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You can check your balance anytime in your cart Toyhacks is a company run by collectors for collectors So check out toyhacks.com and make your collection stand out from the rest and tell them Patriot Prime sent you now onto the review The featured button this video is 1996's Beast Wars Ultra-Class Optimus Primal and yes, I was inspired to review this figure Thanks to those awesome Beast Wars reveal at Pulsecon over the weekend Man, I cannot wait to get those new Beast Wars figures, especially Megatron and Optimus Prime now I actually got this figure I believe right after I started doing YouTube and I have no idea why I have not put him in front of the Camera until now. This is an amazing figure Great articulation and this guy is just loaded with gimmicks and that's just Prime Welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews In beast mode Optimus Primal is a silver-backed gorilla and this gorilla mode looks Awesome lots of great molded detail all over the figure. You can check out all the fur They're along the back the arms the forearms the legs on the chest Lots of great sculpted details taking a look at this face. I love the blue eyes You can make out all the little wrinkles there below the eyes on the nose Sculpted in teeth. I like the little sneer. He's doing Yellowed in teeth there too. I guess he's been eating a lot of bananas Got some ears sculpted in on the side. They're on the chest chest looks really good With more sculpted hair Details this figure looks great, especially considering how old he is Now he does have some pretty good pose ability the arms can do a complete 360 they can go in and out there is a Rotation there at the elbow and man listen to those ratchets. There also is an elbow Bend for a bicep bend and if you pose both arms like so on the back Of the figure is this little lever you flip this out And see if I can get to work There we go, you can make Optimus Primal bang his chest. That is cool. I dig it Lever is hard to lock in the place There we go Yeah, this is really cool once you get locked in it works really well You can just collapse it back in which is cool because it kind of blends in to the rest of the back Now also his legs have some pose ability to they can move around up and down But the figures designed to look like this or to pose like this if you stand primal up He just looks kind of odd because his head really doesn't go down So he's in a weird pose like so plus a lot of his robot section show so for gorilla mode Optimus Primal should look like this now. This is a really decent sized figure You got Optimus Primal right here compared him to Earthrise Optimus Prime. So yeah, this guy He's got some size to him. He's Kong sized if you will So let's go ahead and get Optimus here out of the way And I'll show you another real cool feature that to gorilla mode has back here on the back You've got this lever or this button rather push that button And he's got some spring-loaded missiles or missile launchers that flip over his back And these can actually launch a little button right there. We'll launch those missiles out Yes, they're spring-loaded and they could shoot across the room if I wanted them to I'm catching them right here Really cool. Let's go ahead and put these missiles back in you have to make sure and match them upright Let's see here There's one And the other So that's pretty much it for Optimus Primal in gorilla mode Let's go ahead and transform him now into robot mode. First thing we're going to do is Straighten the legs out and there. I'll take the robot feet or excuse me the monkey feet Excuse me. Once again the gorilla feet flip these around So you go from the gorilla toes right there to more of a Three-toed look which is actually going to be the robot heel now You're going to take the waist and spin the waist around like so Revealing these little blue sections there on the waist flip these white sections down here Which reveal the robot feet and these cool Pistons I really dig that that's really cool. Look now. Let me move the camera back just a little bit We're going to take the arms Rotate those down and take these sections right here and fold up Just like so kind of gives me these little Shoulder pauldrons now right here these little switches these flip these and that'll actually deactivate the Chest pounding actions. So you have more free range with the arms now You're going to take the gorilla head keep on to call the monkey bring the gorilla head down like so you don't take the face and flip this around and Then just lock the gorilla head on to the chest Revealing Optimus primal with his battle mask on Now that is a gimmick that all the first year Beast Wars figures had this kind of beast demon battle mask Really doesn't do anything special. It's just a unique look so all you're going to really do is Turn the head around and there's that familiar face of Optimus primal you can actually take the battle mask and Bring that further back if you so choose and I think that does look a lot better and there we have Optimus primal in Robot mode This robot mode looks great Almost exactly like you saw it on the television show Except for the face has a full Faceplate where if you remember Optimus primal from the show kind of had that Open mouth area where you can actually see him talk, but this is still really cool. This is very Generation one in my opinion Let's see back here in the back. You've got storage for missiles you saw the missiles earlier and Those extra missiles