels flipping up with an extra arch around it now BTW did you know they made a nemesis version of this? It was...uh... exclusive to 7/11...
I dont understand why Wei Jiang never engineered a joint into the elbow above the transformation elbow to give him a proper elbow, nor why the original designers didnt do that but I'm not a toy engineer so maybe they have thoughts I dont did not know a leader evasion Optimus even existed though
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I remember reading online that many people believe that the AOE Evasion Optimus was originally going to be the design Optimus would have in Bumblebee before his final design was made, explaining why this guy and all the BBM Optimus toys besides the Studio Series are based off the Evasion design.
although the studio series toy does have the aoe alt mode.
Mainly because it was originally meant to be a direct prequel and not a reboot.
#LoveTheNewVideo
@@OtakuUnitedStudio Which is funny because, even without the design changes and extra scenes, it makes zero sense as a prequel.
@@Spike-Primewell, they changed up a lot of details to distance itself from the bayverse. Bumblebee was already supposed to be on earth with his jeep mode from ww2, and the entire Cybertron scene was basically last minute
With these shots of the figures. He could make even a terrible figure look amazing (not saying this is a bad figure, just saying)
The original evasion mode prime was pretty bad. His shins looked , broken, unnatural, and would fold back. He had a chicken neck, his elbows were preposed, and kibble was blocking the bottom of his hand that wouldn't allow him to hold long handled weapons
@@bigboi4488 and yet he would still make him look amazing (I had an evasion mode Prime, actually one that looked a lot like that one, and it wasn't too bad, but then again I had it when I was a kid, and as a kid you don't really care about that kinda stuff, it's just a lot of "ooo cool good guy toy fight other cool bad guy toy *slams toys together*")
@@ghostofronin4917nah evasion mode was actually a really decent figure.
Weijiang M-01 really made me appreciate just how good this and the original were, there really aren’t a lot of major changes besides fingers and paint (and size). Nice to see the progression from evasion mode to one of my favourite figures
For those who are confused by the paint job, this is Evasion Mode Optimus, with G1 Optimus's color scheme
I don't think those are teeth but the subtle soundwaves you see when he speaks. Mainly noticeable in his first appearance in 07'
I think they're also very visible in his knight form. I can't remember if it was in aoe or tlk that I noticed it though (something tells me it's tlk when he's getting rekt by the other knights for siding with quintessa)
That Roll Out Command Optimus Prime is gonna be a fun watch whenever it gets a review
That intro makes me think Prime is about to drop an insane diss track.
Top ten rappers Eminem is too afraid to diss
I've had this figure since it released and I can positively say it's the best Optimus I own, and the best Movie Optimus design ever.
He looks really nice much better than the original toy and I love his gun
I had this figure. It wasn't fun. Overly complex yet bland to look at, and he was very loose in some areas.
diagnosis skills issue
I actually prefer the blue lower legs because the overall more G1ish deco works better for me than trying to force the usual Bayverse colors onto this design or it being rusty
G1-ifying movieverse designs doesn't work for me at all. It just makes them so bland looking and highlights all the unpainted or similarly painted details.
@@RingoLoadagain K
I find this funny that Takara went full "K.O 4P" and upscaled-improved the AoE Evasion Optimus.
I have the Nemesis version and I customised a YOTH Platinum Optimus (MP-10 repaint) trailer for it. It work and looks awesome!
I have the Nemesis Prime version of this figure, absolutely love it. Probably my favorite movie Optimus’s
I always thought this figure was some weird fever dream, weird to actually see someone talk about it
Still remember the KO made by the late Weijiang. Never got a chance to buy it, yet, but I did modify my EM Optimus Prime to have shoulder flaps that become the truck's back.
Bro Optimus can’t resist grabbing the soap after it was dropped
Optimus has teeth in the movies. I found this out stairing at his face too much
The "teeth" he has isn't really teeth actually, they were trying to do the internal wave line thingies the cybertronians have in their mouths when they speak. its kinda clear to see in an up close shot of them speaking, its a neat detail but looks odd on the toy.
