Titans Return Fortress Maximus

[Pinwig]

Japanese speech for the win. I love making Adventures Prime shout. He sounds so serious about everything!

All he needs is 'Head On!' And the world will be a brighter place. Flashing lights synchronised to the theme would make me explode.

HEAD-OH-MAH-SU-TAH!

[Philip Ayres]

Have you ever heard Japanese RID 2001 Optimus Prime/Super Fire Convoy?

"I'M A GOLDFISH, TRANS FORM!"

[Pinwig]

Woah! The Japanese one spoke?! No! Really? What? That's one of my favourite Transformers. Imagine a talking one! Neeeeeeeeed!

[legios]

Jun 19, 2016 19:02:45 GMT Philip Ayres said:

Have you ever heard Japanese RID 2001 Optimus Prime/Super Fire Convoy?

"I'M A GOLDFISH, TRANS FORM!"

Fire Convoy's speech chip is great:-

"Cybertron Senshi! Transform!"

Or, as I first heard:-

"I'm a Goldfish! Golf Baaaallll!"

Karl

[The Doctor]

Jun 19, 2016 16:50:30 GMT Philip Ayres said:

What about a choice between a comic face Cerebros, with the visor and faceplate, or a toy face Cerebros, with a face?

I can never remember if they're different.

-Ralph

[Philip Ayres]

[Philip Ayres]

SDCC Max at Robotkingdom

$189.99 plus postage

www.robotkingdom.com/sdcc16max.html

[Philip Ayres]

Hong Kong TRU Master Sword give away

snakas.blog95.fc2.com/blog-entry-5304.html

Same design as the SDCC version, but different colours

[Llama God]

Right. So it's the Hong Kong store exclusive I want then.

Bollocks.

[Philip Ayres]

Contains an in the box shot and yes the arm is off

[legios]

I presume that the arm is designed to be detachable then?

Karl

[Baron B of Triple B]

I won't be finding out myself. If the Takara one comes with the arm detached then once it's in its in. I'm not risking shearing something off trying to wrench it back out.

[Philip Ayres]

Jun 22, 2016 14:08:07 GMT legios said:

I presume that the arm is designed to be detachable then?

Karl

It was on Metroplex: pop your hand in the chest compartment and compress the clips till it pops out.

[Pinwig]

I thought that, but I'll be buggered if I could do it. I couldn't pinch the thing hard enough to pop it back off.

[Philip Ayres]

SDCC Max poster

news.tfw2005.com/2016/06/22/sdcc-fortress-maximus-exclusive-poster-317673

[Philip Ayres]

[Philip Ayres]

Hang on, what's that I see there?

[Philip Ayres]

[The Doctor]

Good to see Spychanger Scourge going where he belongs!

-Ralph

[Philip Ayres]

Updated Legends Max Photos

www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B01FGYO438/

[Pinwig]

Late September sounds good from an organising the money point of view.

[Philip Ayres]

[Philip Ayres]

Translation of the Max designer interview:

www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-news-rumors/1073547-figure-king-no-221-mp-inferno-mp-cheetor-fortress-maximus-hasui-interview-post13719397.html

The text just talks about representing the toon and the range of movement in his transformation and poses. The most important aspect is he is a Licensed Mitsubushi Fuso T951
I believe he uses an accessory that projects forward to be able to hold Red Alert to replicate "Facing a best friend".

So the Shogu interview goes something like this.. Hasui joined during the Beast Wars era.. then went on to Develop the great MP 10 after the Masterpiece series work he returned overseas to the team to be in charge of the Combiner Wars line.

Metroplex showed there was a market a demand from fans for a Titan class, that could be its own independent line and could work with the same play pattern as the generations line. To develop such a large figure is difficult with budget constraints as the budget only allows one of these size class figures per year, to not delay and miss the optimal timing of the headmasters line parts of Metroplex were used to reduce the development costs.
(The next paragraph is confusing) But it goes something like: The head on noise gimmick was important and the correct sounds for both modes were to be implemented for play value. Changing some of the parts from Metroplex to look like Fort Max raised questions on how the Die's would react to different resin & metal parts in addition to the number of screws. The development process was subtraction and addition of new parts to Metroplex to keep the weight similar as well as cost.

Enough deformations were achieved to differentiate him from Metroplex.
We recognise the overseas market and understand fans in different territories have different renditions of the same character, so different versions were developed ie: Cerebros to represent The Rebirth & Fortress to represent Headmasters, to cater to different tastes.

The headmaster is designed to be able to interact with the other figures from the series height wise, without loosing the balance of being too small to look like the Commander figure.
The care put into this figure was like the Masterpiece line, taking play value, media renditions and toy renditions into account.
Its hard to translate a portion of the text but I believe it says the Headmasters will continue in both classes and the 2017 characters have been determined.

MP Cheetor just talks about the different expression heads for beast mode and how the whiskers for the prototype were delicate.
Great care and attention to detail was put into achieving a good texture for the fur like Primal.

[Llama God]

It's pretty cool that they considered the whole US vs. Japanese thing in the design process. I mean, of course they did. But they could so easily have forgotten about Cerebros, since he's the anomaly, really.

[Philip Ayres]

[Philip Ayres]

[Llama God]

Yeah, that's definitely a better city mode.

[Baron B of Triple B]

Jun 27, 2016 19:53:45 GMT Llama God said:

Yeah, that's definitely a better city mode.

So much better.

[Philip Ayres]

I saw this on Twitter entitles "It's like 2002 all over again" but the embedded tweet cut the top off:

[The Doctor]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

-Ralph