Fretting about getting Power of the Primes Novastar (aka Firestar) with her status as the sole new toy in Hasbro’s Power of the Primes Deluxe Wave 4? Worry not, because Takara-Tomy has you covered.
As anticipated, Takara-Tomy will be offering the female Autobot as a part of their Power of the Primes lineup this October. She’s set to be joined by Tailgate, Shrapnel, Inferno, and Alpha Trion (aka Landmine), which importantly shows that Takara-Tomy is also going to be delving into some of Hasbro’s rereleases and mold repurposings which in the past may not have made it to Japan. Truly, a unified approach to marketing?
Importantly, these releases will be unaltered from the US releases like the rest of Takara’s Japanese offerings so far, so those concerned they might miss out on Novastar now have another option available to add her to their collections.
Thanks go to Planet Iacon on Facebook for sharing these advance listings:
PP-32 Prime Master Alpha Trion
PP-33 Insecticon Skrapnel
PP-34 Autobot Tailgate
PP-35 Autobot Nova Star
PP-36 Autobot Inferno
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RobotKnight95
Hmmm. Ok if Hasbro's Inferno has that white chest for the combiner I might get and some part-swapping with Pyra Magna. I need to see how both she and Vicky would look withe Defensor's chest piece.
Fenrys
its a repaint of moonracer
payres
Lay down a preorder for the Japanese one now then while it's available!
HLJ Transformers Power of the Prime PP-35 Autobots Novastar
BBTS Transformers Power of the Primes PP-35 Novastar
Infosaur
Wow, Novastorm.
Even though it's a repaint of whatever is on the combiner's leg (Chromia?) I haven't seen this mold before.
Damnit, now I want it.
Latooni
Fire/Novastar's looking really nice. I'm hoping I can find her, but seeing as she's the Slugslinger of PoTP… Welp…
I really like Inferno's combined mode. Does anyone know if the colour layout for it homages anything, or is it original?
payres
Megatronus with Bomb-Burst appears in the Novastar pictures:
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Cooktimus Prime
YES
Fenrys
walmart needs to go to hell
Neko-bot77
Hasbro doesn't care where their toys go, so long as all the stock leaves their warehouse they call the line a success. They could literally sell an entire toyline to 1 scalper and be happy. (Meanwhile, said scalper charges everyone else $400 per deluxe, $800 for a voyager, etc)…. We know their distribution system is broken, and they have no interest in fixing it. What pisses me off is Walmart's mandate "thou shalt not allow online sites to have early pre-orders up before we get toys out"….
Nemesis Otaku
I'm in Houston, and I've only been able to find wave 2 stuff at my local comic book store. Seriously, I can't find any POTP stuff, except for wave one.
NemiMonkey
Got my pre-order in for Alpha Trion/Landmine at HLJ. Screw waiting for retail this time, it's a long ass wait to get him but at least I'll get him. I think that's one of the good things about the unification, can't find the Hasbro, there's always the Takara.
PoweredConvoy
Ironically I've seen Elita-1 several more times than Hun-Grrr.
Neko-bot77
I have seen a total of 3 Hun-gurr figures at B&M, and Elita a whopping once. No restocking in sight.
Fenrys
hun-gurrr has been out for a few months now, got mine from a local walmart
bradforj
I've been waiting for Hun-Grr for months and have yet to see one. They don't seem to care if we buy their toys or not.
payres
Official images of these came out a few months back at New York and Australian Toyfair, with the toys shown at the same events.
Toy Fair 2018 – Power of the Primes Initial Official Images – Transformers News – TFW2005
Toy Fair 2018 – Generations / Power Of The Primes Images – Transformers News – TFW2005
Australian Toy Fair 2018 Hasbro Transformers Fan Event – Transformers News – TFW2005
Transformers Power Of The Primes Wave 3 Voyager Inferno & Legends Cindersaur and Outback Official Renders – Transformers News – TFW2005
Takara always produce a more extensive set of images than Hasbro.
Masktique
I don't have any interest in purchasing Inferno, but that deco he has is really nice looking for the combined mode.
Prowlar
Damn, after seeing Inferno's combined form he really needs his own team either with repaints and remolds or new molds. Fixit from First Aid, Red Hot from Rook with ladder accessory, Stakeout from Prowl, and Seawatch as a completely new mold or a heavy remold of UW Blast Off.
Crim
Has Hasbro fallen asleep at the wheel? Why is it we're just now getting picks of what Hasbro will be releasing here pretty soon from TAKARA who won,t be releasing this until months later? Seriously Hasbro? Do you want people to buy your stuff? Cause not talking about them certainly does that.