New Galleries: G1 Reflector (Viewfinder, Spectro, and Spyglass)
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Posted by padfoo on January 10th, 2014 @ 12:40am CST
Posted by Bounti76 on January 10th, 2014 @ 12:44am CST
I really like the G1 style box. That's a lot of trouble to go to for a knockoff, but pretty cool. Almost makes me wish Reflector had been a regular retail release in the US.
Posted by padfoo on January 10th, 2014 @ 1:14am CST
Posted by Cyberpath on January 10th, 2014 @ 2:52am CST
Posted by Venoose1 on January 10th, 2014 @ 3:01am CST
Posted by YoungPrime on January 10th, 2014 @ 6:30am CST
Posted by RiddlerJ on January 10th, 2014 @ 7:22am CST
YoungPrime wrote:I would grab a Generations Legends class version of these guys in a heartbeat. Updating these guys is way overdue.
Well, there is the Reflector figure/partner that is going to be included with Legends Shrapnel. Though he's more of an accessory there.
Reflector always had a weird underdog status for me. He was kinda there in G1 but not a big player. I did have the original toy back when it was a mail away and he was awesome.
I would love to see an updated version, even it was just a deluxe Generations but I don't see that happening anytime soon. I did grab the Perfect Effect Reflector and he's a nice enough substitute until an official one pops up.
Posted by morphobots on January 10th, 2014 @ 8:01am CST
Cyberpath wrote:When Takara's MP Thundercracker gets a redo using the MP-11 mold, they should totally include a scaled "Reflector" camera that fits in his hand.
Perfect Effect included just such an accessory in one of the re-releases of their PE-11 Scout Force X set. But I wasn't about to drop $85 again just for that, no matter how cool it looked on display.
Posted by #Sideways# on January 10th, 2014 @ 9:23am CST
Let's *URK* see what *OOF* you can *KREHK* see...!
Wow! How did you get so many in such good shape, dude? Those look fantastic, especially since they were pretty exclusive when they were out and children back then didn't really care for their toys.
Posted by Noideaforaname on January 10th, 2014 @ 10:08am CST
Posted by welcometothedarksyde on January 10th, 2014 @ 10:23am CST
Great gallery, Reflector would look really sharp in his cartoon colors
Posted by Mindmaster on July 1st, 2014 @ 12:25pm CDT
Transformers Encore Trailbreaker
Transformers Encore Hoist
Posted by Stormrider on July 1st, 2014 @ 3:44pm CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on July 1st, 2014 @ 11:50pm CDT
Encore is Takara's thing. BotCon only announces Hasbro's stuff.Stormrider wrote:Was the future of Encores mentioned at Botcon?
Posted by Seibertron on July 3rd, 2014 @ 11:58am CDT
Posted by Autobot032 on September 30th, 2014 @ 1:00am CDT
First up, Manga Complilation Lucky Draw Black Tracks. This gorgeous redeco of the G1 favorite just stands out amongst the collection and draws your attention. (Guess that's why they call them Lucky Draws? )
And the second of our galleries is the original, the one and only, G1 Tracks. Flame hood deco and all, this classy blue Corvette turns into the classy Autobot with the voice so ritzy, you'd swear he was wearing an ascot!
You can see the full galleries for each figure by clicking their respective images below:
Lucky Draws Black Tracks
Transformers Collection Tracks
Keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!
Posted by RhA on September 30th, 2014 @ 3:09am CDT
Posted by Windsweeper on September 30th, 2014 @ 6:09am CDT
I'd love to see this mold repainted as Backstreet, Freeway and the Battlechargers.
Posted by Ultra Markus on September 30th, 2014 @ 6:36pm CDT
Posted by Mr_Autobot411 on September 30th, 2014 @ 9:57pm CDT
Posted by LOST Cybertronian on October 9th, 2014 @ 6:40am CDT
e-Hobby Exclusives Crosscut
e-Hobby Exclusives Road Rage
Posted by megatronus on October 9th, 2014 @ 7:04am CDT
Posted by RhA on October 9th, 2014 @ 8:26am CDT
Posted by Mkall on October 9th, 2014 @ 2:04pm CDT
Posted by Va'al on October 16th, 2014 @ 2:57am CDT
You may recognise this rationale from the Japanese Generations book from 2001, in which the same shots were used of toys who were different characters under Takara than they were for Hasbro, specifically the Headmaster Juniors and the Seacons. What really changes are the poses, but the figure is the same. But why not check it out for yourself by clicking on any of the images below?
