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headsortails wrote:

Mkall wrote:if I have to find another classics Optimus Prime...

Same here..........

Savage wrote:PLEASE let this be a Powermaster upgrade for Classics Voyager Prime! As someone else already mentioned, I too had been hoping Fansproject would tackle this concept, instead they repainted the City Commander set for pretty much any Classics Prime repaint one can dream of, but no love for Powermaster Prime. Come on, Xovergen, give me something badass and my money is yours.

CaSSeTteBOTs45 wrote:PLEASE BE A G1 Powermaster Prime upgrade!!!!! I would looooove to have articulation for what I think is the best combiner optimus!

I just took a more closer look at that pic in this thread on the front page. the optimus prime truck cab/bot attached to the trailerforce-01 is MASTERPIECE-10 CONVOY,SO THIS MOST LIKELY TRAILER ARMOR FOR MP-10 CONVOY.

Had this been trailerforce-01 trailer/armor for the 1984 optimus or the 1998 PMOP or the classics 1.0 optimus,then one of these would have been hooked up to the trailerforce-01. SINCE THEIR NOT & MP-10 CONVOY IS HOOKED UP TO TRAILERFORCE-01,THEN THIS TRAILER/ARMOR IS FOR mp-10 convoy.

Personally like I mentionec above in another reply. It makes zero sense to make super poseable trailer armor for the 1984 nor 1988 optimus toys,because those were brickformers,tiny toys & are not easy to find in stores & cost a lot on ebay for decent condition versions.

anyways FWIW,The arms & legs for 1984 or 1988 oprimus toys are too small & not articulated to be able to get trailer/armor hooked up to them in robot mode. the only way to get these outdated toys into a super poseable PMOP trailer/armor is to transform them into a rubicks cube & place that cube inside the robot torso of the trailer/armor. this was awful on the 1988 POMOP toy & will be more equally awful now.

It's attached to Classics Prime too. Nothing is for sure right now.

Blurrz wrote:It's attached to Classics Prime too. Nothing is for sure right now.

Maybe the trailerforce-01 armor can fit on both the MP-10 Convoy & classics 1.0 optimus toy. this has never been done before but I imagine anything is possible.

I haven't seen any pics of trailerforce-01 being attached to classics 1.0 voyager optimus in truck mode. please does anyone have pics of this,i'd love to see pics of this.

The picture is on the second page. Having insider information, I'll stick to who I know this add-on is for. Not knowing how it's going to work, but I'll take Xovergen's word for it.

Blurrz wrote:The picture is on the second page. Having insider information, I'll stick to who I know this add-on is for. Not knowing how it's going to work, but I'll take Xovergen's word for it.

thanks for mentioning their were more pics of trailerforce-01 on the 2nd page in this thread.

like I said above,I just can't imagine the trailerforce-01 armor parts froming boots or forearms for neither 1984 optimus nor 1988 PMOP.
DUE to the small brick styled weirdly shaped arms & legs.

The only 2 ways I can imagine the trailerforce-01 Armor being used for the 1984 or 1988 optimus toys are as follows: (1) the rubiks cube scenario,where the truck cab folds up into a cube & gets placed into the torso of the suit of armor. (2) going the DOTM Ultimate optimus route,where the whole figure slips inside a trailer armor robot pretender shell type ordeal. sadly their will be no arms attraching to the armor as both 1984 & 1988 optimus arms are too tiny,brick-ish & weirdly shaped/designed. also similar to the takara MP Brave King Exkaiser & how the tiny sports car exkaiser gets placed in his pretender shell trailer armor for super robot mode.

I'm definitely interested.

did it say for a g1 optimus? dang....i sold that thing many many years ago....gotta see some clear pics of this thing first before the wallet comes out

Update: Turns out these are not form Xovergen, just some fan work.

Xovergen's recently announced TrailerForce TF-01 has been revealed via a series of computer renders over on HK-TF. As speculated, the trailer is indeed a Powerstyle upgrade for Classics Optimus Prime. Take a look at the images mirrored below.

Not sure how I feel about this yet, but I'm definitely gonna keep an eye on this.

he looks abit more like STAR CONVOY than powermaster prime

also is it just me or does he look slighly fat?

Swindle01 wrote:he looks abit more like STAR CONVOY than powermaster prime

also is it just me or does he look slighly fat?

