My local supermarket usually gets blind packed Transformers stuff so hopefully they will get these as well.

 

It's funny how many people confuse the Capsule Microns for the Arms Microns!

 

Because Arms Micron was tailored specifically for the Japanese Market by Takara-Tomy (Hasbro has litterally nothing to do with it), as attempt to claw back some market share among the kids market. Model kits are very popular in Japan. Not so in Hasbro's markets. Also these are the capsule AM's. You know the pre-assembled and painted ones. That can, and have been, easily put in blind bags and released in the west.

 

I'd raise some excitement if I thought I'd ever actually see any out in the wild.

 

they could very well be a takara/tomy product as when dotm came out we had some phone dongle things over here and they had the tak/tom logo on so fingers crossed

 

We had blindbagged minicons here in the UK a couple of years ago as well but the plastic quality was terrible, they felt like a knockoff .

 

but aren't they essentially the SAME thing? just packed into capsules?

 

The Capsule Microns are a sub set of the Arms Microns: Arms Micron - Transformers Wiki

 

The only Two Candy Minicons I noticed had problems was a slight mould flaw on the helicopter and every single tank I bought being broken. and they did assemble the A-10 mould upsidedown.

The Dragon and Monster Truck moulds were great. It was a shame they didn't do some more - the company that made them seems to be a front company of some kind and never answers their mail or e-mail and has not made anything new for months so no luck from them.

Incidentally these are the same capsule microns also repacked for asian super markets in cardboard boxes not long ago - I hope they keep it up and produce the later wave too.

Oh and other than being preassembled they are the same thing as a Arms Micron you could argue that Optimus/Megatron/Bumblebee/Bulkhead/Arcee etc are more like classic Minicons - but the other ones like the Geko/Snake/Turtle etc are Arms Microns in the modern sense they are just preassembled and lack a sticker sheet. they even have the same complete lack of paint. so if you look at it that way is there any real reason that some of the other couldn't get similar treatment perhaps if they added a little paint or included stickers with them.

But it seems the Geko/Cobra are just like the Japanese capsule ones... as far as I know the supermarket toy version are only the prepainted kind. so we are already getting more than those in terms of characters....

Shame they didn't make them in new colours though.

 

I've emailed my local games shop about these. They get their stock from Esdevium Games, so hopefully they will stock them.

 

They're on ebay uk now. £24.99 FOR 1! WTF to that.

Transformers Figure Packet | eBay

 

They're in Toys R Us I've just seen them for like £4.

 

Where abouts in TRU? i'm not sure where something like this would be stocked in the store, and i really wanna pick some up for that price.

 

£4? Pah, I'll get them on my next order from Kapow for £3.49-3.99 instead.

 

I got a few for £2.50, if it hasn't been confirmed already they are released by tomy with the Tomy and Gatcha logos on them and don't have any paint on them, at least the animal ones, don't know about prime and bumblebee. They also have clear gems with faction symbols inside, don't know if those are on the japanese release

 

So, these aren't exclusive to one store? Awesome!

 

Here is one with it's package, sorry about the quality but I figured it was good to prove it.

 

Interestingly enough the Micron itself has Hasbro's copymark written on it, not that it's being marketed as a micron, it just says transforming figure collection on the bag. It does seem to be rather sturdy, compared at least to the older blind packed minicons we got over here. all of the joints are tight enough to hold and it can even stand well if you angle the legs right.

It's not -bad- for £2.50 if that's a widewpread price for them.