Conehead and Triple changer Platinum G1 Reissue sets now available for pre-order at TFSource

Yeah, but $30 each for the coneheads? I'm in. Definitely more worth it in my opinion than the Insecticons... C'mon, BBTS!!

Agamemnon wrote:Yeah, but $30 each for the coneheads? I'm in. Definitely more worth it in my opinion than the Insecticons... C'mon, BBTS!!

Oh me too. If Canadian has similar prices (like 110$-120$) count me in! The deal with the seekers, in contrary to the insecticons, is that they come with so many damn accessories, and many are vital to the presentation (like their HANDS!). So getting a complete one is much harder AND much more in demand. I am glad Hasbro only sees it as three toys slightly bigger than the insecticons and just pricing it that way.

Excellent news. I've got Ramjet from my childhood, but I never had Dirge and Thrust. I've been waiting for years for a reissue of the coneheads. I'm going to buy this for sure. My only complaint is the cheaply designed box. I prefer an Encore styled box.

Gonna wait and see what BBTS puts up on these, since they've got a direct account. Cool that these are gonna be easy to acquire through online though!

ScottyP wrote:Gonna wait and see what BBTS puts up on these, since they've got a direct account. Cool that these are gonna be easy to acquire through online though!

I have Perceptor and Blaster but if the extras are good I could double dip. Heck, don't even ask me how many Soundwaves I have.

I'll be all over that Conehead set, I only got the reissue Dirge.

I was looking at the gallery Ryan just posted about Liokaiser (Cobotron, it gives you a good look at the robot headsculpts which I feel are decendents of the current idea behind the robots in disguise deccepticons) and I spotted what I thought was Mach and Tackle on a combiner. Those are the guys the astrotrain release is supposed to homage. Is that them? I didnt know they could combine into a bigger robot, I just thought they combined with oneanother. Let me know guys!


Transformers Victory Liokaiser Gallery

The Multiforce consists of 6 members: Dash, Tacker, Mach, Tackle, Wing and Waver. Not only can they combine in pairs (most commonly MachTackle, DashTacker and WingWaver, just don't put Tackle and Waver together), but they also combine into one single robot called Landcross.



The figures were reissued for the Micromaster series, in normal colors and a black "stealth mode".

william-james88 wrote:(Cobotron, it gives you a good look at the robot headsculpts which I feel are decendents of the current idea behind the robots in disguise deccepticons)

Hey. I did take a good long look at all the galleries, because of our conversation. What a neat old toy. I'm always a sucker for animal themed robos.

I'm not certain, but that sure looks like Mach and Tackle to me. I know nothing of victory unfortunately.
this looks like a job for Jelze.

Jelz was on it before I even hit submit!

To get the idea of how many combinations are possible:

G1 Landcross on TFU.info

This page has all possible combinations, from DashMach to WingWaver (this includes the laughter-inducing TackleWaver).

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:To get the idea of how many combinations are possible:

G1 Landcross on TFU.info

This page has all possible combinations, from DashMach to WingWaver (this includes the laughter-inducing TackleWaver).

Save for the double combinations made from two of the same toy like "Wingwing" "Dashdash" etc.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
The figures were reissued for the Micromaster series, in normal colors and a black "stealth mode".

But are the reissues in the microseries the same scale as the originals? Because I saw those and they are quite small. Does that mean that mach and tackle were rather small robots? I ask because any pic I see is either with figures I dont own or alone.

william-james88 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
The figures were reissued for the Micromaster series, in normal colors and a black "stealth mode".

But are the reissues in the microseries the same scale as the originals?

If they weren't, they'd be all new molds instead of reissues.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
The figures were reissued for the Micromaster series, in normal colors and a black "stealth mode".

But are the reissues in the microseries the same scale as the originals?

If they weren't, they'd be all new molds instead of reissues.

Ok ok, thats what I thought just making sure.

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
The figures were reissued for the Micromaster series, in normal colors and a black "stealth mode".

But are the reissues in the microseries the same scale as the originals?

If they weren't, they'd be all new molds instead of reissues.

Ok ok, thats what I thought just making sure.

They were released as "DX Micromasters" for the reissues due to their size, but they're Micromasters in name only.

Internet, you have failed me for the last time. Seriously, I can't find any pics of DashDash, MachMach, etc. Anyone know of any posted? Curious to see what they look like, but not particularly wanting to buy a SECOND Landcross.

gothsaurus wrote:Internet, you have failed me for the last time. Seriously, I can't find any pics of DashDash, MachMach, etc. Anyone know of any posted? Curious to see what they look like, but not particularly wanting to buy a SECOND Landcross.

Ask for it in the "next galleries you want to see" thread. Also, is another landcross that expensive?

Sweet merciful heavens. The reissue is $125-$200. That's way higher than I expected.

