Takara tomy hyper series toys

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  1. batfan007

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    Could not find a thread for the Takara tomy "Hyper Series" toys, which are very cool. I was mainly interested in the robots, not so much the play sets.

    I ordered and just received "White Hope" who is a cool modular Voyager size robot with a medic theme. I have not applied his stickers yet.
    Great quality toy, fantastic build quality and I love the overall aesthetic being a G1 fan. I wish they had made more of these.

    Will also be picking up the big blue robot gestalt next month, and the helicopter that white hope can wear like a sort of armor upgrade.
    Adding the helicopter does not change his size, basically just swaps all his limbs for grey limbs.

    His weapons if you look close is both a gun AND a giant syringe which I find hilarious, he also has a special modular clip that goes on his back to store the weapon.
    You can pull him apart in like 5 seconds and reassemble him into the vehicle mode you can see on the front box shot.

    The little car that sits in his chest is about a matchbox size car. When I put him together I could not find the head! Thought maybe it was missing.
    But it flips up out of the little car. Genius. This is like my favourite toy I've bought this year.
    Just like everything about it, which is funny as I'm not a fan of Ratchet at all, and yet the thematic similarities are obvious.
    I wish modern Tformers were built this good, such good quality. Nothing hollow or cheap.

    Hop you enjoy the pics! I love this toy, just brilliant.

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    I also quite like his animation model:

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    There is also a blue variant of white hope / diff toy with same base mold I think.
    I don't know if it has been released anywhere yet, nothing comes up on any of the regular sites.
    The other vehicles are not alt modes, just vehicles. But some can be parts-formed /swap limbs etc as they are all modular in design.

    If anyone knows what the blue one is called, (in the picture above, not the big blue gestalt that forms from two blue cars, that's a diff toy) or where/when to buy it, that would be great. I ordered white hope from ebay, but when it arrived, whatever the seller was it turned out to AmiAmi and had the flier and that in there, plus receipt.
    When I first saw the toy name I just imagined if they released it in America "White Hope, hero of the Aryan nation" Not that it would get released, but I imagine they would change that name.

    Higher quality pics here, and some pics of him combined / parts swapped with the helicopter, plus somebody put a titan master head on him for shits 'n giggles!
    https://www.loopaza.com/blog/tomica-hs-white-hope-rescue-helicopter/
     
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    Got this guy all stickered up and he's ready to hit the town with his buddies.

    Although he a is a modular ball jointed design, once in robot mode, he does actually transform into the vehicle mode, basically like the old Optimus, legs swing down and under, arms fold back at the shoulders.
    Cool.

    EDIT: Just found some pics for other combinations with the other vehicles in the series. I'd like to see some more complete information on all the combinations, but least found this for now.

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    Hey that's really cool!
     
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    How Compatible are some of the other vehicles with Dia Battle pilots?
     
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    I got mine recently from HLJ, they are still in transit. Visit their site and search for 'Tomica Hyper'. No sign of other sets, before the two white and two yellow ones yet, but i am sure it is just a question time.
     
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    These are similar to the Tomica Hero line where you have "normal" vehicles docking with larger-than-life rescue vehicles. A couple of those vehicles than have robot modes or even combine. A few years ago, they made a live-action TV series called Rescue Fire that had a pretty badass firetruck robo. You could probably track down some second-hand.
     
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    Thanks, I looked and looked and I swear TFW has the most archaic topic/thread/map of any online community I've been in.

    I saw "TF toy" and "everything else" but could not find a general, NON-Tf thread that was not you know Tv and comics and whatever, I wanted TOY-->>NOT TF but could not find anything, thanks for posting that thread.
    The serach function is crap, and even google is crap at finding threads, unless you already know the thread title you want, which I didnt'.
    Still tried searches for "tomica hyper" Takara tomy hyper" "hyper blue" and other stuff. ARGH!

    I KNEW there had to be something. but 15 minutes of looking and I was like fuck it, start a thread and someone will tell me if it dont belong.
     
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    I don't know what you mean.
    This has nothing to do with Dia-Battles, nor their pilots.
    some of the Hyper series toys have little lego like drivers but I don't have anything for comparison, and all the sites I look at are not in english so I can't give you any measurements.
    Best bet is just look through listings on ebay at the pictures, but without scale or something to compare them to I have no idea.

    [EDIT]: I added a pic above. Car is roughly matchbox size, so that dude is the "driver" size in some of the vehicle in this series. I don't know if they have more than one size of pilot.

    I won't post any more in this thread, instead I will post in [below thread] so if anyone has Q's about this toy ask there.

    http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/toyark/1073327-tomica-hyper-series.html