Yeah I remember the waves when they had a close up of Optimus in the 07 movie
@@masterchief-1174i thought they were gears
I sold this figure for the reasons you mentioned. He was disturbingly loose in some areas, and the paint job in robot mode was so boring. I think they tried to please everyone and pleased no one. Trying so hard to make a movie prime but make it G1-looking. It just highlighted all the reasons why breaking up the color scheme helps a lot in live action.
I have the leader class sized bumblebee from the BB movie, I won it in the comics drawing competition back in 2018, fun figure, standard articulation but the plastic snapped off twice on the front bumper. Definitely a figure that would fit well with the other leaders.
Given how mediocre the AOE line was this was still one I picked up because it was the first time Prime was getting a G1 aesthetic in the movie line. Despite being bland in the paint color department it was still surprisingly a well done articulate enough toy. The additional paint on the upsized version go a long way in both modes, but really too bad about those lose hips. Really like the original, and always liked the missile firing shot gun looking like it literally carried over from the one he blew away Sentinel Prime, and Megatron in DOTM.
Damn, I've seen this on Ali Express, I just assumed it was re deco of the Evasion Prime, had no idea that it was a different figure
Absolutely my favorite Bayverse mode for Optimus. Wish we would’ve seen it with more color in the film rather than just with a dust covering him
I think the mold is more known as the weijang version than bumblebee leader
Because i honestly thought they took down weijang to use the mold for bumblebee
Seeing Optimus bend throughout the video, unprompted, was so funny xDD
4:14 the "i'm sorry" pose of the hips ratchet joint
Y’know I’ve always wanted this ever since I laid my eyes on it way back in the day
I had a Japanese evasion mode Optimus Prime colored to look like Nemesis Prime but while transforming it, it’s right arm and left leg broke, and it was a gift from my great grandma
This Prime figure probably has the best designed legs I've seen yet. If only we could have this on the masterpiece.
Leader class AoE Evasion Mode Optimus Prime needs to be repainted and be re-released in the Studio Series toyline under the name AoE Leader Class Scrapyard Optimus Prime. That would be really cool!
I remember this fig when it came out. Always thought it was neat before the SS fig came out
that’s not teeth, movieverse Optimus always had those lines that move while he talks, it’s like a music song, like sound waves, watch any scene he talks close to the camera
I remember getting the original evasion mode Optimus Prime for Christmas. I loved it so much. But then one day, when I was transforming it (like you would) the left arm broke. You know how the arms on this mold are connected to the body via flat plates/side of the truck mode? Yeah well that snapped off and I couldn't put it back together. I ended up throwing that Optimus prime away and now I would do anything to get it back.
I need to buy this new model (if I can still buy it)
Why would you throw something like this away? Strange...
@@AndrewKennethColborn i was really young then. I highly regret my decision from way back then
I used to collect like that just buying everything that has the transformers name on it, I just got exhausted with it.
I wish they would have loved to see them reissue this on the bb line so people in America can get their hands on them without paying ridiculous after market prices. He's a great figure
I imagine that because they retrofitted the ratchets on to the hips of the figure, it caused them to be loose
the grey looks really cheap though. the legs and the area around the head. would be better if it had that gunmetal colour/dark grey from ss44 or ss05 i think it was
I think the “teeth” on the unmasked face are supposed to resemble that weird wavy effect in his mouth when he talks in the movies
You probably got plenty of comments about this but, you are putting the gun on the back upside down. Also, Bayverse Prime had teeth, they were a set of gears in his mouth. You can see them in the scene where the Autobots meet Sam and Michaela.
3:21 that aoe one step drift is the most satisfying thing to transform
It is! It's my favourite gimmicky toy they've ever made.
@@ThatToyGuy half the time I walk around at home flipping that thing with one hand back and forth into its modes
I just got the evasion mode prime for my birthday. (Always wanted this guy tho)
This thing faux forms to heck yet the toy itself is remarkably clean.
this figure is like someones 2007 deviantart digibash of bayverse prime with his g1 color scheme brought to life
Somewhat reminiscent of Movie The Best if I'm remembering?
