Beast mode is a transmetal blue gorilla, and is fine from the waist up. The transmetal chest and head look extemely cool and well-designed. His "backpack" on his back is not an extra, but a place where he can take out clubs and throw them, or shoot them with his gun. The gun, though, doesn’t have a spring in it, so you actually have to push the club-missles through, which is kind of stupid. The backpack also keeps the robot mode chest on his back from being too apparent. From the waist down, this mode looks very odd. His robot feet are basically just folded in half, and no attempt was made to conceal his robot feet on the back side of his beast legs. His knee plates are his feet, and don’t really look like feet at all.
    Vehicle mode is a gorilla hoverboard. This is the gorilla, but his feet connect together to become a hoverboard. Even though this isn’t much of a vehicle mode, of the Transmetal "vehicles", this one is one of the coolest, if you ask me. His gun that he uses to shoot clubs becomes a waist-mounted rocket in this mode, to "propel" Optimus through the skies. Smaller figures can fit on his hoverboard to "ride" along with Optimus.
    His robot mode is, in my opinion, better than both of the aforementioned modes. He has a more "ape-man" look, with an ape-like face and an organic, furry chest. The legs look better in this mode, as they are finally folded all the way out. His arms are basically the same as the beast mode arms, except you switch the hands.
    Overall, the only thing about this toy that I think is poor is the way the legs look in the beast mode. Very highly recommended.

Review by Beastbot

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