Oh Snap! I'm super glad to see BT's back in action. I may have to get one or both of these.

 

This much complaining definitely makes sense for the Impreza mold, but all in all, the RX really hasn't been used nearly as much by Takara. Even considering that Ricochet wasn't released in Japan, they got FOUR Smokescreens! Plus the other Streak. Plus Red Alert. Meanwhile, poor Meister, widely looked at as one of the best BT molds, has only been recolored once into "Zoom-Zoom" and remolded as Laserwave (and that pink exclusive one doesn't count). I for one welcome this or any future use of him. Streak... not so much, and I can't imagine his mold is in great shape by now.

 

Ya I'm kinda iffy, if they are indeed die-cast with the proper paint I would probably pick them up (especially Jazz) if not then it's an easy pass.

 

*gasps* BLUESTREAK!!! That freakin rocks! I am so preordering that one. I just wish they would have included some more sticker/paint details on the upper legs, torso, and upper arms to make him resemble the original Diaclone toy more.

 

All I have to say is:

ARGH!

Bluestreak is just a straight up repaint of Streak!

At least Meister has some mixing and matching between the RX-8 molds.

Oh well. That's just more cash down the BT drain for me.

 

i don't get all the bitching. smokescreen i can see getting old. but i'll reiterate that silver rx8 looks awesome. looks like it could be a bright silver as well. beats the hell out of white and red (purple ruled though). diecast would be great. i would definitely go out of my way to pick that up.

 

Actually there was meister, zoom zoom, laserwave and autorooper from KISS. This makes number 5, not counting the two alternators. Granted this is the 1st time meister has laserwaves body kit.

 

WoW! WANT!
Bluestreak will (almost) match my real thing!

 

Just another attempt to make $$$. A pass for me.

 

i forgot all about that one myself. understandably, as police deco = easily forgettable for me.

 

If it is and Die-Cast I'm in. Anyway, I hope ReproLables come up with a G1 set for that Smokescreen. He looks too plain to me. Jazz looks awesome as is.  

 

get your preorders in now, we all know they'll eventually go for $100+ like the last two bt's...

 

Looks like they used the Smokescreen head on the Streak body. Too bad cuz I like the spoiler on the original Smokescreen body, it allows for a different transformation. The Meister head on a Laserwave body is complete awesome for me. When I get it I'll probably switch the head and make a new character from it just to have that sweet silver RX-8 paint job. Pretty excited if these are real!

 

I love watching BT/Alt threads explode so fast. It reminds me the good old days of random ebay protos, and when Hasbro blew minds by unveiling 20th Prime and Alt Smokescreen on the same day.

It shows how passionate people are still today for this product. Even repaints of questionable merit- I'm still gettin' them though.

 

I miss those days of getting excited over Transformers about once every couple of months as we were drip-fed Alt prototypes/snippets of news while we tried to guess characters and photoshopped what they *could* look like.

Happy times.

 

That's the spoiler from the Mazdaspeed version of the RX-8, as on Shockwave. I dunno if that trim is available outside of Japan or not.

 

Well I'm gonna pass on all of this. Hope others buy tons of these so we can get new molds though.

 

Man I am excited, I don't care if they're repaints, they still look spankin' awesome to me! Better this than nothing! If sales go well, it'll definitely lead up to a new BT design...Say Megatron Himself? My dreams of a BT Megatron Cadillac Escalade XLT/any SUV still lives!

And I'm glad they didn't use a Pontiac Solstice for Jazz, that is one Ugly car (Then again I don't like American cars anyways).

 

These are awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
I want them now!