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News Credits: 194 · Wed Oct 27, 2010 10:15 am

User Geminorum sent us information that YaHobby.com has posted a listing for the accessories to turn your Voyager Animated Optimus Prime into Wingblade Prime. See the listing here.

It is unsure at this time if this is a legitimate release from Takara-Tomy or if these are 3rd party accessories. The only images on the site are of the official Wingblade Optimus Prime. The set includes the following:

1 x Wingblade kit
1 x Hammer
2 x Fist
2 x Gun emplacements
2 x Missile

News Credits: 1235 · Wed Oct 27, 2010 10:19 am

It is a great alternative to paying for another Animated prime. I hope it is Takara releasing this set but this came out of nowhere. I will consider getting this.

News Credits: 11 · Wed Oct 27, 2010 10:20 am

Iiiinteresting. I wonder how they pulled that off, did they split a bunch of sets, or is this a repro?

Edit: Bought it. Will let you guys how it turns out, if I get it before anyone else.

News Credits: 2 · Wed Oct 27, 2010 10:33 am

Well, that's nice. I have both fresh and minty in their respective boxes. We've known about Wingblade Optimus for awhile....why didn't they do this sooner?

Not like it matters, just strict curiosity.

News Credits: 11 · Wed Oct 27, 2010 10:43 am

Random wrote:Well, that's nice. I have both fresh and minty in their respective boxes. We've known about Wingblade Optimus for awhile....why didn't they do this sooner?

Not like it matters, just strict curiosity.

If it's a legit Takara product, so they can make more money selling full figures instead of add-ons. Since HasTak haven't been known to release add-on kits, I think this may just be YaHobby filling the demand by selling split sets. I do see a listing for loose 'Sons of Cybertron' Primes, but of course they are not quite the same. Notably absent are any loose Rodimus figures, so that could be the answer right there.

News Credits: 5 · Wed Oct 27, 2010 11:17 am

Now this is pretty cool, and fairly reasonable. Does this set work for both the voyager and deluxe animated primes?

News Credits: 11 · Wed Oct 27, 2010 11:43 am

amcgrath929 wrote:Now this is pretty cool, and fairly reasonable. Does this set work for both the voyager and deluxe animated primes?

That's what they say, but I've never seen it combined with the deluxe version in pictures. All we know is Hasbro hearsay back when they revealed the thing.

News Credits: 241 · Wed Oct 27, 2010 11:51 am

kirbenvost wrote:
amcgrath929 wrote:Now this is pretty cool, and fairly reasonable. Does this set work for both the voyager and deluxe animated primes?

That's what they say, but I've never seen it combined with the deluxe version in pictures. All we know is Hasbro hearsay back when they revealed the thing.

"Hearsay"? Come on, surely you remember Animated Voyager Thundercracker's co-sells? That's the Deluxe.

News Credits: 5 · Wed Oct 27, 2010 11:52 am

kirbenvost wrote:
amcgrath929 wrote:Now this is pretty cool, and fairly reasonable. Does this set work for both the voyager and deluxe animated primes?

That's what they say, but I've never seen it combined with the deluxe version in pictures. All we know is Hasbro hearsay back when they revealed the thing.

Yeah I remember hearing that too, I had just never seen pictures of it. Hopefully Hasbro isn't mistaken.

News Credits: 5 · Wed Oct 27, 2010 11:58 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
kirbenvost wrote:
amcgrath929 wrote:Now this is pretty cool, and fairly reasonable. Does this set work for both the voyager and deluxe animated primes?

That's what they say, but I've never seen it combined with the deluxe version in pictures. All we know is Hasbro hearsay back when they revealed the thing.

"Hearsay"? Come on, surely you remember Animated Voyager Thundercracker's co-sells? That's the Deluxe.

Hmm, ever picture I see on your link appears to be the voyager. I may just be looking in the wrong spot though

News Credits: 241 · Wed Oct 27, 2010 12:07 pm

amcgrath929 wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
kirbenvost wrote:
amcgrath929 wrote:Now this is pretty cool, and fairly reasonable. Does this set work for both the voyager and deluxe animated primes?

That's what they say, but I've never seen it combined with the deluxe version in pictures. All we know is Hasbro hearsay back when they revealed the thing.

"Hearsay"? Come on, surely you remember Animated Voyager Thundercracker's co-sells? That's the Deluxe.

Hmm, ever picture I see on your link appears to be the voyager. I may just be looking in the wrong spot though

Then I think you're thinking of the Cybertron Mode Optimus Prime. That is not the one we're talking about. It's this guy:

From The Battle Begins 2-pack.

News Credits: 5 · Wed Oct 27, 2010 12:10 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
amcgrath929 wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
kirbenvost wrote:
amcgrath929 wrote:Now this is pretty cool, and fairly reasonable. Does this set work for both the voyager and deluxe animated primes?

That's what they say, but I've never seen it combined with the deluxe version in pictures. All we know is Hasbro hearsay back when they revealed the thing.