Guess I need to schedule a local meet-up with a BYO-Landcross stipulation.

william-james88 wrote:I was looking at the gallery Ryan just posted about Liokaiser (Cobotron, it gives you a good look at the robot headsculpts which I feel are decendents of the current idea behind the robots in disguise deccepticons) and I spotted what I thought was Mach and Tackle on a combiner. Those are the guys the astrotrain release is supposed to homage. Is that them? I didnt know they could combine into a bigger robot, I just thought they combined with oneanother. Let me know guys!


Transformers Victory Liokaiser Gallery

The original Star Saber looks shirt and bulky compared to the Masterpiece we have now. It just goes to show Takara does a great job of updating g1 characters with masterpieces

The conehead seekers are on pre-order at Robotkingdom for 69.90$ US. With their shipping it comes down to a little less than 100$ US which is still not too bad in my opinion.

The cool news is that they are listed as coming out May 1st. So I really hope their release at toysrus in canada comes soon after

Personally, I have enough with the mold with G1 and G2 Starscream in my collection. Also, G2 Starscream is in storage. So, I'm gonna pass.

Still, for seeker completitionists, it's not a bad price, especially for how much each individual Encores are going for on the secondary market.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Personally, I have enough with the mold with G1 and G2 Starscream in my collection. Also, G2 Starscream is in storage. So, I'm gonna pass.

Still, for seeker completitionists, it's not a bad price, especially for how much each individual Encores are going for on the secondary market.

That's the thing, there are no encores. The trio was reissued as E-Hobby exclusives way back in 2001 which go for mad money on eBay. Outside of that, only dirge has been reissued (TRU Commemorative).

LegendaryAntiHero wrote:

william-james88 wrote:I was looking at the gallery Ryan just posted about Liokaiser (Cobotron, it gives you a good look at the robot headsculpts which I feel are decendents of the current idea behind the robots in disguise deccepticons) and I spotted what I thought was Mach and Tackle on a combiner. Those are the guys the astrotrain release is supposed to homage. Is that them? I didnt know they could combine into a bigger robot, I just thought they combined with oneanother. Let me know guys!


Transformers Victory Liokaiser Gallery

The original Star Saber looks shirt and bulky compared to the Masterpiece we have now. It just goes to show Takara does a great job of updating g1 characters with masterpieces

Dezaras short. Now if it gets an MP treatment..........

shajaki wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Personally, I have enough with the mold with G1 and G2 Starscream in my collection. Also, G2 Starscream is in storage. So, I'm gonna pass.

Still, for seeker completitionists, it's not a bad price, especially for how much each individual Encores are going for on the secondary market.

That's the thing, there are no encores. The trio was reissued as E-Hobby exclusives way back in 2001 which go for mad money on eBay. Outside of that, only dirge has been reissued (TRU Commemorative).

OOOOOoooooohhhh.... So THAT'S why some people are so exited about this set. Let's hope you guys can get some before the Scalper Scourge strike again.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

shajaki wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Personally, I have enough with the mold with G1 and G2 Starscream in my collection. Also, G2 Starscream is in storage. So, I'm gonna pass.

Still, for seeker completitionists, it's not a bad price, especially for how much each individual Encores are going for on the secondary market.

That's the thing, there are no encores. The trio was reissued as E-Hobby exclusives way back in 2001 which go for mad money on eBay. Outside of that, only dirge has been reissued (TRU Commemorative).

OOOOOoooooohhhh.... So THAT'S why some people are so exited about this set. Let's hope you guys can get some before the Scalper Scourge strike again.

They will be available online. They already are for preorder at 2 places mentioned above. Scalpers might raid a local store but online stock will be available for us, as it is right now.

User wwevskof on ACtoys says they couldn't resist buying the Platinum G1 reissue Triple Changer set they found in a store in China.

The user provided some (rather morbidly themed) pictures of this set out of the box and they have been mirrored below. From wwevskof's comments, it appears Blitzwing can no longer fire his missile.

I figured they'd neuter Blitzwing's launchers. They did the same thing with the 2008 Perceptor reissue.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:I figured they'd neuter Blitzwing's launchers. They did the same thing with the 2008 Perceptor reissue.

Why? Was it that lethal?

What is that smaller Blitzwing next to the Platinum redeco?

Sabrblade wrote:

What is that smaller Blitzwing next to the Platinum redeco?

Its part of the Worlds Smallest TF series. I didnt include it because I didnt want to confuse anyone.

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

What is that smaller Blitzwing next to the Platinum redeco?

Its part of the Worlds Smallest TF series. I didnt include it because I didnt want to confuse anyone.

If it is, it's an unofficial figure, as Blitzwing was never released as such.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

What is that smaller Blitzwing next to the Platinum redeco?

Its part of the Worlds Smallest TF series. I didnt include it because I didnt want to confuse anyone.

If it is, it's an unofficial figure, as Blitzwing was never released as such.

Yeah, there is no Smallest Transformers Blitzwing.

And aren't the Smallest TFs even smaller than the toy in that pic? Like, Micromaster/Mini-Con/Nebulon-sized (or smaller)?

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

What is that smaller Blitzwing next to the Platinum redeco?

