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News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 2:02 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
procyon wrote:So incredibly disappointed that it's not going to be Super Fami-Convoy. That was my favorite system, and more of a rival to the Mega Drive than the PSX ever was...
Oh man, yeah, Super FamiConvoy would have made so much more sense, having been the main competitor to the Mega Drive and a fun play on the two names. Such a pity.

How much you wanna bet Nintendo's royalties were a bit on the high side or that Nintendo utterly refused?

News Credits: 1350 · by **ZeroWolf** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 3:38 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
procyon wrote:So incredibly disappointed that it's not going to be Super Fami-Convoy. That was my favorite system, and more of a rival to the Mega Drive than the PSX ever was...
Oh man, yeah, Super FamiConvoy would have made so much more sense, having been the main competitor to the Mega Drive and a fun play on the two names. Such a pity.

How much you wanna bet Nintendo's royalties were a bit on the high side or that Nintendo utterly refused?

My bet is refusal >:oP

What would of been amusing is if prime was the snes and Jetfire (or any other preferred prime power up) was the PS, then you could combine them to create the original snes CD drive that Sony was working on that led to the creation of the PlayStation :lol:

:lol:

...

I'll get my coat...

(Nintendo messed up the deal by working with Panasonic instead....yeah....)

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 3:52 pm

"We shall call him "PlayStation Prime", or "PSP" for short.

by **Ultra Markus** » Fri Jul 25, 2014 6:25 pm

Playstatimus Prime!!

News Credits: 1235 · by **LOST Cybertronian** » Sat Jul 26, 2014 10:36 pm

Thanks to the twitter account of @vapwaazu we get a look our first look at the upcoming Playstation Optimus Prime. Seen just the other day as an artist rendering, this test shot is on display at summer Wonder Fest which is just kicking off in Japan.

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 3:04 pm

Ha! I love it. Now we just need to hope for a Sega Saturn Starscream, or maybe a Dreamcast Soundwave.

(A Gamecube Arcee would be great too, but >Nintendo licensing)

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 3:19 pm

Delta Magnus wrote:Ha! I love it. Now we just need to hope for a Sega Saturn Starscream, or maybe a Dreamcast Soundwave.

(A Gamecube Arcee would be great too, but >Nintendo licensing)

Why make a figure out of the worst performing Sega console?

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 3:28 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Delta Magnus wrote:Ha! I love it. Now we just need to hope for a Sega Saturn Starscream, or maybe a Dreamcast Soundwave.

(A Gamecube Arcee would be great too, but >Nintendo licensing)

Why make a figure out of the worst performing Sega console?

Simple. Like Starscream, the Saturn tried to take on the leader and failed miserably. :lol:

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 3:32 pm

Delta Magnus wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Delta Magnus wrote:Ha! I love it. Now we just need to hope for a Sega Saturn Starscream, or maybe a Dreamcast Soundwave.

(A Gamecube Arcee would be great too, but >Nintendo licensing)

Why make a figure out of the worst performing Sega console?

Simple. Like Starscream, the Saturn tried to take on the leader and failed miserably.

So very apt it would have been then :lol:

by **WolfSpider1979** » Tue Jul 29, 2014 8:37 pm

Funny, but I thought Soundwave / Soundblaster and Blaster / Twincast would have been a better choice for a game system. Smeg, even Jazz and/or Bumblebee would have been a better choice. I just don't see Optimus Prime as having that kind fun side: As a basketball hoop, maybe, but that's a stretch.

Wolf-Spider

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Jul 29, 2014 9:44 pm

WolfSpider1979 wrote:Funny, but I thought Soundwave / Soundblaster and Blaster / Twincast would have been a better choice for a game system. Smeg, even Jazz and/or Bumblebee would have been a better choice. I just don't see Optimus Prime as having that kind fun side: As a basketball hoop, maybe, but that's a stretch.

Wolf-Spider

Megatron started it by being a SEGA Mega Drive.

by **procyon** » Tue Jul 29, 2014 10:01 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Megatron started it by being a SEGA Mega Drive.

