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Japanese toy blogger Alfes 2010 gives us a look at Takara's Transformers Prime Arms Micron AM-13 Medic Knock Out, AM-07 Starscream, and AM-14 Decepticon Vehicon. As usual we've mirrored some of his images below. To view the full galleries click here.

Cool pictures!

Alas, they did not change my mind about anything: I still do not care about Voyager Starscream, or Deluxe Knockout. And I am still madly in love with Steve.

Wow....... and to think I considered the Hasbro Knockout horrible... those stickers look horrid.

Being that I love me some Starscream,i will eventually get this version. I really like the micron.

That Vehicon is awesome.I hope to get one, so he can sit next next to my AM jet.

just give me the stickers from them and i will be happy.

Can anyone shed some light on the stickers? I mean, generally speaking, they look very odd, and also look like they will be falling off in a decade's time. What is wrong with the tampograph?

Banjo-Tron wrote:Can anyone shed some light on the stickers? I mean, generally speaking, they look very odd, and also look like they will be falling off in a decade's time. What is wrong with the tampograph?

It's all TakaraTomy's idea of appealing to a larger demograph. You see, model building is hot among kids in Japan, so TakaraTomy decided to appeal to them by giving them the option to customise their figures with the stickers, and building their Arms Micron partners themselves. So it has nothing to do with being cheap.

I like the Arms Micron idea but I think most of the figures look rubbish and they're always too big for anything smaller than a voyager, especially with the recent shrinkage.

Breakdown and knock out look awesome together

And this might be random but I just noticed that Transformers Dark Of the Moon is on NETFLiX. U kno I'm going to watch it right now

wow, they gave the Vehicon a Batmobile thruster on the back. someone at DC may thow a fit over that. Starscream's Micron seems to have a Thundercracker paintjob.

grimdragon2001 wrote:wow, they gave the Vehicon a Batmobile thruster on the back. someone at DC may thow a fit over that.

If they do, they're gonna have a hell of a time getting anything done about it. Japanese laws are different than US laws, I'm sure. Plus, it's clearly a Micron port, even though it does look somewhat like a Batmobile exhaust. It could be argued and thrown out almost immediately.

I can understand why you would think that, and even I said to myself "Well, here come a bunch of Batmobile kitbashes..."

I can't wait to see what customizers come up with.

Autobot032 wrote:I can understand why you would think that, and even I said to myself "Well, here come a bunch of Batmobile kitbashes..."

I can't wait to see what customizers come up with.

It's already been done recently but I'm sure people will do more with AM Vehicon having that convenient port.

Archatron wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:I can understand why you would think that, and even I said to myself "Well, here come a bunch of Batmobile kitbashes..."

I can't wait to see what customizers come up with.

It's already been done recently but I'm sure people will do more with AM Vehicon having that convenient port.

Oh heck yeah. I can't wait to see what they come up with. But...the robot mode...that's what I really want to see.

We have some real badasses in this fandom.

The only really odd thing that i can see is why Knockout has optional "headlight stickers" when he's already got clear plastic for the headlight?

And his minicon spear looks rather oversized. Really, Why are designers so focused on minicons, are they really so desperate to reuse the old Transformers Armada style theme to represent the japanese versions of the Prime weapon with the minibot gimmicks?

Sorry at if i offended any minicon enthusiasts but im just REALLY TIRED of seeing minicons as oversized replacements for weapons.

Autobot032 wrote:

Archatron wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:I can understand why you would think that, and even I said to myself "Well, here come a bunch of Batmobile kitbashes..."

I can't wait to see what customizers come up with.

It's already been done recently but I'm sure people will do more with AM Vehicon having that convenient port.

Oh heck yeah. I can't wait to see what they come up with. But...the robot mode...that's what I really want to see.

We have some real badasses in this fandom.

Something like a Bat Sentry, could be cool.

I now have no reason to get a Knockout figure.
Breakdown looks nice, if somewhat small.