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Dr Va'al wrote:It looks like the design leak has not been plugged, as we have a fresh new image for the new Transformers: The Last Knight toyline, in the possible form (treat this as rumour until we know better) of leader of the Autobots Optimus Prime! The design shares some features with the Age of Extinction look, but looks a lot more streamlined in robot mode - check it out mirrored below from a variety of sources, and let us know what you think in the Energon Pub!

Wow, that actually looks pretty good! My guess is that it's a remold of the AOE one, but substantially upgraded. It is cool that his shoulder armor plates are actually their own thing, unlike AOE where they were formed by truck kibble.

Looks much better than the previous movie Optimus Prime (Although I don't actually own one), but that sword looks a bit small...

Looks more like Alpha Trion than Optimus Prime. I guess this is part of the movement to make Transformers more relatable to people by humanizing them more.

AoE was the worst. I don't even own it.

Dang it. I wish my Armor Knight Optimus had a tiny backpack

Hmm, looks alright. Need some more convincing, but at least this one looks better backpack wise

This design of Optimus is WAAAAAYYYY better than the Age of Extinction design. Fingers crossed and hope it is a legitimate design for the Last Knight Optimus Prime Leader figure.

itscramtastic wrote:Dang it. I wish my Armor Knight Optimus had a tiny backpack

Yeah, thats what I was thinking, ****! I dont want to own several leader Optimus toys using that Western Star Design. And while this one seems "better", we can see the listed paint apps and he will be bare bones with a ton of unpainted grey and blue plastic. Then again, its the same as with the original trilogy. The first leader wasnt screen accurate but it was fine, but then the ROTF leader was super screen accurate and then they kept rereleasing it looking better and better up until this **** year where they are still releasing that mold and hopefully making it right this time. I wasnt collecting at the time, so I am just buying the latest one and calling it a day. But with this AOE design, I fear I will be stuck in a new version of that cycle where there will be slight improvements each year or so to the same design and I wont know when to put my chips down and get it. I jut dont want to own many of them, and I really like my AD 31, easily the best paint job of the last 5 years.

But this is an exciting time nonetheless. I just adore seeing these early designs and wondering how things transform. Its really fun with movie toys and with RID confirmed as still releasing toys next year aong with generations, there will be a bunch of leaks and products revealed for us to talk about. Looking forward to it.

But damn, he needs mroe paint apps.

william-james88 wrote:But damn, he needs mroe paint apps.

I'm sure we can expect Takara to do something about that.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:But damn, he needs mroe paint apps.

I'm sure we can expect Takara to do something about that.

Yeah but I am sick of paying for imports. TR actually did a pretty good job with paint in comparison, its too bad we seem to be going back into a rut.

This thing looks AWESOME! This looks even better than the Armor Knight Prime to me!

SillySpringer wrote:This thing looks AWESOME! This looks even better than the Armor Knight Prime to me!

Do you own Armour Knight? Thats a toy you just have to own to see how awesome it is. The shinyness just distracts you so much from the back kibble that it all just dissapears.

william-james88 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:This thing looks AWESOME! This looks even better than the Armor Knight Prime to me!

Do you own Armour Knight? Thats a toy you just have to own to see how awesome it is. The shinyness just distracts you so much from the back kibble that it all just dissapears.

I don't own him, but GAWSH I wanted him. I was referring to how awesome the mold is on the new one. Just image this guy with the extra molding and paint of AK OP!

SillySpringer wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:This thing looks AWESOME! This looks even better than the Armor Knight Prime to me!

Do you own Armour Knight? Thats a toy you just have to own to see how awesome it is. The shinyness just distracts you so much from the back kibble that it all just dissapears.

I don't own him, but GAWSH I wanted him. I was referring to how awesome the mold is on the new one. Just image this guy with the extra molding and paint of AK OP!

Oh no argument there silly, thats why I was all torn up earlier. I like my AD 31 but you bet yourass I would have preferred getting that deco on a mold that doesnt have that insane backpack.

One thing to take note though, looking at those shoulder pins, this isnt a leader but more like a voyager. There could be a silver lining there since it wouldnt be like replacing AD31 and I could have a prime looking that way that scales with my OS Lockdown.

Can't wait to see this toy in hand...but we're 4 months from Toy Fair 2017.

william-james88 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:This thing looks AWESOME! This looks even better than the Armor Knight Prime to me!

Do you own Armour Knight? Thats a toy you just have to own to see how awesome it is. The shinyness just distracts you so much from the back kibble that it all just dissapears.

I don't own him, but GAWSH I wanted him. I was referring to how awesome the mold is on the new one. Just image this guy with the extra molding and paint of AK OP!

Oh no argument there silly, thats why I was all torn up earlier. I like my AD 31 but you bet yourass I would have preferred getting that deco on a mold that doesnt have that insane backpack.

One thing to take note though, looking at those shoulder pins, this isnt a leader but more like a voyager. There could be a silver lining there since it wouldnt be like replacing AD31 and I could have a prime looking that way that scales with my OS Lockdown.

I actually was going to mention that myself that I think it's a voyager, but then again the peg holes in his hands look a bit too small... It's probably voyager though, which would actually appeal to be more.

