He didn’t last long and was sacked off in favour of Rodimus Prime. He was replaced by Ultra Magnus, who was a white cabover Peterbilt and a bit of a wet lettuce in comparison to Optimus. But the level of shock, that the iconic Optimus was dead really shook kids at the time. They didn’t do another run of Optimus Primes (SPOILER ALERT COMING) because, for reasons that shook children of the 80s to their very core at the time, they only bloody well went and killed him off! There are theories that the toy manufacturers wanted to begin a new series Transformers toys.
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Transformer popularity was at its peak in 1986, when a feature length movie came out. In the 80s, nobody batted an eyelid.Īnyway, the original run of Optimus Primes are very highly sought after these days. You ran about in the streets with one of these nowadays and you’ll have armed response units scrambled in no time. What was Megatron? A truck? A car? A bus? No – Megatron was a super-realistic GUN that came with a variety of attachments including a silencer. So he bought, errr, got his elves to make, the next best thing – and on Christmas day I awoke to find Optimus’s arch enemy Megatron under the tree. However, despite errr Santa’s very best efforts, getting hold of one proved impossible. Your dear Editor here was almost 5 years old at the time, and Mr Prime was very much at the top of the Christmas gift list. Optimus Prime was so popular, that the original versions sold out everywhere in the run up to Christmas 1984. The cartoon series was a smash hit, and the toys to go along with it were heavily advertised and marketed. Optimus Prime was the boss of “good” Autobots, and what was fantastic was that he was a cool-looking cabover Peterbilt truck.
The toys were TWO things in one – mostly a vehicle of some sort which would then transform into a robot.
Transformers were BIG news if you were a kid in the 1980s.
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