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Now Rodimus hit the toy shelves in 1986 to coincide with his appearance in The Transformers The Movie. Where it's shown that Rodimus is the upgraded and enhanced version of Hot Rod. Thanks to the Autobot Matrix of leadership and now the new leader of the Autobots for season three. Now Rodimus was kind of met with lukewarm reception from the fans. But actually proved to be a fairly decent leader throughout season three. A lot of people complained that he was always self doubting himself. And you know, he's always thinking he's not worthy to be the leader of the Autobots. And my good buddy Rodimus Prime will point it out that Rodimus here was Hot Rod. I mean, Hot Rod was just this lowly soldier that boom all of a sudden is leader of the Autobots. So yeah, I would have some self doubts too if that happened to me. So thinking of it in that way kind of makes sense. Now Rodimus went on to lead the Autobots throughout all of season three. Up until the final episodes where he passed the Matrix back to Optimus Prime during the hate plagues. He returned to Optimus Prime and it was funny with Rodimus as soon as he took the Matrix out he immediately reverted back to Hot Rod. And you'll realize you're every bit as good as Optimus Prime ever was. Optimus Prime who could live up to him. Rodimus Prime didn't appear that many times in Marvel Comics. He appeared in issue number three of the movie adaptation and appeared in issue number 43 which was an adaptation of a season three television show. He then appeared in issue number 67 where in an alternate timeline he was a corpse hanging between the twin towers that Galvatron would talk to and beat up on. And that was pretty much it for Rodimus Prime in the US Marvel series. In the UK it was a different story. There was a lot of Rodimus Prime. So now without further ado let's take a look at this very controversial leader of the Autobots. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. In vehicle mode Rodimus Prime is some sort of Cybertronian RV. Or as the fandom has come to calling the space Winnebago. And though this is a pretty weird looking vehicle it still looks pretty cool. I love the flame decals. There are great stickers on this figure. You've got the flame decal here on the front with the Autobot logo. Of course there's the famous rub symbol that I am not sure even works anymore. Let's see. Yeah, there we go. You can see. You can see a little Autobot symbol right there. Fantastic chrome along the sides. I love vintage G1 chrome. Big sticker here on the side. Sticker here on top with another Autobot logo. And that's pretty much it. Now there are a couple different versions of Rodimus Prime. One with rubber wheels and one with plastic wheels. Mine has the rubber wheels or rubber tires rather. And he rolls really, really good. And that's really the only thing that this vehicle mode can do. It rolls. That's it. Now as you can see Rodimus Prime is just a beefed up version of hot rod. It's like Rodimus couldn't say no to those Energon cheeseburgers in vehicle mode. Now get hot rod out of the way. Let's go ahead and get Rodimus Prime transformed into robot mode. And just like Optimus Prime you grab the trailer. You grab the front and just separate the two. We'll put the trailer to the side for now. And there you have Rodimus Prime's cab. Now unlike Optimus Prime you really can't utilize Rodimus Prime the cab section here without the trailer. This just, it's a robot lying down. He does have little wheels right there on the shins that kind of help stabilizing but that doesn't work. So moving on along transformation here. You got these toes. You're going to flip these out. Go ahead and remove the spoiler. It just pegs in right there. Pull these sections out. That are the arms. Let me move the camera up. Now you're going to grab the front of the vehicle and just pull out like so. And rotate this section around. Let's see. Make sure the arms are good out of the way. Get that rotated around. Mine is really tight. Once that's rotated around you're going to push it back in place. Flip the head out. Then you're going to take the spoiler section here that was attached to that peg. But now we're going to move it up and attach it here. Just a little bit of parts forming for Rodimus. And there we have Rodimus Prime in robot mode. In robot mode, Rodimus here looks like a taller slender version of Hot Rod. I guess the more mature version. Taking a closer look at the figure. I love the face sculpt. It looks really good except for the eyes. I don't understand why they gave him these squinty eyes. It looks like he's forgot his glasses. He looks like Mr. Magoo showing my age there. He's like, Galvatron, is that you? I don't like the eyes. He does have nice sticker decals there on the shoulders. Big sticker right here that carries over from vehicle mode. The flame with the Autobot logo. Sticker decal here on the waist. Sticker decals here on the legs. And down here on the shins. Now as I mentioned earlier, there were two Rodimus Primes. One with plastic wheels, one with rubber. And the difference between those two also were the feet. You had metal feet like mine here or plastic feet. I happen to have a plastic version of Rodimus Prime. This one was in a lot of bots that I got last year. And I just decided to keep him. He's got no extra accessories whatsoever. But perfect for this video. So I can show off the plastic feet compared to the metal feet. And also the plastic wheels. As you can see, the tire on this one is plastic. Where mine is rubber. So right there, there's your two different versions of Rodimus Prime. Now quick look at the articulation. And there goes the other Rodimus Prime off the shelf. So quick look at it. Ah, got a sign. I love it when those things happen. We're not going to stop. We're not going to edit it out. Now articulation for Rodimus Prime is pathetic. His arms can do a complete 360 if you move the spoiler out of the way. And that's it. There's no other articulation for this figure. I guess for transformation he could move his head up and down. And he can wiggle his toes. But Rodimus Prime here, the leader of the Autobots, has the same amount of articulation as a pretender shell. Now Rodimus also comes with this large rifle that we can put in either hand. And now we have Rodimus Prime all armed and ready for battle. So that looks pretty cool. Now let's bring in his trailer. Rodimus Prime's trailer here can transform into a battle platform just like Optimus Prime's. And all you have to do is split the top apart like so, revealing this giant cannon that you're going to bring forward and extend up. You also have these two blast shields that on one side has X's. The other side has diagonal lines. You take these blast shields and just peg those in right there on either side of the double barrel cannon. And there is Rodimus's battle platform. And this is actually pretty cool. The double barrel cannon can rotate around. It can go down like so. It can lean forward like this. Kinda. You can make him look like a scorpion. It does look like a scorpion. It's got the little points right there. Hell, I've never noticed that before. Okay, that's pretty cool. And of course you can take Rodimus himself, put him on the back of the cannon, and he is manning his battle platform. So you've got that going on. So a pretty cool little feature that adds a little bit more playability to this figure. And now for some quick size comparisons. 1986's Generation One Rodimus Prime with Generation One Optimus Prime, Generation One Hot Rod, and Studio Series 86 Hot Rod. 1986's Generation One Rodimus Prime is an okay transformer. I mean, he looks good. The vehicle mode, it's unique. The robot mode, man, needs some articulation. The only redeeming quality of this figure is the battle platform. I do like the playability of having that mobile battle platform, but other than that, there's really not much to write home about this figure other than the fact he was the season three leader of the Autobots. So there you go guys, transformers. 1986, Generation One Rodimus Prime. So does a 1986 Generation One Rodimus Prime belong in your collection? Well, if you're a G1 collector, absolutely, this is an iconic character and it must have in any G1 collection. For your regular transformer fans, this guy's an easy skip. I mean, there's just not much to him. The figure looks good, but he can't really do anything. He's a brick with arms. The only redeeming factor with this toy is the mobile battle platform. That's pretty cool. And his vehicle mode's pretty cool as well. If you want a version of this character that's awesome, you get Hot Rod. 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