Toy Hobby Market Announces Transformers Henkei Exclusive Seeker

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Tim Formas, Apr 18, 2008.

  1. Runamuck

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    I am hoping for those too, but any Thundercracker will do...even the darker colored blue one.

    <_<

    >_>

    *runs from the Botcon Seeker Police*
     
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    I'm thinking Skywarp or Sunstorm, anything else and I think people are dreaming unless it's some sort of Black or clear version.
     
  3. cappeca

    cappeca wtf is this?

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    I'm hoping for generic seekers from season 1. Troop building with japanese exclusives will be... interesting.
     
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    I'm thinking it will be the Gobot Leader-1

    Hey why not, they did gobot minibots. Hey, it could happen.
     
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    that would be AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    anyways, it will either be thundercracker or sunstorm, cause it says henkei exclusive seeker, which means no skywarp, cause it got an american release
     
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    It'd be hilarious if it was Thundercracker, just to watch the fandom spontaneously combust just trying to wrap their minds around that reality.

    Barring that, I'm thinking something silly like Ghost Starscream, but hoping for a distinct Seeker. Sunstorm would be okay, I guess, but a new generic design from the show would be awesome, and fit in with the notion of those clones mentioned in... some manga. SydneyY or somebody in Japan brought that up a while ago.
     
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    Easy choice-Skywarp
    More obscure-Sunstorm
     
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    The clones appear in the booklet that comes with the Henkei toys.
     
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    That's the ticket. Unnamed and five of them, correct?
     
  10. Obvious Prime

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    Same here. Or Thundahcrackah.
     
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    Excellent, thanks for the very thorough answer, SydneyY. I hadn't heard of them before now. But that's good to know. Sounds like the exclusive will be relatively available, though of course at a premium.

    As for who I hope it will be.... eh, I'd really be fine with anything that hasn't been available previously in some form. Sunstorm, Ghost Starscream, Black Starscream, Generic Seeker... those all sound great to me.
     
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    Yep, and in a very teasing black and white so there are no clues who they are! :lol 
     
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    Given TakTomys track record we'll more than likely see this mold get all kinds of repaints.

    I too would like to get Sunstorm, Starscreams Ghost & the light purple clone.

    Skywarp & Thundercracker, even though I have them, could use the Henkei treatment with more accurate details and some chrome tidbits. That way one can stay MIB or in alt. mode.
     
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    No. Obscure would be a new version of the Japanese G1 toy Moon Jet. Sunstorm is pretty much a secondary character these days, hardly obscure at all.
     
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    Wouldn't it be sweet, for Takara mainly, if the exclusives were all 5 of those clone seekers mentioned in their manga but they were packaged in those boxes you can't see in like say the WST figs, so you don't know what you're getting? People would have to buy whole cases to be sure they got all 5 and the inevitable bonus seeker which would be say Ghost Starscream or Sunstorm or both
     
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    Not necesserily, in Micron Legend (Armada) Thundercracker beat Skywarp... :) 

    Is it true that Takara has no legal bindings with Botcon, so technically Heinkei could make all the Botcon seekers if they wanted?
     
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    *prays*
    please be Thundercracker...please be Thundercracker...
     
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    you and me both!

    i'd be quite happy with a sunstorm though!
     
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    Sunstorm is more obscure than Skywarp, you can't argue that, right?

    Beyond the relative nature of 'obscure' though.... This is Takara/Tomy/Japan. I think Sunstorm is still fairly obscure THERE. They got a Sunstorm repaint of the G1 mold FIVE years ago and NOTHING since then. In America, yes we've gotten the Dreamwave story, the HOC, the Universe repaint, the LOC, the minicon, the Titanium, and Movie Divebomb has a psuedo-Sunstorm bio. But in Japan Sunstorm still qualifies at some level of obscurity.
     
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    Here are all the seekers that should be made before Thundercracker.

    1. Sunstorm
    2. Ghost Starscream
    3. Black Starscream
    4. Seeker Clone (Purple Dude)
    5. The bright Yellow Seeker (not the sunstorm one)
    6. The bright Green Seeker
    7. Action Master Thundercracker

    Any and all of those would be more fun for an exclusive. And Botcon is an international draw... It is not like TF fans from japan have been sitting in a hole denied classic seekers. I am sure those who wanted it either attended the convention or eBayed them. let's move forward and make new repaints and not an attempt at existing crap.