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So make sure and check out toyhacks.com and tell them Patriot Prime sent you now on to the review. The featured button this video is the brand new Transformers Legacy Leader Class Laser Optimus Prime. Now, before I get into the packaging of this figure, I need to clarify something. Last week, I posted a video of me opening this box up and it being full of Fruit Loops. That was a joke. I belong to a couple Facebook pages and people were taking pictures. They've opened the box up and one guy had a picture of a McDonald's meal in it. Another guy had cheez-its. So I'm driving home from work and I thought, hey, I'm going to fill the box full of Fruit Loops just to make a funny video. So when I got home, I took Prime out of this box, took my son's Fruit Loops here, removed the plastic bag, put it in here, put in that core class hot rod and filmed the videos. So no stranger filled my box full of Fruit Loops. I did not eat strange Fruit Loops. That was a joke. So there you have it. And it just feels funny how many people thought that really happened. I mean, come on, I have the bowl ready. Anyway, taking a quick look at the packaging. We've got some great artwork right here of Laser Optimus Prime in Robot Mode. There, there he is in Tanker Truck Mode, Transformers Legacy, Transformers on the side. I love how he's launching the missiles out of the shoulder pylons. That is so cool. Side of the box, Prime and the Tanker Truck. Back of the packaging, we've got Prime in Tanker Truck Mode, the Base Mode, Robot Mode. And down here, the little QR scanner. If you use your phone, scan that you will get a bio of Laser Optimus Prime. Side of the packaging is the Autobot artwork with Prime, hot rod, RC, blaster and bulkhead. So now without further ado, let's get Optimus opened up out of this packaging and check him out. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. Actually, he is already opened up out of the packaging. Now, once you get Laser Optimus Prime all opened up and out of the packaging, you'll notice that he is actually packed in Vehicle Mode and I love this. In my personal opinion, I think Transformers should be packaged in Vehicle Mode. I think it adds to the surprise of seeing them in Robot Mode for the first time and I really wish they would bring that back. He also comes with a sheet of instructions that as usual is very well illustrated and easy to follow. He comes with an axe and sword and then of course you have Laser Optimus Prime himself. Now, taking a closer look at Laser Optimus Prime in his Tanker Truck Mode, I have to say the paint applications and sculpted details on this toy is amazing. I mean, look here at the sculpted details on the front of the vehicle. The paint applications there around the lights, the flame details on the side of the vehicle here, you got the gray Autobot symbol, which I don't understand why that's not the G2 symbol, details there on the smoke stacks, sculpted details on the roof. Not a big fan of the translucent windows because you can see all the junk there on the inside. You got the details there on the fuel tanks and on the back. I mean, just great details all over and love the wheels. The wheels look so good now bringing in the tanker itself. Just look at the top of this thing. Love the sculpted details. They just went all out for this tanker truck. I love the red there along the side. Once again, the wheels, the steps, the details right there back of the vehicle. Lots more details. I love this. I just think this is awesome. I mean, look at the details even there inside the wheel wells. That just looks great. Now for a quick comparison, let's bring in Earthrise Optimus Prime. So we'll get these two lined up and you could see that laser Optimus Prime is quite a bit longer than Earthrise. What really surprised me when I brought these two together, they really don't share a lot of the same mold detail. I thought for sure they had the same wheels, but bring these two in closer. They in fact do not. Laser Optimus Prime has completely different wheels than Earthrise and the same can be said for the trailer. So that's pretty cool. About the only thing that I've seen the same, of course, is the gas tanks right here. I do wish that Laser Prime had the more silver gas tank. And if you look here at the legs, he's got the flaps there up top. That little section right there below the knees is the same. And the feet look a little the same. And that's about it. So that's pretty impressive. So there you have Laser Optimus Prime in vehicle mode. Now let's get into transformation. Now we'll start things off with Prime's tanker. And right here where this pegs into the cab, you can actually flip this down as a stabilizer leg. So there is an option for you to display the tanker just like that. Now to continue on with transformation, go ahead and flip this entire front up and rotate that around on that little ball joint. Now you're going to just split the tanker apart. Bring down this little ramp, fold this section down. And the part of the tanker here is actually going to line up right there with that gap. Extend this little claw arm out and fold the turret back. And there you go. There is Laser Prime's base mode, I guess, repair base. I mean, it looks all