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News Credits: 905 · by **Mach** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 11:30 am

Actoys member - Striker, also known as S250 in Seibertron, has posted a couple of new images of upcoming Transformers ROTF Voyager Class Optimus Prime & Ravage. Both of these figures are the new repaint version.

The unnamed new Voyage Class Optimus Prime carries new chinese characters on the vehicle mode.
Other than "大将“ (General), this time new wordings are "勇猛果敢，武士道”.
The meaning of the new wordings are "Bravery and Courage, Bushido".

The second image is Ravage and according to Striker, this will be one of the Japanese exclusive.

To view the original post here: http://www.actoys.net/bbs/read.php?tid-442865.html

News Credits: 8 · by **Forgotten** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 11:58 am

dammit!! I want the G1 flavored Ravage. I just hate to pay the hellacious markup and shipping costs. As for the Optimus...PASS.

Like Covenant on Facebook · by **Covenant** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:10 pm

HOW many paintjobs has that poor mold of Prime had to date now?

News Credits: 8 · by **Forgotten** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:17 pm

Covenant wrote:HOW many paintjobs has that poor mold of Prime had to date now?

let's put it this way, it's giving deluxe bumblebee a run for it's money.

by **autobot-jolt** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:21 pm

dang, Ravage is sweet. as usual, us americans are stuck with the less-awesome figures. Prime, I'm guessing, is the one that combines with the new voyager jetfire gig.

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 12:48 pm

Geez, if that Prime was any more weeaboo, he'd be Drift. :roll:

Like Covenant on Facebook · by **Covenant** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 1:08 pm

autobot-jolt wrote:Prime, I'm guessing, is the one that combines with the new voyager jetfire gig.

Doubt it. It's just the same Voyager Prime we've been getting since shortly before the first film came out years ago. Unless they just designed the Jetfire component to armor up around that mold, like the City Commander trailer does with Classics Magnus. But if that's the case then, given the jet component doesn't have a robot mode, it'll have to be sold with a set which will force anyone interested to buy the Voyager mold again.

But I really don't think that's the case.

by **Constantine** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 1:43 pm

Wait, the new characters are in Chinese, but they say "bushido," which is a Japanese word?

Weird.

by **prmlove1** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 2:23 pm

Forgotten wrote:dammit!! I want the G1 flavored Ravage. I just hate to pay the hellacious markup and shipping costs. As for the Optimus...PASS.

And this is one of the same people that would claim that the Chromed version we are getting as a redemption figure would be cooler if Takara released that one instead. Sometimes I think people just want to bash Hasbro just because. Stop b_tching!!! :sad:

News Credits: 8 · by **Forgotten** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 2:58 pm

prmlove1 wrote:
Forgotten wrote:dammit!! I want the G1 flavored Ravage. I just hate to pay the hellacious markup and shipping costs. As for the Optimus...PASS.

And this is one of the same people that would claim that the Chromed version we are getting as a redemption figure would be cooler if Takara released that one instead. Sometimes I think people just want to bash Hasbro just because. Stop b_tching!!!

I don't like the Rainbow Ravage, wouldn't like it if God himself issued it. You don't know me, don't presume to make assumptions about me or label me. If you like it, say you do, if you don't say you don't. Don't start flaming, we don't need it.

News Credits: 4 · by **Swiftknife24** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 3:05 pm

Now THAT'S a Ravage we want! Hopefully it'll have the red-eye instead of that silly purple eye...

G1 inspired, maybe; but are we getting a flavour of a premium line? :PRAY:

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 4:18 pm

Well, at least the Ravage repaint is meaningful. The other... pass.

News Credits: 2 · by **starfish** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 4:19 pm

Covenant wrote:
autobot-jolt wrote:Prime, I'm guessing, is the one that combines with the new voyager jetfire gig.

Doubt it. It's just the same Voyager Prime we've been getting since shortly before the first film came out years ago. Unless they just designed the Jetfire component to armor up around that mold, like the City Commander trailer does with Classics Magnus. But if that's the case then, given the jet component doesn't have a robot mode, it'll have to be sold with a set which will force anyone interested to buy the Voyager mold again.

But I really don't think that's the case.

Actually, the pictures we've see thus far do show that the new Power-Up Prime will indeed be a Voyager Prime with add-on armour parts, so this could very well be the base figure for that set.

However, it's worth bearing in mind that the original ROTF Voyager Prime that came out in the US (the one with the Chinese writing on it) was never actually released in Japan. So for Takara, it's the very first mass-release of that particular colour scheme (the Toyfar Exclusive version excepted, of course).

by **zenosaurus_x** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 4:31 pm

I'll pass on both, Ravage's paint looks cool but he is WAAAAAY too out of scale, last time I checked he wasn't as big as Rampage in the movie(of course Rampage is out of scale too).
*CrossesFingersForLegendsRavage*

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 4:36 pm

Ravage looks cool but im not paying the price to import. Im getting sick of the voyager prime repaints that really arent repaints.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Jan 30, 2010 5:16 pm

Constantine wrote:Wait, the new characters are in Chinese, but they say "bushido," which is a Japanese word?

Weird.

"Bushido" is a word we adapted from Japanese, and the concept is Japanese. But Japanese has taken over and sometimes adapted Chinese characters into their kanji. 武士道 is no exception. Literally, bit by bit, it means "Armed Warrior Moral", or more abstractly, "Warrior Code". For all we know, it's Japanese as well as Chinese, the charcaters are the same.