Optimus Prime Blaster

The name or term "Optimus Prime" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Optimus Prime (disambiguation).

Optimus Prime Blaster is an Autobot Mini-Con from the Aligned continuity family.

Yeah yeah Austin Powers joke, let's move on.

The Arms Micron Optimus Prime Blaster (オップティマズプライムブラスター Opputeimazu Puraimu Burasutā) has taken the form of the Autobot hero Optimus Prime.

Toys

Prime

• Optimus Prime Blaster (Gacha Arms Micron, 2012)
  • ID number: 1
  • Energon Crystal: SP ???

One of the odder Japanese Prime releases, Optimus Prime Blaster is an Arms Micron figure that transforms from a robot resembling Optimus Prime's robot mode into a twin-barreled handgun, compatible with the Arms Micron weapon system via numerous 5mm posts and holes. He was part of the first wave of Gacha Arms Microns released in early June of 2012, and came in a clear-lavender capsule.

This assortment was also released as the first wave of Arms Micron Gum on August 20 2012. He came in an individual box with a stick of that weird, vaguely-lemony gum you find in most Japanese candy toys.

• Gacha Arms Microns at Alfes's Toy Blog

Notes

• Optimus Prime Blaster and the other Arms Microns with robot modes resembling larger show-cast characters are considered separate characters by this wiki on the grounds that the only fiction we have on them is the over-arcing backstory of the Arms Microns: non-living weapons were exposed to special Earth energon and turned into living miniature robots. Obviously, being a new form for Optimus doesn't really work with this. So until something official says otherwise...
• Optimus Prime Blaster and Bumblebee Sword have a unique bright orange Energon Crystal color. What "quality" this color crystal is supposed to imbue on a larger Transformer is currently unknown.