While everyone's going ga-ga over the Year of the Horse Optimus Prime (another MP10 repaint), I'm trying to complete my G1 Optimus Prime...maybe I'm just a sucker for this mold...haha.
As I've blogged earlier, there are many variants of the same mold with different box packing for example, but I have a particular liking for this box due to its 'gold-ish' color...
Different artwork at back of box as compared to the standard G1 OP box
Zooming closer...1990 Espana
Original gold box Optimus Prime (this is NOT mine, credit tfw2005)
Let's remove Prime from his box...
same old Prime...
For a moment, after checking out the trailer, I thought I had been sold a KO...there was no stamping of Hasbro or Takara, all blocked out with only a T2 sign in the pinhole...
... as compared to the markings on the classic pre-rub Optimus' trailer...
Had a '3' stamped on the trailer door and both trailer halves though...comparing this with my classic pre-rub trailer, only a '3' on the door but nothing on the halves...
notice the '3' on both sides of trailer halves?
Anyway, given the many variants and possible KOs out there, what better way to verify this piece than to google...and presto...this site Classic Prime comparison confirms its authenticity...
the many faces of G1 OP
woahhh....but not many enough...
I wonder, what's next? Maybe the Canadian packing one?
