"This is a modified knockoff of the recent Legacy Animated Optimus Prime along with a slightly modified KO of the DNA upgrade kit.
This set is supposedly going to be about $36 USD.
That's for a $35 (now $42) Hasbro Voyager and a $65!?! DNA upgrade kit. Just to put it all into perspective price wise.
Okay so the changes to Optimus start with a brand new head for the mold. The head itself seems to be a KO of the old voyager Animated Optimus Prime's head complete with flip up facemask gimmick and no upward articulation for flight poses. This is not the stock head that would normally come with the Legacy voyager Animated Optimus Prime. As such, the original DNA facemask parts will not work on this which is why they're not included.
They also modified the abdomen on the figure. It now has a built in extender. This will make the figure slightly taller than normal. However, I think it also changes the truck mode as a result. It should push the legs back by the same length as the ab extension is. This will also mean that the trailer won't/shouldn't sit flush with the back of the cab anymore. It's very difficult to tell for sure with all the pictures I've seen of this so far though.
They removed the front wheels that would go in the grey parts on the front of the truck. These would've tucked away into the torso for robot mode.
To compensate for the removed front wheels, the middle wheels are now on a hinged system to move them forward on the truck and to help cover a slight gap that was there originally but was made slightly bigger by the extended abs.
There seem to be gap fillers installed or built into Optimus but not ALL of them. The insides of the thighs are filled as are the backs of the lower legs under the knees. But it seems as though the back of the arms above the elbows have not been filled it. Guess they thought that you couldn't see them with the wings attached or something but you can still see them otherwise so I don't know why they seemingly left those out.
The trailer seems to be a tad wider than normal when looking at the pictures. It could just be wider or it could be that the figure itself is more narrow in truck mode but I doubt that.
They changed the connection points for the wings. The back of Optimus has what appear to be 5mm pegs on them with the wing pack having 5mm ports to attach. The wing pack no longer has the two little flip out latches anymore either. So the wings should attach solely by a series of four pegs and ports. Which means it should stay on way better now than the DNA wings on the Hasbro figure.
Also, there's less paint on the KO DNA parts as well as on the axe.
