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
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
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*")
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 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 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 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.
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.
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 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
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
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.
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 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 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.
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!
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
I had the weijiang version of the voyager mold, it was pretty similar to this one but even more “masterpiece” like. Ended up selling it because it didnt fit with my collection
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
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
That intro makes me think Prime is about to drop an insane diss track.
Top ten rappers Eminem is too afraid to diss
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.
That Roll Out Command Optimus Prime is gonna be a fun watch whenever it gets a review
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)
For those who are confused by the paint job, this is Evasion Mode Optimus, with G1 Optimus's color scheme
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
Bro Optimus can’t resist grabbing the soap after it was dropped
Seeing Optimus bend throughout the video, unprompted, was so funny xDD
I have the Nemesis Prime version of this figure, absolutely love it. Probably my favorite movie Optimus’s
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!
Idk why I love it when transformers figures fall over like how this figure does
Unites all us fans
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.
4:14 the "i'm sorry" pose of the hips ratchet joint
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
@@Juassicparktrex1i thought they were gears
I always thought this figure was some weird fever dream, weird to actually see someone talk about it
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
Optimus has teeth in the movies. I found this out stairing at his face too much
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 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.
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
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.
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!!
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.
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 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
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
This toy is one of my all time favourite Primes
Oh, Prime-san is so polite!
You made this figure look so good, I bought it and it’s dope as hell
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
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!
Y’know I’ve always wanted this ever since I laid my eyes on it way back in the day
I imagine that because they retrofitted the ratchets on to the hips of the figure, it caused them to be loose
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
The teeth is actually accurate to the bayverse design
This thing faux forms to heck yet the toy itself is remarkably clean.
I remember this fig when it came out. Always thought it was neat before the SS fig came out
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.
7:57 Autobots, PRESENT.
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
Your Optimus is an apologetic salaryman.
It's always the bad ones that looks badass
I agree
it really puts the bad in badass
I just got the evasion mode prime for my birthday. (Always wanted this guy tho)
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.
the blue feet looks like he just sat in a hot tub of paint
This feels like a KO upscale retool it’s so crazy that this is official
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.
That’s why Bumblebee’s head in the BB Movie and ROTB is the Bayverse Bumblebee head
this figure is like someones 2007 deviantart digibash of bayverse prime with his g1 color scheme brought to life
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
Ah yes, the Japanese buyee exclusive, OP with built in bow gesture
to this day i still want this guy
This figure is an enigma to me, cause it borrows some enhancements from the weijiang KO that came out years before
nah you know what was really funny, the twins
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 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
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
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.
3:26 get it the legs look "bootleggy".
I remember when Black Apple started the upgrades for the original figure
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’d always see pics of it but I had no idea it was a leader class
The more I think about the production of bumblebee kinda makes me want Paramount to release a animated version of Michael bay’s bumblebee
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
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 wish they would release this figure at this scale again.
I have to say the G1 colors on og bayverse prime looks great
I just found out about this today when jcc2224 mentioned it in his video on the transformers adventure large optimus prime
I always felt that Takara made this to compete with WeiJaing's M-01 Commander
Basically mpm evasion mode Optimus
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.
this going to be off topic but is anyone elses legacy twincast figures shipping out or is it just me?
Seems Optimus REALLY wants to transform and roll out😂
looks like you can unscrew the butt and tighten up the ratchets that way
I like the blue feet it makes it look more solid to me
The only Bumblebee figures in getting is Earthslark deluxe and ROTB SS 100
Alita: bend over
Prime: 6:54
his croch looks like rotf wheely
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.
Of course it's bootleg-y, you're talking about the shins of the figure.
This is what Optimus should've looked like in Bumblebee
Does buyee ship to canada
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 also have the same problem with the hips man, it's a great toy but the hips really make it feel annoying
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!
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
I think this design is more g1 acurate than the michael bay 07 optimus
I forgot this thing existed...
Im literally getting this figure today lol
I had the weijiang version of the voyager mold, it was pretty similar to this one but even more “masterpiece” like. Ended up selling it because it didnt fit with my collection
@@moomanchu608 ah what a shame, was it because it didnt look like BB Optimus?
ngl Takara should rerelease this in a movie accurate deco
По сути это оверсайз фигурки Прайма по 4-ому фильму
Im already going to get this figure
Good vid 👍🏻