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First Look at Age of the Primes Prima with Test Shot

Posted by william-james88 Nov 8, 2024 at 9:23am CST 70,592 views
We knew we'd get a Prima toy in 2025, but what did you think it would tur into? Well now we actually have a clue. Some images of a test shot have appeared on Baidu for a figure which we are currently assuming ot be Prima, based on the chest. The colors are not relevant as this is a test shot, but what is extremely revealing is the alt mode elements. We see wheels in the legs as well as a backpack resembling an Orion Pax/Kup like vehicle front. So the very first Transformer would have a concept alt mode similar to the ultimate (and 13th) Prime, Optimus. So it's like poetry, it rhymes.

This is set to be a voyager figure. You'll let us know what you think.









First Look at Age of the Primes Prima Test Shot
First Look at Age of the Primes Prima Test Shot
First Look at Age of the Primes Prima Test Shot
First Look at Age of the Primes Prima Test Shot
First Look at Age of the Primes Prima Test Shot
First Look at Age of the Primes Prima Test Shot
First Look at Age of the Primes Prima Test Shot
First Look at Age of the Primes Prima Test Shot
First Look at Age of the Primes Prima Test Shot
First Look at Age of the Primes Prima Test Shot

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Comment by Glyph Nov 8, 2024
Kind of interesting that the overall proportions are giving me slight TF One vibes - leggy! - but the details don't really seem to resemble the film Primes at all. Certainly there's no real resemblance to Prima there, though (given the note on possible alt mode) film Prima does have a helmet very reminiscent of Optimus' - if any details line up, the chest maybe reminds me a little of Zeta Prime's. Probably just coincidental though.

It's weird, I'd have thought they'd want some synergy when they've just released a film all about the legacy of the Primes...
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Comment by #1 Signal Lancer fan Nov 8, 2024
It's interesting, I see some resemblance to the G1 cartoon, Aligned, and One versions of Prima, but it doesn't clearly resemble any one of them in particular. This is a notable distinction from Vector Prime, Alpha Trion, Liege Maximo, and Megatronus which have all clearly resembled one iteration in particular. I'll be interested to see what kind of head they go for.

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Comment by o.supreme Nov 8, 2024
Wow...now even at the prototype stage, they are getting LeBron James'd ;)
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Comment by Overcracker Nov 8, 2024
william-james88 wrote:
This is set to be a voyager figure. You'll let us know what you think.


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Turns into Grapple?
:lol: :lol: :lol:

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Comment by Glyph Nov 8, 2024
Something about that shot puts me in mind of an unholy combination of Muffy (& the Mysterians) and Nuggit from Rock Lords! :lol:


--ETA--
Side note, but always nice to get articulated fingers at Voyager scale.
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Comment by Immortal Starscream Nov 8, 2024
something about the shins seems very familiar to me. Like I've seen those on something else other then Prima.
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Comment by Emerje Nov 9, 2024
Looks interesting, the truck roof looks a little too clean for the rest of the figure. I wonder how much pre-molded parts sharing we're seeing here if any. Legs almost look like IDW Sentinel Prime's if you squint.

Glyph wrote:Kind of interesting that the overall proportions are giving me slight TF One vibes - leggy! - but the details don't really seem to resemble the film Primes at all. Certainly there's no real resemblance to Prima there, though (given the note on possible alt mode) film Prima does have a helmet very reminiscent of Optimus' - if any details line up, the chest maybe reminds me a little of Zeta Prime's. Probably just coincidental though.

It's weird, I'd have thought they'd want some synergy when they've just released a film all about the legacy of the Primes...

His hips seem to slide down for his alt mode and one of his legs is disconnected above the knee. With everything where it belongs I don't think the proportions will stand out much.

Emerje
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Comment by Gearslide Nov 10, 2024
It almost looks like an amalgam of Aligned Prima and aspects of the "Old Matrix Holders" from Five Faces of Darkness.

The squared off, blocky parts, like the arms, are a departure from most of Prima's rounded, knight-esque designs.
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Comment by D-Maximal_Primal Nov 10, 2024
Is it just me, or am I seeing GE Prime engineering in those legs?
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Comment by Emerje Nov 12, 2024
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Is it just me, or am I seeing GE Prime engineering in those legs?

Sort of, but there's something more specific that does the wheels exactly like that and for the life of me I can't put my finger on it...

Emerje
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Comment by Overcracker Nov 19, 2024
Courtesy of Yogpp over on tfw2005, we have what appears to be our first look at AotP 2025 Armada Universe Red Alert.

Its either a prototype or a test show, but does let us know it will have his removable shoulder gun and translucent mohawk in vehicle mode.
No opening grill though. Not that a spring loaded disk launcher was ever going to. be there, but you know the features would have been nice.

Need all of his repaints now.

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Comment by Glyph Nov 21, 2024
Via @CsbiaoO_, colour version of the Prima prototype with details & transformation (provenance unknown)

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Comment by william-james88 Nov 21, 2024
Via @CsbiaoO_, we now have images of the colour version of the Prima prototype we previously saw. Now we see that the chest does indeed open up to store a matrix. We also have a shot at the alt mode (kinda), which would be a cybertronian vehicle truck similar to Kup.

We also have an image of a test shot of Armada Red Alert, coming within the same line. Unlike what many fans feared, it is a fully new mold AND it has a minicon port, which can be spotted around the back of the vehicle.

We thank Glyph and Overcracker for letting us know of these images.

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Comment by Overcracker Nov 21, 2024
So Prima comes with the matrix from literally everywhere else,. an d transform into... what exactly?

A hover thing?

Interesting choice.
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Comment by #1 Signal Lancer fan Nov 21, 2024
That coloring definitely seems to confirm that this will be Aligned Prima
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Comment by Glyph Nov 21, 2024
Glyph wrote:Via @CsbiaoO_, colour version of the Prima prototype
william-james88 wrote:Via @CsbiaoO_, we now have images of the colour version of the Prima prototype we previously saw.

Would be nice to get credit when you just copy a post like that, you know.

By the way, you've only copied my resized imgur thumbnails into the news post, not the full size originals on the click through.
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Comment by william-james88 Nov 21, 2024
Glyph wrote:
Glyph wrote:Via @CsbiaoO_, colour version of the Prima prototype
william-james88 wrote:Via @CsbiaoO_, we now have images of the colour version of the Prima prototype we previously saw.

Would be nice to get credit when you just copy a post like that, you know.

By the way, you've only copied my resized imgur thumbnails into the news post, not the full size originals on the click through.


I didn't have much time, so I did what I could. I'll write you a credit in the news post.
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Comment by cloudballoon Nov 21, 2024
Overcracker wrote:So Prima comes with the matrix from literally everywhere else,. an d transform into... what exactly?

A hover thing?

Interesting choice.


Prima got 6 wheels. So a space truck or something like Kup. But the front profile reminds me of BBM Soundwave hover-crab thingamajig.
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Comment by TF-fan kev777 Nov 21, 2024
There has to be a missing piece from the front of Prima's truck(ish) mode, right? What is there looks so unfinished like something is missing.
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Comment by Sabrblade Nov 21, 2024
TF-fan kev777 wrote:There has to be a missing piece from the front of Prima's truck(ish) mode, right? What is there looks so unfinished like something is missing.
Looks like someone forgot to fold up the front bumper. You can see it on the underside of the vehicle mode.

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It's instead folded out and connected to the windshield in this robot mode pic, when it was folded away on the yellow test shot:

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