A Closer Look at Takara's Transformers Prime Arms Micron AM-01 - AM-06

Not evident from the images, but the stickers are actually pretty damned bad looking on some figs. Especially cliff and ratchet. the silver on the knees are stickers, and so is the lights on his waist.

For ratchet, the whole grill is a sticker, with the red areas on his chest being a sticker too. This way, it actually has less paint apps then the Hasbro one!

Just for reference, here's a pic of the size of the sticker sheet of BB, and the Micron comes in the form of a Gundam-kit.

I'll be surprised if Hasbro dont put these out somehow, another Universe style giftse would be ideal.

I'm loving that Skywarp too......

NaM3L3sS wrote:Correct me of I'm wrong, but is Takara not releasing the Voyager Megatron along with OP? That still looks like the FEversion there (it's even 'standing on a box' fer gawdssake)

You're absolutely correct: there is no spoon TalaraTomy Voyager Megatron

El Duque wrote:I'm really torn on these. I want the Microns, but could care less about the actual figures, and those stickers look terrible.

Not sure how it works out for you guys, but the import prices on a Takara Deluxe here are over twice the price of a UK retail one.

I just can't justify that for microns

WTF Stickers!!!! Ok I know they wanted to cut cost to bring in the Mini Cons but this is just ridiculous. And to not have a Voyager Megs is making it even worse. We NEED that V Megs because the Hasbro one is just garbage as far as color is concerned. Well looks like I'll be saving money after all and not picking up this cheap madness and going with the ones Hasbro will release. SMH

Definitely not worth the price with those stickers. Is paint suddenly so expensive or something? I'll happily buy the Hasbro Ratchet and just wait for Reprolabels to add some detail.

well that settles that, hasbro all the way. gonna get Megs and T-Cliff still, but thats really it. Hasbro, please bring those minicons to us shores

Now I'm at home, I looked at these pics again, thinking they'd look better on a larger screen - however, all I can say is this!:

Pretender Skywarp wrote:

El Duque wrote:I'm really torn on these. I want the Microns, but could care less about the actual figures, and those stickers look terrible.

Not sure how it works out for you guys, but the import prices on a Takara Deluxe here are over twice the price of a UK retail one.

I just can't justify that for microns

Actually, it's closer to 3 times the price for Americans

I don't very much like the repaints of SS's mold as the other seekers. That mold is the physical embodiment of his personaltity portrayed on Prime,in my opinion. It doesn't translate to the the others very well. Plus i'm sick to death of seeker repaints and every single line that comes out seems to get a salvo of seeker repaints that absorbs resources that would otherwise be best served making new figures.
It seems that there is an assumption that this line of marketing will placate the appetites of fans wanting G1 or "popular" characters which isn't necessarily the case. Especially in my case. STOP BERATING ME WITH SEEKER MOLDS AND REPAINTS PLEASE. Maybe i'm in the 1% or less of the fans who feel this way but i had to rant about it.

I like Ratchets scalpel sword weapon thingy though. I'm also a fan of decals as well.