In-Hand Images: Takara Tomy Campaign Shining R.A. Microns
Sunday, September 30th, 2012 6:24PM CDT
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Posted by Sabrblade on September 30th, 2012 @ 6:30pm CDT
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Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on October 1st, 2012 @ 7:50am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:The pics of First Edition Shining Optimus Prime wielding the Shining R.A.-comprised Rainbow Shield seems rather appropriate.
You just had to say that, didn't you I have Shining Optimus Prime, as I have a thing for translucent figures. But the Rainbow Shield may be overkill... Maybe I should think up names for the four little clones. Cyclone, Heat, Luna, Joker...
By the by, would the Rainbow Shield be a regular Combo Weapon, a Super Combo Weapon, or neither? It doesn't meet all of the requirements:
- 3 Microns
- 1 of each shape of crystal (circle, trapezoid, hexagon)
V same crystal color for Super Combo
Posted by XDMan on October 1st, 2012 @ 6:18pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:The pics of First Edition Shining Optimus Prime wielding the Shining R.A.-comprised Rainbow Shield seems rather appropriate.
You got that right, and it also looks like a ghostly Super Sentai/Power Rangers finisher.
Posted by Blurrz on October 1st, 2012 @ 7:00pm CDT
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Posted by Brychanus on October 2nd, 2012 @ 9:32am CDT
This puts me at 3 translucent RA's along with Shadow from a few months back. Before too long, my Autobots will all have matching weaponry! They look quite nice as the business end of an otherwise opaque Star Saber, too.
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on October 2nd, 2012 @ 9:52am CDT
Brychanus wrote:I don't have the holes in my collection (or cash on hand) to get them all, but I got R.A. Yellow with Ironhide and Green with Gaia Unicron. I think Green was supposed to be free with Weaponizer Optimus but Aeon had him taped to Unicron's box and I wasn't about to correct them. The department store employees tend to be in the dark on the exclusives.
Arms Master Optimus does come with Shining R.A., as his partner instead of O.P. That R.A. is a light blue, and is the "standard" Shining R.A., no connection to the Rainbow Shield promotion.
Posted by Brychanus on October 2nd, 2012 @ 9:59am CDT
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on October 2nd, 2012 @ 10:09am CDT
Brychanus wrote:So I guess Arms Master Optimus is supposed to come with both green and light blue at Aeon. The campaign ad names him, and Aeon's usual M.O. is to bundle their exclusives with that month's most expensive new figure instead of the 3000 threshold other shops go with. I had been wondering where that 5th color came from. Suddenly a trip to TRU is more tempting if it means 2 more colors.
You say you have Yellow and Green? Each color is exclusive to a certain chain:
Red: Toys 'R Us
Purple: Joshin Kids' Land & Bic Camera
Again, 3,000 Yen threshold for both. And it is indeed funny your green one didn't come with Arms Master like it was supposed to.
By the way, the TakaraTomy site also advertises Shining O.P. as a prize throughout the country, but my Japanese isn't good enough to understand the conditions.
Posted by Brychanus on October 2nd, 2012 @ 11:32am CDT
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:By the way, the TakaraTomy site also advertises Shining O.P. as a prize throughout the country, but my Japanese isn't good enough to understand the conditions.
My wife took a look too, but all she could get was something about national retailers. It could be places like Apita. Only a few of them carry transformers at all, but the one I did find them at had Shining B.2 a while back. He was available at 6 smaller chains that didn't get their own Hellflame figure when Darkness Megatron released.
Some stores have trouble giving them away. When I got Shining R.A. Yellow at Yamada Denki, they gave me a leftover Hellflame Noji too.
Posted by Jerrimus on October 2nd, 2012 @ 5:32pm CDT