Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword

Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 11:53AM CDT

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We have a pair of updates for you today regarding some Takara Exclusive gold weapons.

The first update comes concerning the Bronze Caliber Axe, the gold colored version of the axe that comes with Caliber Optimus Prime that was revealed over here. The axe is now available, and here is how you get it: go to Takara Tomy Mall, spend at least 2000 yen, and a Caliber Axe is yours! This information, along with an image of the bronze axe, comes from Snakas Blog.

The second update, also from Snakas blog, reveals that starting November 11, a second promotion will be happening where you can spend 5000 yen at Takara Tomy Mall and a gold version of Megatron's battle axe and Optimus' Temenos sword can be yours! The pair were teased in the previous story that you can see above, but here are finally shown in full.

Check out these new gold weapons below, and let us know if you intend to try to get one or all 3 for yourself!

Credit(s): Snakas Blog

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Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1919333)
Posted by Ig89ninja on November 1st, 2017 @ 1:53pm CDT

Are those leader weapons, or just voyager?

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1919373)
Posted by shajaki on November 1st, 2017 @ 5:26pm CDT

Ig89ninja wrote:Are those leader weapons, or just voyager?

According to stuff I've read, all 3 are Leader weapons.

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1919423)
Posted by Emerje on November 1st, 2017 @ 10:29pm CDT

I saw the ax on TTMall this morning (I check every morning looking to see if Brave Max has made its goals), but I can't read Japanese and couldn't find any translatable text on the site so I didn't bother passing it along. :HEADHURTS:

Emerje

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1926421)
Posted by Va'al on December 13th, 2017 @ 10:43am CST

As we have seemingly be writing about forever, today was the release date for the home releases of Transformers: The Last Knight - the fifth live-action movie from Paramount and Michael Bay - in Japan, where it's know as the The Last Knight King (or King of Knights, though nothing to do with Saber). We covered a while ago the 7 Eleven exclusive accompanying figure with the Blu-Ray edition of the movie, too, a clear plastic Optimus Prime, which uses the Voyager Premier edition of the character.

Thanks to regular suspects on social media, aka Japanese toy bloggers tagoal, Alfes 2010, singgg4 and yokozana, we have some in-hand, in-package, and posed images of the toy, too! Take a look below at some pretty cool looking full body light piping, and let us know what you think of the toy in the Energon Pub Discussion Board!

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1926458)
Posted by Lucky Logician on December 13th, 2017 @ 1:27pm CST

Clear versions of Starscream are meant to represent him as a ghost. So does that mean this guy is a Ghost Optimus?

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1926472)
Posted by primalxconvoy on December 13th, 2017 @ 2:25pm CST

He's meant to be the "Ghost of Michael's Past", forever haunting Mr Bay's dreams until he fixes his ways and starts making decent films.

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1926507)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on December 13th, 2017 @ 5:48pm CST

Ghostimus Prime look nie. But not nice enough for me to spend the big bucks and import him from a 3p seller.

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1926522)
Posted by Emerje on December 13th, 2017 @ 7:19pm CST

Just further supports my hate for clear plastic figures, especially when it's paired with opaque plastic. :SICK:

Emerje

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1926532)
Posted by TulioDude on December 13th, 2017 @ 9:20pm CST

Those kind of figures look better when you shine a light through them!This one looks nice!I need to have a regular one first though.

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1926545)
Posted by Sabrblade on December 13th, 2017 @ 11:04pm CST

Lucky Logician wrote:Clear versions of Starscream are meant to represent him as a ghost. So does that mean this guy is a Ghost Optimus?

In some previous cases, clear versions of Optimus represented powered up "Crystal" forms of him. 8-)

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1926548)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on December 13th, 2017 @ 11:13pm CST

Emerje wrote:Just further supports my hate for clear plastic figures, especially when it's paired with opaque plastic.

Emerje

I'll take opaque with clear if means less chance of breakage.

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1926568)
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on December 14th, 2017 @ 1:24am CST

I usually dislike clear figures but I actually really like this. Not enough to pay the likely high cost to get one but I do really like it.

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1926573)
Posted by primalxconvoy on December 14th, 2017 @ 2:53am CST

My Japanese friend told me that her TF-loving sons wanted to get the toy, but not the "Amerika eiga (movie)". I think she was basically saying they didn't want to fork out more of their pocket-money on a crummy Bay film just to get a clear version of a toy they already have.

That, and I have already brought the world of wei Jiang to their attention...

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1927077)
Posted by Evil Eye on December 17th, 2017 @ 6:23am CST

That clear Prime does look kinda nifty, but I'm not shelling out for an ultimately pointless redeco of a merely OK mold.

Now a proper Nemesis coloured Nemesis Prime version? THAT I would buy.

