my local japanese book specialty store just brought it in. the item, around 25 bucks, is a book and papermus prime, comes with jacket. intro page with movie screencaps. sample page of movie toys. behind the scene page with automorph concept model and early prime movie design. 2nd page of behind the scene stuff with design sketches and proto of early barricade design with different head/hands. page of upcoming stuff. sample page of TF line thru the years. as above but more recent stuff. papermus prime! staffer dudes, pls copy my pics n mirror, kthx ***EDIT*** Images Mirrored. -TFW2005 Staff
And also, what is the portion of the G1 history regarding other parts of the book ? Is it a big portion of it, or does the movie stuff is the dominant one ?
That kitbashed Energon Prime is kinda neat. Just "behind-the-scenes neat" though, not "I'd buy it for $40 neat". I'm surprised that they're calling him "Optimus Prime" over there, I assumed that he'd be Convoy, or some variant of it.
Is it all in Japanese? I see the titles are in English but the descriptions look to be in Japanese below them.
@benzo: English release of this, you're better off wining the lottery or getting struck by lightning. @kenm2474: mainly Japanese but with English on TF names when translated. I'm a little surprised they're using "Optimus Prime". Japan's Primes has usually been named Convoy. How many pages and can we get a clear shot of the back of the book?
The paper model is a bit of a contradiction in itself. You have the parts needed to make it actually articulate, and then other parts which are way too simple. Look at those hands, or some of the details on the sides of the legs, or the head...
i actually had the content page by page posted, but i think mod dude accidently deleted it, it was at the bottom of 1st post. lemmesee if i can do a total recall here; pg 1-2, movie screencaps pg 3-12, movie toys pg 13-16, toys behind the scene pg 17, upcoming merch pg 18-19 history pg 20-28 past toys from g1 to KP stuff pg 29 comic n cd pg 30-33 some timeline shit i think i got it all there dudes. the book isnt very thick, its only as thick as the whole lotta papermus prime card sheets.
