Studio Series Commander Class Optimus Prime Review

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of the podcast folks today for all things transformers,

all of Hasbro's panels at San Diego Comic -Con.

And the funny thing is, is until I actually saw.

That it was San Diego. I thought they were bringing

back pulse con like literally when I first saw

the article about the sending of comic -con plans

The image by itself with the trees and the this

and the that like oh, it's pulse con They brought

it back because it says Hasbro pulse at San Diego,

and I'm like oh Okay, but it is what it is Continuing

on down the Peter Cullen Optimus Prime path,

we have the prime packaging first look SS86 -31

Commander Class Optimus Prime This figure is

Gonna be interesting. We will talk about that

more in a moment. But what do you think of the

packaging overall? I I love the box art, but

it's done by I think Marcelo So I expect nothing

less. Excellent. Awesome. Yeah, it looks spectacular.

Now the figure itself, I have reservations. We're

going to talk about that right now. So the next

story we have here is the SS -86 Commander Optimus

Prime full images. And I'm just going to start

with the very first image with him standing in

his trailer upright with the stuff. When I first

saw these, I was very much in line with what

you thought and what you think, and I'll let

you get to what you think in a moment. But the

funny thing is, as I'm seeing more and more of

the images, I'm like, I kinda really dig it.

I want to, but I kinda really dig it. And what

I dig about it is the alt mode more than the

robot mode for me. So what are your thoughts

so my my main gripes with it to be honest are

I find that lack of detail an issue like I Primes

head looks like crap The glass on his windows

of his truck kind of look crap I don't know like

I expected more of a polished figure This looks

it looks like a deluxe class Paint job. Yeah

Yeah, they painted his the yellow parts of his

You know his waist and the the blue part and

they you know, they got some of the stuff, you

know painted decent but When I look at the box

art and how he looked in the movie and then I

look at this I don't know if I would waste the

money. Yeah I feel like the earth rise Did a

better job, not only in proportions, but in color

detail. I mean, I have that figure and while

the window on the glass was kind of meh at best,

I feel like a lot of his colors, yes, they're

animation. Yes, they're, you know, made to look

different. But when I put the box art side by

side with this. And I look at the shot, you know,

with Marcelo, I feel like there should be more

of that movie paint job aesthetic, more of the

shininess, more of the, you know, the grit, more

of the like the head sculpt is not the same.

Yeah, it's. I mean, I love that you can move

the arms at the shoulder joints Whereas you couldn't

do that before over the chest like you can move

it to do the swinging punch You can open the

matrix you can have the the pose ability you

get the ankle tilt. I Totally give them on pose

ability like hands down and in vehicle mode Hands

down like the best even the robot mode like that.

My main gripe is it doesn't look Like a premium

figure. Yeah, I will agree for that. Yeah, I

will agree with that. It looks Like if if if

this was, you know 50 55 I'd be like, okay, I

mean I might but for 85 90 No Like I could, for

10 more dollars, I could buy a knockoff masterpiece

without the trailer and get all of the same stuff

with a polished paint job. So, and again, I could

be completely wrong with what I'm about to say,

but I think this is what they did. And I don't

know because I didn't watch the Hasbro pulse

fan stream about this or if they've even done

one yet or whatever, but I'm sure they've discussed

it leading up to San Diego and everything else.

And like I said earlier, we're going to get into

San Diego in a little bit here. But looking at

this again, more clearly as I like, I'm not laying

down in bed and watching it on my phone or looking

at an image. Oh, the thing got announced. Okay,

great. I'll look at it in the morning. As I'm

actually sitting here looking at these images,

all of them from the ones where he's just like

standing up in the, in the trailer thing where

it's vertical. to the pose, the action pose and

robot mode to the vehicle mode. I think what

they did is they made a matte optimus prime.

This is not glossy prime. This is not full on

detail. Those windows look plastic as hell. I'm

not saying the robots are going to have glass

windows, but literally the, and I get it. We

all want animation accurate y 'all. How long

have Steve and I been bitching about? We've been

bitching about this for 16 years now on All Things

Transformers. Oh, by the way, happy 16th anniversary.

November, wow. August 8th, 2024, 16th anniversary

of All Things Transformers. You're probably going

to get this episode before then, folks, because

as of right now, as you're hearing my voice,

Steve is out of town. But it just looks too,

like, I like Matt. That finishes fine on certain

things. But this matte finish looks flat as hell.

