Takara-Tomy Playstation Optimus Prime Color Prototype Image
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Aug 7, 2014 at 8:05am CDT
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Comment by Black Bumblebee
Aug 7, 2014
I'd buy these both in a second if they could actually play the games. The emulator programs are soooo small... how hard would the hardware be with today's technology?
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Comment by megatronus
Aug 7, 2014
I'm as pumped for this as I am for 16-bit Megatron, that is to say, not very pumped at all. 
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Probably something you can do yourself? Customizers? would be pretty sick.
Comment by mooncake623
Aug 7, 2014
Black Bumblebee wrote:I'd buy these both in a second if they could actually play the games. The emulator programs are soooo small... how hard would the hardware be with today's technology?
Probably something you can do yourself? Customizers? would be pretty sick.
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Comment by Marcdachamp
Aug 7, 2014
Am I the only one that thinks he looks pretty small in that picture? I assumed that he was the same size as Megatron. Maybe he won't cost an arm and a leg to import. I love the idea of these, but $120 for Megs is incredibly steep.
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Comment by YRQRM0
Aug 7, 2014
He looks like regular Prime wearing a broken playstation as armor.
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Comment by Evil Eye
Aug 7, 2014
Looks pretty sweet.
As for him being able to play games, remember that a lot of space in a PS1 is taken up by the CD drive- they're big, bulky things (and you can't miniaturize them because, well, they have to fit CDs) and they're fragile too. Plus, the PS1 was a lot more complicated than, say, the Mega Drive. If you managed to cram the necessary components to make this play games, the robot mode would suck. people complain about intrusive gimmicks on figures, and, well...this would be the ultimate intrusive gimmick!
As for him being able to play games, remember that a lot of space in a PS1 is taken up by the CD drive- they're big, bulky things (and you can't miniaturize them because, well, they have to fit CDs) and they're fragile too. Plus, the PS1 was a lot more complicated than, say, the Mega Drive. If you managed to cram the necessary components to make this play games, the robot mode would suck. people complain about intrusive gimmicks on figures, and, well...this would be the ultimate intrusive gimmick!
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Comment by procyon
Aug 7, 2014
Raspberry Pi + ePSXe + a SDHC card to store ISOs = done. Whether you can find a spot on the toy to cram the motherboard in there (3.37″ x 2.21″ x 0.83″) and make holes for the HDMI connection is another matter, but complexity and size constraints are not an issue in this day and age. Hell, they crammed one in a Game Boy Pocket and it worked great.
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Comment by WildclawPrime
Aug 7, 2014
Love this concept of both Prime and Megatron transforming into old school video game consoles. I was expecting Optimus to transform into a Super Nintendo (or Super Famicom outside of the US), since that was a competitor to the Sega Genesis back in the early to mid 90s, still the PS1 mode is a nice choice. Wonder if Prime will get a replica PlayStation disk, just like Megatron did with the Sonic 1 cartridge.
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Yes, but a Game Boy Pocket doesn't have to transform into a fully-poseable robot, does it?
Comment by Evil Eye
Aug 8, 2014
procyon wrote:Raspberry Pi + ePSXe + a SDHC card to store ISOs = done. Whether you can find a spot on the toy to cram the motherboard in there (3.37″ x 2.21″ x 0.83″) and make holes for the HDMI connection is another matter, but complexity and size constraints are not an issue in this day and age. Hell, they crammed one in a Game Boy Pocket and it worked great.
Yes, but a Game Boy Pocket doesn't have to transform into a fully-poseable robot, does it?
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Comment by mooncake623
Aug 13, 2014
From ajipMcJikenMekdi's Twitter page we have some clear new images of both Megadrive Megatron and Playstation Optimus Prime from the 2014 summer hobby goods make joint exhibition! We've mirrored the images below. Enjoy!
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Comment by MenaceRX
Aug 13, 2014
These look awesome, the details are just crazy cool.
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Comment by Ravage XK
Aug 13, 2014
The Playstation might work better as Ultra Magnus with those shoulder pads.
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Comment by RiddlerJ
Aug 13, 2014
They should've did this with Soundwave and Blaster, and then made individual games their cassette agents.
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yeah that would have worked better. i have the USB hub they made with Blaster where he turns into a toshiba laptop. and also have the Soundwave MP3 player.
Comment by Bouncy X
Aug 13, 2014
RiddlerJ wrote:They should've did this with Soundwave and Blaster, and then made individual games their cassette agents.
yeah that would have worked better. i have the USB hub they made with Blaster where he turns into a toshiba laptop. and also have the Soundwave MP3 player.
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Comment by ZeroWolf
Aug 13, 2014
Problem is, blaster and Soundwave are recognizable, they're not the faces of the brand. Prime and Megatron are.
But they may make a blaster vs Soundwave set down the line, maybe out of the gamegear and gameboy.
But they may make a blaster vs Soundwave set down the line, maybe out of the gamegear and gameboy.
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Comment by Blurrz
Aug 13, 2014
These are looking exceptional! Good stuff.
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It's interesting (to me anyway) that Prime's the very first PSX model, only released in Japan, with an S-video port built in.
Comment by Optimum Supreme
Aug 13, 2014
It's interesting (to me anyway) that Prime's the very first PSX model, only released in Japan, with an S-video port built in.
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Comment by Va'al
Oct 3, 2014
We've seen the upcoming Playstation Optimus Prime from Takara Tomy in multiple images, but not in the official stock photos! Check them out below, mirrored from the Planet Iacon Facebook page, showing off the Sony Playstation PSX from 1990 alt mode as well as the transformation and robot mode.
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Comment by Gallifreyan Autobot
Oct 3, 2014
this is what we have so far:
Genesis = Megatron
PlayStation = Optimus Prime
what i am wondering is what characters would be used for these consoles (and handhelds)
N64= ???
SNES / super Famicom = ???
HMM who would be the SNES : Starscream possibly due to coloration
NES/ Famicom=???
Game Boy family ( original, Pocket, color , advance, Advance SP, Micro, NDS, NDs lite)= ??? ( though who ever it is will have the best alternate mode)
Genesis = Megatron
PlayStation = Optimus Prime
what i am wondering is what characters would be used for these consoles (and handhelds)
N64= ???
SNES / super Famicom = ???
HMM who would be the SNES : Starscream possibly due to coloration
NES/ Famicom=???
Game Boy family ( original, Pocket, color , advance, Advance SP, Micro, NDS, NDs lite)= ??? ( though who ever it is will have the best alternate mode)
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Comment by Rated X
Oct 3, 2014
Stupidest concept I have ever seen in my life. Im under the assumption that these things actually work and play vintage games available for download. With that being said, why not make an electric toothbrush that transforms into Bumblebee ?
