I hope it's just Leader Prime with his 2 Guns.

Or Voyager Prime remold with his 2 Guns

either way dammit he better have 2 guns lol

Why else call him Buster Prime unless it's a Prime that comes with a Buster Witwickey figure.  

I'm really hoping for a Prime figure with Jetfire add-on parts. like they did with BB and Prime the first time around back in 07'

 

new prime figure ill stick with leader class versions of these guys that combine

this prime you talking about?

 

yay for skids. ? for prime

 

I really hope that "Buster Optimus Prime" is a brand new Voyager figure and combines with a Voyager Jetfire. Hopefully if they DO make a Voyager Jetfire, it will be a lot better than the Leader one; kind of like how the Voyager Megatron looks better than the Leader.

 

I really hope that this means a leader sized movie Grindor, which I will promptly repaint as Blackout. Keeping my fingers and toes crossed.

 

Dude, BBTS conversion prices mean shit.

What matters are TakaraTomy's MSRPs.

These are 1,200 Yen (1260 Yen with tax) for Scouts, 2,300 Yen (2415 Yen with tax) for Deluxes, 3,800 Yen (3990 Yen with tax) for Voyagers and 6,800 Yen (7140 Yen with tax) for Leaders. Those prices are constant for the ROTF mass retail lineup. Takara didn't suddenly charge more for their chromed movie 1 Premium Prime either. So whatever Buster Optimus Prime is, it's slated for 7,800 Yen (8190 Yen with tax). A little chrome doesn't justify a 14% price hike.

Optimus Prime. Not "Convoy". The movie characters and their toys all retain their Western names in Japan (save for different gimmick names and faction prefixes for trademark reasons).

Those better be some damn huge guns then...

It's just Voyager Grindor, judging from the price.

 

Doesn't really matter whether or not it justifies a 14% price hike. Bottom line is it WAS more expensive than the other leaders last time (and BBTS was carrying the regular Takara versions as well last time), and you've just confirmed that this IS more expensive than the other leaders this time.

I'd say that's good reason to be optimistic.

And although it would be nice if Hasbro would just do it right in the first place, I have no issue with paying a little more for what at least last time was a much nicer toy than the general release.

 

But that was BBTS's conversion price. NOT the MSRP. The MSRP was the same for both regular Takara Leader Prime and Takara Premium Prime. If BBTS decided to charge more, that was BBTS's doing, not Takara's.

In Buster Prime's case, his MSRP his higher than regular Takara ROTF Leader Prime's MSRP.

Not the same thing.

 

I see where the confusion is coming in (at least partly).

The chromed Japanese Prime was actually not the Japanese Premium Prime. The chromed one was called Battle Mode Optimus Prime. There was also a Takara Premium Prime that was similar (or the same) as the US version. You're right that BBTS' price is not the end all be all, but I do remember it was more expensive than the Takara premium version at BBTS. I think we've all just gotten in the habit of calling Battle Mode Optimus Prime premium prime since most of us really weren't going to pay extra for an import of the same toy that was released here so nobody paid attention.

Do you happen to know the MSRP on the Battle Mode Optimus Prime? If that's also the same then you're very likely right.

Sorry if I'm being difficult. You have peaked my curiosity now on how much mark up BBTS did do. It was an expensive toy.

 

Strange. I guess I'll wait for pictures to decide if "Buster Prime" is really all that awesome. He might be Leader Prime with some extra accesories, a re-deco of Prime, Voyager Prime with a more accurate combo with a Voyager Jetfire, etc. The only way we'll know is with pictures!

 

Dunno if this is same sku or has been posted recently, but here's a pic of Human Alliance Skids with Makaela in case anyone wants to see the figure for her:

Transformers 2 Revenge of the Fallen - Human Alliance Sideswipe and Skids

 

Yay! They're continuing Encore! I've been hoping for another solicitation for Encore and was kind of afraid it was dead. I wonder how long it'll keep going, though...

 

Argh.

MA-21 Optimus Prime Battle Mode WAS the Japanese version of Premium Prime. His MSRP was 6,500 Yen (6,825 Yen with tax), just like MA-01 Optimus Prime (regular Takara 2007 Movie Leader Prime).

There was NOT a second "Premium" Prime in Japan that was similar to the US version. The US got Premium Prime with silver paint, Takara got Battle Mode Prime with chrome.

Considering I've been maintain checklists for all toylines for the past few years, including Takara releases and even official Takara "imports", I sure did pay attention and would have noticed such a thing.

 

MV1 = legends size,

i think we don't have any leader sizes here in Honduras yet.

 

More Revenge of the Fallen Toys in WaImart's Computers - alt.toys.transformers | Google Groups

This list features "MV2" across all sorts of assortments, from Legends to Scouts to Deluxes to Voyagers to RPMs.

 

It'd be interesting if this was the case.

 

Fair enough. We'll assume I'm probably just an idiot for now.

But I'll be sure to point it out if Buster Prime ends up being along those lines.  

Thanks for walking me through this. I do appreciate it.

Edit: We have first pictures now in another thread of an unfinished product. It's too early to say if it will indeed be chromed or not- but the toy certainly is moving toward being a slightly souped up premium type version of the original. I'm only more suspicious now that it will end up being exactly what I was hoping for and talking about. Apparently they do feel the price hike is appropriate.

Just have to wait and see exactly what we get...

 

I hope Buster Prime is smaller Voyager remold with Jetfire parts.
I'd pay for that.

 

I know it's been answered, but I'd just like to point out, the word "coalescence" means "to grow together", "to unite into a whole", "to fuse", " to arise from the combination of distinct elements", etc.

 

good to hear that they're continuing the encore line!