On the eve of TFcon Toronto 2010, the TFcon website has been updated with the first look at the TFcon 2010 exclusive Night-bird figure. Check it out here: TFcon 2010 Night-bird preview.
Night-bird will be available at TFcon 2010, July 17th and 18th in Toronto. Special guests include David Kaye – the voice of Beast Wars Megatron and Transformers Animated Optimus Prime, Mark Ryan – Transformers Movie Bumblebee and Jetfire, Derrick J. Wyatt – the Art Director and Lead Character Designer for Transformers Animated, Hasbro Canada plus artists Dan Khanna, Matt Moylan, Alex Milne and Marvin Mariano. The TFcon 2010 exclusive figure Night-bird is limited to 1000 pieces. For more details check out http://www.tfcon.ca.
Can’t make the convention? Pre-order it here:
TFcon 2010 Exclusive Night-Bird Figure @ TFsource
TFcon 2010 Exclusive Night-bird Toy @ BBTS
TFcon 2010 Exclusive Night-bird Pre-order @ Kapow Toys
Opticron Primal
Speaking for myself I'd be fine if we never got another G1-ish Arcee for a good while. The Animated version fits well enough to me.
Venksta
GeneralTekno posted a review of the Night-Bird exclusive from TFCon. Sounds promising.
YouTube – TFcon 2010 Nightbird Review
narubrawl
meh
not that great, probably wont get it
Tyrant
Can't speak for everyone else, but mine lost the white shoulder cap thingy (the headlight in car mode) right out of the box. Fortunately it's a ridiculously easy fix with some plastic glue or epoxy. Except for a smudge in the paint right above the right headlight, mine seems to have lucked out big time in terms of paint application and cleanliness (the main complaints everyone else seems to have). Assuming I can find a color match, it may be possible to touch it up.
For the price payed, though, it's not right that I should have to do anything to make this toy look good. I don't, however, feel cheated exactly. As the owner of a ,79 Kenner Alien wherein it's highly valued because it was crappily made and therefore hard to find in decent shape 30+ years later, I perhaps have the opposite philosophy most others do.
Backscatter
If it comes down in price, maybe.
Tirade
Considering they are somewhat different, I don't see much competition between the two myself. As for dumping yours, I hope you aren't expecting too much back on eBay. The place is flooded with them.
As for wanting the Impossible Toys version over the official animated, I have my doubts. I was excited after watching the preview youtube vids, but now I am very disappointed. The quality is just very low, even for a 3rd party offering.
mac&cheese
so does this mean that alot of people will keep thier aniamted arcees? im really looking forward to dumping my animated arcee to get one of these impossible toys arcees. only because the figure is not so cartoony looking like animated. i bet most people will want this version instead of animated on the long haul.
bradforj
I am excited to have an upgraded Nightbird, but the issues you guys are bringing up about Arcee has me concerned. I have not yet seen a thorough review of the Arcee. What issues specifically are you guys seeing? I know you mention bad paint apps, but what parts are broken on the ones that have been broken?
Blue Meanie
Not really, 2 of them needed to be had for sure, the third was a bonus gift. Either way it was broken and I got my money back. The third worked out because instead of sending 2 toys back I was able to part two broken ones into 2 good ones.
Tirade
I think this offering (plus Arcee) is going to sink Impossible Toys. I know they had QC problems before with the Quints, but nothing this horrendous. I feel bad enough for those that shelled out the money for Arcee. There is no way I would pay $100+ for an ugly, gray repaint. And as someone else noted, the paint looks cheap. This whole Arcee mold has been one epic fail for IT.
Opticron Primal
Eeeeeh, judging from the promo pic I thought it would look better. It just looks like a half-painted production model. And for the asking price I can see why people could be let down this much.
VitaminZinc
I bet there will be a ton of these on eBay after the con.
Archaea
Wouldnt mind having it, but nothing to rush about getting.
sureshotimus
dont say we like it cause we are rooting for the home team thats a load of crap. just like the exclusive.
most of us are pissed at the price. im mad as hell that i pre-ordered 2 thinking that its probably going to be good like last years. but the thing looks like a piece of crap. I really wish that i could cancel my order and get my money back. i REALLY REALLY freaking hope that the ones i get look better then the pics we all have seen or its really going to suck losing money to try and offload these things and/or even break even on the cost. which i highly doubt ill beable to do.
thank god i love the con for the con and seeing all my friends etc. but this is the last year that i pre-order any of the exclusives.
burn me once shame on you burn me twice shame on me….
SteadyMobin
Well, I think the hate at least from me is because of the STUPID price
the thing sells for, its almost like they are saying we are dumb, buy anything type collectors so lets just make a gray turd and set a high price, watch them go crazy for it because its an exclusive. The few that do like the figure, most are from Canada so we cant blame them for rooting for the home team right? If it were $10-$20 then the hate level would not be so high because then we would be getting what we paid for
Laser_Optimus
Well, just saved myself $150 that would have went to BBTS for this thing. Just got my Arcee and she's going back to BBTS because she was broken and horribly painted right out of the box. Honestly, I'll never buy another item from these guys again. Nightbird doesn't look much better either and I don't even want to think of what issues I would have with her for $150…
Satomiblood
No offense, but buying 3 copies of a custom figure with questionable QC seems a bit a foolish. Were you able to get the 3 at some kind of discount? I mean, I get that 2 of those were for your daughter, but I would've just bought one to determine whether or not it was worth buying again.
Transquito
150$… For that?!
Blue Meanie
No I am done with multiples. One was for my daughter, the other for my loose collection. The third I was going to make a G1 custom box for it and give that to my daughter as well. I have to send the third back for its broken and missing pieces. I got to use it to fix the arm and hideous paint job on one of them at least. I am debating on getting an exchange (since it'll stay in a G1 box) or getting a credit. Not sure what I want to do yet.
Macross7
Maybe 1 in robot mode, 1 in car mode, & 1 in box.