I can't stop staring at the feet. They look very interesting. Maybe I will buy two of these as my first Takara figs. One in each color. 1/32nd scale might drive my OCD up a wall since I wouldn't be able to park them next to the 1/24th scale Alternators. O well.
Nope! Takara only, like the Shoe-primes and THS Primes. Nope! At 1/32 scale vs. 1/24 scale, he's guaranteed to be at least 25% smaller. One is license mandated by Nissan, as Silver is the official promotional color of the car. The other is prime colors, because Japanese collectors are more likely to buy Prime than "random expensive and tiny transforming robot #7". That's all there is to it.
I'm glad someone feels the same way about ugly seams on Ironhide. That was a deal breaker for me. That's just lazy design breaking him into arbitrary pieces to make shapes. And making two different materials for glass for the windshield and sides, man, they just should've went painted windows all the way to make it consistent. I've been waiting for a good Ironhide, I guess I'll have to wait even longer. In regards to Alternity Prime, it's a decent looking robot form, but like people said, door wings are getting old.
nice tiny 'binaltech'. will get the silver and avoid the red as i don't feel the 'convoy-ness of this car...
Door wings are a signature TF look. I like them a lot. If they didn't use them for wings they would try to turn them into arms or a bigger backpack. It's a great way to keep Alt-mode parts looking stylish in Bot-mode. Turning them into anything else would require putting more visible seams on the doors to fold them up and hide them somewhere.
man i like them both but i too love the red version it just seems to pop for me. and i can't believe no one has commented on the coolness of how the seats on the arms turn into weapons come on thats sweet. and I'm with vang the way the middle section of the grill disappears in bot mode is cool. right now im tossed up on getting this when before it was a total pass.
Damn I've been really waiting for this red version to pop up but now I see that the silver is the way to go for me. I think the red would be better in a deeper more burgany tone
Just a quick question for all those complaining about the price of this item. How many of you bought the Botcon exclusives? That's what I thought. Nuff said.
Silver >>>>>>>>>>>> red 'n' blue. How would that be bad, exactly? Also, we don't know for sure that it's truly TakaraTomy only. Last time I checked, the Alternity Convoys are to be wide-release toys, not limited-run convention-exclusive figures. Absodamnlutely. I'm glad I'm not the only one that's been thinking this.
speaking as someone who has ALMOST every Binaltech i think these are way overpriced. i'd go 35ish for it, but 50 for something barely bigger than a deluxe?
After taking another look at this, I'm not sure which I should get. The Classic sRed & blue one would look great on my desk with my other Primes, but the silver also looks nice. Buying two's out fo the question as they're so expensive for the size of a deluxe already & it would just be the same thing.
I'm definitely glad I preordered this after seeing these pics. I agree that it's a deluxe as well. Would have been a lot sweeter at an Alternator size.
