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A pair of red, black and white sneakers, with the Beast Wars logo printed on the sole, a photo of Primal's beast mode head on the toe, and the name "OPTIMUS PRIMAL" repeated around the shoe's lateral. Intended for release in the Beast Machines toyline, Air Attack Optimus Primal was eventually released as a Toys"R"Us exclusive as part of the Robots in Disguise toyline. Beast Wars is one of my favorite toy lines ever, so it’s funny that this is only the third proper BW figure I’ve reviewed on this site, alongside some Happy Meal toys.
The rest of the line was made up of the Transmetals, "Beast Wars turned inside-out": robotic animals with fleshy inner robot parts. Like all Kingdom Voyager figures, Optimus Primal comes with a Golden Disk card that " reveals a possible destiny of a key character", with each character having three possible destiny variants. The second year of the line was primarily a refinement of the first, though every class got changed in some broad-strokes way. Vintage Beast Wars featured reissues of original 1996 Beast Wars figures in recreations of the original packaging, though now featuring five languages (English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese) despite the packaging design being based on the original English-only 1996 United States packaging rather than any of the contemporary multilingual packaging versions. Some pictures also pose his gorilla legs in a way that makes the flap of thigh-covering kibble appear like a loincloth, when it can plug into his flight stand port to sit flush with the legs for a natural appearance.The color scheme was also altered to be show-accurate, changing the black to dark gray, much of the light gray to medium gray with hints of bronze, primary red to crimson, and blue to a more dull steel blue. According to the sticker, this limited figure is meant to celebrate the "20,000,000 Unit Breakthrough Commemoration"—apparently commemorating 20 million units of Beast Wars toys sold. Released as part of the Beast Wars Again line, the "Eternal Beast Showdown" (恒久ビーストの対決) set contains Convoy and Megatron.
The Basic class bat Optimus Primal toy, named "Convobat" in Japan, was homaged in the 2016 e-HOBBY-exclusive Convobat toy, which is characterized as a separate individual from Optimus Primal.Though the transformation from primate to humanoid is a relatively simplistic one, the toy compensates with more than a fair share of weaponry and action features. The other European version released in French/Dutch/German Beast Wars/ Ani Mutants packaging is simply named "Optimal Optimus". This Toys"R"Us-exclusive set is the Hasbro release of the Beast Wars Reborn set (see below), but in different packaging with a DVD of the Beast Wars episode " Possession". Somewhat of a rarity among Transformers toys, both the toy itself and its packaging lack insignias or any kind of mention to what faction the character belongs to. In fact, when Hasbro elected to revamp the franchise before it could go stale, leading to the direct-sequel, same-main-cast-having Beast Machines toyline, they also kept Beast Wars around in a smaller capacity, with a handful of new products and some recolors of classic characters.
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