New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy

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Also via Weibo and its user 蓝色正午, we have some new images of the Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon redeco of Masterpiece figure MP-10 Optimus Prime / Convoy - the umpteenth version of this specific toy, before the arrival of the third version of the same character in the same line.

Check out the mirrored images below, also including the shiny black box, with golden letters and logos, and images of both robot and alt-mode on the front; let us know what you think of the shiny new paint job on the Autobot commander in the Energon Pub discussion boards - will you be n-th dipping with the toy, or is this overkill by now?

Credit(s): Weibo 蓝色正午

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Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1980606)
Posted by ScottyP on August 25th, 2018 @ 2:46pm CDT

This is pretty cool for a (presumably) final version of this Optimus. Diggin' the black and gold packaging!

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1980640)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on August 25th, 2018 @ 5:47pm CDT

One thing is sure. A certain someone's wallet is screaming right now! :lol:

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1980653)
Posted by Emerje on August 25th, 2018 @ 7:41pm CDT

So I ended up ordering a Starscream off TTM today. After tax and shipping costs within Japan I'm currently sitting at about $41~. I still thinking it'll run between $50 and $55 total when it ships in October. If all goes well I might make a guide on how to order from Japan-only stores using a mailing service (I use Tenso).

Emerje

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1980784)
Posted by shajaki on August 26th, 2018 @ 6:35pm CDT

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1980927)
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on August 27th, 2018 @ 8:35pm CDT

What exactly are we meant to see in the circle?

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1980931)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on August 27th, 2018 @ 8:42pm CDT

chuckdawg1999 wrote:What exactly are we meant to see in the circle?

Pretty sure it's not it, but it looks like gold plastic breakage at the hinge area

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1980967)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on August 28th, 2018 @ 4:33am CDT

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:What exactly are we meant to see in the circle?

Pretty sure it's not it, but it looks like gold plastic breakage at the hinge area

That's not plastic breakage at all. It's just good old paint chipping. As a customiser of transformers, I see it happen ALL the time with painted joints.

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1981008)
Posted by o.supreme on August 28th, 2018 @ 9:14am CDT

Emerje wrote:So I ended up ordering a Starscream off TTM today. After tax and shipping costs within Japan I'm currently sitting at about $41~. I still thinking it'll run between $50 and $55 total when it ships in October. If all goes well I might make a guide on how to order from Japan-only stores using a mailing service (I use Tenso).

Emerje

If you can provide the link when this goes up for preorder, that would be appreciated. I've only seen a couple of *questionable* pre-orders so far and they have it in the $70-$80 range which is ridiculous. Plus they are sites I've not heard of, none of the major online retailers have it yet that I am aware of.

*Edit* looks like Pre-orders are starting to go up For GL Starscream. The Chosen Prime has it for $45. Robot Kingdom has it for $33, and I checked, with shipping would be $43...not as bad as I thought. I'll wait and see BBTS price however (when they have it up) before making my final decision.

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1982732)
Posted by william-james88 on September 6th, 2018 @ 8:57pm CDT

Via Japanese fan site Chohenken, we have some new images of the Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon redeco of Masterpiece figure MP-10 Optimus Prime / Convoy which sees to be the last release of this mold before the arrival of the third version of the same character in the same line.

There are a lot of images here, enough to show you exactly which parts are chrome or painted. We do see that the paint can easily be chipped, which a red circle highlights. This is a Takaratomymall exclusive but it is also being distributed through Hasbro Asia, who local retailers are importing from. He is being sold for around $180 by domestic retailers. Thanks to Shajaki for bringing these pics to our attention.

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1982748)
Posted by Nathaniel Prime on September 7th, 2018 @ 4:03am CDT

I thought ut looked ok before, but he looks great now. Athough if I were to change ONE thing from this, besides getting a gold trailer too, I'd make the matrix gold chrome instead of gold plastic. That said, I don't have the money nor the justification to cough up 180$ for a trailer-less Prime.

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1982762)
Posted by shajaki on September 7th, 2018 @ 9:39am CDT

Nathaniel Prime wrote:I'd make the matrix gold chrome instead of gold plastic.

While I don't have this MP-10 yet, I'm sure the Matrix is diecast painted gold. Every MP-10 Matrix thus far has been diecast, not plastic.

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1982765)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on September 7th, 2018 @ 10:24am CDT

shajaki wrote:
Nathaniel Prime wrote:I'd make the matrix gold chrome instead of gold plastic.
While I don't have this MP-10 yet, I'm sure the Matrix is diecast painted gold. Every MP-10 Matrix thus far has been diecast, not plastic.

