Super7 Founder Brian Flynn updates our coverage of the long-awaited Super Shogun Optimus Prime figure:
First test shots are here…..!! Panthro ultimate figure for scale….
Preorders are still available at our site sponsors, so get in on the action before this Prime rolls out of your collection’s reach!
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- A design is inspired by the 1970s Shogun Warriors toy line.
- Stands 24-inches tall.
- Super Shogun TRANSFORMERS Optimus Prime has G1-era accurate paint job and detailing.
- Three points of articulation.
- Features wheels on feet for rolling combat action.
- Armed with a spring-loaded, “rocket firing” left fist.
- Removable Ion Blaster.
- Chest opens to reveal removable Matrix of Leadership.
- Will include sticker sheet for customizable display.
protohuman
Welp, I'll bite. If it wasn't so big and expensive I might be interested in it. Even though I hate super7/neca/funko (I know they aren't the same). *oldman voice* At comic con twenty years ago you use to see these things in all shapes and sizes of ultraman, kaiju, pokemon, basically you name it, there was a cheap mass produced product that are available at swap meets across South America. All the lost art talk just reminds me of the same old hype these companies always try to conjure. Not saying they are liars though, it's true to an extent. When I worked manufacturing aircraft parts, the quality and integrity of labor and management was a complete joke. I would hate to see what it's like assembling cheap toys.
Pharoid
Huh. It must really bother you they’re doing so well then, picking up license after license. Haha.
Tenebrouser
I wish someone would round up all the plastic Super 7 uses and apply it elsewhere.
cloudballoon
I have no interest on Super 7 Sofubi, nor care for the exorbitant prices they demand. But I absolutely understand niche production demand niche pricing. I kind of respect people who DO buy these Super 7 though, no doubt some might buy them as in investment (or for the exclusivity/rarity bragging rights), but I do believe many genuinely love the nostalgic designs. As whenever I chance upon antique stores I enjoy looking for those sofubi-like robot toys that's made of hollow metal tins dated in the early part of the 20th century. So I get it.
We all collect TF for different reasons. Why judge?
TF wasn't a big part of my formative life BTH. I prefer Gundam & Macross because those designs look far more advanced than low-budget cartoons TF… back then I found TF's designs to be too simple and its toys too inaccurate looking to the cartoon. But Dinosaurs turning into robots!? That's way cool dude! So I only bought/asked for Dinobots in terms of TF toys. And I hadn't watch any TF cartoons past the first season – I just had no access to it (went to boarding school for years) – and I didn't even know there was an animated movie!
Then I saw the first Bayverse movie, found it awesome for nostalgia-sake, but I bought no toys. I only got sucked back into TF toys collecting BIG TIME after a friend's 6~7 year old kid asked me to help him transform his Leader Class OP. I was like "Wooooooahhh, the engineering is crazy complicated" and I absolutely was amazed by how far CAD helped advanced TF toys designs. That really pulled me into all TRANSFORMING TF things hard, because I love the ENGINEERING aspect of it.
So, if you want to label me, I'm more of a "Transformation engineering" fan than a TF lore fan (I know, I know, it's blasphemy! But I *DID* went back to watch G1, BW, TFA and anything after TFP). So again, we all collect TF products for different reasons. Why judge?
godaiking
Its my thing and I'm gonna each my own.
Can't wait til this is out!
Smasher
I know there are people out there that like these, but I will never understand how there is a market for them.
I was excited for the Toynami Shogun Godzilla because the Mattel Shogun Warriors Godzilla was the first Godzilla toy I ever had -then I saw the price!
I literally had people try to convince me that the price was part of the appeal.
As I said, I don't understand it.
Pharoid
Brian Flynn loves vinyl toys he has a massive collection and put a tremendous amount of effort into making this right. It’s going to be excellent if you’re a fan of these.
Pharoid
I’d think on a collectibles site you’d be smart enough to realize you’re on a collectibles site.
And it’s not “to each their own” when you specifically call out “people who buy these things.”
But yeah sure to each their own.
Michael Payton
If someone with a better QC track record made this, I'd buy it. I loved my old Shogun Warriors. Definitely needs more launching missiles too. I have annoying cats to harass.
Rated X
They look like soap bottles. But hey if thats your thing, to each their own.
MINDVVIPE
Haha hey I love rub signs, don't throw that on me
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And toyhax has you covered for those anyway.
Chaos Muffin
Still remember my friend having a Tranzor Z figure that seemed about 2 ft tall, with a firing fist.
His little bro had a Shogun one with the 2 red horns on each side of his head.
Still wondering if those were knockoffs since their parents were, um, extremely old fashioned when it came to toys and Kmart didnt sell them.
I had a bunch of Robotech kos.
protohuman
This the attitude that took away rub signs and generally why we can’t keep anything nice around here.
Pharoid
I do. Why.
Shin Densetsu
This is true, because a lot of the workers who were at the same factories(which produced the older Jumbo Machinder stuff in the 70’s) no longer work there hence why S7 had to search for a factory that could actually pull it off. It’s dated technology sure but when you don’t have factory workers who don’t know how to pull it off, it’ll take time and effort to find some that do.
MINDVVIPE
On the topic of transformation videos, can 3p just do away with instruction inserts and just do a video and save us some money? Same with those dumb cards as well. How about with the video, they include a link to the card artwork with a blank space for the name so enthusiasts can print with the actual character name if they want the card that bad.
AzT
Super7: Transformers Super Shogun Optimus Prime Test Shot – Transformers News – TFW2005
unpunk
I could have sworn something like this was teased a few years ago along with a “shogun” styled Fortress Maximus. It was shown off at some sort of toy show where these things are announced. It’s been a few years, but maybe those fell through and this is taking its place.
Rated X
I rarely transform my figures either. But knowing that they transform and live up to their namesake is what makes them cool to me. Without that transformation, tgey might as well be gijoe, motu, or superheroes and I dont collect fleshlings lol. As far as transformation goes, I use reviews for all they're worth. I see them more like online transformation tutorials rather than someone trying to sell me on a figure. The unboxing and articulation scenes get skipped.
Predaking000
I used to think like that. These days, and 23 collecting years later, not so much.
The toys I have I just plop on the shelves in my office and look at when I'm trying to avoid work. I breathe in the nostalgia they exude. I don't spend time transforming and posing figures anymore and making pew-pew sounds. That just doesn't interest me anymore. I'd rather have something that's sculpted/designed well, whether it transforms or not.
If anything, I find transformations a hassle, especially complex transformations. But some people love them. I don't judge and I don't really care.
People like different things. Go figure.