right. It's pretty cool. It's pretty much exactly what the G2 figure did. This whole top section here can rotate around. The turret up here can rotate around. I mean, it can go separately if you like. That's pretty cool. You got the repair arm right here so you got Prime can roll in and have some repairs done. Or I think it's a perfect fit for MicroMaster vehicles. So that's pretty slick. Now you can take this top section off here. It forms a double blaster that can actually peg right here on the back of Prime like so. Or put it right there on top of the cab so he now has some weapons for vehicle mode as he rolls into battle. Now speaking of weapon storage, you can also store the axe and shield inside the tanker truck. You got these little pegs right there that line up to the slots here. So let's get that pegged in. Actually, it's those there. So the shield plugs in, plugs in just like that. Then you got the sword. You got two little pegs sticking out right here. Those line up to the pegs I showed just a second ago. So you've got the sword and axe locked in place and now you can shut those up. Another thing that I noticed is this whole section here can pop off. So I don't know what the purpose of this is, but you can mount it on the back of Prime if you wish. So you've kind of got some road warrior thing going on right there. So it's an option. I don't know if that's what you're supposed to do, but that's what I figured out. Now another cool thing, Prime also has more weapon storage in his vehicle mode. We'll go ahead and remove the axe and sword. I think I've been calling that a shield, but this can also peg in right here on the back. I'm going to have to extend this out. Okay, sometimes you actually do need to read the instructions. See the little slots right there? This is where the axe will plug in just like so. Then underneath Prime, just like the original toy, the sword with those pegs right there are going to line up right there. And there you go. So now you have weapon storage in cab mode. So you've got all kinds of options for that. And if you take a look at this trailer, there is weapon ports all over. Look at all the ones here on the inside, there on the outside, on the back. I mean, this guy is loaded. Now another fun thing you can do is if you have a MicroMaster, go ahead and lock him in the trailer or put him in the trailer rather. You can shut the trailer up around him. Prime is out and about. The trailer opens up and can deploy a MicroMaster. So another fun option. There are all kinds of things you can do with this trailer. It is so cool. Lots of playability. So now let's get into Prime's transformation. Now to transform Laser Optimus Prime himself, first thing, make sure that there are no weapons attached to the figure. Then you're going to take the fuel tanks right here. Go ahead and collapse those in. Open the toes up. Now right here where these steps are, go ahead and pop this panel up. And now go ahead and bring the legs down. So now he looks like a go-bot. Next thing you'll do is bring these sections up and out of the way. Now take this cab section here right there below the windows and go ahead and just open that up. All the way just like so. And this of course reveals Prime's head and shoulders. Now go ahead and split the front cab section. Open that up out of the way. Right there you can see the faux robot chest. Rotate that around. Bringing out the abs section. Watch this. That pops out really easy. It's just got little friction pegs right there. I swear it pops out every time. I was trying to watch for it this time, but no luck. So go ahead and get that in and attached if you have to. Bring Prime's head up. And that of course will unlock this little section right here where you're going to bring the arms out. So be very careful. Get that around the smoke stacks here. It does look like a mess right now, but it'll all fall into place very soon. So now go ahead and bring the shoulder pylons up out of the way. Take the door panels that we moved earlier with the Autobot symbol. Going to bring these up to fill out this little chest section right here. And now bring the chest down. Just slot in right over what was the steps of the vehicle. And then you peg in Prime's chest right around that. Then bring the arms in and lock those in place like so. Then bring the pylons down. Go ahead and take Prime's head and snap that into place right there. Rotate at the waist. Separate the legs. Take little knee sections, fold those down. Here on the back, bring the cab section back up. And now for the arms, don't take that little panel, flip that back, and flip out the fists. Now the fists are on a ball joint, so that gets pretty cool. Fold that back in place. Go ahead and do the same for this side here. Hard to get a hold of. There we go. Rotate the arms around. And there you have Laser Optimus Prime in Robot Mode. In Robot Mode, Laser Optimus Prime looks great. He really retains that G2 Laser Prime look with those giant shoulder pylons and great head sculpt. I love that. The only issue is I wish they painted his eyes a different color. You can barely see the eyes in there. It almost looks like he's wearing sunglasses or has a very dead eye look. Not a fan of the eyes whatsoever. I'm also not a big fan of the translucent plastic