LOL it's not just you, he looks just like the original powermaster fatimus prime.. talk about middle aged spread. Slightly disappointed with this, as I hoped the parts would build around the original figure, a la city commander.

Errrr, its not so much an upgrade as a whole other figure with a hole where you park truck mode Optimus. They could easily have filled that hole with a fake truck front leaving your Classic Optimus free to wear Fansproject's armour or do something useful (like the dishes).

Its a meh from me for the integration of Optimus but overall this thing has potential. Lets see how the finished item looks.

Misfire folks sorry! Apparently these renders are NOT for the Xovergen trailer, just some fan DIY fan work.

I think from this point out I'm just going to buy a six-pack of every major character released in Classics/Henkei/Universe/Generations just in case we get multiple different upgrades; this is, what, the FOURTH aftermarket trailer for Classics/Henkei Prime now (fifth if you count both Poered Commander and DIA Commander).

It doesn't seem quite as polished as City Commander, but it does look nice and bulky. The third party oroducs are beginning to put my investment in Trsnsformers close to my other expensive collecting love, Hot Toys, Sideshow and 3A 1:6 scale figures.

The fact that a sixth-scale Iron Monget from Hot Toys is going to cost less thaa at leasy one, possibly both of the non-Devastators on the way does give on a bit of pause.

Of course matter are not particularly helped that Takara's next actual Masterpiece figure is the uninspiring Emperor Starscrea set; I've been able to buy a cape, crowm amd sjpulder pads for my masterpiece Screamer for several years now if I wanted them, and HaTak still hasn;t done antyhing about the hip kibble iGear has fixed in their not-Sunstorm, not-Starscream, not-Thundercracker and not-Skywarp.

Perhaps it's time for HasTak to take a page fron their Star Wars, GI Joe and Marvel licenses and subcontract really nice figures to manufacturers that know how to cater to the adult fan.

In any case, unless the QC is horrible put me down for two (one for each mode) and I have to wonder when we'll see someone tackle some of the later Autobot and Decepticon leaders from Headmasters, Masterforce and Zone. I'm ready for my super-articulated Star Convoy, Super and Ultra Megatron, Star Saber and Overlord (though just screw Deathsaurus, m'kay?).

El Duque wrote:Update: Turns out these are not form Xovergen, just some fan work.

Xovergen's recently announced TrailerForce TF-01 has been revealed via a series of computer renders over on HK-TF. As speculated, the trailer is indeed a Powerstyle upgrade for Classics Optimus Prime. Take a look at the images mirrored below.

Fake. Very sad. I believed in this until someone said it as fake and I noticed the missing bottom half's of the tires. Oh well...

I'll continue saying it until someone gets it done and correctly. We need a great Classics PMOP/God Ginrai. I would throw money at such a thing so fast...so fast.

Flux Convoy wrote:I'll continue saying it until someone gets it done and correctly. We need a great Classics PMOP/God Ginrai. I would throw money at such a thing so fast...so fast.

Me too, I don't want a trailer that connects to Classics or MP Prime, I want a true Classics Ginrai. Ginrai looked different and had a different transformation from Prime, so he deserves his own base figure too.

Dead Metal wrote:Me too, I don't want a trailer that connects to Classics or MP Prime, I want a true Classics Ginrai. Ginrai looked different and had a different transformation from Prime, so he deserves his own base figure too.

You have to admit that the base Ginrai body hardly transforms differently than Prime. He does but barely different. I'd accept something like what is being offered. Even the thing offered for the recent convention (the name escapes me) was close. Just not quite good enough. I'd like better and more. Namely, Hi-Q/Ginrai and the dual rifles. I like Classics/Henkei Prime enough that I'd certainly accept a kit built around that like City Commander. I still hold out hope that FansProject has this up their sleeve. They've yet to disappoint me with any of their offerings. If Sidearm was any indication, I couldn't see them overlooking the Master figure for something like this either. I'd probably gush about it until people told me to shut up.

I really hope this thing ends up looking decent and that it is for Henkei/Classics Prime (ToyArena still has them in stock, albeit for around $75). PM Prime is one of my all time favorite TF's from when I was a kid and I've been waiting a very long time for an updated version of him, so bring it on, just do it right pleeeeeeeaaaase .