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william-james88 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote: You know, when you unpack some figures and usually, the chest or something have an extra bit of plastic cover held by clear rubber bands? The TAV figures all have those, except there is a bigger dummy sticker on that extra plastic shell, hiding the toy's sticker.

When unpacking, you do like you usually do with all of your other figures. You open it, and cut off any extra plastic covers, and you trash them along the rest of the packaging.

Ok, so for those curious here, could you post a photo of bumblebee and steeljaw to show those wondering how it looks when the packaging is removed? All the in hand images we get show those peeling stickers so it wold be to give an idea of how things actually look like.

I found an image of your toys in package:

I'n not gonna show Bee and Jaw, but here's a reconstructed unpacking of TAV Junkion. It's the same thing with the other figures. You better thank me and that I'm the greatest Seibertronian ever because I had to dig inside the recycling bin to provide these pictures.







And now, the dramatic reveal:







Feel free to steal my code, you rascals.



So... No one ordered any TAV figures yet? It should have been (relatively) common knowledge at this point. Plus the price difference between Takara and Hasbro is almost nil nowadays. There is almost no reasons for collectors to buy Hasbro RID toys, unless the TAV version is unavailable, like Warrior Optimus.

Kanrabat, you didnt understand me. I wasnt asking you to dig the stuff out of the recycling. I asked that you just show us how Bee and Steeljaw look like right now, on your shelf. What they actually look like. Everyone sees "in hand" images of these with peeling off stickers, so I wanted to calm everyone down by showing them that once the package is removed (so in the trash never to be seen again), it doesnt look like they have stickers peeling off. Thats all I wanted. I already have your in package pictures anyway, hence why I showed those. I just didnt have any images of your toys once the packaging is removed. But I do thank you for your hard work. There are actually no in hand images of these toys without the fake stickers online.

william-james88 wrote:Kanrabat, you didnt understand me. I wasnt asking you to dig the stuff out of the recycling. I asked that you just show us how Bee and Steeljaw look like right now, on your shelf. What they actually look like. Everyone sees "in hand" images of these with peeling off stickers, so I wanted to calm everyone down by showing them that once the package is removed (so in the trash never to be seen again), it doesnt look like they have stickers peeling off. Thats all I wanted. I already have your in package pictures anyway, hence why I showed those. I just didnt have any images of your toys once the packaging is removed. But I do thank you for your hard work. There are actually no in hand images of these toys without the fake stickers online.

Admit it. You just want to steal my codes...





I will never play the game anyway. As you see, the stickers are perfectly fine, like the Hasbro ones.

Thanks a bunch Kanrabat. And no, I wont play he game either. I came realy close to buying RID Drift today but I am just way too curious to see Takara's deco before I choose.

Ahhh, I see now: Alfes has peeled off the dummy stickers from the plastic covers and placed them on top of the regular ones for his photos.

From what I can tell, the Shields between Hasbro and TakaraTomy are the same size, as the figures have molded indents to accommodate them, akin to G1's square rubsign indents. The dummy stickers are slightly larger, combined with them not being supposed to be on the figure resulted in them initially looking "off" and peeling.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Ahhh, I see now: Alfes has peeled off the dummy stickers from the plastic covers and placed them on top of the regular ones for his photos.

From what I can tell, the Shields between Hasbro and TakaraTomy are the same size, as the figures have molded indents to accommodate them, akin to G1's square rubsign indents. The dummy stickers are slightly larger, combined with them not being supposed to be on the figure resulted in them initially looking "off" and peeling.

Exactly. The dummy sticker is a great deal bigger, as seen here:

I'm planning on getting Gregevor, Junkion, and Nemesis Prime. Waiting for Prime to get in to order from BBTS. Plan on doing some reviews to give people a taste of Eastern RID. I'll probably get Lockdown too just because.

Thanks for dumpster diving K. Good work.

Cobotron wrote:Thanks for dumpster diving K. Good work.

Indeed, thanks a bunch. You rock!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Cobotron wrote:Thanks for dumpster diving K. Good work.

Indeed, thanks a bunch. You rock!

Yeah, I know I'm the best.

Twitter user gikogakodo recently visited a ToysRus in Japan and took advantage of their EZ Collection Gift Campaign, where the first 3000 people to buy over 3000 yen (including taxes) worth of Transformers Adventure products will receive a Limited clear EZ Collection Optimus Prime figure. He has Optimus in hand, and with the other three figures Bumblebee, Strongarm, and Steeljaw also available in a similar campaign. Keep scrolling to see the pics, and keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for all your Transformers News, Galleries, and discussion!

Given the context of the show, Optimus is the only one of those who makes sense, fictionally, as a translucent figure. He'd be the only one I'd be interested in getting if I were collecting the Legion figures (Fixit's the only one I'm interested in, currently).

Uhlgluhlguhgll.

I wanna string those b'dazzly little plastic gemstones up and wear 'em around my neck like a robo-pimp, or Hoggle from Labyrinth.

