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). |
| This article is about Binaltech Black Convoy. For another Black Convoy from Car Robot franchise, see Scourge (RID). |
- 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.
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 preserved 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.
What he did to Dr Arkeville after that is unknown, but soon after being activated, Nemesis Prime began to make his move, and the confrontation between him and Megatron inevitably happened. But insult exchange was the only thing that occurred for Mirage had accomplished his mission and Megatron was frozen just before the battle could actually start: Every Decepticon (and every Autobot) who hadn't undergone a binaltech conversion was now deactivated. Nevertheless, Nemesis Prime, faced with the unexpected turn of events, didn't lose his temper and seized the opportunity to take power. He ordered Shockwave to gather as many Decepticon bodies possible. Seeing the logic in this order, Shockwave complied and plotting his future moves, Nemesis Prime seated on Megatron throne
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. Prior to that, he was released in large quantities at regular retail in various Asian countries, becoming a shelfwarmer there, ironically.
- 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: BT-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-metallized wheels and front grill. And finally, perhaps his most important difference is that 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.
Trivia
- Originally, Takara's version of the Alternators Optimus Prime toy was prematurely solicited by as Prime's Super-God Masterforce look-alike Ginrai, whereas the obligatory Binaltech Asterisk redeco was supposed to be Optimus Prime's evil counterpart, Black Convoy. Ultimately, however, both Ginrai and Black Convoy were cancelled, with only Hasbro releasing Optimus Prime as originally planned. In an ironic turn of events, it was Hasbro who would pick up Takara's idea for a black redeco (dubbed "Nemesis Prime" based on the Armada toy of the same name), which was released as a Hasbro Toy Shop/San Diego Comic-Con exclusive later that year. Eventually, Takara released the Dodge Ram as as part of the new Kiss Players line, now named "Convoy" (Optimus Prime), whereas Black Convoy was ultimately released as a Winter Festival exclusive over a year later than originally planned, thereby essentially relaunching the Binaltech line as a line of convention and store exclusives. That way, Takara actually found a way to make use of the diecast molds initially created for Binaltech Ginrai, as the Kiss Players Convoy toy had been made entirely out of plastic.
