In-Hand Images - Takara Tomy Movie Advanced Deluxe Stinger

Must Haz!

He looks very good, and we really need more human made Decepticons. Any rumors about Hasbro making or releasing this Stinger?

Good pictures, I love the mold. The subtle canon arm and battle mask are very nice adds. Hopefully they won't abandon the movie toy line. I'd love to see more generations movie figures.

noctorro wrote:Any rumors about Hasbro making or releasing this Stinger?

Nope. Last BotCon, the group I was hanging out twith was told at the Hasbro booth that Hasbro had originally planned to produce a Stinger remolded from Bumblebee, but it never got past the prototype stage.

The AOE line is over for Hasbro. RID is taking its place.

I bought him. And just like Dispensor, I plan to display him in my classics collection as a brand new character.

honestly im a little let down. the lack of paint in car mode (lights/rims) is not befitting of a pricey takara import.

shajaki wrote:honestly im a little let down. the lack of paint in car mode (lights/rims) is not befitting of a pricey takara import.

I dont think takara cheaped out. Its just that stingers rims were painted black in the movie so they went for that look. As far as the lights, thats the same way they were painted on bumblebee.

Rated X wrote:

shajaki wrote:honestly im a little let down. the lack of paint in car mode (lights/rims) is not befitting of a pricey takara import.

I dont think takara cheaped out. Its just that stingers rims were painted black in the movie so they went for that look. As far as the lights, thats the same way they were painted on bumblebee.

alright, you made me feel better about the rims. but the lights still bug me. and FYI, the "autobots united" BB had painted rims and lights, he looks stellar.

It looks like the Age of Extinction/Lost Age toys are unwilling to leave us, as a new redeco has shown up on Toys'R'Us Japan's website. Admittedly, we had heard of it before, but check out below some very nice shots of the TRU Japan exclusive Black Knight repaint of the AD-31 Armor Knight Optimus Prime, including shield and sword accessories, and the faceplate switch gimmick!

He looks so cool.BTW,he looks more like Nemesis.Just look at him and compare it with the LA power battler Nemesis Prime.

This Black Convoy is a sexy MOFO. I already have AD-31 so I gonna pass. However, if anyone dont have the AD-31 retool and are Nemesis Prime / Blabk Convoy lovers, this is a must buy.

shouldn't there be a 's' in Optimus?

Very pretty indeed. That backpack ruins it for me though.

OMG I need this... where do I pre-order? Also curious is he has an autobot logo?

Want.

That is an awesome repaint.

That's one killer looking premium repaint
I have the normal Leader so might get him if he's not to super expensive. He looks great.
I wish they'd do something with Nenemsis Prime in the next film.

I really don't know if i need this. It's a beautiful retool, but the red on the chest doesn't belong. I'll wait to see what HLJ prices him at.

shajaki wrote:I really don't know if i need this. It's a beautiful retool, but the red on the chest doesn't belong. I'll wait to see what HLJ prices him at.

I don't think it's going to be on there. it's a Japanese TRU exclusive. I don't remember HLJ getting the Nemesis evasion mode prime.

I NEED preorders for this!! but yea colors on the chest is a lil strange too.

It's beautiful.

mooncake623 wrote:OMG I need this... where do I pre-order? Also curious is he has an autobot logo?

He does: not all Black Optimuses are evil you know?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:OMG I need this... where do I pre-order? Also curious is he has an autobot logo?

He does: not all Black Optimuses are evil you know?

No but all Teal and Black Primes of late has been, when's the last one with an Autobot logo? MP1B? Animated?

mooncake623 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:OMG I need this... where do I pre-order? Also curious is he has an autobot logo?

He does: not all Black Optimuses are evil you know?

No but all Teal and Black Primes of late has been, when's the last one with an Autobot logo? MP1B? Animated?

One repaint I hate about about prime is black make him black make him decepticon it looks evil in black not good looks pretty in truck mode

Man that is "Wheeljack" I totally buy it, not the other crap they put in the movie named Q...

to bad it didn't come in legion class

mooncake623 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:OMG I need this... where do I pre-order? Also curious is he has an autobot logo?

