MP48+ Dark Amber (black) Leo Prime

Revealed last week was one of the expected redecos of the recent Masterpiece Leo Prime toy... a black version to homage a limited edition version of the original Lioconvoy toy back in the late 1990s.

The product page at TakaraTomyMall has it scheduled for release in January 2023, for 22,000yen (about au$230).

With Hasbro releasing it to Western markets (in an english slip cover), it will be in America for about us$150 (about au$250) in May 2023... and Australia in late January 2023 for around $300 (at Amazon Australia and EBGames).

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2022/070603.jpg

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2022/070604.jpg

TakaraTomy have also released a comic for this toy on their site, which has a few unusual redecos included in the story to explain who he is and why he is black (another spawn of Unicron, but something is keeping him from turning evil).

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Originally Posted by griffin

TakaraTomy have also released a comic for this toy on their site, which has a few unusual redecos included in the story to explain who he is and why he is black (another spawn of Unicron, but something is keeping him from turning evil).

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It's the spark of Leo Convoy in there that's doing it. WIP

If I was ever put in charge of a Transformers cartoon... I would have a random episode where every character is coloured differently for some oddball McGuffin reason... Give TT a reason for a whole bunch of repaints.

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Originally Posted by KELPIE

If I was ever put in charge of a Transformers cartoon... I would have a random episode where every character is coloured differently for some oddball McGuffin reason... Give TT a reason for a whole bunch of repaints.

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I would like to see that, I'd do some whacky, disgusting colour combos too! Like the G1 Episode with Magnus and Cyclonus going through that thing.


On anther note, I finished the translation. Originally I slapped it on twitter, but coz I'm an idiot that hates social media platforms, I managed to mess up making a "thread" so it didn't go as smooth as I planned. THEN I spotted some typos and stuff. So.... fixed versions now here:

https://tetstoys.blogspot.com/2022/0...anslation.html

The second part of the comic is up on the TakaraTomy site... in Japanese, until Tets gets to translating it. ;)

And here is my ever so classy, not controversial in the slightest 100% accurate withoutadoubt and no-one will complain about it translation of part two

https://tetstoys.blogspot.com/2022/0...anslation.html

Thanks very much Tets.

Great work as always.

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Originally Posted by Tetsuwan Convoy

And here is my ever so classy, not controversial in the slightest 100% accurate withoutadoubt and no-one will complain about it translation of part two

https://tetstoys.blogspot.com/2022/0...anslation.html

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Do you have the 2022 Generations book, or have seen scans for it's included comic (several pages, featuring the Trainbots and Nightshadow).

If you don't, I can try to post up images of it (I will have to see if I can photograph the pages, as I don't want to destroy the book to get a flat scan of the pages... and my current computer uses windows 11 which can't use my scanner, so I would have to dig out my old computer to use it).

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Originally Posted by griffin

Do you have the 2022 Generations book, or have seen scans for it's included comic (several pages, featuring the Trainbots and Nightshadow).

If you don't, I can try to post up images of it (I will have to see if I can photograph the pages, as I don't want to destroy the book to get a flat scan of the pages... and my current computer uses windows 11 which can't use my scanner, so I would have to dig out my old computer to use it).

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No I don't, for some reason I've just not been feeling it for nabbing those book recently. A quick google didn't show them up to me either. If you don't mind whipping up some scans, I'll give them a crack.

@Kelpie:
My pleasure, and thanks :)

This was one of the two Masterpiece toys released in Japan this week, so should be filtering through the various Asian sources now too.
Some in-hand images collected from various sources so far...
https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/01/28/...-images-474187

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2023/013001.jpg

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2023/013002.jpg

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2023/013003.jpg