The Transformers license for collectibles continues to expand as companies Milk and Soap Studios have joined forces to create a white and clear plastic vinyl Optimus Prime figure! A bit of an oddity, but a cool one nonetheless, as this Prime features an upper body made of clear plastic and the lower half of milk white plastic, sporting black decals and eyes for contrast. As a vinyl statue, this Optimus unfortunately can’t transform.
Release date and pre-orders have yet to come out, but he’s to be priced at 1,080 yuan (approximately $160 USD). Check out the pics from ToyznHobby after the jump!
RavageBeak1000
Anyone know where to find the Milk x Soap clear Optimus? Besides ebay any store still have these?
lordmegatron64
Would've enjoyed Combiner Wars more if each character had their own mold. And that those molds weren't blocky legends class engineered figures with a near 20$ price tag. Titan Returns suffers the same problem as Combiner Wars except with Head Masters as the gimmick instead of combining…Which Head Masters are TECHNICALLY combiners. As for Masterpiece it's real hit and miss for me. Having owned and played with one of MP-01's many reissues and repaints, I liked him and felt that The remake Optimus was unnecessary. Not a real fan of the sudden attention to scale which I always deemed unimportant when looking for a good figure. 70$ for an offically made deluxe is lame and not worth my money. The only figures that needed remakes were Megatron and the Seekers. HotRodimus had problems, yes, but ultimately the Original MP-09 is way superior to that new voyager crap that honestly looks less accurate in robot mode. I love innovative Transformations. Which Is why, after the Thrilling 30 line, I felt a serious hole start to form. If I have to play inflated prices for good figures, might as well go all out. So I've been getting 3rd party when I have the money. As for Titan Master line. It's cute, but the lack of Poseability for the head masters really irks me with there being mini-cons that can do more.
calvin0
so i guess you dont like combiner wars, masterpiece and titan master?
lordmegatron64
I hated G1 to be fair. Action Masters were lame. the figure designs of all the g1 toys were bad. And I understand that it was 30 years ago, but in my opinion it should've just stayed in 1984.
calvin0
they are action masters.
lordmegatron64
It's not even an "argument". It's my opinion. You don't have to like it. I personally enjoying it when my Transformers transform. ESPECIALLY when the cost is more than 50$
primalxconvoy
No problem. I suspected that it wasn't Japanese, due to the lack of hirigana and katakana text. A quick Google search brought up their Facebook page with their Hong Kong background.
At least these guys don't really pretend to be Japanese, unlike the overpriced "Tokyoflash" watches, which are based on Singapore and have nothing to do with Japan whatsoever. While I'm at it, the "Super Dry" brand of clothing is also not Japanese, but British (and features laughably bad Japanese written on all of the clothes).
Buyer beware!
Onslaught24
Much appreciated, gents. Been super busy this week and this one was a bit of an oddity, so apologies for the mixup and delay for the fix.
HARD RAINBOW
At $10 I\'ll buy 15
At $150 nope
Fallout
lol, $150 for what's basically one of those crappy titan figures from the prime/aoe days?
WishfulThinking
Yelp…there goes my enthusiasm…
primalxconvoy
Can someone alert the OP that the front page news post contains erroneous info? The price is in Yuan, making it sound 150-ish dollars (as stated by some of us in the posts above).
Raiyuki
Those proportions are rather rather Dreamwave esque
bellpeppers
This isn't for me…
primalxconvoy
Just to confirm, that this is a CHINESE/Hong Kong based product, so the price is in Chinese Yuuan, not Japanese Yen (as they share similar symbols).
Thus:
1080 Chinese Yuan equals 161.89 US Dollars
Herbz
The price is in Chinese Yuan, which is about $160 USD. Says it will be on sale at certain locations in Beijing and Guangzhou in the beginning of October.
Fallout
no way is this $10. the cartoon colored one is $170 on bbts.
primalxconvoy
(Source: – https://m.facebook.com/soapstudiohk/#!/soapstudiohk/about/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=1 ) Ahh, I\'ve just did some basic searching, and it seems that this is NOT Japanese. I suspected this, due to the lack of hiragana and katakana on the images (it\'s just kanji).
I suspect that the price given is not actually Yen, but perhaps Chinese currency?
primalxconvoy
Where is there official, Japanese language website to see this? Some random Facebook page isn\'t going to help me track this down on Japan.
WishfulThinking
At $10…I'd be tempted, if just for the novelty alone. But since it's coming from Japan, it'll probably be at least $20 after shipping.