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Figure King #218 Scans: Masterpiece Optimus Primal, Transformers Adventure, Legends Titan Masters

Transformers News: Figure King #218 Scans: Masterpiece Optimus Primal, Transformers Adventure, Legends Titan Masters

Sunday, March 27th, 2016 3:59AM CDT

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Beating our usual source to the punch, Facebook page Loopaza Mega Store has posted some high-res clear scans of issue #218 of Figure King, the Japanese hobby magazine. This issue features colour images of the following upcoming Transformers figures from Takara Tomy: MP-32 Optimus Primal (thread here); Transformers Adventure arrivals, with the armour Minicons (thread here); the Legends line, with the Japanese releases for the Titans Return figures for Galvatron, Hardhead and Skullcruncher (thread here). Check them out below!

Transformers News: Figure King #218 Scans: Masterpiece Optimus Primal, Transformers Adventure, Legends Titan Masters

Transformers News: Figure King #218 Scans: Masterpiece Optimus Primal, Transformers Adventure, Legends Titan Masters

Transformers News: Figure King #218 Scans: Masterpiece Optimus Primal, Transformers Adventure, Legends Titan Masters
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Re: Figure King #218 Scans: Masterpiece Optimus Primal, Transformers Adventure, Legends Titan Masters (1775761)
Posted by Powered Convoy on March 27th, 2016 @ 8:33am CDT
If anyone is interested, here are my scans. I received the issue Friday but didn't have a chance to scan them until this morning.

https://goo.gl/photos/GnmAhEa8XtYL8aDP9
Re: Figure King #218 Scans: Masterpiece Optimus Primal, Transformers Adventure, Legends Titan Masters (1775781)
Posted by Overcracker on March 27th, 2016 @ 11:19am CDT
Not sure, why Primal continues to have a blue chest. But he still looks pretty cool.
Re: Figure King #218 Scans: Masterpiece Optimus Primal, Transformers Adventure, Legends Titan Masters (1775810)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on March 27th, 2016 @ 1:55pm CDT
I'm not sure anybody noticed, but...

Optimus Primal is no longer designated a Masterpiece!

... or rather, the magazine has a misprint, giving him the number TAV40. That's the same number as Adventure Ironjam & Bumblebee Koutetsu Armor. Woops?

btw that round thing next to Furos is a 5 Yen coin, about a 1/10 of an inch in diameter.
Re: Figure King #218 Scans: Masterpiece Optimus Primal, Transformers Adventure, Legends Titan Masters (1775830)
Posted by Sabrblade on March 27th, 2016 @ 3:10pm CDT
Overcracker wrote:Not sure, why Primal continues to have a blue chest. But he still looks pretty cool.
Wrote the following on this in the main MP Primal thread:

Sabrblade wrote:I'm glad to see that most agree that the gorilla chest, gorilla faces, and robot chest are too blue when they should be silvery gray with a slight hint of a blue tint.

The most understandable speculated-explanation I've seen comes from something TF_JW wrote elsewhere:
Whatever color, it should definitely be the same color as his hands and feet in gorilla mode. It's all exposed gorilla "skin".

I think what happened is that as Season 1 progressed, the animators found that blue light sources cast the most dramatic shadows/highlights across Primal's skin tone. So while in early episodes there's a lot of "natural" light causing the gorilla skin to be more flat/gray, they kept playing with the lighting in different situations and really came to like the blue. I certainly remember him being in dim lighting with a blue light on him on more than one occasion.

And while this makes sense for why he's blue here, I'm with those who feel that the gorilla skin (face, chest, hands, and feet) should have all been the same shade of shiny gray, and the robot chest as almost the same gunmetal as his robot waist and robot toes.

Much like this:
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Re: Figure King #218 Scans: Masterpiece Optimus Primal, Transformers Adventure, Legends Titan Masters (1775837)
Posted by Hellscream9999 on March 27th, 2016 @ 3:29pm CDT
Definitely still too blue, not sure what color it is though, like a metallic slate, or soft gunmetal, very weird looking either way :-?

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