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New Images of Takara Animated Rodimus and Waspinator

Postby Diem » Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:35 pm

The most recent wave of Animated figures has been released in Japan, comprising of Sunstorm, Samurai Prowl, Swindle, Rodimus and Waspinator. Seibertron member Diem has got his hands on Rodimus and Waspinator and shares the images with us:

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Re: New Images of Takara Animated Rodimus and Waspinator

Postby Diem » Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:46 pm

A few items of note:

* Rodimus is very G1-accurate purple-red-magenta. He has the purplest red of any Rodimus figure I've seen.

* Samurai Prowl's Recommended Retail Price is actually higher than those of all other deluxes; on the shelf he costs 25% more than the others.

* Waspinator is described on his card as transforming into a "mechanical bee". However, since the Japanese don't have separate words for bee and wasp this may just be a translation error. Also his rank is "Decepticon Mutant".
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Re: New Images of Takara Animated Rodimus and Waspinator

Postby Mindmaster » Fri Aug 27, 2010 10:44 pm

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Don't exactly see the difference in Waspinator, other than a slight tinge to his little itty-bitty mandable-things on the side of his beast mode. Dunno about Rodimus. :lol:
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Re: New Images of Takara Animated Rodimus and Waspinator

Postby tigertracks 24 » Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:55 am

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Is the Japanese Samurai Prowl different (more chrome or whatever) than the US release?
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Re: New Images of Takara Animated Rodimus and Waspinator

Postby Diem » Sat Aug 28, 2010 8:29 pm

tigertracks 24 wrote:Is the Japanese Samurai Prowl different (more chrome or whatever) than the US release?
I'd need to take a second look but I'm pretty sure all the gold parts are chrome.
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Re: New Images of Takara Animated Rodimus and Waspinator

Postby HydraLancer » Mon Aug 30, 2010 1:57 am

I'm a bit disappointed in the fact that the Rodimus car mode is almost hidden too low in the packaging. I had pre-ordered the Japanese version just to keep sealed on display, but it's quite a bit less viewable than the American Animated packaging.

Oh well, still looks great though.
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Re: New Images of Takara Animated Rodimus and Waspinator

Postby kirbenvost » Mon Aug 30, 2010 10:34 am

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Re: New Images of Takara Animated Rodimus and Waspinator

Postby tigertracks 24 » Mon Aug 30, 2010 7:12 pm

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