It's been a while since I updated my Prime collection on Flickr; it's been since before Botcon, in fact. I've added eight to the collection since then, starting with:

Music Label Convoy, G1 Colored Version

I picked this one up at Botcon through an advertising deal with BigBadToyStore for About Heroes. It's yet another G1 Prime, but this one has a newly molded head, based on the 20th Anniversary model. The head itself rotates, too, which is nice. The accompanying iPod speaker trailer is now in Warren's room.

Animated Deluxe Optimus Prime

I found this guy in Cincinnati on Botcon Saturday, when some of us ditched the con for a while to go on a toy run. We actually found him (and others) when we went south, back into Northern Kentucky. I really enjoyed the text on the back of his box, claiming that one of his special features is that his axe transforms into a bigger, more different axe.

Cybertron Deluxe Optimus Prime

Not long after I did my write-up of Bendy Prime, Teresa of Puppylove posted images of the Cybertron version of the figure, which I'd passed on initially. Her photos sold me on it, and I tried to find it at Botcon, but didn't. A few weeks after the con, Teresa contacted me about it, saying she had a line on one if I was interested, and while I was, I just couldn't do it that soon after Botcon. But lo and behold, she got it for me anyway, because she's a wonderful person. She shipped it to me along with my order from her Etsy store (I got the kiddie Shockwave print for Warren's room). I think we may have encouraged each other a bit too much with this figure, because since then, she's gotten every main variant of it.

Animated Deluxe "The Battle Begins" Optimus Prime

I ordered this one from HasbroToyShop, and got him nearly a month after it showed up in every store in town. Good thing I used a coupon to make the wait worthwhile. The best thing about this figure? He's the only one of the myriad versions of Animated Prime that has a show-accurate axe.

Animated McDonalds Optimus Prime

Yup.

Animated Bumper Battlers Optimus Prime

Okay, this one is actually really cool, because this is the only Animated toy under $40 that includes a sound chip, and it actually uses David Kaye's voice.

Henkei C-01 (Japanese Classics) Convoy

Omar brought this one back from Japan for me. He's awesome, and so completely different from the American version. Really. I promise.

Animated Voyager Optimus Prime

This is, I think, my favorite Animated Prime; it's mainly because this figure feels significant, as opposed to the other Prime figures which feel so thin and slight. Any I love how his faceplate doesn't hide when you put it down, it just becomes his chin. It's very, very cool. This is another one that I ordered from HasbroToyShop, but ended up canceling that order and just getting him at Target because it was taking so long for HTS to ship him. And, I got to use the McDonalds happy meal $5 off coupon. Oh, you didn't know about that? On each happy meal bag is a coupon for $5 off $20 of TF Animated toys. I've eaten a lot of happy meals lately.

And that brings me up to date. I think I'm going to pass on the gigantor-class Animated Prime, so these will probably be the last additions to this particular collection for a while. Sure, that's it. Because I'm sure Hasbro won't release hundreds of repaints of each. They don't do things like that.

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Posted by Dan on July 9, 2008 6:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)