 Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another video review. Now my channel's name is Patriot Prime. I've got Patriot Prime here on my arm. I've got many Optimus Prime's on my wall. I have yet to do a video review on Optimus Prime. Any Optimus Prime. So I didn't even realize that until I was kind of going through my videos earlier today. So why not make this one my first one? I finally got a hold of the War for Cybertron Siege Optimus Prime. I've been eyeballing this guy on amazon.com for over a month. He finally dropped to retail. I scooped So here he is looking all G1 Glorious in a beautiful box. I love these siege boxes. The artwork is fantastic. I've mentioned before I do miss the fact we don't get the collector's cards anymore. But it is what it is. I will sacrifice a cardboard card for a better class figure. So let's go ahead and crack this guy open and take a look at him. And oh yeah, welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. Optimus Prime transforms into a very G1 looking Cybertronian truck. Yes, this is supposed to be a Cybertronian truck because according to the siege storyline they're still on Cybertron. A lot of folks have complained because this mode looks like he is a truck wearing a hat. I don't mind it too much. It doesn't look that bad in in hand of course. I was one of the ones when I saw the pictures wasn't a big fan. In hand he's really nice. He's got a lot of nice painted and sculpted details all the way around. White stripe there on the front just like G1. A lot of clear blue plastic here on the front. Even the grille which kind of surprised me. I like the lights here or cannons. I'm really not sure what those are. Molded details here on this side. He's got some battle damage up here on the side. And that's about all the battle damage he has in truck mode. Now he rolls really well. I'm quite impressed to how well he rolls. Optimus did come with a couple accessories. A shield slash axe and his blaster. Now the blaster can be fit on top like so and the shield hooks right there on the back. So that's one option for weapon storage. An option I like put the blaster in first and it's got a port up here on top that you can fit the shield in which looks a little better but it's not great. Now let's take a look at Siege Prime with his Generation 1 counterpart and they are very very close to the same size. Get that centered a little better for you. So it looks really good together. I dig it. I really like the Generation 1 throwbacks that this Siege line is bringing out for us old school Transformer fans. Siege Optimus Prime also has quite a few ports to incorporate the Siege plague gimmick of combining weapons. You've got ports here up on top, a port there dead center in the middle, two on the rear and two on the side. So you can really arm him up for battle if you so choose with the other Siege figures. Now let's get Optimus Prime transformed into robot mode and he has a lot of flaps you need to unpack. First let's do the ones here on the side where his gas tanks are. Those will pop on both sides, take the wheels and fold these under for now. Then you're going to take these flaps right here at the front, fold those out. There are tabs here on the side. You're going to open these as well. So he's kind of looked like he exploded. Now you're going to open up the windows and this is really cool. On the inside it looks like he has a molded matrix of leadership in there so I do like that. From this point you're going to take this part up, fold the gray piece underneath where it'll snap in place. These two sections will fold in and snap as well and just leave that as so. What you're going to do now is take the arms here bring those out away from the main body of the cab. So he is starting to take form. Now one of the coolest parts of this transformation is what you do with these front wheels. They're on a double hinge that you simply bring up and then fold into the body until they're flat. It's such a cool way to get those wheels out of the way for transformation. Go ahead and bring the head up and close the chest, bringing these shoulders forward. You'll take these panels here on each arm, fold over and swing these underneath toward the robot. It doesn't go on the outside. They'll stop. Bring these toward the robot and of course fold that under as well and there you more or less have the torso. Now from this point what you're going to do is turn him around, separate the legs and you're going to take the wheels, collapse those in and flip them over on the other side of the leg. Another unique wheel transformation. Go ahead and take the ends which are his feet and open those parts out forming the toes. Go ahead and bring this section here down. Now this gray piece will open up and slot in to that little section right there. So line those up and snap them in place. Same on both sides. Now what you're going to do is turn at the knee, then bring the waist up, click together, take this back piece, fold that in, spin around and clip to the back and there we have Optimus Prime in robot mode. And what a fantastic looking robot mode. This is the first retail Prime that we've got in years that he looks like he just stepped out of the G1 cartoon. I mean look at that head sculpt. That is fantastic. He's even got the blue eyes, the paint detail there and the crest. Look at the details there on the side, the ears. I love it. He's got the smoke stacks. He does have that siege battle damage though it does not look as bad on him as say it did on Megatron. The blue windshields show through on this mode but at least his grill is the right color. He even has the yellow belt just like the cartoon. Moving down to the legs, more battle damage on the thighs. He has the vents and the feet. I love this. And I love how those tires fold up into the body. Prime also has some great articulation as you saw. The head is on a ball joint, can move all the way around. Arms can go up and a full 360 though you do have to make sure and put that smoke stack back in place. He does have a wrist swivel, a waist swivel, hips up and down on a ball joint, knees up and down and a knee swivel. And of course he's got ankle tilt for those wild dramatic poses. Of course in robot mode Optimus Prime can hold his weapons. Let's take a look at his blaster for a moment. That looks just like the G1 blaster. Another great throwback so we'll put that there in his right hand. He also comes with this shield axe weapon so in this mode it looks like a shield. You could clip to his forearm right there or it transforms into an axe. Simply fold the handle down and snap it into place and there's two little blades that pop out. You have to pop the small one out first then the large so there is his battle axe. It's got an Autobot symbol right there molded in not a big fan of the black. I might put a reprolabel on there so that'll go in his other hand and there you have Prime all ready for battle. Now let's compare Siege Optimus Prime in his robot mode next to his generation one counterpart. He's got a lot of nice G1 throwbacks on this mold. Every figure I've reviewed from the Siege line their G1 throwbacks have impressed me so much it just brings a tear to this old reviewer's eyes. Now I've seen and read many articles and videos regarding people's concern for the new Siege Voyager line compared to their price point. Old Voyager figures were $24.99. The Siege ones are running $29.99. So let's take a look at Voyager Siege Prime compared to the last Voyager Prime figure we got in the Titan's Return line. There's really not that much size difference and I could tell you you could tell there's a big difference in quality. I mean this guy even sounds hollow. Listen see so right there it's a little bit more expensive but you are paying for better quality. Oh I almost forgot to show you how the blast effects from the Battle Masters work on Optimus Prime. Take that Decepticons. Oh yeah see how good that decal looks now. He also has a blast effect peg right there on his shoulder so you can make it look like he's getting shot. Tis but a scratch. I couldn't be happier with the War for Cybertron Siege Optimus Prime. This is one of the best Voyager Optimus Primes we've had in years. I think the last real good one we had was the classics line. This guy is G1 through and through. He's got a fun transformation and he's very very solid and poseable. You can't go wrong with this Optimus Prime. So does the War for Cybertron Siege Optimus Prime belong in your collection? Without a doubt. This is a fantastic toy. I absolutely love it. This one really impressed me. If you see him grabbing he's damn near perfect. He's got a fun transformation though it takes a while to kind of get used to. I had to transform about three or four times to figure him out but I love him. He is great. He's perfect head sculpt. Perfect body style. He just he looks like he just jumped right out of the cartoon. Yeah he's a solid 10 for me. He is a fantastic figure. Highly highly recommended. Guys I want to take a moment to thank you very much for all your support for Patriot Prime Reviews. Last Friday I reached 1000 subscribers. Last Monday I reached 4000 views and then last night I got an email from YouTube saying that Patriot Prime Reviews has been accepted into their partner program. So thank you so much. I couldn't have done it without you guys. So until next time this is Patriot Prime signing out. Hoorah! Hey I really appreciate you guys stopping by my channel. 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