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joshimus
08-11-2012, 10:18 AM
Okay, so had this figure for a few days and thought I would write a review. I will add pictures sometime tonight when I get a chance to, assuming I remember to. However I am currently "at work" so I don't have access to my toys or camera.
On to the review:

Truck mode: First and foremost, the truck mode is pretty nice overall. Fairly big so I will get an FE vs Weaponizer comparison later on in life. The downside of this truck mode is really in the back of the truck and his legs. Legs are hollow and the arms and hands can be see as well as his two chest parts. Is it horrible? Not really, but for the size...well the gimmick takes a lot of the transformation space. There is a lever on the hood above the cab that springs out the gimmick. One fairly irritating thing about this truck mode is the custom designed "warning" sticker on the front hood. By custom, I don't mean a rectangle just placed there, I mean the sticker IS the hood shape with grooves to avoid the grill that you release for the weapon gimmick. Had to peel it off to get his truck to look nice. Personally, I think this hurts the figure cause it NEEDS to come off otherwise you have this nice truck with a warning sticker on it. No appealing. I know it really has nothing to do with the truck per se, but if you buy this toy, you really need to peel that shit off. Otherwise, it's a truck, it looks good, it is a nice size.
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m297/ejosh1/wprimefeprimecabs.jpg
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m297/ejosh1/wprimecabback.jpg
Weapons in truck mode:
Okay, so that lever above the cab releases the weapons, just make sure the grill at the front is loose so that the guns can blam on out. It's a nice gimmick, to be honest. Nothing really more than that.
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m297/ejosh1/Wprimecabweapons.jpg

Transformation:
Since the gimmick takes up most of the space, not really much to transform, very basic. Rotate the legs down and rotate the feet flat, rotate the arms towards the front. Snap the parts in, lift head, align the chest parts to snap in, pretty much all you have to do. BASIC. This is a figure I could trust my brothers to figure out to transform without instruction. THAT basic. If you need instructions to do this, you are collecting the wrong toyline.

Robot mode:
Overall, looks pretty good. It's Prime, similar to the FE and looks nicer than the Prid voyager. Downside is that the legs at the hips aren't fully ratcheted so sometimes to stand him up he hunches. Fun side, since the chest parts are in two parts attached to each arm, you can put MP Rodimus or Primes Matrix inside this Primes chest and have it open. I'll take pics later for that. Overall I like the robot mode. Reasonably articulated, he has an obvious backpack, but it doesn't look as crappy, still not great, but not as crappy as it could have been
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m297/ejosh1/Wprime1.jpg
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m297/ejosh1/WprimeMatrix.jpg
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m297/ejosh1/wprimebackpack.jpg

Weapons:
Okay, this part I have issues with.
With the weapons folding down to go over the shoulders, you would think they would design it to work a bit better. Not saying it doesn't work, but more times than not when I lift his weapons out, 1 falls down as it should and I have to wiggle prime for the other one to flop over. Maybe it is just mine, I don't know, but that could have been a bit better.
Another issue I have is that they could have made this gimmick more discrete, something I plan on working on. Basically he has a giant line in his torso the flips the weapons back into the truck. Beside his hip is one button, not noticable in the least (sarcasm) that acts as the launcher. Hi the button and his weapons come out...or the tab on his back that would have be the hood above the cab. That still works in robot mode as well.
So what's the complaint? This offbeat part on the hip doesn't need to be there. It looks out of place and to me affects the robot mode look.
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m297/ejosh1/Wprimebleh.jpg

Overall the figure is pretty good, I do like it, but they could have done more with the transformation and the legs and feet.
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m297/ejosh1/wprimefeprid.jpg
Prid, Weaponizer, FE