Those windows look like cardboard cutouts that

are not cardboard. Well, and this is the thing.

I think if the head sculpt had the proper, you

know, the proper head on it, like if they took,

um, what the heck is it? The, uh, Not I'm trying

to I'm trying to find it like specifically, but

it's an optimist prime that It's not the masterpiece,

but it's it's it's it's one of the it's not the

earth rise it's not Yeah, that's that's the hard

part is I'm trying to If I was gonna give I was

gonna spend the $90 on this I would spend it

for roller and for this to entirely stay in vehicle

mode To be able to use the trailer with roller

and with my other transformers I would never

transform optimus prime into robot mode if I

had this so the This is the one that I was thinking

of They should have given this figure the level

of paint detail they gave the Generations Leader

Optimus Prime Volvo VNR 300. I agree. The paint

job that they gave the one that was Christmas

Prime and the one alternative, they should have

given it the darker red and given it the darker

blue from that figure. some of the grays, yes,

he had white, but some of the silver in the places

that made sense, the clear glass to see either

blue clear glass or clear glass to see the matrix

and quite honestly, the head sculpt. Yeah, the

head sculpt is from it. I feel like they botched

it on this one. Mean it is accurate to the animation,

but the animation is way more detail Yeah, it's

the animation of the movie is way more detailed

than this if you if you yeah now if they were

going for studio series 84 I Would probably give

this to them But being that the movie was so

polished Like the knockoffs have better decos

on this I mean And and I'm not saying like oh

boo on Hasbro cuz like I mean it is a great figure

their articulation the movement I mean as a bendable

hand like his hands fold into his wrists So I

mean he has a lot going for him. He really does

like he can bend his his legs, but I think they

also took cues from Masterpiece 44 Optimus Prime

and That's where they got a lot of this articulation

a lot of the detail a lot of that stuff For me

like it's the windows. It's the the head sculpt

and it's the paint job. It doesn't feel premium

to me. Yeah, and I I feel like it's just been

done better on the Volvo But even the reds and

the blues on their Earthrise leader Optimus Prime.

I feel like was better Than what we're getting

here. Yeah Absolutely. This looks like a cheaper

figure. It may not be, but it looks that way.

And that's where I have the gripe. Otherwise,

I think that it would be flawless and I would

be like, this is a must -own. I know this is

a silly thing to complain about, folks. Look,

I get it. First world problems, whatever. But

for $90. Yeah, exactly. For $90? Here's my other

issue. Yeah, like I said everything on the figure

is the matte finish is solid colors and I get

it It's supposed to be animation accurate to

the movie. It's supposed to be the little flame

stocks to reenact the scene of him exploding

after they after the Decepticon shoot him to

transform those should be the same orange but

translucent color or have some sort of brightness

to them to make it look like it just looks like

he's on two orange jacks at wheel jacks garage

in that image so to be frank the prime should

have had the yellow park yes yes yes like honestly

that's where i would that's what i was expecting

Like, and then to see this spit out, I was kind

of like, I was I was so excited for it beforehand

and then I saw it and I was like, no, maybe I

don't. Exactly. Like, yeah. They did a better

job. With serious, serious 86 leader class or

not leader class commander class bottom is prime

than they did. with commander class optimus prime

okay look folks everybody knows last 16 years

you've been listening to steve last whatever

how long you've been listening to me too on here

y 'all know i am a rodimus fanboy at heart and

the fact that i'm and i'm not just saying this

because Ooh, Optimus Prime, worst leader ever,

whatever. I'm not saying it because of that,

I'm saying it because it's fact. I can look right

now on my desk, next to the translucent purple

version of the Galvatron figure that they did.

