TakaraTomy Transformers Adventure(TAV / TED): Nemesis Prime, Ultra Magnus, Optimus Prime - In Hand

I was fooled once by RID Prime. I thought it looked neat, heard it was meh, even ignored the advice of a friend and still bought him only to be disappointed.

And... now it seems they'll be fooling me again. That Nemesis Prime looks amazing. And at least i won't be surprised by the mold this time

gavinfuzzy wrote:That nemesis sure looks pretty, just irked they made the con sticker even bigger than the one on optimus (presumably hasbro). Looks really distracting and I hope it'll come off easy.

It's almost like the sticker is made to come off, they're pealing off in the package. If you look at that shot of Nemesis Prime leaning forward with the axe in front of him you can see it pealed up on the edges.

Emerje

-Kanrabat- wrote:

shajaki wrote:I was fooled once by RID Prime. I thought it looked neat, heard it was meh, even ignored the advice of a friend and still bought him only to be disappointed.

And... now it seems they'll be fooling me again. That Nemesis Prime looks amazing. And at least i won't be surprised by the mold this time

However, the 1st edition one was perfect. But you already know that. Abrilliant use of the Prime RID Optimus is the Ultra Magnus retool. If you don't already own Beast Hunters voyager ltra Magnus, you should consider the TAV version.

He's talking about the 2015 RID Warrior Class mold, not the 2013 RID Voyager Class mold.

Magnus and that golden forge are a win for me.

Emerje wrote:

gavinfuzzy wrote:That nemesis sure looks pretty, just irked they made the con sticker even bigger than the one on optimus (presumably hasbro). Looks really distracting and I hope it'll come off easy.

It's almost like the sticker is made to come off, they're pealing off in the package. If you look at that shot of Nemesis Prime leaning forward with the axe in front of him you can see it pealed up on the edges.

Emerje

Actually that's intentional: unlike Hasbro, TakaraTomy has put in security to prevent in-package in-store scanning, in the form of Dummy Shields. Peel them off to reveal the genuine Shield for scanning. Alfes2010 left them on to prevent scanning from the monitor, as the warning on every blog pertaining to Adventure says.

And this marks the third Nemesis Prime in the Prime series, after the MECH and Hunter ones. Is that a record?

Autobot032 wrote:There's nothing so drastic about the change in colors that would make me actively seek out Takara's version of Ultra Magnus. Don't get me wrong, it looks really nice and I do like the darker colors, but I find nothing wrong with the US version and there's not enough wow factor to get me to spend that kind of money on a figure such as that.

It only depend if you already have the Hasbro original or not. For those who don't have the BH Ultrs Magnus, the price difference will not be that great so it may be worth it.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Emerje wrote:

gavinfuzzy wrote:That nemesis sure looks pretty, just irked they made the con sticker even bigger than the one on optimus (presumably hasbro). Looks really distracting and I hope it'll come off easy.

It's almost like the sticker is made to come off, they're pealing off in the package. If you look at that shot of Nemesis Prime leaning forward with the axe in front of him you can see it pealed up on the edges.

Emerje

Actually that's intentional: unlike Hasbro, TakaraTomy has put in security to prevent in-package in-store scanning, in the form of Dummy Shields. Peel them off to reveal the genuine Shield for scanning. Alfes2010 left them on to prevent scanning from the monitor, as the warning on every blog pertaining to Adventure says.

And this marks the third Nemesis Prime in the Prime series, after the MECH and Hunter ones. Is that a record?

I guess that goes for the figures based on RID molds only, I don't have any of them. The ones made from Generations and Animated molds don't have anything under the stickers and they're just as ready to fall off as any others I've seen. This I've checked myself.

Emerje

william-james88 wrote:Kanrabat has some. Could you show us what the rid circle insignias look like on your TAV figures?

I don't get it. Is it supposed to be something special? I have Hasbro Strongarm, and TAV Bee, Steeljaw, and Junkion. All of them have the exact same sticker. The only difference is for the TAV ones, the circle around the faction symbol is multi-colors instead of just red and white.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Kanrabat has some. Could you show us what the rid circle insignias look like on your TAV figures?

I don't get it. Is it supposed to be something special? I have Hasbro Strongarm, and TAV Bee, Steeljaw, and Junkion. All of them have the exact same sticker. The only difference is for the TAV ones, the circle around the faction symbol is multi-colors instead of just red and white.

The Japanese figures should have Dummy Stickers on top of the regular ones in order to prevent in-store scanning, if the sticker is readily accessible in package.

Oh, that. I cant show you because the packagings are thrown out. You know, when you unpack some figures and usually, the chest or something have an extra bit of plastic cover held by clear rubber bands? The TAV figures all have those, except there is a bigger dummy sticker on that extra plastic shell, hiding the toy's sticker.

When unpacking, you do like you usually do with all of your other figures. You opent it, and cut off any extra plastic covers, and you trash them along the rest of the packaging.

william-james88 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote: You know, when you unpack some figures and usually, the chest or something have an extra bit of plastic cover held by clear rubber bands? The TAV figures all have those, except there is a bigger dummy sticker on that extra plastic shell, hiding the toy's sticker.

When unpacking, you do like you usually do with all of your other figures. You open it, and cut off any extra plastic covers, and you trash them along the rest of the packaging.

Ok, so for those curious here, could you post a photo of bumblebee and steeljaw to show those wondering how it looks when the packaging is removed? All the in hand images we get show those peeling stickers so it wold be to give an idea of how things actually look like.

I found an image of your toys in package:

I'n not gonna show Bee and Jaw, but here's a reconstructed unpacking of TAV Junkion. It's the same thing with the other figures. You better thank me and that I'm the greatest Seibertronian ever because I had to dig inside the recycling bin to provide these pictures.







And now, the dramatic reveal:







Feel free to steal my code, you rascals.



So... No one ordered any TAV figures yet? It should have been (relatively) common knowledge at this point. Plus the price difference between Takara and Hasbro is almost nil nowadays. There is almost no reasons for collectors to buy Hasbro RID toys, unless the TAV version is unavailable, like Warrior Optimus.