JP Masterpiece book coming

[kurdt_the_goat]

Will do! If there's a few specific photo captions anyone is after let me know.

[GoktimusPrime]

Just ordered this book from Amazon JP. Charged me 2800JPY ($30) for the book and $13 for postage, so $43 all up. Their international postage rate feels expensive* to me, but still about $9 cheaper than getting it locally.

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*But probably because it's a single small item; postage from Japan becomes better value for money when shipping in bulk, which is what I always do w/ toys.

[Paulbot]

Found this other book there, that I was not aware of, but the google translator suggests it is a 30th anniversary book to be released for the TFs Expo in Japan in August.
No idea what is in it, so I figured I'd order it at the same time as the Masterpiece book, and see what it is.
I thought it might have been a Japanese version of the Legacy book because of the cover, but the roughly translated description is too vague to know for sure.

Got this today. It's a bit light on. It spotlights AOE, Lost Age toys (briefly), the various cartoons/movies over the year and the leader characters, including a photo of all the main toys of leaders from the various incarnations. There's some Japanese G1 art I've never seen anywhere before, but overall the book is not essential and I wouldn't recommend it.

Then I got to the last page

It comes with a pullout poster that appears to be a new version of the Transformer Tapestry! Which is very nice as that's something I don't have but wanted. It's not indentical to the version pictured on the wiki, based on the location of characters I can see without opening it, and has an end date of 2000 (unlike 1995 on the old one) so might have a bunch more Beast Wars era faces once I unwrap it at home. For me that's worth the price of the book in itself.

[griffin]

Sounds like it is a book that is mostly only worth buying for the bonus item. A pity that it is a folded up poster, as the creases will spoil that "tapestry" poster. (I'll have to spend some time flattening it out)
Can't wait.

[Paulbot]

The poster's double sided, so you kind of need to buy two of the book... I didn't notice earlier but both sides of the poster are shown on the inside cover. It's 103cm x 73 cm and side B covers 2001-2014. Obviously not everything from all those years... I think it's "show" based, with WFC/FOC is considered a show, and Henkei/Encore/Binaltech not included, but I need to open it up to have a good study to be sure. Either way it's a cool poster(s).

[Paulbot]

If I can find a frames that fit, I might indeed buy a second copy so I can hang both sides.

DVD included to show size. It appears that Henkei is the only major Japanese line not represented in this poster. Binaltech, Robotmasters, Alternity, even those region-exclusive legends are here.

[griffin]

Very nice... and a lot of effort for a freebie poster (or for $15 if you consider it a poster with a freebie book ).