No. You need a Japanese address.

 

They already are using this mold over there. And it doesn't look like they're doing doubles of a mold in different colors anytime soon. Also, it'd end up even more expensive.

The Convoy in The Big Blue House?  

Once, to take those pictures, I bet.  

 

Encore Big Convoy is $85 at TFSource. Do you think LG-EX Big Blue will be cheaper than that?

 

Looks like Big Blue Convoy is priced the same as Encore Big Convoy on TTMall. Being an exclusive though, it might be marked up a bit more from importers.

 

I hope not. I'm down to pay 85 for that big blue!

 

Is it bad that Encore Big Convoy is the only new Encore figure I've seen that I immediately want to get ? (Aside from God Fire Convoy, who I'm just gonna wait and see if later on they do an "Encore God Fire Convoy 2.0" release that has corrected QC. If they never do that, I'll track down some old RID2001 versions).

 

Man, I never knew this existed. I don't know whether to thank you or curse you...

Thanks for sharing this! It's beautiful!

 

Anyone think the blue deco maybe looks better than the standard deco? I don’t own the mold yet and preordered the standard deco version, but the blue looks really good on this mold

 

I admit, I thought about not posting it for that exact reason, but it's such an elusive piece that was apparently not meant to be released to the public, so I'd say your herd is still complete without it  

Now I'm really looking forward to seeing them all side-by-side, mammoth power!

Gorgeous? Yes. Better than the original? For me, no. Big Blue / "Phantom Convoy" is great, both as a figure and as an idea of being able to get something that resembles a rare Lucky Draw item, but the original / Encore is better IMO, it has the richer paintjob and of course a character behind it to give it life. The Encore especially is amazing, the headsculpt is looking excellent with that new, cartoon inspired paintscheme.

@Topic: When did you guys first see Big Blue and wanted to have one? For me, it was Yuki from Takara who did it. Remember when the guy had his own Twitter account where he shared news and pictures of upcoming Transformers directly from the source? Fun times, and Yuki had a Blue Big Convoy as his avatar and frequently took pictures of it too.

That's were I first saw this figure, and now I'm actually able to get one - not the exact same of course, but still. I think it's a great thing that they give unique Lucky Draw figures a new release. A chance for fans to buy them, and collectors will always have their original, unrivaled versions. This way everyone wins IMO.

 

I wanted to get Green Unicron and Air Attack Return Convoy but there's no way I'm paying almost $200 each for those molds. $85 for Big Blue is fine with me.

 

To me, both the standard blue deco and the reissue blue deco look awesome

 

Yah man, average $200 a piece for Green Unicron and Air Attack Return Convoy respectively is just too expensive.

 

Yeah, I wouldn't mind getting Unicron of light, could probably pass on Optimus Primal but I'm not completely against it, but Big Convoy's one where I'm actually like "OK, I kinda need that".

Also, I love that we're calling him "Big Blue".  

 

Gold Big Convoy was originally supposed to be in the Gold Lagoon episode but sadly ended up on the cutting room floor. . .=p

 

Hope Robot Kingdom gets this like they did Shadow Panther. I'm so excited to get the figure in the close enough to LD colors for my Blue Corps.

 

Speaking of Golden Lagoon did they offer the Perceptor, Beachcomber and Seaspray for sale - or was it just Optimus & Starscream so far ?

 

anime export has preorder up for 9980 yen

 

Cool, but the 2000¥ markup isn't doing it for me - 78€ is a good price but with shipping and import fess added I can probably just buy one for 100 from a local retailer instead.

 

Yeah, depend on where you are, local online shops might be cheaper. I don’t think price will be same as Encore though, since encore had 30% discount on AE. TTMall exclusives always get mark up charged.

 

So that means Takara previously has the intention to add in the Beast War Neo Big Convoy into that episode of Golden Lagoon of the G1 cartoon series?