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News Credits: 129 · Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:31 am

I expect straight-up repacks of the figures in different or modified (like the movie) packaging.

So...this is the filler line for Japan hrm? That is the interesting part.

News Credits: 7 · Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:54 am

Awaiting the weird changes in the show... 8-}

(I can imagine Bumblebee will end up as a girl there :o)

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Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:26 am

Just so long as they don't put in non-sensical themes like BURNING JUSTICE, I'm cool with it.

I wonder if they'll produce some niche exclusives. Hasbro missed a huge oppertunity by not producing Glyph, Hubcap, Tapout, ect toys. I'd pay a reasonable price for those (Not top dollar, that's just stupid).

News Credits: 217 · Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:26 am

Sabrblade wrote:Yes! Finally! I've been dying to see Japan's take on the Animated toys and story. While I'm saddedned to see the names "Optimus Prime" and "Bumblebee" being used over "Convoy" and "Bumble", this is still awesome. I wonder what they're gonna call the series.

I'm pretty sure it's also called "Transformers Animated", only, you know, Toransuformaa Animeitedo. I don't know if they will use the Western names for the TFs themselves like for the Bayformers, or whether they'll revert.

News Credits: 217 · Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:30 am

Hard Hacker wrote:Just so long as they don't put in non-sensical themes like BURNING JUSTICE, I'm cool with it.

As opposed to perfectly sensible themes like Processor over Matter?

News Credits: 129 · Tue Dec 08, 2009 9:49 am

Diem wrote:
Hard Hacker wrote:Just so long as they don't put in non-sensical themes like BURNING JUSTICE, I'm cool with it.

As opposed to perfectly sensible themes like Processor over Matter?

All things considered...'Burning Justice' is a Nihon-y trope that could be happily avoided...

Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:15 am

But what will they do with Sari?

Will it be Kiss Players all over again?

News Credits: 217 · Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:16 am

Counterpunch wrote:
Diem wrote:
Hard Hacker wrote:Just so long as they don't put in non-sensical themes like BURNING JUSTICE, I'm cool with it.

As opposed to perfectly sensible themes like Processor over Matter?

All things considered...'Burning Justice' is a Nihon-y trope that could be happily avoided...

I haven't watched all of RiD (which is perhaps the worst offender for BURNING JUSTICE) but I can't think of an example from any series that really galled me. The Cybertron Defense Team's creation? Brilliant. Starscream fighting his way through all the Autobots to get the Omega Lock. Unconvincing, but awesome.

But maybe I just think like the target audience of ten-year-old boys! :wink:

News Credits: 217 · Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:39 am

If they do do exclusive repaints, I bet you there'll be an Arcee: Paradron Medic Type.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Dec 08, 2009 11:02 am

Probably a number of black/clear exclusives, maybe gold LDs also. Like a black Convoy - nice.

Tue Dec 08, 2009 11:39 am

Diem wrote:
Counterpunch wrote:
Diem wrote:
Hard Hacker wrote:Just so long as they don't put in non-sensical themes like BURNING JUSTICE, I'm cool with it.

As opposed to perfectly sensible themes like Processor over Matter? :P

All things considered...'Burning Justice' is a Nihon-y trope that could be happily avoided...
I haven't watched all of RiD (which is perhaps the worst offender for BURNING JUSTICE) but I can't think of an example from any series that really galled me. The Cybertron Defense Team's creation? Brilliant. Starscream fighting his way through all the Autobots to get the Omega Lock. Unconvincing, but awesome.

But maybe I just think like the target audience of ten-year-old boys! :wink:

In the English language version of the show, at least they TRIED to make it work in a logical manner, as surprise of somehow having this great power. I'll give them that, even if it is rather jarring (This is somebody who LIKES Cybertron, by the way).

Processor over Matter works... ish. It's a skill exclusive to only one type of Cybertronian warrior. At least everybody didn't do it after the skill was revealed.

Still, it's ESP, which makes it BS. If anybody tells me I'm wrong, and the ESP exist, I'll ROFL.

Tue Dec 08, 2009 11:51 am

Jenus wrote:Are my eyes deceiving me? Does that say Dirge and Cliffjumper?

Sorry to do any parade-raining, but if you look at the prices on the list, Dirge and Cliffjumper are cheaper than the rest of the list. Those will probably just be the same Activator versions we got for those characters. :-(

News Credits: 11 · Tue Dec 08, 2009 12:16 pm

I hope they do a G1 repaint of Prowl, and it's not some sort of insanely expensive exclusive. :p

News Credits: 129 · Tue Dec 08, 2009 12:54 pm

Hard Hacker wrote:
Diem wrote:
Counterpunch wrote:
Diem wrote:
Hard Hacker wrote:Just so long as they don't put in non-sensical themes like BURNING JUSTICE, I'm cool with it.