Why can't we have nice (translucent) things stateside? D:

I mean, yeah, I love Prime Abominus in all his translucent goodness, but we never get stuff like this, do we?

RAcast wrote:Why can't we have nice (translucent) things stateside? D:

I mean, yeah, I love Prime Abominus in all his translucent goodness, but we never get stuff like this, do we?

NO!

Cobotron wrote:

RAcast wrote:Why can't we have nice (translucent) things stateside? D:

I mean, yeah, I love Prime Abominus in all his translucent goodness, but we never get stuff like this, do we?

NO!

What we get here is a bit laughable: right now Hasbro is holding a promotion, if you buy over €30 of TF merchandise, you get...

A GOODIE BAG!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote: A GOODIE BAG!

Do tell. What's inside?

Cobotron wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote: A GOODIE BAG!

Do tell. What's inside?

Don't get your hopes up The last one for Age of Extinction had:

- a swimming bag
- a folding frisbee
- a folding drinking bottle
- 2 key chains

All Transformers-themed of course.

Shwag Bag!

RAcast wrote:Why can't we have nice (translucent) things stateside? D:

I mean, yeah, I love Prime Abominus in all his translucent goodness, but we never get stuff like this, do we?

I will answer why, because everytime we might, there is a huge backlash. Takara had gorgeous chrome on their figures for years. The takara classics seekers are superior to Hasbro's just because of it. We were clamoring for better deco and Generations Jetfire finally gave us a bunch of gorgeous chrome on bits that we could use to embellish our toy as we wanted (which means we could also display him without his weapons and thus without the chrome). But do the fans rejoice? NO. Instead there is a huge backlash. "Dumb Hasblow, thats not even close to being cartoon accurate, look at how smart takara was at not including chrome".
Another example? Ehobby does a bunch of expensive exclusives geared only at collectors with deep pockets and some are in really interesting and out there decos. Hasbro tries it out with their own exclusive G1 figures in decos that are totally left field homages (Platinum Astrotain and Blitzwing homaging the duacons and victory figures) and it sounds like they commit the biggest fault of the century. "Dumb Hasbo, no one wants these, what were you thinking, this is terrible".

So you could see why Hasbro is not keen on trying things that are too left field and trying to maintain a steady revenue stream y appealing to a younger audience and their parents instead of fans who are so hard to please (though I say they are totally rocking Combiner Wars on all acounts).

I can totally picture having these clear toys on the shelves:

"Dumb Hasbro, NO ONE asked for this"
"Clear plastic Hasbro? BREAKAGE ALERT!"
"Hey Hasbro, why are you making variants to toys which even the originals are worthless?"
"Lamest store exclusive ever! There isnt even any paint"
"No one wants these baby toys anyway"
"This size class should only be for figures who are actually small in scale, why is the Scout class dead?!"

And on and on. And fans are voting with their wallets too, its not just words (as I expect the Titan Devastator critiques to be). The last time Hasbro tried toys EXACTLY like these, it was the Dark Energon exclusives for the Prime line and as Cobotron can attest, the demand was so low that they are still available at deep deep discounts.Hasbro cant waste their time making toys like these.

william-james88 wrote:
"Dumb Hasbro, NO ONE asked for this"
"Clear plastic Hasbro? BREAKAGE ALERT!"
"Hey Hasbro, why are you making variants to toys which even the originals are worthless?"
"Lamest store exclusive ever! There isnt even any paint"
"No one wants these baby toys anyway"
"This size class should only be for figures who are actually small in scale, why is the Scout class dead?!"

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william-james88 wrote:[snip!]

Yeah...yeah. You're absolutely correct, and it sucks. Though, for what it's worth, I usually like the oddball homage decos. I'd be pretty crazy for the Blitzwing/Astrotrain set if it weren't going to be prohibitively expensive.

RAcast wrote:

william-james88 wrote:[snip!]

Yeah...yeah. You're absolutely correct, and it sucks. Though, for what it's worth, I usually like the oddball homage decos. I'd be pretty crazy for the Blitzwing/Astrotrain set if it weren't going to be prohibitively expensive.

Well if you like shiny clear toys, why not get the Dark Energon exclusives for the Prime line.

Also, the EHobby exclusives are always prohibitively expensive. The astrotrain/blitzwing set is going for the same price as their latest exclusive, CW Scourge. But one is Hasbro and the other Takarak, so everyone is screaming blue murder.

william-james88 wrote:

RAcast wrote:

william-james88 wrote:[snip!]

Yeah...yeah. You're absolutely correct, and it sucks. Though, for what it's worth, I usually like the oddball homage decos. I'd be pretty crazy for the Blitzwing/Astrotrain set if it weren't going to be prohibitively expensive.

Well if you like shiny clear toys, why not get the Dark Energon exclusives for the Prime line.

Also, the EHobby exclusives are always prohibitively expensive. The the astrotrain/blitzwing set is going for the same price as their latest exclusive, CW Scourge.

I do, and I just might. That's a pretty good price right there.

Wow Will! &

My answer was just gonna be, because it's not the late 90's anymore.