Encore #21 Soundblaster and #22 Twincast Announced with New Cassette Repaints

Look nice, hopefully there will be a bigger pic soon of the repaints.

If anyone is planning on getting Encore Soundblaster and Twincast & wants to defray the cost, I will buy the tapes at a very fair price.

Oh snap!!!

Just when I thought I can stop for a little bit from collecting.

Oh well. It's only money.

Plus with repainted cassettes, who can truly resist?

And i may be wrong on this, but isn't Wing Tsing supposed to be Wingthing, after Soundwave's Action Master partner?

WING-THING finally gets some non-ActionMaster toy love? Well, he'd better have a new configuration as Soundwave's gun, and...

Oh, Wing TSING, is it? What, could Coleco or Marvel sue them because Zak and Stellara had that big Dragonfly name Wingthing in the Sectaurs comics?

And as nice as Stripes is, it makes the absence of any cassette that could pass for Stinger the scorpion all the more glaring. Maybe Perfect Effect will step up to the plate with a Stinger that can turn into Twincast's flight-pack and gun.

And Nightstalker too, no less? Well, can't say they don't do their homework, but IDW had better come through with those Marvel UK omnibus collections, or not many more fans on this side of the Pacific will know who he's supposed to be either. Well, he'll keep the Ehobby Hauler toy company, if ya' know what I mean.

And an official Enemy! My red Microchange cassette will have to portray someone else then.

Was anyone else hoping for a green Ravage repaint called "BlackCat" too? Oh well, at this rate, they'll put him, Playback, show-accurate purple Rumble, and an extra generic cassette from that one crowd shot in More Than Meets the Eye with the NEXT Soundblaster and Twincast reissues in another 6 years...

For the time being I've preordered them simply for the new cassettes. I'll probably cancel them later, or sell off the SoundBlaster and Twincast figures.

Mkall wrote:For the time being I've preordered them simply for the new cassettes. I'll probably cancel them later, or sell off the SoundBlaster and Twincast figures.

I actually managed to them both the last time they were reissued. I wasn't planning on getting them again, however those new recolours do look awesome.

Mkall wrote:For the time being I've preordered them simply for the new cassettes. I'll probably cancel them later, or sell off the SoundBlaster and Twincast figures.

Shades of everyone who made it to BotCon this year trying to sell off Toxitron at the next con they attended. I'd sarcastically wish everyone else who's getting this set lotsa' luck with that, but seeing as Shout!'s Headmasters box set just came out, and this might actually coincide with their complete Takara collection's release, well, maybe there actually will be a spike in demand for SB and TC among fans who don't care who any of these cassettes are supposed to be.

Oh how much more sense it would've made to reissue those Headmasters-era Dino Combiner cassettes instead, but I'm not complaining. Paying Takara a bit extra for two radios I already own simply eases any guilt I may have had over how I'm going to acquire those 4, and every other cassette they're not reissuing. MUAHAHAHAHAHA!

They're nice, and preordered. I do wish they kept the clear red plastic for Soundblaster's chest though...

Obscurity made reality!

Bumblevivisector wrote:

Mkall wrote:For the time being I've preordered them simply for the new cassettes. I'll probably cancel them later, or sell off the SoundBlaster and Twincast figures.

Shades of everyone who made it to BotCon this year trying to sell off Toxitron at the next con they attended.

Haters gonna hate. Toxitron is adorable.

The Soundblaster cassette exclusives are awesome. It's about time we finally get the red microchange version of the Rumble/Frenzy mold. This figure is known as "Enemy" to Transformers fans because of the Decepticon Voice Changer toy that came out in the mid-80s with a red Frenzy. Very awesome!

It's also nice to get a cassette version of Wingthing after 21 years. This makes Action Master Soundwave's partner a legit cassette after all of this time.

Kudos to Takara Tomy for both of these.

As for Twincast's partners, I'm not sure if they homage anything so I'm not feeling them like Soundblaster's new cassette partners. A black Steeljaw is cool though.

I am a little disappointed that this opportunity wasn't used to give us Grandslam, Raindance, Beastbox, and Squawktalk. Even the dino cassettes would've been really nice since the KOs were just made available this week and that would have been a nice way to make a statement. Ah well!

Sabrblade wrote:Obscurity made reality!

Bumblevivisector wrote:

Mkall wrote:For the time being I've preordered them simply for the new cassettes. I'll probably cancel them later, or sell off the SoundBlaster and Twincast figures.

Shades of everyone who made it to BotCon this year trying to sell off Toxitron at the next con they attended.

Haters gonna hate. Toxitron is adorable.

