G-Shock X Transformers Optimus Prime

[DELTAprime]

Introducing the second most expensive Transformer ever (going by MSRP) and the closest thing Takara are going to do to a Time Warrior update, the G-Shock X Transformers Optimus Prime.

Yeah, I'm really scratching my head about this one cause of the ¥31,320 MSRP. Better be one fancy watch...

https://www.seibertron.com/transform...nt-mode/42423/

https://www.seibertron.com/transform...edestal/42371/

[griffin]

That's like... almost AU$400... for a toy that comes with a real watch. (and is likely to be super limited, and end up costing a lot more on the secondary market when it sells out on release)

And it comes out in less than a month - December 8th - which isn't long to save up for it.


So Optimus transforms into a display stand, for a watch.... that would have to be one of his worst alt-modes ever. (or best disguise mode, as Decepticons wouldn't be looking for an inanimate object that isn't a weapon or vehicle.... that's mostly their thing)

[Galvatran]

So Optimus transforms into a display stand, for a watch.... that would have to be one of his worst alt-modes ever.

They actually have an official name for it... "Pedestal Prime mode". Alt mode is so craptacularly un-inspirational it should be renamed "Pedestool Prime mode".

I want one. Where thou can I get a complete set?

[reillyd]

Introducing the second most expensive Transformer ever (going by MSRP) and the closest thing Takara are going to do to a Time Warrior update, the G-Shock X Transformers Optimus Prime.

Yeah, I'm really scratching my head about this one cause of the ¥31,320 MSRP. Better be one fancy watch...

Heh heh heh. That's the thing Delta - according to RobotKingdom's listing, the watch is not included. Comes with the matrix crystal as a placeholder

[drifand]

well.....thats shocking

[FruitBuyer]

well.....thats shocking

You better watch what you say

[Ralph Wiggum]

This is not the time guys.

[FruitBuyer]

Sorry, you're right. We wouldn't want to transform this thread into some off-topic abomination.

[griffin]

Introducing the second most expensive Transformer ever (going by MSRP)

I see that Seibertron are noting the Encore Fortress Maximus as number one (which my records note as being 32,000yen)... and this G-Shock Optimus will indeed be at second place, but only for a month, as MP Beast Megatron comes out in January with a retail of somewhere between 32,000 and 37,800yen.


Transformers are getting way too over-priced, and not from inflation either... and the prices keep going up because we keep buying them. MP Dinobot and the MP Coneheads were way more than they should have been, compared to other similarly sized MPs, and yet, they pretty much sold out, so why not keep bumping up the price... because, that's how capitalism works, with supply and demand and all.

(and of course, if the toys don't sell, they lose money and would cut back on future projects... rather than keep releasing the toys, but at a more rational price point that still makes them money)

(rant over)

[DELTAprime]

Oh yeah. Totally forgot Megatron is stupidly high. I'm getting him for 26,670 JPY which is already so close to being a no-buy for me.

Even the version of Optimus RK has without the watch is stupidly expensive for what it is.