The next pair of reissue Generation One toys in Takara Tomy’s Encore line have been released. Check out the attached photos of the cassettes Steeljaw, Ramhorn, Ratbat and Slugfest, and the Combaticons, who of course form super robot Bruticus!
Looks like the cassettes have tampos rather than stickers as well as the gold variant weapons for all but Slugfest. The Combaticons have tampo faction symbols, Blast Off has the pointy nosecone, and I’m seeing the peg on Onslaught‘s ramp that was added when these molds were reused in Car Robots/Robots in Disguise!
Thanks to actoys for the photos.
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Mine too. I'm glad to hear about the tampo-action. The first set really seemed to have a sloppy, made-in-China kind of look to them. I know they are all made in China, but you know what I mean. I compared those cassettes to my vintage ones, (bot to bot) and the overall quality doesnt compare to toys made in Japan. Both of these sets will be mine. All day. That Bruticus set looks amazing, and I cant wait to get it on my wall!!! I've held off on completing my Bruticus army in an anticipation of this release. This Bruticus will be the leader of my 3 other Brutici. I think all 4 together will look BADASS and very intimidating in formation with Devastator and Menasor. The cassette pack is just the after sex cigarette.
Loosecannon
I have just paid for both of these – cant wait for them to arrive – especially the cassettes!
menasor73ct
this bruticus is what ive been waiting for,even in the 80s i never had a combiner giftset.
Rodr-Evil
I'm happy with my vintage Bruticus, but I need those cassettes!!!
BigRC83
Those two sets are a must.
IACON
Can't wait to my pre-orders of these to arrive!!!!1
CowColor
Those cassettes are just cool, gotta get them.
dragon
thats almost impossible for toy molds to get demolished all they do is pour plastic liquid into the mold case wait for it to get hard and take out the figure all there is to it.
its nice set but i didint like the original to much soemtimes i perfer the repaint version on some figures but i will say the originals better if it wasnt for teh originals we wouldnt have great combiners of today.
i for one would like to see more encore figures to be released especilaly combiners i feel combiners & city bots are left out for there massive size & there not as popular as oher single figures
PoweredConvoy
They technically don't come out until Saturday, but some people have received them early. So expect BBTS not to have them until probably late next week or in the middle of the week.
Randy
Mightion
Looks like Onslaught's gun is the shorter one…. looks good for the weapons being able to combine. BBTS doesn't seem to have gotten them yet, looking at my pre-order list. :/
Cool that they have the metallic Bruticus parts… my vintage Bruticus has the flat gray parts.
Makxsh1mum
Looked around and everything is the same or higher. If you POL it with other items, works out even better – have it in with my classics mirage and henkei sunstreaker. Once it arrives, BAM! ship time!
DoubleClouder
Oohh, Onslaught has the launcher
Luxor
cool. looks nice
Lock Cade
So want Encore Bruticus and Cassettes.
chrizgrv
Can't wait for my cassettes
Janitor
YESS!!!!!! So close yet so far. Pre-ordered. Can't wait to receive the email notification/tracking #
Homer: And now we play the waiting game…
…the waiting game sucks. Let's play Hungry Hunry Hippos!
chrisr291
So Does anyone know the best price on Bruticus? As i've mentioned in a previous thread, BBTS has it for 84 dollars plus 10 dollars shipping.
Anyone find one cheaper?
Dran0n
Cool! Might have to buy some of those.
soundwaveCA
Have that cassette pack on pre-order so very much looking for that to arrive
Shelfwarmercon
Very tempted to buy the cassette pack to supplement my Soundwave toy.
I hope they do an Encore reissue of Blaster to go with his cassette minions.