I personally think 102 was kinda half baked compared to 38. 38's biggest issues are accuracy to the movie and the leg transformation. However, 102 has ALOT more issues. The shoulder articulation really brings it down, the smokestacks are just bad, and the roof of the truck is gray for no reason. And these issues are ALL present even though 90% of the budget went to the torso. And of course, the legs. I personally wouldn't mind the legs if the torso didn't have as many issues as it did.

@@kinjapleb4228 fair enough. I've only handled the 38 mold once and am only really interested in getting 102. The shoulders do suck though

@tarnishedspark511 My only hope is that 102 is this compromised due to being a target exclusive, maybe in the future we'll get a more wide release that fixes the issues.

@@tarnishedspark511I have 38, 38 is by far one of my best toys

102 looks better, but its held back by the leg kibble in the truck, and the horrible shoulder joints.

Doesn't cheat like the rest hah

Your damn wright!

Where can i find ver Jeep?And dropckik car?

Yeah, mine suck as well. I can never find anything good in stores anymore

Same

It's not your Target. It's Hasbro, back at it again with unjustifiably poor distribution. I managed to grab the last one on my eighth stop of the Target spree that I took on restock day.

@@LoftyLoo so it is a confirmed Hasbro thing then? Do you know why? Are they trying to like increase scarcity or something?

​@@jakehefnerits probably a mix of both. I'm pretty sure Target has to place orders of stock towards Hasbro, but Hasbro dictates when they're allowed to hit shelves. This and the fact that most pre-orders sold out and are either fulfilled or backordered

almost too positive if you ask me. Even when he's truly not okay with something, he'll still touch on it with rose tinted glasses, which is not really a good thing for a reviewer.

​@@TheInsanebrain247he comepletely shits on the figure sometimes, idk what type of lore you're trying to make for a living human being.

@@TheInsanebrain247 he just doesn’t get into the nitty gritty like some reviewers do, PvP literally talks 600 words per minute so emgo just sounds like he doesn’t say much when he just generalizes a lot of things. which i do like about him

@TheInsanebrain247 if I feel something is bad, I say it. I don’t have be a hyperbolic ass about it like other reviewers and people in the comments. I don’t demand perfection because I know there’s no such thing and I also know how the business works so I’m not gonna crucify people for doing their job the way they were told to do it. If I see something as a flaw, I point it out and move on and that’s all that need be done. I’m a glass half full guy, so I’ll always look on the bright side and give credit where it’s due.

@@emgo316 Top Tier Reviewer right there

I just want a clean freightliner fl-86 with a good robot mode 😭😭😭, is that really too much to ask?

​@@popsjrYES, who do you think you are?!?!

@@shockulas3875 😂, we seemed so close though with ss-38! It honestly just needed a new wheel transformation (like with ss102), slightly better proportions, and some smaller cosmetic changes. The truck was genuinely perfect, with it's one flaw being a single hinge on the door, and the fact that it's a Marmon AGT-AC 86. And that's a super easy fix, it's Litterally just a remolding of the grill. I honestly hoped ss102 would finally be the masterpiece style freightliner... But nah.

@@popsjr Thats it right there, they have to leave us wanting more! If they give us perfection then we won't need to buy anymore OPs from them and Hasbro can't have THAT

Thanks for watching!

I'll still take this over the Mainline Voyager Optimus.

@@joshmontemayor6098 WELL I BEG TO DIFFER

Same here!!

Man y’all are so lucky, all the targets within a 20mi radius have zero in stock

I was kinda disappointed it doesn't turn into a port to attach a trailer, myself...

Same

Same, mine's coming between tomorrow and the 7th. Super excited. He looks awesome.

@@braydenpage1808, not to mention that he's more movie-accurate in both robot & truck mode than the Mainline Voyager.

I’ve put a good amount of time into painting my mainline and it looks worlds better. I prefer it over the ss102 due to less kibble and the shoulder articulation of the 102 prime is god awful. Idk how they managed that. The ss38 was superior in those aspects. Why change something that’s not broken?

Eh, for me personally, it makes it really boring. Yeah, it will have some slight changes, but functionally it's mostly the same transformation every time (PLEASE prove me wrong on this and suggest interesting Optimus figures)

@@bumbleprime7713 basically anything high end that they got in Japan and was never Imported to US markets. Some of the early Masterpiece stuff had weird decisions (especially the Japanese releases). But if you really want convoluted Optimus transformations- the 2007 movie Leader Class was the standard "movie" transformation, but with all the intuitivenes of a rusty brick. Back before they figured out how to do "over engineered but still fun". Honestly one of my first Ops was the original movie Leader class and while it looked good, I hated transforming it back and forth because even compared to most other scale optimuses (such as that eras voyager equivalent) it was difficult and took a lot of time. Which is probably I prefer the simplified "standard Optimus" transformation. Although on a personal note, in hand this specific Optimus does have a harder transformation than "Evasion Mode" Op from AOE, as well as WOC/Earthrise line Ops. It's still the standard Optimus "flip head, tuck arms, bend waist, rotate torso", but like the video shows there's a lot of weird little details that mostly went the way of the dinobots in recent transformers releases.

@@TheGreyTurtleEntertainment I actually do have that 2007 leader class figure lol, and yeah he's an absolute brick

I can't believe I'm saying this, But that little bloosh was pathetic, Of course it's not your fault Emgo, It was the way that hand cannon was made.

The Medium Prime Bloosh is pretty movie-accurate. You see, Optimus' arm cannon in the movie hardly did any damage.

I’m talking about the mainline version.

@@emgo316 ooh that makes more sense

If you knew where I could get one sooner, why didn’t you tell me? Lol

@@emgo316 I'm not American, If so, I'd have helped you. Also, thanks for relying on me, I have watched your videos for nearly 10 years, your reviews are so charismatic!

I'm also currently working on my review

I feel the messy truck bed was due to the way the legs transformed: Fix the feet and keep the legs in place (like what the DNA kit did) and it'd actually be perfect.

The robot mode is also more movie-accurate than the Mainline Voyager. He even comes with the arm cannon & energon blade, while the Mainline Voyager doesn't.