Adam Savage Reacts to Auto-Transforming Optimus Prime!

We unbox and check out Robosen's Optimus Prime robot, which actually transforms between his iconic vehicle and robot modes with voice commands. The auto-converting Optmus Prime impresses Adam and Norm with its stability and range of motion, and we dive into some user-generated animations that stress the limits of its movement!

Shot by Joey Fameli and edited by Norman Chan
Music by Jinglepunks

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[Riley_Mundt]

As a lifelong Transformers fan, this is the most amazing thing I have ever seen. I want one.

[ChadKakashi]

I just can’t believe he can kick without falling off.

[Jelus]

No matter how old we get .... Tools, toys and tales will always peak our curiosity

[heIIbIazer]

I didn't expect him to transform that fast and stand up by itself, that's actually amazing...
...and he does the superhero landing...wow

[begalbrew]

How many of us have waited ~35 years for this?
Huge props to the company, and yes $1000 is a lot of money for a toy, but that's actually less than I expected tbh.

[HarmonicVector]

"'Till all are one."
Optimus saying this with pride, instead of grief is just great to hear.

[Lava]

Fun fact: The "torso twist" goes back to 2003, with the first "Masterpiece" version of Optimus Prime and has been a staple of more modern takes on the G1 version of Prime.

It essentially allows for a more stylized grill, like he has in the show, and hides the "truck grill". Whereas the original G1 figure never rotated and just used the truck grill as the torso.

[DementedDistraction]

That is legitimately impressive on all fronts, and speaking as someone who works in the toy industry, I applaud the concept, engineering, and dev team for committing to seeing this project through despite what was assuredly an astronomical development cost, which is ALWAYS the determining factor that decides whether a toy gets made or not.

[ghostchaser]

This thing is awesome, beats the hell out of the Lego model, a Transformer figure that's truly 'more than meets the eye'. Very impressive! 👍

[smokingbeetles]

The people who designed this were fans for sure, a lot of love went into it.

[krinkrin]

The balance of Optimus is nothing short of amazing!

[covagotnext]

Cool toy.... really amazed that customers can program their own movements for Optimus. The "martial arts training" is NEXT level 👌

[jdmj]

Ok, whoever created that martial arts sequence is God Tier. Props to the mechanical/software engineers for even making it all possible! Nothing short of game breaking.

[lohan]

Just downloaded the motion sequence "Kung Fu Master" for my Robosen Prime a couple days ago and was BLOWN AWAY! Prime literally does a full kata including "powerful" sidekicks where he is balancing on just one leg while kicking like it was nothing. That's some ingenious design at play here!

[Erinnem]

Amazing wish we had these in the 80’s!!!! I’d like to see all of the original ones do this how cool would that be?

[willn]

Imagine how impressive it would be to have all 6 Constructicons automatically join together and form Devastator.

[tucci]

This is like a toy you'd see in a Christmas movie that's impossible for the protagonist to get but it's also like way more advanced than any kid's toys that actually exist, but now it actually does exist. I would love to see a custom paint job on this thing.

[kzisnbkosplay]

I may not know much about robotics, but I do know that bipedal balance was a huge struggle. I have enjoyed seeing the progress, but that was seriously impressive for a toy.

[diegodiaz]

Amazing. Finally what we used to dream that our optimus toy would do back in the 80s and 90s has become a reality.

[EmmaBGames]

He's so stable. That is incredible. Really moves so lifelike too.