Takara GT-R Convoy - Optimus Prime

Presenting the Nissan Motul Autech GT-R Convoy - Optimus Prime from Takara with his Motul Autech "sister" Misaki.

We don't want to say that he's a rebuild of the 2008 Takara Alternity Optimus Prime.We believe that to do so would be a great injustice to the designers of what we have here.

This is a rebuild of the Takara Alternity Optimus Prime.

We won't pretend to understand what the Alternity is - basically it's an alternate dimension that you can read about here.

We feel that what the packaging has to say about the Takara GT-R Convoy or Optimus Prime is more important.

Unfortunately it's mostly in Japanese - which we don't speak/read/write.

Alternators: Optimus Prime & Rodimus

Presenting Transformers: Alternators Optimus Prime and Rodimus. These are Alternators (Hasbro, Made in the USofA), not Binaltechs (Takara , made in the land of the rising sun). There is no official story line for the Alternators, but there is one for Binaltech which is released in small comics included with the toy. Personally I believe that the line was created in order to promote the car-lines of Subaru, Ford, Mazda and Chrysler.

If I'm right, there were at least three lines that entered the market in 2003, a plastic line (Alternators), a die-cast line (Which was more expensive, Binaltechs) and a knock-off line which was incredibly cheap and very hard to distinguish from the plastic line. These two are from the plastic line and nowadays retail for around PhP 2,000 to PhP 2,500 MIB; twice that if they're the die-cast version and maybe PhP1,000 less if they're loose.