Nemesis Prime (San Diego Comic-Con 2008/ Hasbrotoyshop.com Exclusive)
Vehicle ModeRobot Mode
Allegiance: Decepticon
Size: Voyager
Price: $25 U.S.
Series: Classic/Generation One
Difficulty of Transformation: Medium
Color Scheme: Black, dark dull blue, moderately light gray, and some metallic teal, silver, transparent blue, and metallic dull purplish red
Rating: 9.8

(NOTE: Because this is a repaint, this is not a full-blown review. This mainly covers any changes made to the mold and the color scheme, and merely compares it to Classics Voyager Optimus Prime. For a review on the mold itself, read the review of Classics Voyager Optimus Prime here.)

    Available only at SDCC 2008 or Hasbrotoyshop.com, Universe 2.0 Nemesis Prime here is about what you'd expect if you heard it was a repaint of the Classics Voyager Optimus Prime mold. For a while now, evil Primes have tended to have the same black/gray/teal color scheme, and this version of Nemesis Prime is no different. As before, the metallic shade of teal looks great and is just the right shade, being neither too dark nor too light like on some previous versions of Nemesis Prime. He's got his fair share of paint apps with no real large parts being unpainted except his smokestack-gun, so that's definitely a plus. The very dark blue is a bit new, but it works well as another dark color, being offset very nicely by the teal and the gray plastic. The silver stripes in vehicle mode are pretty nice-looking, though with them being the same stripes as Optimus Prime on an exclusive toy, it's not quite as impressive. One odd thing, though, is that Nemesis Prime has transparent blue windows, a pretty big departure from previous versions of this character where the windows were red. (The optics are painted red in robot mode so that his face still looks eeevil.) The transparent blue isn't necessarily bad, but transparent red would have looked a lot better in its place and would have made the toy look even more eeevil.
    No mold changes have been made to Universe 2.0 Nemesis Prime.
    Universe 2.0 Nemesis Prime is a great (if unoriginal) repaint of one of the best Classics molds, and looks even better than the original, in my opinion. Out of all the "cheap" versions of this mold, this is the best, though if you can spare the money I think Botcon 2008 Optimus Prime is even better-looking.


Nemesis Prime Bio:
Broken by a nightmare eternity of torture at the hands of Straxus, Nemesis Prime does not remember what he was before he was this. He is the culmination of a grand plan never realized by Straxus before his destruction; a lowly warrior reconstructed to be the very image of Optimus Prime. Imprinted with memory engrams and combat algorithms recovered from hundreds of sources, he possesses much of the knowledge of the Autobot leader, but without any framework by which to organize it. Despite his incredible power, he is deeply unstable, a threat to Decepticons and Autobots alike. He cowers in the shadows of Cybertron, living only to stalk and destroy his fellow Transformers.
Strength: 10.0
Intelligence: 8.0
Speed: 6.0
Endurance: 9.0
Rank: 3.0
Courage: 9.0
Fireblast: 8.0
Skill: 5.0

Review by Beastbot

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