A Toys"R"Us- exclusive redeco of the Ultra figure, Special Convoy Skeleton Type (スペシャルコンボイ スケルトンタイプ) is colorless-clear and black with silver paint detailing.

Masterpiece Convoy is an inch or two smaller than his original Ultra Class toy, comparable to Beast Wars Neo Big Convoy.Released before the animated series began, which establishes Optimus Primal as a separate entity from Optimus Prime, the accompanying profiles and mini-comic imply that the Beast Wars are a direct progression of the Autobot/Decepticon war. Pushing the spark crystal on his bicep spins his gauntlet around, simultaneously triggering the spring-loaded missile launcher and activating his spring-loaded ramming "blast punch" action, extending his fist forward nearly a full inch. The "normal" beasts became Fuzors, robots whose beast modes were mashups of two different animals, leading to some freakishly fanciful creatures.

Optimal Optimus's on-package bio states that he has Cybertronian "air guardian" technology and twin scramjet modules, most likely in reference to Jetfire, whose function is Air Guardian, and his Tech Specs said he had these same scramjet modules. A couple weeks ago, I ran a Twitter poll asking my readers what they’d rather see for my next review– a “weird” Beast Wars toy or a Kenner-style DC toy. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. Supposed to roam the frozen tundra in animal form, but spends most of his time among the same temperate climate, composed of four CGI rocks and six CGI trees, as the rest of his team. Perhaps the most important differences are that he has die-cast metal parts, and most of his truck body panels are coated in gloss black paint.Labeled toy 1 of 6, the other characters in his wave were Dinobot, Rattrap, Megatron, Cheetor, and Rhinox. Several waves in, however, they were both re-shipped as part of Hasbro's early experiments in refreshing a line with same-character redeco variants, with Prowl now colored black, blue, and red, and Dinobot colored bright white with blue. Similarly, the missile launchers from the Ultra-class version of the toy have been replaced by non-firing cannons based more closely on the ones from the TV show.

The packaging too was distinctly organic, with red scaly skin as the backdrop, and a massive reptilian eye under the bubble for carded figures.

According to the sticker, this limited figure is meant to celebrate the "20,000,000 Unit Breakthrough Commemoration"—apparently commemorating 20 million units of Beast Wars toys sold. The figure swaps out the blue chrome for silver and replaces the word "Cybertron" with "Pioneer" on his beast mode chest.

Dave’s a great guy, and we’ve been friends on Twitter and Instagram for a couple years now, so it was great to actually talk to him. Beast Wars took the popular features of a handful of Generation 2 toys and made them standards across the entire line. Positively oozing light-and-sound gimmicks in both modes, Optimus Primal does all sorts'a crazy crap, all of which is first activated by pressing his chest plate. Similar to his Transmetal form, BWX Optimus Primal also comes with a hoverboard with two 5mm posts at the base, allowing him to ride it in his gorilla mode, or hold it in robot mode via the 5mm posts on his robot palms/gorilla feet. This gimmick is shown to be an effort to simulate a gorilla beating its chest while Optimus is in beast mode, but can also be used in robot mode, making him swing his weapons wildly before himself.As a redeco of a Titan Master vehicle accessory, care must be taken with the gun mode's handle: the handle fits tightly in many 5 mm-compatible closed hands, and combined with the handle's lack of metal pin running through the joint, removing it by force causes the handle to pop out of the joint. While the lion McDonald's toy did not come to fruition, the concept may have inspired Takara to create Lio Convoy. This sculpt was also used to make Primal Prime, with a redesign that had separate triggers for the missile-lighting and missile-launching so users would be less likely to shoot themselves in the eye. These Japanese exclusives took four deluxe Beast Wars molds (Cybershark, Dinobot, Waspinator, and K-9) and infused their beast modes with crazy robot augmentations.