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Hi Everyone!
Today at about 9:00pm I get a call from Sean Forbes, telling me they have
the new Robots in Disguise series at Wal Mart, along with the Bionicle CD
and silver mask.
So I hop in the car, drive down to Wal Mart, and snag the last Optimus Prime
and Ultra Magnus:
http://66.39.9.254/markstemp/Primenmagnus1.jpg
These are the latest Japanese Transformers to be released under a US title.
Supposedly there will be an associated cartoon this fall. Anyway, I digress.
Optimus Prime was the first one I opened. Yeah, he's a fire truck. Deal.
http://66.39.9.254/markstemp/prime1.jpg
The front cab comes off and turns into Optimus in his normal mode:
http://66.39.9.254/markstemp/prime2.jpg
The rear and ladder section turn into a base thing:
http://66.39.9.254/markstemp/prime3.jpg
Then you can stick the whole mess on Op for "Mega Mode," which I think is my
favorite. Pretty darn cool.
http://66.39.9.254/markstemp/prime4.jpg
It requires 2 AA batteries, which allow Optimus to yell "Optimus Prime,
Maximize!" or "Fire <gun noise>" or just fire engine sirens.
Then I moved on to Ultra Magnus. He's still in his relatively familiar car
transporter garb:
http://66.39.9.254/markstemp/magnus1.jpg
Ultra Magnus transforms into his robot mode, and he has a really large gun
that can be changed into 3 different types. The neat thing is, once you put
some batteries in him, the sound effect is different based on where you put
the gun. (There are little buttons that depress when you plug the gun into
certain locations)
http://66.39.9.254/markstemp/magnus2.jpg
I took a photo of the two of them together:
http://66.39.9.254/markstemp/magnusnprime1.jpg
Then you can get really wacky and attach Ultra Magnus' various parts to the
base Optimus Prime figure to create Omega Prime:
http://66.39.9.254/markstemp/omegaprime.jpg
You can see Magnus's gun on his right shoulder. Also, when you create Omega
Prime, another set of buttons are depressed and he says "Optimus Prime,
Ultra Magnus, Combine!"
Each figure cost $28.72 at Wal Mart. I recommend buying Optimus first,
because I think he's generally more impressive as a figure.
These figures are insanely complicated. I wouldn't recommend them for a kid
younger than about 10 unless your kid is rather skilled at moving and
switching complex shapes.
Pretty fun stuff. Hope you guys enjoy the photos. :^)
~Grand Admiral Muffin Head
--
Mark's Lego(R) Creations
http://www.nwlink.com/~sandlin/lego
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| (...) Cool Mark, I was at T'R'U last night, and had Megatron and a couple of the two car packs in my hands...but I couldn't see spending $35 on them...the quality just wasn't very good in my estimation. What do you think of the quality of the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) versions of these toys. I spent mucho dinero to get Fire Convoy. I also noticed a strange differnce between the American and Japnaese versions of the toys, that huge Autobot insignia on his side. Oh, and my Convoy speaks Japanese :P BTW don't (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Magnus. I wonder when HE was on the old Transformers series? I feel as though as if I was watching Beast Wars/Beasties for the first time. I mean, I did not like the series at first, either, but it is not as horrible as I expected and granted, (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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