I discovered that his shoulder guns are extendable/collapsible just like on the show (the first time he deployed them when confronting Megatron aboard the Ark, the guns popped out and the barrels extended out and the lights/laser sights were emitted from the indicator in the center of his chest). I got the Primal Prime (Gorira Prime) version from BBTS and he's absolutely epic in this color scheme and I LOVE the comic-accurate head they created for his bot mode.
@@nmmkunst it’s a long running joke in the transformers community known as “Trukk not Munky”. It’s about people who didn’t like Beast Wars a first, “Truck” being G1 Optimus prime and “Monkey” being Optimus Primal.
Very awesome toy! I ordered him the other day, and he's pretty dope! One thing you forgot to include is that you can pull on blue part of his shoulders to extend them out a little bit, as well as expose some circuit details underneath (this does hamper the shoulder cannons from sitting on his shoulders, however).
Perfect Effect has just opened pre - orders for their Mega Dragon (Non Transmetal dragon Megatron) and it looks cool. I am counting on you for the review!
I just wish they would make a masterpiece version of Optimal Optimus and megatron(dragon). But I will settle for perfect effects versions of the 2 as well.because they are close to masterpiece
I wish WFC/FOC could've lead into a Beast Wars type story. I would've love to see the High Moon Studio's version of Beast Wars, specially with their cybertronian art style.
IKR? Can you imagine Optimal Optimus and Dragon Megatron missions?! X3 Boss fights for the predacons could include Tigerhawk and maybe the resurrected ark While the maximals have to agains shut down the nemesis.
High Moon could have even done a bit of Open World too, explore the prehistoric world for energon and pick up side missions to do for various characters. The Axalon/later the Ark could be a central hub to change characters and pick up the main missions.
the banana splits hahahah you crack me up! thanks for this dude, i always had trouble clipping the back pack to the waist in this mode but i managed it watching this :D top man!
Remember these being One of the most sought after toys back in christmas 98 but my parents gave me razorclaw with a vhs of the first 2 episodes of beast wars season 2.
A vast improvement on the original, I wonder if they're going to do Depth Charge and Rampage as well. I'd like to see a 3rd party take on the Rampage tank mode.
Did not know about the missiles hidden in the leg wheels. Also, the blue shoulder peices lift up for added arm articulation. When the chest is open, you can see the hinges inside. Theyre super tight but it works.
I assume the peg in the middle of the arm covers is to peg them into the middle of the arm and spread them out. He used them as shields one time in the show.
It's got nothing to do with this video and it's been a while since you've done one, but I finally caved and got a TR Alpha Trion today solely because of you and your YOOOOOOOOUNG WARRIOOOOOOOOOOOR skits. xD
So very well detailed and nicely moulded really cool, colours are perfect and the details on the face are beyond perfect, still love the original though
I had the red and blue version of the original back when I was a kid. But I do prefer the original with the proper colour scheme. In fact the orange, blue, grey and plum colour scheme is something I always come back to when thinking about colour schemes in design because of this Optimal Optimus.
Oh man! Saluds fron NYC! Emgo, your collection most be 3 apts rooms size! Wonder if one day you WILL show them ALL! in A posible 1hr video! by the way the only transformer i love so deep it s the MISFIRE targetmaster I once had and the GIJOE named OUTBACK! Best of luck! and KEEP that collection going strong! Wonder if those tiny BATTLE BEATS from the early transformers days are part of your collection too!?
I begged for the original figure for Christmas or my birthday (can't remember). I had every G1 Beast Wars toy because I was obsessed. But, I remember the original being "Fisher Price" random transforming garbage; nevertheless, I still managed to fall in love with this gigantic figure. Robot mode of course was the shining star, but I felt that the beast mode was so far away from Beast Wars concept. This figure to me made me think, "Why even have a beast mode? Blending in with the surroundings is happening." I love all of my Transformer memories as a child. Silverbolt's fusion kinda confused me, but this one took the cake! As a child I thought all the figures looked so realistic and looked like real bugs, rats, etc.; despite the fact, they were not that realistic and was only the view of a imaginative child. The coloring, the beast mode, the transformation, it all lacked substance. Optimus Primal throughout had to have the most lackluster transformation (human-like creature transforms to a more upright humanoid robot), but the first Primals had such imagination and character to them. Even though this last Optimus of the original Beast Wars was so much more complex; I really thought its execution was rather weak. It is weird how much I love the first Primal even though the the transformation was so simple. Thanks for the review man!!! I am so addicted to you videos. I want you to answer me this if you read this comment. Do you live in a Tardis, have Felix's magic bag, or have access to another dimension to have space for all these figures and toy you own?!?! Is you basement a multilayered bomb shelter, or do you just have a second house???
