“The wisdom of the ages — it’s lost.”
“No, not lost. We’re all a little wiser now.”
“But the matrix is empty!”
“It’s up to all of us to fill it again, with the wisdom we accumulate from this moment on. Autobots! Transform, and roll out!”
My Optimus collection is the centerpiece of my Transformers collection. It spans five shelves, two continents worth of releases, and over twenty-five years of Transformers history, from Generation One through last year's movie. It includes versions of Optimus Prime from nearly every continuity and series, both American and Japanese, and includes a number of Optimus Primal figures. 'Trukk not munkey' is not an standard to which I give any credence.
I have single shots of each figure in a set on Flickr, if you'd like to see the whole collection.
I will review most of the major releases for Shadowbot over the coming months. The reviews won't necessarily be published in this order, but as I publish each review, I'll update each list with links. Also, these lists are kind of in chronological order, but I've lumped reiterations of characters with the originals, which for instance is why there are so many listed between G1 Prime and Powermaster Prime.
Those I've reviewed:
- Generation One Optimus Prime
- THS 02 - Hybrid Style Convoy
- Star Convoy
- Armada Supercon Optimus Prime
- TF Movie Voyager Optimus Prime
Those I'm going to review:
- Robot Masters Optimus Prime
- Classics 2-Pack Optimus Prime
- Masterpiece Optimus Prime
- Revoltech Convoy
- e-Hobby Orion Pax
- Powermaster Optimus Prime/God Ginrai
- G2 Hero Optimus Prime
- G2 Laser Optimus Prime
- Optimus Primal
- Transmetal Optimus Primal
- Optimal Optimus
- Beast Wars 10th Anniversary Optimus Primal
- LioConvoy
- Big Convoy
- Machine Wars Optimus Prime
- Fire Convoy/R.I.D. Optimus Prime
- Armada Super Base Optimus Prime
- Energon Deluxe Optimus Prime
- Energon Leader Optimus Prime
- Galaxy Convoy/Cybertron Optimus Prime
- Titanium War Within Optimus Prime
- Alternators Optimus Prime
- Classics Optimus Prime
- TF Movie Leader Optimus Prime
- Nike Convoy
There's also a series of black Prime repaints, most often named Nemesis Prime, which I'll address in the reviews for the original figures. Furthermore, there are a ton of repaints, PVC figures, and other smaller releases that I may address in some of the other reviews. I don't see myself writing an article for each Prime from Takara's Mini-SCF series.
Why do I want to do this? First, there's a huge lull for me right now in Transformers, since I'm not interested in buying any more movie toys, and toys for Animated and Universe aren't supposed to be out until the summer. Also, it's a lot of fun to take these toys down from the shelves and to write about them; it makes me appreciate them a lot more.
Nala | February 19, 2008 8:02 PM
Um... hello?
Where's Black Fire Convoy?
giga | February 19, 2008 8:06 PM
Ah, this makes me want to put up the new review site so much quicker. If only I could figure out templating/widgets.
Dan | February 19, 2008 8:33 PM
Nala, Black Fire Convoy doesn't live at my house, he lives at your house. No amount of jealously on my part is going to change that, I imagine.