Super God Masterforce Go Shooter (Transtector)
Super God Masterforce Go Shooter
Super God Masterforce Cab (Transtector)
Super God Masterforce Cab
Super God Masterforce Wilder (Transtector)
Super God Masterforce Wilder
Super God Masterforce Cancer (Transtector)
Super God Masterforce Cancer
Super God Masterforce Bullhorn (Transtector)
Super God Masterforce Bullhorn
G1 1988 Nightbeat
G1 1988 Siren
G1 1988 Hosehead
G1 1988 Fangry
G1 1988 Horri-Bull
G1 1988 Squeezeplay
G1 1988 Muzzle
G1 1988 Quig
G1 1988 Lug
G1 1988 Brisko
G1 1988 Kreb
G1 1988 Lokos
Posted by RhA on October 16th, 2014 @ 4:39am CDT
Posted by frogbat on October 16th, 2014 @ 7:06am CDT
I have squeezeplay though and he had good articulation and i think he's one of the few from my collection that is almost intact.
Posted by Sabrblade on October 16th, 2014 @ 9:40am CDT
Posted by Noideaforaname on October 16th, 2014 @ 5:57pm CDT
Posted by Convoy on November 3rd, 2014 @ 8:21pm CST
Noideaforaname wrote:Monster robots who's heads pop off and turn into little robots (one of which appears to be a fly-man hybrid)... oh how I wish these would get a modern update.
Hell, I'd settle for reissues... of any Headmaster. (Including Juniors.)
Posted by Va'al on January 13th, 2015 @ 6:57pm CST
All three appear in 2000/2001, sharing the same basic mold (the classic Diaclone redeco of Powered Convoy) with an Optimus Prime/Convoy basic robot-truck, and a trailer that becomes its armour. What the Reissue differed in from the original toy was mostly in the package, and included all the same accessories, from guns to missile launcher to fists. The other two, however, while coming with all the same parts, showed off very different decos (as you can see below): 'Shining' Magnus in its yellow translucent plastic, was somehow meant to show the Matrix glowing moment at the death of Optimus Prime in the 1986 movie, and the Movie Preview Magnus was a nod to promotional material of the animated feature, showing the red, black and blue deco (like its Diaclone predecessor) to the character rather than its final colours. Find out more about them in the galleries by clicking on the images below!
Generation One Movie Preview Version Ultra Magnus
Generation One Matrix Glow Magnus
Generation One Ultra Magnus
Posted by steve2275 on January 13th, 2015 @ 8:06pm CST
Posted by YRQRM0 on January 13th, 2015 @ 9:47pm CST
Posted by dragons on January 14th, 2015 @ 12:51am CST
Posted by ScottyP on January 14th, 2015 @ 8:18am CST
Posted by Mindmaster on January 14th, 2015 @ 1:16pm CST
Transformers Encore Skids
Generation One Skids
Generation One Screech
Posted by Sabrblade on January 14th, 2015 @ 1:39pm CST
As Screech's bio was written by Simon Furman, and since the Marvel UK comics not only had G1 Skids lost in limbo for a few years before he finally got out, but also had Skids drawn with the Crosscut/Screech head for some reason (after skids got freed, that is), it is loosely implied (but NOT factually stated) that Screech might possibly be Marvel UK G1 Skids (with the green Skids being the cartoon version).
Posted by ishigoto on January 14th, 2015 @ 2:12pm CST
Posted by Shockwave7 on January 14th, 2015 @ 2:13pm CST
Keep your G1's. I'll take the newer figures. Sure there's no metal and no chrome on them, but they are light years ahead of the G1 figures in terms of appearance, poseability and fun.
The only reissue that MAY be of interest to me is Trypticon.
Posted by Noideaforaname on January 14th, 2015 @ 2:56pm CST
Posted by ScottyP on January 14th, 2015 @ 3:01pm CST
Shockwave7 wrote:It really seemed towards the end of the 80s there that the toy designers just phoned it in, and they weren't bothering to make them even look halfway decent.
