Possible Takara Tomy AD 31 Optimus Prime Re-issue as Part of TLK Line
Monday, April 10th, 2017 11:41PM CDT
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Posted by Sabrblade on April 11th, 2017 @ 11:09am CDT
Posted by Emerje on April 11th, 2017 @ 11:29am CDT
Emerje
Posted by william-james88 on April 11th, 2017 @ 1:34pm CDT
Emerje wrote:Pretty unusual for Takara Tomy release the same exact figure under two different toy lines or with two different product numbers. If it's exactly the same figure they'd probably just reissue the original AD31 straight up. I'm guessing this one will be painted differently, probably based on the purple-eyed version from the movie.
Emerje
I too think it will be a redeco of that mold.
Posted by william-james88 on April 15th, 2017 @ 8:49pm CDT


Posted by TimothyR on April 15th, 2017 @ 10:21pm CDT
Posted by william-james88 on April 15th, 2017 @ 10:56pm CDT
TimothyR wrote:Pretty pathetic when 5 of the 9 figures on a promo for a new toy line are repaints.
And they even happen to be the same as the hasbro releases, giving even less variety to this line.
Posted by william-james88 on April 18th, 2017 @ 8:43am CDT

Posted by Prowl4 on April 20th, 2017 @ 7:11am CDT
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on April 20th, 2017 @ 7:12am CDT
Prowl4 wrote:What's the difference between hasbro and takara berserker and hasbro and takara barricade?
Nothing really. The wave 1 Hasbro guys are pretty much identical to their Takara counterparts
Posted by Prowl4 on April 20th, 2017 @ 7:20am CDT
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Prowl4 wrote:What's the difference between hasbro and takara berserker and hasbro and takara barricade?
Nothing really. The wave 1 Hasbro guys are pretty much identical to their Takara counterparts
Is there any visible differences at all?
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on April 20th, 2017 @ 7:31am CDT
Prowl4 wrote:D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Prowl4 wrote:What's the difference between hasbro and takara berserker and hasbro and takara barricade?
Nothing really. The wave 1 Hasbro guys are pretty much identical to their Takara counterparts
Is there any visible differences at all?
I think Beserker has a bit of red hue in the legs that the Hasbro one doesn't have, but I think that's the only real visible difference
Posted by william-james88 on April 20th, 2017 @ 8:28am CDT
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Prowl4 wrote:D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Prowl4 wrote:What's the difference between hasbro and takara berserker and hasbro and takara barricade?
Nothing really. The wave 1 Hasbro guys are pretty much identical to their Takara counterparts
Is there any visible differences at all?
I think Beserker has a bit of red hue in the legs that the Hasbro one doesn't have, but I think that's the only real visible difference
Yup, the only difference in all of wave 1 is a few red bits on the legs of Berserker. Everything else is the same.
Posted by Bumblebee21 on April 20th, 2017 @ 9:27am CDT
https://twitter.com/autobase_aichi/stat ... 1621486592
heres a better one
https://www.facebook.com/TransformersNe ... 4711827399
Posted by Va'al on April 20th, 2017 @ 2:09pm CDT
Bumblebee21 wrote:i guess this is new
https://twitter.com/autobase_aichi/stat ... 1621486592
heres a better one
https://www.facebook.com/TransformersNe ... 4711827399
It was newsed over here: https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... oys/37846/
Posted by DedicatedGhostArt on April 21st, 2017 @ 12:55pm CDT
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Prowl4 wrote:What's the difference between hasbro and takara berserker and hasbro and takara barricade?
Nothing really. The wave 1 Hasbro guys are pretty much identical to their Takara counterparts
Which sucks. But at least in let's me feel better about getting the cheaper alternative and doing some customizing magicssss!
Posted by WreckerJack on April 22nd, 2017 @ 11:29pm CDT
Optimus Prime's Age Of Extinction shield will also be a giveaway item later in the Summer. If you are lucky enough to get one of these swords make sure you keep the ticket that comes with it. Those who do will be able to obtain a "Clear File" which is a clear plastic file folder featuring Transformers artwork on it.
In the Fall Optimus' Dark of the Moon axe will become a promotional item, a bonus for those who got the shield. Make sure to keep those tickets someplace safe so you won't miss out!
Unfortunately, these giveaways are only for Japan. If you live in the US the new Transformers The Last Knight toys will hit stores Monday, April 24th!

Posted by Overcracker on April 23rd, 2017 @ 10:06am CDT
Posted by Va'al on April 23rd, 2017 @ 10:13am CDT
Posted by Overcracker on April 23rd, 2017 @ 10:58am CDT
Actually we meant 24th. Typo!