Fecking hell more or less similar to the 2 transmetal beast wars version as as shown on season 2. Except the four back wheels on the legs two each resemble modern earth ones while the only front one resembles Cybertronian futuristic one..
37:32-37:48 ......Well......Personally, the original is a way better optimus than this universe's one. XD Don't get me wrong, I really REALLY adore these outro skits and find them pretty hilarious. You seem to make a character's personality much different than the one we know and love.
I wanna get this, but I have the original and it was my favorite toy as a child. Most likely I'll will be picking one up if they do an Primal Prime or Rodimus Primal redeco.
When I was around 11-12, I found 60 dollars randomly on the ground and immediately proceeded to buy this toy. Beast Wars was my jimmy jam and Optimal Optimus was life.
This thing would have been an instant buy for me if it came with an alternate Beast Machines Megatron face. Either way, only a matter of time before the Primal Prime repaint.
I think future you should've come in at the begin at least and said how the keyword....s you'll be using throughout this is "Looks silly, but improves by a bit" XD
I should really not watch your reviews for toys I don't want. Somehow I always come out the other end being like "maaaybe I do want this after all." Damn you, Emgo - WHY YOU DO THIS TO MEEEEEE?!
Most reviews, including yours, laugh and make remarks about the ground and air transportation modes almost as though they are supposed to be an actual jet and truck, so they are so silly, like they were in the show... Optimal Optimus' vehicle modes aren't supposed to be a jet and car anymore than transmetal Cheetor turned into a jet, TM Rattrap turned into a car, or TM Tarantulas turned into a motorcycle. They are beast/vehicle hybrid transport modes, and cool bonus extra modes that pull off exactly what they are supposed to pull off just about perfectly. I think Gorira makes as nice an ape-truck and ape-jet as Tarantualas made as a spider-bike, etc. I loved the transmetals with their weird 3rd modes back then and still do now.
Though I like most of the re-imagining here, I miss the fact that the original, when his feet are flat, act as thrusters, and there's zero thrusters for the back of this re-imagining.
Hello , there is always an updated site on new transformers? In a few months it will be released the new movie. Where you recommend me buying new transformers ? (TRANSFORMERS 5) THANK YOU !
Do you have your orginal review on the beast wars optimal optimus releases in 1998. I have all 3 major versions and now do you loosen his joints.for his arms
Yo, for his armored transport alt mode, i think a highly modified Bugatti w16 will power it. Also, he might be the most powerful prime and imagine scourge getting thrashed by optimal optimus for killing apelinq, it would be epic.
Optimal Optimus has got to be the best Optimus in the universe. Half Maximal, half Autobot.
Half Maximal, half Autobot, all hero!
@@jimbodeekWell said.
And PRIME AF.
The only accessory this toy absolutely must have is an alternate face resembling Megatron!
Two years on and we still haven't got an Optimal Optimus toy with this accessory to my knowledge, which is a thought crime.
I wish they did that as accessory to homage megatron from beast machines with this mode
jajaja hope the ko that is on its way is going with that
Agree! That would be so cool to have a beast machine optimal megatron face
I discovered that his shoulder guns are extendable/collapsible just like on the show (the first time he deployed them when confronting Megatron aboard the Ark, the guns popped out and the barrels extended out and the lights/laser sights were emitted from the indicator in the center of his chest). I got the Primal Prime (Gorira Prime) version from BBTS and he's absolutely epic in this color scheme and I LOVE the comic-accurate head they created for his bot mode.
Well *ACTUALLY* it’s Optimal Optimus
I swear if you take this seriously.
I like Optimal Optimus because he can turn into a Trukk, a Munky, and a Playne.
He can also turn into a rebut.
His design makes so much sense
What country are you from? That’s not how you spell truck monkey and plane learn better grammar
@@nmmkunst it’s a long running joke in the transformers community known as “Trukk not Munky”. It’s about people who didn’t like Beast Wars a first, “Truck” being G1 Optimus prime and “Monkey” being Optimus Primal.
probably the most intricate toe articulation I have ever seen on a figure.
