On 2 October this desk reported New Legends NL-09, a black lion called Dark Amber Leo Prime, opening for US preorder at $99.99. The next set in the line is open now, it is a lion again, and it costs twenty dollars less. New Legends NL-10 Go Prime and Vector Sigma is $79.99 at Hasbro Pulse and at BigBadToyStore, both read this morning, both showing a preorder control.
Hasbro sells it under TT Imports, its label for Takara figures imported from Japan, and the listing says the set includes original packaging and Japanese-language instructions. The two shops do not agree about when it arrives. Hasbro’s page says the item “will be available to ship on approximately May 24, 2027” and names a day. BigBadToyStore says “Estimated to arrive June 2027” and names no day at all, so the gap is somewhere between a week and five weeks depending on where in June the shop lands. Hasbro hedges with “approximately” and the shop hedges with “estimated”, so neither is a promise. It is the second time in two days that the pair have split on a TT Imports set: yesterday’s Missing Link Arcee ran the same way round, with Hasbro the earlier of the two.
Two figures, four accessories, one of them a sphere
Hasbro’s spec strip counts two figures and four accessories, and the contents photograph accounts for all six of them. Go Prime stands 184 mm, or 7.2 inches, converts to lion mode, and takes the two red swords in either mode. Vector Sigma is 118 mm, or 4.6 inches, and does not convert into anything at all, so the second figure in that count is a ball, and the clear stand and the small gold key are the other two accessories.
Hasbro’s description introduces the pair as “Ancient Swordbot Go Prime and Vector Sigma, the supercomputer of Planet Cybertron”, joining a collection it says is built on “modern technology interpretations”. A swordbot and a supercomputer is an unusual pairing to put in one tray, and the supercomputer is the half that has been on screen before.
The sphere has a slot in it
There is a slot cut into the crown of the sphere, a seam running round its middle, and a line in Hasbro’s description saying the key “can be inserted inside”. The listing does not say the sphere opens, and nobody has shown it opened, so what is certain is a slot, a seam and a key that goes somewhere inside, but a seam running the whole way round a ball is not usually decorative. The swords are the only other moving part in the box, and Hasbro says they “attach in both modes”.
What the twenty dollars buys, or does not
NL-09 Dark Amber Leo Prime and Blue Bolt is still on the same shop’s shelf this morning at $99.99, estimated for April 2027. Write the two trays out and the gap stops being abstract. NL-09 holds three bodies: the lion, the blue hawk Blue Bolt, and a small bonus robot called Navi. NL-10 holds two: Go Prime and the sphere. So the twenty dollars between them buys Blue Bolt and Navi on one side, against Vector Sigma on the other, and NL-09 lands two months earlier.
Which way that reads depends entirely on whether you wanted Vector Sigma, because a supercomputer is a strange thing to count as a figure, and stranger still to put a price on.
Both sets carry the same payment terms at that shop. The listing says “No payment is due until product is available to ship” and “Customer may cancel anytime prior to payment”, so an order placed today holds a 2027 toy without moving any money. Not every Takara preorder there works that way. The Arcee we covered yesterday takes $15.00 non-refundable to hold it, and on the October slate MPG-27 Twin Cast and Rewind and Dinobot Island Part 2 both took a down payment while NL-09 did not. One more thing a price comparison hides: $79.99 is the BBTS Mint tier, and the Mint Pro packaging tier of the same set is $84.99.
Hasbro runs a clock on its own preorder window. The counter on the product page put the close on or about 4 December.[1] The number will have moved by the time you read this.
The web manga is up, half of it
Takara’s Japanese product site carries a Go Prime web manga, on a page whose own heading translates as “you can see information about New Legends NL-10 Go Prime in a web manga”. TFW2005 reported it this morning. Only the first half is posted; the NL-09 page carries both halves, so the rest of this one is probably still to come. The page is in Japanese.
The listings give Go Prime two words of description, “Ancient Swordbot”, which is not much to go on for a figure you are asked to hold until next May. The manga is the longer answer, sitting on Takara’s own site rather than behind the preorder.
- The counter read 22 days, 15 hours and 23 minutes at about 08:50 Eastern on 11 November 2026.
Sources
- Transformers Takara Tomy New Legends NL-10 Go Prime & Vector Sigma, Hasbro Pulse, read 11 November 2026 for the $79.99 price, SKU G76005L00, the preorder state, the approximate 24 May 2027 ship date, the countdown on the window, the two heights, the box contents, the key description and the product copy quoted above.
- Transformers New Legends NL-10 Go Prime & Vector Sigma Action Figure Set, BigBadToyStore, read 11 November 2026 for the $79.99 price, the preorder state, the June 2027 arrival estimate and the payment terms. The NL-09 price, state and April 2027 estimate were read in the same session.
- New Legends NL-10 Go Prime web comic, Takara Tomy, read 11 November 2026 for the manga and the fact that only its first half is posted. The NL-09 page, carrying both halves, was read in the same session.
- Takara Tomy Transformers New Legends NL-10 Go Prime Web Manga, TFW2005, 11 November 2026, where the manga reached the English trade press.
- MPG-27 Twin Cast and Rewind opens for US preorder at $199.99, with three more Takara Tomy sets alongside it, our own report on the October slate, where NL-09 opened at $99.99.
Product photography: Takara Tomy, via the Hasbro Pulse listing.