But you did order it, right? :-?

Looking forward to have it in hand?

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1982775)
Posted by o.supreme on September 7th, 2018 @ 11:21am CDT

So I'm glad I jumped on Starscream quickly, pre-orders are already sold out at BBTS. I was originally going to order from RK, but something got wonky with their shipping, originally it was going to be only about $10 to ship, then at the final stage it somehow changed to $27 (and that was the least expensive method!)...No thank you. I know some places have it still...I think Chosen Prime still does, but the price is all about the same- $45 give or take. Not bad, especially in comparison with past TFCC exclusives.

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1982784)
Posted by ScottyP on September 7th, 2018 @ 12:58pm CDT

I just want one more use of the CW Starscream before they shelf it forever. With UW Ghost Starscream, TFCC SG Starscream, PotP Voyager, and now this Golden Lagoon version, we're one figure off from being able to create all Starscream combiners.

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1982873)
Posted by Sabrblade on September 7th, 2018 @ 8:36pm CDT

I went with TFSource for Starscream since I never got any notice about BBTS putting up their preorder for it until well after said preorder had sold out.

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1983036)
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on September 8th, 2018 @ 10:29pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:I went with TFSource for Starscream since I never got any notice about BBTS putting up their preorder for it until well after said preorder had sold out.

Yeah, now that you mention it there were NO pre-order notifications for the Golden Lagon figures besides Prime.

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1983115)
Posted by Marcdachamp on September 9th, 2018 @ 8:22pm CDT

Did I miss the boat in preorders for the Autobots team? What’s the price point on that? I don’t care to own Perceptor, but I’d love to have Beachcomber and Seaspray.

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1983122)
Posted by Sabrblade on September 9th, 2018 @ 9:49pm CDT

Marcdachamp wrote:Did I miss the boat in preorders for the Autobots team? What’s the price point on that? I don’t care to own Perceptor, but I’d love to have Beachcomber and Seaspray.

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/79611
https://tfsource.com/wonderfest-exclusive/golden-lagoon-giftset/

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1985401)
Posted by shajaki on September 22nd, 2018 @ 4:58pm CDT

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1991690)
Posted by Sabrblade on October 29th, 2018 @ 10:18pm CDT

My TFSource preorder for GL Starscream has processed. Gonna wait to ship it later after I save up a bit so as to take advantage of the free shipping on orders over $150. Got my eyes on a few other things that I can group together in my Stack with Screamer.

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1991796)
Posted by o.supreme on October 30th, 2018 @ 4:05pm CDT

My BBTS GLSS order was processed yesterday, hasn't shipped yet. It's the only item I had on pre-order, so hopefully it will ship soon. My PotP collection will be complete! (I know Golden Lagoon SS isn't technically PotP, but I count it as such...) Ironically, thanks to the lack of exclusives, I'm able to finish my want list for this line before CW or TR. My chances of completing TR are still feasible, as everything I want is still in stock and available on online, but CW will probably be next to impossible to complete. Curse you Hasbro, and your Modulus! :BANG_HEAD:

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1991813)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on October 30th, 2018 @ 7:36pm CDT

I saw GL Screamer come in stock and I am tempted by him. But I already have a nice divisible-by-4 number of combiner limbs, so i really don't need him. But he is really nice looking.

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (1991985)
Posted by Emerje on November 1st, 2018 @ 5:40am CDT

My Starscream should be here this weekend, maybe Monday at the latest. My grand total getting it directly from Takara Tomy Mall came to $56 which isn't terrible, but I underestimated how cheap the domestic price would be.

Emerje

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2006658)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on January 24th, 2019 @ 11:13pm CST

And here we have the next figure: Soundwave, from the Titans Return figure, NOT the Bumblebee retool:

https://twitter.com/ripetakobozu/status/1088382917347180544

Via Nathaniel Prime in the Siege thread.

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2006665)
Posted by Wolfman Jake on January 25th, 2019 @ 1:10am CST

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:And here we have the next figure: Soundwave, from the Titans Return figure, NOT the Bumblebee retool:

https://twitter.com/ripetakobozu/status/1088382917347180544

Via Nathaniel Prime in the Siege thread.

If Takara Tomy wanted to put out a "Golden Lagoon" edition of Soundwave at this size, why not use the far superior Masterpiece mold? It worked out well for Optimus Prime. Then again, it's weird they relegated poor "Golden Lagoon" Starscream to an undersized Deluxe mold that's not even very screen accurate anyway.

