New Color Images: Takara Tomy Masterpiece Beast Wars Beast Convoy (Optimus Primal)

Optimizzy wrote:stop standing that gorilla like that. ugh. hate that.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Optimizzy wrote:stop standing that gorilla like that. ugh. hate that.

Yeah, it's not like he spent 70%+ of his time in beast mode standing up like that

Emerje wrote:

Seibertron wrote:

Emerje wrote:I'm much more concerned over why these new images make him look so blue.

Emerje

Same here. The toy looks fantastic and gives me extremely high hopes for a Beast Megatron. But the blue looks really off in beast mode. I can't help but think this was a deliberate choice to give Hasbro an opportunity to do a more accurate beast mode here in the States at a later date.

That would be a nice change.

And no, it's not a trick of the camera, no professional photographer would allow that much reflection in the studio. Plus we'd see it in the glossy white legs as well. It's too consistent in both modes in all new photos to not be accurate.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:It's likely that blue, in the show, his chest reflected blue in certain light, I agree that it's a little too noticeable on the figure, it should be much more subtle.

At one point it was more subtle, I can't imagine why they looked it and thought "more blue".

masterpiece_optimus_primal_gorilla.jpg

Now that looks amazing.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Maybe it was a powerful light that de-saturated all the colors, 'cuz he looks more grey than the magazine pics...

If so then it was intentionally misleading. Check out the bot mode screencap.

masterpiece_optimus_primal_swords.jpg

The fur is the same color but the bot chest has the accurate metallic blue.

Emerje

Whatever color, it should definitely be the same color as his hands and feet in gorilla mode. It's all exposed gorilla "skin".

I think what happened is that as Season 1 progressed, the animators found that blue light sources cast the most dramatic shadows/highlights across Primal's skin tone. So while in early episodes there's a lot of "natural" light causing the gorilla skin to be more flat/gray, they kept playing with the lighting in different situations and really came to like the blue. I certainly remember him being in dim lighting with a blue light on him on more than one occasion.

Rodimus Prime wrote:I have no comment on the color differences, but I gotta be honest, this figure doesn't impress me much. I'm not saying it's bad, because it's not. But I'm looking at this and I'm looking at my 10th anniversary Primal standing on my desk, and I don't see a lot of improvement design-wise. Perhaps once I see the MP figure in a video being transformed it will change my opinion, but so far the differences between the MP and the '06 figure don't justify spending the money on the MP. Like I said, once the final product is available, it may change, but I doubt it.