He does: not all Black Optimuses are evil you know?

No but all Teal and Black Primes of late has been, when's the last one with an Autobot logo? MP1B? Animated?

I don't know about teal and black, but the last black Autobot Optimus Prime was Prime Dark Guard, without the teal:

Nemesis Prime!

jaws wrote:Nemesis Prime!

Black-colored Optimus Prime.

even though im not a fan of these incarnations of the characters the toys look pretty solid. Wheeljack looks like he'd be a great figure to play around with, Soundwave is ruined by the backpack but he still looks interesting. This is why i miss the universe line, they could easily put these in there along with every other unreleased figure that we all wanted. Kill one steps & titans, bring back universe.

Since it's a "Black Knight" redeco, I gotta wonder if this is meant to be Optimus when he was a member of the same Knights as the Dinobots, who all received similar "Black Knight" (movie-accurate) redecos.

We all know this is really a Scourge / Black Convoy homage. Silly Takara.

I usually find black repaints bland and unimaginative often concealing the details but this one looks very, very slick and the black is mostly on the already smooth areas with the other colours used for bringing out the finely detailed sculptwork. He's a fantastic figure to begin with and this makes a great variant.

Seibertron wrote:We all know this is really a Scourge / Black Convoy homage. Silly Takara.

Even though Black Lioconvoy started the trend, and the teal and black isn't limited to Optimus Prime either

I picked up Soundwave soon as I had seen him on Amazon. I wish I had picked up the DOM version, but that one seemed to be non-existent on any shelves. DOM was such a pain with all the final cancelations... (Probably because of the coupon abuse...) The Human Alliance Soundwave I had to order from China... Which had taken so dang long to get to me...

KnightAero wrote:I picked up Soundwave soon as I had seen him on Amazon. I wish I had picked up the DOM version, but that one seemed to be non-existent on any shelves. DOM was such a pain with all the final cancelations... (Probably because of the coupon abuse...) The Human Alliance Soundwave I had to order from China... Which had taken so dang long to get to me...

DOTM Soundwave (Dx & Ha), Q, and Dx Leadfoot, never made it outside of Asia. That really suck because they are all great toys. Especially HA Soundwave. I bought mine for 60$ shipped when it was still time. No regrets because he's amazing and now go for a premium on ebay.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

KnightAero wrote:I picked up Soundwave soon as I had seen him on Amazon. I wish I had picked up the DOM version, but that one seemed to be non-existent on any shelves. DOM was such a pain with all the final cancelations... (Probably because of the coupon abuse...) The Human Alliance Soundwave I had to order from China... Which had taken so dang long to get to me...

DOTM Soundwave (Dx & Ha), Q, and Dx Leadfoot, never made it outside of Asia. That really suck because they are all great toys. Especially HA Soundwave. I bought mine for 60$ shipped when it was still time. No regrets because he's amazing and now go for a premium on ebay.

Ah I knew that about Wheeljack and HA Soundwave... I think I paid like $89 shipped for HA Soundwave. Which was about a little after I realized it was not going to hit the shelves...

Black Knight's a long way from home. Nice repaint but I prefer the original.

Soooooo.... anyone else wondering if they plan to finish making the Black Knight Dinobots?

shajaki wrote:Soooooo.... anyone else wondering if they plan to finish making the Black Knight Dinobots?

They already did. There were four Dinobots in the movie, so they gave those four the movie-accurate Black Knight treatment.

Sabrblade wrote:

shajaki wrote:Soooooo.... anyone else wondering if they plan to finish making the Black Knight Dinobots?

They already did. There were four Dinobots in the movie, so they gave those four the movie-accurate Black Knight treatment.

I think I'm about to sound really dumb here.... but Sludge(Slug) wasn't in the movie?

shajaki wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

shajaki wrote:Soooooo.... anyone else wondering if they plan to finish making the Black Knight Dinobots?

They already did. There were four Dinobots in the movie, so they gave those four the movie-accurate Black Knight treatment.

