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Site sponsor Robotkingdom has posted some new images of Takara Tomy's soon to be released Toyota FJ Cruiser Optimus Prime. They expect to start shipping these guys out on the the 28th. Check out the images mirrored below.

Looks like those Semi Knock-Off transformers that came out a few years ago, which also Part-Transformed. But those came with a small price tag and better licensed vehicles, cough* Land Rover Defender

I'd pick one up for the right price, I like my 4x4 Transformers

Not bad, not bad at all. I just might get this one. That alt mode looks good. I got to see how this figure turns out after a couple of months.

The Alternity/Alternators lines might actually be cool if they expanded it beyond ugly Japanese vehicles. Why not a Hummer ? An Avalanche or an Escalade ? Just saying...

Rated X wrote:The Alternity/Alternators lines might actually be cool if they expanded it beyond ugly Japanese vehicles. Why not a Hummer ? An Avalanche or an Escalade ? Just saying...

An Escalade huh?
"Jesus Christ! "What?!" Quick! Get the Escalade! We're outta here!" - Family Guy

Imagine if the Escalade turned into Optimus.

Anyway, gotta admit, the head looks better than I initially thought.

Rated X wrote:The Alternity/Alternators lines might actually be cool if they expanded it beyond ugly Japanese vehicles. Why not a Hummer ? An Avalanche or an Escalade ? Just saying...

The Alternators line is American & Japanese vehicles. Corvette, Mustang etc. But I know you know that, I get what you are trying to say, but the world os bigger that Japan and America. There is an episode of American Chopper, the Tuttle family visits England, and one of them remarks, that he had no idea that Range Rover and Land Rover were Britich companoies. In fact Astin Martin, TVR and many more are all British and are way more deserving to be in the Alternity & Alternators line than any vehicle they have at the moment.
Anyway back to your comment, you said that the 4x4 that they have made prime is ugly, the fact that it is Japanese is neirther here nor there, as Japanese cars are proper nice, nissan gtr, mitsubishi evo, shall I go on?
Anyway, google Range Rover Evoque and I'm sure you will find that prime would look much better as an Evoque than any of the cars you have mentioned, not only is the design futuristic, but it's way above the ones you have mentioned, in fact the ones you have mentioned are poor imitations of Land Rovers and Range Rovers. G1 was mainly all european cars, and European cars are still where it's at today, it's a shame that there are only a few which get made into transformers now.

Rated X wrote:The Alternity/Alternators lines might actually be cool if they expanded it beyond ugly Japanese vehicles. Why not a Hummer ? An Avalanche or an Escalade ? Just saying...

Alternators? Half of that line was American cars. Jeep Wrangler, Corvette, Ford GT, Mustang, Dodge Ram, Viper... That's not too bad especially when you consider how hard it was for them to negotiate with the car companies in the pre-movie era.

As for Alternity, it's a Japanese exclusive line, so it makes sense that most of the vehicles are Japanese cars.

DTR69 wrote:G1 was mainly all european cars, and European cars are still where it's at today, it's a shame that there are only a few which get made into transformers now.

Agreed, although that's mainly the fault of the European car companies. Most of them still don't want their cars being made into Transformers.

As for this figure, it looks pretty cool, but I wish it weren't OP. Pretty easy pass for me unless I catch it on sale.

Nekoman wrote:

Rated X wrote:The Alternity/Alternators lines might actually be cool if they expanded it beyond ugly Japanese vehicles. Why not a Hummer ? An Avalanche or an Escalade ? Just saying...

Alternators? Half of that line was American cars. Jeep Wrangler, Corvette, Ford GT, Mustang, Dodge Ram, Viper... That's not too bad especially when you consider how hard it was for them to negotiate with the car companies in the pre-movie era.

As for Alternity, it's a Japanese exclusive line, so it makes sense that most of the vehicles are Japanese cars.

DTR69 wrote:G1 was mainly all european cars, and European cars are still where it's at today, it's a shame that there are only a few which get made into transformers now.

Agreed, although that's mainly the fault of the European car companies. Most of them still don't want their cars being made into Transformers.

As for this figure, it looks pretty cool, but I wish it weren't OP. Pretty easy pass for me unless I catch it on sale.

Yeah I read that too, it was VW who strictly prohibited any ascociation with war violence et. Which makes me wonder how the Masterpiece Bumblbee is coming out. I was shockd to see Lambor etc. I would of thought the licenses were finished, or strictly for the original molds ie the g1 figures. Maybe there is a loop hole, or as the MP figures are based on the G1 figures the license still holds. I know licenses were not the complex barriers they are today. But it has caused some stupid compramises such as the reoval of windchargers exgaust pipe making the gun in the ALternator line.

Is this the first yellow Prime?

Stormrider wrote:Is this the first yellow Prime?

No. A redeco of RID Prime back around the Unicron Trilogy era came out. It was an exclusive if I remember correctly. Garish looking, too.

Not a big fan of this figure, the vehicle mode looks fine and the best part in robot mode is the head sculpt,, why they can not choose a finer car,,, idk like a bugatti....

