In-Hand Images of #HasbroSDCC Exclusive Dairu & Uruaz Dino Cassettes

I want to see more of the Bee, with his wings properly transformed.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:I want to see more of the Bee, with his wings properly transformed.

Be thankful you got pictures of him at all always make it into crime against humanity that toy is not toy transformed properly toy shows is to show what is come in store release not have toy look perfect little kids don’t care if toy properly transformed or not it’s playabilty to them these toys are made kids not adults

KO Transformers Legout Gallery

Legout(Lag out?) on TFU.info.

Ok, am I missing something here?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

gothsaurus wrote:Ohhh. It’s Zauru spelled backwards.

Not just that. Anyone tried converting his image to negative colors?

Lets pretend I havent been near my laptop for a while and cant invert. What is it?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Legout(Lag out?) on TFU.info.

Ok, am I missing something here?

I dont know, what are you asking?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Ok, am I missing something here?

Nope, just further proof that Hasbro went far out of their way to repair this mold (and gave him a worse face than the KO).

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Ok, am I missing something here?

Nope, just further proof that Hasbro went far out of their way to repair this mold (and gave him a worse face than the KO).

Emerje

I find it so odd then that they recreated the original colours for just one of the two casettes.

Those combined cassettes look terrible. Thankfully they weren't released in the US. It looks Go-Botish,full of screws, and. Awkward. That face. And as much as I love dinosaur transformers, it is too far a stretch to imagine a minicassette transform into a dinobot sized beast mode. Imagine how huge this cassette combiner's robot mode would be.

william-james88 wrote:

Emerje wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Ok, am I missing something here?

Nope, just further proof that Hasbro went far out of their way to repair this mold (and gave him a worse face than the KO).

Emerje

I find it so odd then that they recreated the original colours for just one of the two casettes.

Because it's a different character. Dairu is the Studio Series version of Dile, but Uruaz is the evil twin to Zauru (hence being a Decepticon) according to Hasbro themselves. And since they've basically confirmed they're making a tradition of this expect Decepticon Uriad and Autobot Zauru next year (or perhaps at NYCC?). And looking into this it might also be why they didn't go with the name Dile since "Elid" seems to be a made up name used in the game Runescape, but nobody uses Uriad.

Emerje

Please take no offense to this, but all that Sounded like complete nonsense to me.

It looks like Torq III. https://goo.gl/images/XbvnEz

https://goo.gl/images/XbvnEz

william-james88 wrote:Please take no offense to this, but all that Sounded like complete nonsense to me.

I literally took it from the product description.

Studio Series presents Vol.1 of a totally awesome convention exclusive series. Packed with retro radness, this installment features a bodaciously Special Edition Bumblebee Gold Camaro figure and 2 dynamite dino-cassette figures, Dairu and Uruaz (the evil twin of Zauru), remixed from an '80s Japan-only release.

Some of what I wrote was just conjecture (like the Dile/Elid part or vol.2 being their counterparts), but they wouldn't have mentioned Zauru if they didn't intend to release him later.

Emerje

I know we give Hasbro a lot of flack for their crap photograpy, but I just noticed this and thought it was worth a closer look.



Just when you thought they couldn't get any worse they somehow don't know the end with the eyes is the head, to say nothing of the direction the toes are facing.

Emerje

Adimus Prime wrote:Those combined cassettes look terrible. Thankfully they weren't released in the US. It looks Go-Botish,full of screws, and. Awkward. That face. And as much as I love dinosaur transformers, it is too far a stretch to imagine a minicassette transform into a dinobot sized beast mode. Imagine how huge this cassette combiner's robot mode would be.

Yeah that's what I think too and don't get why people excited about them. I want the set but only for Bee to add to my Studio collection and I don't need the tapes at all.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

Adimus Prime wrote:Those combined cassettes look terrible. Thankfully they weren't released in the US. It looks Go-Botish,full of screws, and. Awkward. That face. And as much as I love dinosaur transformers, it is too far a stretch to imagine a minicassette transform into a dinobot sized beast mode. Imagine how huge this cassette combiner's robot mode would be.

Yeah that's what I think too and don't get why people excited about them. I want the set but only for Bee to add to my Studio collection and I don't need the tapes at all.

I'm the opposite I want the tapes not the Bumblebee

Then maybe you two could figure out a way to go halves on the set since you both want what the other doesn't

ZeroWolf wrote:Then maybe you two could figure out a way to go halves on the set since you both want what the other doesn't

There's a guy on Twitter who I've already spoken to who is buying the set and will be selling the Bee and will let me know when he gets it and will likely sell me it.
It's a strange set really appealing to very different fanbases.

