TakaraTomy Updates: Arms Micron Optimus Prime and Bumblebee Official Images and New Campaign Microns Vector Oracle and Firebolt Announced

I am appalled at how much I want Vector Oracle. The others look nice too.

G'all darn want, want, want....

Damn you Takara and your TF: Prime Micron Arms line. Pre-ordered.

Not sure how I feel about the Arms Microns not being silver like in the show, plain silver Microns would look kinda boring, so I guess it's alright, kinda disappointed that they didn't give Optimus any red on his chest and forearms though, other than the shiny-ish, dark-ish red plastic they gave him, he's exactly the same as Hasbro's Optimus, as far as I can tell.

The green nightstick is cool, but I dont have any matching green figures to give him too.

As far as the PCC mold, kind of lame. Remember Mastershooter Creations targetmasters are coming. Takara, burn the mini-con molds and move on...

Just wanting those minicons that Prime and BB have. But I'll wait for the (hopefully) Hasbro release. Are there pics of the bot modes anywhere that I may have missed?

*edit*
Nevermind, I found them.

It would have been great if Takomy would have shot for better paint apps especially Prime, but oh well.

Vector Oracle is made of kryptonite

It's very annoying how much I want Firebolt knowing I'll never own him.

I was really looking forward to getting some of Takara's PRIME figures but seeing that they're covered in horrible growths/Micron ports has soured them to me slightly.

Prime Evil wrote:Just wanting those minicons that Prime and BB have. But I'll wait for the (hopefully) Hasbro release. Are there pics of the bot modes anywhere that I may have missed?

*edit*
Nevermind, I found them.

CP says, "Those are not microns, or minicons, because they do not have minicon ports that cause robots to morph like Armada minicons, etc."

Sorry it's not a direct quote, but I was scolded (in a nice, fun way of course) last night during the podcast for calling them minicons...

I want Firebolt because of United Rodimus Prime. Having Pinpoint as a stand-in just won't do. Anyone?

And just to make thing clear, I don't consider them "true" Mini-Cons as they don't have a real alternate mode or their unique insignia Hell, Nightstick was called a "Minicon" while he clearly wasn't! They're just glorified Targetmasters.

I really wanted to call them targetmasters but I was just going on what the Promo was supposedly saying. Either way, I still want them damn guys!!

BTW, Happy Birthday CP!!

Prime Evil wrote:I really wanted to call them targetmasters but I was just going on what the Promo was supposedly saying. Either way, I still want them damn guys!!

BTW, Happy Birthday CP!!

Concur, Happy Birthday Spacepunch! And I was only passing along info, not telling you what you have to do.

I call them minicons too, because that is the HASBRO aligned catch all for the smaller-sized robots that are usually considered partner-bots (but not always).

wow, bee's gun is really big, isnt it? at least its bigger than id thought itd be

Is it CPs Birthday, or are we all, 'hey new microns happy birthday bro!' I guess either, way, happy birthday! XD

Eugh, the ports on these guys look horrible. I think I'd rather have a removable mechtech weapon than a bunch of bumps messing up the alt mode. Oh well, not like I was going to buy them anyway! The only Takara version I'm considering is Ratchet.

Judging by his name, Vector Oracle may be a physical humanoid form of Vector Sigma.

Thanks guys.

We have some new details regarding Takara's Transformers Prime Arms Micron line from the latest issue of Figure King by way of Autobase Aichi.

First, the Microns will come unassembled on sprues and feature translucent pieces that will somehow tie into a game to be revealed later. We also have the names of the Microns that come with the first six figures from the line:

• AM-01 Optimus Prime with O.P.
• AM-02 Bumblebee with B-2
• AM-03 Cliffjumper with C.L.
• AM-04 Ratchet with R.A.
• AM-05 Megatron with Golla
• AM-06 Skywarp with Baro

Next, the figures will feature less paint than is normally associated with Takara releases, but will come with stickers to add detail. Each figure will also feature multiple newly sculpted ports for the Microns to attach (we already some of these from the official images of Optimus Prime and Bumblebee that we posted this morning).

