44 day on the road!

[Technoid]

It has finally arrived!

In 2004 when the Masterpiece Optimus Prime was released it was just to damn expensive.
So I never got it.

So a month and a half ago when Tjalfe asked me if I was interested in getting it since he found it for around a third including shipment I jumped on it.

Boat shipping (airmail would have been 140ca ) being what it is it took it 44 days before I got the mail slip telling me that I could get my package at the local groceries (yeah, swedish mail can't afford having mail offices so they outsource it to stores, malls, gas stations etc etc).



hrm, wtf caused this?:


There he is MP Optimus Prime 20'th anniversary DVD edition


He's the Largest Optimus prime toy to date


Se those @£$#¤% wires? there was to damn many


Extremely poseable but the heavy metal torso coupled with abit to loose ball joints in his ankles makes it a bit hard to make him stand on his own


While the robot mode is almost perfectly designed, the Cab mode pays for it an is not that perfect, the alternators are the other way around as they strive to make the alternate mode as realistic as possible.


Notice the short smokestacks, this is an hasbro snafu, Only plastic parts that are chromed falls under the laws that regulates thin plastic parts.
But since these are just silver painted the plastic used is not brittle and will not cause choking hazards.
That or just marking the toy "ages 12 and up" since this toy is definitly not for 5 year olds.

[Gurm]

You know, Logan got one of these for Christmas. The base talks and stuff. He loved it. You could have just asked any one of us in the USA to just send one along.

[Jessterw]

I got one of these for Christmas a couple years back. Didn't come with the DVD back then, but since I already had it no loss.

Pretty sure our resident monkey has this one too.


Oh and by "I", I of course mean my 8 year old son.

[Dr Mordrid]

Erik just got the OP voice-changing helmet.

I'm gonna destroy that thing if he uses it one more time in the lab

[Claymonkey]

The Jesster is correct. I do have 20th Anniversary Optimus. America got the second version of this which had less diecast metal, shorter smokestacks and 'battle damage' on it. The version with the DVD is even less metal and no battle damage. Very clean looking I like it. Welcome to the fold.

... of course now I want the Starscream and Megatron figures that are in this line. However, mine was a bday present because damn it's hard to justify buying a $100 (says the guy with two 20" lcd's)

[Technoid]

Didn't come with the DVD back then, but since I already had it no loss.

You aint missing anything, the dvd has "issues", post later about it.

The Jesster is correct. I do have 20th Anniversary Optimus. America got the second version of this which had less diecast metal, shorter smokestacks and 'battle damage' on it. The version with the DVD is even less metal and no battle damage. Very clean looking I like it. Welcome to the fold.

... of course now I want the Starscream and Megatron figures that are in this line. However, mine was a bday present because damn it's hard to justify buying a $100 (says the guy with two 20" lcd's)

I never bothered with the american version cause of the "Battle damage" (wonder which moron at Hasbro came up with the idea of a pre dirtied toy ) And as heavy as this is one is I'm not sure that more metal is to prefer

[Gurm]

(wonder which moron at Hasbro came up with the idea of a pre dirtied toy )

Same people that make it so that it's hard to enter an "Old Navy" and find any jeans that don't ALREADY have holes in them!

And as heavy as this is one is I'm not sure that more metal is to prefer

Yeah mine (Logan's) is lighter than Claymonkey's, and it's STILL really heavy.

[Technoid]

I've ordered long smokestacks from "Ages 3 and up"

[Tjalfe]

You know, Logan got one of these for Christmas. The base talks and stuff. He loved it. You could have just asked any one of us in the USA to just send one along.

Well, it was on sale here in Canada, hence I thought I would ask if he was interested . I don't think the price would have been much different in the states, but I honestly never checked... now shipping, hopefully it is cheaper to ship stuff from the states to Sweden than from here.

[Jessterw]

You aint missing anything, the dvd has "issues", post later about it...

I never bothered with the american version cause of the "Battle damage" (wonder which moron at Hasbro came up with the idea of a pre dirtied toy ) And as heavy as this is one is I'm not sure that more metal is to prefer

I have the original DVD release, and while it's a bare-bones release, I can't complain about the movie itself. Now, the TV DVD's... those have some major issues that really make the episodes less than watch-able at times.

As far as the battle damage goes, I hardly even noticed it. I didn't even think of as such until it was mentioned as being that. Too me it just looked like normal wear for a semi-trailer truck (or tractor if you like). To me it fits Optimus well (unlike clothing with built-in holes or wearing).

[Technoid]

I have the original DVD release, and while it's a bare-bones release, I can't complain about the movie itself. Now, the TV DVD's... those have some major issues that really make the episodes less than watch-able at times.

As far as the battle damage goes, I hardly even noticed it. I didn't even think of as such until it was mentioned as being that. Too me it just looked like normal wear for a semi-trailer truck (or tractor if you like). To me it fits Optimus well (unlike clothing with built-in holes or wearing).

Okay this is a frame from the first dvd release:



This is from the 20th version widescreen disc:
Normally widescreen editions contains whole picture (not pan and scan as fullscreen) but here they have cropped out to make a widescreen "effect"



and lastly the same frame from the "fullcreen" disc of the 20th set :
Seems to contains a bit more info but the colors are all washed out

[Jessterw]

Oh geez, that's horrid. You'd think they would have improved upon the original release, not made it so much worse.

Good to know though, I'd actually considered getting the new release because of the description of the movie itself and the extra features available. It actually got good reviews on Amazon.com as well, so that's disconcerting.

[Technoid]

Another weird thing: in the extras they have included commercials and all the human faces are smudged out, and wile it might be because of privacy concerns (who would recognize kids 15+ years later?? ) it is really annoying....