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I finally found a well price MP Optimus Primal (aka. Beast Convoy). Right place, right time as usual. This is the MP-38 version, which is effectively the same as the first repelase, but recoloured to match its toy counterpart. It was also marketed under the Japanese Beast Wars 2 lineup rather than Beast Wars like the first one.
This isi my second MP Beast. with my first being Black Arachnia.As I expected, the Beast alt mode had to take a few more... liberties at presuming you can can suspending your disbelief. Very obvious robot kibble on the legs, but it is tougher to pull off a perfect animal.
Additional hinges do help with the form, though, including an ab crunch of sorts for the rear legs, butterfly joints for the shoulders, and moving of a flap to allow for extra range of head motion.
Interchangeable faces on the Gorilla mode allow for two expressions.
Transformation into robot mode isn't exactly the same as the OG toy, and the resulting figure has slightly better articulation than it's origin, which is a testament to how well designed it was back in the day. Sadly, those wonky disconnected elbows are still a thing with this figure.
All of your favourite weapons make a return here.. sort of. There is an extra face plate with the mout piece down, and for this version of the toy you get a Mutant Mask to replicate the gimick of the Beast War toys from the first season... not sure if the Anime made use of this in canon or not.
The bladed weapons are definitely larger when compared to the original toy (proportionally anyway.. physically I think they might be the same), with the MP including a double bladed form for separate wielding. The Skull Mace definitely go a larger handle, and a change upgrade from the original string. Sadly his shoulder cannons and wrist blasters, whiile functional, got nerfed, and had the spring function removed. There's a plastic bracket you can use to hold all the weaponry to the back of the figure, but it's unlikel you'll ever actually do this permanently.
Finally, one last gimmick is that you can replicate Primal's flight mode by flipping a panel on this back and revealing boosters.
DSC_9681
I finally found a well price MP Optimus Primal (aka. Beast Convoy). Right place, right time as usual. This is the MP-38 version, which is effectively the same as the first repelase, but recoloured to match its toy counterpart. It was also marketed under the Japanese Beast Wars 2 lineup rather than Beast Wars like the first one.
This isi my second MP Beast. with my first being Black Arachnia.As I expected, the Beast alt mode had to take a few more... liberties at presuming you can can suspending your disbelief. Very obvious robot kibble on the legs, but it is tougher to pull off a perfect animal.
Additional hinges do help with the form, though, including an ab crunch of sorts for the rear legs, butterfly joints for the shoulders, and moving of a flap to allow for extra range of head motion.
Interchangeable faces on the Gorilla mode allow for two expressions.
Transformation into robot mode isn't exactly the same as the OG toy, and the resulting figure has slightly better articulation than it's origin, which is a testament to how well designed it was back in the day. Sadly, those wonky disconnected elbows are still a thing with this figure.
All of your favourite weapons make a return here.. sort of. There is an extra face plate with the mout piece down, and for this version of the toy you get a Mutant Mask to replicate the gimick of the Beast War toys from the first season... not sure if the Anime made use of this in canon or not.
The bladed weapons are definitely larger when compared to the original toy (proportionally anyway.. physically I think they might be the same), with the MP including a double bladed form for separate wielding. The Skull Mace definitely go a larger handle, and a change upgrade from the original string. Sadly his shoulder cannons and wrist blasters, whiile functional, got nerfed, and had the spring function removed. There's a plastic bracket you can use to hold all the weaponry to the back of the figure, but it's unlikel you'll ever actually do this permanently.
Finally, one last gimmick is that you can replicate Primal's flight mode by flipping a panel on this back and revealing boosters.