Dengeki Hobby December 2011 Scans - Striker Optimus Prime and More
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011 10:18PM CDT
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Posted by Supreme Convoy on October 25th, 2011 @ 10:47pm CDT
Posted by RodimalToyota on October 25th, 2011 @ 10:50pm CDT
Whose the Decpt on top of the building behind the fight for freedom picture?
Posted by Autobot032 on October 25th, 2011 @ 11:09pm CDT
The dark gray/black plastic ruined it for me.
Posted by Cshen on October 25th, 2011 @ 11:12pm CDT
RodimalToyota wrote:Glad I ordered Striker Prime, and the Blades, that is one badass figure set.
Whose the Decpt on top of the building behind the fight for freedom picture?
Those are the three movie Wreckers up there. Roadbuster's standing on the building in bot mode, while Topspin and Leadfoot are uh... falling from the sky.
I really like the armour, but I'd rather not spend money on another Leader Prime.
Posted by Dre Merc on October 25th, 2011 @ 11:31pm CDT
Autobot032 wrote:Was interested in Striker. Was.
The dark gray/black plastic ruined it for me.
I feel the same. OP looks so badass, but they didn't give it the Buster treatment. Shame.. I really don't feel like repainting it myself.
Posted by Autobot032 on October 25th, 2011 @ 11:34pm CDT
Dre Merc wrote:Autobot032 wrote:Was interested in Striker. Was.
The dark gray/black plastic ruined it for me.
I feel the same. OP looks so badass, but they didn't give it the Buster treatment. Shame.. I really don't feel like repainting it myself.
The shield, guns and torso are great additions, but are they worth $120.00?
Not to mention, after finishing the Frankensteining, is it worth it? I'm willing, but I don't know if my wallet is.
From what I can tell...you need ROTF Leader Class Optimus for the waist/legs, Striker Optimus for the torso, guns and shield, and ROTF Optimus for the chest pieces, arms and head.
It can be done, but I come back to "is it worth it?"
Hmm.
EDIT: Nevermind. I forgot about the remolded chest pieces. Plus the red and blues are muted compared to the original. Damn.
Posted by UltraPrimal on October 25th, 2011 @ 11:55pm CDT
Posted by JRFitzpatrick7 on October 26th, 2011 @ 12:04am CDT
Posted by MINDVVIPE on October 26th, 2011 @ 12:07am CDT
Posted by stk on October 26th, 2011 @ 2:03am CDT
Dre Merc wrote:Autobot032 wrote:Was interested in Striker. Was.
The dark gray/black plastic ruined it for me.
I feel the same. OP looks so badass, but they didn't give it the Buster treatment. Shame.. I really don't feel like repainting it myself.
Thirded.
Great mold. Terrible paint job. Or more accurately, lack of a decent paint job. And I don't want to try and disassemble it to paint it myself.
Even if they are too cheap to give us the Buster pin striping again, the least they could do is cover up the awful, cheap-looking gray plastic with silver paint the way it's supposed to be.
I kept hoping that when new pictures surfaced, they'd show that the parts that are supposed to be painted silver would be after all. At the very least, the truck's grill or something. But nope.
So forget it.
Not that Takara/Tomy would ever read this, but at these prices, for my hard-earned money, I'd rather have fewer gimmicks and add-on parts, and more paint. I'd be MUCH more likely to buy an exact re-release of Buster Prime with the premium paint job, pin-striping, and chrome for $120, than I would be to buy Striker Prime with his extra weapons but garbage looking paint job.
Posted by Ravage XK on October 26th, 2011 @ 3:44am CDT
Posted by autobotOG on October 26th, 2011 @ 9:23am CDT
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on October 26th, 2011 @ 10:23am CDT
UltraPrimal wrote:Hey, who's that big green bot? He looks pretty cool.
He's not that big really. That's Air Raid, or Seeker Air Raid in Japan, a Deluxe. He's in the same US wave as Dark Steel.
Posted by RodimalToyota on October 26th, 2011 @ 11:10am CDT
Posted by UltraPrimal on October 26th, 2011 @ 11:39am CDT
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:UltraPrimal wrote:Hey, who's that big green bot? He looks pretty cool.
He's not that big really. That's Air Raid, or Seeker Air Raid in Japan, a Deluxe. He's in the same US wave as Dark Steel.
I was actually talking about Devastator, and was going to make a joke about how that's not Devastator because he should have pair of wrecking balls between his legs. :p
Posted by stk on October 26th, 2011 @ 5:52pm CDT
RodimalToyota wrote:If you want museum Prime get buster, If you want "I just busted some Decepticon heads, and saved the planet" get Striker Prime. Chrome on him would look rather out of place. Not only did they release Buster, but they are re-releasing him again. I don't want any of the same treatments on all the same mold. I'm glad the colors are darker, it's a darker story, and it's Dark of the Moon. Either way, We will know the FINAL colors when the first one arrives at a retailer.
I can do without the chrome, but I need the silver. I know the toy is made out of plastic, but it doesn't need to look like it. The dull gray plastic truck grill makes the whole toy look cheap and awful on every non-Buster release of the RotF Leader Prime mold. As does the dull gray arms, legs, waist, etc., in robot mode.
It's one thing if it's a cheap $40 Hasbro release. I still don't like it, but at least there it's excusable -- you get what you pay for. But when you are charging more than $100 for the same basic mold, paint the freaking toy.
Posted by Faraid Ez-Zone on October 26th, 2011 @ 8:17pm CDT
Posted by Cyberseven on October 26th, 2011 @ 9:47pm CDT
I can't wait to see him in first hand.
Posted by SKYWARPED_128 on October 26th, 2011 @ 9:58pm CDT
I'd rather save my pennies for a buster version.
Posted by SKYWARPED_128 on October 26th, 2011 @ 10:11pm CDT
I might just get one to display on my desktop.
Posted by RodimalToyota on October 27th, 2011 @ 12:52am CDT
Posted by SKYWARPED_128 on October 28th, 2011 @ 7:02pm CDT
RodimalToyota wrote:There 1/144, it's roughly the size of those metal airplanes you buy in the store for 2$
Thanks, RodimalToyota. Definite pass, then. For the kind of price they're asking, it's way too small. I was hoping for at least a voyager class size.