GET ON BUYE!!! MY FUY SWEARS BY IT CUZ GOOD!!!!! TRUST HIM!!!
Great review brother!!
I'm not sure if you saw this already, but if you look real closely in the movie, Optimus actually has teeth. They also flutter around the inside of his mouth while he talks.
Wei Jiang COMMANDER, Oversized Evasion Optimus, anyone? Wei Jiang made an AMAZING version of this mold that address all of your problems. Much more chrome throughout, automotive grade paint with the flames on his legs, better weapon, dark metallic gray parts instead of.. That. Yup, he might be my best optimus.
The gun not staying in the hands is more to do with now doing the tab on gun/slot in hand method, not cause the hand opens and closes
I think it looks like a decent figure, and the colors are pretty nice too. However I do remember about the problem on the grill, it being a little fragile
I have this figure for 5 Years and it still holds up, Unfortunately his Gun Snapped in two Different Spots, I I tried fixing it, but it Broke some more, so I Gave him a G1 prime gun that's made out of Lego lol
Oof, sorry about that gun breakage
@@ThatToyGuy I Gave him Two of the Same G1 Prime Lego gun to fit the Astetic of his 2007 self
You made this figure look so good, I bought it and it’s dope as hell
This feels like a KO upscale retool it’s so crazy that this is official
I know about it because I have it, and love it. BUT, his gun broke and his hips got super loose. But beautiful figure.
I actually customize that exact figure to look screen accurate for Age Of Extinction an he looks good when i put him in a kneeling pose from that gas station scene when Optimus Prime drops off Cade, Tessa, and Shane when they were being hunted down by Lockdown and Cemetery Wind
The teeth is actually accurate to the bayverse design
That’s why Bumblebee’s head in the BB Movie and ROTB is the Bayverse Bumblebee head
Once I decided to add this guy to my collection about a year ago, the search for a deal ended up costing me about 150% of his aftermarket value and leaving me with two copies of him.
The first I bought for roughly half price off eBay because the gun was broken - snapped in half at the hinge. No big deal, I'm used to fixing that kind of thing. But once the figure arrived, the chrome was scratched up and all of the ratcheted joints had an unpleasant degree of play to them. He just felt...bad. Then, despite repair efforts including careful disassembly of the gun (including pushing pins) so I could access the problem area, I could not get the repair to stand up to the stresses of transformation. I could have just stored the faux-gad tanks on his back permanently and lived with the shorter (and honestly more reasonably sized) gun, but man, I could not. It ate at me.
After about two weeks, I found a near perfect copy for sale and paid the going rate for it. I am a broken man who craves plastic crack, but a broken man with a nice Legendary Prime on display and a not so nice one in a storage bin somewhere.
this going to be off topic but is anyone elses legacy twincast figures shipping out or is it just me?
It's always the bad ones that looks badass
I agree
it really puts the bad in badass
the blue feet looks like he just sat in a hot tub of paint
This figure is an enigma to me, cause it borrows some enhancements from the weijiang KO that came out years before
Your Optimus is an apologetic salaryman.
I think hasbro should have feet that are well posable, and that fold inwards for transformation or something, so it isn't all "Cool prime feet truck-bed" if you get what I mean, but the detail on this, excluding the feet for being weirdly blue, is so good I feel like I should pick this up for how good the paint is like... amazing.
I remember when Black Apple started the upgrades for the original figure
When age of extinction came out they had a toy like that I wanted it it just didn’t come out in my stores
Well you were right, no clue this existed before the vid
I just found out about this today when jcc2224 mentioned it in his video on the transformers adventure large optimus prime
Ah yes, the Japanese buyee exclusive, OP with built in bow gesture
nah you know what was really funny, the twins
I always felt that Takara made this to compete with WeiJaing's M-01 Commander
I have to say the G1 colors on og bayverse prime looks great
I’d always see pics of it but I had no idea it was a leader class
I wish they would release this figure at this scale again.