do come into play because I believe right here at the left arm has a really cool hidden gimmick You've got a little tab right here flip this tab and He has a spring-loaded Double missile launcher right there. So you just take these missiles from storage back here in the back I can get those out and Now you'll install the missiles just like you did in the launcher before Make sure you get them lined up. Just right. They'll click into place and just like the shoulder launchers You've got buttons right here. That'll send those rockets across the room or under my desk Optimus primal can also use the missile launchers that I showed in gorilla mode in robot mode as well same deal push the button here on the back and The launchers flip right over you kind of take these sections right here and Maneuver those behind the gorilla ears to lock them in place and There you go. Optimus looking really really bad ass Another hidden feature the optimus has in the right arm if we open this one up There is a hidden mace here on the inside. So just take that out Close the arm back up and the mace is actually a handle on a string And I love the molded details on the head of the mace. So I guess this is a flail Look at that very Tribal-looking and if you pay an attention with the new kingdom reveals I believe one of the Fossilizers has this same head sculpt so you can take this mace and we'll now place it in Optimus primes right hand So there we go. We got Optimus Prime Pretty much all armed and ready for battle. He's got rocket launchers on his shoulders He's got a flail in his hand. He's got double barrel launcher here in the right hand or left hand He is ready to go, but wait. There's more. Let's go ahead and hide this launcher back See actually got to put the launcher in snap the fist in place and Hitting on Optimus back right here. He's got two swords So we can place these swords in his hand. I Guess since these are curved they're scimitars So we got that going on there Now we've got Optimus Primal ready to go and I believe I was wrong with my switches. Let me see here There we go. We can still do The gimmick with the arms. So that is really really cool. I love stand up here I love this Optimus Prime. He has got gimmicks for days. It's an awesome-looking figure If I can get him to stand, I mean this guy is awesome and since I'm fighting with him standing anyway Let's go ahead and go over the pose ability pose ability on the arms is exactly the same as gorilla mode a complete 360 he can bend there at the elbow he can rotate at the elbow no wrist rotation because of the gimmicks And you can see they're still tied in with each other. Maybe I didn't flip the switch Right on this arm. Let's see Yeah, there we go. Add the switch is wrong Okay, so once those switches are in the proper place You can maneuver the arms without the other one going back and forth another really cool gimmick with the figure He's also got great waist articulation the legs can go up and down in and out. He's got a knee bend No ankle tilt, but still an awesome awesome-looking figure and now for some quick size comparisons here is 1996's Beast Wars Optimus Primal with Generation 1 Optimus Prime Earthrise Optimus Prime and his nemesis 1996's Beast Wars Megatron Beast Wars ultra-class Optimus Primal is an amazing figure. I love how chock full of gimmicks This guy is he's got the hidden missile launchers the hidden swords the hidden flail The the gimmick with the chest beating and the moving arms This guy is just loaded with playability and a prime example of they just don't make them like this anymore This figure also has an amazing amount of sculpted details and Articulation for a figure that is over 20 years old. So there you have it guys 1996's Beast Wars ultra-class Optimus Primal So does a 1996 Beast Wars ultra-class Optimus Primal belong in your collection? Absolutely, this is an amazing toy It's got tons of playability and is loaded full of gimmicks in my opinion I think this figure could go toe-to-toe with some of today's modern toys and Probably come out on top So if you're an Optimus Prime fan or a Beast Wars fan, this figure is a must But be wary when you're hunting one of these guys down make sure he comes with all these pieces and parts You got the four blue missiles the two blue swords the flail I mean this guy comes with a lot of accessories So be on the lookout for everything, but if you can find one complete You're gonna love it just as much as I do now guys I also want to mention that I've started a new thing here on Patriot Prime reviews Memberships memberships is not going to affect anything that I do on my regular channel such as reviews like this But I am going to start doing special members only Videos and promotions blooper reels live streams things like that only for members So a figure like this kind of a off-the-wall figure from a few years ago I'll do a special review for members of the channel And I do have a special shout out to my seven members that I acquired this week Chris Velner the outlaw crow Nicholas Irving Phillips Craig oxford Optimus Wilbur reviews Kato's collection and memo 224 Thank you guys so much for joining the PPR family And if you guys would like to join there's a little join button Down here somewhere, but as I said that's not not going to affect my regular show whatsoever 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 future reviews Also, my next video is going to be my three year anniversary special I've got my top 10 bots. 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