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Everyone’s favorite mid-‘80s Autobot leader, rendered with Bionicle Vahki
parts...
...courtesy of the $20 Bionicle Bucket found at TRU. It contained enough parts
for all six Vahki, plus numerous Rahkshi feet and hunchbacks. Thank you, TLC.
Atop the Bionicle skeleton I added tires, smokestacks, torso with windows and
radiator grill, etc. The three-digit hands were inspired by the Technic Pit
Droid model.
The figure’s one accessory is an orange Energon Axe, made from a trans-orange
dragon wing. I haven’t built a Laser Rifle yet (although I do have Megatron’s
fusion cannon waiting for a body, hmmm...) I did build a mini Autobot Matrix of
Leadership, but there’s insufficient room behind his pop-open pecs to store it.
Why is Optimus bionicle-ized? Well, after that unfortunate business with being
repeatedly killed, resurrected by Quintessons, reformatted, turned into a
Nucleon-powered non-transforming Actionmaster, and so forth, he stumbled into
the Web of the Visorak. (Idealistic, inspiring, noble, yes; but sometimes not
so very smart.)
In other photos, Optimus meets Vahki Omega Supreme, and a domesticated Martian
Floater (from the 1953 War of the Worlds movie). Everyone wants the sparkly
green lump of gummy sugar POWER!
I still need to print some custom decals -- then V-Optimus can spit Spinning
Gyro-Discs! Of Autobot! Justice!
(Transformers, Autobots, Optimus Prime, Omega Supreme, etc. are trademarks of
Hasbro.)
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