Is Optimus Prime a wuss?
A very good question, dear readers because this debate was sparked off remarking on Mr. Potato Head and how hard they are, would they defeat Megatron a lot better than the Movie version of OP? This was becuase in the cartoon movie, Optimus Prime kicked bottom and was hard has nails. He could look at a train track and it would buckle trying to run away from him.
But in order to illistrate the point in differences, I need to explain the ending to the movie version of Transformers. I know that spoling a film is one of the most evil things you can do, and I can only apologise to people now, so if you don’t want to know, look away from this post.
BEWARE SPOLIERS:
Optimus Prime battled it out with Megatron in the city where they smashed through several buildings and casuing a wee bit of a mess. But Megatron was clearly superior, thrashing him about and basically the robot was a beaten man. It took a little scrawny kid person to destroy Megatron and save the day by shoving a cube into his chest.
It was pointed out that Optimus Prime would not be swayed so easily in the cartoon, and indeed he carried on to the bitter end, fighting and shooting until he could do no more. Therefore the movie version was “gay” to quote my learned collegue. And therefore the Mr. Potato Head version (Optimash Prime – see what they did, aren’t Playskool clever?) is trying to be the movie version and therefore would be as equally as pants.
Is this true? Has the true hero of Transformers been turned into a nancy? And if you were not happy with what happened, how should have the Transformers Movie really ended? Should they have gone on a wizzo adventure finding the holy garden of Tanktarta or perhaps settled their differences with the decpiticons with a nice cup of tea. How would you all prefered it to end? I would look forward to hearing debate on this important issue.
All this starts making you wonder what I do for a living….
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But surely by that very arguement, the Darth Tater Mr. Potato Head wouldn’t be able to terrorise the universe as no-one had taken him out of the box.
I believe you are taking the Mr. Potato Head’s out of context, after all, would people be truly scared of a giant potato in a black crash helmet with an asthma problem? I think Star Wars would slightly different if made with potatoes. Would it be such a mash hit as the orginals were?
Sir!
I happened to come across your web site today and felt that I had air my thoughts on optimash prime other Mr potato head toys.
It is quite obvious that the optimash prime ‘toy’ is a complete lightweight as how can you have respect for a super hero who cannot even make its way out of the cardboard packaging without help? I have to give playskool credit for making an accurate replica as I believe that Optimus Prime’s light weight performance in Transformers clearly demonstrates he would also have similar problems.
However have you ever considered the deception that is Darth Tater? A seemingly innocent replica of that evil monster Darth Vader designed to look cute and inoffensive trying to cover the facts that, as shown in the Star Wars documentary series in particular episode IV ‘a new hope’, the toys name sake has been running an evil empire and keeping an entire galaxy oppressed for years!