High Quality In Hand Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Encore God Fire Convoy (RID Omega Prime)

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Alfes2010 has updated their twitter with images of the Encore God Fire Convoy set.

As you can see from these imags, the colours are different. The colours are bold and the chrome has been removed.
The recordings featured in this toy is all new. These are from the original voice cast, Satoshi Hashimoto (Fire Convoy) and Takashi Matsuyama (God Magnus). There are far more sounds in this release than the previous one, over 40. New battle sounds will be activated as the robot is combined. For more info on the sound clips, you can click here.

Alfes states that, as with the original, the upper body heavy, especially with the battery inserted. Regarding, the Super God Sword, Alfes states the handle part becomes is made of harder material, and the disassembly & assembly is very easy to do. It being such a huge sword is really helpful for poses (so they say).

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Comment by Emerje Mar 31, 2018

Hopefully I'll have mine next week. First I need to fix my PayPal account after my bank told them my account was closed. :roll:

Probably I'll just add my debit card in the meantime.

Emerje

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Comment by Ultra Markus Mar 31, 2018

wheres the big autobot symbols on the sides of Ultra-magnus

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Comment by Jelze Bunnycat Mar 31, 2018

Ultra Markus wrote:wheres the big autobot symbols on the sides of Ultra-magnus

God Magnus never had

on the sides, nor did Fire Convoy: they were added for the RiD Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus releases. In fact, the most common difference between Car Robot and RiD toys is just that.

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Comment by Va'al Mar 31, 2018

Cleans up nicely. :-P

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Comment by megamanfan Mar 31, 2018

mine just shipped from HLJ. can't wait to get it.

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Comment by shajaki Mar 31, 2018

Was the original Fire Convoy really that... yellow? Possible sun bleaching aside...

I'm even one of the rare people who loves chrome, so I was pretty let down to see the shiny loveliness removed for this reissue. But seeing the finished product... it looks damn good. It's more uniform, polished even. And Prime and Magnus have strikingly yellow eyes, so handsome. I'm pretty psyched for this now.

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Comment by Sabrblade Mar 31, 2018

shajaki wrote:Was the original Fire Convoy really that... yellow?

It wasn't that badly yellowed, but it was admittedly a light creamish white.

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Comment by shajaki Apr 1, 2018

Sabrblade wrote:
shajaki wrote:Was the original Fire Convoy really that... yellow?
It wasn't that badly yellowed, but it was admittedly a light creamish white.

Even if the original is off-white, this is a definite improvement. All around.

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Comment by joevill Apr 4, 2018

How is the quality? Is it better than the original?

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Comment by shajaki Apr 5, 2018

joevill wrote:How is the quality? Is it better than the original?

I wasn't planning on opening him for a good while, but I'm tempted...

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Comment by Evil Eye Apr 8, 2018

I've heard about mass reports from Japanese fans of misassembly, warped parts and general QC nightmares. That's kinda dampened my happiness for this. I still kinda want it, but not for the obscene price they're going for.

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Comment by Va'al Apr 9, 2018

A lot of fans have been excited about the latest encore reissue from Takara Tomy Transformers, of the combining and parts forming two-figure set from Car Robots / Robots in Disguise - God Fire Convoy, or Omega Prime to Anglophone audiences.

However, there seem to be more issues than previously thought with the release of the Fire Convoy and God Magnus brothers, according to a number of reports and seemingly confirmed by a post on the Taiwanese Facebook group TFCN - though the news seems to clash with the actual release of the figure, that has already happened - the figure will be recalled due to quality issues and general not very goodness.

While we wait from an official communication of sorts, let us know what you think of this news. Do you have the figure in hand? Can you confirm the reports? Is your figure also not up to standard for a new toy?

It's a little late, but the most important news today should be this.
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.
This is a message from the last month, the encore series, the encore series, the series of after fire command, which will be cancelled because of the quality of product quality.

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Comment by Octobotimus Apr 9, 2018

probably a recall to avoid people realizing its not worth the money.

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Comment by Nathaniel Prime Apr 9, 2018

Yikes, for an expensive collectors' oriented reissue to have quality issues, I wouldn't think that would be worth my money at all... [-(

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Comment by Evil Eye Apr 9, 2018

Oh dear. I sincerely hope they're gonna fix the problems and release it again (hopefully for a lower price). That sounds really, really bad.

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Comment by Nemesis Destron Apr 9, 2018

Where the hell were these watch dogs when Trypticon was release huh? :-P

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Comment by o.supreme Apr 9, 2018

Nemesis Destron wrote:Where the hell were these watch dogs when Trypticon was release huh?

to my knowledge there were no QC issues with :TAKARATOMY:

release of Dinosaurer. Though some suspect that because they released it after Hasbro, it allowed time to make the fixes. Unfortunately I don't think Hasbro has the resources or seems to care about QC as much.

This is interesting though...as we see the product variance between :TAKARATOMY:

and

diminish and become more unified, it's nice to see that :TAKARATOMY:

still will not let something pass that :HASBRO:

likely would not even give a second thought too. Unfortunately however, with operations moving to India, I expect things only to get worse, not better. It's sad that greed and the desire solely to make money may drive this line to at some point be indistinguishable from KO toys made and sold for a fraction of the price.

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Comment by Emerje Apr 9, 2018

This was probably my most anticipated figure(s) of the year. I've got three of the original RID Primes and a Magnus, the Sam's Club Prime and Magnus, the Both pairs of Spy Changers Prime and Magnus, and Titanium Prime (and "Hot Zone"). So I've been looking forward to adding this guy to my collection. He's in the mail, already running late despite EMS shipping, and I'm looking forward to having him in hand, but this is a little discouraging.

I did just read on TFWiki that the issue is with the ankles not allowing his truck mode to tab properly, if that's all it is I can probably live with it.

Emerje

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Comment by Overcracker Apr 9, 2018

Just to clarify, the original molds have intrinsic issues that may not have been fixed in the reissue. Issues that come from the way the combination works, and how Prime handles the added weight.

i.e Prime's waist ratchet is simply too weak to hold up the waist for the combined mode, and it tends to collapse backwards if not correctly setup.

Also the ratchets in Prime's hips were not the strongest and had a tendency to buckle under the wait of the combined mode causing the combined mode to do the splits.

Basically, the combined mode was quite unstable always.

Unless there's some really bad degradation of the molds, I'm willing to bet this is just the standard issues the combined mode had and went unchecked.

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Comment by Jelze Bunnycat Apr 9, 2018

Overcracker wrote:Unless there's some really bad degradation of the molds, I'm willing to bet this is just the standard issues the combined mode had and went unchecked.

Last I checked the issues were mainly on Fire Convoy having parts warped and his hips so restrictive that the cab transformation is virtually impossible.

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