Update: Toy-World has uploaded the scans from this issue of Figure King. We get another look at AM-01 Optimus Prime and AM-02 Bumblebee, but more importantly we get our first shots of AM-03 Cliffjumper, AM-04 Ratchet, AM-05 Megatron, and AM-06 Skywarp. We also get some ideas on how the Microns can be combined into larger weapons. Also seen new images of MP-11 Coronation Starscream, the recently revealed Vector Oracle and Firebolt campaign Microns, Transformers Prime Cyberverse, and images from the Asahikawa Winter Festival.










Update 2: Cybergundam has added a scan of MP-11 Starscream V2.0 and Vector Oracle from Dengeki Hobby.

El Duque wrote:

• AM-01 Optimus Prime with Opie
• AM-02 Bumblebee with Bitsu
• AM-03 Cliffjumper with Ciel
• AM-04 Ratchet with Allouez
• AM-05 Megatron with Gola
• AM-06 Skywarp with Varo

Got the Romaji of these names?

Sabrblade wrote:

El Duque wrote:

• AM-01 Optimus Prime with [b]Opie[/b]
• AM-02 Bumblebee with Bitsu
• AM-03 Cliffjumper with Ciel
• AM-04 Ratchet with Allouez
• AM-05 Megatron with Gola
• AM-06 Skywarp with Varo

Got the Romaji of these names?

I have no idea what that means, just relied on Google translate and hoped for the best

El Duque wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

El Duque wrote:

• AM-01 Optimus Prime with [b]Opie[/b]
• AM-02 Bumblebee with Bitsu
• AM-03 Cliffjumper with Ciel
• AM-04 Ratchet with Allouez
• AM-05 Megatron with Gola
• AM-06 Skywarp with Varo

Got the Romaji of these names?

I have no idea what that means, just relied on Google translate and hoped for the best

Don't have a cow. I just wanna know what the Romanizations of those names are. If you don't have them, do you at least have the names as they were written in Japanese?

Sabrblade wrote:

El Duque wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

El Duque wrote:

• AM-01 Optimus Prime with [b]Opie[/b]
• AM-02 Bumblebee with Bitsu
• AM-03 Cliffjumper with Ciel
• AM-04 Ratchet with Allouez
• AM-05 Megatron with Gola
• AM-06 Skywarp with Varo

Got the Romaji of these names?

I have no idea what that means, just relied on Google translate and hoped for the best

Don't have a cow. I just wanna know what the Romanizations of those names are. If you don't have them, do you at least have the names as they were written in Japanese?

Not having a cow my friend, I just have a rather dry sense of humor

Here ya go:

オーピー
o^pi^
ビーツー
bi^tsu^
シエル
shieru
アルエ
arue
ゴラ
gora
バロ
baro

Thank you.

Now that I got these, their names Romanize out to being:
Ōpī
Bītsū
Shieru
Arue
Gora
Baro

Not quite sure how to transliterate these names correctly, though I'm leaning towards "Bits" and "Shiel" for the Bītsū and Shieru, but those elongated vowels on Bītsū hold me back.

We may have to have someone better familiar with the Japanese language to properly transliterate them.

Sabrblade wrote:Thank you.

Now that I got these, their names Romanize out to being:
Ōpī
Bītsū
Shieru
Arue
Gora
Baro

Not quite sure how to transliterate these names correctly, though I'm leaning towards "Bits" and "Shiel" for the Bītsū and Shieru, but those elongated vowels on Bītsū hold me back.

We may have to have someone better familiar with the Japanese language to properly transliterate them.

You're welcome Unfortunately I have little knowledge of the Japanese language.

El Duque wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Thank you.

Now that I got these, their names Romanize out to being:
Ōpī
Bītsū
Shieru
Arue
Gora
Baro

Not quite sure how to transliterate these names correctly, though I'm leaning towards "Bits" and "Shiel" for the Bītsū and Shieru, but those elongated vowels on Bītsū hold me back.

We may have to have someone better familiar with the Japanese language to properly transliterate them.

You're welcome Unfortunately I have little knowledge of the Japanese language.

For the meantime, you might wanna amend the news post with these Romaji names since one can't always be certain with Google Translate.

Sabrblade wrote:

El Duque wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Thank you.

