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Third-party group Xovergen Production has updated their facebook page with some new images from their upcoming Trailerforce TF-01 Powermaster style upgrade for Classics Optimus Prime. These images show off a new front bumper to accommodate their Powermaster and replacement articulated ankles. Images mirrored below.

Hmm... ambitious.

It looks like the new feet add a slight increase in height.
I'm still in for this thing, but I hope Prime still works with a Commander Armor.

you have to replace the feet? I hope this thing knocks it out of the park, but so far... meh

Balljointed feet are nice for poses and articulation, but I really don't like the prospect of having to remove Henkei Prime's bumper to replace it with the new one, though I understand why you'd need to since the bumper is what keeps their not-Ginrai in place in engine mode.

I like that someone's adding articulation on Classics Prime, but why is everybody making him look like he's got a beer gut? Can't you still turn it around like a normal transformation?

Yay for new feet...

Boo for beer gut...

i just look at this and all that comes to mind is

arise optimus swine

Ummmmmm...okay. Now they just need to get robot shaped parking garage finished and this thing will be all ready to pass on.

Stryfe Convoy wrote:I like that someone's adding articulation on Classics Prime, but why is everybody making him look like he's got a beer gut?

Because they're shooting for his redneck look I guess :

Swindle01 wrote:i just look at this and all that comes to mind is

arise optimus swine

xyl360 wrote:

Stryfe Convoy wrote:I like that someone's adding articulation on Classics Prime, but why is everybody making him look like he's got a beer gut?

Because they're shooting for his redneck look I guess :

Wow... I'll be keeping my FP Powered Commander for my PM Prime, thank you!

I don't know why he'd be pictured transformed that way. I don't think the bumper looks back, but transformed that way and it's a joke.

Just by the looks of this I think I'd rather use Classics Prime over Henkei. I'd ratehr NOT damage my shiny chrome bumper by trying to remove it.

In the third picture it looks as if Optimus is wearing house shoes, or cyber slippers.

Man that is a big old bumper..

I needs me some powermaster love for my classics/generations TF's..

Yeahhhh... I'd rather have a Vector Zeta.

Yeah, , definitely not feeling this, even with the added ankle articulation.

i can't cast my vote on this till i see the trailer.

I'm not too worried about it. I have like 4 Henkei Primes (I've been expecting add-on sets like this to come out ever since City Commander/DIA Commander) so I can easily scrifice one for this.

I don't care what it looks like in cab-bot mode, as he'll stay in combined mode with the trailer anyway, and based on the pics/renders I've seen of the combined mode so far, it's far superior to anything else out there that's supposed to be/pay homage to Powermaster Optimus Prime.

So the standalone bot mode can look like junk, the trailer in trailer mode can look like junk, but if combined mode looks awesome (which this one has so far), then that's all that matters, because that's why I'm getting it and that's how it will be permanently displayed.

So hurry up Xovergen and take my frickin' money, cuz I needs me some Powermaster Optimus Prime love !

The more I see of this the less I understand what anyone sees in a PM Optimus...

xyl360 wrote:I have like 4 Henkei Primes

I broke out my Classics Prime and saw the bumper is screwed in. So it doesn't need to be one of those things where you can never go back

But there's a ton of cheap Classics Prime KOs out there. They might actually work with this pretty well if you want it to be Classics style, but don't want to use / don't have an official figure for some of the mods.Since it's supposed to fit G1 and PM Prime I think it'd work.

The bumper really isn't THAT bad. If you look at the serious picture you'll notice that you can't even tell he has it on when he's transformed into robot mode the right way. Granted, it doesn't fold up as nicely into the figure as the official, but if you're going to buy the set I doubt you'd want to keep him in standard bot mode.

And I think modding the bumper is absolutely nessasary in order to add the PM gimmick to a figure that really wasn't eman tfor it.

On the other hand, at the end of the show (Masterforce, was it?) Ginari and all the other Masters became their own bots, didn't they? Do you don't HAVE to do this mod to get something show-accurate. You can leave it out and pretend it's the fully-robotic Ginari at the end of Masterforce.

Shadowstream wrote:The more I see of this the less I understand what anyone sees in a PM Optimus...

xyl360 wrote:I have like 4 Henkei Primes

, well, ToyArena had him constantly in stock forever and still reasonably priced so I kept buying them as I had need of them (first just to have one, the second after DIA Commander was released, the third when I got a KO DIA Commander set to make a custom Powermaster Prime from and the fourth just in case something like this came along, which it has ).

Trailerforce will be mine !

So I'm meant to replace that gorgeous chrome bumper with that thing?!?

Yeah, I don't think so.

xyl360 wrote:the third when I got a KO DIA Commander set to make a custom Powermaster Prime

Any chance of seeing this? I was considering doing something similar myself.

I'm quickly losing interest in this.

Banjo-Tron wrote:

xyl360 wrote:the third when I got a KO DIA Commander set to make a custom Powermaster Prime

Any chance of seeing this? I was considering doing something similar myself.

Sorry I missed you're reply. I posted it some time back. The thread can be found here.

I warn you, it's not very good as it was one of my very first customs, but it should give you a rought idea of what it can look like.

amcgrath929 wrote:I'm quickly losing interest in this.

My interest just got spiked in this now that I see that Godforce is available on DVD. If I really like the show, I might be tempted to get this, price pending of course.