Like many of the other Prime Masters, Liege Maximo has a very generic robot mode that doesn't really look anything like he's been pictured as in the past. No "Loki-Bot" here, sadly. He's got fairly normal robotic fists molded into his arms, slightly skinny rectnagular legs molded into his... well... leg piece, and a couple of vent details on his chest. His head has small side antennae, with a rectangular bump on his forehead and a "normal" face. The only thing that really sets Liege Maximo apart here is his color scheme, which is gray on the legs, body, and on his helmet, with fuchsia on his arms, upper legs, and face. No other colors are visible in this mode, so it's a very two-tone color scheme, although the rather unique usage of fuchsia on a Prime Master does make him stand out a bit more. Like with all Prime Masters, in this mode Liege Maximo can move at the neck, as well as back-and-forth at the shoulders, hips, and knees (the latter two as one for both legs, since the legs are molded together). In Maximo's "core" mode, he's got a rather unique, evil design, made up of several angular forest green shapes that look a bit like an evil face with fangs and a large nose. I'm not sure if that was the intent, but that's what I see it as. The rest of the core mode (except for the gray legs on the back, which stick out a tad) is fuchsia, with rather ornamental detailing around the symbol. There's feathered-like details near the top, with some claw-like marks above the center. There's also some angular details down the sides and coming in on the bottom "chin" area, making this look even more like a face. This is one of the easiest Prime Masters to use in place of a Titan Master on a Titans Return toy, since it's easily see-able as an evil head.
    Like the other Prime Master sets, Liege Maximo comes with a Pretender shell homage from G1 that he can fit in. For this guy, it's a shell calling back to the Pretender monster Skullgrin. He's a pretty fearsome medieval-style monster, with a fanged, horned skull like some kind of bull-demon. As if that wasn't enough, he's got a skeleton "belt buckle" as well. He has angular, medieval armor covering his muscular chest, abs, and waist, with some angular kneecaps and hoof-like feet. There's also some angular bits on the arms, as well-- it's all very well-detailed, at least when it comes to the mold. He's got a nice amount of bone-white paint on the head and waist to fit with the gray plastic on most of his body and fuchsia on his arms, abs and upper legs. As for his weapon, it's a three-pronged claw that Skullgrin can hold in either of his fists (it looks very oversized this way) or it can be stored on his upper back. The rest of Skullgrin is pretty typical for a Prime Master's Pretender shell-- from a side view it's not as impressive, as it's a bit too bulky and is completely unpainted on the back end, just being gray with some basic robotic details. He can move back-and-forth at the shoulders, but that's it-- no other articulation in this mode. Skullgrin has a weapon mode, which he transforms into in just the same manner as all other Prime Master Pretender shells-- lay the toy down on its stomach, flip the weapon on his back forward, rotate the peg in between his legs down to become the handle larger TFs can hold him by, and then if you desire plug in Liege Maximo (or another Prime Master) in core mode on the top to "power up" the weapon. As is also typical with Prime Masters, this mode is very weak, as the entirety of the front of the Pretender mode just hangs there off the bottom, and the arms also don't go anywhere. The three-pronged claw weapon does look pretty wicked with some silver paint detailing, but ultimately it's too short compared to the main body of this weapon mode. I'd recommend just ignoring the weapon modes for these toys for the most part, honestly.
    Liege Maximo/Skullgrin has a fairly interesting color scheme, as well as a pretty unique symbol on his core mode that looks like a face and thus could more easily be used with Titans Return toys than most other Prime Masters. Skullgrin has some nice detailing, though the claw weapon mode looks weak even for a Prime Master set weapon mode because of how proportionally small the claw is. Still, out of the first wave of Prime Masters he's the most unique and my favorite.
 

Review by Beastbot

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