I really don't care about the movie figures, but I'm going to have to get one of these. The dinosaur cassette combiners have been a want of mine for years, but they're too crazy expensive.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:Then maybe you two could figure out a way to go halves on the set since you both want what the other doesn't

There's a guy on Twitter who I've already spoken to who is buying the set and will be selling the Bee and will let me know when he gets it and will likely sell me it.
It's a strange set really appealing to very different fanbases.

Yeah, it is bizarre, they should have just released the two seperately

The cassettes are mother effing DUOCONS.

This make me want this set. Also, I don't have SS Bee yet so...

Emerje wrote:I know we give Hasbro a lot of flack for their crap photograpy, but I just noticed this and thought it was worth a closer look.

(...)

Just when you thought they couldn't get any worse they somehow don't know the end with the eyes is the head, to say nothing of the direction the toes are facing.

Emerje

Wow... Kinda reminds me of Edward Drinker Cope's first interpretation of Elasmosaurus.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Wow... Kinda reminds me of Edward Drinker Cope's first interpretation of Elasmosaurus.

Yep, and more topical it reminds me of the G1 Bombshell KO that was clearly repurposed into a scorpion, but people would constantly refer to as a rhino beetle because they didn't turn it around.

-Kanrabat- wrote:The cassettes are mother effing DUOCONS.

One of four, but when you see them all together it's kinda obvious why Hasbro didn't release the Dinos before now.



Emerje

Emerje wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:One of four, but when you see them all together it's kinda obvious why Hasbro didn't release the Dinos before now.



Emerje

They look strange but that's why I like them and curse Hasbro for making these SDCC exclusives

If an exclusive is the only way to get these out, then I'm all for it.

For those of us who were not able to get this exclusive figure set at SDCC, it is now up for pre-order online to everyone. Both Entertainment Earth and Big Bad Toy Store are offering pre-orders on Transformers Studio Series 20 Deluxe Bumblebee Vol. 2. As depicted below this is a set containing a deluxe sized Bumblebee figure in a nice gold color and two cassette dinobots, Zauru and Uriad. Have a look at some of the pics and tell us what you think!

If you are a cassette fan or are just feeling a tad nostalgic we have a brand new full gallery of Transformers Bumblebee Movie Cassette toys in high quality.

Okay. Knowing we are getting both cassettes solid color and both clear, I'm pretty stoked. These will probably be the only toys I get from the Bee movie.

So they're making us get two Bumblebee toy sets in order to get ONE set of the original Dinocasette combiners and one clear plastic version of the same combiner, but that version is a Decepticon, and the other Dinocasette combiner is nowhere to be seen. Okaaaaaaay.....

[quote="Emerje"]And since they've basically confirmed they're making a tradition of this expect Decepticon Uriad and Autobot Zauru next year (or perhaps at NYCC?).

So I was right about Uriad, but wrong about NYCC. I think I'm going to pass on these unless I come into a sudden windfall and hope Takara does these in Encore.

Emerje

I'm confused. Is the vol 2 set available at SDCC now as well?

Bounti76 wrote:So they're making us get two Bumblebee toy sets in order to get ONE set of the original Dinocasette combiners and one clear plastic version of the same combiner, but that version is a Decepticon, and the other Dinocasette combiner is nowhere to be seen. Okaaaaaaay.....

It's entirely possible they only had Legout's mold(s) available and couldn't find Decibel's (if they still exist), kinda like how when FunPub used the Grand pretender shell, they had to substitute weapon molds from Titans Return because they couldn't find Grand's, of how they were going to put Takara's "Metals" version of Jaguar/Ravage in the BW 10th anniversary line but the mold went MIA at some point after 3H used it for Tigatron at Botcon '01 (if I'm remembering these things right).

Speaking of Legout, I'm calling the evil version "Leogut" until an official name surfaces, because it sounds like a decent bizzarro doppelganger name and "Tuogel" sounds like a brand of toothpaste.

I seem to be having to acquire wayyy more Movie BBs than had ever crossed my mind recently.

Well cool, I was just wondering how tough he'd Bee to pick up (hahahaha I'm not funny) but bam, right up on BBTS! I'm gonna grab him and the regular release, then display one with and one without the battle mask. He looks like a lot of fun, might even pick one up for my mom since she likes old VWs so much.

I neeeeed this Bee. I do not need crappy G1 cassettes that Hasbro didn't think were worth releasing in their original era.

I like that it is different from the SDCC version so people who did get the SDCC version wouldn't be cheated.

Got the sdcc version dumping Bee keeping the cassettes.

I'm getting this for the cassettes, and the other version for them as well once it becomes available. I love me some transforming cassettes.

And it'll be nice to replace the KO versions I have with something legitimate.

I keep all my cassette guys separated. I really think these guys hit it out of the park all on their own and that's how I enjoy them most. Or maybe I'll keep my KOs out and combine these guys ...