Gonna get the red version! Looks awesome!

mattyc1007 wrote:Looks like those Semi Knock-Off transformers that came out a few years ago, which also Part-Transformed. But those came with a small price tag and better licensed vehicles, cough* Land Rover Defender

I'd pick one up for the right price, I like my 4x4 Transformers

parts former? where do you get that from?

to me.. it looks like vehicle panels that you put on the figure.. which stay on when you transform it.

i could be wrong. but i don't see any parts-forming.

Is it just me, or does anyone else think it almost looks better without the car-shell bits? All black and trans-clear bits everywhere. And shoulder wheels!

Autobot032 wrote:

Stormrider wrote:Is this the first yellow Prime?

No. A redeco of RID Prime back around the Unicron Trilogy era came out. It was an exclusive if I remember correctly. Garish looking, too.

Gotta love Lemon Flavored Burning Justice. They did a yellow version of the spy changer mold too, for the Universe 1.0 line.

RAcast wrote:Is it just me, or does anyone else think it almost looks better without the car-shell bits? All black and trans-clear bits everywhere. And shoulder wheels!

Autobot032 wrote:

Stormrider wrote:Is this the first yellow Prime?

No. A redeco of RID Prime back around the Unicron Trilogy era came out. It was an exclusive if I remember correctly. Garish looking, too.

Gotta love Lemon Flavored Burning Justice. They did a yellow version of the spy changer mold too, for the Universe 1.0 line.

Lemon Flavored Burning Justice... nice. lol

It looks cool, but unless they either redeco it into Nemesis Prime or they make a Megatron to compliment him, it's a no-go from me.

Still want a Nemesis version.

Courtesy of the Jungle we have quick in-package look at the grey version of Takara Tomy's newly released TF Cruiser Optimus Prime. All color variant outside of yellow and white are Toyota Japan Dealership exclusives. Customers who purchase an FJ Cruiser apparently receive an FJ Cruiser Optimus Prime in the same color of their actual vehicle. Due to stock levels and customer requests, it is highly likely that this won't always be the case.

I always thought the FJ cruiser would have made an awesome movie-verse Gears or Beachcomber...either way these look like cool figs.

FJ Prime is the new Aveo Swerve?!

BUYER BEWARE! Just have to say that I am extremely frustrated with FJ Cruiser Optimus Prime. One of mine is broken in two different spots now. Extremely frustrating! The right arm broke at the elbow joint and now one of the feet broke off while I was transforming it. I was going to give the figure the benefit of the doubt after the elbow joint broke yesterday, but now that the foot broke just now while I was transforming it, I'd say this thing is a POS. It's too small of a figure to have this intricate of a transformation. The plastic they used is not forgiving at all and just breaks when too much pressure is applied. Couple that with a unique transformation and you are bound to end up with a pile of parts. Urgh!









FYI ... after the elbow joint broke, I tried drilling a couple of holes in the arm to stick a pin through it but was unsuccessful in attempting to piecemeal it back together.

Glad I decided to pass on this guy. I've been getting a lot pickier about my purchases as of late.

El Duque wrote:Glad I decided to pass on this guy. I've been getting a lot pickier about my purchases as of late.

Very fragile cheap plastic. Cheap KO quality. I'm pissed especially now that he broke in two spots. My white one is now permanently superglued into robot mode so that I can finish this gallery of him that has taken up two full days when I could have been working on galleries for Super GT Megatron and Fortress Maximus or Masterpiece Prowl or Takara Metroplex. My second one that I did in the yellow one has not broken yet fortunately so I should be able to finish this gallery. I had more luck with GPS on Black Zarak!

I can't believe this is the type of product that Takara Tomy wants to give away to customers who purchase FJ Cruisers. If a very experienced consumer like myself who owns over 6,000 Transformers toys is having these types of problems, I can only imagine what type of problems the regular non Transformers consumer will have with these. It's an unfortunate way to introduce consumers to the Transformers brand.

It's a bummer too because I actually really was enjoying the figure, despite being smaller than Generations Trailcutter. The ability to choose what color you want the figure to be is a new concept to Transformers. I liked the idea a lot better than building Arms Micron Microns because there didn't seem to be any clips that were easy to break like the Microns. It was simply a matter of snapping on parts to complete your figure. It was a very satisfying experience, similar to the sense of joy I get when finishing applying stickers to a G1 figure.

Maybe I got a bad one, I dunno, but I don't think that I did. Once you have it in hands and try to transform it, you can see how easy it is to break these pieces.

Just a couple of days ago we were able to post some images from Takara Tomy about their recently released Toyota FJ Cruiser Optimus Prime. Seibertron.com is now happy to announce that two new galleries have been uploaded for the figure in its white and yellow variants! There have been a couple of complaints about this toy, so check out the discussion thread before you dive in. The retail version of FJ Cruiser Optimus Prime includes the main body plus panel pieces attached to sprues to complete the figure as yellow or white. Other color variations of this toy are apparently being given away at Toyota dealerships in Japan when a customer purchases a new Toyota FJ Cruiser. Click on the images below to view the full galleries!

FJ Cruiser Optimus Prime (White)












FJ Cruiser Optimus Prime (Yellow)

He is tiny.