Ultimetal UM01 Optimus Prime

[Cat]

A million times that.

Not eveything has to transform. Releasing things that don't doesn't take away from the toy budgets, doesn't affect their production, and doesn't send out a magic beam that turns all your toys mode-locked.

Btw Action Masters are ALSO awesome, and highly under-rated.

Luckily, there's room for all of us, and I enjoy collecting in both worlds, but it's damn irritating to have every new thing ruined by someone going 'but it doesn't transform' when it's something that was never INTENDED to transform.

It's the new 'Trukk Not Monkee'.

[liegeprime]

I'd get one if it was affordable... as it is the price is quite prohibitive. I don't care if it transforms or not, I'm playing with my MPs more in bot mode anyways not in their vehicle mode. So this giant one would be most welcome... if not for the price.

[Trent]

Saying that every Transformers (r) toy should transform, is like saying every Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle toy should be a turtle.
It's just a brand name... not an indication, or guarantee of what the product can do.

Not really. I see it more like making one of the actual turtles, like Donatello, a dugong

A million times that.

Not eveything has to transform. Releasing things that don't doesn't take away from the toy budgets, doesn't affect their production, and doesn't send out a magic beam that turns all your toys mode-locked.

Btw Action Masters are ALSO awesome, and highly under-rated.

Luckily, there's room for all of us, and I enjoy collecting in both worlds, but it's damn irritating to have every new thing ruined by someone going 'but it doesn't transform' when it's something that was never INTENDED to transform.

It's the new 'Trukk Not Monkee'.

It's nothing like Trukk not Munky (God I hate that saying. It sums up the stupidity and smallmindedness of this fandom in 3 (2 of which are spelled incorrectly) words ). It's just a simple case of my personal preference. I collect actual Transformers, not statues, busts or any of the like.

As I said earlier, it's a fantastic looking piece that would look good in anyones collection. But the lack of a transformation takes the wonder out it for me.

I fail to see how that is "ruining" it for you

[Tober]

That toy is ruined by not being able to transform.

I can see the point in a statue like Sideshow's Optimus Prime ($1200) or Megatron ($2000) from the Bay Movies, given that the transformation is too complex to accurately be portrayed, even at double the size of UM01.

It looks a lot like the cut-away picture from The Ultimate Guide book. So maybe they will do one for Megatron too...

[BigTransformerTrev]

Loving the fact you can even disassemble his gun - now thats cool!

[UltraMarginal]

this really is a very pretty representation of Optimus Prime. If I won the lottery I'd be buying it probably Twice but I'm yet to win the lottery

As it is, if I did get one it would remain sealed until such time as I bought a new house with a collection room in it as otherwise there's no way i'll ever have room to display it.

I'm buying metroplex this week and as much as I want to display that it will be out for a while before I have to package it up and store it as my rotating display just doesn't have the volume for figures this size.


The face that this Ultimetal Prime is so similar to the previously released versions of Masterpiece Prime is testament I think to how well designed they were. I kind of like the removable panel gimick, it concernes me though that the final product will have a lot of slightly mismatched panel lines. I'd probably prefer it not to have removable panels, be slightly more articulae and have the existing spectacular detail it seems to have.

If you cn afford it and you have room to display it I say good on you, can I come over and check it out.

[drifand]

For the price, I do expect it to transform. I know you think there is no need to, but we can put a poll and we see how many will agree for such a price tag it should transform.

I thought the Mazinger DX chogokin is a good comparison of a toy at this stage. EVEN THIS was under 45000yen.

http://blog.gundamplanet.com/wp-cont...review-381.jpg

This would be a "nice, but I pass" I mean really? I have not bought mp10, I could jolly well buy two and transform one in truck mode and one in robot mode and still have spare change for dinner and lunch the next day.

Oh and Perfect grade gundam, you probably could buy 3 of your selection. I have all of them.