Who's hatin'? Just an honest observation; there has in fact been one dealer or another trying to sell Toxitron while simply showing off all of their other 2011 exclusives at every single convention, big or small, that I have been to since BotCon. If the same were true of Animated Wingthing, G2 accurate Jhiaxus, G1 accurate Scrounge, or any other hypothetical exclusive I'd truly love to see them do, I'd have said the same thing. TRU Ricochet ended up being a bit of a shelf-warmer despite how long we'd wanted Stepper reissued, right? It happens to good toys all the time. Even if he is the best of all Evil-Optimus-repaint characters, his toy may have just been the one that reached the world market's Evil-Optimus-saturation-point, that's all. I have yet to read any fiction containing him, my bad, so I'm not making any judgements, regardless of empirical evidence that a lot of collectors are content without him.

Back on topic, have any cassette reissues besides Laserbeak/Buzzsaw been showing mold degradation lately? I see Sundor's protruding foot and shudder to think how screwed up Wingthing might be if Ratbat's mold has suffered a similar fate.

Wow, I didn't see cassette repaints coming. I dont have either of these players, so maybe I'll have to get them. I would have preferred the dino's they haven't seen a re-release, but hopefully they'll get to them soon.

i already bought the twincast the last time they sold the e-hobbey one, but i will have to buy both i always wanted soundblaster. i just won't be able to tell my wife that i am buying another twincast...shhhh

Seibertron wrote:As for Twincast's partners, I'm not sure if they homage anything so I'm not feeling them like Soundblaster's new cassette partners. A black Steeljaw is cool though.

They are toys to two previously unseen characters -

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Stripes

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Nightstalker

I am a little disappointed that this opportunity wasn't used to give us Grandslam, Raindance, Beastbox, and Squawktalk. Even the dino cassettes would've been really nice since the KOs were just made available this week and that would have been a nice way to make a statement. Ah well!

I think this is intended to be strictly a repaint set of previously reissued molds. Yes, those other toys would have been cool, but I actually think that these obscure characters may be even cooler despite being repaints.

I can't believe I may actually be buying G1 toys again with Twincast and the new cassettes repaints. I seriously thought I was done. Well played Takara/Tomy, well played...

And Dial and Zaur only had their preorders open up, so it's possible no one will actually have them in hand until after these legit guys come out.

I agree that these repaints are even cooler. CHMS has KOed a lot of recent molds for the purpose of repainting them into new characters that HasTak apparently have no intention of doing (the Classics Starscream and Animated Arcee molds are churning out legions), so doing repaints that the KO-meisters never thought of beats them at their own game without getting bogged down in legal action, while those of us who just want as many cassette characters as possible, legit or not, get just that! It's a win-win!

I'm so glad Encore is continuing. These make logical choices, but the cassette repaints are surprising. I personally don't collect these two characters, so I won't be picking them up, but I look forward to seeing what comes next.

I do think the red tape door looked better on Soundblaster though...what did the original have?

kirbenvost wrote:I do think the red tape door looked better on Soundblaster though...what did the original have?

A red door. This reissue looks more like a show-accurate purple door.

Excellence! The G1 cassette love lives!

Black Steeljaw=WIN!

I am going to get them to support the Encore cause, even though I have them from the TFC line. The cassette repaints are interesting, but releasing cassettes that haven't been reissued yet would have been cooler.

Can I be the first to point out;

If Enemy is Red, then which colour is Rumble or Frenzy?

;-p

This is fantastic! Now to just get caught up with Encore 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20!

I'm way behind.

REDbat! REDbat! Amirite? Amirite? NJAhAhahahahaaaaah!

Pretender Skywarp wrote:Can I be the first to point out;

If Enemy is Red, then which colour is Rumble or Frenzy?

;-p

Well, if everything is being repainted for greater accuracy to something else, then by default, comic-accurate Frenzy is blue, and show-accurate Rumble is that bluish shade of purple that's not accurate to either original toy. That way no one's happy.

Pretender Skywarp wrote:Can I be the first to point out;

If Enemy is Red, then which colour is Rumble or Frenzy?

;-p

Oh boy.

Guess Rumble will have to be updated to black.

Enemy is red.
Rumble is black.
Frenzy is blue.

Very cool releases no doubt but was wondering where are these dino cassette KO's being sold at?

Ill will regarding plugs comes out if anyone here tosses their link around too much, and rightfully so. Just google KO transformers, and you've found the site when you see an eerily familiar logo, resembling another robot toyline that they ironically sell no KOs of...unless you count a few leftover Playskool items. Which you shouldn't.

Okay, I'm just being vague because I can't afford to preorder right now, and they'd damn well better not sell out before they actually go on sale. Probably won't happen anyway, but this eHobby announcement has left me unable to think rationally.

Slamdance not reporter, Slamdance BADASS!!!
That's why Slamdance had to kill Dreamwave!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

monstergrotusque wrote:Very cool releases no doubt but was wondering where are these dino cassette KO's being sold at?

For the love of Primus I can't believe I'm doing this ...

https://kotoys.com/store/index.php?main ... efffea8c65

And then we can look forward to 3 or 4 repaints of each combiner pair: clear, black, Shattered Glass, Kiss Players...

Seibertron wrote:

monstergrotusque wrote:Very cool releases no doubt but was wondering where are these dino cassette KO's being sold at?

