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 (オプティマスプライムブラスター Oputimasu 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 Hard

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 translucent white 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

Optimus Prime Blaster (Arms Micron, 2012)
- Energon Crystal: SP Hard

A clear-red-plastic version of Optimus Prime Blaster, with minimal paint operations, was packed in with the September issue of TV Boy Magazine as part of a Prime promotion.

Transforming Figure Collection (Bagged toy, 2012)
- Energon Crystal: SP Hard

The entire first wave of Gacha Arms Microns were made available in the UK as a blindbagged line, released by Tomy and licensed by Hasbro UK, distributed through Esdevium Games. The packaging does not give any names to the Microns inside, and in fact doesn't even call them "Microns" or "Mini-Cons" or anything.

Optimus Prime Blaster MX (Gacha Arms Micron, 2013)
- ID number: 1
- Energon Crystal: SP Hard

At the very tail-end of Prime, all twelve Gacha molds were re-released all in one go as a "Special Edition" wave through the capsule machines. The Autobots were cast in clear-blue "Matrix Power Up!" forms (though they retained their paint operations and Crystal colors).

Go!

Shining Optimus Prime Blaster (Promotional Arms Micron, 2013)
- Energon Crystal: SP ???

This clear-blue redeco of Optimus Prime blaster was a promotional exclusive in late June 2013. Obtaining it was a smidge complicated, involving buying a McDonald's Happy Meal on one of two days (June 22nd and 23rd) or buying the August 2013 issue of either Terebikun Magazine or Terebi Magazine, all of which contained a ticket to be redeemed at participating stores, where they would give you the Prime Blaster.

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...