MP Star Saber prototype!

[kurdt_the_goat]

http://i.imgur.com/PUQFlSV.jpg

From trailbreaker77 on TFW at the Tokyo Toy Show! Looks stunning!

[Lint]

Nice! Looks like it's going to be very faithful to the original toy though with better articulation and sharper sculpting, so probably not too many surprises here.

[Sinnertwin]

:eek:

i need new underpants

[Omega Metro]

That is sexy.

[drifand]

That's what a lot of you said for ultra Magnus and then I am not sure what happened?

[CBratron]

I neither know, nor want a character named Star Saber.

It's all yours.

[Paulbot]

My first thought was 'what's with the chains' (they are a reflection) my second was 'I be that sign says "no photos"'.

[Sky Shadow]

Nice indeed. I desperately hope it includes Saber, the Brain of Courage, and base mode.

[High_Q]

Looks nice, but I won't be getting it if it doesn't include the Brainmaster gimmick. Also, it'd better be larger than MP-10.

[ChlorHex]

Glad to see this materialize.
Hopefully we get that yellow Sabre tooth as well (forgot his name).
I do hope that in terms of size, he'll be as tall as MP1.

[Bidoofdude]

Even though I know nothing about Star Sabre and his likeness, that looks really good.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

With such a nice looking robot mode, I bet that his vehicle mode looks a bit naff. Heck the g1 version wasn't that great.

I hope to see Victory Leo and therefore Victory Sabre!!

Fatre Leo, we'll need a Ginrais you know ;)

[Raptormesh]

Any ideas in terms of ETA? This and Leo would be my grail.

[BigTransformerTrev]

My first thought was 'what's with the chains'

You know what these religious types are like. In public it's all "We worship Primus' and behind closed doors it's chains attached to their nipple-nuts and robo-masachism ;)



http://i.imgur.com/PUQFlSV.jpg



Star Sabre - you are a dirty bugger! :p

[Initial_G]

awesome! really hope it comes complete with the brainmaster component ... and Victory Leo would be a nice piece to go with it lol

[kurdt_the_goat]

A better pic from Taghobby

http://i.imgur.com/AzW2I1Y.jpg

[nexusnixx]

Wow takaratomy is on the roll!!

[theshape]

looking good.

[kaiden]

robot mode looks really nice. cant wait to see some weapon holding pics and alt mode.

[Hursticon]

So far this very early prototype is looking good, I suspect though that the reason no photography was meant to occur with him is due to how early this Proto is and that it's very like to change in some substantive way - hence any false impressions would've been mitigated, not in this day and age however. :cool:

Here's a link to a pic that gives one a good idea of how he's likely to scale (Check out @PumaTheHunter's Tweet: https://twitter.com/PumaTheHunter/status/477778682799345664) :) - I'd mirror it myself but can't at the moment, Photobucket & my tablet aren't getting along. :(

[kaiden]

@Hursti, your url link isn't working

http://i1320.photobucket.com/albums/u528/L45TN7/BqFpLc4CEAAVZwR_zpsd48896c7.jpg

[Hursticon]

@Hursti, your url link isn't working

Cheers man ;):); Yeah, I find I'm having difficulties posting links directly to tweets via my Tablet, doesn't help with Photobucket being completely uncooperative. :o

[drifand]

so this guy will be taller than Magnus by the looks?

[SkyWarp91]

Money money money... money!!!!!

I want this figure but I should be saving :D

[DELTAprime]

so this guy will be taller than Magnus by the looks?

F***. I guess I need a bigger shelf since Magnus won't even fit.

This guy is looking pretty much like I imagined him, a more posable, slimmer Star Saber. Which is what I wanted. I like the general design of the G1 toy except for the lock/release mechanisms and the brickness.

[kaiden]

F***. I guess I need a bigger shelf since Magnus won't even fit.

This guy is looking pretty much like I imagined him, a more posable, slimmer Star Saber. Which is what I wanted. I like the general design of the G1 toy except for the lock/release mechanisms and the brickness.

and then the black version comes out...