I think I'm about to sound really dumb here.... but Sludge(Slug) wasn't in the movie?

Slog was not.

Just Grimlock, Slug, Strafe, and Scorn.

Sabrblade wrote:

shajaki wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

shajaki wrote:Soooooo.... anyone else wondering if they plan to finish making the Black Knight Dinobots?

They already did. There were four Dinobots in the movie, so they gave those four the movie-accurate Black Knight treatment.

I think I'm about to sound really dumb here.... but Sludge(Slug) wasn't in the movie?

Slog was not.

Just Grimlock, Slug, Strafe, and Scorn.

Well. I'm observant

The final post from the Takara Tomy booth of the Tokyo Toy Show 2015, after a long night of posting from the Seibertron.com staff, is a peculiar if intriguing offering. Via the TakaraTomyMall official Twitter account, we have an image of a redeco of Revenge of the Fallen Leader class Megatron - now named Nightmare Megatron - which will apparently be able to be pre-ordered for 14,904 yen (approx $121) from Friday, June 20th to Monday, July 6th. The figure is limited to 2,000 pieces, and scheduled for release on October 24, 2015 via TakaraTomyMall.

There are, however, no other details at the moment as to what line it is part of, or why the redeco appears at this point in time. What do you make of it? Take a look at the mirrored image below, and let us know in the Energon Pub!

That Megatron look sweet as hell! I already have the regular ROTF leader so I don't feel the need to own this one.

Still, if anyone don't have him, why go to Ebay to buy the original when you can have a sweet-ass limited edition for the same price?

He's pretty in purple!

stop using this mold and get your hands on the cancelled united for the univers voyager rotf megatron instead

f-primus-unicron wrote:stop using this mold and get your hands on the cancelled united for the univers voyager rotf megatron instead

You mean that silver voyager?

yeah, that one THEY CANCELLED, instead of the not so good leeader class, i mean really, there are 4 version, (the original, the shadow command(the black and gold), the dark energon(in dotm) and now another exclusive? why they didnt at least fix his stupid elbow at least? like, mmm dotm leader optimus including the "takara only exclusive" buster gun, the abs, the arm armos(which isnt exactly noticeable because is under the vehicle panels) the fingers(premium ultimate) i mean, they remolded a lot, on that figure, but nothing on megatron which honestly needs it, so no voyager silver megatron and no remolded leader -_-

Love the colour scheme there. Looks fantastic!

f-primus-unicron wrote:yeah, that one THEY CANCELLED, instead of the not so good leeader class, i mean really, there are 4 version, (the original, the shadow command(the black and gold), the dark energon(in dotm) and now another exclusive? why they didnt at least fix his stupid elbow at least? like, mmm dotm leader optimus including the "takara only exclusive" buster gun, the abs, the arm armos(which isnt exactly noticeable because is under the vehicle panels) the fingers(premium ultimate) i mean, they remolded a lot, on that figure, but nothing on megatron which honestly needs it, so no voyager silver megatron and no remolded leader -_-

That would be a nice move by Takara, but this business re-releasing older movie figures seems to include either leader class guys or HA figures. Don't hold your breath.

Why they don´t just stop the ROTF Megatron and Optimus Prime repaint and better work in a Sentinel Prime or Ironhide Leader Class masterpiece?

well those could work too gotta admit

omaramo014 wrote:Why they don´t just stop the ROTF Megatron and Optimus Prime repaint and better work in a Sentinel Prime or Ironhide Leader Class masterpiece?

Because they were already released in general retail over there. The only reasons MP Movie Bumblebee (aka Battle Op Bumblebee) and MP Movie Starscream (aka HtfD Leader Starscream) worked was because they were not part of any regular line there.

Besides, Optimus Prime and Megatron are better milking cows than Sentinel Prime and Ironhide will ever be

omaramo014 wrote:Why they don´t just stop the ROTF Megatron and Optimus Prime repaint and better work in a Sentinel Prime or Ironhide Leader Class masterpiece?

I would like those too.