there on the chest because you can see the matrix inside. That's just kind of off-putting to me. There's a little yellow there on the shoulders, blue on the chest. You've got the red and blue for the arms, grey legs, grey torso, black shins, and blue feet. The Robot Mode compared to Vehicle Mode is a little plain as far as deco and paint applications, but he still looks really good. Now, Articulation for Prime, the head is on a ball joint. It can look up and down. Of course, that little section there is going to pop up and it can do a complete 360. Mine is really tight. There's also a waist rotation. The arms are a little different. The arms can go up. They can go down. They can go forward if you move this flap out of the way, but there is no complete 360 due to the pylons. There is a rotation there at the shoulder. There's an elbow bend. And as I showed earlier, the wrists are on a ball joint, so there's lots of rotation for the wrist. Legs can go back. They can go forward. They can go out. They can go in. And there is a knee bend and thigh rotation along with ankle tilt. So lots of articulation for Prime aside from the complete 360 with the arms. And I don't know many people who display their figures with their arms pointed back anyway. Now, Laser Prime also has some hidden features in his Robot Mode up here in the shoulder pylons. Flip these little panels up and you reveal missile pods or laser weapons or whatever have you. I think that's pretty cool. Those are done up in translucent plastic. And you know, I wish there was some way you could get some light piping to shine through those. I think that would look awesome, especially for the eyes too. Now, let's take a look at the Matrix. I've seen some people say that his Matrix is the exact same as Earthrise, so we'll open this up. And we have Earthrise Prime right here. So let's take a look. And upon closer inspection, those Matrixes are completely different. This one seems to be a little bit more compact and squat where Earthrise Prime is elongated. So yes, these are different. Now let's take a look at Laser Prime's weapons. And the first weapon we have right here is this translucent sword that looks really, really good. Not a big fan of translucent. I wish at least the hilt and handle were painted, but hey, it is what it is. And that's what the G2 version was like as well. So go ahead and get this in his hand. That is a tight fit. So there we go. Got the sword in the right hand. Now we'll bring in the axe and you just simply unfold this. Now like this, this has the handle that's a solid black and then the axe itself is the energy weapon. Or made of energy, however you want to put it. We'll put that in his hand and there we have Laser Prime all armed and ready for battle. And you know, that look reminds me of something. I just can't put my finger on it. Now another option you can do with the sword and axe is you can combine these two together. You see this little slot here on top of the axe, the hilt of the sword slides right in. So you can have Prime all armed up with some kind of mega sword lance thing. And you can take the double barrel blaster from the tanker and this will fit in Optimus's other fist. Plus you can also add blast effects to the pylons like so. So you have Optimus Prime really ready to take it to the Decepticons. This Optimus Prime kicks serious ass. And now for some quick size comparisons. Here is Transformers Legacy Laser Optimus Prime with Generation 1 Optimus Prime, Titan's Return Optimus Prime, and Earthrise Optimus Prime. Transformers Legacy Leader Class Laser Optimus Prime is a great figure. I have really enjoyed messing around with this guy. He's got tons of playability, great looking vehicle mode, great looking robot mode. The only complaints I really have with the figure is the clear windows on the chest where you can see the matrix and the fact you can barely see his eyes. Now what I'm really looking forward to is the inevitable repaint in the Generation Selects Scourge. I'm really really hoping for that because Scourge here is one of my all time favorite Transformers figures. So there you go guys, Transformers Legacy Leader Class Laser Optimus Prime. So does a Transformers Legacy Leader Class Laser Optimus Prime belong in your collection? Absolutely. I love this figure. He's got a great vehicle mode, great robot mode, tons of playability, tons of great features, and I really don't have any complaints with the figure other than the translucent plastic there on the chest and the fact he looks like he has no eyes. Other than that, this guy is awesome and I have enjoyed messing around with him for the last couple of days. So yes, you see this figure on the shelf, pick him up, you will not be disappointed. Just make sure you smell the box first, make sure there's no fruit loops in it. Now guys, if you enjoyed the video, don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe, and don't forget to click that bell icon to get notified when I upload new videos. Also, if you're in any position to help out the channel, I do offer channel memberships here on YouTube and I have to give a huge shout out to all my current channel members because it's support like yours that helps keep this channel growing. Once again guys, this is Patriot Prime, signing out.