2007 Movie Voyager Optimus Prime: Thew's Awesome Transformers Reviews 255

In the first instalment of #Baypril, we exhume a charming old piece of garbage (charbage) and heap way more praise on it than it deserves.

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[ninjauser]

That fake driver gimmick is actually from the comics, where Optimus has a holo driver which is styled after Peter Cullen himself

[drakesterX]

The “doo-dee-doo” set to Optimus Prime’s speech with “What I’ve done” in the background?
Perfection.

[krimsonklaww]

Had this guy back in the day when all I had to worry about was getting grounded for bad grades. So nostalgic!

[zuttoaragi]

"40 quid and the best Christmas ever, or £3.50 and a kick in the dick". That made me chuckle much harder than it probably should have.

[tomfoster]

With the last couple videos I feel it’s fare to say we’re in a golden age of Thew content.

[jonathanboetto]

I not ashamed to admit that I literally laughed out loud at "Baypril"... just brilliant...

[the_patch_notes]

Don’t worry about Optimus’s droopy foot. He’s just pointing to the viewer where to like and subscribe lol

[sophieprime]

Primus' sake, you are SPOILING us recently with these reviews!

[brotosstm]

Had me grinning the entire time Thew, I’m glad there are people like you in the world who get what it’s all about.

[toysmostwanted]

My thoughts on this toy can be summarized as "it's not a toy I'll display but a toy I'll play with." I had this on my desk for months and transformed countless times while the ROTF leader sits on a shelf after 1 flailed transformation attempt. 😂

[nerdstrodamus]

'05 to 2010 was a magically fun time for Transformers, so many toys that were just great to play with!

[tehpaws]

I missed out on this figure the first time and ended up picking up the even sillier Shanghai deco in RoTF with its muted colors and ostentatious gold kanji tattoos. It's still probably one of the neatest movie Primes just on the grounds of *being a fun toy*, and the tiny hologram cowboy is definitely one of my favorite features.

That friggin' Optimus doo-dee-doo had me rolling XD I'm looking forward to more Baypril

[Cdr]

The truck grill shot had me thinking Thrust was about to get it

[benreilly]

You know, I think that in hindsight my issue with Bayformers wasn’t that they changed a bunch of stuff and it’s different now. I remember really liking Transformers 07 when I was fifteen, before I grew a brain that could recognize the presence of misogyny and bad writing, dragging my mom to every Target we could find in a desperate attempt to find the Robo Vision version of this mold because I didn’t know this figure existed.

In retrospect, my beef with Bayformers is that the film version of a thing is always the most culturally dominant, and it broke my heart to see a franchise I loved that was so full of earnest heart and fun and joy and silliness being defined in the wider pop culture by an angry, obnoxious thing that knows no love, only fast cars, military fetishism, rampant sexism, and masculine insecurity. That’s the face of Transformers, is it? Mad respect to those who can still find something to like in it, but I’m happy to see the back of those films. That’s part of why I adore Bumblebee to this day; it’s an earnest film that treats its female protagonist well and pretty obviously loves Transformers.

[dampcollectables]

I’d love for you to keep the 07 movie toy reviews going, some real gems hidden in that line

[lowellmartens]

I love the disappearing driver gimmick. That is so cool. It would be worth it just for that.

[dedalionarts]

Dear PRIMUS... The level of nostalgia is over 9000 with this one. (Especially for a guy who's first ever transformers figure, was exacly THIS Prime).

[jaspersullivan]

I never had this toy but as Thew said, getting leader Optimus Prime at 5 years old was indeed, best Christmas ever. Even if I could never transform it.

[mimicry-]

Those 07 toys were a wild bag, I remember fondly the style of repaints that followed that weren't necessarily new characters but just cool colour scheme, like Desert Brawl, or jungle mission Bonecrusher. Great optional variants for fun figures.

[Rumbletheimp]

Extra detail! The lil dude in the driver’s seat is supposed to be a tiny Peter Cullen! Apparently he likes cowboy hats