Title:
Optimus Prime Activator
Description:
Optimus Prime (Activators, 2008)
Known designers: Bill Rawley (Hasbro)
Part of the second wave of Activators, this toy is a smaller-scale (roughly Scout-sized) Optimus Prime with a push-button, spring-loaded autotransformation from vehicle to robot mode, although you have to turn him back into vehicle mode by hand. Unfortunately, Activators Optimus Prime has no axe accessory. Aww...But his hands were not designed to hold something, so why even bother?
This Optimus is scaled with the Universe (2008) Legends Class Bumblebee and Prowl toys.
When it comes to transformation, you can push the button or tug the lightbar to transform him into robot mode. In vehicle mode, the lightbar can be further pushed forward (with the sculpted thin panels underneath the light-bar heading front to his truck roof’s panel, holding them in place) to make the truck mode’s side doors/robot shoulders shrink securely in vehicle mode. Although not seen in the prototype/stock photos in the instructions, Optimus’ light bar can be folded to the back for a show-accurate robot mode. The prototype stock photos show the cab piece being pushed down further, but this cannot be done on the final. Depending on the individual copy, the panel that secures the connection can occasionally pop back to its proper position.
Known designers: Bill Rawley (Hasbro)
Part of the second wave of Activators, this toy is a smaller-scale (roughly Scout-sized) Optimus Prime with a push-button, spring-loaded autotransformation from vehicle to robot mode, although you have to turn him back into vehicle mode by hand. Unfortunately, Activators Optimus Prime has no axe accessory. Aww...But his hands were not designed to hold something, so why even bother?
This Optimus is scaled with the Universe (2008) Legends Class Bumblebee and Prowl toys.
When it comes to transformation, you can push the button or tug the lightbar to transform him into robot mode. In vehicle mode, the lightbar can be further pushed forward (with the sculpted thin panels underneath the light-bar heading front to his truck roof’s panel, holding them in place) to make the truck mode’s side doors/robot shoulders shrink securely in vehicle mode. Although not seen in the prototype/stock photos in the instructions, Optimus’ light bar can be folded to the back for a show-accurate robot mode. The prototype stock photos show the cab piece being pushed down further, but this cannot be done on the final. Depending on the individual copy, the panel that secures the connection can occasionally pop back to its proper position.
Theme:
Animated
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2008
Date Added:
2022-10-22 12:52:24
Date Added:
2022-10-22 12:52:24