Very awesome toy!
I ordered him the other day, and he's pretty dope!
One thing you forgot to include is that you can pull on blue part of his shoulders to extend them out a little bit, as well as expose some circuit details underneath (this does hamper the shoulder cannons from sitting on his shoulders, however).
34:11"There he is my little guuuy! there he is, my little guy. isn't he cute?"
That's not what I wanted to hear...
That is what was so awesome about Optimal Optimus is that he was over the top ridiculous.
21:25 "Matt Damon." XD Yes, I believe that's from the team america movie. Is it?
"Jumpin' Gyros! Optimus sure learns a new body fast!"
"Well what do you expect? He changes them often enough."
*rimshot*
LOL!! 😂
Was just watching that the other night 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
if takara release an mp optimal optimus it better have a megatron face
I agree but they akso need to release Optimus' transmetal 1 modr
Fair
Perfect Effect has just opened pre - orders for their Mega Dragon (Non Transmetal dragon Megatron) and it looks cool. I am counting on you for the review!
Haven't seen any reviews. Does it come with an alternate Optimal head?
This video was just...
Prime.
Thank you son of Sparda
Ayyyy
I had the original version of optimal Optimus when I was younger
Same
I just wish they would make a masterpiece version of Optimal Optimus and megatron(dragon).
But I will settle for perfect effects versions of the 2 as well.because they are close to masterpiece
HAHA nice! I still say "Matt Damon" when things look doofy, as well.
“Team America: World Police”, uh, I think that’s where the reference came from?
@@TheRisingStorm316 That is correct.
@@SasmakToy That’s what I thought.
I wish WFC/FOC could've lead into a Beast Wars type story. I would've love to see the High Moon Studio's version of Beast Wars, specially with their cybertronian art style.
IKR?
Can you imagine Optimal Optimus and Dragon Megatron missions?! X3
Boss fights for the predacons could include Tigerhawk and maybe the resurrected ark
While the maximals have to agains shut down the nemesis.
High Moon could have even done a bit of Open World too, explore the prehistoric world for energon and pick up side missions to do for various characters. The Axalon/later the Ark could be a central hub to change characters and pick up the main missions.
@@bluewulv and separate campaigns for Maximals and Predacons like in WfC
The skit at the end with Cheetor, how he won't ever get an upgrade or prime like Optimus, well Cheetor became the leader in the end on Beast Machines
The arm panels that pop off in the cartoon where Shields for that lil extra cover in battle
I love Third-Party Figures that have individual articulated fingers. That way they can give flip you off.
Lol
Bigbot, how do you feel?
Optimal Options:"In a word... Prime."
"In a word........Prime."
Prime ribs
@Timothy Lei Best joke I've heard all day.
"But not for long....no." - Megatron
I'd love a Primal Prime repaint of this guy.
Would be cool if other third-party companies did their take on Unicron Trilogy characters.
The blue pieces between his shoulders and chest move to allow more outward movement! Nice review EMGO, looking forward to Megatron V2 review! :)
the banana splits hahahah you crack me up! thanks for this dude, i always had trouble clipping the back pack to the waist in this mode but i managed it watching this :D top man!
Remember these being One of the most sought after toys back in christmas 98 but my parents gave me razorclaw with a vhs of the first 2 episodes of beast wars season 2.
A vast improvement on the original, I wonder if they're going to do Depth Charge and Rampage as well. I'd like to see a 3rd party take on the Rampage tank mode.
Did not know about the missiles hidden in the leg wheels. Also, the blue shoulder peices lift up for added arm articulation. When the chest is open, you can see the hinges inside. Theyre super tight but it works.
Looks awesome! ^^
I miss the chrome from the original toy though.
As well as the massive arms.
I'm sure someone else has let you know already but the blue sections connected to the arms can move out too to get extra movement for the arms.
"Matt Damon" cracked me up.
Beast Gorira sounds like a monster that you will see in a Godzilla movie.
how dare you saw that abomination is better than my childhood memories I shall now leave in a 90s nostalgia rage
I assume the peg in the middle of the arm covers is to peg them into the middle of the arm and spread them out. He used them as shields one time in the show.
Emgo you should see the POTP version, it's Brilliant!!!!
