Takara Tomy Transformers: The Last Knight The Ultimate Toy Guide 2017

Previously, TakaraTomy has offered the Temenos Sword and the Gold Vector Shield. Now, we have news of some new promotions!

Starting September 16th, any shopper that buys more than 2000 Yen (about $18-$19 USD) worth of Last Knight toys in participating Japanese stores will get a DVD containing the stop-motion sequences and transformation videos TakaraTomy has created to promote the movie line.

Come the month after, and we're back to vacuum-metalized accessory giveaways. In October, another 2000+ Yen purchase will get you the Bronze Calibur Axe, a presumably bronze version of the axe included with the TakaraTomy Calibur Optimus Prime, which is based on the axe that Prime wielded in the Dark of the Moon film. In November, spend another 2000+ Yen and you get two weapons: Optimus' Gold Temenos Sword and Megatron's Gold Battle Axe. Apparently Megatron prefers more blunt (and somewhat inaccurate) names for his weapons.

Check out the promo poster below, and let us know what you think in the Energon Pub!

If you spend about 3,000 yen at Toys R Us Japan (i think), you get a cardboard display diorama (a piece of folded card and a metal support, displaying computer graphic readouts out stuff like that). There's a circle/crosshairs in the middle of the "floor" used to position the toy to stand on.

Has this been posted as news? If not, then I'll take pics and submit them. Please pm me or reply to this post and I'll do it asap

primalxconvoy wrote:If you spend about 3,000 yen at Toys R Us Japan (i think), you get a cardboard display diorama (a piece of folded card and a metal support, displaying computer graphic readouts out stuff like that). There's a circle/crosshairs in the middle of the "floor" used to position the toy to stand on.

Has this been posted as news? If not, then I'll take pics and submit them. Please pm me or reply to this post and I'll do it asap

Please do send along some images! It's easier to reach us by email or the contact form, rather than wait for the boards to be read at busy times.

Any comparison shots between the and TLK Leader Megatron?

Ok, I'll take some photos of the cardboard diorama later. I don't know for sure if it's for 3,000 yen, as my girlfriend got it for me. I'll ask her before uploading it. I'll probably pose a few TFs on it to show the scale, too and they too post a fairly "scan" line set of images so others can hopefully make their own version.

Also courtesy of Loopaza Mega Store on Facebook, we have a look at the Transformers section of Figure King magazine, issue #236, with the predominantly Takara Tomy TLK lines. Featured in the scans are the big Dragonstorm in both TLK 30 and TLK 31 versions - check it out below.

Leader class Prime sitting on the simplified Dragonstorm looks pretty neat.

It was announced on 7net.omni that Takara Tomy has made available this special Clear Voyager The Last Knight Optimus Prime. We have posted the images below so that you can have a look at this super cool figure. This offer is only available to those in Japan starting 12/13/17 who purchase any of the following:

Blu-Ray + DVD + Special Features Blu-Ray.
3D + Blu-Ray + Special Features Blu-Ray.
4K + + Blu-Ray + Special Features Blu-Ray.
5 Movie Collection either Blu-Ray or DVD versions.

I don't usually like clear plastic figures but damn that looks pretty good and STILL more accurate than Hasbro's non-clear version in terms of flames.

Another Japanese exclusive has surfaced via Dengeki Hobby and the Snakas blog, for the Takara Tomy Transformers TLK line for The Last Knight: a giveaway campaign featuring a Bronze Calibur Axe for Optimus Prime! Available with a purchase over 2000 Yen on Transformers products in certain stores - though we currently have no other details, but we do have a tease of some further accessories for both Megatron and Optimus in the images below!

Axe is nice but what good is future give away there doing with prime sword and megatron sword both figures come with those swords who will spend more fifty dollars on figure to get same weapon for prime and megatron with new paint add to it I'll wait for third party do it cheaper alternative or shaoeways

That "ghost" Optimus look BOSS as hell!
I'm sure it will pop up on Mandrake eventually, but it will be expensive for sure.

The Takara Tomy YouTube channel has uploaded a new video featuring the two leader class figures from their The Last Knight TLK line - Optimus Prime and Megatron - plus Japanese rappers ACE and 掌幻... for the first official rap battle to illustrate the toys and their features! Check out the clip (in Japanese) below, and let us know what you think in the Energon Pub.

