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New Tokyo Toy Festival Images From Fan2Fan

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Sun Mar 18, 2007 1:45 am
by Air Commander Starscream
Our friends over at Fan2Fan were present at Tokyo's Toy Festival. They were able to take a few shots of the Toy Festival Event Exclusive Kiss Players Sparkbots set. This set came with 3 colorful repaints of the Sparkbots as well as a Kiss Players CD. Also at the festival, there was a special display put up showing off some of the Transformers Movie toys. You can view the original article here Where you can also pick up a set for $48.

Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:01 am
by FooF
Ooo, Prime looks nice

Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:08 am
by God Magnus
Is that the Voyager Class Prime? If so, it doesn't seem to have the waist problem that the Leader Class does. Looks much better.

Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:12 am
by Head Shot
for some reaosn i think that is the leader class prime... doesnt seem to be similar to that grey proto we saw of the voyager size we saw awhile back (that thign ruled, the smokestacks when used as guns looked like shotguns). Can someone find that picture? I can't seem to find it now.

Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:47 am
by Air Commander Starscream
God Magnus wrote:Is that the Voyager Class Prime? If so, it doesn't seem to have the waist problem that the Leader Class does. Looks much better.
That is definetly the Leader Class Optimus Prime.
Head Shot wrote:for some reaosn i think that is the leader class prime... doesnt seem to be similar to that grey proto we saw of the voyager size we saw awhile back (that thign ruled, the smokestacks when used as guns looked like shotguns). Can someone find that picture? I can't seem to find it now.
The other prototype you speak of is here.

Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:30 am
by God Magnus
Air Commander Starscream wrote:God Magnus wrote:Is that the Voyager Class Prime? If so, it doesn't seem to have the waist problem that the Leader Class does. Looks much better.
That is definetly the Leader Class Optimus Prime.
Must be the angle then.

Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:55 am
by Nemesis_Apoc
prime is da shiznit

Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:58 am
by magnusupreme
dirty but not optimus prime

Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:02 am
by Fang Wolf
I want the KISS players figures, most likely will never get them >_>

Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:05 am
by frogbat
dunno bout u guys, but when i was but a mere tadpole and used to re enact the epic battles between autobots and decepticons, I always found the decepticons to be cooler. The toys were just more kickass. Maybe I just preferred planes to cars or had an evil streak.
Having looked with interest at the various iterations of toys over the years I still reckon that I'd still prefer the decepticons. However, with the exception of blackout, the autobot toys from the movie are definitely cooler.

Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:00 am
by Super Megatron
frogbat wrote:dunno bout u guys, but when i was but a mere tadpole and used to re enact the epic battles between autobots and decepticons, I always found the decepticons to be cooler. The toys were just more kickass. Maybe I just preferred planes to cars or had an evil streak.
Having looked with interest at the various iterations of toys over the years I still reckon that I'd still prefer the decepticons. However, with the exception of blackout, the autobot toys from the movie are definitely cooler.
I have to agree with you; most Autobot toys were pretty mediocre compared to the Decepticon toys, and when it comes to coolness, Optimus Prime always fall short of being better designed than Megatron. I guess the logic is that if you have people out there that are willing to buy anything that is a "good guy" figure, you don't have to make a well thought out toy when they are going to buy it anyway - at least that's what I think toy company mentalities are like.

Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:02 am
by microclone
The prime toy on its own merits looks impressive, the robot mode manages to hide the truck mode very well, in fact that does a better job than many binaltechs which became overly clumsy looking with the heavy breakdown of the vehicle parts.

Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:13 am
by Stormrider
I'm not so keen about these particular KISS Players toys. Keychain TFs are not my thing. I'm also puzzled why these particular molds were used, they seem a bit obscure.

Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:48 am
by pcsguy88
Better pics
hereThis sure looks MP-01 size. One can only pray.


Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:57 am
by pcsguy88
Nevermind, I guess they don't let you direct link stuff. Wonder why it works from google. Here's the raw URL:
http://tformers.com/article.php?sid=7140

Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 9:06 am
by Liege Evilmus
If they were $20, I'd get a set of the eggbots(and scrape that heart sticker offthe lion). Otherwise, you can keep that stuff.
And I agree, Prime's looking pretty dam good! However the paint on the truck looks to segmented, I wish it would blend better.
Then again, it's gonna be that robot standing in my collection, not the truck.

Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:09 am
by 1337W422102
I like the truck, not the robot.

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Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:56 am
by TheMuffin
I'll gladly give up $40 for that Prime. He's freaking gorgeous. Articulated fingers on a Leader Class....I'm in heaven.

Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:52 pm
by Big Grim
SuperSaiyajinSasuke wrote:I want the KISS players figures, most likely will never get them >_>
Same here. I want those Sparkbots!

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Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:54 pm
by Ramses
odd, I did a search and a translation of the name on the card (ォプティマスブラィム) and it seems that they are going to keep the Optimus Prime name in Japan, as opose to calling him Convoy like he's been in years past.

Posted:
Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:51 pm
by Head Shot
Air Commander Starscream wrote:God Magnus wrote:Is that the Voyager Class Prime? If so, it doesn't seem to have the waist problem that the Leader Class does. Looks much better.
That is definetly the Leader Class Optimus Prime.
Head Shot wrote:for some reason i think that is the leader class prime... doesnt seem to be similar to that grey proto we saw of the voyager size we saw awhile back (that thing ruled, the smokestacks when used as guns looked like shotguns). Can someone find that picture? I can't seem to find it now.
The other prototype you speak of is here.
yes that is the other prototype. thanks.
Am I the only one who is really impressed by the prototype in the link above, and feel sorta cheated by the leader class in comparison to the prototype?