Quantum Surge wrote:Can't wait to see this toy in hand...but we're 4 months from Toy Fair 2017.

...and 18 days from election day...

SillySpringer wrote:

Quantum Surge wrote:Can't wait to see this toy in hand...but we're 4 months from Toy Fair 2017.

...and 18 days from election day...

? What's that got to do with anything? Did either of the new candidates put in their manifesto that shutting down Toy Fair would be a priority or something?

Kurona wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Quantum Surge wrote:Can't wait to see this toy in hand...but we're 4 months from Toy Fair 2017.

...and 18 days from election day...

? What's that got to do with anything? Did either of the new candidates put in their manifesto that shutting down Toy Fair would be a priority or something?

You read too much into what I say.

SillySpringer wrote:

Kurona wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Quantum Surge wrote:Can't wait to see this toy in hand...but we're 4 months from Toy Fair 2017.

...and 18 days from election day...

? What's that got to do with anything? Did either of the new candidates put in their manifesto that shutting down Toy Fair would be a priority or something?

You read too much into what I say.

Why shouldn't she? You posted stupid, off-topic stuff that serves no purpose, so, one would assume you had some hidden meaning behind it.

On a similar note, stay on topic please

Looks awesome. Much better than any of the AOE figures. I HATED how inaccurate the shoulder pads were on those things.

SlyTF1 wrote:Looks awesome. Much better than any of the AOE figures. I HATED how inaccurate the shoulder pads were on those things.

Since Hasbro was going by preliminary designs to make the AOE toys, blame ILM for changing the CGI models' designs from the ones they gave Hasbro to base the toys off of.

1984forever wrote:Looks more like Alpha Trion than Optimus Prime. I guess this is part of the movement to make Transformers more relatable to people by humanizing them more.

AoE was the worst. I don't even own it.

You know what would be a better way to make Transformers more relatable to people? Maybe you should let them have actual personalities.
Freakin' Rescue Bots gets that right, and it's meant to be accessible by Preschoolers. And yet the big-money summer blockbuster series either doesn't understand or doesn't care that the Transformers are the main characters in most versions.

And yeah, I walked out of AoE wishing I'd never walked in.

Zeedust wrote:

1984forever wrote:Looks more like Alpha Trion than Optimus Prime. I guess this is part of the movement to make Transformers more relatable to people by humanizing them more.

AoE was the worst. I don't even own it.

You know what would be a better way to make Transformers more relatable to people? Maybe you should let them have actual personalities.
Freakin' Rescue Bots gets that right, and it's meant to be accessible by Preschoolers. And yet the big-money summer blockbuster series either doesn't understand or doesn't care that the Transformers are the main characters in most versions.

And yeah, I walked out of AoE wishing I'd never walked in.

They had personalities.

SlyTF1 wrote:

Zeedust wrote:

1984forever wrote:Looks more like Alpha Trion than Optimus Prime. I guess this is part of the movement to make Transformers more relatable to people by humanizing them more.

AoE was the worst. I don't even own it.

You know what would be a better way to make Transformers more relatable to people? Maybe you should let them have actual personalities.
Freakin' Rescue Bots gets that right, and it's meant to be accessible by Preschoolers. And yet the big-money summer blockbuster series either doesn't understand or doesn't care that the Transformers are the main characters in most versions.

And yeah, I walked out of AoE wishing I'd never walked in.

They had personalities.

What was Arcee's personality? Or Barricade's? Or Brawl's? Blackout's? Scorponok's? Bonecrusher's? Sideswipe's? Sideways's? Any of the Constructicons's? Ravage's? Grindor's? Jolt's? Dino's? Any of the Wreckers's? Any of the Dreads's? Any of the Dinobots's? Shockwave's? Even Soundwave's?

In just the films, I mean, not in any external media.

(I'll ask nothing of the KSI Prototypes as they get a pass for deliberately being personality-less drones)

Sabrblade wrote:

SlyTF1 wrote:

Zeedust wrote:

1984forever wrote:Looks more like Alpha Trion than Optimus Prime. I guess this is part of the movement to make Transformers more relatable to people by humanizing them more.

AoE was the worst. I don't even own it.

You know what would be a better way to make Transformers more relatable to people? Maybe you should let them have actual personalities.
Freakin' Rescue Bots gets that right, and it's meant to be accessible by Preschoolers. And yet the big-money summer blockbuster series either doesn't understand or doesn't care that the Transformers are the main characters in most versions.

And yeah, I walked out of AoE wishing I'd never walked in.

They had personalities.

What was Arcee's personality? Or Barricade's? Or Brawl's? Blackout's? Scorponok's? Bonecrusher's? Sideswipe's? Sideways's? Any of the Constructicons's? Ravage's? Grindor's? Jolt's? Dino's? Any of the Wreckers's? Any of the Dreads's? Any of the Dinobots's? Shockwave's? Even Soundwave's?

In just the films, I mean, not in any external media.

(I'll ask nothing of the KSI Prototypes as they get a pass for deliberately being personality-less drones)

The wreckers (dotm) were stereotypical red-necks... I've legitimately got nothing on anyone else