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Allspark.com has come across a nice gallery of the recently released Takara Tomy MA-21 Movie Leader Optimus Prime on the HK-TF.com Boards. A release in Japan earlier this week, this Prime sports a built on retracting 'energon' blade and the usual nice shiny chrome.







To view the complete gallery of pics, click here.

WHY CANT WE GET THAT OVER HERE...... oh theres evilbay

It just pisses me off that Hasbro wouldn't just have released this
as their Premium version.

It looks amazing . Once again Takara Tomy outperforms Hasbro. At least I usually prefer the Takara Tomy versions, though exceptions exist, like the Hasbro Soundwave reissue.

wow, now that's PREMIUM!
if i only got one more thing from the movie line, that would be it.
it just looks superb.

This is a spectacular peice, worthy of the price we'll all be paying for it ($70). I understand the cost-cutting measures Hasbro need to implement given the price of production in these inflationary times but, as far as product goes, TakaraTomy never seems to disappoint.

I can't stand the movie stuff... and even I like this.

Tekka wrote:I can't stand the movie stuff... and even I like this.

I second the motion, I look at most of the Movie transformers and think 'What a mess!' but this one has gorgeous attention to detail.

PlasmaEnergyGod wrote:This is a spectacular peice, worthy of the price we'll all be paying for it ($70). I understand the cost-cutting measures Hasbro need to implement given the price of production in these inflationary times but, as far as product goes, TakaraTomy never seems to disappoint.

is that what he goes for?
haven't seen him on bbts.com yet, nor have i really looked.

stand corrected, just looked. 85 on preorder from bbts atm.

WOW looks great.
so... does anyone want to buy my regular movie leader prime ?
hehehe

Takara. Anything that takara touches changes into gold.

Awesome, from the first time I saw leader prime I thought chrome would make it look a million bucks - and it does.

I'm sick of buying Hasbro stuff only to have better Takara versions appear

OOOOOH CHROME

Wow, that looks awesome.

NOW we're talking! Kudos, Takara ... ku-friggin-dos!

How come 99.9% of what Takara makes makes what Hasbro gives us look like crap?

Autobot Jazz wrote:How come 99.9% of what Takara makes makes what Hasbro gives us look like crap?

You bet!...

Get rid of that ugly head and that Optimus would be just Prime.

Dammit. I thought I was done ovie line after getting all the Premiums.

It will be awesome if Megatron was chromed.

I love the chrome on Takara's Premium movie Prime. They sure have the best paint apps. And the eye for detail too, esp. what seems to be cybertronian script on the prime's blade. This is truly a premium TF

AWESOME!!!! The only thing is that every grey part should be chromed. Still better than Hasbro.

Instead if buying that, I went and painted my Premium Prime. I may have to file some of the hilt of the sword so that the paint doesn't get scratched off though.

I may have to get that.

Yuck. Who decided to ruin that figure by putting so much chrome on it?

The bottoms of his feet have chrome? That's certainly not going to wear off or anything!

As well, having the entire foot be chromed, sheesh. Now it looks like Optimus wants to get all dressed up for Prince Charming's ball.

The only thing I like about this figure is the sword addition. Otherwise, chromed feet are bad and hardly practical, and the figure looks a bit plain with the block coloured nose as opposed to the gradiented one that Hasbro used.