Takara Exclusive Reveals Roundup: G1 Sentinel Prime, TF1 Leader OP, Anime Accurate Leo Prime + More

Sentinel Prime is kinda... pointless. Regarding the other stuff, nothing to be really excited for (maybe just Armada Thundercracker), although I dig the anime lion face more than the original one. If I were collecting BW2 characters, I'd surely get this Lio Convoy.

o.supreme wrote:

Gauntlet101010 wrote:... But I'd want a cool, realistic lion head. Not a derpy one.

If not everyone appreciates the Anime Accuracy I get that. But I dont think you could get any more dead-eyed and "derpy" than what the initial release was. TBH, I resigned to the fact that it was, what it was, and just to keep Lio Convoy in Robot form, because TT wasn't making "better versions" like they were during the Prime wars Trilogy.... Boy was I wrong. This looks amazing. I don't know if ill have the funds to track it down, but definitely an improvement.

Yeah, that's fair. The original is really bad.

I guess I dislike it more than I dislike the anime one. But, for me, it's a battle of which I dislike least as opposed to which I like more. And I think there's still a Lio Prime at Walmart near me if I wanted him (I don't).

Who are the 2 yellowish bots on the shelf underneath Rhinox?

Yeah, while just about any repaint of the good ol' Battle Convoy mold has merit in that someone, somewhere will buy it, I don't think I can ever see that as Sentinel Prime. My brain will automatically repurpose it into either Huffermus Prime, or what if Alpha Trion had repaired Dion first and given him the matrix instead of Orion.

Incidentally, am I the only one who always assumed Dion was rebuilt into Huffer, because their color schemes sort of match like Orion Pax and Ariel's match Op and Elita's? Granted, Huffer looks more like an outdated labor bot than a new type of warrior, but it would sort of jive with Prime calling Huffer "old friend" when he took his trailer in 'Heavy Metal War', which this new toy also evokes, if you rewatch that scene and see which model they used for the cab.

As for Lioconvoy, if his MP included Artemis as planned, I'd already have it, and not need an anime-face lion mode. But that didn't happen, so I'm on the fence about this one. Looks cool enough, but not sure it'd be worth the price or effort. I still have most of the original BWII toys, and the shiny Robot-Master, so I'm not sure how many variations on his latest mold I really need.

One other thing to note is that while the description says the yellow coloring was based on the truck scanned by Teletraan I in the first episode, the truck only appears yellow in the Japanese DVDs, which used video masters from the LaserDisc release that had washed out colors.



(Sidenote: These washed out masters are why several Takara Galvatron toys have colored him in light pastel purple instead of dark purple.)

In the US DVD releases, the truck appears properly more orange.