Now that I got these, their names Romanize out to being:
Ōpī
Bītsū
Shieru
Arue
Gora
Baro

Not quite sure how to transliterate these names correctly, though I'm leaning towards "Bits" and "Shiel" for the Bītsū and Shieru, but those elongated vowels on Bītsū hold me back.

We may have to have someone better familiar with the Japanese language to properly transliterate them.

You're welcome Unfortunately I have little knowledge of the Japanese language.

For the meantime, you might wanna amend the news post with these Romaji names since one can't always be certain with Google Translate.

Sounds good to me, done.

El Duque wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

El Duque wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Thank you.

Now that I got these, their names Romanize out to being:
Ōpī
Bītsū
Shieru
Arue
Gora
Baro

Not quite sure how to transliterate these names correctly, though I'm leaning towards "Bits" and "Shiel" for the Bītsū and Shieru, but those elongated vowels on Bītsū hold me back.

We may have to have someone better familiar with the Japanese language to properly transliterate them.

You're welcome Unfortunately I have little knowledge of the Japanese language.

For the meantime, you might wanna amend the news post with these Romaji names since one can't always be certain with Google Translate.

Sounds good to me, done.

Looks like someone on TFWiki is already working on transliterating the names. Thus far, Ōpī is "O.P.", and Bītsū is "Beetwo". I'll keep an eye out for the rest and let you know.

Sabrblade wrote:

El Duque wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

El Duque wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Thank you.

Now that I got these, their names Romanize out to being:
Ōpī
Bītsū
Shieru
Arue
Gora
Baro

Not quite sure how to transliterate these names correctly, though I'm leaning towards "Bits" and "Shiel" for the Bītsū and Shieru, but those elongated vowels on Bītsū hold me back.

We may have to have someone better familiar with the Japanese language to properly transliterate them.

You're welcome Unfortunately I have little knowledge of the Japanese language.

For the meantime, you might wanna amend the news post with these Romaji names since one can't always be certain with Google Translate.

Sounds good to me, done.

Looks like someone on TFWiki is already working on transliterating the names. Thus far, Ōpī is "O.P.", and Bītsū is "Beetwo". I'll keep an eye out for the rest and let you know.

Cool, appreciate it. Hit me with a PM if the rest get translated and you have a chance.

But of course Skywarp is Takara-only.

Optimus's Micron is called Opie? Does Megatron come with Anthony? lol

I like that they gave the lifelines to Ratchet but he also has those ugly holes on him too. Sticking with Hasbro and hoping Reprolabels makes some stickers for him

So, is MP-11 Starscream still a work in progress? Doesn't look any different from the last pics they released. The "side panels" they used in place of the hip kibble is white instead of red.

BTW, I'll make a guess as to what some of the Microns' names are.

Bumblebee's Bitsu = Bits?

Cliffjumper's Shieru = Shell?

Skywarp's Baro = Burrow? [it's a drill, after all]

Megatron's Gora = Gorer?

Optimus' Opie = no idea

Ratchet's Arue = no idea

Sabrblade wrote:

El Duque wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

El Duque wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Thank you.

Now that I got these, their names Romanize out to being:
Ōpī
Bītsū
Shieru
Arue
Gora
Baro

Not quite sure how to transliterate these names correctly, though I'm leaning towards "Bits" and "Shiel" for the Bītsū and Shieru, but those elongated vowels on Bītsū hold me back.

We may have to have someone better familiar with the Japanese language to properly transliterate them.

You're welcome Unfortunately I have little knowledge of the Japanese language.

For the meantime, you might wanna amend the news post with these Romaji names since one can't always be certain with Google Translate.

Sounds good to me, done.

Looks like someone on TFWiki is already working on transliterating the names. Thus far, Ōpī is "O.P.", and Bītsū is "Beetwo". I'll keep an eye out for the rest and let you know.

Sounds like their partner Micron's names have something to do with the name of the partner:

Optimus Prime: O.P. (initials)
Bumblebee: B-2 (two B's, BumbleBee)
Cliffjumper: C.L. (remember, "shi" can also be "si" as it's grouped with the "s" kana)
Ratchet: R.A.
Megatron: Golla (gorilla)
Skywarp: Burro (it's a drill, so I'm using the Beast Machines Mol repaint's proposed name)

Any chance of us in the U.S. getting these Mini-Cons? Of course not...

