This more compact version of the Robosen Flagship Optimus Prime is an intelligent toy made with care consideration and crammed with cool robot tech. The dream was always to have a truly transforming Transformer and now we have it, thanks to the Robosen Elite Optimus Prime. Take off the rose-tinted glasses, though, and the fun I had playing with my Transformers in the ‘80s was 90% my own imagination and 10% the plastic that kind of shape shifted. Even with Michael Bay’s attempt to eviscerate whatever nostalgia I had about the bots from Cybertron, they are cool toys. Why, then, wouldn’t you create a cool cartoon series with the end product being cool toys to play with?Īnd that’s what Transformers are. As a child I had no idea that the concept was created just to make toys but, years later and now with that knowledge, I still don’t see the cynicism in this. I have been transfixed with Transformers ever since childhood.