"Hearsay"? Come on, surely you remember Animated Voyager Thundercracker's co-sells? That's the Deluxe.

Hmm, ever picture I see on your link appears to be the voyager. I may just be looking in the wrong spot though

Then I think you're thinking of the Cybertron Mode Optimus Prime. That is not the one we're talking about. It's this guy:

[img]http://www.seibertron.com/images/toys/files/45/r_optimusdlxearth030.jpg[/

Oh yeah. You nailed it. I completely forgot about thy figure.

From The Battle Begins 2-pack.

Wed Oct 27, 2010 12:47 pm

That is not an official takara product, i purchused the original Wingblade Optimus. Because Takara or Hasbro never release add-on kits. Thats for other companies like Crazy devy or Fansproject.
The takara "catalogue" is on:
http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/TF ... d/toy.html

News Credits: 11 · Wed Oct 27, 2010 2:55 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
kirbenvost wrote:
amcgrath929 wrote:Now this is pretty cool, and fairly reasonable. Does this set work for both the voyager and deluxe animated primes?

That's what they say, but I've never seen it combined with the deluxe version in pictures. All we know is Hasbro hearsay back when they revealed the thing.

"Hearsay"? Come on, surely you remember Animated Voyager Thundercracker's co-sells? That's the Deluxe.

Ah, I had forgotten there were pictures! Well done. :APPLAUSE:

bigbadbello wrote:That is not an official takara product, i purchused the original Wingblade Optimus. Because Takara or Hasbro never release add-on kits. Thats for other companies like Crazy devy or Fansproject.
The takara "catalogue" is on:
http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/TF ... d/toy.html

That's why I'm speculating YaHobby just took a bunch of Wingblade Prime sets and split them up so people who are only interested in the add-on can buy it. If it turns out I'm wrong and it's a 3rd Party product, well, I've spent $30 on worse things, so it won't bother me all that much.

News Credits: 14 · Wed Oct 27, 2010 4:47 pm

The pic on the co-sells is the deluxe:
http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-new ... 647489.jpg

It can attach to Deluxe Prime. Peaugh gave us a look at it.
The back pack fits on very fiddly, but the arms lock in place fine.

http://www.youtube.com/user/peaugh#p/u/14/iieeRkcy_f8

As to whether this are just Wingblade Prime sets split apart or a real release or even a third party set I'm leaning towards it being a third party set.

Wed Oct 27, 2010 4:55 pm

The pics on the listing show a Voyager Prime, as evidenced by the circuit patterns on his chest windshields. The Deluxe figures did not have that little detail. In view of that, I'm actually allowing myself to hope that the ridiculously impulsive purchase I just made pays off with a nice quality set of VOYAGER-sized Prime armor.

News Credits: 14 · Wed Oct 27, 2010 5:59 pm

Cobalt Prime wrote:The pics on the listing show a Voyager Prime, as evidenced by the circuit patterns on his chest windshields...

Nobody was contesting that.

We were just pointing out the fact that the Wingblade pack can attach to the Deluxe, and that the Original Hasbro version, had it been released, was going to include the Deluxe mold instead of the Voyager.

The Pics on Thundercracker's Box as shown above are that very version with the Deluxe OP.

News Credits: 2 · Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:54 am

That's pretty neat if they are indeed splitting the packs for ppl to purchase. I got the full set off BBTS, and was originally planning on selling the crystal Prime, but he's pretty neat!

The armor kinda fits on the deluxe Earth-mode Prime (from Battle Begins 2-pack), but looks a little goofy on him (makes him look overly bulky, plus I like displaying deluxe Prime with the rest of the Animated deluxe Autobots for scale... looks great with Sentinel Prime & Rodimus Prime!), so I switched it back to the voyager one.

News Credits: 241 · Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:15 am

Cobalt Prime wrote:The pics on the listing show a Voyager Prime, as evidenced by the circuit patterns on his chest windshields.

Wrong image, it's the second one below the Vortex Blurr image.

News Credits: 1452 · Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:24 pm

It looks freaking rank anyways

News Credits: 241 · Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:44 pm

Blurrz wrote:It looks freaking rank anyways

Big wings + Big fists = Pure win. ;)^

How does he look with battle damaged Prime?

Thu Oct 28, 2010 1:03 pm

What a great equipment for the update of your optimus prime ~

News Credits: 1235 · Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:13 pm

Sold out now

News Credits: 11 · Sat Oct 30, 2010 3:25 pm

Blurrz wrote:It looks freaking rank anyways

I think it'll look fine on a non-clear figure.

Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:10 pm

Just got mine today. Came in a small brown box, was wrapped in 5 layers of bubble wrap, and was contained in a ziplock bag. No instructions, so I had to refer to the gallery for images of how to attach the backpack and guns.

These are the Takomy parts, just split off from the main set as mentioned here before. Still, not a bad deal. When you consider the cost of the accessories and the 12 bucks I spent on the extra Voyager Ani-Prime, I saved around 20 bucks total doing it this way.

The red and metallic blue parts look really good on him.