Seems like it was at least as early as this one: Also seen it on the packaging for DOTM Megatron. Apparently Hasbro added Portuguese as a fourth language for the packaging used for Canada and Central/South America (i.e. all non-US markets on the American continents). Can anyone confirm if this is indeed the new standard, and when it started?
I guess all the Canadians and South Americans here prefer importing toys from the USA and thus can't answer the question?
Apparently so. Maybe I should rant about Hasbro being better than Takara or something. I'm sure I'd get ten pages of replies before midnight.
Well our figures are a bit old yet (still on PCCs and early HFTD) so multilingual packaging is still trilingual. If we do get newer stuff i'll see if they include another. No wait, i just went to check my Banzaitron and Leader Starscream's packages and they have 4 languages. I hadn't noticed.
So when exactly did Portuguese begin to appear on packaging used for the Americas? Has anyone else noticed?
I can't know for sure. At least since HFTD. The boxes earlier than that that I have were the american release (just english) since animated, and even earlier than that it was trilingual. It seems that for a while local stores just got the latest american releases (they all had the latest running changes in figures) and then went back to multi-language starting with HFTD. Edit: I went to check again, and all my animated deluxes were in american packaging. My voyager Lugnut box, however, was the non-US release and it has three languages. (english, french, spanish) This makes it more likely that they started including the fourth language with HFTD or late ROTF.
Late ROTF would be NEST Global Alliance. EDIT: Apparently Stratosphere and Long Haul were already four languages, while Leader Jetfire was still three.
Okay, Scouts: Ejector wave three languages, Brakedown wave three languages. Voyagers: Megatron/Mixmaster wave three languages, Stratosphere and Long Haul four langauges. The Deluxe Mudflap wave also had four languages.
Just happen to have my Stratosphere box to hand and there's twelve different countries/languages listed on the back, for his character blurb at least. Or are you on about something else? I'm in England.
That's the European packaging. This thread is about the non-US American packaging (Canada & Central/South America). Also, I already got an answer to my question in my post above.