Name: Amalgamous Prime
Brand: Transformers
Allegiance: Autobot
Line: Age of the Primes
Year of Release: 2026
Size Class: Voyager (Wave 4)
Mold Status: new
TANK MODE:
Amalgamous Prime is a shapeshifter, which is a bit hard to translate into toy form. Thus, he defaults to a spider tank.
Spider tanks are usually one of the lazier alternate modes a Transformer may have, and it's no exception here. The robot feet jut out the back since there's nowhere else for it to go.
Amalgamous is a Voyager class figure, although he feels quite light for the size. Most of the budget went into his gimmick, which we'll get to later.
He balances on four legs, which are the robot arms. Although the hands are permanently sculpted like that, so they don't feel like legs at all in this mode.
It's also a really odd tank. The front doesn't really have much of a cockpit, and the two orange things on either sides are weird (and at first glance, they can be mistaken for eyes).
The robot scythe forms the cannon, but it's not great either. The handle sticks out the back, and the cannon itself feels too small.
However, the gimmick here, and this ties into the shapeshifting nature of the character, is that he's like a Weaponizer, and can break into many many pieces.
Each piece has various vehicular sculpting, and you can mix and match to create new alternate forms.
The instructions start you off with five other configurations using the various parts, including an armored train and mini tanks.
Some of them require imagination, but on the whole, this gimmick actually works really well, especially if you are the creative type.
It's an impressive amount of engineering to design the various pegs and ports, and vehicular sculpting to pull this off.
TRANSFORMATION:
Amalgamous Prime requires some partsforming to get into robot mode, and given his odd alternate mode and robot mode, it may not be the most intuitive on what goes where without using the instructions. In summary, the legs of the spider tank form the four arms. The back of the bank form the legs, and the core of the tank form the torso.
ROBOT MODE:
Amalgamous is... an odd robot. He's oddly proportioned, with four arms, and large feet, all in a hunchback shape.
However despite that, he has a certain amount of chart to his design, and you gotta give him points for being super unique.
The head sculpt is good, although it is very reminiscent of Shockwave (redeco him into purple and he'll pass off fine enough as Shockwave).
Due to his hunchback and wide stance, he's shorter than most Voyagers. He feels lighter too given the prevalence of hollowness in all his parts.
Articulation is fine, he has joints for his head, shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist, hips, knees and ankles.
However, his arms are jointed in a really weird way so that it is not immediately intuitive in posing them and moving them to where you'd want them to be.
A gimmick here is that his head is detachable, and his eye is actually his artefact (complete with his insignia). It's tough to pull out though given it is round, small and smooth, so it's difficult getting your grip on it.
His robot weapon is a scythe, with some clear plastic elements, making it look really cool. He has hold it in any of his four hands.
The other weapon is a small grey pistol which he can also hold in his hand.
The pistol can attach to the back of his scythe, and there's another small plastic knob that attaches to the end of the handle too.
He has the backwards facing knees (aka chicken feet from the live action movies), which is not ideal either.
An absolutely unique robot mode that's sure to stand out.
OVERALL:
Amalgamous Prime is an intriguing figure. Given the shapeshifting ability of the character, the designer has done a fantastic job of translating it into toy form. Having him able to break apart, with plenty of attachment points and vehicular kibble, means that there are tons of options (especially if you get multiple of him). The same goes for robot mode, since you're not fixed on just having that default form, but even if those two modes are all you will leave him with, he's still an interesting enough toy to get.
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