Alternity lives! Toy Hobby Market has put up solicitations for Galvatron and Banzaitron, repaints of the Nissan Fairlady Z Megatron and Mitsuoka Orochi Starscream. These repaints were announced over a year ago, and were thought to be cancelled until today.
Price is set at 6,825 JPY, and they’re due out late September 2012.
Stepper
Galvatron still look ok to me but Banzaitron colour a bit out of the way for me.
Omega_Sentinel
I spewed gatorade out of my nostrils when I saw the price on these.
Bass X0
I do find it a little amusing that Takara could not give those four new heads yet Hasbro Asia could create eight new heads.
Way to prioritise. But yes, I know Alternity and Takara has nothing to do with the Asia exclusives.
[Wing_Saber-X]
this. IMHO, while the idea and execution is nice, you are right to say that because they lack new head designs, it really kills my desire to splurge on these. Same deal with those Alternity repainted cars 'Dai Atlas' and 'Goldbug'/
Stepper
Agree with you but they will never do a new head-sculpt,just repaint,that's all.
Blitz.
I dont have the SS design yet so for me its really high on my list as its a killer paint deco and it comes with none of the seeker trio OCD buying habbits
Bass X0
It's either repaints or nothing right now. And I'm sure these two will sell. Its just unfortunate new heads weren't in the budget for them.
46+2
I want to know who at takara thinks its a great idea to keep repainting these same molds. I fell in love with this line when it first came out. Now I'm just bored with it. They do look nice but in these colors though.
Sweeny
He would need a new head-sculpt for me to be interested.
Stepper
If they give him a big cannon on his hand,i may consider getting Galvatron.
Dinodigger97
I want that silly Banzi-Tron.
Stepper
Has given up on this series long time ago.
[Wing_Saber-X]
meh.. sorry.
D307
You got pretty close to the plan (I'm saving up pocket change ). I think we will see Galvatron within the next two to three years, and I'm cool with that. Banzaitron though, probably never cause he dosen't have an alt-mode. This will make an excellent stand in.
Bass X0
Yeah, but how long will that take?
Save a dollar every week and you will still have a long wait even after you saved enough.
D307
I'm all for new Masterpieces, however I do believe that this is probably the closest we are rpobably gonna get to a MP Banzitron so I am happy with this one. Galvatron I can hold off for till we get a proper MP Version.
charsdc2
The color schemes are pretty nice!
adambman
Yeah I do like that here and it's something I've appreciated on other fairly recent molds too. Deluxe Straxus/Darkmount and Skullgrin come to mind.
adambman
Well, this seems like the inevitable end of the Alternity line, just delayed, being ages after these figures were announced. Wasn't this the line where either one or both of a VW Bumblebee and/or a Porsche Jazz were drawn up early in the line's inception, only for the car company to use the 'no war toys' veto?
In other news, wouldn't those swords Galvatron's packing make a bit more sense if they came with Banzaitron? Oh never mind, this is Alternity; its probably not a sword at all, but something that tuns a future version of the target, in a parallel universe, into some kind of goo using the power of a black hole, haha.
Just in the last week or two I've been thinking about starting to collect Alternity – maybe just a couple here and there – though I know they're not from a huge line, which is good, and some designs can be a bit… delicate? Anyway, this bit of news came as a surprise. I thought 'Oh I was wondering what I'd by for my collection in September!' though looking at the close ups tthis mightn't be it, at least in Galvatrons case, though the car mode looks quite neat, naturally. But now I'm getting into the realm of agreeing with all the more knowledgable comments on here to some extent or other.
Galvatron might just as well be called Shockwave for what we get here; a new head could have been just enough to set either character off in that shade of purple, though for the latter I might just settle for getting Alternators/Binaltech Shockwave.