New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 2:17AM CST
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Posted by alldarker on March 7th, 2012 @ 3:54am CST
Glad to see Soundblaster DOES have a volume-wheel; one of the first Soundblasters out there in hand was noted to lack that volume button, but that must have been a QC problem...
These pics make it very tempting to hit that BBTS PoL (where my Soundblaster and Twin cast currently reside) shipping button.
BTW, I never owned a Blaster or a Twincast, so I'm pretty surprised to see such a big size difference between Twincast and Soundblaster.
Posted by DevastaTTor on March 7th, 2012 @ 6:24am CST
Posted by mattwhite924 on March 7th, 2012 @ 8:30am CST
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on March 7th, 2012 @ 9:02am CST
These guys look great. Especially the cassettes. I wish Takara would make new G1-style cassettes, though. New molds, not just recolors.
Posted by Mkall on March 7th, 2012 @ 11:00am CST
Great shots boss!
Posted by XenoStryker on March 7th, 2012 @ 11:14am CST
Posted by El Duque on March 7th, 2012 @ 11:38am CST
XenoStryker wrote:In my opinion, the quality of these toys is sub-par. Honesty not worth the money you're going to have to dish out. The pictures are nice, but once it's in hand it's another story altogether. I'll be making a full post/mini-review later today on the forum as to why I feel that way.
That's unfortunate, look forward to your review.
Posted by Seibertron on March 7th, 2012 @ 12:14pm CST
El Duque wrote:XenoStryker wrote:In my opinion, the quality of these toys is sub-par. Honesty not worth the money you're going to have to dish out. The pictures are nice, but once it's in hand it's another story altogether. I'll be making a full post/mini-review later today on the forum as to why I feel that way.
That's unfortunate, look forward to your review.
XenoStryker, do you own other versions of these molds? I'm curious to read your review as well. I own 5 different versions of the Blaster/Twincast mold and 7 versions of the Soundwave/Soundblaster mold, and every single Transformers cassette mold ever made, I don't see how this release is any different than previous releases. Quality is the same as with other releases.
On a personal note, I think these two sets are ingenious. I love that someone at Takara Tomy took the time to find such obscure characters in the Transformers Universe. Wingthing was long overdue, Enemy ... well, it's about time, Nightstalker and Stripes are pure genius uses of existing molds and the weapon swap was really awesome. They even took the time to update the box artwork accordingly, which I think went far beyond the call of duty.
Posted by leokearon on March 7th, 2012 @ 12:27pm CST
Posted by craggy on March 7th, 2012 @ 6:18pm CST
Posted by Screamfleet on March 8th, 2012 @ 6:32am CST
Posted by Blurrz on March 11th, 2012 @ 5:17am CDT
Posted by Bowspearer on March 18th, 2012 @ 12:29pm CDT
Just using the Cassette molds that have been released there was so much scope to cover Action Master partners in addition to Wingthing. Here are some possibilities which come to mind:
Ramhorn: Firebeast (Charger), Top Heavy (Skyfall)
Steeljaw: Lionizer (Rad)
Lazerbeak: Sights (Jackpot), Screech (Take-Off)
Ravage: Catgut (Treadshot)
Overkill: Tyrannitron (Snarl)
Yet this seems to have been completely ignored with Cassette choices for Twincast. Hopefully we get another Encore Cassette set or 2 that gives us these figures.
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on March 19th, 2012 @ 10:58pm CDT
I don't know why they use those terrible looking tape spools on NightStalker. A lot of HATE for that choice. But, that's nitpicking terribly on such a great addition to the casettte cast! He's definately my favorite of them all. He has a great connnection both visially and fictionally with Ravage and shares his awsome color scheme.
Still ... I wish Takara would make some new casette molds for any new characters. As neat as it is to have "wacky" colors for these well known molds, I'd have liked it better had they made Nightstalker and Striped entirely new molds instead of repaints. Although, considering the job they did on Universe Ravage .... maybe they've lost their touch.