As for Bee ... well, I'll enjoy him a bit before putting him away.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I'm confused. Is the vol 2 set available at SDCC now as well?

Nah, some of us are just hurting from info overload Vol 1 is SDCC and later, HTS. Vol 2 is, well, pick an e-tailer!

Ok. Here's hoping they have something cooking for the near future to see a matching (double) release of the remaining dino cassettes. (Even if it means retooling them. Putting out half of them would be pretty cruel.)

New info from David Willis about how these cassettes were made:

Msging with Phil Donnelly, who said he asked John Warden about how they got the dinocassettes back.

They're completely new tooling.

They're extrapolated from the original wooden two-ups, so they should be fairly accurate to the originals, but...

...they are new tooling.

*reads up*

also that might be why the combined form doesn't have a mouth

So these are not the original molds brought back after all, but brand new molds altogether.

Just goes to show how much Warden and his team love rare and obscure stuff from JG1 that they'd go to the trouble of making all new molds of super-rare Japanese-original cassette molds of Holy Grail status.

Sabrblade wrote:New info from David Willis about how these cassettes were made:

Msging with Phil Donnelly, who said he asked John Warden about how they got the dinocassettes back.

They're completely new tooling.

They're extrapolated from the original wooden two-ups, so they should be fairly accurate to the originals, but...

...they are new tooling.

*reads up*

also that might be why the combined form doesn't have a mouth

So these are not the original molds brought back after all, but brand new molds altogether.

Just goes to show how much Warden and his team love rare and obscure stuff from JG1 that they'd go to the trouble of making all new molds of super-rare Japanese-original cassette molds of Holy Grail status.

"Wooden two-ups"? So let me get this straight: are they referring to the original wooden models, twice the actual size of the toys, made before final changes that resulted in Legout having a mouth?

Sabrblade wrote:New info from David Willis about how these cassettes were made:

Msging with Phil Donnelly, who said he asked John Warden about how they got the dinocassettes back.

They're completely new tooling.

They're extrapolated from the original wooden two-ups, so they should be fairly accurate to the originals, but...

...they are new tooling.

*reads up*

also that might be why the combined form doesn't have a mouth

So these are not the original molds brought back after all, but brand new molds altogether.

Just goes to show how much Warden and his team love rare and obscure stuff from JG1 that they'd go to the trouble of making all new molds of super-rare Japanese-original cassette molds of Holy Grail status.

The Dinobots are way les obscure, why dont they get this tretment!?

william-james88 wrote:The Dinobots are way les obscure, why dont they get this tretment!?

I guess Warden and Friends figure that something never released in the U.S. before that has held "untouchable Holy Grail" status for all these years is special enough to warrant such special treatment, as opposed to the released-multiple-times-at-U.S.-mass-retail-in-both-the-80s-and-90s G1 Dinobot molds.

Not to mention that Archer's team didn't have the boner for G1 that Warden's team has, so they likely wouldn't have done this for the Dino cassettes if they were still around (instead of Warden's team) anyway. Archer's team never reproduced new G1 molds for reissues, they only reissued ones that were still around (though, the Jazz mold's degradation was fixed for Ricochet's reissue, but that was likely done by Takara themselves for their their contemporaneous Stepper reissue). So they wouldn't have gone to the trouble of making new molds of the G1 Dinobots.

And now that Warden's team has just so recently given us all new toys of the G1 Dinobots in POTP, that makes even less of an incentive for Warden's team to make new G1 Dinobot molds.

That's interesting. I had assumed they were a partial retool using what was left of the original molds, but it's a little strange that they based it on the 2up which wouldn't have been the final design.

Emerje

I'm pretty excited by the effort they made to do this. Give me hope for the other two to be release... and for other oddities I'd kinda stopped hoping or expecting to be released. Props to the new team for digging deep and giving us this. I'm glad to buy an extra bumblebee to get them. Glad to see them as an exclusive. Again, whatever it takes to find a good place to plug in the toys — convention or online store exclusive, box set, etc. Bravo.

Just got mine in!



SDCC 2018 SS-19 Bumblebee Retro Rock Garage Vol.1 by triKlops, on Flickr

Looks good TriKlops! You're amping up my excitement.

gothsaurus wrote:Looks good TriKlops! You're amping up my excitement.

I paid a little more to get it in early but compared to the V2 preorder, it was only a $5 difference.
If you can score free shipping when HTS goes live for him, thats the real money saver!

triKlops wrote:

gothsaurus wrote:Looks good TriKlops! You're amping up my excitement.

I paid a little more to get it in early but compared to the V2 preorder, it was only a $5 difference.
If you can score free shipping when HTS goes live for him, thats the real money saver!

Hey triklops, any chance you could upload your pics here or send it to our email?
newsATseibertron.com

Sending them now WJ88.

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