Can anyone translate the lyrics? If you could, that would be a big help. Thanks!

"Because I am... Hakai Taitei!"

Oh snap!

Reminds me of Linkin Park as far as how the video looks. The aesthetic looks very 2003.

This rap battle is a new kind o f surreal

I love it

G2 says, "Hold my beer, I've got this..."

- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rYkpuGIRql0

There should have been a cosplay of Soundwave and Blaster mixing beats

We have a pair of updates for you today regarding some Takara Exclusive gold weapons.

The first update comes concerning the Bronze Caliber Axe, the gold colored version of the axe that comes with Caliber Optimus Prime that was revealed over here. The axe is now available, and here is how you get it: go to Takara Tomy Mall, spend at least 2000 yen, and a Caliber Axe is yours! This information, along with an image of the bronze axe, comes from Snakas Blog.

The second update, also from Snakas blog, reveals that starting November 11, a second promotion will be happening where you can spend 5000 yen at Takara Tomy Mall and a gold version of Megatron's battle axe and Optimus' Temenos sword can be yours! The pair were teased in the previous story that you can see above, but here are finally shown in full.

Check out these new gold weapons below, and let us know if you intend to try to get one or all 3 for yourself!

Are those leader weapons, or just voyager?

Ig89ninja wrote:Are those leader weapons, or just voyager?

According to stuff I've read, all 3 are Leader weapons.

I saw the ax on TTMall this morning (I check every morning looking to see if Brave Max has made its goals), but I can't read Japanese and couldn't find any translatable text on the site so I didn't bother passing it along.

Emerje

As we have seemingly be writing about forever, today was the release date for the home releases of Transformers: The Last Knight - the fifth live-action movie from Paramount and Michael Bay - in Japan, where it's know as the The Last Knight King (or King of Knights, though nothing to do with Saber). We covered a while ago the 7 Eleven exclusive accompanying figure with the Blu-Ray edition of the movie, too, a clear plastic Optimus Prime, which uses the Voyager Premier edition of the character.

Thanks to regular suspects on social media, aka Japanese toy bloggers tagoal, Alfes 2010, singgg4 and yokozana, we have some in-hand, in-package, and posed images of the toy, too! Take a look below at some pretty cool looking full body light piping, and let us know what you think of the toy in the Energon Pub Discussion Board!

Clear versions of Starscream are meant to represent him as a ghost. So does that mean this guy is a Ghost Optimus?

He's meant to be the "Ghost of Michael's Past", forever haunting Mr Bay's dreams until he fixes his ways and starts making decent films.

Ghostimus Prime look nie. But not nice enough for me to spend the big bucks and import him from a 3p seller.

Just further supports my hate for clear plastic figures, especially when it's paired with opaque plastic.

Emerje

Those kind of figures look better when you shine a light through them!This one looks nice!I need to have a regular one first though.

Lucky Logician wrote:Clear versions of Starscream are meant to represent him as a ghost. So does that mean this guy is a Ghost Optimus?

In some previous cases, clear versions of Optimus represented powered up "Crystal" forms of him.

Emerje wrote:Just further supports my hate for clear plastic figures, especially when it's paired with opaque plastic.

Emerje

I'll take opaque with clear if means less chance of breakage.

I usually dislike clear figures but I actually really like this. Not enough to pay the likely high cost to get one but I do really like it.

My Japanese friend told me that her TF-loving sons wanted to get the toy, but not the "Amerika eiga (movie)". I think she was basically saying they didn't want to fork out more of their pocket-money on a crummy Bay film just to get a clear version of a toy they already have.

That, and I have already brought the world of wei Jiang to their attention...

That clear Prime does look kinda nifty, but I'm not shelling out for an ultimately pointless redeco of a merely OK mold.

Now a proper Nemesis coloured Nemesis Prime version? THAT I would buy.

We have some news from the Japanese side of Transformers: The Last Knight, which saw its home release only just over a week ago in the country, and Takara Tomy's TLK toyline - with a new Cybertron Satellite promotion, according to their official website. It comes down the following: every purchase of over 2000 Yen (approx 17 USD) from the line will give you the option of receiving a metallic file featuring Transformers The Last Knight art, namely Optimus Prime in his knightly pose and a selection of both Autobots and Decepticons featuring in the Paramount live-action movie.