It's got nothing to do with this video and it's been a while since you've done one, but I finally caved and got a TR Alpha Trion today solely because of you and your YOOOOOOOOUNG WARRIOOOOOOOOOOOR skits. xD
If you give him the taller shoulders, he becomes Optimal Magnus
So very well detailed and nicely moulded really cool, colours are perfect and the details on the face are beyond perfect, still love the original though
I had the red and blue version of the original back when I was a kid. But I do prefer the original with the proper colour scheme. In fact the orange, blue, grey and plum colour scheme is something I always come back to when thinking about colour schemes in design because of this Optimal Optimus.
13:14-13:35 "Either wayyy, but heyyyy" Rhymes! Also, you said the same thing practically three times. XD
I wish they'll make a transmetal 3 cheetor
hes basically masterpiece optimal optimus
Do you think this bad boy will ever get the Primal Prime treatment? I'm holding out hope for one.
you are in luck then haha, recently announced the "gorira prime" version, due for release in november
There's also a "Nemesis" Gorirra out there as well
Oh man! Saluds fron NYC! Emgo, your collection most be 3 apts rooms size! Wonder if one day you WILL show them ALL! in A posible 1hr video! by the way the only transformer i love so deep it s the MISFIRE targetmaster I once had and the GIJOE named OUTBACK! Best of luck! and KEEP that collection going strong! Wonder if those tiny BATTLE BEATS from the early transformers days are part of your collection too!?
They need to do a perfect affect transmetal 2 cheetor
I begged for the original figure for Christmas or my birthday (can't remember). I had every G1 Beast Wars toy because I was obsessed. But, I remember the original being "Fisher Price" random transforming garbage; nevertheless, I still managed to fall in love with this gigantic figure. Robot mode of course was the shining star, but I felt that the beast mode was so far away from Beast Wars concept. This figure to me made me think, "Why even have a beast mode? Blending in with the surroundings is happening." I love all of my Transformer memories as a child. Silverbolt's fusion kinda confused me, but this one took the cake! As a child I thought all the figures looked so realistic and looked like real bugs, rats, etc.; despite the fact, they were not that realistic and was only the view of a imaginative child.
The coloring, the beast mode, the transformation, it all lacked substance. Optimus Primal throughout had to have the most lackluster transformation (human-like creature transforms to a more upright humanoid robot), but the first Primals had such imagination and character to them.
Even though this last Optimus of the original Beast Wars was so much more complex; I really thought its execution was rather weak. It is weird how much I love the first Primal even though the the transformation was so simple.
Thanks for the review man!!! I am so addicted to you videos. I want you to answer me this if you read this comment.
Do you live in a Tardis, have Felix's magic bag, or have access to another dimension to have space for all these figures and toy you own?!?! Is you basement a multilayered bomb shelter, or do you just have a second house???
and it was only $20 at the time... like whaaaat!
What would have been even cooler it is that he included the head of Megatron when it takes up the body ^^
Fecking hell more or less similar to the 2 transmetal beast wars version as as shown on season 2. Except the four back wheels on the legs two each resemble modern earth ones while the only front one resembles Cybertronian futuristic one..
Great review as always, but you missed a point of articulation. Those blue shoulders of his can bend upwards for better outward movement.
I'm not an Optimal Optimus fan, but "Beast Gorira" is a huge improvement. Hell, give him Primal Prime's color scheme and I may just buy it.
A thing he forgot to mention is you can actually pose the jet mode In it’s cartoon accurate design with it’s arms pointing outwards
Poo flinger sounds like a old timey racial slur xD
Nahhhh
emgo: oh no we another poo slinger
neutro: awwwww fuck me I just clean the dam base already done with primal sheeez
Still haven't seen it, but I thought the only non-human primates in that movie were lemurs and bushbabies.
Samuel G mascot must have seen the chimpanzee hits grandma with its poo video that was trending couple of days ago
EmGo has an original Optimal Optimus?!!? Sick!!!
37:32-37:48 ......Well......Personally, the original is a way better optimus than this universe's one. XD Don't get me wrong, I really REALLY adore these outro skits and find them pretty hilarious. You seem to make a character's personality much different than the one we know and love.
I wanna get this, but I have the original and it was my favorite toy as a child. Most likely I'll will be picking one up if they do an Primal Prime or Rodimus Primal redeco.
At the end i was expecting Primal to say "I think i already did."
The repaint is going to make a kick ass Primal Prime homage.