I'm looking right at Commander Class Optimus

Prime, and it is a much better representation

of the character in the animation. Then this

is this is good ish it just like It's not polished

enough there isn't like you said there isn't

enough detail What details are there are good

but for the price? Mm -hmm. I'd rather pay Yolo

part for their awesome stuff that they do honestly

in the end Because I like their stuff a hell

of a lot more than I like this No, I agree and

like if I wanted a prime that transforms I Would

go with the Magic square up MS01 X light up light

of freedom optimist prime metallic version because

honestly, I love the deco of him with the metallic

look And he comes with the matrix. He's got posable

fingers. He's, I don't know, just it, and it

transforms. So I'm so down with that one. But

the, uh, yeah, I, if I was getting one that just

doesn't transform the yellow part for sure. All

right, folks, we've got one more toy to talk

about before we go to comics. And then we're

going to close the show out with SDCCCCCC. Transformers

Generations Legacy United Leader Soundwave in

hand images coming to us via an eBay seller.

which I trans -meme -y, okay? We can share for

you our first in -hand images of the highly anticipated

Transformers Generations Legacy United Leader

Sound. That's a mouthful. This is a redeco of

the elusive Netflix Voyager sound wave, plus

a rumble toy -inspired redeco, Ravage redeco,

and our first official release of Buzzsaw, which

is a Laserbeak redeco. So this is the elusive

Netflix sound wave in the generations line It

looks really good from all angles Yep, the only

way like I don't even remember what the Netflix

one transforms into I'm sure they found a way

to do tape deck mode fine Whatever, but really

looking at these images I would if I had this

I would keep this in a robot mode all day long

because it looks so damn good Yep The only thing

I'm noticing is I'm curious about the transformation

because and I'm sure there's another article

on TFW 2005 that shows the transformation His

butt has all the tape buttons as well as his

front Which is weird to me Oh Interesting Yeah,

you look at pay image seven and then you go back

to like image three or four or five Yeah, they're

on both sides of them, which is weird But yeah,

I do dig this and I love those cassettes and

seeing buzzsaw for the first time that does look

really really cool I Find it funny that ravage

respect is it he's a favage Yeah, he's a yeah

the other ones you can tell Can fit in the cassette

thing. He just looks like oh I can only fit one

today pretty much. Yeah Sound wave is like i'm

a little full I'd be surprised if they can fit

all three. I don't think they can I i'm pretty

sure I don't think they can but yeah I mean it

looks cool Alright folks, Skybound Transformers

comic solicitations for October 2024. I don't

think we did the September ones, but I don't

have those pulled up right now. But in October

of this year, we are getting the next new story

arc for Transformers and Void Rivals with Transformers

and Void Rivals issue 13 of each series. Daniel

Warren Johnson, Jason Howard, Mike Spicer. On

Transformers, Robert Kirkman, Lorenzo Di Felici,

Patricio Depeche, on void rivals. For Transformers,

new story arc, the secret origin of Starscream,

dun dun dun. After the stunning events of his

battle with the Decepticons, Starscream has been

left for dead. Now the secret to surviving the

future may be revisiting his shocking past, dun

dun dun. What do we always say around here, folks?

What do we always say? Oh Hello, what do you

mean? Hello? I said, I don't know seeds of the

future a lie buried in the past So that's for

transformers 13 void rivals 13 pythonia of Cobra

love ventures deep into space Well, her mission

spells certain doom for the Void Rivals. Jesse,

aka Matrix Prime, and I have been reviewing the

Void Rivals over on his comic book show, another

comic review, and it's a really, really good

space series. It has hints of Transformers. It

has certain Transformers characters show up in

it, but it's also its own new, wholly interesting

universe that they're starting with Skybound

Comics. Skybound Entertainment Comics, I should

say, so very, very interested to see what the

new story arcs for those are going to be. And

then the rest of the show is San Diego Comic

-Con, folks. So the coolest thing so far that

I can tell that Hasbro is going to be doing at

San Diego Comic -Con is this. Hasbro Pulse Fan

Streaming Studio. For the first time ever, Hasbro

will be giving fans a front row seat to all the

Hasbro SDCC action, with exclusive video streaming

from the booth, hosted by Toy Hunters Jordan

Henborough, and available for fans 18 and plus

on the Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel. Studio content

will feature interviews, panel recaps, product

reveals, franchise and design discussions, and

more. Fans can expect interviews and appearances

by RFS Kitchen, Jazz, and Frank Todaro Starscream,

Transformers G140th anniversary voice actors

Robert Kirkman, Chromebook writer, screenwriter,

producer, and chairman of SkyBot Entertainment.

Mark Rosewater, and Head Designer for Magic the

Gathering, Sergeant... Oh, Head Designer for

Magic the Gathering, Sergeant Rosewater, G .I.

