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It wasn't just Hasbro that was busy revealing stuff last week-end, Takara had their own plethora of reveals. Albeit, not all at shows. While Animation-Comic-Game Hong Kong did get the reveal of an exclusive Transformers One "leader sized" Optimus Prime, the others have been found through preliminary listings online. Here's all the new stuff from Takara from the last few days:

TF One leader Optimus Prime: a Takara initiative to have the leader character get a leader sized figure. We saw it with ROTB as well with Primal, though that figure was also simplified. We do not know if that will be the case with this figure too. It will be available in the US as well through an import (as the ROTB Primal was on Pulse), and the listing for the import is below.

TRA GEN TT IMPORT TF ONE LDR OP
Product Number: G1849

Missing Link Sentinel Prime: an orange redeco of Missing Link Optimus Prime

ROTB Nemesis Prime: a nemesis prime redeco of buzzworthy BB SS ROTB voyager Optimus Prime

Armada Super Starscream: a blue redeco of Legacy Armada Starscream

Grey throne: a grey throne accessory

Anime Leo Prime: a retool and redeco of Legacy Leo Prime where the lion head looks like the head in the anime rather than a a fusion of Alexander and Nina from FMA

Let us know which of these you plan on tracking. Extra effort and money will be required as these will be imports (so you either pay extra for a place like Pulse to do the importing, or you import it yourself from Japan).

Who are the 2 yellowish bots on the shelf underneath Rhinox?

Yeah, while just about any repaint of the good ol' Battle Convoy mold has merit in that someone, somewhere will buy it, I don't think I can ever see that as Sentinel Prime. My brain will automatically repurpose it into either Huffermus Prime, or what if Alpha Trion had repaired Dion first and given him the matrix instead of Orion.

Incidentally, am I the only one who always assumed Dion was rebuilt into Huffer, because their color schemes sort of match like Orion Pax and Ariel's match Op and Elita's? Granted, Huffer looks more like an outdated labor bot than a new type of warrior, but it would sort of jive with Prime calling Huffer "old friend" when he took his trailer in 'Heavy Metal War', which this new toy also evokes, if you rewatch that scene and see which model they used for the cab.

As for Lioconvoy, if his MP included Artemis as planned, I'd already have it, and not need an anime-face lion mode. But that didn't happen, so I'm on the fence about this one. Looks cool enough, but not sure it'd be worth the price or effort. I still have most of the original BWII toys, and the shiny Robot-Master, so I'm not sure how many variations on his latest mold I really need.