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griffin
3rd October 2016, 02:20 PM
For the serious Optimus fans out there, here's a new one for you (http://news.tfw2005.com/2016/09/28/milk-soap-studios-sofubi-optimus-prime-325469), a licensed Optimus vinyl figure for the Chinese/Asian market, by the companies Milk and Soap Studios... to be called Sofubi Optimus.
Milk have done a Transformers release before with an exclusive Movie Optimus redeco toy several years ago, but this is a whole new figure, that is done to look very milky, with the bottom half in milky white plastic, and the top half being a bubbly looking translucent white plastic... looking like a frothy milk or very soapy.

It looks like the release date is the beginning of this month at select locations in mainland China, and the price is listed at 1080yuan, which is about AU$220.

tinyJazz
3rd October 2016, 03:11 PM
Sofubi just refers to the material it's made out of: soft vinyl.

TF artist Dan Khanna is the lead designer for Soap Studio's Transformers range, which so far includes Bumblebee, Spike, Optimus, Megatron and Starscream. Milk is just collaborating on this particular colourway, not producing a range of vinyl figures themselves.

According to Soap's website (http://www.soapstudio.com/thevintagearts/) this Milk version is limited to 138 pieces worldwide! I think it looks pretty cool, if you're going to do vinyl Transformers you might as well make them a bit wacky.

Bladestorm
3rd October 2016, 04:59 PM
Having seen the soap figures up close and personal they are nice but nowhere near worth this price regardless of how limited the run is...