Amazon Japan has opened up preorders for a few figures set to release this April from the Takara Transformers Adventure line. These preorder pages show off new images of Takara’s TED06 Big Optimus Prime (looks to be one of the simple transformation figures), TAV14 Ultra Magnus (a version of the Beast Hunters Voyager Ultra Magnus), and finally TAV13 Nemesis Prime (a black repaint of the Warrior Class Optimus Prime mold).
Check it out after the jump!
Soundwinder
What I don't get is Hasbro's insistence to NOT repaint every Prime mold in those colors.
For a stretch of about six years or so, they repainted every single Optimus Prime into… a less screen accurate red and blue Optimus Prime. I'd have killed for a white Magnus or a Nemesis Prime in that period.
Autovolt 127
I've always been sad RID doesn't have a voyager class.
But yeah that deco makes this mold.
You sure it's not Black Convoy.
I'm calling it…it'll be the AOE deco .
deliciouspeter
C'mon Lockdown.
Sol Fury
I think they are May, so we'll likely see them in about a month.
jru42287
That Magnus looks fantastic. Hell, the hammer alone is great. If I hadn't already been over the Prime line, I'd consider him.
nemesisforever
i hate those ugly faction emblems, too much white.
ultraomegaprime
I don't know why that new rid optimus hasn't been remolded in ultra magnus yet it is perfect for him.
[Wing_Saber-X]
this. As usual for me too …
Shatterpoint
It looks like Takara managed to give Magnus' abs that blue glow.
Flexx Ark
I need that Ultra Magnus in that dark blue. This photo has taken me off the fence to get him.
Autoboty
That's because it's a placeholder. Takara, unlike Hasbro, cover their tampographed faction sigils with a decoy sticker to prevent pre-purchase scanning (yes, Japan has its own RID app). Don't worry about residue, though-the decoys are on a plastic insert covering the area in question in package, not on the actual toy. About the stickers in those images…. well, Takara's so hardcore that it won't allow even the slightest chance that buyers might scan the shield from those pics.
griffin-of-oz
The black deco must indeed be so popular that TakaraTomy didn't even release a red/blue "Optimus" version of this mold first… or plan to at all (so far).
If they release a red/blue version later as Optimus Prime, it will just be a redeco in Japan, instead of the other way around for previous Nemesis Primes.
AutobotAlvaron
Nemesis Prime really reminds me a lot of the old Knight Rider F.L.A.G. trailer. That would have been an awesome crossover.
bman29
I saw one of these big Optimus over the weekend. At first I was like groovy, then I picked it up and looked it over more and I was meh. It was just a Fisher Price version of a Transformer regressed thirty years while rolled up into one figure.
BeevsSteeljaw
That sticker on Magnus looks like it is about to fly off… lol XD
Snake_eyes1975
that magnus is actually one of the shining gems from the entire PRID/BH line.
Silvershot
Lol – I just posted in the "one transformer character you always buy" thread that I'll buy any black Optimus Prime repaint. This one is no exception.
FanimusMaximus
You sure it's not Scourge?
Lbsammills51
I'm very glad I preordered that Magnus on a whim at TFSource for $25.99. Even with the favorable exchange rate, that's pretty much the AmiAmi price before shipping costs.
I'm guessing they sell well enough to justify consistently mining that well. I'm just glad it's a retail release and not a pricier exclusive.
DecepticusPrime
dont dig the nemesis colors on that mold, nor do i fully understand their hard on for giving every prime mold the nemesis colors