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1927669)
Posted by Va'al on December 22nd, 2017 @ 4:48am CST

We have some news from the Japanese side of Transformers: The Last Knight, which saw its home release only just over a week ago in the country, and Takara Tomy's TLK toyline - with a new Cybertron Satellite promotion, according to their official website. It comes down the following: every purchase of over 2000 Yen (approx 17 USD) from the line will give you the option of receiving a metallic file featuring Transformers The Last Knight art, namely Optimus Prime in his knightly pose and a selection of both Autobots and Decepticons featuring in the Paramount live-action movie.

We've mirrored the images of the promotion below, give them a look and let us know what you think in the Energon Pub discussion boards!

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1927673)
Posted by primalxconvoy on December 22nd, 2017 @ 7:24am CST

By "file", it's otherwise known as a "clear folder", I think.

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1927701)
Posted by Va'al on December 22nd, 2017 @ 11:29am CST

primalxconvoy wrote:By "file", it's otherwise known as a "clear folder", I think.

File in US English. ;)^

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1927744)
Posted by primalxconvoy on December 22nd, 2017 @ 5:02pm CST

I just checked, and I think it's British English too. For years, I've been using the computing term of "file in a folder", but, rather strangely, almost all definitions state "a file is a container, like a folder".

Oh well, I learnt something new today.

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1927762)
Posted by Sabrblade on December 22nd, 2017 @ 8:57pm CST

Nice to see that the Cybertron Satellite is still a thing.

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1927772)
Posted by Emerje on December 22nd, 2017 @ 10:55pm CST

primalxconvoy wrote:By "file", it's otherwise known as a "clear folder", I think.

Just an FYI side note: They're actually called "clear files" in Japanese (クリアファイル -- kuriafuairu). Though this one technically isn't a clear file since it isn't clear it's metallic (メタリックファイル -- metarikkufuairu).

Emerje

(I admit I had to cheat on the "fuairu" part because ァ doesn't convert into romaji right so I replaced it with an 'a'.)

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1927780)
Posted by primalxconvoy on December 22nd, 2017 @ 11:24pm CST

I know what they're called in Japanese, but anyways thought that the Japanese term was based upon incorrect English.

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1928227)
Posted by Tyrannacon on December 26th, 2017 @ 12:02pm CST

Amazon.jp has listed several of the Takara version of the Turbo Changers on their site as word of Takara and Hasbro both discuss "uniting the brands" continues. If that is happening, this would be part of it. TakaraTomy is taking the Hasbro Knight Armor Changer molds and souping them up by adding more screen accurate paint jobs and better highlights for the Knight Armor pieces to make them stand out better. So far the set include Bumblebee, Grimlock, Megatron, and Optimus Prime. Click on the images below to pop over to Amazon.jp to see additional images and/or place an order for them.

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1928302)
Posted by DeathReviews on December 26th, 2017 @ 6:51pm CST

It's a little too late for more TLK movie toys now, isn't it? My minions have just gotten back from trawling the Walmarts now that Christmas is over. Almost all the Transformers were sold out - except the TLK ones. Plenty of those warming the shelves.

What should THAT tell Hasbro....?

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1928305)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on December 26th, 2017 @ 7:00pm CST

DeathReviews wrote:It's a little too late for more TLK movie toys now, isn't it? My minions have just gotten back from trawling the Walmarts now that Christmas is over. Almost all the Transformers were sold out - except the TLK ones. Plenty of those warming the shelves.

What should THAT tell Hasbro....?

Japan dosent care about your shopping woes. >:oP

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1928338)
Posted by Emerje on December 26th, 2017 @ 11:55pm CST

DeathReviews wrote:It's a little too late for more TLK movie toys now, isn't it? My minions have just gotten back from trawling the Walmarts now that Christmas is over. Almost all the Transformers were sold out - except the TLK ones. Plenty of those warming the shelves.

What should THAT tell Hasbro....?

I had the opposite experience, the only transformers that sold a significant amount by Tuesday morning was TLK Deluxe.

Emerje

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1928342)
Posted by william-james88 on December 27th, 2017 @ 12:10am CST

Emerje wrote:
DeathReviews wrote:It's a little too late for more TLK movie toys now, isn't it? My minions have just gotten back from trawling the Walmarts now that Christmas is over. Almost all the Transformers were sold out - except the TLK ones. Plenty of those warming the shelves.

What should THAT tell Hasbro....?

I had the opposite experience, the only transformers that sold a significant amount by Tuesday morning was TLK Deluxe.

Emerje

Proof that everything anyone sees is purely anecdotal. Like the time that all RID toys were sold out in my area.

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1938045)
Posted by william-james88 on February 12th, 2018 @ 2:51pm CST

Cogman restocked at TF Source

https://tfsource.com/transformers-the-l ... ss-cogman/

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1943458)
Posted by Qwan on March 3rd, 2018 @ 1:38am CST

Thanks to a listing on Amazon.jp, we now know both the price and expected release date for Takara Tomy's Turbo Changer TC-09 Battle Command Optimus Prime figure (revealed back in October 2017). The toy with a mouthful of a name is listed on Amazon's site for ¥6,246 (approximately $60US), and the listing indicates that it will be released on April 21st, just under two months away.

