AMT Rodimus, Predaking, a New Leo Prime and More at the Shizuoka Hobby Show 2024

Whoa, that new deco on MPM-3 looks excellent! Love the more accurate yellow and especially the new alt mode stripes. Wonder if we’ll see this for the other MPMs, as most of them up until Blackout had inaccurate colors.

The Predaking has me intrigued. If the combined form is 12-13 inches to scale with the combiner toys from the past decade, I would defnitely go for it. If its bigger (closer to PotP Predaking) ill pass.

o.supreme wrote:The Predaking has me intrigued. If the combined form is 12-13 inches to scale with the combiner toys from the past decade, I would defnitely go for it. If its bigger (closer to PotP Predaking) ill pass.

Regardless of size, if the finished product screams "Call of the Primitives" at me, I'm sold.

TO THE END!

Rodimus looks fantastic, but he’ll probably be obscenely expensive. Car mode looks even more impressive, but transformation is going to be so complex….



Also, that BB is looking pretty nice. May try to get that one if it’s not too expensive.

I don't think it can be overstated how big of a deal that Rodimus is. This is the first time that Hasbro has allowed another company to make a proper transforming figure of one of their characters. Previous ones have been sneakers, hats, pens and whatnot, but not a bot mode and alt mode based on something specific to Hasbro. The closest we've gotten is the ES Gokin Roadbuster, but that was a super deformed figure so it sort of gets around that. Also all of these are closer to Takara Tomy than Hasbro while Fame Toys tends to do things based directly on Hasbro's licenses.



Really groundbreaking stuff. Can't wait to see what Predaking looks like.

Can't wait to see what that Lio Convoy looks like, I guess this will be our toy colors Masterpiece we never got.

Emerje

I'd be down for Roddy. But what's the price? It can't be cheap.

I'll be honest, I'm more excited for the Brave releases.

I am beyond stoked for this.

That Rodimus is a dream come true for me, it will most likely not be cheap, but imma need it!!!

Missing link Cliff looks great!

MPG Ginrai looks great too! Much better in hand compared to the renders.

MPM3 with new paint? I'm down!

o.supreme wrote:The Predaking has me intrigued. If the combined form is 12-13 inches to scale with the combiner toys from the past decade, I would defnitely go for it. If its bigger (closer to PotP Predaking) ill pass.

Same here, hopefully that'll mean HasTak will also be more considerate on the kibble as well, we don't need those massive pillars on Headstrong and Tantrum again!

Is there a Brave thread here or did everyone interested in Brave leave?

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Is there a Brave thread here or did everyone interested in Brave leave?

I have no real attachment to Brave, but I would not be opposed to a King Exkaiser in Generations style. Y’know…. Commander Class…

Overcracker wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Is there a Brave thread here or did everyone interested in Brave leave?

I have no real attachment to Brave, but I would not be opposed to a King Exkaiser in Generations style. Y’know…. Commander Class…

It appears your wish is granted.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Overcracker wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Is there a Brave thread here or did everyone interested in Brave leave?

I have no real attachment to Brave, but I would not be opposed to a King Exkaiser in Generations style. Y’know…. Commander Class…

It appears your wish is granted.

Yeah, that prototype looks great. hope they can make a Dragon Kaiser there too, just to complete the set.

That Rodimus is a thing of beauty. Of course, It'll probably be hella expensive.

MPG Ginrai is a definite buy. That's a beautiful figure, I've wanted an articulated one for 30 years now.

Promo video:

Sabrblade wrote:Promo video:

Showing up as private

Bummer. It wasn't before.

Takara really needs to stop privating so many of their videos a few days after they upload them.

Sabrblade wrote:Bummer. It wasn't before.

Takara really needs to stop privating so many of their videos a few days after they upload them.

But nobody is really missing anything here, right? It was just showcasing the same line art from the event.

