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Prime 1 Studio

Japan

A Tokyo premium-statue manufacturer founded on March 30, 2012 by Johnny Pham and Rie Matsumoto, headquartered at 6-36-2 Asakusa, Taito-ku. Specializes in high-end fixed-pose statues at 1/4, 1/3, and 1/2 scale across Western film, video-game, comic-book, and select anime IP. The non-scaled Megatron from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was the debut piece and earned the studio Statue of the Year 2014, anchoring the Museum Masterline catalog that followed. Rie Matsumoto serves as Representative Director and President; Johnny Pham as Director of Project Management. Operates the Museum Masterline, Premium Masterline, Concept Masterline, and Ultimate Premium Masterline product tiers, with distribution through the Prime 1 Studio direct store, the Sideshow Collectibles partner channel for North America, and Japanese premium-statue retailers.