Vehicle mode doesn’t allow openings for drivers, but he’s more-or-less compatible with 3 or 4-inch figures for display purposes. There are stickers included, but they are mostly OF Optimus, not FOR Optimus. A plug-in charger fits into an outlet underneath his grill, though he’s also USB chargeable. Inside that is everything you need, including a partly charged Prime. Open that, and inside is a gray foam “suitcase,” with handle and snap fastenings. Open that, and there’s a nice black outer box with a picture of the figure inside on it. Keep a close eye on delivery, too, because the outer mailing box has an Optimus design all over, leaving little doubt as to the contents. The only major disadvantage is that it doesn’t have a separately available compatible trailer like the big one. So Robosen made a smaller one that allowed the $700 price point still, but it’s plenty big nonetheless. Fans may remember the original going for $750 - what seems to have happened is mandatory price hikes across the board raised that to $999. Make sure to download the right app - you can drive yourself nuts downloading the app for the original, larger figure and not have it work at all. Only one makes one that can do push-ups, a command in the downloadable app. Any company can make a 16-inch cool statue of the Autobot leader. This will scrape the bottom of his feet some, so any Robosen Optimus Prime significantly played with won’t be pristine in that way. He can also walk - the app has a joystick that can send him any direction, or you can just order him to walk forward - though it’s a bit of a shuffle. It’s pretty nuts to have an Optimus Prime that you can simply tell to transform, and then to roll out, and he will become a truck and zoom forward, honking his horn and burning headlights. Hit the power switch to deactivate him at any time, though it’s on the cab behind his head flap. Command the active toy to shut down, and he gets into a more crouching, Megazord-on-the-march type pose. The truck collapses in the middle, and the legs may splay apart and hang loose if not held properly from underneath. Picking him up in vehicle form is like picking up a limp, unconscious child. In order to be as poseable as he is, Optimus does not “lock” into truck mode the way most Transformers toys do. RELATED: Toy Review: Transformers The Fallen and Transmetal II Megatron
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