Flame Toys Optimus Prime and Sketches of Tarn, Drift, Star Saber

Saturday, July 29th, 2017 11:52am CDT

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As reported in our earlier post, about the non-transforming Tarn figure, the Flame Toys Twitter account is bustling with all sorts of new images today! Here we get a peak at an Optimus Prime from their booth at AGCHK!

Transformers News: Flame Toys Optimus Prime and sketches of other figures!

So far the sketches represent their designs for IDW incarnations of Tarn, Star Saber, Drift, plus Optimus Prime, who does not follow the same aesthetic, for some reason. What else do they have in store? Keep your optics here as we post them here for your viewing pleasure.

Credit(s): Flame Toys

This article was last modified on Saturday, July 29th, 2017 11:57am CDT

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Re: Flame Toys Optimus Prime and Sketches of Tarn, Drift, Star Saber (1900582)
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on July 29th, 2017 @ 11:59am CDT

Hm that Prime would be a weird looking truck if it did transform.

Re: Flame Toys Optimus Prime and Sketches of Tarn, Drift, Star Saber (1900584)
Posted by Kurona on July 29th, 2017 @ 12:01pm CDT

I'd guess something similar to FoC -- I can't imagine this is meant to be anything but a Cybertronian robot mode.

Re: Flame Toys Optimus Prime and Sketches of Tarn, Drift, Star Saber (1900586)
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on July 29th, 2017 @ 12:07pm CDT

Do they need wheels like that on Cybertron?

Re: Flame Toys Optimus Prime and Sketches of Tarn, Drift, Star Saber (1900587)
Posted by Kurona on July 29th, 2017 @ 12:13pm CDT

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Pretty cool design either way.

Re: Flame Toys Optimus Prime and Sketches of Tarn, Drift, Star Saber (1900588)
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on July 29th, 2017 @ 12:15pm CDT

Kurona wrote:¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Pretty cool design either way.

I dunno. Looks like he's really trying to hold his gut in. Also the chest reminds me more of RotF Bludgeon than Prime.

Re: Flame Toys Optimus Prime and Sketches of Tarn, Drift, Star Saber (1900774)
Posted by returnofplex on July 30th, 2017 @ 9:52am CDT

That Optimus Prime reminds me of a piece of art I saw a long time ago. It featured a giant profile of Megatron's face on the left side and a hyper anime style Optimus Prime on the right.

Re: Flame Toys Optimus Prime and Sketches of Tarn, Drift, Star Saber (1905847)
Posted by Kurona on August 22nd, 2017 @ 9:11pm CDT

Flametoys has revealed via tweet that their non-transforming but fully licensed figure of Drift - based on the original IDW design as he appeared in All Hail Megatron and his own original miniseries - has gone up for pre-orders on their official website, D4Toys for the fairly hefty price of $276. In addition, they've revealed that pre-ordering or purchasing the figure on their website also nets you an exclusive bonus Helmet piece for the figure; complete with pointy yellow spikes. Check out the image of it below and click on said image if you want to pre-order the figure before telling us what you think in the forums!

Re: Flame Toys Optimus Prime and Sketches of Tarn, Drift, Star Saber (1905881)
Posted by Deadput on August 22nd, 2017 @ 11:51pm CDT

Is that helmet even based on anything?

Re: Flame Toys Optimus Prime and Sketches of Tarn, Drift, Star Saber (1905893)
Posted by lowman_x on August 23rd, 2017 @ 1:15am CDT

Deadput wrote:Is that helmet even based on anything?

Going out on a limb and saying "Yeah. Reindeer."

Re: Flame Toys Optimus Prime and Sketches of Tarn, Drift, Star Saber (1905899)
Posted by primalxconvoy on August 23rd, 2017 @ 4:44am CDT

Re: Flame Toys Optimus Prime and Sketches of Tarn, Drift, Star Saber (1905931)
Posted by Microraptor on August 23rd, 2017 @ 8:29am CDT

He could kill a bot with those!

Re: Flame Toys Optimus Prime and Sketches of Tarn, Drift, Star Saber (1916314)
Posted by Va'al on October 13th, 2017 @ 2:39pm CDT

Re: Flame Toys Optimus Prime and Sketches of Tarn, Drift, Star Saber (1916495)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on October 14th, 2017 @ 3:33pm CDT

Va'al wrote:

This is awesome

Re: Flame Toys Optimus Prime and Sketches of Tarn, Drift, Star Saber (1926295)
Posted by Bronzewolf on December 12th, 2017 @ 12:48pm CST

It was back in July when we first saw a prototype for the upcoming Flame Toys Tarn figure, and now we finally have more word about it's release. Coming as a tweet from the official Flame Toys Twitter account, we not only get an additional shot of Tarn, but also confirmation that we will be seeing more in regards to him at the upcoming TOYSOUL 2017 event in Hong Kong this upcoming weekend. If any news is broken from that event, you'll be sure to hear about it here on Seibertron.com!

Take a look at the new image they provided below, and then tell us if you are interested in picking up this non-transforming figure in the future, or if you'll wait to see more. One of the largest critiques of their previous Transformers figure, Drift, was the large price tag. It will be interesting if that changes at all with their new figure, Tarn.

Re: Flame Toys Optimus Prime and Sketches of Tarn, Drift, Star Saber (1926301)
Posted by Jack Hallows on December 12th, 2017 @ 1:26pm CST

Tarn looks dope. probly gonna cost a good $400 beans.

i anticipate the day they add Impactor to the design queue.

Re: Flame Toys Optimus Prime and Sketches of Tarn, Drift, Star Saber (1926341)
Posted by Rated X on December 12th, 2017 @ 6:34pm CST

I already have a great Tarn figure and he transforms...

Re: Flame Toys Optimus Prime and Sketches of Tarn, Drift, Star Saber (1926351)
Posted by primalxconvoy on December 12th, 2017 @ 9:03pm CST

Rated X wrote:I already have a great Tarn figure and he transforms...

Primalxconvoy likes this.

Re: Flame Toys Optimus Prime and Sketches of Tarn, Drift, Star Saber (1926612)
Posted by Va'al on December 14th, 2017 @ 9:29am CST

Back in July, we saw sketches of some of products - both shown off in prototype form and not - by non-transforming action figure license-holding makers Flame Toys, who have come back into the news cycle recently with a teaser for their IDW Tarn (late leader of the late Decepticon Justice Division) figure, seen here.

As they announced, they will be attending this weekend's Hong Kong event Toysoul 2017, and it looks like someone took photos during show set up and we found that not only Tarn is ready to be shown off in full colour, but we also get a white prototype of the Star Saber figure, reminding us all that yes, Primus does indeed hate us. Check out the images below via Twitter user DkunDX and Ben Lai of HKTF!

Re: Flame Toys Optimus Prime and Sketches of Tarn, Drift, Star Saber (1926630)
Posted by Plastic Hero on December 14th, 2017 @ 10:27am CST

That Drift and Tarn were both really nice, but I didn't feel I needed either of them. But this. THIS!

It's nice to see my favorite character get some love besides the masterpiece, and I don't care HOW MUCH I have to pay, Imma buy this sucker!

Re: Flame Toys Optimus Prime and Sketches of Tarn, Drift, Star Saber (1926634)
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on December 14th, 2017 @ 10:35am CST

Still just looks like a Gundam copy but then I've never liked Star Saber in any form.

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