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Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime

Transformers News: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime

Thursday, June 1st, 2023 2:04PM CDT

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Takara Tomy is teaming up with Japan's JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, along with Toyota to create a crowdfund to produce Lunar Cruiser Prime. The figure is based on JAXA's Lunar Cruiser which will deploy from their Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon (SLIM) in August. And if you think this is Takara Tomy cashing in on a timely crossover opportunity you'd be wrong. JAXA claims they were inspired by Takara Tomy's ability to make small, complex robots and tapped them to design the SORA-Q changing robots that will also be dispatched onto the moon. How great is that? The Lunar Cruiser Prime figure itself stands around 7" tall and comes with a solar panel and antennas that can be positioned in different spots.

Obviously such a unique collaboration means some unique ways to obtain one. First there's standard purchasing when he's available at retail in late March 2024 for 11,000 JPY. But there's also a Japanese crowdfunding option through Campfire that comes with some unique perks. For 11,000 JPY through Campfire the figure will be available a month earlier in February 2024. For 14,300 you can add a stand (the same stand first seen with MP Beast Wars Megatron) with Lunar Cruiser Prime written on the side. And for 50,000 JPY you can get a special message from original Convoy/Optimus Prime and Lunar Cruiser Prime actor Tessho Genda himself. The campaign begins June 8, though it's not yet known when the retail pre-orders will open.



Transformers News: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime

Transformers News: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime

Transformers News: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime

Transformers News: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime

Transformers News: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime

Transformers News: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime

This is a pretty different collaboration that we really haven't seen the likes of before. No word on if Hasbro will take part in any form of sales, but we'll keep you posted as we find out more!
Credit(s): Campfire, Anime News Network

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Re: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime (2162614)
Posted by TulioDude on June 1st, 2023 @ 2:31pm CDT
This looks pretty cool!
Re: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime (2162618)
Posted by ScottyP on June 1st, 2023 @ 2:38pm CDT
Everything about this is just awesome
Re: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime (2162622)
Posted by Rodimus Prime on June 1st, 2023 @ 2:57pm CDT
That's pretty neat. Ill probably get it if it's not hard to pick up. I will say that it would be nice if they try to use a different mold for some of these besides Optimus.
Re: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime (2162630)
Posted by Cheetron on June 1st, 2023 @ 5:24pm CDT
This is freaking awesome! I want so bad but I know ill never be able to afford this. And he'd always stay in a box. In a tote.
Re: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime (2162631)
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on June 1st, 2023 @ 5:56pm CDT
This will be very hard to say no to.
Re: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime (2162632)
Posted by SpaceEagle on June 1st, 2023 @ 6:12pm CDT
Looks really cool, might get one tbh.
Re: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime (2162639)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on June 1st, 2023 @ 6:38pm CDT
This is AWESOME
Re: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime (2162665)
Posted by Whifflefire on June 1st, 2023 @ 9:22pm CDT
This is a fantastic idea, and it looks absolutely splendid as well! I really hope this becomes available stateside, I'd love to get one to have next to Sky Lynx.
Re: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime (2162696)
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on June 2nd, 2023 @ 4:27pm CDT
I love it! I just wish it wasn't Prime. Talk about overused!
Re: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime (2162705)
Posted by Emerje on June 2nd, 2023 @ 5:07pm CDT
Gauntlet101010 wrote:I love it! I just wish it wasn't Prime. Talk about overused!

There's really no way around it. Ideally it would be someone like Roller or Countdown, but for a project this big it really had to be Optimus. That's not to say there won't be a repaint later.

Emerje
Re: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime (2162711)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on June 2nd, 2023 @ 5:29pm CDT
Emerje wrote:
Gauntlet101010 wrote:I love it! I just wish it wasn't Prime. Talk about overused!

There's really no way around it. Ideally it would be someone like Roller or Countdown, but for a project this big it really had to be Optimus. That's not to say there won't be a repaint later.

Emerje


Nemesis Prime :WHISTLE:
Re: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime (2162732)
Posted by SpaceEagle on June 2nd, 2023 @ 7:11pm CDT
Gotta use the character that sells the best!

I do think a typical "Ultra Magnus" redeco would suit this nicely, though it might be a bit too blinding at the same time. :lol:
Re: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime (2162741)
Posted by Emerje on June 2nd, 2023 @ 8:12pm CDT
Jelze Bunnycat wrote:
Emerje wrote:
Gauntlet101010 wrote:I love it! I just wish it wasn't Prime. Talk about overused!

There's really no way around it. Ideally it would be someone like Roller or Countdown, but for a project this big it really had to be Optimus. That's not to say there won't be a repaint later.

Emerje


Nemesis Prime :WHISTLE:

Well sure, if you want the obvious repaint. ;) Though I do agree that Ultra Magnus would be neat, he'd be identical to Prime in Lunar Cruiser mode, but be all white in bot mode. I suppose they could do the same trick with Nemesis, replace the red with black.

Emerje
Re: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime (2162752)
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on June 2nd, 2023 @ 11:21pm CDT
I don't have a Crossover Nemesis Prime yet, so hopefully they announce that. I do want this, though even if they only do an OP. It'd look even better in Nemesis colors.

TBH, though, one of the things that kept me away from most crossovers was the overuse of Prime (and Megs) as the main guy. If I wanted a Prime shelf, I'd have a Prime shelf. The Crossover line is exactly what I want - a line of desperate TF crossovers with a variety of characters. So I want to be careful how many Primes I have.

I appreciate how Canon did it. Prime, Nemesis Prime, and Reflector (the most appropriate character for the mode and the one I have sitting in my pile of loot at BBTS.) The guy oozes Prime, but I'd go for Roller or Countdown. I don't have Roller or Countdown on my shelf at all.

This one, though, I'll break for if they don't release Nemesis or Magnus colors (although I do have a "crossover" Magnus for my crossover shelf and not enough bad guys). Although, yeah, Nemesis couldn't be a black moon rover he could still have a black and white robot mode, which would look cool
Re: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime (2162757)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on June 3rd, 2023 @ 12:29am CDT
That's a very good concept for a robot, but WHY PRIME? AGAIN?
Yeah, I know, Prime sell.

I'm gonna pass, but if they make a "white Prime" Ultra-Magnus repaint where the out-of-place red and blue are replaced with the white of the vehicle, I'd be all over it.
Re: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime (2162772)
Posted by triKlops on June 3rd, 2023 @ 12:41pm CDT
Really interesting alt mode and concept behind this, regardless if its another Prime.
I did think, very quickly after seeing this, how great it would look next to the DOTM Walmart Prime with Comettor set; all things being equal and relative.

https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Prime_(Movie)/toys#OptimusComettor

https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Comettor_(DOTM)
Re: Takara Tomy and JAXA Team up for Lunar Cruiser Prime (2162859)
Posted by Big Grim on June 5th, 2023 @ 6:51am CDT
That is properly awesome! I'd really like to get that if at all possible!

~ Grim

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