Its part of the Worlds Smallest TF series. I didnt include it because I didnt want to confuse anyone.

If it is, it's an unofficial figure, as Blitzwing was never released as such.

Yeah, there is no Smallest Transformers Blitzwing.

And aren't the Smallest TFs even smaller than the toy in that pic? Like, Micromaster/Mini-Con/Nebulon-sized (or smaller)?

Yeah, now taht you mention it, he isnt as small as the others. Probably a downsized KO?

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

What is that smaller Blitzwing next to the Platinum redeco?

Its part of the Worlds Smallest TF series. I didnt include it because I didnt want to confuse anyone.

If it is, it's an unofficial figure, as Blitzwing was never released as such.

Yeah, there is no Smallest Transformers Blitzwing.

And aren't the Smallest TFs even smaller than the toy in that pic? Like, Micromaster/Mini-Con/Nebulon-sized (or smaller)?

Yeah, now taht you mention it, he isnt as small as the others. Probably a downsized KO?

There's a 'WST Blitzwing' by Justitoys. They've also done the Dinobots, Sixshot (I believe), Blaster, Shockwave and Astrotrain.

Mr O wrote:
There's a 'WST Blitzwing' by Justitoys. They've also done the Dinobots, Sixshot (I believe), Blaster, Shockwave and Astrotrain.

But the one on those pictures looks in between the size of G1 astrotrai and the Justitoys one (pictures below), no?

The user provided some (rather morbidly themed) pictures

What's morbid about them?

GuyIncognito wrote:

The user provided some (rather morbidly themed) pictures

What's morbid about them?

Look at what the figures are on...

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

GuyIncognito wrote:

The user provided some (rather morbidly themed) pictures

What's morbid about them?

Look at what the figures are on...

Puny humans!

Much like G1 Star Saber I got the Landcross reissues because I thought they look cool. Glad I did then, wonder how much the originals go for. Also I fairly certain Takara did some necessary paint touch ups on the figures and in some cases made new combiner heads. I could be wrong but I remember looking at comparison shots and the heads looked noticeably different. Might have to do a review of my set someday...

Blitzwing's missile launchers didn't work on the US G1 toy either, which is what I think this version is based on. We'll know soon enough as somebody bought his first Platnium Edition.

Weirdly the more I see that Blitwing the less I hate that colour scheme. I swear it reminds me of something but I can't think what. I don't want these figures though. Had these guys in regular colours as a kid and I don't miss them.

Ugh. That plastic screams KO crap quality. And they get uglier with each new image...

As for the mini Blitzwing, that is the Justitoys World's Smallest figure. They did the Dinobots, Sixshot, Shockwave, among others in the WST scale.

Autobot032 wrote:Ugh. That plastic screams KO crap quality. And they get uglier with each new image...

As for the mini Blitzwing, that is the Justitoys World's Smallest figure. They did the Dinobots, Sixshot, Shockwave, among others in the WST scale.

But the Smallest Transformers scale is tiny. That smaller Blitzwing looks too big to in that scale, unless Justitoys didn't make theirs as small as the official ones (I wouldn't know).

Sabrblade wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:Ugh. That plastic screams KO crap quality. And they get uglier with each new image...

As for the mini Blitzwing, that is the Justitoys World's Smallest figure. They did the Dinobots, Sixshot, Shockwave, among others in the WST scale.

But the Smallest Transformers scale is tiny. That smaller Blitzwing looks too big to in that scale, unless Justitoys didn't make theirs as small as the official ones (I wouldn't know).

The Dinobots are about legends-sized, which they pass off as 'cartoon-accurate scale!'. Blaster and Shockwave are regular WST size and the multi-changers are all about the size of the Dinos as far as I'm aware.

Autobot032 wrote:Ugh. That plastic screams KO crap quality.

How the hell can you tell from pictures alone? Are you a veteran chemist in the plastic industry to make such a claim?

While Seibertron has had exclusive images of the Platinum Conehead G1 rerelease (officially called TRANSFORMERS PLATINUM EDITION SEEKER SQUADRON 3-PACK) for almost a month now, Hasbro has finally provided stock images of this set and we have the high definition ones to show you. The previous in box images confirm that the deco will be provided through stickers and not tampographs. This set includes a reissue of G1 Dirge, Ramjet and Thrust and can currently be preordered online for 69.99$ US and 99.95$ US. It is set to ship early May.

For all news on the Platinum sets coming out in 2015, look no further than Seibertron.com

Hope these show up at Kmart or Target.

At least they're the right colors

Ordered! Finally after 30 years, Season 2 'cons are completed!

Bought Blitzwing/Astrotrain on ebay today, really not super expensive there. Looking forward to getting them whenever the slow boat decides to ferry them here.

Desslok2201 wrote:At least they're the right colors

Is there anything wrong with them though?

fenrir72 wrote:Ordered! Finally after 30 years, Season 2 'cons are completed!

Hey Congrats! Thats something I think I will never achieve, its really an awesome accomplishment, especially with today's market.