There’s a new Transformers GT release on the horizon, as revealed in the February 2013 Japanese Hobby magazine scans. Along with two pages of coverage on the very sharp looking Transformers GT Optimus Prime there is the reveal that Optimus Prime’s arch nemesis Megatron will also be getting the Transformers GT treatment. GT Megatron is set to be the third release in the Transformers GT series after GT Prime and GT Saber, and also appears to be using the same Alternity Nissan GT-R Convoy body as the others. He comes with a big gun (as is only appropriate for Megatron), a Decepticon Race Queen (in a purple and black outfit, Decepticon colors!). He’s set to run for 10,500 yen and is themed after the “S Rosd Ralto MOLA GT-R” (or, from lower down the same scan, “S Road Reito MOLA GT-R”). No word as yet on a release date – or indeed, where this leaves GT Maximus, who was posited as a possible third release in the series.
These scans come to you courtesy of the Cybergundam blog.
bkz
^^^ Well that sucks, lets hope they used die cast for the feet.
PoweredConvoy
They'd have to make new molds to make them into plastic.
Randy
bkz
I would strongly recommend that takara scrap the die cast idea and make them all 100% plastic for 2 reasons. 1- This will cut costs and more people will buy them, 2- This will make poseability and stability much better. Toynami did this with their Voltron a few years back and I had both, the plastic version was far superior.
Stepper
I am still hoping for a Fort Max because till now still no pic of GTR with Fort Max's head
Double Spy
interesting
wontonbot
not related to alternity/binaltech but curious as to where you guys purchase/import from japan? just trying to see if its cheaper to do it that way as opposed to buying from bbts or other american sites
Stepper
TakaraTomy will be utilising the GTR mold till it rot
Maz
I thought this was going to be a great opportunity to mix Super GT and modern racing cars with the technology of Binaltech/Alternity style toys, both of which I love, but the more I see of the releases and the use of "Mission GT-R" on the latest displays, I wonder if it's purely a Transformers, Super GT and Nissan initiative. Nissan are very good and branching out and their successful forays into PlayStation, GT Academy through Gran Turismo and Race Academy show they are not afraid to try new things with their brand. I wonder if the other manufacturers in Super GT like Honda and Lexus are less willing to have their models used by Takara Tomy for this line?
The price point really is so high, I would only want to get into these toys if I knew other manufacturers would be introduced and we could conceivably have a half decent grid of race cars to display.
So far they have shown the Motul Autech, Impul Calsonic, S Road Reito Mola and Advan D'Station Nissan GT-Rs, and that is currently all of the Nissan GT-R teams in Super GT, GT500 class. So if they are going to go beyond GT-04, I guess they will have to include further Honda HSV-010 and Lexus SC430 models. That is unless they want to use the GT300 class cars where there are more Nissan GTRs, and those are a lot closer in mould to the Alternity toys…
Ohhh I dream of a Raybrig Honda HSV010 in this line….
All the best
Maz
sinwithme13
still think this is too much for such a small scale
Raiju
^ Why should Bots get all the groupies? XD
MovieGodOptimus
Why does Megs come with a race queen? I mean he's a Decepti… MAYBE IT'S BLUDGEON!
[Wing_Saber-X]
but..but.. he's a black repaint!
Acteon
Nice. The Alternity Prime is one of my favourite TF figures, and for the build quality, detail and heft of the figures they're almost worth the price point. I'll probably wait and see if Mandarake get them in second hand before ordering, though they would look gorgeous in my office cabinet alongside my Miku BMW, Porsche 959 and G1 Smokescreen
SydneyY
Megs looks nice, but I'm happy with the Fairlady ones.
sinwithme13
these figures are nice but too small of a scale for the price
blue death
Hoooo boy Megs is looking pretty rough there.
harrismonkey
Well, the original alternity Convoy was among the most impressive toys HasTak has done. This is a far more elaborate and detailed repaint than we typically see. Possibly superior to the original. Also they've done some remolding. Imagine if they'd tried this hard with the paint/detailing on the DOTM wreckers…
So yes, this is one of the most exciting things to come out of HasTak in a while. They've pretty much left the collectors that loved high detail, high paint, realism toys out in the cold for quite some time. Just seeing a serious effort again is exciting to me.
Personally, I'm getting Prime (maybe even one to display in both modes). Pretty sure I'm passing on Star Saber. I won't know about Megatron or Metroplex until we see pictures of the final toys.
It does bother me they're reusing molds, and I think the namesakes are mostly stupid. But if the toys are great, who cares.
I will say, these are the only alternity repaints I've bothered with (except Skywarp). I feel like these bring more to the table than most repaints do, and I also miss the high end toys HasTak isn't really doing any more. Even the MPs are different (not necessarily worse- but there has been a shift in direction)
harrismonkey
When Alternity first came out, the quality and design felt pretty in step with MP to me. (of course shortly before many people had viewed MP and BT and being sort of sister lines)
I still like MP, but your comment sort of highlights a recent issue I've begun to have with MP. The quality hasn't gone down per se. But the focus has sort of shifted away from making the nicest toys possible (which gave nods to original toy, cartoon and anything else that made sense)- to making toys as faithful as possible to the G1 cartoon designs. They're doing a fantastic job with that.
The problem is that the G1 cartoon designs tended to be very simple and plain (to make animating them easier). In many cases the cartoon design was actually less detailed than the original toy.
The result is the MP toys are beginning to come up a bit short on the detail that used to make them so incredible. My wife couldn't believe it when I told her Sideswipe was MP. If Sideswipe is really what we can expect from the MP line down the road, I'm unsure if I'll stick with it or not.
I'm hoping Prowl is next, and I'm hoping I end up really liking him rather than just sort of liking Sideswipe (he's my least favorite MP I own).
Stepper
For me,this Alternity line is a flop,not only are the figures are expensive,they just keeping using the same mold but just a repaint of different colours & they can called
them as different character.
[Wing_Saber-X]
this was Alternity 'Dai Atlas'
The new Con' looks like a meaner looking Megs to me, IMHO.
Bought if ever released/