First toy I've got with book 2 in it. No customs either :-)
First up the Head Master: This is a Minicon sized robot vaguely styled after the original Omega Supreme. He can either form the head or the bridge of the battleship mode.
The fabulous battleship mode is a foot and a bit long. There are 3 gun turrets - 2 at the front and one at the rear - and a front facing pair of missile launchers. The front 2 pairs of guns and the missile launchers rotate together powered by a wheel on the side of the boat. At the far end of the rotation we get gunfire, and a trigger at the side sets off a laser blast noise and some lights under the prow. There's a gun on each side which folds out. The command turret for the ship can accommodate the headmaster sitting as on a throne or folded up to form part of the structure. There are three engine jets embedded in the end of the ship which makes you think that it's intended more for space than water.
The ship forms the front of a combined battle train that will be familiar to many followers of the Japanese toy line Brave.
The ship also forms a gunner station by folding the rear half down to act as a base, with the mid guns forming handles projecting out for a figure to hold.
The front half of the battleship folds down to form a robot arm, the conning tower section reverses, and the rear of the battleship folds out to form a leg.
The other mode is less well defined. I believe it's meant to be a train, and indeed the front half does resemble a futuristic train. The back half is meant to be a crane of some description - and indeed there is a nice gantry and clear glass structure at the rear which may well be a cab. Again guns half way down the toy. However the arm is much more a grabbing mechanism than a crane. There's a slider half way up the crane arm which extends it telescopically.
This mode also forms a gunner station with the front folding down to form a base. The guns again form handles. Can you tell I'm going somewhere with these ?
Both vehicle modes then combine - the front of the battleship fits into the back of the "train" to form a super train mode. I suspect a member of the Brave design team worked on this toy as it's a trick commonly employed during the Brave toyline.
Fold the front of the train up to form a foot, and a panel folds out from within the back of the train. Lock both halves together. Now on top of the platform is a black round stud. Pull on it and it extends to form a face. Into the top of this locks the folded up headmaster.
The combined robot is impressive: one of the gun stations and the missile pair rotate freely on the right shoulder. There's another on the left wrist which is still controlled by the wheel and still has the noise, as has the laser blast now coming from the fingers. Another gun is on the left leg, and the crane's claw action operates on the right arm. The guns that form the handles for the cannon modes.... alas ! They still can project out as weapons. Unfortunately they point out the crotch and his posterior.
Articulation: head turns, rotation at both shoulders, and the ability to raise the arms to the sides, elbows, rotation below the elbows, sideways and forwards at the hips, rotational above the knees, knees. The claw arm gimmick works still and the claw opens and closes. So yeah, he's got articulation in buckets.
If you separate both halves of the robot, you can remove the headmaster, fold up the neck platform, and open the back out. Into this space insert the cab of the super Optimus Prime with the head and helmet folded up. There are panels on both legs, the crane arm and the crane shoulder that fold up and allow you to mount Prime's drones on. The final form doesn't look to different from the original Omega Supreme robot but with the drones bolted on but it's still nice and fun. Some purists might complain about the back of the cab sticking out the back of the big robot but I don't mind to much.
So overall: Well I don't think it's a Transformer for the purest and avid fan - lots of things about it may well annoy some people. But it's a good fun toy and I loved it loads when I got it.
Omega Supreme was released in Japan as Superlink toy SC-22.
Omega Sentinal was not available in the UK or Japan.