For the love of Primus I can't believe I'm doing this ...

https://kotoys.com/store/index.php?main ... efffea8c65

There there, Ryan. It'll be alright in the end. Your wallet will thank you later.

Sabrblade wrote:

Seibertron wrote:

monstergrotusque wrote:Very cool releases no doubt but was wondering where are these dino cassette KO's being sold at?

For the love of Primus I can't believe I'm doing this ...

https://kotoys.com/store/index.php?main ... efffea8c65

There there, Ryan. It'll be alright in the end. Your wallet will thank you later.

Wouldn't it be great if TT KOs the KOs to make Encore Cassettes #5? (With #4 being Grandslam and Raindance and... wait, I just realized there's a Transformer combiner named Slamdance! That's awesome! How do I not own this yet??)

I might jump on the bandwagon and get these for the cassettes. but It would be nice to have a blue blaster and a black soundwave for show.

Okay, first of all, I totally want....the cassettes. I already have Twincast from the Twincast/Flip Sides reissue, so I wouldn't really care to get a second one. The Soundblaster mold is somewhat interesting because I never had a G1 Soundwave, and I love the repaints into obscure characters.

One question though....in Animated (which I never really got into) Wingthing is a Fembot (according to TFWiki)....not true in regular continuity? I'd love to add "her" to my current duo of Rosanna and Flip Sides.

I think wingthings first appearance was as a toy, which was soundwave's action master weapon. Then was since used again after that.

I think these cassettes are magnificent homages to the lesser-known characters of G1. I'm excited to own them.

Screamfleet wrote:I think wingthings first appearance was as a toy, which was soundwave's action master weapon. Then was since used again after that.

Right, I saw that, and Wingthing was referred to as a he (and was almost as big as Soundwave!). But in Animated, Wingthing is a "she". Ah, I guess I'll just make her a Fembot in my own collection so Rosanna and Flip Sides don't feel left out

I love the fact that Takara threw us a curveball here. My wallet hopes that they continue releasing more of these Japanese figures under the Encore line, especially the more expensive and rare figures (Overlord, Liokaiser, Galaxy Shuttle etc.)

Bounti76 wrote:

Screamfleet wrote:I think wingthings first appearance was as a toy, which was soundwave's action master weapon. Then was since used again after that.

Right, I saw that, and Wingthing was referred to as a he (and was almost as big as Soundwave!). But in Animated, Wingthing is a "she". Ah, I guess I'll just make her a Fembot in my own collection so Rosanna and Flip Sides don't feel left out

Well Animated converted the gender of some characters when it did it's adaptation of them.
Such as Red Alert, a Starscream clone and Drag Strip.
I think prior to animated wingthing was male. It's different universes though.

looks really interesting
have to see how the wallet looks when these get released

funeralthirst7 wrote:I love the fact that Takara threw us a curveball here. My wallet hopes that they continue releasing more of these Japanese figures under the Encore line, especially the more expensive and rare figures (Overlord, Liokaiser, Galaxy Shuttle etc.)

Me two. I'd actually love to have a few mail aways reissued. Reflector or an Omnibot triple pack would be awesome!

Seibertron wrote:Guess Rumble will have to be updated to black.

You mean Frenzy, right?

cannonfodder4000 wrote:

Seibertron wrote:Guess Rumble will have to be updated to black.

You mean Frenzy, right?

Who cares, the new acronym would be the same:

Rumble Is Black/Blue
Frenzy Is Blue/Black
Enemy Is Red

RIBFIBEIR

Repaint Frenzy should be "Frenemy"

I love that Enemy is getting a proper toy and that Nightstalker is also getting a toy. Gotta check if there's any cassette characters left that are toyless.

Gotta say I was tempted to try and hunt down the Microman "Enemy", but it looks like this is more or less the same. Is there any other Microman cassettes that haven't been reissued? Garboyl and Howlback covered the blue Ravage and Lazerbeak.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:Gotta say I was tempted to try and hunt down the Microman "Enemy", but it looks like this is more or less the same. Is there any other Microman cassettes that haven't been reissued? Garboyl and Howlback covered the blue Ravage and Lazerbeak.

Enemy, the red Micross, was the only one missing. We have all Microman Cassettes in the TF Universe:

Micross
Black = Rumble (toy)
Blue = Frenzy (toy)
Red = Enemy

Condor
Red = Laserbeak
Gold = Buzzsaw
Blue = Garboil

Jaguar
Black = Ravage
Blue = Howlback

The rest of the cassettes are all TF original molds.

Oh TT you are little rascals. Having being so good this year at not purchasing TFs in an attempt to buy a new house next year you then re-ignite the Encore line with Devastator and now these. (However picking up MP Grimlock, the Star Convoy re-issue and one or two RTS figures would suggest I haven't been as strong-willed as her in doors would like!)

I'd echoe previous posts about the lack of a Dino-cassette re-issue given they would complete the original Western G1 cassette toy line.