Joe Icahn, and more. Now, when I first saw this,

I thought, oh, they're going to have a live audience

for the Hasbro Pulse fan stream thing that they

do on Thursdays. That apparently is not what

this is. That's what I thought it was. But it's

okay. It's a booth thing at SDCC. That's cool.

On Thursday, July 25th, they're going to do Transformers

1 panel at 11 .45 a .m. in Hall H. On Friday,

they've got the Energon Universe Is Here panel

with Daniel Warren Johnson, Joshua Williamson,

Robert Kirkman, Tom Reilly, and Sean Mankiewicz.

The Hasbro panel from 6 to 7 p .m. on that Friday.

Join the Hasbro Transformers toy development

team as they take you behind the scenes to unveil

the latest character figures from across the

iconic brand. Plus, time permitting, there will

also be a Q &A session filled with trivia and

more. And that time's not going to be permitting.

I can guarantee it. So, yeah, Hasbro at SCCCCCC

this year. Yeah, I don't know what to think.

Oh boy, if Megatron doesn't know what to think

I'm I'm I'm waiting to see what what comes out

of this. Mm -hmm. I'd love them to do It and

this is not even transformers related, but it's

Hasbro related GI Joe classified Remaster of

the deep series Cobra commander In the battle

armor, I want to see that I want to see Hugh

Jackman Wolverine in the suit Yeah, a lot of

it because I still need that but But yeah, otherwise

like I don't know what to think of Of the rest

of it because A lot of the figures I get a feeling

from At least the transformer side. I'm probably

not gonna care. I'll care about transformers

one Probably not about the rest. Yeah and But

I'm hoping to see some stuff with the Marvel

Legends and and I do have to Not usually one

to do this and but I have to because it affects

me discussing and reporting on this or reacting

to it. Whoever AZT is on TFW2005, whoever posted

this news, I really need to use spell check because

I seriously doubt that Hasbro Booth experiential

area, it should be experimental area, not Yeah,

it's misspelled everywhere. No experiential is

Like I think they're talking about the I've never

heard of that word before ever so I guess I have

to go look it up because I And yes, you did just

say what it was. That's a real word. I'm relating

or relating to or derived from experience or

pertaining. That's okay. I'm sorry AZT. Big word.

Hey, well To be fair, I have seen people in TFW

not use grammar. I'm just saying it looks weird

as hell because I've never seen the word before

and I'm sorry if I've never seen it before. So

they're going to have a bunch of panels at SDCC.

They're going to have the Paramount Pictures

panel July 25th. Hasbro GI Joe brand panel Marvel

Legends panel, like you mentioned Star Wars panel,

obviously Transformers panel Power Rangers across

the Morphin grid Friday nights 5 for 5 30 p .m.

6 3 p .m. And then Saturday 50 years of Dungeons

and Dragons magic gathering nobody cares at least

on this podcast at all Blades of Glory Beyblade

X Comic Con Showdown So there's that But yeah

Hasbro at SDCCCCCCCC this year SDCCCCCCCC We

don't see nothing so that's the news we got what

else you want to talk about? Just wish I had

the funds for the metallic version of Optimus

Prime. All right. Yeah, but anyways, I'm waiting

on SDCC to see what comes out of it. I would

guarantee about a year from now, after this Studio

Series 86 Prime comes up, we're going to get

a premium finish from Takara. Oh, most definitely.

And when they do, it'll probably have all the

fixes that I'm looking for. Exactly. Because

that's what they did with Beast Wars, with Kingdom.

Everything I painted on all those stupid things.

Had I waited. But we know you're impatient when

it comes to Beast Wars, so we get it. And honestly,

it doesn't matter if God wanted it or not. Yeah,

exactly. So, yeah. And I got to have fun with

it. Very cool, very cool. So, yeah. So, yeah,

I mean, there's not a whole, whole heck of a

lot. Going on in the transformer sphere probably

after SDCC there will yeah most likely but Yeah,

most likely But yeah, no, I'm still loving You

know The stuff we've always loved about transformers

and that's the funny thing is that they are in

a position now where? They need to get the children

of this generation And you can talk about this

a little more because I know you have kids obviously,

but you the way you do your your your kids the

stuff with your kids for when it comes to toy

stuff is is what it is, but It's one of those

things where when when we were kids when I was

a kid in the 80s It was everywhere and as I'm

an adult now in my mid 40s And I don't have children.