As a bonus, it also seems that Turbo Changers TC-05 through TC-08 (that is: Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, Megatron and Grimlock) will be receiving re-releases at the same time to coincide with the release date of TC-09.

Check out the Amazon listings for each of these figures by clicking on their images below, and don't forget to share your thoughts by posting in the Energon Pub! We always want to hear your opinions. And as always, stay tuned to Seibertron.com for more Transformers news!

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1943461)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on March 3rd, 2018 @ 1:49am CST

From the looks of it, it's a minor redeco of LA-01 Battle Command Optimus Prime, with TLK Voyager Prime's sword and shield added in. On that note, that toy used the same electronics system with the magnets as Stomp & Chomp Grimlock, but given the TLK line did away with that... :-?

O yeah, the One-Step Changers were released before in the main TLK line as "Speed Change" so-and-so, expect some changes from the US toys.

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1943465)
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on March 3rd, 2018 @ 2:18am CST

This was a fun figure to mess around with, loaded with weapons.

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1943483)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on March 3rd, 2018 @ 7:44am CST

HOLY BACKPACK BATMAN!

Of course, that set is not aimed at collectors. But a kid getting that Optimus set as a gift will go NUT! There's plenty of play value here. ;)^

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1946535)
Posted by Va'al on March 16th, 2018 @ 11:48am CDT

The second YouTube promotional video from Takara Tomy features the Transformers: The Last Knight Turbo Changer and Big Turbo Changer lines, part of which was covered earlier this month in this post, and the latter of which were released by Hasbro under the Knight Armor sub-line, with Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Grimlock, and Megatron.

What we get to find out in the video are the new sounds that the Japanese release of the electronics featured in Battle Comand Optimus Prime as it interacts with TC-05 Bumblebee, TC-06 Optimus Prime, TC-07 Megatron, and TC-08 Grimlock. Check out below the embedded video, a couple of screenshots from it, and then join the conversation in the Energon Pub discussion boards!

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1946723)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on March 17th, 2018 @ 4:14pm CDT

Played with my (awesomely cheap at $7 a pop) Voyager Hound and Megatron, and both are pretty good. Hound does have a loose elbow joint, and a loose back panel, ugh. I suspect the metal pins weren't put in all the way through in those places... Megatron however is just perfect in all the right places.

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1962546)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on May 31st, 2018 @ 9:29pm CDT

In the ongoing tale of Takara releasing simplified Transformers well after Transformers: The Last Knight has rolled through theaters and DVD stands alike, we have 3 new listings and sets of images for you to check out in the form of 1-step Turbo Changers Drift, Hot Rod, and Slug!

These 3 figures were all released in the United States during The Last Knight toyline, and are now getting released by Takara. Hot Rod was only available in a 2-pack with Bumblebee, while Slug and Drift were available on their own. In a very strange twist, Slug and Drift come in the decos they sported in Age of Extinction, rather than the new paint schemes they used in The Last Knight. Why this decision was made, we do not know. All 3 figures are available via Amazon Japan, and you can go check out each listing by following the links above or by clicking any of their images below.

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1962547)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 31st, 2018 @ 10:20pm CDT

So TC-10 Autobot Hot Rod (Tongue-twister right there), TC-11 Autobot Drift, and TC-12 Dinobot Slug, released on July 21st. Of note that this is the first time Slug is available separately in Japan, as in the Lost Age he was part of a 4-pack with Silver Knight Optimus Prime, Helicopter Drift and Galvatron. Also, Drift uses the AoE mold instead of the TLK one which was released already.

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1962557)
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on May 31st, 2018 @ 11:38pm CDT

Getting Hot-Rod this way is probably easier and cheaper than in the US.

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1962595)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on June 1st, 2018 @ 11:59am CDT

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Getting Hot-Rod this way is probably easier and cheaper than in the US.

The Netherlands still had plenty of the 2-pack last I was there.

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1962707)
Posted by BeastProwl on June 2nd, 2018 @ 9:42am CDT

I actually laughed out loud at Drift. His face....I can't :lol:

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1962785)
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on June 3rd, 2018 @ 12:38am CDT

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Getting Hot-Rod this way is probably easier and cheaper than in the US.

The Netherlands still had plenty of the 2-pack last I was there.

Probably cheaper to buy from there than a US based seller too.

Re: Takara Tomy Exclusive Bronze Caliber Axe Details, Reveal of Gold Battle Axe and Temenos Sword (1989591)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on October 17th, 2018 @ 4:36pm CDT

*BUMP*

I was just comparing TLK Legion Hot Rod with the Autobots United 2-pack redeco, and I suspect and it's actually a repaint instead of a true redeco because the plastic colors are the same: just the paint is different. Can anyone double check?

... and I just now realsised this is the TakaraTomy thread. D'Oh! #-o