Transformers: The Last Knight - Summer And Fall TakaraTomy Accessory Giveaways
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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!
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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
Posted by LOST Cybertronian on May 28th, 2017 @ 9:33am CDT
Posted by Va'al on May 28th, 2017 @ 1:44pm CDT
What is entirely new is the small Legion class Megatron entirely in red - and we have seen a red Cybertronian show up in the latest international trailer for the movie. Check out the page scan below, courtesy of Twitter user マクベス, and let us know what you think in the Energon Pub!
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 28th, 2017 @ 2:15pm CDT
"Caliber" refers to firearms, specifically to the size of the bullet. The correct spelling should be "Caliur", derived from the fabled sword Excalibur. It's used quite a lot in Japanese pop culture for significant sword type weapons.
I'm guessing that moniker is used to distinguish the Leader from the standard yet exclusive Voyager release.
Posted by Va'al on May 28th, 2017 @ 2:16pm CDT
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:And the classic typo pops up yet again.
"Caliber" refers to firearms, specifically to the size of the bullet. The correct spelling should be "Caliur", derived from the fabled sword Excalibur. It's used quite a lot in Japanese pop culture for significant sword type weapons.
Surely you mean caliBur.
TPYOS EVERYWHERE
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 28th, 2017 @ 2:19pm CDT
Va'al wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:And the classic typo pops up yet again.
"Caliber" refers to firearms, specifically to the size of the bullet. The correct spelling should be "Caliur", derived from the fabled sword Excalibur. It's used quite a lot in Japanese pop culture for significant sword type weapons.
Surely you mean caliBur.
TPYOS EVERYWHERE
I sure did. which goes to show everyone is susceptible.
Posted by User897 on May 28th, 2017 @ 4:13pm CDT
Posted by SW's SilverHammer on May 28th, 2017 @ 4:14pm CDT
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Va'al wrote:JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:And the classic typo pops up yet again.
"Caliber" refers to firearms, specifically to the size of the bullet. The correct spelling should be "Caliur", derived from the fabled sword Excalibur. It's used quite a lot in Japanese pop culture for significant sword type weapons.
Surely you mean caliBur.
TPYOS EVERYWHERE
I sure did. which goes to show everyone is susceptible.
Man this new Soul Calibur game looks great
Posted by TimothyR on May 28th, 2017 @ 8:29pm CDT
User897 wrote:And yet again we have an Optimus Prime figure that HasBLO should make available in the USA, instead of another lousy repaint. Lame.
Or maybe they should've reworked and improved the leader figure. But clearly that's not high up on the priorities.
Posted by william-james88 on May 28th, 2017 @ 8:46pm CDT
TimothyR wrote:User897 wrote:And yet again we have an Optimus Prime figure that HasBLO should make available in the USA, instead of another lousy repaint. Lame.
Or maybe they should've reworked and improved the leader figure. But clearly that's not high up on the priorities.
Or maybe make a new mold. I get that both Hasbro and Takara kept reusing the ROTF Leader Prime since it was really hard to improve, and they did eventually end up giving us a new mold (coming out this year) when technology caught up. But this Leader AOE mold is not something worth improving upon, its not a great mold and removing the backpack doesnt make him all that much more similar to what we see onscreen. The kibble around the feet is still obscene and the shoulders and hip guards arent accurate. The next Leader Prime in this design I pick up will be a new mold and if that never happens, then so be it.
Posted by galvatron00 on May 28th, 2017 @ 9:42pm CDT
THE SOUL STILL BURNS!!SW's SilverHammer wrote:Man this new Soul Calibur game looks great
Also, dang it. I thought I didn't need another leader Bayverse Optimus. Now I don't want my Armor Knight anymore
Posted by Sarahthecutevixen on May 28th, 2017 @ 10:39pm CDT
Posted by william-james88 on May 28th, 2017 @ 10:53pm CDT
GalvatronG1 wrote:so....Japan does the movie toys right?
I don know, you used toys as a plural and so far this is the only toy that is different from the Hasbro line.
Posted by Sarahthecutevixen on May 29th, 2017 @ 10:08am CDT
william-james88 wrote:GalvatronG1 wrote:so....Japan does the movie toys right?
I don know, you used toys as a plural and so far this is the only toy that is different from the Hasbro line.
i'm going with AOE also, with Despinsor and Darkside Soundwave,
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 29th, 2017 @ 5:11pm CDT
GalvatronG1 wrote:william-james88 wrote:GalvatronG1 wrote:so....Japan does the movie toys right?
I don know, you used toys as a plural and so far this is the only toy that is different from the Hasbro line.
i'm going with AOE also, with Despinsor and Darkside Soundwave,
AoE/Lost Age is an exception to the rule that initial waves of movie toys are the same between Japan and the rest of the world. Not only is Calibur Optimus Prime a somewhat later figure (TLK-15), he's not an original mold, so either company can take it into the direction they see fit. Hasbro is into simple redecos (of older molds no less), while TakaraTomy likes taking things a step further.
Since the toy ID's have come up, I do find it kind of bothersome that for TLK TakaraTomy has decided to lump it all into a single line, instead of splitting it like they did for AoE/Lost Age and Adventure. Why?
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on May 30th, 2017 @ 12:58pm CDT
Posted by WreckerJack on May 31st, 2017 @ 5:44pm CDT
From what we can see on this poster it appears to be coming out on July 15th, 2017. The figure will cost 4,499 yen which is roughly $40.59 USD with current exchange rates.
Also, the sign shows yet another image of the one movie toy that is exclusive to Takara so far in the line: Calibur Optimus Prime. Enjoy! Thanks to Type-R from TFW2005 for sharing this image.