As opposed to perfectly sensible themes like Processor over Matter?

All things considered...'Burning Justice' is a Nihon-y trope that could be happily avoided...
I haven't watched all of RiD (which is perhaps the worst offender for BURNING JUSTICE) but I can't think of an example from any series that really galled me. The Cybertron Defense Team's creation? Brilliant. Starscream fighting his way through all the Autobots to get the Omega Lock. Unconvincing, but awesome.

But maybe I just think like the target audience of ten-year-old boys!

In the English language version of the show, at least they TRIED to make it work in a logical manner, as surprise of somehow having this great power. I'll give them that, even if it is rather jarring (This is somebody who LIKES Cybertron, by the way).

Processor over Matter works... ish. It's a skill exclusive to only one type of Cybertronian warrior. At least everybody didn't do it after the skill was revealed.

Still, it's ESP, which makes it BS. If anybody tells me I'm wrong, and the ESP exist, I'll ROFL.

Robots have it.

Tell them they don't and they'll RotF.

News Credits: 9 · Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:00 pm

Counterpunch wrote:Robots have it.

Tell them they don't and they'll RotF.

Hey Takara, how about Car Robots Greejeeber & Operation Combination Leyland repaints of Swindle?

News Credits: 609 · Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:02 pm

Diem wrote:If they do do exclusive repaints, I bet you there'll be an Arcee: Paradron Medic Type.

Made of sex and win.

I suspect we may get a clearer "Stealth" Lockdown than the Target version.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Dec 08, 2009 1:11 pm

I'm starting to wonder which Animated toys Japan won't be getting. Hmm.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Dec 08, 2009 3:57 pm

animated was american made that hasent happen since*FLASHES BACK*(5years old)look at those animals cool trrrtrrrtrr holy crap a robot!Now does this mean crome? nonsloppy bumblebee piantjob "All of these answers and more on the next ecxiting episode of...the Transformers."

News Credits: 462 · Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:38 pm

hippymule wrote:animated was american made that hasent happen since*FLASHES BACK*(5years old)look at those animals cool trrrtrrrtrr holy crap a robot!Now does this mean crome? nonsloppy bumblebee piantjob "All of these answers and more on the next ecxiting episode of...the Transformers."

If you want to get technical, the last American (U.S.) TF cartoon was actually G1, as Beast Wars and Beast Machines were Canadian.

Then again, there's also that short-lived Playskool Go-Bots cartoon that had only four episodes made. I think that may have been a U.S. thing too. So, yeah.

News Credits: 1082 · Tue Dec 08, 2009 8:50 pm

Hoping that TakaraTomy decide that figures like High Brow, Perceptor, Grandus, Fem-scream, and Omega get made, and that they encourage the show to go another season, or two, and they continue the line.

Also looking forward to a slew of store exclusive repaints to import.

News Credits: 387 · Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:29 am

I'd expect a few new items, but I wouldn't tell anyone to get their hopes up for too much.

This will work best as something to get alternatives to Hasbro's sloppier releases (deluxe Bumblebee).

News Credits: 2 · Wed Dec 09, 2009 4:53 am

No Skywarp? ._.

News Credits: 217 · Wed Dec 09, 2009 7:13 am

Nekoman wrote:I'd expect a few new items, but I wouldn't tell anyone to get their hopes up for too much.

This will work best as something to get alternatives to Hasbro's sloppier releases (deluxe Bumblebee).

If the show goes down really well in Japan maybe we'll see some new molds, but otherwise the best we can expect is decent repaints.

I really don't know how well this'll be recieved. American made stuff either raves here or vanishes without a trace. On the plus side, it's Transformers, there's a cute little girl, and the humour is pretty slapsticky and surreal, rather than verbal or sarcastic which tends to do better for Japanese audiences. On the other hand the extreme art style would probably be even less well recieved here than it initially was in the West: with only a few exceptions they like their characters like they like their food, homogenous and not too exotic.

I'll bet that they'll market it to a younger age group than ROTF and Henkei; probably to the 8-and-under crowd.

News Credits: 1452 · Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:07 pm

I think people are expecting too much from this. Like Counterpunch, I think these will just be straight-up same paint jobs in new packaging. There isn't even a hint of a cartoon, and the actual possibility of paint jobs is still unlikely. While I said it in the news post that repaints are likely, its as likely that it could go the other way and have absolutely no changes.