Title:
Optimus Prime Jungle Planet
Description:
Optimus Prime (Deluxe, 2006)
Accessories: "’Jet-powered’ flying board”, missile, Jungle Planet Cyber Key Cyber Key Code: d7s9
Available in the ninth and final wave of Cybertron Deluxes, this unusual iteration of Optimus Prime is a redeco of Beast Wars 10th Anniversary Optimus Primal, transforming into a robotic gorilla in the pseudo-technorganic-looking style of the other Jungle Planet toys. He comes with a "’jet-powered’ flying board” with two 5mm posts at the base, allowing him to ride it in his gorilla mode, or hold it in robot mode via the 5mm posts on his robot palms/gorilla feet. When a Cyber Key is inserted at the rear of the board, a spring-loaded extending "assault blade” deploys, and a trigger is revealed to allow one to use the spring-loaded missile launcher at the tip. Though it is not intended to be removed, the blade can be popped off and held in Primal’s hand thanks to his poseable thumbs.
This figure contains an unusual amount of sculpted detail on the inside of the plastic. The gorilla mode’s chest has a ribcage, and the inside of the gorilla’s face has a sculpted microphone, which lines up perfectly with the robot mode’s head! Also, opening this toy’s chest in robot mode reveals sculpted detail resembling the Key to Vector Sigma as it appeared in Beast Machines. His beast mode features a painted scar over his one eye, a seeming homage Peter Jackson’s King Kong (released the previous year).
While this mold was first released as part of the Beast Wars 10th Anniversary line and is obviously meant to be Optimus Primal, it was developed to fit in with Cybertron’s Jungle Planet aesthetic, "in case” the Beast Wars Anniversary release didn’t pan out (according to Aaron Archer’s statements at BotCon 2005).
This mold was also used to make BotCon 2014 Apelinq and Primal Prime.
Accessories: "’Jet-powered’ flying board”, missile, Jungle Planet Cyber Key Cyber Key Code: d7s9
Available in the ninth and final wave of Cybertron Deluxes, this unusual iteration of Optimus Prime is a redeco of Beast Wars 10th Anniversary Optimus Primal, transforming into a robotic gorilla in the pseudo-technorganic-looking style of the other Jungle Planet toys. He comes with a "’jet-powered’ flying board” with two 5mm posts at the base, allowing him to ride it in his gorilla mode, or hold it in robot mode via the 5mm posts on his robot palms/gorilla feet. When a Cyber Key is inserted at the rear of the board, a spring-loaded extending "assault blade” deploys, and a trigger is revealed to allow one to use the spring-loaded missile launcher at the tip. Though it is not intended to be removed, the blade can be popped off and held in Primal’s hand thanks to his poseable thumbs.
This figure contains an unusual amount of sculpted detail on the inside of the plastic. The gorilla mode’s chest has a ribcage, and the inside of the gorilla’s face has a sculpted microphone, which lines up perfectly with the robot mode’s head! Also, opening this toy’s chest in robot mode reveals sculpted detail resembling the Key to Vector Sigma as it appeared in Beast Machines. His beast mode features a painted scar over his one eye, a seeming homage Peter Jackson’s King Kong (released the previous year).
While this mold was first released as part of the Beast Wars 10th Anniversary line and is obviously meant to be Optimus Primal, it was developed to fit in with Cybertron’s Jungle Planet aesthetic, "in case” the Beast Wars Anniversary release didn’t pan out (according to Aaron Archer’s statements at BotCon 2005).
This mold was also used to make BotCon 2014 Apelinq and Primal Prime.
Theme:
Cybertron
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2006
Date Added:
2022-10-15 18:33:34
Date Added:
2022-10-15 18:33:34
