Alternity Megatron (Silver/Blue) and Convoy (Super Black) Released in Japan

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Type-R, Jun 25, 2009.

  1. LightningZERO

    LightningZERO The Alternity

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    Can't wait to get mine. I'm so burned out! :D 
     
  2. Jason Blue Boost

    Jason Blue Boost Well-Known Member

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    Finally, my whole pre-order can ship once blue Megs comes in.
     
  3. Buzzer-Bot

    Buzzer-Bot Kamikaze

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    The blue Megatron looks much nicer that the silver one,so I'll get him!
     
  4. BigRC83

    BigRC83 I'm singing in the rain

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    I must have Alternity Megatron. :drool: 
     
  5. Lakanl

    Lakanl Footmaster

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    It all looks just, just beautiful.
     
  6. Type-R

    Type-R Well-Known Member

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    Picked mine up today.

    - Megatron has got less die cast than Convoy. Only the black parts in the engine bay (which form the insides of the chest) are die cast. Unlike GT-R Convoy, the hinge piece on the middle underside of the car (which forms the back portion behind the abs in bot mode is plastic). I suppose this could have been done for stability reasons since Megs doesn't balance very well in bot mode.

    - No Decepticon logo anywhere on the figure. There's a spot in the middle of waist which looks ideal for it but they ended up not tampoing it on at all.

    - According to the story/tech spec section of the instruction sheet, it seems the blue version is known as Master Therion.
     
  7. jon

    jon Well-Known Member

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    gawd bad time to be broke! plus im going out of country. when i get back in a month all three will be mine!
     
  8. Nightrain

    Nightrain Senior Villain

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    Is there any hint of them making more characters? Alternity is all I really look forward to these days.
     
  9. Pravus Prime

    Pravus Prime Wields Mjolnir!

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    What's the bio? What's he packing to compete with Prime/Convoy?
     
  10. Blitz.

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    1000 cool points for who ever translates Megatrons bio first
     
  11. soundwaveCA

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    Tempting....

    Wasint the Encore Bruticus and second Cassette Big Mission set also set for release or where these pushed back?
     
  12. Dark_Rage

    Dark_Rage Jaded Member

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    July Release.
     
  13. Cheetatron

    Cheetatron Drat, outsmarted by a Lorry, I am disgraced

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    and had more paint apps still I like the figure
     
  14. rherk

    rherk KNERDOUT

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    I sure hope so. Ever since Alts were cancelled, it is all I look forward to as well. There is a lot of potential as long as they are not limited to Nissan Automobiles.
     
  15. Napjr

    Napjr Mr. Internet Veteran

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    I dont want to sound pessimistic, but given Takara/Tomy track record of sublines, i doubt they will make anymore... we should have heard about them already! Plus, given the several delays both figures had, i dont think they care that much about those...
     
  16. rherk

    rherk KNERDOUT

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    You're probably right unless they were just waiting for all the movie crap to come and go but I hate to agree with you, the fact they made Prime and Megs first, makes me think it was a one time thing. Oh well. It's still nice to see a couple of high quality die-cast bots.
     
  17. Fairlady_Z

    Fairlady_Z Official Voice of Flareup

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    Bluestreak radicons please!
     
  18. DrillBIT

    DrillBIT Silver Wolf

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    Bit and pieces of information from the net.
    For Black Convoy
    • Originally the evil clone of Convoy
    • tormanted by its creator and became a destructive machine with no feelings
    • Heart and soul is healed by the Alternities and decided to switch side 900 thousand years after losing to the Autobots
    • reborn as Vector 704. A wise and skillful warrior.
    • became a leader of the Alternities, return to Earth in this timeline and carry out orders faithfully
    • uses barbaric tactics unconciously due to its past
    • mission: to defeat Therion and Megatron
    • still want to have revenge on its creator, Unicron

    If someone has a better translation of the bio, please post.
     
  19. RodimusZero

    RodimusZero Steezin fo no Reason

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    Just got Black Convoy from Yodobashi Akiba here in Japan. He's damn awesome looking, I had never gotten an Alternity figure before, but I'm quite pleased with my first. I was hoping to at least see the silver Megatron, but it was completely sold out (at Yodo at least) within 24 hours!!!! AND to give an idea of how many they would have had, there were about 80 Primes sitting there when I got mine. Ridiculous...
     
  20. chuckcjc

    chuckcjc Wheeljack Engineer Corp.

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    Did you try the 4th floor Yellow Hobby Submarine (next to Kaiyodo) near the Akiba train station (radio building)? They usually have hard to find Transformer new releases after other chains (like Yodo Akiba) sell out.