Optimal
Optimus
Size: Super
Difficulty of Transformation: Hard
Color Scheme: Chrome deep blue, chrome maroon, neon orange, silver, maroon, black, blue, brown, and clear, colorless plastic
Rating: 8.0
Beast mode is a metallized ape. This mode is kind of cramped, but his face is very fierce and his eyes glow orange when you pull a lever on his back (as long as you put batteries in him). His hands are large, and although he doesn’t have much fur, he has short legs and long arms and looks like a gigantic battle ape. His large feet are a nice touch, too. He has blast-off plates on his arms, although they can come off easily and are somewhat annoying.
Vehicle mode number one is a kind of tank. This mode is very sturdy and, along with the other vehicle mode, has a little cockpit that you can put miniature Beast Wars figures in. The cockpit is very detailed. Although his hands stick out sort of awkwardly in the front, his armor plates and the rest of his body look very nice, with an engine on the bottom of his feet. This mode is very hard to transform into, though.
Vehicle mode number two is a kind of plane. Although this mode looks sort of poor on the bottom (like his ape mode with wings and his arms up), and his arms stick out a bit, this mode looks nice with the cockpit, missle launchers(as well as in the other three modes), and his engines on his feet. His wings look small in proportion to his body, however.
Robot mode, from top to bottom, is over a foot tall! His cockpit becomes his stomach. This mode looks a lot like the ape mode, except for his face, which glows green when you pull his lever; his missle launcher, which glow red when you pull his lever; and his longer legs and arms are spread out farther from his body. He has a gun, but he can’t hold it very well in his hands. His feet look sort of odd in this mode, but there are few extras in this mode, as well as in any mode. His arms look oddly placed, too, and his face doesn’t stay in its place after a while very well.
A well-structured and sturdy robot; highly recommended, although a bit odd-looking in robot mode. This robot costs lots of moolah, and you need batteries not included with the set to make his eyes and missle launchers light up. Large weapons, and well worth the price.