You bring up fair points and I'm not here to debate your valid feelings towards G1 toys, but I do feel the need to go a little bit Turbo-Nerd here and point out that the Diaclone mold used for Skids was originally released in Japan in 1982, and therefore was probably designed in '80 or '81, which is very much not the "end of the 80s".
Posted by Metroplex79 on January 14th, 2015 @ 3:09pm CST
Shockwave7 wrote:Looking at all the pix of these G1 reissues makes me realize just how crummy some of them were. I know it was 80s tech, which just doesn't hold a candle to modern figures, but YUCK. It really seemed towards the end of the 80s there that the toy designers just phoned it in, and they weren't bothering to make them even look halfway decent. None of them look to have separated legs, they all seem to transform by flipping out the back end to form both legs as one solid piece. Even the ones that LOOK like separate legs are really just one leg with metal rods stabbed through them both so they can't be moved independently.
Keep your G1's. I'll take the newer figures. Sure there's no metal and no chrome on them, but they are light years ahead of the G1 figures in terms of appearance, poseability and fun.
The only reissue that MAY be of interest to me is Trypticon.
Ahem, many of the early G1s were from mid-late 70s designs. The 80s just slapped G1 names on them.
Posted by RhA on January 14th, 2015 @ 4:15pm CST
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on January 14th, 2015 @ 4:34pm CST
Metroplex79 wrote:Shockwave7 wrote:Looking at all the pix of these G1 reissues makes me realize just how crummy some of them were. I know it was 80s tech, which just doesn't hold a candle to modern figures, but YUCK. It really seemed towards the end of the 80s there that the toy designers just phoned it in, and they weren't bothering to make them even look halfway decent. None of them look to have separated legs, they all seem to transform by flipping out the back end to form both legs as one solid piece. Even the ones that LOOK like separate legs are really just one leg with metal rods stabbed through them both so they can't be moved independently.
Keep your G1's. I'll take the newer figures. Sure there's no metal and no chrome on them, but they are light years ahead of the G1 figures in terms of appearance, poseability and fun.
The only reissue that MAY be of interest to me is Trypticon.
Ahem, many of the early G1s were from mid-late 70s designs. The 80s just slapped G1 names on them.
Nope, still early 80's for both Microman and Diaclone, think 1982-1984. Microman started in the 70's, and in accordance with Japanese law at the time, that year was stamped on the toys even though the toys were created a decade later.
Posted by Autobot032 on January 14th, 2015 @ 9:50pm CST
Seibertron.com is proud to present our newest galleries: Commemorative Series Perceptor, Skids, and Ultra Magnus
Speaking of Ultra Magnus, if you haven't seen our gallery of the newly released MP-22 Ultra Magnus, you can see it by clicking right here.
Without further ado, we present the Commemorative Series galleries, and you can see more of each figure by clicking on the pictures below:
G1 Commemorative Series Ultra Magnus
G1 Commemorative Series Perceptor
G1 Commemorative Series Skids
Keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!
Posted by LOST Cybertronian on January 14th, 2015 @ 9:51pm CST
Shockwave7 wrote:Keep your G1's.
I do believe I will thanks. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
Posted by ScottyP on January 15th, 2015 @ 9:20am CST
Posted by Va'al on January 16th, 2015 @ 3:56pm CST
First up is Nucleon Quest Super Convoy and Nebulan Powermaster partner Hi-Q, a 2001 Japanese Toys'R'Us Exclusive black redeco of the Optimus figure, including beam cannons and rifle, and the super robot head. The second bot is the fantastically orange Fire Guts God Ginrai (homaged in the 2014 BotCon set) formed by Godbomber and Super Ginrai, released in 2002 also as Japanese exclusive. Head below and through the galleries for more!
Super God Masterforce Nucleon Quest Super Convoy
Super God Masterforce Nucleon Quest Hi-Q
Super God Masterforce Fire Guts God Ginrai
Super God Masterforce Fire Guts Godbomber
Super God Masterforce Fire Guts Super Ginrai
Super God Masterforce Fire Guts Ginrai
Posted by ScottyP on January 16th, 2015 @ 5:11pm CST
Love the Fire Guts deco. Passed up on a great deal for Nucleon Quest back at TF Con. Damn this whole "making responsible choices" thing! Always wished that version also had the God Bomber done up in black too.
Maybe if they ever get around to an MP Ginrai we can see some of these decos again!