This guy is one of my favorite figures from the Energon / SuperLink toy line and I believe that the Optimus toy was originally designed with this guy in mind since together they make two excellent figures.
When I was young I ADORED Optimus Prime in Energon, I got the original figure with the trailer attachments, Wing Saber and Omega Supreme. Wing Saber was definitely my favorite of the bunch, I wonder if I still have all the figures?
I do like this combination, but i don't regret not getting wing saber when i was younger. He's cool, but when you can have Omega Supreme, why bother? I do like the idea that Wing Saber can combine with the Prime force. That's so freaking cool. The combiner era was the toy design at it's best
I have to say thanks to you for reviewing older A/E/C toys. There are a few out there, sure, but yours are easily the most professional ones out there.
I'v ben a transformers fan sence the 90s I was actually born in 1984. But the Bay movies made me stop colecting so I turned to second hand stores and places like Ebay to find these classic gems. These reviews on youtube show these older toys are awsome and outshine the new ones in menny ways.
So 2 wing sabers, use all red bits for amrs and legs for some sort of "sonic wing mode" (yes I know we had that in cybertron) and then use all the blue bits for a "heavy artillery mode"
Can i have a suggestion which source i can buy Wing saber from with a reasonable price? I've loved wing saber for probably since Transformer Energon was released.
1 thing i'd really want to see are 2 wing saber figures and 2 optimus primes. Split the wing sabers apart into a set of red arms and red feet, repeat the process for a set of blue legs and blue set of arms. now add the red arms and feet set onto 1 optimus and the the blue limbs go onto the second optimus.
Watching this video makes me think you could get a couple more awesome combinations if you had TWO Wingsabers for Optimus to combine with, shame they're so rare really :-(
He did show his altmode once in the series but was not clearly seen because optimus was hanging from him whilst flying and he powerlinked to optimus directly after that instead of first transforming.
He was orginally called saber and he was a guard that never transformers in show but he was severally damaged by megaton so they upgraded him into wing saber and he did show off his alt mode as wing saber but not saber
7:34 "My drill will pierce the heavens!" - Optimus (probably) 10:35 Air Master Burst maybe? I like the Cannon mode better because Optimus looked more balanced than the Wing Mode.
I just realized something.... In the original Transformers V, Optimus Prime (Ginrai) was mortally wounded by Deszaras (main baddy). Sky Saber had to "remodel" him into Victory Leo to save his life, resulting into Prime combining as a power up for Sky Saber to form Victory Saber. Now on Transformers Superlink (Energon) the creator turned everything around, having Sky saber be the subordinate, be the one killed, and be the one turned into a power up. Meh okay...
Usually single main figures tends to be and look better than their combined mode, but here it's the total opposite... The main problem with figures that tend to combine is often the fact that one of the modes will look not that great mostly if you compare to the show where the designers tend to deform either modes to make them look good. This also happen with a vehicle or robot mode ... Though here wingsabers lack of posability is reminescent of his twin combiner modes and the way it actually combines. most figures when it splits in half have the head going into one of the sides. Though wing saber is king of supposed to be a full armor / weapon bay for Prime in his own and it pretty much uses some sort of symbolix way to do that because in the show the combining sequence looks great.
found a japanese one at a second hand shop and bought it, word of warning you are gonna have a hard time finding those guns or barrels if its missing them, had to hit up mercari for someone selling a set of orphaned legs for those something of an extra note even if it is complete, the friction joint in the shoulder that it hinges on is easily worn down so it might not be a bad idea to drill it out and replace it with a pin if yours is badly worn, i had to to get any use out of it
I think the designers were mainly focused on the combination aspect more than the figure, I think that was Superlinx's main thing. Edit: Yeah from the transformation alone Wing Saber was never meant to pose. Lol.
Ive wanted Wingsaber for so long % ive just bought him, He'll arrive down under in a few weeks, I cant wait. Spada good review, but I disagree with you on Energon Prime he was my first of 10+ Optimus Prime figure yes he isn't perfect & mine also has bad hip joints but still like him & when Wingsaber arrives ill be able to play with & display them combined/separate!
I watched the show and own all of Optimus Supreme's component toys. Still think this final combination was an utter waste of resources, especially as a "step up" from Wing Optimus Prime. It just feels like slapping one robot into the chest of the other, not something that I'd be happy about.
Yeah I found mine at Walmart but it was missing the missiles. So I asked if they could discount it and they did. I forgot how much I paid for it but it wasn't much. That is also how I got Omega Supreme. It was missing one missile and the instruction sheet.
Well FansHobby is actually making a 3rd party version of Energon Optimus, they've already made Armada Optimus and are promising Jetfire and Overload for him, so we can assume Wing Saber and Omega Supreme will be coming, as well as, presumably, Cybertron Optimus, Wing Saber and Leobreaker.