And that's why Super Fami-Convoy would have made so much more sense. But yeah, I bet JelZe was right, Nintendo probably wanted way too much money to make it worth Takara's time. So, just like Sony did back when they ditched Nintendo and made the first PlayStation, so too did Takara. I guess it is fitting after all...

by **Optimum Supreme** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 12:06 pm

Should Fort Max be an original Xbox or a 1st model PS3... hmmm... 8-}

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 12:09 pm

Optimum Supreme wrote:Should Fort Max be an original Xbox or a 1st model PS3... hmmm...

He should be a full blown arcade machine.

OR the whole arcade itself.

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 4:21 pm

Bollocks to that- he should be Sony HQ. Fort Max is meant to be the size of Mount Fuji after all, it's only befitting of his majesty.

News Credits: 461 · by **mooncake623** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 8:04 am

Thanks to Autobase Aichi's Facebook page we get to share with everyone our first look at a color prototype image of the Takara-Tomy Playstation Optimus Prime. We've mirrored the image below for your viewing pleasures and remember keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!

http://www.youtube.com/user/Pepsimus · by **Black Bumblebee** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 9:50 am

I'd buy these both in a second if they could actually play the games. The emulator programs are soooo small... how hard would the hardware be with today's technology?

News Credits: 118 · by **megatronus** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 9:58 am

I'm as pumped for this as I am for 16-bit Megatron, that is to say, not very pumped at all. >:oP

News Credits: 461 · by **mooncake623** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 9:58 am

Black Bumblebee wrote:I'd buy these both in a second if they could actually play the games. The emulator programs are soooo small... how hard would the hardware be with today's technology?

Probably something you can do yourself? Customizers? would be pretty sick.

News Credits: 1 · by **Marcdachamp** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 12:44 pm

Am I the only one that thinks he looks pretty small in that picture? I assumed that he was the same size as Megatron. Maybe he won't cost an arm and a leg to import. I love the idea of these, but $120 for Megs is incredibly steep.

News Credits: 1 · by **YRQRM0** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 2:47 pm

He looks like regular Prime wearing a broken playstation as armor.

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 4:30 pm

Looks pretty sweet.

As for him being able to play games, remember that a lot of space in a PS1 is taken up by the CD drive- they're big, bulky things (and you can't miniaturize them because, well, they have to fit CDs) and they're fragile too. Plus, the PS1 was a lot more complicated than, say, the Mega Drive. If you managed to cram the necessary components to make this play games, the robot mode would suck. people complain about intrusive gimmicks on figures, and, well...this would be the ultimate intrusive gimmick!

by **procyon** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 6:49 pm

Raspberry Pi + ePSXe + a SDHC card to store ISOs = done. Whether you can find a spot on the toy to cram the motherboard in there (3.37″ x 2.21″ x 0.83″) and make holes for the HDMI connection is another matter, but complexity and size constraints are not an issue in this day and age. Hell, they crammed one in a Game Boy Pocket and it worked great.

by **WildclawPrime** » Thu Aug 07, 2014 9:44 pm

Love this concept of both Prime and Megatron transforming into old school video game consoles. I was expecting Optimus to transform into a Super Nintendo (or Super Famicom outside of the US), since that was a competitor to the Sega Genesis back in the early to mid 90s, still the PS1 mode is a nice choice. Wonder if Prime will get a replica PlayStation disk, just like Megatron did with the Sonic 1 cartridge.

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Fri Aug 08, 2014 10:24 am

procyon wrote:Raspberry Pi + ePSXe + a SDHC card to store ISOs = done. Whether you can find a spot on the toy to cram the motherboard in there (3.37″ x 2.21″ x 0.83″) and make holes for the HDMI connection is another matter, but complexity and size constraints are not an issue in this day and age. Hell, they crammed one in a Game Boy Pocket and it worked great.

Yes, but a Game Boy Pocket doesn't have to transform into a fully-poseable robot, does it? :lol: