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[JB0]

Nexus Prime is hot as hell, and I want him right now.

 

Edit: What a way to start a new page.

Edited Saturday at 04:37 AM by JB0

[davidwhangchoi]

On 1/28/2026 at 1:39 PM, shazam said:

 

is this going to cost 400 plus like the last mp optimus that kept breaking?

[anime52k8]

On 1/28/2026 at 9:34 PM, rsvictor1976 said:

Those flaps that stick out behind the smokestacks are so distracting. Why couldn't they just have them fold in behind the arms?

I can't stop looking at them and I hate them for it.

[Scyla]

2 hours ago, davidwhangchoi said:

is this going to cost 400 plus like the last mp optimus that kept breaking?

He is ¥22000 before Japanese VAT.

[shazam]

On 1/31/2026 at 2:52 PM, davidwhangchoi said:

is this going to cost 400 plus like the last mp optimus that kept breaking?

https://www.hlj.com/transformers-mpg-mpg-17-optimus-prime-style-gen-tkt94636

https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail?gcode=FIGURE-184471

On 1/31/2026 at 5:06 PM, Scyla said:

He is ¥22000 before Japanese VAT.

Since I'm from Australia, the price is quoted to be $224.30 AUD.

 

  On 1/29/2026 at 3:34 PM, rsvictor1976 aid:

Those flaps that stick out behind the smokestacks are so distracting. Why couldn't they just have them fold in behind the arms?

anime52k8 - I can't stop looking at them and I hate them for it.

I'm sure someone will make those exact pieces as an aftermarket custom to fix what should of been done right the first time by Takara Tomy. All of the accessories on Optimus Prime's back seem equally distracting. 

Edited 7 hours ago by shazam

[davidwhangchoi]

2 hours ago, Scyla said:

He is ¥22000 before Japanese VAT.

 

1 hour ago, shazam said:

https://www.hlj.com/transformers-mpg-mpg-17-optimus-prime-style-gen-tkt94636

Since I'm from Australia, the price is quoted to be $224.30 AUD.

 

  On 1/29/2026 at 3:34 PM, rsvictor1976 aid:

Those flaps that stick out behind the smokestacks are so distracting. Why couldn't they just have them fold in behind the arms?

anime52k8 - I can't stop looking at them and I hate them for it.

I'm sure someone will make those exact pieces as an aftermarket custom to fix what should of been done right the first time by Takara Tomy. All of the accessories on Optimus Prime's back seem equally distracting. 

wow, that's a good price but where is his cab? is there going to be an MP Style trailer? like the wheels and hubcaps don't match if i use mp-10's trailer.

[shazam]

40 minutes ago, davidwhangchoi said:

 

wow, that's a good price but where is his cab? is there going to be an MP Style trailer? like the wheels and hubcaps don't match if i use mp-10's trailer.

I am kind of glad this model does not come with the trailer. The trailer would be just more money, an oversized box and an accessory piece that may get used in truck mode. Takara Tomy won't stop at just one model though. Variants will always be around the corner to fish for extra sales.

Edited Saturday at 10:28 AM by shazam

[Scyla]

1 hour ago, davidwhangchoi said:

 

wow, that's a good price but where is his cab? is there going to be an MP Style trailer? like the wheels and hubcaps don't match if i use mp-10's trailer.

Takara advertises in the MPG-17 transformation video that it is compatible with the MP-44 trailer so I doubt they are going to release one: 

 

 

[sh9000]

I want this figure to go with my Hot Rod.

[shazam]

 

[mikeszekely]

I'd buy a WST Megatron, if they weren't going for $50+.

Oh, and I should maybe clarify something I said about Nexus Prime earlier, for those unfamiliar.  Nexus Prime, according to the Covenant of Primus, is the guy with the Enigma of Combination for his artifact, and is described as "the first combiner."  Which doesn't exactly make sense to me, since there were only Thirteen Transformers at the time and none of them combined with Nexus... I guess it's like each part of Nexus is also Nexus?  I dunno.  I've said before that while the Covenant solidified and canonized a lot of the lore of the Thirteen, the idea of the Thirteen had been kicking around for awhile and Fun Publications ran with it during their time with the Official Transformers Collector's Club.  For the first few years that Fub Pub ran it, if you joined the OTCC by a certain date you got a free figure that was a repainted Energon conbiner figure... first Skyfall (the A-10-ish plane from Superion Maximus), then Landquake (the tank from Bruticus Maximus), then Breakaway (the other jet limb from Superion Maximus), then Topspin (the helicopter from Bruticus Maximus), and finally Heatwave (the torso bot from Bruticus Maximus).  The accompanying story explained that these guys, though they didn't know it, were created when Alpha Trion, Vector Prime, and Solus Prime split apart Nexus Prime to hide the fragments of Prima's Star Saber from the Fallen.  So the reason why a bunch of people at the other board are mad is that we're getting Nexus as a Voyager-class dude who turns into a jet and looks vaguely like the Covenant depiction instead of a whole entire combiner... as if we haven't known for like a year that Nexus was going to be a Voyager, or as if Hasbro would have realistically dedicated more than a Leader budget in the first place.

Well, courtesy of Mark Maher's Instagram, we do know that Nexus is, in fact, capable of turning into a torso that works with at least Superion's frame...

 

[tekering]

As an oldskool Geewunner with no skin in this particular game, that seems like a pretty decent compromise to me...