By way of the Twitter feed of Takara-Tomy’s Hisashi Yuki we have a look at some in hand pictures of the Takara-Tomy version of Generations / Fall of Cybertron Thundercracker. Takara-Tomy is releasing Thundercracker as a store exclusive in Japan, with a deco similar to the Hasbro version but with more metallic paint, particularly on the blue bits.
LegendAntihero
Thundercracker looks pretty much the same as the Hasbro version. I'm never going to buy it.
PoweredConvoy
Yeah I go through the same thing with Skywarp, and by extension the other two.
Randy
Cax6ton
Agreed – I could almost see myself getting spares of him and Takara's SW just to keep in the package. It's times like this where my dedication to SW & TC gets stupidly expensive, because I have to have this even though the Hasbro TC is perfectly acceptable.
PoweredConvoy
Looks great. I love that blue color and the packaging is neat.
Randy
Cheem The Rup
Yuuki twitted these pics
https://twitter.com/TFYUKI
Stepper
This Thundercracker should be the most G1-toy-colored Thundercracker i have ever seen in a long time, since the original G1.
Robogeek28
Got an e-mail from BBTS saying preorders are up for these two.
Grimlock
Thundercracker
edit: For some reason I can't get links from BBTS to work here. *shrug*
sh002
Pass on both
PoweredConvoy
Posted these over 2 weeks ago. Apparently even Autobase Aichi missed this link until the last day or so.
Randy
CybertronianFan
And I restate: Hello gorgeous, come to papa
x BlackMagnus x
Official images of Thundercracker.
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PlanckEpoch
It's as the 3P guys who made the chest kits said…the legs are so integral to the figure that in order to redesign the legs, they'd have to redesign the figure from scratch. In other words, they might as well make a whole new FoC Grimlock if you wanted better legs and tail.
LegendAntihero
It certainly does look a lot like the Red Power Ranger's dinozord tbh
transmuseum
I want em lol
Feralstorm
Don't think I'll bother, but Red-lock is pretty neat looking. I like the fluorescent green eyes and chest window against the black. I could see TFCC or someone using the alternate Megatron head with a similar color scheme and calling it "T-wrecks".
I love the FOC Grimlock mold,even though I recognize it has faults, It's flawed, yet awesome.
It's flawesome.
Angelwave
Ahh yes, memories of last decade….with Galvatron just being a straight repaint of Megatron…over and over and over again.
That being said…..we might actually end up getting this repaint (or a variant thereof) over here. There is really nothing that could stop Hasbro from releasing it over here as is, simply because it is a different market.
barrelks
It does look pretty good. Not "I will pay exclusive pricing" good, but "I will pay clearance exclusive pricing" good.
Been a little more choosy with my figure selection these days.
Ømnidrive
Wow TFA and PowerRanger/Sentai homage
Nightrain
That's going to be a thing for the next ten years :/
PoweredConvoy
There's no reason to think they won't carry it. It might be expensive but I'd be willing to bet they get some.
Randy