In the December 2007 issue of TV Magazine over 100 chrome gold toys were given away as part of a campaign. These campaign toys are often referred to as Lucky Draw toys, and the Transformers versions of the campaign toys are often refered to as Lucky Draw Transformers toys. This particular TV Magazine end of year campaign featured three Transformers Movie toys re-coloured using gold chrome paint and gold chrome parts. The molds choosen were of Voyager Optimus Prime, Protoform Optimus Prime and Protoform Starscream. The toys were limited to 3, 5 and 5 pieces respectivley, and scans from this magazine can be found in this Transformers toy gallery.

In April 2008 a gold chromed Voyager Optimus Prime was shown to the world, via a seller, and a prospective buyer on TFWorld2005. The buyer was not interested in the toy, as they had not heard of the draw, and the majority of opinion was that the figure was a fake. Some fans suggested that the toy could be a prototype or sample of an upcoming Lucky Draw figure, unaware of the true origin of the figure. At Transformers At The Moon we have a vast interest and knowledge of Lucky Draw Transformers, so we spoke to a few of our contacts in Japan regarding the figure, which is where we learnt of the draw which had been offered in the December 2007 magazine. We decided to contact the seller of the toy, asking information and eventually purchasing the figure from them. We believe that the figure is indeed a legitimate Takara-Tomy produced item, although this could be a sample or concept version of the toy, and not the finalised released version of the figure (which probably would have been shipped in a white box). The seller informed us that the there had been 15 of the toys shipped in Japan, and one which was kept back and he had managed to purchase. It is this figure which was shown in April and the same toy which we now own.

It was the quest for the origin of this figure, as well as other unconfirmed Lucky Draw Transformers, such as the Gold Big Convoy, that prompted us to spend a month, and an awful lot of money, buying back issues of TV Magazine, TV Boy, Hyper Hobby and Comic Bon-Bon, in the hope that we could track down proof of the Lucky Draw Transformers toys, as well as confirm the official numbers the toys were offered in.

On the 6th June we finally received half of the Japanese magazines which we had orders, spanning over ten years (though no-where near a full collection). There is a whole other story about the magazines an how we managed to get them, and the troubles we had getting them shipped, but we won't go into that now. On the 7th June we published the first scans of the draw which showed the gold chromed Voyager Optimus Prime toy, limited to 3.

Since that time we purchase a boxed version of the Gold Transformers Movie Voyager Optimus Prime figure which has proved once and for all that the original toy that we purchased as not a fake, and was indeed a Lucky Draw item.  This boxed version can been seen within the images of contained in this gallery, and if you look close you will notice that the boxed figure is different to the loose one.  The loose figure has a gold chrome front grill, where as the boxed version (which is still sealed), is grey plastic like the normal release of the toy.  Whether this means that the loose toy is a testshot and TakaraTomy planned on issuing the Lucky Draw prize with a gold chrome grill, or whether this is simply another case of a Lucky Draw variant, time will time as we will need to wait until we see a third figure to be able to say for sure.