Super7 Set to Traumatize ’80s Kids With Dead Optimus Prime Figure

By Luke Y. Thompson

Any kid who saw The Transformers: The Movie in theaters the first time around never forgot it. From the opening Unicron sequence that depicts robot genocide, to the wanton killing of various TV cartoon regulars, stuff got shocking. But no shock came bigger than the death of Optimus Prime at the hands of arch-enemy Megatron. Peter Cullen had imbued the Autobot leader…

Luke Y. Thompson
Luke Y. Thompson

Luke Y. Thompson has been a professional film critic since 1999, and part of the toy blogging community since the aughts. He was the first blogger to cover Comic-Con panel by panel for a major trade publication, and has several LA Press Club awards and honorable mentions, including one for reviewing fast food. Follow him on most social media sites as lytrules.

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