The Thirteen Liege Maximo The Last Marvel Cybertronian Reveal Transformers Age of the Primes Leader Class Item No.: Asst. G0471 No. G1908 Manufacturer: Hasbro Includes: Shoulder pads, blaster, three Legian Darts Action Feature: Converts from robot to space ship, removable darts, removable red emitters on wrist blasters, removable horned backpack Retail: $59.99 Availability: April 2026 Other: Green, Mean, Face is finally seen
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Before Beast Wars, Marvel Comics had an ongoing Transformers series, which was followed by a Generation 2 series. In its very last panel, we got a glimpse of a giant bad guy who claimed to be the progenitor of all Decepticons - Liege Maximo. While this is technically not the first toy to hold the name, the other one was basically Skullgrin, and tiny, so I don't think it counts. Rather than make a Titan-class giant, Hasbro went with the more economical and less dubious financial choice to make him a mighty $60 Leader-class toy. He's about 8 1/2-inches tall at the tip of his central horn, putting him in line with the meatier toys of this price point. There are no odd choices like putting a bunch of parts into lift shoes or backpacks, although he does have an exceptionally healthy backside of giant horns.

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Most fans probably don't know the character. Older comic readers know of that last panel. Wiki editors might know about his place in The Thirteen, or of some Aaron Archer concept art based on that drawing. He has had some newer forms too, often based on Loki of Marvel Comics - but this is the big weird one from the early 1990s, and that's how I wanted it to look. I'm pretty happy with how he turned out. The original art usually has his face in shadows, so all you know is that he has red eyes and what I always thought was a red mouth. On this toy, it's more of a red chin - some sort of chin strap connected to a spiky helmet. It maintains the old silhouette, and doesn't directly disregard the original look, but it conflicts with my imagination a bit. I doubt Hasbro would ever want to release a blank-faced $60 robot, though. Coloring matches the comic, with loads of green body armor augmented by spikes, horns, and blue cables. You can see little elements from Alignment and Archer's sketches plus some Hasbro and Takara-Tomy wizardry to make the whole thing fit together. It's not wholly unusual to see a guy covered in cables, as we got with Liege Maximo and Vector Prime in the last few years. It's a different vibe from most traditional Autobots and Decepticons, and it's welcome for this character. Actually, I think fans would be angry if they redesigned him to look more "traditional" - we want something weird.

All of those horns are made of a softer plastic so nobody gets stabbed. On my sample, everything seemed pretty straight (or curved, as needed.) The big ones on the backpack are articulated, and you can pop them off to fit on the back of your Starscream Throne from a few years ago. How thoughtful! The figure also has claws hands with jointed fingers. They can easily hold his blaster (with darts), and they can flip around to show red blaster hands. In the comics, they smoke, and you can 3D print the smoke from the barrel if you want. I made a test print of it in white, and I guess I should see how it looks in clear yellow.

Some of his parts are removable. The rubbery shoulder pad shell parts come off, and the big horn backpack attaches via pegs. If you must have hard horns, fear not - the ones on the back of the legs are surprisingly pointy. The whole thing feels like the comic panel came to life, extruded through the Hasbro fun factory. Articulation is more or less standard for the size with swivel wrists and rocker ankles, plus the aforementioned jointed fingers and thumbs. It's a satisfying action figure, and I don't feel short-changed. It fills the box nicely, and ticks a box of 20th Century Transformers I'd Like to Someday Own. There aren't many left.

I'm glad this has instructions. Getting it from robot to vehicle has a lot of surprises, but it's not complicated. I had some issues getting the head tucked in, and the various ship panels remind me a lot of some of the later Beast Wars Neo guys having to manipulate the shells in place. It's doable, although getting the darts in place proved a little tricky - they seemed to wedge themselves out. We've had a lot worse, so this is pretty decent for a big robot.

The vehicle mode is nifty and weird, looking a little like a ram and a little like a bug. And a little like a ship in Dark of the Moon. Hasbro's go-to alt mode these days seems to be "a spaceship," so it's nice to see something like this with lots of weird cables and spikes, plus also clear red bits that look more like a 1990s toy. While it has no electronics, it does a good job capturing the feel of a lot of the sorts of things you would find in a store around 1993. The metallic blue paint looks great, and the various horns really do stand out in this mode. There are lots of nifty sculpted detail bits - scars, dents, greeblies. Most of these toys are fairly simple affairs with reasonable panels and elements which look great, but this one feels like it had a lot more time in the oven. I'm sure in a different era we'd have got something with more gritty paint on it, but I like how it turned out as it feels a lot like something toy-flavored.

I'm sure someone out there is sore he wasn't a Commander or Titan, but not me. I've got hundreds of toys. (OK, more than that.) I do not need any more giants unless they have exceptional play features or serve as a display or storage mechanism for a collection. This guy is a perfectly good size, at a perfectly good price, with construction and deco that makes sense. I'd probably buy a variant with the blacked-out comic head, though. If you know who this guy is, you probably already bought him. He's been an infamous part of the end of the first huge era of toys, and while not an exact match for the end of Generation 2 he's good enough that I won't complain. Get this guy.

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