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2006677)
Posted by Nathaniel Prime on January 25th, 2019 @ 5:28am CST

Wolfman Jake wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:And here we have the next figure: Soundwave, from the Titans Return figure, NOT the Bumblebee retool:

https://twitter.com/ripetakobozu/status/1088382917347180544

Via Nathaniel Prime in the Siege thread.

If Takara Tomy wanted to put out a "Golden Lagoon" edition of Soundwave at this size, why not use the far superior Masterpiece mold? It worked out well for Optimus Prime. Then again, it's weird they relegated poor "Golden Lagoon" Starscream to an undersized Deluxe mold that's not even very screen accurate anyway.

I have no idea why they didn't just go with MP Soundwave, but the gold really makes this mold look great. The fact that it's not haphazardly applied makes him look even better. I'm sure that some people would have liked to have seen the Bumblebee Soundwave get this treatment instead though

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2006685)
Posted by Sabrblade on January 25th, 2019 @ 8:20am CST

The TR mold gives us a solid gold disco nightclub for our Titan Masters, Prime Masters, Micromasters, BotBots, etc. to boogie down and shake their groove thing!

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2006688)
Posted by william-james88 on January 25th, 2019 @ 9:00am CST

Here you go, more images that I newsed

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2006817)
Posted by Emerje on January 26th, 2019 @ 7:15am CST

I wonder how close that is to the final version. The gold plastic looks waaay better than any of the other figures, but I'm prepared to be disappointed by dull gold plastic once again.

Emerje

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2009250)
Posted by notsoalex on February 9th, 2019 @ 8:17pm CST

Thanks to @TF_pr on Twitter, we a have a picture of Golden Lagoon Soundwave at Wonderfest 2019! This is one of our first pictures of this shiny fellow, who we usually saw in stock photos. The figure is a redeco of Titans Return Leader Class Soundwave, cast in gold colored plastic, with painted gold chrome over it. This refers to the Transformers Generation 1 episode "The Golden Lagoon," which starred, the Golden Lagoon, in which everyone was dipped in gold. The figure utilizes the original Soundwave sculpt, instead of the Bumblebee retooling.

So, thoughts of this now that we see a good picture of this lad? Tell us your thoughts in the Pub forums below!

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2009260)
Posted by no-one on February 9th, 2019 @ 8:44pm CST

Looking sharp, if I'm reading that correctly is he 10,800 yen?

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2009290)
Posted by Wireless_Phantom on February 9th, 2019 @ 10:13pm CST

He is GOLD That is all

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2009324)
Posted by AllNewSuperRobot on February 10th, 2019 @ 3:25am CST

I wonder if they will go all the way to Gold Omega Supreme with this line :-?

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2086029)
Posted by o.supreme on November 4th, 2020 @ 12:12pm CST

Resurrecting This Thread, as these just popped up on Hasbro Pulse for pre-order. If you missed them before here is your Chance

The only one I wanted was Starscream, which I got previously from BBTS, and at the same price it is on PULSE, so I'm not upset. Still nice for any who want them, here is a second chance.

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2086034)
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on November 4th, 2020 @ 12:21pm CST

As someone who just sold off my GL Starscream last week, all I can say is "whew".

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2086035)
Posted by o.supreme on November 4th, 2020 @ 12:24pm CST

TF-fan kev777 wrote:As someone who just sold off my GL Starscream last week, all I can say is "whew".

I would never sell mine since he (as Sunstorm) is an integral part of one of my Combiners... but I never looked at after market prices once I got him initially. Would you care to give a rough idea of what he sold for?

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2086036)
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on November 4th, 2020 @ 12:31pm CST

o.supreme wrote:
TF-fan kev777 wrote:As someone who just sold off my GL Starscream last week, all I can say is "whew".

I would never sell mine since he (as Sunstorm) is an integral part of one of my Combiners... but I never looked at after market prices once I got him initially. Would you care to give a rough idea of what he sold for? .

He went for $50, not a huge increase over his original but some financial issues came up that lead to me having to sell off some parts of the collection that I didn't really need. If I would have waited a week longer, it would have been pointless.

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2086037)
Posted by o.supreme on November 4th, 2020 @ 12:34pm CST

Makes Sense. Thanks for Sharing. I've been in that position before. I've really curbed my collecting to just what I absolutely want, which has served me well. Only 4 definites so far for Kingdom

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2086050)
Posted by Immortal Starscream on November 4th, 2020 @ 1:35pm CST

just now saw these were up on pulse myself. sadly, all except prime are sold out

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2086051)
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on November 4th, 2020 @ 1:56pm CST

Immortal Starscream wrote:just now saw these were up on pulse myself. sadly, all except prime are sold out

Damn, that was quick.

