Takara-Tomy Transformers Website October Update

Am I the only one that thinks it's a waste that Wheeljack's Arms Micron becomes a sword considering he already COMES with his swords? Shouldn't it turn inot a grenade or his blaster?

da faq.... does that mean Lambor is scheduled to be released in OCTOBER???

Yup. October for Lambor, December for Alert and Soundwave.

why the shit does every online retailer have him labeled for December then? I mean I'm actually GLAD, G L A D, he and soundwave arent getting released in teh same month, better for my wallet. But how can these companies be so off??

I.E. werent the current line of FOC Generations supposed to be out in SPRING 2013 and now they are out next month???

He was always scheduled for October. Some sites (or is it just BBTS) must have got their information mixed. That's why I maintain this list, which is always accurate (sometimes figures get pushed back and it's updated).

Randy

Thank you very much for that list. I remember seeing when Lambor and the crew were announced that he was fall and soundwave and alert were winter originally then everyone (tf source, bbts) had wave and lambor listed for december. so i thought my wallet was screwed.

I have a friend over seas that has seen sideswipe and said he does indeed have plastic tires.... so this toy is 80 odd dollars and they cheaped out on the tires? so we get an all plastic figure.... sheesh those cheap asses

We get Sideswipe in October?! Hell yes! I really want that figure and I don't want to have to wait until December to get it.

Also, all those micron figures for the Voyager class are really starting to grow on me. God knows they look better than the crappy MechTech weapons we're getting from Hasbro...

plastic/molded tires also don't crack & break over time. I like the rubber tires too. have a complete alt collection. but I fear for the day their tires start to break down.

The tires are so thin on the figure that they would have likely cracked over time.

Blame his high price on the terrible value of the US dollar. Had things been the way they were years ago where the yen to dollar ratio wasn't so horrible, he'd be like $45 to $60.

Randy

Wow. Somebody went to town with the Photoshop on Skyquake.

Oh look! A purple silver Decepticon logo on the nosecone.

Congrats on another G1 nod, Takara.

^^ this

My US God Fire Convoy have cracked and broken tires all over Prime and Magnus, as well as the 3 brother cars. My Japanese release however is still intact for now. Main issue is that rubber in the past 20 years is a crying shame of what it once was. I fear for all my rubber tired transformers.

well good point, but it is one i have rectified... every year i remove the tires and soak them in armorall, i have figures from the 80's that the tires are still like new (just make sure to let them dry, otherwise it may leave spots on plastic.)

Am I the only one who noticed the G1 face on wheeljack's micron.

Totally missed that! Thanks for pointing it out.

Woo hoo! Next month? I hope it doesn't get delayed

Correct.

I'm glad to see fellow TF fans rationalizing his plastic tires. I can remember when "masterpieces" where 20 pounds of metal and rubber. Pretty soon they will be scout size with no paint apps, but it will be ok cause paint can cause cancer if ur exposed to it long enough. Btw, my 25 year old g1's have perfectly fine tires. I don't know wtf u guys are talking about.

Eh, I can care less about metal and plastic tires. Just give me a killer design that hearkens back to the G1 cartoon and has great pose-ability. The 1st MP Prime design is weighty and full of metal and rubber and can't hardly stand for crap compared to the more plastic MP-10.

are the tires on his legs the same tires as in altmode? they look smaller and indeed plastic on the bot but the tires on the lambo look a little bigger?

You said exactly what I was thinking. Everytime people try to justify the use of plastic tires, they usually point to figures from RID as evidence to back up their claims. Yes, those tires tend to split, but that obviously had something to do with the chemicals Hasbro used in their version of the line, (the Takara versions don't seem to suffer from the same problem). I still own several original G1 transformers, and all of their tires are fine, as well as the tires on my reissues, binaltechs and alternators. Takara not using rubber on masterpiece Sideswipe is simply a case of them being cheap, and has little or nothing to do with prolonging the wheels lifespan.

That pic looks rubber. Why? The front wheel, top portion, seem to have a small uneven section that resembles MP10 uneven rubber wheel syndrome.

Oh yeah, would u look at that.. Nice observation

Oh boy . And I just put almost a hundred dollars into my car. Just hoping I don't break the bank. Since I preorderd sideswipe .my wife still think this guy come out in december.

Youd think they would have something on the Prime and Soundwave G1 toy reiissues

Only if they are for the Japanese market. It's very much a possibility that those are Asia exclusives via Hasbro Hong Kong.

Yup. BBTS have them listed under Hasbro. Nothing to do with Takara, and almost definitely little to do with Hasbro US, therefore from an Asian branch of Hasbro.

that was what I was fearing. CRAP

However its weird is that it does say TAKARA at BBTS

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