Emerje

TF40A Bumblebee, the heavy repaint of MPM-3, and Adamas Machina Rodimus are both up for pre-order at the usual places. Rodimus isn't on Amazon Japan yet, but on AmiAmi he comes to $153 before shipping which is A Lot cheaper than the $200-$300 some people were speculating.

Emerje

I have preordered both. That Rodimus is a mighty need.

And I love the MPM Bumblebee mold, so a snazzy new paint job is exciting

Posting this here since, turns out, it's part of the new T-SPARK assortment.

Amazon Japan and TakaraTomy Mall have both posted order pages for the new T-SPARK Transformers 40TH SELECTION Lio Convoy, complete with full official pics of the figure.

Product description

トランスフォーマー40周年を記念し、過去の人気商品を特別仕様で復刻。
アニメ「ビーストウォーズII」に登場した司令官ライオコンボイが、40周年記念商品となって登場。
ホワイトライオンからフル可動のアクションフィギュアへ完全変形。
新規造形のライオン頭部でアニメデザインを再現。
格闘武器のライオンクローが可動。
必殺のライオンタイフーンを再現。
手動で回転可能。

【セット内容】40TH SELECTION ライオコンボイ本体(1),武器(2),取扱説明書(1),

Product description

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Transformers, popular products from the past are being reissued in special editions.
Commander Lio Convoy, who appeared in the anime "Beast Wars II", is now available as a 40th anniversary product.
Completely transforms from a white lion into a fully movable action figure.
The anime design is reproduced with a newly sculpted lion head.
The lion claws of the fighting weapon are movable.
The deadly Lion Typhoon is reproduced.
It can be rotated manually.

[Set contents] 40TH SELECTION Lio Convoy body (1), weapons (2), instruction manual (1),

If you were looking forward to getting the updated T-Spark Transformers 40th Selection Lio Convoy at the end of February I'm afraid I have some bad news. Reddit user Electronic_Zombie360 made the claim Sunday that the figure had been delayed along with a low resolution and unreadable screen cap supposedly stating it was due to a factory misassembly that was caught. This appears to have been corroborated by AmiAmi who sent out an email on Monday stating the figure has been delayed to a yet to be determined date while Hobby Link Japan changed their release date to March 31 (likely a placeholder).

While the delay is certainly annoying it is a good thing that this was caught ahead of shipping out to stores causing a huge headache for everyone.

Source of the misassembly rumor is the (so far) reliable MPG leaker https://tieba.baidu.com/p/9497201646#/

I think most collectors are willing to put up with a delay in production, as long as it means they don't have to 'fix' the figure themselves later (coughcoughcoughKingdomGalvatroncoughcough86Optimuscoughcoughcough)....

my pulse order has always said may 22

Thanks, Scotty!

Ultra Markus wrote:my pulse order has always said may 22

That's because the Hasbro release was always going to be much later than the Takara Tomy release. Depending on how long the delay is it may not have an affect, but it'll probably get pushed back at least a month.

Emerje

I can now finally share my photos of the AMT Rodimus. This figure so so SO GOOD.

I love it so much. the IDW look ultra stylized, he looks and functions very nicely. I love the transformation, the tricks with the front wheels and the thighs are both fantastic. The robot is clean, the paint work is beyond incredible, I cannot gush about this guy enough, probably why I have taken so many photos of him!
















He also looks so good in my Lost Light shelf

Epic photos, D-Max! Good to hear that he is as nice as he looks!

I just ordered mine as soon as I saw it was in-stock. I went with Pulse since BBTS has him at an extra 25 dollars. I could have gotten a whole deluxe for that difference. So I ordered a Que as well and didn't actually save any money today.

I was so happy with my Rodimus ...

Until his leg fell off. Yeah. The mechanism involved in transformation warped the plastic inside the leg making it hard to pull out at the right time and the rivet came loose instead. This was the second transformation.

I contacted BBTS about it, but between tariffs and me living in Canada and it being sold out I dunno.

Got my repainted MPM Bee, he is really nice, love the new paint work