[Sinnertwin]

Even taller when he's wearing Victory Leo...

[drifand]

I almost gotten a star saber the last time, I think I will grab this one.

[WeallscreamforStarscream]

Can anyone give me a run down of who Star Sabre is please? G1? I dont remember him!

[kaiden]

Can anyone give me a run down of who Star Sabre is please? G1? I dont remember him!

Japanese G1 Victory. basically the new leader of the Autobots cause Rodimus sucked xD (http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Star_Saber_%28Victory%29)

[GoktimusPrime]

Star Sabre was the Autobot Commander in 1989's Transformers Victory, available now on DVD from Madman Entertainment (http://www.madman.com.au/catalogue/view/9038/transformers-victory-collection)! :D He's a Brainmaster, which is the Japanese version of what we call Motorvators in the Hasbro market -- although the Star Sabre toy itself never became a Motorvator, but same gimmick (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehTxWJRfQP8).

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...looks like some people have flagrantly disregarded the "NO PHOTOGRAPHY" sign... :rolleyes:

[Sinnertwin]

Can anyone give me a run down of who Star Sabre is please? G1? I dont remember him!

& Here's his transformation sequence accompanied by awesome theme music :D:p

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ehTxWJRfQP8&feature=kp




...looks like some people have flagrantly disregarded the "NO PHOTOGRAPHY" sign... :rolleyes:

Do they honestly believe that'll stop people?

[Sky Shadow]

Here's his transformation sequence accompanied by awesome theme music :D:p

I love the way that they managed to fill a twentieth of the episode's air time just with one dude transforming. :p

[WeallscreamforStarscream]

There's so much Voltron wannabe about that.. i LOVE Voltron but didn't like Starsabre.

[DELTAprime]

...looks like some people have flagrantly disregarded the "NO PHOTOGRAPHY" sign... :rolleyes:

It's like Hasbro telling people at Botcon not to take photos in the presentations, you know someone is going to disregard their request and TFW will put the pictures up on the web.

[drifand]

Whats the point guarding it as a secret if you don't want it leaked? You rather just put a shadow figure if thats what they preferred.

[kurdt_the_goat]

Lazy day at work = MP Photoshop fun!

http://i.imgur.com/cO60IgL.jpg

[1AZRAEL1]

That... is just beautiful. I haven't even watched anything after US G1, but I love the way this looks.

Hope it looks close to your photoshop Kurdt.

[Tober]

Whats the point guarding it as a secret if you don't want it leaked? You rather just put a shadow figure if thats what they preferred.

It's intended for retailers to see and decide how many units they want to order. The no photography sign is so the manufacturer (Takara) can sell exclusive preview content to hobby magazines.

Nice work Kurdt. :cool:

[kurdt_the_goat]

They take the no photo shit a bit too seriously .... Check out tfyuki on twitter who just responded to my tweet to him asking what he thought of the colours and how excited i was:


@TFYUKI: @PocketPowerToys You are using the photo which must not exist. It is very unpleasant. Necessary to eliminate. This is the worst situation.

[drifand]

It's intended for retailers to see and decide how many units they want to order. The no photography sign is so the manufacturer (Takara) can sell exclusive preview content to hobby magazines.

Nice work Kurdt. :cool:

Obviously they didn't share exclusive rights to the magazines first. Only themselves to blame.

[GoktimusPrime]

Do they honestly believe that'll stop people?

By Japanese standards it would. As you know, a lot of things in Japan run on trust, honour and respect over there. If my local council started setting up vending machines that sold alcohol, local kids would trash them and steal all the grog inside. Meanwhile in Japan... ;)


They take the no photo shit a bit too seriously .... Check out tfyuki on twitter who just responded to my tweet to him asking what he thought of the colours and how excited i was:
Surely you've been around the Japanese fandom long enough to not be surprised by such a response. The person who took that photo and leaked it disrespected TakaraTOMY's wish for noone to take unauthorised photos, then to make matters worse, share it on a public domain. Respect and honour are kinda important things to the Japanese.

