Transformers: Robots in Disguise has a little more finesse as a title than Transformers: Car Robots, but they’re the same thing: a Japanese animated iteration of the franchise that came out in 2000.
Hasbro‘s HasLab crowdfunds for Transformers have mostly focused on anime-based characters who may not have gotten as much traction on U.S. shores, and the latest is no different. It’s Omega Prime from that Robots in Disguise show (as opposed to the other show by that name, for younger kids) — a combiner based on Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus.
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There’s some history to this combination.
The original Ultra Magnus toy was a white repaint of Optimus Prime’s truck cab, who could transform the same way, or use his car-carrier backpack to plus up the figure and make it into a much larger robot. Here, Optimus Prime is a fire truck, and as with classic Optimus, his trailer turns into a base. Ultra Magnus is again a car carrier, but he can combine to armor up Optimus and form the much larger Omega Prime. Movie fans may recognize this version of Optimus as the visual inspiration for Dark of the Moon’s Sentinel Prime.
When fully transformed into Cybertronian forms, the items that come with the HasLab are an 8.5-inch Optimus Prime, 11.5 inch Ultra Magnus, 15-inch command center (trailer), and 5.75-inch Bluebolts figure, who becomes Omega Prime’s gun. Omega Prime’s combined form stands at 13.75 inches.
What would an anime character be without a comically oversized weapon? If the figure gets 13,000 backers, he adds a 23.5-inch tall Matrix Blade weapon. Get him to 16,000, and he adds two display stands that can combine into a space bridge display piece.
Hasbro even has a little video to explain:
The crowdfund period closes at 11:59 Eastern on March 14th, 44 days from now. 10,000 minimum backers are required to get the figures made; as of this writing, it’s close to 4,000 already.
On the fence? Take a look through the official images below.
