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News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 1:09 am

Site sponsor TFsource wanted us to let everyone know they have listed preorders for Takara/Tomy's Japanese “First Edition" Transformers Prime figures.

Follow the links below.

Optimus Prime:

http://tfsource.com/products/view/product_id/3108/
Bumblebee:

http://tfsource.com/products/view/product_id/3109/
Megatron:

http://tfsource.com/products/view/product_id/3115/
Eradicon:

http://tfsource.com/products/view/product_id/3114/
Starscream:

http://tfsource.com/products/view/product_id/3113/
Arcee:

http://tfsource.com/products/view/product_id/3111/
Cliffjumper:

http://tfsource.com/products/view/product_id/3112/
Bulkhead:

http://tfsource.com/products/view/product_id/3110

News Credits: 1 · by **Jesterhead** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 6:35 am

I'm throwing up rainbows here. Must have them all.

News Credits: 36 · by **Pretender Skywarp** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 6:58 am

Do we know of any deco differences yet? I'm wondering if TT still have vats of metallic paint lying around..

by **Gorechyld** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 7:45 am

Those prices

HAHA, nope! :lol:

I can definitely wait until they hit shelves in the US and pay 25-40 dollars less since I'm hardly anal about "show accurate" colors. But hey, Prime is an instant buy, as is Megatron and the nameless cannon fodder Decepticon. Now lets see figures for Breakdown and Knock Out! Oh and Ratchet...cause I need a medic for my autobot team.

News Credits: 1 · by **Heavy B** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 9:56 am

Is megs getting the voyager treatment? I will NOT have a starscream that is larger then megatron.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 10:14 am

Eradicon VEHICON! /:)

News Credits: 1235 · by **LOST Cybertronian** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 10:19 am

Jesterhead wrote:I'm throwing up rainbows here.

Sounds like a bad trip.

News Credits: 8 · by **LiKwid** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 12:34 pm

I think Kurt and the gang are the ones smokin to ask those prices.... I'll stick with generic american release thank you very much

News Credits: 1 · by **Erailea** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 12:47 pm

LiKwid wrote:I think Kurt and the gang are the ones smokin to ask those prices.... I'll stick with generic american release thank you very much

Ditto, on both statements.

News Credits: 7 · by **Zeedust** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 8:39 pm

Erailea wrote:
LiKwid wrote:I think Kurt and the gang are the ones smokin to ask those prices.... I'll stick with generic american release thank you very much

Ditto, on both statements.

What they said.

News Credits: 1235 · by **LOST Cybertronian** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 9:21 pm

LiKwid wrote:I think Kurt and the gang are the ones smokin to ask those prices.... I'll stick with generic american release thank you very much

It's not much different than the prices for past Takara releases.

by **prowl123** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 8:11 am

Must...have...all... :BOOM:

News Credits: 2 · by **xyl360** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:57 am

I'll wait for them to show up on BBTS, but either way, if the paint apps are better on Takara, then I'll go with Takara, if they're the same, then it's all Hasbro. It seems to me, at least based on what I've seen so far, that Hasbro is determined to re-create screen-accuracy as much as possible with their recent series (BW was OK, not great, Animated was superb and Prime so far looks excellent as well) so most likely, Hasbro will do these as accurate as can be, which will save us all some serious cash.

Thankfully it shouldn't matter much anyway with movie toys going away as there will be fewer lines on the market to collect. I'm certain they're going to continue Generations in some form, but as usual, it probably won't get a ton of new molds (they've done most of the popular G1 characters save a few now) so either way, the reduced number of figures should make things easier on collectors.