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2086063)
Posted by Wolfman Jake on November 4th, 2020 @ 3:06pm CST

The Perceptor, Seaspray, and Beachcomber Golden Lagoon figures are still okay, since these are the latest molds of these characters AND pretty good ones at that. The rest are too little too late for me. Soundwave and Optimus Prime are way too big now for the new War for Cybertron Trilogy scale, and that Starscream is way too small and off model as compared to the fantastic Earthrise Starscream. These were an easy pass before, and they remain so now.

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2086064)
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on November 4th, 2020 @ 3:10pm CST

Yeah, I'm still not into these. Maybe if they were the new molds, I'd consider it, but these aren't even close to fitting in anymore.

Plus, there's just a glut of exclusives I want more.

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2086066)
Posted by o.supreme on November 4th, 2020 @ 3:16pm CST

I wonder if these were just sitting around TT warehouse, and they decided to give them to Pulse to see if they could "offload" them. I don't think they are newly produced. Still their appearance in the latest Selects Manga probably was a hope to get rid of the last of theser, which seems to have worked, except for MP-Prime.

I had no idea that today was the 35th anniversary of the airing of the Episode "The Golden Lagoon"... , nice way to synergize Pulse

.

The 35th anniversary of my favorite episode of all time is in 2 days...I wonder if they will do anything for that

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2086071)
Posted by ZeroWolf on November 4th, 2020 @ 3:39pm CST

Greetings Seibertronians! Thanks to fellow Seibertron users, TF-fan Kev777 and Kaynowa, we've learned that Takara's Exclusive Golden Lagoon figures (sold in three sets) have been listed on Hasbro Pulse! These were formerly only available via Takara (and any site that imported them). Now though Hasbro are making them available to US fans. Though at time of this article going live, only the redeco of Transformers Masterpiece MP-10 Optimus Prime is in stock. It is unknown at this juncture if any more preorders will become available or if it was first come, first served.

The three sets are:

Takara Tomy Golden Lagoon GL- 01 Convoy (Optimus Prime).

A redeco of Transformers Masterpiece MP-10 Optimus Prime.

Takara Tomy Golden Lagoon GL- 02 Starscream.

A redeco of Transformers Unite Warriors Ghost Starscream (who himself was Transformers Combiner Wars Skydive with a new head and cast in translucent plastics).

Takara Tomy Golden Lagoon GL- 03 Beachcomber, Perceptor and Seaspray.

Redecos of Power of the Primes Legends Beachcomber, Titans Returns Deluxe Class Perceptor (and Titan Master Convex) and Titans Returns Legends Class Seaspray.

What do you think of these? Did you manage to get a preorder on them? Have you got them from their previous release? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2086073)
Posted by o.supreme on November 4th, 2020 @ 3:51pm CST

GL-04 Soundwave cries in a corner for being left out, :-(

even though he's sold out like most of the others

.

Also just curious, what's the policy on news around here? I'm not upset at all, just confused as many stories I've brought up get passed over. If I submit via the actual news submission form, someone looks in the forums. If I do it first in the forums, someone else submits it via the form... :-?

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2086074)
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on November 4th, 2020 @ 3:54pm CST

I think in this case I submitted and mentioned it in another forum likely minutes before you mentioned it in the GL forum. (I'd forgotten there even was one.)

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2086188)
Posted by MeGrimlock78 on November 5th, 2020 @ 1:25pm CST

$45 for a deluxe?

And using molds that already exist?

Am I missing something?

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2086198)
Posted by Overcracker on November 5th, 2020 @ 2:00pm CST

MeGrimlock78 wrote:$45 for a deluxe?

And using molds that already exist?

Am I missing something?

Its all golden and shiny and from Japan. Look, its shiny!!!!!!! :HALUC:

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2086200)
Posted by o.supreme on November 5th, 2020 @ 2:03pm CST

Still way cheaper than BotCon and TFCC deluxes

Re: New Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime / Convoy (2086231)
Posted by Sabrblade on November 5th, 2020 @ 5:14pm CST

Overcracker wrote:
MeGrimlock78 wrote:$45 for a deluxe?

And using molds that already exist?

Am I missing something?

Its all golden and shiny and from Japan. Look, its shiny!!!!!!!

And they were Japanese convention exclusives produced in limited quantity.

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