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Transforms from robot to... pile of blocks. Or a more compact pile of blocks. I'm something of a transformers nerd and occasional collector myself, but I couldn't see myself forking out $350 for this, and I don't have the shelf space anyway.
Never had Fortress Maximus or Metroplex, I did get Omega Supreme on Christmas. It was pretty awesome. But way too fragile. Before new years rolled around one of the motorized feet had already broken and it'd only walk in circles.
As a fan of the Japanese Transformers: Headmasters series, I approve whole heatedly. Particular if it comes with the Master Sword.
When I was young, I missed out on a lot of the core characters. (No Starscream, Jazz, or Soundwave for me), but I'm happy to say I did snap a Fort Max back in the day. I only wish I kept the sticker sheet for him. I usually put very little of the stickers on my Transformers because they looked crappy when they started to peal.
@JOEV They sell replacement sticker sheets for fort Max at Reprolabels, I think. Probably worth the money.
@JOEV When I was a kid I was never allowed to have action figures. "Too violent," I was told. So I missed out on most of the toys of the 1980's, except when my friends let me play with theirs (which means I played with Lifeline and Cosmos a lot because nobody liked them).
Imagine my surprise when, as an adult, I started buying all the cool toys for my kids that I couldn't have when I was kid and I learned that you had to put the stickers on the goddamned things! Some of them you even had to assemble yourself! I almost cursed the god that made me that one Christmas when I was trying to put stickers on a sweet X-wing.
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Also of note, this guy IS coming with the insanely giant sword the original Japanese toy had, but that the US release did not.
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I didn't want or need any more G1 reissues but I want this.
But I cant afford this.
But I want this.
But I can't afford this.
But...
I still have my original one.. minus the box :( but i have every other part for it.. even the manual
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Had one, sold it, never looked back. It's big and it does a building better than any other Transformer, but that's not really saying much. Even though I disagreed with it at the time, I think Big had it right.
That's not true for everyone, though. If you want/need one for a collection, this is a great opportunity. Just know why you want it and what really does it for you, collecting wise. Just because it's the Holy Grail doesn't mean it's all that amazing. Choose wisely.
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For the longest time, I have silently hoped that Takara would FINALLY re-release Fortress Maximus. I've even regretted not picking up the 'ofiicial' re-issue of Brave Maximus back in early 2000, even though it looks nothing like the original. Seeing what the versions are sold for on eBay, the costs are astronomical.
Still, $350 is still WAY TOO expensive....
... but I caved in and completed the pre-order anyways.
I am now filled with fear on just how I will be able to try to justify this to the wife, and keep all of my bodily parts intact. She knows not of what has just been done, and when I look to the future, all I see is chaos... :(
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interesting. and out of which orifice is this magic elixir excreted? do you need to give it a maxmums job? further - just how well adorned is said orifice. I NEED FACTS!!
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I know somebody's gonna have a conniption about this, but here goes:
My cousin had a Fortress Maximus toy when we were kids, and we don't know who he really is. Transformers didn't came in yet for two more years, and our dads just thought us kids would love transforming giant robot toys. So, we discovered his robot/city/fortress mode, but we are thoroughly convinced that he can transform into more than that.
Long story short, we ended up with an "unofficial" transformation mode of battle tank, airplane, and the Gerwalk from Macross. By snapping some of his limbs off and back on again. And if that wasn't cringe-worthy enough, one day we snapped it off and it won't come back on. My cousin had a fight on whose fault it was, and ended up breaking the thing completely.
We were dumb kids.
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@NeoRickicker "We were dumb kids".
I always confused Fortress Maximus with Metroplex, so you're not the only one. Apparently they are two different characters. It didn't help that the cartoon was completely absurd when it came to scale and somehow a city-sized Autobot worked out to be the same size as Bruticus.
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@EliasAlgorithm @NeoRickicker You may not be nuts - in the movie comic, someone mistakenly called Autobot City / Metroplex "Fortress Maximus." Apparently Hasbro had kept wanting to use it as a code name and never got around to it.
@Geoff @EliasAlgorithm Well it's pretty easy for us kids to remember Metroplex: the toy had a garage on the left side of its chest to store one robot in car mode, so we, in our juvenile humor, called it a "Titty Launcher". So it became easier to identify the two toys. Titty Launcher? Metroplex. No Titty Launcher? Fortress Maximus.
omg given how due to safety guidlines fort max can never ever be rereleased. to see some company actully doing a replica of the original. proves transformers fans have some reall joy even if its in the encore line . not to mention the bonus of fort maxes head being spike
@demoncat_4 Well, it's from Japan, so *TECHNICALLY* the head's not Spike - it's Cerebros. The head of the larger robot isn't a named character in Japan.
@Geoff always wondered if the original version from japan had named the robot that made up forts head. since the u.s version had it be spike taking up cerbros during the head masters phase of transformers. here in the u.s
One minor correction, Rob - this is in the "Encore" (re-release) lines. If it was in the Masterpiece (AKA the collector-targeted series where the figures regularly run $100+ (EG, Masterpiece Buzzaw and Rumble are $60 for a set and they're a pair of tiny cassettes), then... well, it would be insane and cost in the thousands.
