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News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 2:45 pm

The Takara Tomy Transformers Facebook page
has put up a placeholder image of their Transformers: Lost Age Premier Edition Optimus Prime, their take on the recently released Transformers: Age of Extinction First Edition Optimus Prime. These images are the same as the ones used by Hasbro except in reverse position, so we won't know if they've altered the deco for their release until additional images are released.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 2:55 pm

Same mold, but shiny paint instead of chrome maybe?

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 2:56 pm

Looks like it doesn't feature stupid amounts of chrome, mock up looks a little better than the Hasbro deco. But not by much.
Again, if you remove the shells and just use the bot-mode it would make quite a nice action figure.

News Credits: 118 · by **megatronus** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 3:02 pm

I enjoy this deco infinitely more than the First Edition deco.

News Credits: 1 · by **Solrac333** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 3:56 pm

Oooo! Now with MORE photoshop!

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 4:53 pm

Those are the same images as Hasbro's. The robot mode image is just reversed.

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... ase/29304/

And those images were used on the back of the box ...

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:43 pm

Really want to see how it (either US or Japanese version) compares to the normal retail Leader class figure shown at NYCC. This one probably has a more accurate (if there's such a thing) transformation, but the other one has way less back kibble.

Emerje

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:57 pm

Emerje wrote:Really want to see how it (either US or Japanese version) compares to the normal retail Leader class figure shown at NYCC. This one probably has a more accurate (if there's such a thing) transformation, but the other one has way less back kibble.

Emerje

The one shown at NYCC was more along the lines of a large Voyager Class figure. Hasbro was calling it a Leader Class figure at NYCC, but I have a feeling that it was a mis-communication and that it was indeed a Leader or Ultra Class sized figure. All should be revealed in about 11 days at Toy Fair 2014.

News Credits: 3 · by **Manterax Prime** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 2:15 pm

So apparently Twitter User Akira T 2716 managed to get a picture of the Lost Age Premier Edition Optimus. And.........

It's the same damn toy

Akira T 2716's twitter: https://twitter.com/872Aki

News Credits: 12 · by **GuyIncognito** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 2:27 pm

It's the same toy... but with extra Photoshop!

Never trust "official" promotional images; only in-hand photos.

News Credits: 3 · by **Manterax Prime** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 2:29 pm

GuyIncognito wrote:It's the same toy... but with extra Photoshop!

Never trust "official" promotional images; only in-hand photos.

Oh, I'm sorry. Last I check, it wasn't a stock photo, it was the figure on display in a glass case. So as you can see, same damn toy. No differences at all.

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 2:33 pm

Manterax Prime wrote:So apparently Twitter User Akira T 2716 managed to get a picture of the Lost Age Premier Edition Optimus. And.........

It's the same damn toy

Akira T 2716's twitter: https://twitter.com/872Aki

Fail
Well, looks like Takra's whole line of "more realistic decos" is full of **** then.

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 3:20 pm

Manterax Prime wrote:So apparently Twitter User Akira T 2716 managed to get a picture of the Lost Age Premier Edition Optimus. And.........

It's the same damn toy

Akira T 2716's twitter: https://twitter.com/872Aki

Which follows the trend, for the most part, with previous Transformers Movie Universe toys.

News Credits: 12 · by **GuyIncognito** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 3:46 pm

Manterax Prime wrote:
GuyIncognito wrote:It's the same toy... but with extra Photoshop!

Never trust "official" promotional images; only in-hand photos.

Oh, I'm sorry. Last I check, it wasn't a stock photo, it was the figure on display in a glass case. So as you can see, same damn toy. No differences at all.

That was my point: that photos like the one YOU posted are the only kind that can be trusted, as opposed to the 'shopped promotional image that started this thread. I was saying that the toy in the promo image was "the same toy, but with extra Photoshop added".

News Credits: 3 · by **Manterax Prime** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 2:03 pm

Has been revealed by TF YUKI to be the same figure the AOE First Edition Optimus Prime

TF YUKI's Twitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/TFYUKI?page=1

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 2:18 pm

Thanks to Seibertron.com user Manterax Prime and the TF Yuki Twitter account, we get a look at the Takara Tomy version of the Age of Extinction (Lost Age in Japan) Premier Edition Leader Class Optimus Prime. Another Twitter user, Akira TF also posted an image a couple of days ago, revealing the figure to have no discernible differences from its Hasbro counterpart (click here for the full gallery). Check them out below!

News Credits: 4 · by **craggy** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 2:41 pm

Dead Metal wrote:
Manterax Prime wrote:So apparently Twitter User Akira T 2716 managed to get a picture of the Lost Age Premier Edition Optimus. And.........

It's the same damn toy

Akira T 2716's twitter: https://twitter.com/872Aki

Fail
Well, looks like Takra's whole line of "more realistic decos" is full of **** then.

well, you've obviously never seen a transforming alien robot that changes into a truck and rips faces off! clearly, both Takara and Hasbro have, and both thought they looked like shite.

News Credits: 33 · by **Amelie** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:15 pm

craggy wrote:well, you've obviously never seen a transforming alien robot that changes into a truck and rips faces off! clearly, both Takara and Hasbro have, and both thought they looked like shite.

I nearly lost my tea through my nose reading that. :lol:

Maybe its the start of Hasbro and Takara sharing manufacturing? That way they can both bring production costs down by doing one mass production, instead of doing wildly different versions? Has\Tak can just slap paint on in slightly different places to give collectors the "choice".... or maybe Takara are just being cheap with their Optimi-Kart toy?

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:39 pm

craggy wrote:
Dead Metal wrote:
Manterax Prime wrote:So apparently Twitter User Akira T 2716 managed to get a picture of the Lost Age Premier Edition Optimus. And.........

It's the same damn toy

Akira T 2716's twitter: https://twitter.com/872Aki

Fail
Well, looks like Takra's whole line of "more realistic decos" is full of **** then.

well, you've obviously never seen a transforming alien robot that changes into a truck and rips faces off! clearly, both Takara and Hasbro have, and both thought they looked like shite.

That is one of the best replies I've had in a while.

News Credits: 12 · by **GuyIncognito** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:52 pm

To be more accurate, this transforming alien robot doesn't change into a truck; he carries a folded-up truck on his back and hides inside it.

by **autobot1979** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:52 pm

I will keep my eyes open when we get accurate toys I will spend my money. I am an adult collector, I want accuracy to the film and complicated transformatios. This is what make me enjoy transformers. The complexity of the toy.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Mon Feb 10, 2014 5:49 pm

MOTHER OF ALL BACK KIBBLE!

Man, that's quite a disapointment. I can accept some backpack but this is ridiculous. Also, massive shellforming going on here. Oh, I know, this is:
TORTOISE PRIME!
Paint it in green like that other one and we're all set.
At least, the truck mode is awesome.

One thing for sure, is I WILL buy it anyway. However, I'll wait for the innevitable 30$ sale.