We've mirrored the images of the promotion below, give them a look and let us know what you think in the Energon Pub discussion boards!

By "file", it's otherwise known as a "clear folder", I think.

primalxconvoy wrote:By "file", it's otherwise known as a "clear folder", I think.

File in US English.

I just checked, and I think it's British English too. For years, I've been using the computing term of "file in a folder", but, rather strangely, almost all definitions state "a file is a container, like a folder".



Oh well, I learnt something new today.

Nice to see that the Cybertron Satellite is still a thing.

primalxconvoy wrote:By "file", it's otherwise known as a "clear folder", I think.

Just an FYI side note: They're actually called "clear files" in Japanese (クリアファイル -- kuriafuairu). Though this one technically isn't a clear file since it isn't clear it's metallic (メタリックファイル -- metarikkufuairu).

Emerje

(I admit I had to cheat on the "fuairu" part because ァ doesn't convert into romaji right so I replaced it with an 'a'.)

I know what they're called in Japanese, but anyways thought that the Japanese term was based upon incorrect English.

Amazon.jp has listed several of the Takara version of the Turbo Changers on their site as word of Takara and Hasbro both discuss "uniting the brands" continues. If that is happening, this would be part of it. TakaraTomy is taking the Hasbro Knight Armor Changer molds and souping them up by adding more screen accurate paint jobs and better highlights for the Knight Armor pieces to make them stand out better. So far the set include Bumblebee, Grimlock, Megatron, and Optimus Prime. Click on the images below to pop over to Amazon.jp to see additional images and/or place an order for them.

It's a little too late for more TLK movie toys now, isn't it? My minions have just gotten back from trawling the Walmarts now that Christmas is over. Almost all the Transformers were sold out - except the TLK ones. Plenty of those warming the shelves.

What should THAT tell Hasbro....?

DeathReviews wrote:It's a little too late for more TLK movie toys now, isn't it? My minions have just gotten back from trawling the Walmarts now that Christmas is over. Almost all the Transformers were sold out - except the TLK ones. Plenty of those warming the shelves.

What should THAT tell Hasbro....?

Japan dosent care about your shopping woes.

DeathReviews wrote:It's a little too late for more TLK movie toys now, isn't it? My minions have just gotten back from trawling the Walmarts now that Christmas is over. Almost all the Transformers were sold out - except the TLK ones. Plenty of those warming the shelves.

What should THAT tell Hasbro....?

I had the opposite experience, the only transformers that sold a significant amount by Tuesday morning was TLK Deluxe.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

DeathReviews wrote:It's a little too late for more TLK movie toys now, isn't it? My minions have just gotten back from trawling the Walmarts now that Christmas is over. Almost all the Transformers were sold out - except the TLK ones. Plenty of those warming the shelves.

What should THAT tell Hasbro....?

I had the opposite experience, the only transformers that sold a significant amount by Tuesday morning was TLK Deluxe.

Emerje

Proof that everything anyone sees is purely anecdotal. Like the time that all RID toys were sold out in my area.

Cogman restocked at TF Source

https://tfsource.com/transformers-the-l ... ss-cogman/

Thanks to a listing on Amazon.jp, we now know both the price and expected release date for Takara Tomy's Turbo Changer TC-09 Battle Command Optimus Prime figure (revealed back in October 2017). The toy with a mouthful of a name is listed on Amazon's site for ¥6,246 (approximately $60US), and the listing indicates that it will be released on April 21st, just under two months away.

As a bonus, it also seems that Turbo Changers TC-05 through TC-08 (that is: Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, Megatron and Grimlock) will be receiving re-releases at the same time to coincide with the release date of TC-09.

Check out the Amazon listings for each of these figures by clicking on their images below, and don't forget to share your thoughts by posting in the Energon Pub! We always want to hear your opinions. And as always, stay tuned to Seibertron.com for more Transformers news!

From the looks of it, it's a minor redeco of LA-01 Battle Command Optimus Prime, with TLK Voyager Prime's sword and shield added in. On that note, that toy used the same electronics system with the magnets as Stomp & Chomp Grimlock, but given the TLK line did away with that...

O yeah, the One-Step Changers were released before in the main TLK line as "Speed Change" so-and-so, expect some changes from the US toys.