Just read over at TFW2005 that Hasbro wants to move production to India, and people are understandably upset about this.

It's disappointing hearing that Hastak wants to go through with this.

I wonder why, though...because a lot of companies manufacture in China, and some moved to Taiwan and Vietnam...so I wonder why India?

EDIT: Ah, ok...understandable. If it's better for Vietnam, then fine I guess. It doesn't really make a difference to me where toys are manufactured.

Why manufacture anything in India? I thought India was all about cheap call centers, or at least that's what the common notion is, India's for call centers, China's for manufactured hardlines.

Apparently, it's because one of Hasbro/Takara's manufacturing guys says something along the lines of "Vietnam will be too saturated with factories, and that might be a bad thing, so get out of here and go to India"

Oh great, now if I ever end up working for Hasbro...
me: *calls factory* "Hey so, you got the molds right?"
Factory dude: *In borderline racist Indian accent* "Did you try turning it off and on again, sir?"

http://news.tfw2005.com/wp-content/u...16/01/TAV1.jpg

Want.

http://news.tfw2005.com/2016/01/28/t...evealed-308542

More shots of Primal, we get a faceplate and another alternate face in robot mode, so he has 4 robot faces and 3 gorilla faces to choose from! Also a first look at the transformation, and confirmation on the scale: He's a bit bigger than a Carbot, but smaller than MP Ironhide. Credit goes to TFW2005’s Monari for the scans.

http://i.imgur.com/sgc6fN7.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/NZoj3r7.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/qSfjPOW.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/QV1cPww.jpg

Gooooooood I need him so much. I love it. Cant wait to see pics of the final product.

at first even though he like delux size i thought the robot master perfect rendition of the naimtion with arm cannon but MP just better

Looks like I might have to get this guy after all. With every new pic I've increasingly gone from "that's cool, but my Transformers collecting days are mostly behind me" to "yes this is incredible and I need it."

Obviously no one's going to have a surefire answer on this, but anyone have a rough idea of pricing based on the size? The only MP I've got is Star Saber, and he might not be the best thing to estimate it with since he was huge.

Since he's between the size of a Carbot (6500¥) and Ironhide (10000¥) he should be priced somewhere between those. I expect maybe 7500-8000¥ for Primal. The prices I use are base prices by the way, you will get the usual retailer discounts. Ironhide form HLJ for example is 8000¥.

Yes Primal has electronics, but they also don’t need to pay licensing fees for a real car mode so I wouldn't expect him to be too expensive. Like, I would be surprised if he costs something really close to or more than Ironhide.