New third party company TMT have revealed, via their Weibo account, the first color renders of their upcoming Age Of Extinction Evasion Mode Optimus Prime.
This new project is based on the “Evasion Mode” Optimus Prime design which features the robot mode from the first three live action movies but with a G1 Freightliner truck alt mode. According to the renders this figure will include a shield and a battle axe and several parts will have battle damage and warped panels. TMT have also showed a prototype of the alt mode which looks pretty solid and movie-accurate. It seems this figure will be planned for the Masterpiece scale.
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Zoo
Interesting. Havent had much issue with their figures but it makes sense that the ones covered head to toe dont work ott it as well
Abigail Barajas
Im so hyped for this! As a kid I always liked this version of bayverse prime
octobotimus
In my experience it’s just ok, and tends to chip or have tiny flakes fairly often. Haven’t had too much experience with their weathered figures, but a lot of reviews mention the paint rubbing off onto your hands as they use a black wash that seemingly doesn’t stick well.
TBH a lot like their figures, their paint is inconsistent. Sometimes it’s fairly durable, other times it’s really bad and flakes off.
Zoo
Curious, hows bmbs paint? I have their clean figs but i really want their ls06s megatron
octobotimus
The problem is its hard to pull off and heavily depends on the company that’s doing it. Like Threezero for example, does amazing weathering and it doesn’t come off into your hands like crazy.
But a majority of 3p companies’ weathering paint is just so weak that it flies off and makes it unenjoyable. That or it looks insanely sloppy. Can’t think of a single 3p figure that’s weathered and doesn’t either look sloppy or make you not want to touch it thanks to the paint.
The Mad Demobot
Honestly we’re due for a good “battle damaged” figure. Plus it’ll be good for moments where you want the decepticons or whoever on display to feel powerful or vice versa standing him tall. No one has made a “Forest Fight” Optimus deco and I’d buy that, or at least a tool kit to make him look like he went through a brawl.
Shmoptimus Prime
Well he was never clean in this form in the film so it makes way more sense for them to do battle damaged first. I do hope it’s not slathered in paint like toyworld’s crap figures. I’d rather the plastic color be as close as possible and flames/rust detailing where applicable. I wanna be able to handle the figure!
Seth Sunthay
Yeah, i'd rather see a normal clean deco than their attempt at battle damage paint. Though i hope they have learned from their Bee.
octobotimus
I mean after seeing that rather meh paint job on bee, wouldn't be surprised if they saw the painted proto and were like "holy shit, no way we can do this".
cybertroncollector
That gives another meaning to dotm when sentinel says "defend the pillar"
Seth Sunthay
In Chinese, Optimus Prime is Qíng Tiān Zhù (擎天柱) meaning something like (Pillar supporting/bearing the sky) so everytime they talk about some "Pillar" in weibo is about OP.
Zoo
from what I've seen, its smaller figures, like 1/60th scaleish, could vary
Wizardlizard714
Was this definitely in reference to this figure, we’ve already seen renders of this one and “hidden pillars” sounds literally perfect for a sentinel prime figure
What is legends class exactly, I thought it was the really tiny figures but I’ve heard it used for larger ones
That poll is so bad
Illiterate Scholar
Keep in mind I said might be canceled. Not that I have actual info on it being canceled.
I'm paraphrasing. It sounds like the designer didn't make much money from his previous works. You can read about it here.
What will be next figure you want TMT to make?
Zoo
Id like to see a legends class movie carbot (preferably bee), or ik a lot of ppl would love to see mpm3 retooled into his other movie forms, cant imagine that would be an expensive figure to produce. Or tackle sideswipe at mpm scale
Seth Sunthay
Legit they're just making some adjustementsView attachment 30346214
Transmario
I had no idea this thing even existed let alone if it was canceled or not. Their bumblebee took like 3 years to release so I question if they were using the time to make the figure the best it can be or if they just pushed it out because they were already crumbling and the figure was too far into production to outright cancel. We haven't gotten updated images of their Beetle and Camaro retools of tmt-01 which I imagine would be less work to make than a brand new figure like this one. I hope I'm wrong and the company is just fine
oku
They made a grave mistake with Bumblebee(s).
Kars Willson
I believe in people who provide specific visual evidence