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First Image of Platinum G1 Reissue Blaster and Perceptor

Posted by william-james88 Apr 2, 2015 at 1:28pm CDT 21,613 views
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Big News to all G1 enthusiasts! Thanks to ACToys, we finally have a clear image of the upcoming reissue of Perceptor and Blaster, which will be released under the Platinum line.

It will be called the Platinum Edition Autobot Intel Ops set, featuring what looks to be mostly unchanged reissues of G1 Perceptor, Blaster, Steeljaw, Ramhorn, and Eject.

There are some additional accessories, some of which look to perhaps be microscope slides, as well as extra red pieces. The glare and size makes it hard to make out the extra details, so let us know what you make of this set and it's extra accessories in the Energon Pub forum.

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Re: First Image of Platinum G1 Reissue Blaster and Perceptor (view post)
Comment by Sabrblade Apr 2, 2015
The lack of Rewind is likely to upset many a Rewind Fan. :P
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Comment by william-james88 Apr 2, 2015
Sabrblade wrote:The lack of Rewind is likely to upset many a Rewind Fan. :P


The mold is probably lost (I kid, I kid)
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Comment by Noideaforaname Apr 2, 2015
Sabrblade wrote:The lack of Rewind is likely to upset many a Rewind Fan. :P

Maybe they're saving him for a Chromedome reissue. ;)
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Comment by MartianSpyGirl1996 Apr 2, 2015
Noideaforaname wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:The lack of Rewind is likely to upset many a Rewind Fan. :P

Maybe they're saving him for a Chromedome reissue. ;)

Off topic alert:
That'd be cool if they did release a set of those 2 for SDCC with a Pride theme like this:
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Since Comic Con is geared more towards adults, Hasbro wouldn't have to worry about offending parents. SDCC is only a few days after pride month, California is like the mecha of pride, and we'd get some great reissues... maybe pack it with issue #16 of MtMtE. I think that'd be a fun quirky set, perfect for SDCC (Knights of Unicron anyone?)
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Comment by gothsaurus Apr 2, 2015
Ha! Yeah, that would be a great way to dish out 5-6 colors of a mold. We'd eat that up! I'd love it, but I also doubt Hasbro would want to take a stance... especially with all the turmoil in Indiana and Arkansas. (I'm currently in Arkansas... watching the arrows fly.) :BANG_HEAD:
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Comment by william-james88 Apr 2, 2015
With that photo, we now have mages of every single platinum release we first saw in this picture Image
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Comment by gothsaurus Apr 2, 2015
Trypticon... where are your photos, my friend?
Re: First Image of Platinum G1 Reissue Blaster and Perceptor (view post)
Comment by william-james88 Apr 2, 2015
gothsaurus wrote:Trypticon... where are your photos, my friend?


He was the only one that we never got any sort of proof on. The last thing we had was this from a while back at a closed doors show:

US re-release tripticon, conheads set, blitzwing & astrotrain set, Perceptor & Blaster set: cassettes included looks like to be the animals, and the shoulder cannon on perceptor has some special purpose, rumored to be able to view slide shows


And hey, now we get why this person was adamant about mentioning slides in terms of perceptor. This set gives us new slide accessories now, encouraging the play value of the microscope.
Re: First Image of Platinum G1 Reissue Blaster and Perceptor (view post)
Comment by padfoo Apr 2, 2015
That set looks amazing!I usually stay away from classic figures because of the poor articulation but I may go for this.
Re: First Image of Platinum G1 Reissue Blaster and Perceptor (view post)
Comment by Alpha Dominus Apr 2, 2015
This set looks great! Good to see Blasters cassette buddies include here even if there is no Rewind. Even Perceptor looks like he comes with added accessories. The best part is they didn't give us wtf editions ala Crazytrain and Schlitzwing.
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Comment by Crosscheck Apr 2, 2015
Definitely picking that set up. I never had Blaster or Perceptor as a kid so this set is going to be great. I love the cassette Transformers.
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Comment by Cobotron Apr 2, 2015
Schlitzwing! :-P :lol:
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Comment by Agamemnon Apr 2, 2015
MartianSpyGirl1996 wrote:
william-james88 wrote:The official Transformers site has just revealed the price of the Astrotrain and Blitzwing Platinum set to be 65.99$US (approx retail). This is less than the 79.99$ price tag of the Insecticon Reissue.

And just in case you weren't caught up, it seems we have a better idea of what the wacky Astrotrain colors are meant to homage. While Blitzwing's colors homage Flywheels, Astrotrain appears to homage the Mach Tackle set from Takara's Victory (which features a white and purple shuttle and a red/orange truck).