Although in your defence, you didn't take the photos or upload or share it... you're just asking for an opinion now that the cat's out of the bag. I've never seen a Japanese site leak images before (they always seem to come from non-Japanese sources), but I have noticed Japanese sites like Autobase Aichi, who will distribute these images after they have already been leaked. But I can certainly understand why some (a lot) of Japanese fans would find such behaviour to be distasteful. :o

[kaiden]

in the digital age - people are gonna buy printed media regardless of digital media as long as its worth it.

i won't get into the trust and honour thing as its a load of crap anyway.

[drifand]

I actually understand what Goki is saying but I think it is what it is.
The Japanese culture follow very strict to the tee and will not break such laws regardless how small the issue you may think it is.

I am hopeful that they continue this route to be honest. If anyone been there you know how honest they are with money and a lot of stuff in general.

Anyway, it is leaked. So lets just discuss about the toy and not fight over the photograph. lol

[kurdt_the_goat]

Surely you've been around the Japanese fandom long enough to not be surprised by such a response. The person who took that photo and leaked it disrespected TakaraTOMY's wish for noone to take unauthorised photos, then to make matters worse, share it on a public domain. Respect and honour are kinda important things to the Japanese.

Although in your defence, you didn't take the photos or upload or share it... you're just asking for an opinion now that the cat's out of the bag. I've never seen a Japanese site leak images before (they always seem to come from non-Japanese sources), but I have noticed Japanese sites like Autobase Aichi, who will distribute these images after they have already been leaked. But I can certainly understand why some (a lot) of Japanese fans would find such behaviour to be distasteful. :o

You don't know unless you try right? :p Arcadia/Yamato's rep on Twitter frequently discusses photos of no-photo prototypes. Anyway i removed the pic (from Twitter...) at his request.

It just shows they're oblivious to the international fandom imo. In this day and age, where everything has a camera and sharing is the standard, if they didn't want photos taken they shouldn't have displayed it. They're concerned that it's early and things could change, but I really fail to see the difference between a retailer putting up prototype pictures in a similar state (like Magnus and many others before it) and someone taking their own photo of one. True I don't know who took the photo, but given it's a Japanese toy show, the chance of it being a Japanese person is obviously high.

And more than that, you'd think that with a site (http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/tf30th/) dedicated to the 30th anniversary they would be happy to promote the development of it - offered a blog, again like Arcadia (http://arcadia.ac/yf19/index.php). They pretend to embrace social media but really they don't understand it at all. And after all, they're just toys, it's really not something to get your knickers in a twist over!

[Sinnertwin]

By Japanese standards it would. As you know, a lot of things in Japan run on trust, honour and respect over there.

i understand that aspect of it, Goki, but not everyone would adhere to it. As Kurdt pointed out, in this day & age with all of the technology available, surely they'd expect something like this happening or at least start enforcing stricter control measures to prevent it


If my local council started setting up vending machines that sold alcohol, local kids would trash them and steal all the grog inside. Meanwhile in Japan... ;)


They'd just get somebody with a Taspo card to buy it for them :D :p

[kup]

Will they have an MP Victory Leo?

[Lordy]

& Here's his transformation sequence accompanied by awesome theme music :D:p

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ehTxWJRfQP8&feature=kp

Kinda reminds me of the old Voltron transformation sequence, especially the vehicles one.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Will they have an MP Victory Leo?

They better after busting out Star Saber!!

I just assume that if one comes, the other is required. After all, Victory Saber is way more cooler sounding than Star Saber!

I'd buy it! I reckon they could do it. Then TT could properly take on Bandai's Soul of Chogokin combiner bots and I would very happy.

With a sad wallet.:D

[GoktimusPrime]

Will they have an MP Victory Leo?
I suppose it would depend on how well MP Star Sabre sells. :o