Posted by -Kanrabat- on April 25th, 2017 @ 5:13am CDT
Hound:
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10444508
Barricade:
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10444507
Optimus:
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10444506
Bumblebee:
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10444505
They are pretty much the same price as the US or Canada. That's not counting shipping, obviously.
Sigh... Guess I'll wait for a clearance sale for Hound.
Posted by Va'al on April 25th, 2017 @ 5:23am CDT
Check out images below of the two modes and the transformation sequence, and let us know what you think of this initial Japanese offering in their striking similarity to the Hasbro version of the same toys.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on April 25th, 2017 @ 7:09am CDT
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on April 25th, 2017 @ 4:25pm CDT
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:It's still a bit hilarious and sad how little paint these guys have. Takara = Hasbro here
That's usually the case with the initial waves. It's a bit later down the line that TakaraTomy offers "premium decos".
Posted by william-james88 on April 25th, 2017 @ 6:45pm CDT
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:D-Maximus_Prime wrote:It's still a bit hilarious and sad how little paint these guys have. Takara = Hasbro here
That's usually the case with the initial waves. It's a bit later down the line that TakaraTomy offers "premium decos".
But their AOE line had different/superior decos to Hasbro's from the get go.
It looks like they are going back to the method of the first film where both companies released the same toys.
Posted by Sabrblade on April 25th, 2017 @ 6:54pm CDT
Some of the movie 1 toys had differences between the Hasbro and Takara versions. Most notably the normal Leader class Optimus Prime toy.william-james88 wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:D-Maximus_Prime wrote:It's still a bit hilarious and sad how little paint these guys have. Takara = Hasbro here
That's usually the case with the initial waves. It's a bit later down the line that TakaraTomy offers "premium decos".
But their AOE line had different/superior decos to Hasbro's from the get go.
It looks like they are going back to the method of the first film where both companies released the same toys.
Posted by william-james88 on April 25th, 2017 @ 7:05pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Some of the movie 1 toys had differences between the Hasbro and Takara versions. Most notably the normal Leader class Optimus Prime toy.william-james88 wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:D-Maximus_Prime wrote:It's still a bit hilarious and sad how little paint these guys have. Takara = Hasbro here
That's usually the case with the initial waves. It's a bit later down the line that TakaraTomy offers "premium decos".
But their AOE line had different/superior decos to Hasbro's from the get go.
It looks like they are going back to the method of the first film where both companies released the same toys.
Some, sure. But not most. Which was totally reversed for AOE.
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on April 25th, 2017 @ 8:40pm CDT
william-james88 wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Some of the movie 1 toys had differences between the Hasbro and Takara versions. Most notably the normal Leader class Optimus Prime toy.william-james88 wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:D-Maximus_Prime wrote:It's still a bit hilarious and sad how little paint these guys have. Takara = Hasbro here
That's usually the case with the initial waves. It's a bit later down the line that TakaraTomy offers "premium decos".
But their AOE line had different/superior decos to Hasbro's from the get go.
It looks like they are going back to the method of the first film where both companies released the same toys.
Some, sure. But not most. Which was totally reversed for AOE.
The first few waves were generally speaking identical. It's the later redecos and retoolings that sported the differences from what I can tell. AoE and Lost Age were exceptions, I'll give you that.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on April 26th, 2017 @ 9:56am CDT





Posted by william-james88 on April 26th, 2017 @ 11:22am CDT
Its 2007 all over again with how japan is releasing the same exact toy package and all with a sticker for the japanese text. I didnt think we would get back to that. And I didnt know that meant we were seeing the final packaging at the Tokyo toy show.
Well, technically, since Takara did the engineering on these toys and its the same deco for takara, all of us who own any The last Knight figure now owns a Takara toy and vice versa.
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on April 26th, 2017 @ 11:37am CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on April 26th, 2017 @ 12:05pm CDT
Of the previous four films, all three of the sequels were given different names from the English ones for their respective Japanese releases, but whose subheadings were all still foreign word names rendered in Katakana:
ROTF: トランスフォーマー リベンジ Toransufōmā Ribenji, "Transformers: Revenge"
DOTM:トランスフォーマー ダークサイド・ムーン Toransufōmā Dākusaido Mūn, "Transformers: Darkside Moon"
AOE:トランスフォーマー ロストエイジ Toransufōmā Rosuto Eiji, "Transformers: Lost Age"
Here, however, the title's subheading is instead rendered in Kanji (along with a の Hiragana):
トランスフォーマー最後の騎士王 Toransufōmā Saigo no Kishi-ō, which means "Transformers: The Last Knight King"
This sounds to me like it could give a bit more context as to who the titular knight is. He's not just a knight, but the king of the knights.
Posted by Va'al on April 26th, 2017 @ 1:51pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Anyone else notice that the Japanese logo for the movie doesn't have any Katakana in its subheading?
Of the previous four films, all three of the sequels were given different names from the English ones for their respective Japanese releases, but whose subheadings were all still foreign word names rendered in Katakana:
ROTF: トランスフォーマー リベンジ Toransufōmā Ribenji, "Transformers: Revenge"
DOTM:トランスフォーマー ダークサイド・ムーン Toransufōmā Dākusaido Mūn, "Transformers: Darkside Moon"
AOE:トランスフォーマー ロストエイジ Toransufōmā Rosuto Eiji, "Transformers: Lost Age"
Here, however, the title's subheading is instead rendered in Kanji (along with a の Hiragana):
トランスフォーマー最後の騎士王 Toransufōmā Saigo no Kishi-ō, which means "Transformers: The Last Knight King"
This sounds to me like it could give a bit more context as to who the titular knight is. He's not just a knight, but the king of the knights.
I swear we've had this conversation before.

