Sonokong Big Convoy Mammoth Optimus Prime

I'm not a Shellformer, this is all armor

Welcome to a review of the Sonokong Big Convoy AKA the Mammoth Optimus Prime from the Super Life-Form Transformers Beast Wars Neo (Is it just us or do the Japanese - and Koreans - really like long names?)

Before Hasbro got lazy and created a modern generation of Transformers "Shellformers", there was this guy.

The literal king of kibble.

This is what it means to be a "Shellformer"

To the uninitiated, Sonokong's Big Convoy is also known simply as "Big" or "Slammoth". He bears the title of Supreme Commander of the Maximals (It's a military title). But unlike other Supreme Commanders who are level-headed and friendly, Big Convoy is a "One-Man-Army" with teamwork issues and a penchant for simply destroying what is in front of him with his Big Cannon.

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Transformers Generations Rhinox

Transformers Generations Rhinox

Presenting the Transformers Generations 30th Anniversary Voyager class Rhinox.

There's something to be said about being built like a linebacker. If you enter a battlefield in the form of a charging rhinoceros, getting out of the way seems to be the most prudent course of action.

Size is of course relative when it comes to the Maximals (The Rat is huge!), so only a few things things would seem more frightening - including a red tinged King Kong coming at you.

For more about the Platinum Edition Year of the Fire Monkey Optimus Primal, click here.

To the uninitiated Rhinox is actually strong enough to go toe-to-toe with Megatron. And contrary to what people may think about strong-men, Rhinox is not stupid - he's actually quite intelligent. Rhinox is a brilliant war tactician and dabbles not just in technology, but in mysticism as well.

Rhinox could actually lead the Maximals, but we would rather stop and smell the flowers.

But that doesn't mean that he can't if he had to.

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Transformers Platinum Edition Year of the Fire Monkey Optimus Primal

Year of the Fire Monkey Optimus Primal

Presenting the Transformers Platinum Edition Year of the Fire Monkey Optimus Primal.

Gong Xi Fa Cai! The New Lunar Year has rolled in and we are now under the gracious auspices of the Chinese Zodiac's Fire Monkey. Lucky numbers for the year are 1, 8 & 7. Lucky colors are Gold, Blue and White.

In celebration of the new year, new hope and new beginnings, Hasbro decided to release this redeco of the 2001 Robots in Disguise Air Attack Optimus Primal.

Personally we'd rather that they reissued the 1998 Super Optimal Optimus, but this is still a gigantic leap over the YOTG debacle last year involving the translucent G2 Battle Convoy armed with pink missiles (It couldn't get any gayer). While it's no YOTH MP10 Optimus Prime, it's still a step up over last lunar year.