Actually, they don't look that great now. The figures have a very similar paintjob, with extra holes that make it uglier. The minicons all seems either too squat or thin.

Only the minicons seems to have the nice metallic paint, while the figs are stuck with G1-stlyed chrome stickers.

MP-11 does not seem to have improved much over the previous MP-2 (was it?). Well, i have it on preo-order and i don't own the previous starscream so i'll take it.

Glad I held out to see if Takara would release a Voyager Megatron with silver paint; definitely getting that guy. I'm a little on the fence about Takara Ratchet though. On the one hand, he has the little heart beat lines on his side. On the other, he has those fugly grey holes...

Starscream mold as Skywarp is looking sexy. I'd be willing to import that figure.

WolfDawg wrote:Glad I held out to see if Takara would release a Voyager Megatron with silver paint; definitely getting that guy. I'm a little on the fence about Takara Ratchet though. On the one hand, he has the little heart beat lines on his side. On the other, he has those fugly grey holes...

That's the same FE DLX Megatron, I hope Takara won't disappoint with Voyager Megs.

Paint apps really sucks but was getting it for the Micron Arms so a bit disappointed but will still choose Takara over Hasbro this time around.

They're going power ranger on us, run!

So we've got the option to pay a premium for the same figures with the slightest of paint adjustments, covered in connection ports, and that come with (admittedly cool) unpainted and unassembled Mini-Cons. Do I go for option A- Hasbro or option B- Takara?

Erm... option C me thinks: Pass.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Bumblebee: B-2 (two B's, BumbleBee)

The thing about this is that the 2 is written out like how "two" would be, instead of being represented by the number "2", hence "Beetwo".

Skywarp: Cant wait to see the uproar next year if the line gets discontinued before a Thundercracker gets produced.

MP Starscream: They did a nice job, but not $150 nice.

Minicons/Microns: Whatever they are called, they just dont pass for Targetmasters. As a freebee theyre ok I guess. But I cant understand why US collectors would pay $50 and up for them from asian scalpers.

Man, I'm really diggin these. I might actually get BB, CJ, SW, Ratchet & Megs.

Ratchet would look so much better if the plugs weren't such a freakin' eye sore! They should have made these holes like the ones for DOTM figs!

WolfDawg wrote:Glad I held out to see if Takara would release a Voyager Megatron with silver paint; definitely getting that guy. I'm a little on the fence about Takara Ratchet though. On the one hand, he has the little heart beat lines on his side. On the other, he has those fugly grey holes...

Sadly, that megatron is a deluxe

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Bumblebee: B-2 (two B's, BumbleBee)

The thing about this is that the 2 is written out like how "two" would be, instead of being represented by the number "2", hence "Beetwo".

Doesn't matter for transcribing the kana (romaji is the transcribed text with the Roman alphabet if you must know). If a pun in English was intended, like Beetwo for Beetle, then I'll accept that as the official transcription. But none are given, so it's all up for interpretation.

wow, im surprised at how much i like the microns. Bee's and cliff's especially, but they all look pretty cool. I do NOT dig the extra pegholes molded onto the figs however
long story short, if these ever come to the US il get one maybe two cliffs for sure cuz of his current lack of triple blasters, then maybe some others.

Yet again, Skywarp looks badass. I hope Hastak makes a Thundercracker

And as for the Targetmasters, bring this to the US please!!!

Can anyone tell if cj's gun pegs onto his hand or the new molded peg on his door/arm?

Nemesis Destron wrote:Ratchet would look so much better if the plugs weren't such a freakin' eye sore! They should have made these holes like the ones for DOTM figs!

DOTM voyager Ironhide had horribly obvious plugs on his alt mode's roof and sides. Not only were they not covered, there's a raised rim around them as if they weren't enough of an eyesore.

SKYWARPED_128 wrote:

Nemesis Destron wrote:Ratchet would look so much better if the plugs weren't such a freakin' eye sore! They should have made these holes like the ones for DOTM figs!

DOTM voyager Ironhide had horribly obvious plugs on his alt mode's roof and sides. Not only were they not covered, there's a raised rim around them as if they weren't enough of an eyesore.

But...DotM Voyager Ironhide was a hot steaming pile of dog crap...