Nemesis Prime (G1)
| The name or term "Nemesis Prime" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Nemesis Prime (disambiguation). |
- Nemesis Prime is a Decepticon in the Generation 1 continuity family.
Dr. Arkeville spent years personally constructing Nemesis Prime piece by stolen piece, hiding his handiwork from both Concurrence agents and the Decepticons. Designed to be the ultimate military commander, he has arguably the mightiest Binaltech Transformer body ever constructed, with a life-force pulled from an amazingly powerful extra-spatial source.
- (Note: This information was not included on Nemesis Prime's packaging, but was distributed online to promote the figure's availability at San Diego Comic-Con. It was later confirmed to be the work of Hasbro copywriter Forest Lee, who indicated the "extra-spatial source" that Arkeville tapped into was actually a pocket dimension that serves as Unicron's power battery - and that Unicron gave Arkeville exactly what he wanted, in the form of a Spark fragment from Unicron's own attempt at cloning an Optimus Prime. [1]
Japanese name: Black Convoy
Fiction
Binaltech
Dr. Arkeville was creating a black Optimus clone to replace Megatron, and function as a new and better Decepticon leader, when he was interrupted. A glowing orb, a spark, emerged from a mysterious time warp and used the black painted Optimus Binaltech body as a host. He repaired the time rifts caused by "Operation: Distant Thunder" and reported to the Autobots that their efforts to restore the original past had succeeded, but his efforts had preserved THIS timeline as well. Black Optimus was animated by a spark sent back in time from the distant future by one known as the Protector, a future hero of their newly created dimension, who said the Binaltech timeline had to be preseved as it would lead to the creation of a great force for good in the whole multiverse, something known as the Alternity.
But then the black Optimus rejected the unnamed spark within him and returned to Dr. Archeville under AI control. There the doctor finished connecting him to an ancient and evil life force.
Toys
Alternators
- Nemesis Prime (2006)
- Alternators ID number: 24
- Nemesis Prime is a black redeco of Alternators/Kiss Players Optimus Prime with red translucent windows and blue paint detail. Like Optimus, he transforms into a Dodge Ram SRT-10 at 1:24 scale, with opening doors, hood, and tailgate, plus an open passenger compartment. His engine transforms into a handgun.
- He was initially sold exclusively at San Diego Comic-Con 2006 and limitedly at Hasbro Toy Shop, selling out roughly an hour after its 2pm sales debut.
- Later, he was offered in Australia through online stores. A few weeks later he showed up in massive numbers in the Australian retail store Toy World for half the price.
Binaltech
- Black Convoy (2007)
- Japanese ID number: 17
- Black Convoy is the first Binaltech release since Skids in early 2006, and was available exclusively in Japan at the winter Wonder Festival in 2007. His plastic colours are slightly different from Nemesis Prime, with grey replacing the black his shins, waist, shoulders and forearms; where Nemesis Prime had clear red windows, Black Convoy has normal clear windows. His paint deco is based upon Kissplay Convoy's arranged in the same patterns using teal, and has vacuum-metalized wheels and front grill. And finally, perhaps his most important difference is he has die-cast metal parts and most of his truck body panels are coated in gloss black paint.
- Perhaps due to cost-cutting, this toy was released in the large bubble-on-a-tray packaging also used in the Alternators line. However, he came with no character or packaging art.
