When I first saw this, the only Optimus on a peg full of Bumblebees and Starscreams at the Dollar General, I never would have imagined that anything was suspect. An official Hasbro product in respectable packing, properly tied down within its plastic bubble, all for $5? This tiny Prime was going to be fun, I had to have it for the blog!
Once I got around to opening tiny Optimus up, however, I quickly learned a little bit more about what a lot of Transformers collectors are talking about right now regarding the quality of Hasbro’s releases in recent years. Our tiny robot friend here is, quite simply, total garbage. Grinding ball joints, plastic spoon-quality material, one loose leg, pegs that don’t work, and a waist joint that sounds like my back cracking. The other four dollars clearly went to the box.
It was instant love. The only thing better than knowing that I’ve found a Lame toy for the blog is finding out that I’ve ended up with one. It’s a Hannuka miracle!
Now I’m not saying that everything offered at Dollar General is suspect, but I’m definitely considering it. :p
WeirdShitwithAlex 
there is a metaphor for Micheal Bay in here some where…
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I found that metaphor. This thing goes for $18 on Amazon; I got it at a store for five bucks. That’s an increase of nearly 360%. That’s like budget for each subsequent Transformers movie, more glitz for the same glutz.
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I once had a optimus prime knock off toy, it was certainly enough to get me through my child hood but not enough to appeal in the adult in me, lol. Especially now that bay ruined the franchise 😩
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I had a weird transformer growing up that I could never place the source of. It was fairly simple and the decorations were all… off. I never knew where it came from but now it could have potentially been my first KO. :p
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Do you collect these on a regular?
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I used to, as a hobby it got too expensive to keep up.
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I can imagine, but I’m sure these days the stock prolly dropped considering the bay fail lol
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The classics are regardless making a resurgence due to increased interest in Transformers. There are new combiner sets and master figures going for over a thousand dollars a pop.
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Man I forgot about the combiner series, wooow but damn I didn’t know it got that crazy with the toy line. No wonder they really go for that market the way they do. Lol 😎
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