Basically mpm evasion mode Optimus
The only Bumblebee figures in getting is Earthslark deluxe and ROTB SS 100
The more I think about the production of bumblebee kinda makes me want Paramount to release a animated version of Michael bay’s bumblebee
to this day i still want this guy
Just bought this guy off buyee, hopefully it's as good as the hype
I wish there was a good movie megatron in this scale
EDIT: The loose joints and wonky transformation are big caveats, but the great bot and truck modes make up for it.
i bought the aoyi mech's 12 inch upscaled KO version of this mold and its much better than this figure cuz of the following reasons:
- rubber tires
- amazing paint job thoughout the whole figure. like theres a LOT of silver. it also has some flames in the robot mode too
- truck mode front windshields is fixed but its very snug when transforming that panel in the middle front of the truck for robot mode
- foot has ball joint which rotates for transformation (similarly to wei jiang M01)
- slight remold to the right hand having a hole for the gun to slot in securely and it doesn't fall easily out of the hand, and a slight remold on the robot mode back panels
- the middle torso area is diecast and it has a removable matrix of leadership (i think its the same matrix that came with MPM-4 but the matrix is also diecast)
- it includes a gap filler right at the top of the shins. evasion mode optimus (original and the knockoffs) always have that weird gap on the top of the rotating shins but aoyi mech added a rotating gap filler for it which makes the figure look clean as possible
- the joints (especially the ratchet joints) are really stiff out of the box, but after playing with the figure over and over again i got used to it.
- its much cheaper than the original takara tomy legendary optimus prime. i got it for 30 bucks
the only con i can mention is that when storing the gun for truck mode, the wheels can't roll and that usually happens to most upscale figures. and it's also a pain in the ass to unpeg from its own slot so i don't have the gun stored in the figure. but overall, the aoyi mech version of legendary optimus prime is a solid fig.
theres also a few selections for the KO mold. theres the barebones version (without flames) the normal version (with flames) battle damaged barebones version, battle damaged normal version, and nemesis prime
So when are you going to review Big Firebird Nicee and her clones and finally have the this video was made for adult collectors finally live up to its reputation?
7:57 Autobots, PRESENT.
I gave up trying to get this guy because everytime I looked it was either between $250 and $400 and if I could find it cheaper it was some Chinese seller with like less that 20 feedback rating!
It's interesting how they basically just copied all the improvements verbatim from the weijiang m01 commander KO. I usually don't like to overemphasize the importance of unlicensed KOs on official products, but in this case it can't be a coincidence.
- new shoulder pads that cover up the back of the cab
- face swap gimmick
- wheels flipping up with an extra arch around it now
BTW did you know they made a nemesis version of this? It was...uh... exclusive to 7/11...
I also have the same problem with the hips man, it's a great toy but the hips really make it feel annoying
Seems Optimus REALLY wants to transform and roll out😂
По сути это оверсайз фигурки Прайма по 4-ому фильму
looks like you can unscrew the butt and tighten up the ratchets that way
Of course it's bootleg-y, you're talking about the shins of the figure.
I like the blue feet it makes it look more solid to me
Im already going to get this figure
his croch looks like rotf wheely
Hey The Last Knight was look like Game of Thrones Season 8. Because the add DRAGONS so Much like Daenerys and Optimus Primd
I should've got this instead of the actual evasion mode optimus prime
I dont understand why Wei Jiang never engineered a joint into the elbow above the transformation elbow to give him a proper elbow, nor why the original designers didnt do that
but I'm not a toy engineer so maybe they have thoughts I dont
did not know a leader evasion Optimus even existed though
This is what Optimus should've looked like in Bumblebee
3:26 get it the legs look "bootleggy".
I think this design is more g1 acurate than the michael bay 07 optimus
I forgot this thing existed...
Yo recuerdo que también sacaron un reepack de Soundwave de Titans Returns con los cacets para esa película y personalmente siempre quise conseguirlo ya que tengo los cacets de esa línea pero nunca llego el Soundwave a mi país
ngl Takara should rerelease this in a movie accurate deco
Does buyee ship to canada
i really want him but i am too poor to get him and i hate it