Posted by Sabrblade on April 26th, 2017 @ 1:54pm CDT
Not with me.Va'al wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Anyone else notice that the Japanese logo for the movie doesn't have any Katakana in its subheading?
Of the previous four films, all three of the sequels were given different names from the English ones for their respective Japanese releases, but whose subheadings were all still foreign word names rendered in Katakana:
ROTF: トランスフォーマー リベンジ Toransufōmā Ribenji, "Transformers: Revenge"
DOTM:トランスフォーマー ダークサイド・ムーン Toransufōmā Dākusaido Mūn, "Transformers: Darkside Moon"
AOE:トランスフォーマー ロストエイジ Toransufōmā Rosuto Eiji, "Transformers: Lost Age"
Here, however, the title's subheading is instead rendered in Kanji (along with a の Hiragana):
トランスフォーマー最後の騎士王 Toransufōmā Saigo no Kishi-ō, which means "Transformers: The Last Knight King"
This sounds to me like it could give a bit more context as to who the titular knight is. He's not just a knight, but the king of the knights.
I swear we've had this conversation before.

Posted by Va'al on April 26th, 2017 @ 2:13pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Not with me.Va'al wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Anyone else notice that the Japanese logo for the movie doesn't have any Katakana in its subheading?
Of the previous four films, all three of the sequels were given different names from the English ones for their respective Japanese releases, but whose subheadings were all still foreign word names rendered in Katakana:
ROTF: トランスフォーマー リベンジ Toransufōmā Ribenji, "Transformers: Revenge"
DOTM:トランスフォーマー ダークサイド・ムーン Toransufōmā Dākusaido Mūn, "Transformers: Darkside Moon"
AOE:トランスフォーマー ロストエイジ Toransufōmā Rosuto Eiji, "Transformers: Lost Age"
Here, however, the title's subheading is instead rendered in Kanji (along with a の Hiragana):
トランスフォーマー最後の騎士王 Toransufōmā Saigo no Kishi-ō, which means "Transformers: The Last Knight King"
This sounds to me like it could give a bit more context as to who the titular knight is. He's not just a knight, but the king of the knights.
I swear we've had this conversation before.
I swear this conversation has been had on the site before.

Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on April 27th, 2017 @ 12:51am CDT



Posted by Autobot Roadburn on April 27th, 2017 @ 1:39am CDT
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on April 27th, 2017 @ 2:12am CDT
Posted by Autobot Roadburn on April 27th, 2017 @ 2:15am CDT
Carnivius_Prime wrote:That is very nice. Reckon I can get the regular Hasbro release looking almost as nice with a bit of paint with flames provided by Toyhax/Reprolabels who I hope are working on a sticker set.
Good point, I honestly completely forgot about Reprolabels! I'll probably start painting my Prime in a couple days, I'm excited to see how accurate I can make him.
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on April 27th, 2017 @ 2:22am CDT
Autobot Roadburn wrote:Carnivius_Prime wrote:That is very nice. Reckon I can get the regular Hasbro release looking almost as nice with a bit of paint with flames provided by Toyhax/Reprolabels who I hope are working on a sticker set.
Good point, I honestly completely forgot about Reprolabels! I'll probably start painting my Prime in a couple days, I'm excited to see how accurate I can make him.
Yeah me too (when I get my figure). Hm, that Dark Optimus Prime's truck flames are much better than the ones Hasbro actually did bother do to. That might be a harder thing to 'fix'. But the robot mode shouldn't be too difficult.
Posted by Diem on April 28th, 2017 @ 9:09am CDT
Also me, noticing that Barricade comes with a 5mm-compatible truncheon: ffffffffffffffff
Posted by Va'al on April 28th, 2017 @ 12:06pm CDT
Posted by RAR on April 29th, 2017 @ 3:58pm CDT
Posted by primalxconvoy on April 30th, 2017 @ 6:38am CDT
Posted by Va'al on May 14th, 2017 @ 4:10am CDT
Posted by Va'al on May 20th, 2017 @ 10:53am CDT
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on May 20th, 2017 @ 11:53am CDT

Posted by Emerje on May 20th, 2017 @ 10:32pm CDT

The advance ticket release is 7/25 while the non-ticket release is 9/29. What's the Japanese release date, I can't find it anywhere? it's strange that the advance ticked would come out after the the movie has already been in theaters a month. People seem to think the September non-ticket release is for the BR/DVD release.
Emerje
Posted by BERSEKAEL on May 21st, 2017 @ 10:39am CDT

Posted by Va'al on May 21st, 2017 @ 11:28am CDT
Emerje wrote:The advance ticket release is 7/25 while the non-ticket release is 9/29. What's the Japanese release date, I can't find it anywhere? it's strange that the advance ticked would come out after the the movie has already been in theaters a month. People seem to think the September non-ticket release is for the BR/DVD release.
Emerje
It's also June, which is why the dates listed are confusing.
Posted by william-james88 on May 28th, 2017 @ 8:33am CDT