It's like oh Okay, I think Hasbro needs to Do

something besides getting the color they need

to find that balance between collector and kid

And I don't know if they found that here. They

well, this is the thing kids nowadays don't play

with toys That's very true. They really don't

it's people our generation are like I have this

nostalgia for this item that I used to own But

I wanted to look like the show And so therefore.

It, you know, you either have the nostalgia for

what it looked like in the show or for. The original

figure and we're hitting this cusp of. It's more

so adult collectors. And not so much kids, and

that's why all of the kids products that have

come out. Have been shelf warmers. And the figures

that everybody wants have not yeah but Yeah,

but you said as yourself before on here when

you've told us that you've gone to Walmart or

you've gone to this store that store and The

stuff from a year ago is still on the shelves

because it's not gonna sell Well, that's the

thing too Target is just en masse Clearancing

off everything because nobody's buying it So

I I feel like we're hitting this paradigm shift

of stuff that We may see a lot of stuff either

become exclusive or A lot less of it with A higher

price bracket. And I think, unfortunately, sadly,

that's where they're leaning towards is that

higher price bracket more so than attempting

to capture young people's minds again. I mean,

one can hope, but I feel like the media, the

storytelling needs to be better. And from what

I've heard, Skybound is doing well with trends.

They are better than the animation is done in

years. Yeah, they are and transformers prime

The last good series we got really in 2012. Yeah

Robles in disguise wasn't before that was animated

before that was Beast Wars so And it is what

it is I'm sure well see here's the thing and

I don't mean to be morbid about this But I'm

gonna be so warning folks if you don't like morbidity

and move on about five seconds or so Like I've

been saying in other podcasts and I said on the

dragon's lair with Kai dragon media and everywhere

else in the last X number of months or years

They're going to have to get That younger audience

back into toy playing with toys and toy collecting

because we all are gonna be here forever Us old

hats us collector. We're not gonna be around

forever No, but the other issue is People are

not spending money because the economy right

so I'm saying as far as their marketing Again,

they need a balance between the kid market and

the adult market. And I think because of this,

the fact that this is anniversary year for the

brand and all of that, they are trying their

best and unfortunately failing because honestly,

I think Frodo Man said it, I think I've said

it too, but like seriously, what are they doing

for the 40th anniversary year? Other than finally

announcing something we long thought was going

to be announced, which is this SS 8631 Like I

get it maybe more like we already said when we

went through all this any it may be these panels

at San Diego they're gonna finally give us like

the roadmap to the rest of the 40th anniversary

celebration, but like you would think Hasbro

and Hasbro pulse especially with how passionate

Ben is with how passionate everybody else on

the Transformers pulse team is For those fan

streams those live streams on YouTube that they

do You would think that they would want to even

if it's something small It they released the

Beast Machine score this year Like that had never

been released before Oh, and by the way, Hasbro,

where the hell is the Beast Wars score that you

promised us? Where's that soundtrack album? That

was supposed to drop on July 28th. Yeah, really.

They didn't want to give it to us. Well, X is

going to give it to them if they don't, you know,

pony up the beasts, so... What, Deadpool? No.

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scenes before I have Steve run through the whatever

he's gonna say to close the show out, when I'm

looking for stories for us to talk about, I'm

looking for things that I know we are going to

want to talk about, that we are going to want

to react to. I am not getting every single news

story from this or any other Transformers website.

I am not getting, like, there was several news

stories about some other figures that I... Probably

have never heard of or something or other I'm

like, why would we talk about that? So I curate

and cult it like this was seven stories granted

the SDCC CCCC thing was the biggest one because

it's all announcements for the panels and whatever

but That's coming up this week Like even if this

wasn't an SDCC week week weekend thing. I still

normally if you Anyone's listening to the sound

of my voice, y 'all know, normally we have six

to eight stories, maybe sometimes ten. I usually

keep the stories even, because that way, we could

either do three and thre - like if I wanted to

talk about three and you wanted - like if there

were three Beast Wars stories right now, you'd

be all over that. You know, three and three,

four and four, blah blah blah blah. And unfortunately,

there just isn't. And maybe we can have another

reaction type episode, obviously, for once SDCC

is over but until then it's we're halfway through

the 40th anniversary year and we're still waiting

it's not it's not we are here we are waiting

it's we are still waiting So give us some closing

lines we shall we shall see we shall see Galvatron

we shall see Yeah, so thank you as always for

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