Legacy G2 Optimus Prime Upgrade

 Legacy G2 Laser Optimus with Battle Tanker upgrade. 

Trailers are fine with your Optimus figures but they're much more enjoyable when they serve added functionality. For G2 Legacy Prime the trailer serves little more than to be an anemic base mode.

Hardly inspiring... so in order to rectify the situation I decided to purchase a DNA Design DK-37 upgrade... with an additional un-named kit that enhances the upgrade.

Pictured here available on eBay

This was the kit That came in first so...

After adding on the new backing the old part can be put away as a future greeblie for another project

The sides of the tanker are taken apart and the new backing uses screws that fasten the sides on.

This kit fixes the issues of the DNA upgrade by providing smoother mobility to the missile pods as well as filling the pods with better and more accurate groupings. It incorporates the Battle tanker mode without resorting to parts forming.

...and then the second kit arrived...

While the Missile pods on the DNA kit looks the part they suffer from being hollow and don't secure vey well. I get it that the concept was that they fold for storage but the execution is very flimsy and clunky.

On a positive note the DNA Kit provides open hands and leg fillers for Prime which can accommodate the sword in alt mode.

The missile pods store within the trailer although tolerances are a bit tight.

Comparison to Maketoys Battle Tanker

Basically it's a combination of these two kits that are required to make the upgrade possible.

These two kits combined convert G2 Optimus into a Macross, missile spam, monster, mammoth.