When I was around 11-12, I found 60 dollars randomly on the ground and immediately proceeded to buy this toy. Beast Wars was my jimmy jam and Optimal Optimus was life.
This thing would have been an instant buy for me if it came with an alternate Beast Machines Megatron face.
Either way, only a matter of time before the Primal Prime repaint.
“big bot h-how do you feel”
“in a word prime”
He looks like the wreck king skin of Johnson from the game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
The only thing this figure's missing is an alternate Megatron head.
They should make a Beast Wars Megatron head for this figure so we can have an Optimal Megatron.
He said "Banana Splits", so now he's contractually obligated to sing the song.
What song?
I heard this toy was recolored into Perfect Effect's version of the Beast Machines Maximal/Autobot Primal Prime.
Would have been cool to see them make a beast machines megatron face plate add on.
Dude, Emgo I love you. But you missed your chance! You had the moment to do a "My little guy" moment!
Perfect effect is now making a beast wars dragon megatron
Opening cockpit but no Optimus Prime spark? For shame Perfect Effect
well if you saw off the handles you can fit the matrix that came with cybertron/galaxy force optimus/galaxy convoy into the cockpit.
Anyone else picturing Clayton screaming "GO-RI-RA!"
cool video emgo like always
Well, he won't say anything once a Master Piece Transmetal II Cheetor is released in the future.
Great figure, and that was a whole lot of ROTATING! lol
I'm guessing you had the arms missed transformed in jet mode for a reason.
Perfect Effect BEAST GORIRA is the best!
The leg transformation reminds me of Cybertron Metroplex’s leg transformation
Turn it around collapse it up and/or extend it
It being the legs
Thanks man! You save me!
Emgo: he did the split hehehe THE BANANA SPLIT! *[LAUGHING]*
from beast wars to beast machine when megatron took his form against optimus primal
At 18:15
Your joke was so funny I laughed so hard
I forgot to laugh at all
I think future you should've come in at the begin at least and said how the keyword....s you'll be using throughout this is "Looks silly, but improves by a bit" XD
I should really not watch your reviews for toys I don't want.
Somehow I always come out the other end being like "maaaybe I do want this after all."
Damn you, Emgo - WHY YOU DO THIS TO MEEEEEE?!
I had this guy so long ago but my younger brothers got to it and now everyone
Most reviews, including yours, laugh and make remarks about the ground and air transportation modes almost as though they are supposed to be an actual jet and truck, so they are so silly, like they were in the show... Optimal Optimus' vehicle modes aren't supposed to be a jet and car anymore than transmetal Cheetor turned into a jet, TM Rattrap turned into a car, or TM Tarantulas turned into a motorcycle. They are beast/vehicle hybrid transport modes, and cool bonus extra modes that pull off exactly what they are supposed to pull off just about perfectly. I think Gorira makes as nice an ape-truck and ape-jet as Tarantualas made as a spider-bike, etc. I loved the transmetals with their weird 3rd modes back then and still do now.
the figure I've been wanting to get an opinion on
Though I like most of the re-imagining here, I miss the fact that the original, when his feet are flat, act as thrusters, and there's zero thrusters for the back of this re-imagining.
Hello ,
there is always an updated site on new transformers? In a few months it will be released the new movie. Where you recommend me buying new transformers ? (TRANSFORMERS 5) THANK YOU !
are they going to do a primal prime repaint because if so i will get that instead
man i got that joke with the gorila mouth on the tip of my tongue but cant remember where it is from
Do you have your orginal review on the beast wars optimal optimus releases in 1998.
I have all 3 major versions and now do you loosen his joints.for his arms
Will you be doin the mp36 megatron?
The "banana split" pun may have been a bad joke, but honestly it did make me chuckle and snicker for a bit
Well that's just -prime- Gorira.
Yo, for his armored transport alt mode, i think a highly modified Bugatti w16 will power it. Also, he might be the most powerful prime and imagine scourge getting thrashed by optimal optimus for killing apelinq, it would be epic.
Hey Emgo, Great Review!! can you also do a review on the new Alliance Commander Optimal Optimus please!
When you that deep voice you should be the voice for Omega supreme
I can see a Winston repaint of this figure.
I don't even play Overwatch.
Oh boy! he got the ARMADA HEAD type! ahahahahaha Love it
If I remember the show right they’re meant to be like riot shields he can turn them into barricades
Wats the difference between the 4th party CR01 version of optimal Optimus and the perfect effect one