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I meant cheaper compared to the price for Sunstreaker. Without knowing the reasons behind the new price point for the block of yellow, but presumably the existing mould and the fact they've churned out 27 different toys from it already means that Lambor+ is unaffected by whatever the change in costings is.Warcry wrote:I wouldn't call ¥8,500 anything near cheap!
ANYWAY SHALL WE LOOK AT SOME PICTURES?
With how prevalent high-quality bootlegs have become over the last decade, I just assume that anything that isn't being sold as new and sealed by one of the big reputable online dealers is a bootleg and proceed accordingly. In person (or looking at actual pics of the item) it's easier to tell because the MP bootlegs are usually marked as being from "Takesa Tony" instead of "Takara Tomy", but so many eBay listings use the same stock photos that you can't judge from that. On the other hand, tons of Chinese sellers don't even try to pretend that they're selling the real thing since eBay no longer seems to care about bootlegs like they used to, so if you're looking to save a few bucks by buying a KO it's easy to do. Avoiding them is the hard part.Skyquake87 wrote:Maybe the pricing is to distinguish from the bootlegs...? (Something I've found hard to do when glancing through ebay listings) Although, that's probably not going to help sales if it is.
Wait, is Sideswipe even any different? I think they might have skipped painting one of the taillights this time around but that's all I can spot.Brendocon 2.0 wrote:ANYWAY SHALL WE LOOK AT SOME PICTURES?
Gotcha. I didn't even notice the white in the pic above because of how it's lit, but now that you point it out, it's obvious.
The silver clashes a little bit on the existing figure IMO, so that might actually be a slight improvement. Which is funny because I thought it looked awful when they did that for Red Alert.
The silver clashes a little bit on the existing figure IMO, so that might actually be a slight improvement. Which is funny because I thought it looked awful when they did that for Red Alert.
Masterpiece redecos of some minor cassettes, but steel jaw is in there too. I guess that means a masterpiece blaster is forthcoming?
http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/06/27/taka ... ges-342691
http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/06/27/taka ... ges-342691
For those getting Trypticon, hip joint fixes or "Why do they use springs that are twice as large/strong as necessary?" --
https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... hip/38720/
Still doesn't beat the stupidity with Whirl of square pieces that were meant to rotate in a square space.
https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... hip/38720/
Still doesn't beat the stupidity with Whirl of square pieces that were meant to rotate in a square space.
Back to boxed sets, here are the other two twins.
Currently I think the only way to get their complementary siblings is through those big boxed sets. At least until Takara offers their versions.
Currently I think the only way to get their complementary siblings is through those big boxed sets. At least until Takara offers their versions.
I don't know why Hasbro bothered to pull all this chicanery with the clones. Since Takara's almost certainly going to release them properly, I can't see it having driven that much of a "must buy, this is the only way to get these characters!!!!" frenzy. Not the way that the more obscure stuff like Quickswitch or Nautica or Metalhawk would have, anyway. Why not just bundle each set of brothers together like in the old days and sell them that way?
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I just posted at a comic book site that some people were actually excited by that set.Warcry wrote:Well, that's certainly a good way to make absolutely no one happy...
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Saw this over lunch -- Prime Wars gets a preview, and Titans Return release stuff.
http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/07/20/san- ... ast-344837
http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/07/19/san- ... ges-344539
Skullgrin looks gloriously crap and seems like a cool way to reintroduce Pretenders without giving them too much of the production budget.
https://i.imgur.com/S3jZL9C.jpg
http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/07/20/san- ... ast-344837
http://news.tfw2005.com/2017/07/19/san- ... ges-344539
Skullgrin looks gloriously crap and seems like a cool way to reintroduce Pretenders without giving them too much of the production budget.
https://i.imgur.com/S3jZL9C.jpg
That works nicely for Skullgrin! Overlord we've seen before and I'm not super excited about any of the other new releases. Rodimus looks really clunky, Starscream seems all kinds of terrible, Jazz doesn't impress and I'm not sure how to feel about Darkwing and Dreadwind. They're fine but I already own that mold twice over. They seem to still have their combiner ports, which leaves me scratching my head. I wonder if Starscream is so awkward-looking because he's a combiner torso?
Beachcomber is alright too I guess.
Beachcomber is alright too I guess.