Via Hobby Dengeki website we have information about the Takara Tomy Super Transformation Three Great Robot Hero Legend Sword Campaign.
This a triple campaign which involves not only Transformers but other Takara Tomy lines: Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion and Hyper Rescue Drive Head.
Starting on August 4, 2018 if you buy an amount of 3,000 yen (tax included) in any of these brands, you will receive a special colored sword. This sword seems to be the sword originally included with the Age Of Extinction Generations Leader Optimus Prime. You can choose between 3 special clear colors: Blue Water Force sword, Red Flame Power sword and Green Wind Force sword. The images show the Takara Tomy Turbo Change Series TC-09 Battle Command Optimus Prime, with the Blue Water Force sword.
You can check out the mirrored images after the jump and sound off on the 2005 Boards!
rapid_fire
For a moment I actually thought they were busting out the Car Robots train molds…
Gaokaiser
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Robert Snoke
the name does make sense as the smaller Tomica cars which obviously where the driver/pilots sits becomes the robot mode heads of the larger mech vehicles that they combine with that became the robot mode body, its like an alternate version of a Headmaster concept.
Omegax80
Wonderful name. Why I love my anime.
Robert Snoke
i did not realize TakaraTomy uses the same mm for fist hole size for different multiple toylines, heck it encourages customization.
Deadend
It's a fun series! Definitely recommend checking out Rescue Force and Rescue Fire.
There's a good chance we might see some kind of Rescue Bots/Rescue Bots Academy kind of team up with all the Tak Tom Rescue stuff in the future too!
Especially now that Hasbro has Power Rangers with Light Speed Rescue. If I were Takara, I'd take advantage of that to get a crossover made that otherwise wouldn't/couldn't exist.
Aimless Misfire
I might get the 47th. But knowing my luck that'll be the one everybody is after.
Digger
Weird indeed.
Shmoptimus Prime
Funny how a concept art sword has gotten just as many releases as the actual sword that he used in the movie. I'm so sick of that shitty inaccurate popsicle sword.
Raiju
Neat but not sure I need fruit flavors of Optimus Prime's sword.
Now I have a hankering for overly sugary fruity cereal.
Shepard Prime
My wife's going to be pissed when she wakes up tomorrow morning to discover I found a new line of bots to collect. I googled Tomica Hyper Rescue Drive Head and found some pretty awesome bots.
Sammael
How come we've never seen these other lines here on the site? Surely they can fit in our TF collections… can someone provide more detail?
f-primusunicron
i want those swords -_-
Gaokaiser
トミカハイパーレスキュー ドライブヘッド 好評放送中!!
About Drive Head.
新幹線変形ロボ シンカリオン THE ANIMATION
About Shinkalion.
「エヴァンゲリオン」とのコラボ第2弾の放送が、 8/11(土)に決定！！｜新幹線変形ロボ シンカリオン
For "that" funs…
Both shows are GREAT.You can't miss them!
In addition to this, Zoids Wild is also cool. Go, Takaratomy!!
Deadend
Kind of still are Transformers related though. Like distant non-story connected cousins.
Hyper Rescue is an in spirit successor of Rescue Force/Rescue Fire, and is also animated by Toei, the makers of Sentai and Riders. The Rescue series itself originally being a celebration of Tokusatsu during the Toku boom in the mid 2000s.
Shinkalion was literally birthed as a concept from Car Robots/RID's JRX. Because train robos are still very much in style.
Both are concepts that came from an area of Takara's concept lab that also occasionally does transformers stuff too. Which is likely where this sword campaign came from too. IIRC, that same concepts area had a mild hand in some Takara TLK Optimus and other figure revisions too. (Funnily enough, is also the same place that Yokai Watch came from too and other stuff iirc.)
So a campaign like this feels like a celebratory action of appreciation, and is also a good way to market three fully Takara Tomy owned transforming robot properties.
TCJJ
Apparently they haven't recoloured this sword enough yet. About another fifty times should do it.
Digger
In all seriousness though, ‘tis weird and cool.
Everything Man
you know how the community freaks out because something doesnt have a waist swivel….well the Shinkalion guys not only lack that but have no leg articulation either
Calabask
I want all of these.
Autobot Daniel
Those look pretty dang nice. No chance I’m getting one, though.