Via HK-TF 變形金剛香港網盟 Facebook group and Baidu we have our first in-hand images of the new Bingo Sports Optimus Prime toy.
Japanese car collectible company Bingo Sports teamed up with Transformers to release a new Bingo Sports Optimus Prime transformable figure. It’s a heavy retool of Studio Series SS-92 AOE Crosshairs with a new deco and parts to be able to transform into a real-life Corvette C7 GT3-R.
We have images of packaging, alt mode and robot mode. As we can see from the images, while the alt mode is beautifully painted, but most parts of robot mode have been made with plain gray plastic which looks pretty different to the first promotional images or the samples shown in previous events.
See all the mirrored images after the jump and then share your impressions on this new Optimus Prime toy on the 2005 Boards!
ziltama
The Crosshairs mold is total crap. Transforming this guy is not fun at all. I can't get all the panels to stay correctly aligned all at once in alt mode. Got the feet tabs to stay in place but then it causes the front of the car to tilt upwards. It feels awful and mushy trying to push the front of the car back down.
There's a loose set of clear sword and shield sets, which may be from the Takara clear figure (can't 100% confirm) on Taobao. Grabbed these a while ago while purchasing various other stuff.
Camera makes the sword look bigger than it is.
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I could make my own custom adapter to fit in the elbow port but don't feel that motivated.
Edit: Below is with the old voyager Dr. Wu sword and shield set. The above set really does work well for Deluxe scale.
Again, camera makes the sword look bigger but the Dr. Wu set is too big for deluxe figures. This is of course dwarfed by his leader class swords.
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octobotimus
Man that silver paint missing takes away a lot. Like, it went from a “maybe I’ll get this funny crossover” to “I would only buy this on deep discount”.
That soapy grey is awful.
Shmoptimus Prime
OK so the figure is exactly as you’d expect from pics, and the crosshairs mold if you have him. It’s underwhelming, but I think with some more paint and a few mods it could still be fun. Posability is very limited but I’m gonna mod him to help that.
It comes with the stupid gun AND the crosshairs sub machine guns, but none of those feel like Optimus weapons, even if he is randomly a sports car, so I gave him one of SS Optimus’ guns. I wish I hadn’t sold off all of my TLK voyager Optimus primes or I could have given this guy one of the swords!
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I glued it in within 5mins of having the figure. No way I’m attaching it to that stupid gun anyways.
Nems
Mine arrived today. First impressions, the gray isn't as bad in person as it is in pictures. Still should have been a darker shade, but it's not eye-searing. The head is probably the part that suffer the most. The bigger problem mine has is the spoiler doesn't like to stay tabbed on in vehicle mode.
Other than that, he's pretty solid.
PlanckEpoch
Because it's based off a real car. Can't quite do that with any other mold, lol.
Shmoptimus Prime
Much easier to remove any painted parts you can, mask off the non-silver and use spray paint. I do it all the time. If you're good with applying the tape then it'll look great and be super easy.
ziltama
I can only hope one of the Chinese groups releases metallic water slide decals.
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I put more pics in the review thread. There's some QC stuff going on too and the figure doesn't feel fun to pose at all. Never got Crosshairs.
Kea002
It's interesting that they used the Crosshairs mold for this. Reminds me of the BW molds in TF4's line.
Choostopher
Got notification of mine shipping as well, I don't have a steady enough hand but I might try to mask areas then sit there with a tiny paint brush and silver sharpies to slowly fix mine up if it looks like the pics I have seen.
ziltama
The bot mode deco looks like shit in-hand. Car is fine, but the bot mode is atrocious with all that pale gray plastic. Leave in car mode permanently.
Throway
In hand looks better than photos. And the alt mode is to die for, super gorgeous.
Shmoptimus Prime
………I believe it.
DeathsTreads77
It's an act of Primus. The Hasgods have decreed that you may get every modern chug knight Optimus prime.
Shmoptimus Prime
OK so, I fucked up you guys.
I had this preordered at amazon.jp and didn't remember at all, but then got an email saying it shipped sooooo, I guess I'm getting this thing! I'll let you all know how it looks in person. If the molded details themselves are nice enough IRL then I'll be sure to give him a nice silver spray job and see if that makes it look as good as the prototypes.
galvatran
HasLab Cookie Monster was sacrificed in vain…
f-primusunicron
he should have come with a sword at leats, it looks great with it
i dont think the colors look that bad, not as good as they could have but they dont look horrible, i totally want it to be rodimus prime, is not like most of the movie tfs look like their g1 counterparts either way, i mean, pablo, arcee, bonecrusher…hotrod(who looks like g2 sideswipe to me, both the color and car mode)
Starcron
Soap prime.
DriftsEdge
Crosshairs: You will never be Optimus Prime.
Bumblebee: How so?
Crosshairs: Cause I already am one!
Shmoptimus Prime
Yeah it's really sad from the back. Not even a couple touches of gold or blue or something.
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This is true but it really is not some Japan only thing. ANY company doing ANY licensed product with transformers ANYWHERE is gonna start (and possibly end) with Optimus.
EDIT: Just saw that I got my amiami preorder notification in yesterday. I don't think I want to move forward with it, but I am actually tempted purely for the fact that the yen is so pathetic right now that it's actually a good deal. I saw 9200 yen and freaked out but then I did a google conversion and that's only $58…
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Hooper_X
Well, if all y\'all hate it so bad maybe I can pick
one up on the relative cheap.
I\'m a sucker for TFs with real-world racing decos, so I\'ll probably bite on it anyway.