![]() I know, you’re all very shocked by this crazy development that absolutely no one could have seen coming. I good chunk of those older figures are Ultra Magnus. As a whole, I’ve kinda slowed down on collecting them, so there’s a lot less of an influx of them waiting to get reviewed all the time, but I’ve still got a host of older ones I can fall back on. You know what I haven’t really reviewed a lot of lately? Transformers. The mere sight of his armored form charging into battle is more than enough to inspire his troops to victory, and his strength as a warrior is more than enough to break any Decepticon army.” “Ultra Magnus is legendary among Autobots and Decepticons alike. ULTRA MAGNUS TRANSFORMERS: FALL OF CYBERTRON (HASBRO) So, I’m glad to have another Magnus, as per usual, but I do wish he were better. I get Hasbro wanting to get extra mold re-uses, but for this specific line, I don’t feel like this is one that really works. He’s not a bad figure, but he’s also just sort of…lost? Like, he’s not even true to the one thing the line had going for it, so, exactly what is his purpose? I’d like to see a proper armored version later down the line, but honestly I feel like this figure’s existence is going to make getting another one more difficult. Ultimately, I got him because I needed to stop at Walmart for something else, he was there, and he was on sale. Generally, I don’t tend to go for just inner-bot Magnuses, so I wasn’t really planning to get this one. The announcement of a Magnus was exciting, but that was undercut by the reveal that he was just a Prime repaint. He was fine, but not really enough to make me jump into the line any further. I got this line’s Soundwave because he pretty much fell into my lap. All of these are the same as those included with the standard Optimus, though, as noted above, this guy loses the Matrix. Magnus is packed with three sets of hands (fists, open gesture, and a grip/pointing combo), a rifle, and an alternate Energon axe hand (now in blue). The application is clean, and he looks the part, so it all works out. Not *actually* being an inner bot means he can follow the original color scheme a little bit more, specifically with the upper being silver, rather than just more white. As with the G1 figure, he’s a largely white version of Prime, much like the inner bots for the Siege and Kingdom releases. The main change-up for this release is the paint scheme. The Matrix isn’t included here, so it’s kind of vestigial, but it’s still a cool feature. The mold still features Prime’s opening chest compartment, which on the first release allowed for storage of the included Matrix of Leadership. It’s generally a pretty fun sculpt removed from the source, and it plays pretty well, so I can’t really complain. For Magnus, it’s kind of neither here nor there whether it’s accurate to anything. It matches the Prime animation model, which is good for Prime. The movement is a little better than the Soundwave mold for the most part, and I found the angles to be a little sharper on this one. This is my first time messing with the mold. #G1 slapdash spoiler series#Since he’s just the inner robot, rather than a proper armored Magnus, he’s just a complete repaint of the Series 1 Optimus Prime mold. Magnus’s entire existence is reliant on one thing: he’s a 100% parts re-use. The figure stands about 6 inches tall and he has 34 points of articulation. The entire selling point of this line is that the transformations are sacrificed in the name of animation accuracy, a selling point that has been completely lost with this figure, because instead of being based on any animated appearance of Magnus, this figure is instead based on his G1 inner robot. Ultra Magnus is one of the two figures (the other being the Prime version of Knockout) that make up the fifth assortment of Transformers: R.E.D., which remains exclusive to Walmart. So, you know, it’s at least mostly on brand. Well, if it makes it any better, it’s at least an Ultra Magnus. First Transformers review in three months. Well, hey, would you guys like a Transformers review? Okay, but slight caveat: this one does not transform. I was trying for a once-a-month thing, but I couldn’t even do that. Okay, the Transformers reviews have certainly slowed down around here, I suppose. ![]()
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