Transformers Masterpiece 7-11 Optimus Prime (MP-711)

Optimus Prime

Previous Mold Reviews: Masterpiece Optimus Prime (MP-10), Toys R Us Exclusive (2012) Masterpiece Optimus Prime, Toys R Us Exclusive Year of the Horse Masterpiece Optimus Prime, Neon Genesis Evangelion Masterpiece Optimus Prime, Shattered Glass Masterpiece Optimus Prime, Toys R Us Exclusive (2017) Masterpiece Optimus Prime, Masterpiece Black Convoy, Masterpiece Golden Lagoon Optimus Prime, Ghostbusters 35th Anniversary San Diego Comic Con Exclusive Masterpiece Optimus Prime

Exclusive to Japanese 7-11 stores, MP-711 Convoy is done in an Ultra Magnus color scheme with green and blue highlights. Spike is now sporting a 7-11 uniform. Notably, he does include his trailer, which most of the other oddball exclusive Optimus Prime’s did not.

Overall: When I started tracking down the Masterpiece Optimus Prime’s I was missing, I discovered an easy way to tell if they are real or fake. The 7-11, Atmos, and Bathing Ape versions were made from the Nemesis Prime mold. Up until the Nemesis Prime mold, all Masterpiece Prime’s (2nd mold, MP-10) had a raised Autobot logo on his left shoulder. That is the mold that was knocked off a million times over. The Nemesis Prime had a newly molded left shoulder without the raised logo. I do not believe any Masterpiece Optimus Prime released after that used the original mold, but the knock offs all do. So if you see a 7-11, Atmos, or Bathing Ape Prime with a molded logo on the left shoulder, it is a knock off. This is not new info or anything, but I’d never heard this until I went looking for how to tell them from the knock offs. Anyway, this is a cool looking toy, but way too expensive. Unless you really wanted them all, or have a particular affinity for 7-11, this one is an easy skip, unless like me you are a completist.

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