It is still unclear which retailer will get the exclusivity to these figures.

Exactly where I was going with this ;) So even with inflation, these are still an additional 2/3rds (66%) markup, for repaints that they didn't have to put any money into engineering for this release... what the hell? Sorry Hasbro, but I'm not paying you for being greedy... that's what you have the movies for :roll:

I think you need to check your maths again.... Even at the smaller number of the range from the wonderful post on inflation, we're looking at $44 to $67, or an increase of $23. That's just over a 50% markup (with $22 being exactly 50%). From the higher one, $52, it's $15, which is, let me get my calculator...a little under 30% markup. Still a little high, but there could be other factors for this, like a smaller run. The larger the run, the more the initial costs of setup are spread out over the cost of the figure.

Now, I'm not saying Hasbro is not over-pricing these. (Certainly, they are more than I would spend.) But, I'm not sure I would go along with price gouging opinions...
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Comment by Robogeek1973 Apr 2, 2015
I didn't realize that Blaster and Perceptor were going to be packaged together.


That's awesome!
Re: First Image of Platinum G1 Reissue Blaster and Perceptor (view post)
Comment by -Kanrabat- Apr 2, 2015
william-james88 wrote:Big News to all G1 enthusiasts! Thanks to ACToys, we finally have a clear image of the upcoming reissue of Perceptor and Blaster, which will be released under the Platinum line.

It will be called the Platinum Edition Autobot Intel Ops set, featuring what looks to be mostly unchanged reissues of G1 Perceptor, Blaster, Steeljaw, Ramhorn, and Eject.

There are some additional accessories, some of which look to perhaps be microscope slides, as well as extra red pieces. The glare and size makes it hard to make out the extra details, so let us know what you make of this set and it's extra accessories in the Energon Pub forum.

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Jesus, what will be the price of this awesome set? 200$?
This is a Platinum I'm looking forward to.
Re: First Image of Platinum G1 Reissue Blaster and Perceptor (view post)
Comment by Emerje Apr 2, 2015
william-james88 wrote:
US re-release tripticon, conheads set, blitzwing & astrotrain set, Perceptor & Blaster set: cassettes included looks like to be the animals, and the shoulder cannon on perceptor has some special purpose, rumored to be able to view slide shows


And hey, now we get why this person was adamant about mentioning slides in terms of perceptor. This set gives us new slide accessories now, encouraging the play value of the microscope.


It's a little weird isn't it? These aren't exactly priced for kids, and yet they give them a kid-friendly play feature and most adults are going to leave in the box. I really have no idea who they're trying to target with these reissues. It's the same with painting Astrotrain up as Machtackle; why pass up the opportunity to bring over the real Machtackle and rest of the Multiforce here instead? The molds aren't lost, they were just used in 2004 as trading figures the same time as the Micromaster combiners were. I'm sure there are people who would pay the Insecticon prices for a Landcross reissue. Then we could get the purple and gray show accurate Astrotrain fans have always wanted from Hasbro and the proper Hasbro Blitzwing reissue we never got.

As for this set, it looks good, but replacing Rewind with a bunch of kid stuff is annoying. Then again I already have these guys so I'm not buying it anyway. I'm guessing the red V shaped thing is for feeding the slides under Perceptor's scope. It has a hinge so it can be straightened out. Not sure what the second function could be. The slides probably have pictures of Decepticons on them. I wonder if the scope is now red tinted and if any of the tapes will have enemy specs on them like some of the past and more recent tapes have.

Emerje
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Comment by Deadput Apr 2, 2015
Sabrblade wrote:The lack of Rewind is likely to upset many a Rewind Fan. :P



Good thing I already have rewind!


(got it from a second hand store along with G1 Bombshell and a broken Kickback.)
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Comment by gothsaurus Apr 2, 2015
Yeah, that's a LOAD of extra stuff... to then leave out Rewind. Still, very curious about the new bits.
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Comment by redoutlander Apr 2, 2015
Hmm interesting. I would like to have a reissue of blaster myself but the lack of a rewind is frusterating. I think
Sabrblade wrote:The lack of Rewind is likely to upset many a Rewind Fan. :P


Yes But I wonder if that is due to design. He is the most popular autobot mini-cassette due to MTMTE

I'm not sure if i'll get these or not. I already have preceptor and I think I personally would rather have a Twincast.
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Comment by BERSEKAEL Apr 2, 2015
that nail man...
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