Optimus Primal is the leader of the Maximals in the Transformers: Beast Wars universe. Unlike the traditional Optimus Prime, who transforms into a truck, Primal transforms into a powerful gorilla.

Beast Machines picks up after the events of Beast Wars in which the Maximals – Optimus Primal, Cheetor, Blackarachnia, and Rattrap – defeated Megatron and the Predacons... or so they think.

Though this might fit better with the Beast Wars Maximal Optimus Primal, the toy splits open through a lever to transform ...