A Transformers fan event was held in Japan at the Bic Camera Nagoya Station west shop. On show to the public was a vast amount of upcoming releases, including:
- A test shot of Encore Fortress Maximus. He is shown here with the large “Master Sword” weapon confirming that yes, Encore Fortress Maximus will have his giant sword!
- Upcoming Masterpiece releases including Soundwave and Red Alert, along with prototypes of the Masterpiece series cassettes Ravage and Rumble.
- Upcoming releases from the Transformers Generations Japan line, including the five Combaticons and their combined form, Bruticus, Soundwave and Soundblaster, plus the Autobot and Decepticon Data Disks
- Next month’s Transformers Prime Arms Micron releases, Ultra Magnus, Shockwave and Leo Prime
- Also shown off to the public for the first time were the AMW-13 Advanced Star Saber and AMW-14 Gravity Planet Bow-Gun. These pictures show both sets will feature a mixture of clear plastic and solid plastic Arms Microns – for example, the O.P., B.2. and R.A. on the Advanced Star Saber are solid colors, while the I.R. and W.J. are clear plastic.
- There was also a display for the Transformers GT and BeCool series.
Various Japanese fan blogs and feeds have been covering the event. Collected here are some of the pictures shared with the fandom at large by Snakas / Autobase Aichi, @Dragon_526 and @robo_z.
Soundwave3k
Actually I think Mixmasterjay may be right. Wasn't it in More Than Meets The Eye where Soundwave had some kind of grid pattern schematic on his chest?
Rodentus prime
I think it may be a chest cover/connection piece so you can connect the energon cube to his chest to make it look like he's generating it.
Mixmasterjay
Isn't Soundwave using his chest as some sort of radarscreen in one of the G1 episodes???
[Wing_Saber-X]
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PoweredConvoy
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PrimusVsUnicron
that a prototype Fort Max? or a SG version
Soundwave3k
Yeah, it looks like an alternate cover all right. Have we seen it up until now though? Maybe something for Soundblaster?
malcontentman
Forget SG. I would love to just see a straight Decepticon redeco of Fort Max in purple and black (maybe a little teal too) with Con logos all over the place.
Wazdakka
Those Combaticons make me feel naughty.
BlueAngel_Bolt
Am I the only one who saw the Fort Max proto and thought it looked like a SG Maximus?
Knightdramon
Possibly a "stand" for the energon cube or dare I say, an alternate cover for his chest piece that supports an additional tape?
Soundwave3k
Okay, I have to ask this again, but what is that extra tray/chest cover in front of Soundwave in this pic? https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f…type=3&theater
I've never seen that before…
[Wing_Saber-X]
sorry to disappoint you, but it's been said / confirmed many times that AM Lio Prime does not have a new head sculpt.
TCJJ
Mother of God…. THIS IS AWESOME. Apart from Soundblaster who I don't care for (but I'll still get Shockwave), the BotShots or uh…. "BeCool", and POSSIBLY Leo Prime (depending on how he turns out – I don't think the pictures we've seen of that paint scheme have been great yet, and it's hard to tell if he has a new head or not. I don't think he does, but it'd be a selling point for me if he does), I'm gonna be buying all of these.
I'm so happy that I pre-ordered FoC Bruticus. The Japanese one, that is. That thing is gorgeous. Swindle and Brawl have amazing paint jobs, and Onslaught follows suit, too. It appears Vortex will look like Hasbro's SDCC photoshopped promo pics, which is good, because I always liked the look of that. The only one that still suffers a bit is Blast-Off, but I saw the Hasbro one in store the other day, and that's probably by far my favourite of the regular release colour schemes, so I could always mix and match. We'll see how he turns out, I guess.
Those Cassetticons looks great, too. They're about 2/3 the price of a Deluxe over here, which is really expensive for two tiny little robots, but considering (for me) that the Japanese price is only slightly higher, and, as I presumed, the paint jobs are FAR superior, I'll just stick with the Japanese releases.
Galaxy Convoy
Still, eHobby isn't TakTomy. They work real closely with them, but far as I'm concerned up until now the matter of the Master Sword being included or not was a "he tell me" affair. Great to finally see 100% confirmation of it.
Something else worth noting is how they decided to display that FM test shot(Fortress Testimus? ) with a vintage FM box. That would seem to suggest they'll be emulating it for the encore release. Nothing highly unusual about that, but nice to know anyway.
Maverick Hunter Christian
Kind've cool that the new AMWs are getting a full boxed release. That's neat.
Kind've not cool that some of those Microns are now needlessly molded in clear plastic; especially considering what a piece of junk Ironhide's Micron is to begin with. Also, the clear plastic is breaking up what I thought was some really nice complementary colors going on between the Autobot and Decepticon sets.
03Mach1
That Fort Max presentation is really unimpressive. Sure, it's cool to see the test shot but Cog's missing an arm and the master sword isn't even complete. Surprising that they wouldn't put their best foot forward.
Paxtin
Of course it had to be Red Alert.
Only thing that would've made it funnier is if he had the malfunctioning spark accessories on his head.
Autovolt 127
Nice to know Fort Max comes with that sword.
GAUGE
That Fort Max Proto is Beautiful.
They should release that as Shattered Glass version. lol