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[Powered Convoy]

I kind of want one.

 

But that price is oof!

[Copper Bezel]

Yeah. It's not even a particularly large toy, under eight inches / 20 cm. I don't know if it's just an exceptionally short run item or what.

Edit: Does anyone know what the samurai mask represents? I'm not up to date on IDW and didn't know if it was something that had actually shown up.

Edited by Copper Bezel, 28 July 2017 - 07:05 AM.

[Powered Convoy]

I'm thinking it's an homage to his movie appearance.

[Benbot]

$300!!!

 

Looking at those pictures, I was almost ready to place an order.  But not for that price!  I might be willing to go up to $150.

[NotVeryKnightly]

https://www.allspark...r-announcement/

Prototypes of a Tarn action figure and a weird-looking Optimus model kit. Also, Star Saber announced.

[Powered Convoy]

The Optimus reminds me of Masami Obari's Optimus (even thought it isn't).

[▲ndrusi]

Transformers that don't TRANSFORM don't mean jack.

 
It means exactly Jack!
 

Well this thread quickly went to Pot.

I dunno, I think it's still pretty Rad.

[Spark]

I have no idea why I'd bother with this when I can buy actual transforming versions for at most half the price.

[Megaplexia Prime]

I got real excited when I saw that Tarn. But then I saw the company that's making it. I maintain my first statement.

 

 

 

Transformers that don't TRANSFORM don't mean jack.

Do you also expect Spider-Man toys to do anything a spider can?

 

 

This is such a false equivalency I can't even.

Edited by Megaplex Prime, 28 July 2017 - 09:25 AM.

[Creature SH]

I got real excited when I saw that Tarn. But then I saw the company that's making it. I maintain my first statement.

 

 

 

Transformers that don't TRANSFORM don't mean jack.

Do you also expect Spider-Man toys to do anything a spider can?

 

 

This is such a false equivalency I can't even.

 

Yeah. Transformers toys generally do transform.

No Spider-Man toys to date (that I am aware of) have caught thieves just like flies.

[Copper Bezel]

To be honest, you're always going to give up something in the look for the transformation, and it's never going to look quite as clean and complete as a figure like this can, so there's a niche. But not for 2-3 times the price of comparable robot figures.

Edited by Copper Bezel, 28 July 2017 - 11:41 AM.

[Powered Convoy]

Hasbro won't license a transformable Transformer to another company. So any licensed third party stuff will always be of the non-transformable type.

[Mouse_Pad]

I was interested in Tarn, but $300 for an action figure?  Nope.

[Copper Bezel]

Hasbro won't license a transformable Transformer to another company. So any licensed third party stuff will always be of the non-transformable type.

Yeah, we just had the requisite knee-jerk "what's the point of a Transformer that doesn't transform" stuff there and whether it's by Hasbro fiat or not, the toy is the the toy it is. But it wouldn't look this nice in the details as a transforming figure no matter who made it (whether that's HasTak or MMC.)

 

That Optimus Prime model kit is bizarre. Mostly the fact that the redesign looks quite sexy in the drawing but (baggy) pants in plastic form, like the reverse of the Drift figure's interpretation of the comic design.

 

 

Edited by Copper Bezel, 28 July 2017 - 12:14 PM.

[NotVeryKnightly]

Maybe that drawing was done with consideration for only one angle, or the artist was of the mind that it wouldn't be interpreted quite so literally.

[Megaplexia Prime]

 

I got real excited when I saw that Tarn. But then I saw the company that's making it. I maintain my first statement.

 

 

 

Transformers that don't TRANSFORM don't mean jack.

Do you also expect Spider-Man toys to do anything a spider can?

 

 

This is such a false equivalency I can't even.

 

Yeah. Transformers toys generally do transform.

No Spider-Man toys to date (that I am aware of) have caught thieves just like flies.

 

 

Yes.. thank you... that... what Creature SH said. 

Edited by Megaplex Prime, 28 July 2017 - 01:50 PM.

[Locoman]

One only wonders what the hypothetical truck mode would look like...

[Copper Bezel]

Angry skull dump truck Optimus Prime might be fun. 

 

Oh, right.

 

 

It already was kinda.

Edited by Copper Bezel, 28 July 2017 - 03:03 PM.

[HellCat]

Gunpla fans can tell you that kit prototypes often don't look as sharp as the retail product will.

Also, more Trigger design involvement, please. I know it's the anime hipster thing to hate them now but I love their stuff.

[Copper Bezel]

The proportions and angles are all just subtly off from the art, though. Optimus Lagann looks great, I'd watch that anime, the kit is not capturing it.