Real (custom built) Optimus Prime truck on ebay in Australia

[lancalot]

You can get real Optimus Prime on Ebay!!! for a cool 1 million .... and its in QLD

[Lint]

You can get real Optimus Prime on Ebay!!! for a cool 1 million .... and its in QLD

Damned scalpers

[SuspectimusPrime]

Is the GPS voiced by Peter Cullen too?

[theshape]

I was hoping it was g1 style

[Skullcruncher]

Looks like a KO

[griffin]

That's the one at the Brisbane Supanova in November (you can even see the TFIdownunder stall in one of the photos).

I don't think it will sell at that price... or probably even at a tenth of that.

It might have been iconic for about 5 years (2007-2012), but it is already outdated thanks to the fourth movie... and realistically, the truck is more valuable as a working/hauling truck, than as a display item, especially in this country.

(it could make some money doing the convention circuit in America for a couple years, but here we don't have enough applicable conventions - and after a couple years, the TF4 truck and even the Gen1 truck would overtake this one in terms of interest and photo opportunities)

I've seen on some of those dealer/auction/pawn shows, that a customised vehicle is rarely worth more than the cost of the vehicle itself. Because in the end, it needs to have a return to its investment, or be used as a regular vehicle (and valued as such).


Personally, I'd spend my money creating/buying/customising Gen1 vehicles, as they are the most iconic, and keep being re-homaged as toys over and over, so never get forgotten by fans and general public.

[CBratron]

Damned scalpers

Damned KO.

[CoRDS]

i dont see no hasbro or takara logos on that. looks like a 3p to me

[lancalot]

i dont see no hasbro or takara logos on that. looks like a 3p to me

i think you have to look under the engine mount on the left side on the main chassis

[Omega Metro]

Does it transform? I hate Transformers that don't transform?