TakTom TF4 "Lost Age" Advance toyline

[griffin]

Images of the AD-01 Leader Class Optimus (the one that was first seen at the NYCC in October) were also included in the recent JP Hobby magazine scans that all the Masterpiece info has been coming from this week.

This figure is in the First wave of Leaders by Hasbro, but might not look as fancy with shiny parts, as this JP version is being listed as "Premium".

We get a good look at the back of the toy in Robot mode, and it looks worse than the First Edition figure.
Between these two moulds, and the Voyager Optimus being the square-cab truck, it isn't looking good for a decent Optimus nose-cab figure for us.

[i_amtrunks]

And here I was thinking the movie toys could not possibly get uglier!

Awful transformation mixed with the movie aesthetic makes my wallet very happy.

[griffin]

The pre-order discount (30%) cut-off at Anime-Export is tomorrow, and I was trying to decide if I should pre-order some of the ones that we don't yet know are coming through Hasbro, while at a fairly cheap price.

Anyone here already looking at getting any of these Japanese Advanced figures? (which ones?)

Do you think that these will still be released by Hasbro in their later waves?

Is anyone pre-ordering the AD-018 and AD-019 before they are revealed, or will you wait? (the discount ends tomorrow for those two as well, and since they charge straight away, who would risk buying something that doesn't even have a name, let alone image).

[UltraMarginal]

I got a few of the first wave, I'm looking at most of the cars for teh second wave, assuming that they'll have better paint jobs but who can know for sure?

[Omega Metro]

BBTS had the Ad-20 Grimlock but it's sold out. GRRR

[UltraMarginal]

if that's the black knight one, it's still available at anime export.

[griffin]

BBTS & HJL have already sold out of about half of the Advanced figures... that's fast, or they didn't order many to begin with.