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Most of the time, Hasbro has a reputation for making a product that, unbeknownst to it's buyers, will have that little flaw that will make it so that you will want to get a better reimagining of the same toy years later. It is a basic sales strategy which keeps the company going in hard times, and which, unfortunately for Hasbro, many of the fans have caught on to, myself included. This toy is a perfect example of "That toy" that I anticipated was about to be made and released, but not until after a number of inferior and much cheaper experiments to make sure that there was an actual market for it. This version of "The Ark" works very well as a final version. In fact, it has a new feature which I wasn't expecting, in that in includes a transforming Mainframe action figure as well which fits inside the chest cavity. What people might not realize is that The Ark is capable of transforming and is fully functional in both modes without Mainframe, which allows the child or collector to set up a little base over here, and just set The Ark aside for other make believe adventures without having to transform Mainframe and store him away inside, which of course would ruin the toy. That said, there is a little bit of room for improvement in the actual appearance of the Ark in Vehicle Mode, in particular that it has a pair of massive, open empty spaces in it's sides "for ventilation". Third party kits exist to fix this and they are failry inexpensive, I suppose because they are really quite unnecessary and purely cosmetic. Also, The Ark comes with a tiny Optimus Prime figure which is actually to scale, which of course is a set-up for future purchases you probably weren't planning on getting... namely, tiny versions of Megatron, Soundwave, Sideswipe, Bumblebee, and more, and the list will likely be exhaustive. To the best of my awareness, these have not yet been released, but are planned. Oh, sure! They weren't about to make the perfect toy for you without there being a catch, were they? =P Read full review
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It is awesome and superb in every way
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Beautifully rendered and long overdue. Perhaps the only redeeming value in the entire "Netflix" relaunch.
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just does not stay together all the way when in ship form (it seems most large varieties of transformers do not).
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Son loves it!!!!
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