New Kabaya original line - Transformers: Block Wars

Posted by william-james88 Jan 28, 2016 at 12:44pm CST 25,512 views

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Fellow Seibertronian Sabeblade has found some cool new Kabaya products he wanted to share with us. These were found on twitter (the page contains anime girls) and are to be released after the previously announced Transformers Adventure (RID) themed Kabaya kits.

Sabrblade with some edits from WJ88 wrote:Kabaya, one of Takara's many licenees for Japanese Transformers supplementary merchandise, is apparently going to be making a new TF line of snap-together mini-models like they always do.

It's called Transformers: Block Wars, and there are four known molds to be in this line. While the four molds are Kabaya's usual down-sized model versions of larger TF toys, the particular toys are figures of the Cyber Series (which were simplified G1 themed Transformers not widely available).

Specifically, they use the designs of Cyber Commander Optimus Prime, Cyber Commander Bumblebee, Cyber Battalion Megatron, and Cyber Battlion Starscream.

But wait, it gets better. They're not only down-sized Cyber Series toys; they COMBINE! Yes, a combiner made of Optimus Prime, Megatron, Bumblebee, and Starscream.

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Comment by Glarryg Jan 28, 2016

That... is... odd. And I'm probably going to buy it, because I love kits, and I love Kabaya.

Hoo boy.

Glarryg

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Comment by hinomars19 Jan 28, 2016

Oddly awesome! Love how they have done Starscream-he becomes a leg but his back plate is a chest shield!

(at the risk of being antagonistic....why are we warning people that pages contain anime girls?)

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Comment by william-james88 Jan 28, 2016

hinomars19 wrote:Oddly awesome! Love how they have done Starscream-he becomes a leg but his back plate is a chest shield!

(at the risk of being antagonistic....why are we warning people that pages contain anime girls?)

People may be at work and not want their collegues to get the wrong idea.

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Comment by D-Maximal_Primal Jan 28, 2016

This is interesting....

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Comment by Sabrblade Jan 28, 2016

Faction sacrifice, Bots and Cons fusing together, mass hysteria!

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Comment by LE0KING Jan 28, 2016

Sabrblade wrote:Faction sacrifice, Bots and Cons fusing together, mass hysteria!

They must have seen the pictures of that third party thunderwing.

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Comment by Microraptor Jan 28, 2016

This makes less than no sense, and is a complete insult to G1.

I'll take twelve sets.

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Comment by RAcast Jan 28, 2016

By the Allspark, that's so dumb.

I love it. :-D

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Comment by RAR Jan 29, 2016

Anime Girls are fine - until their clothes fall of and there is a shower scene.

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Comment by Zeedust Jan 29, 2016

I have never bought any Kabaya stuff before, but this is a work of demented genius. How much does this sort of thing usually cost?

RAR wrote:Anime Girls are fine - until their clothes fall of and there is a shower scene.

Let's be fair, most people don't shower with their clothes on.

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Comment by Microraptor Jan 29, 2016

RAR wrote:Anime Girls are fine - until their clothes fall of and there is a shower scene.

Nemesis Primal wrote: To be fair, most people don't shower with their clothes on.

I've been showering wrong this whole time?

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Comment by Stuartmaximus Jan 29, 2016

Sabrblade wrote:Faction sacrifice, Bots and Cons fusing together, mass hysteria!

yeah it confuses me as to why the Autobots would wanna combine with the Decepticons....especially Optimus combining with Megatron! but i guess this mixed faction combination is already present with the Combiner Wars! so whatever floats people's boats i guess?

this sized combiner...& i'm hazarding a guess here....is Legion Class size or similar.....it kinda reminds me of either Transformers Armada Perceptor or Thrilling 30 minicon assault team Centuritron(granted those only had 3 figures that combined).

Re: New Kabaya original line - Transformers: Block Wars (view post)

Comment by Sabrblade Jan 29, 2016

Stuartmaximus wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Faction sacrifice, Bots and Cons fusing together, mass hysteria!

yeah it confuses me as to why the Autobots would wanna combine with the Decepticons....

You didn't get the joke, did you?

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Comment by william-james88 Jan 29, 2016

Microraptor wrote:I've been showering wrong this whole time?

RAR wrote:Anime Girls are fine - until their clothes fall of and there is a shower scene.

Haha. Site like Nippon Yassan are way worse. I really fear what people may think when I do my shopping on my lunch break :lol:

Nemesis Primal wrote:I have never bought any Kabaya stuff before, but this is a work of demented genius. How much does this sort of thing usually cost?

Usually about 25$ plus shipping.

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Comment by Emerje Jan 29, 2016

william-james88 wrote:
Nemesis Primal wrote:I have never bought any Kabaya stuff before, but this is a work of demented genius. How much does this sort of thing usually cost?

Usually about 25$ plus shipping.

And if you're importing that price is for an entire case of six, eight or even 10 figures depending on how they're packed and you might get two combiners out of the box instead of one. Don't fall for stores selling you just the four figures for the price of a case.

Kabaya figures are nice, but remember that they're partsformers, not transformers, though that's more of a selling point for this set. Also the stickers usually suck and don't hold for long, especially over sculpted parts like faces.

I like the little ball joints everywhere, should be fun.

Emerje

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Comment by Zeedust Jan 30, 2016

Emerje wrote:Kabaya figures are nice, but remember that they're partsformers, not transformers, though that's more of a selling point for this set. Also the stickers usually suck and don't hold for long, especially over sculpted parts like faces.

I like the little ball joints everywhere, should be fun.

Emerje

Even if the execution won't be great, the concept is amusing enough to me on its own.

If the stickers are that bad, I might just not bother, I've always found stickers annoying. Do Kabaya toys generally look okay stickerless?

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Comment by D-Maximal_Primal Jan 30, 2016

From Twitter:

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Comment by Emerje Jan 30, 2016

Nemesis Primal wrote:Even if the execution won't be great, the concept is amusing enough to me on its own.

If the stickers are that bad, I might just not bother, I've always found stickers annoying. Do Kabaya toys generally look okay stickerless?

You're going to want some stickers for it to look good. Flat stickers usually stay fine, but curving ones, especially over facial features are the tough ones. Paint would really be the best method since these are usually well sculpted. Looks like the faces are the only curved parts so it should be fine.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:From Twitter:

Now I see it, it looks like RotF Superion.

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Nice art.

Emerje

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Comment by william-james88 Jan 31, 2016

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:From Twitter:

Is this fan art or official? If official, could you provide the link, we should news it.

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Comment by Stuartmaximus Jan 31, 2016

Sabrblade wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Faction sacrifice, Bots and Cons fusing together, mass hysteria!

yeah it confuses me as to why the Autobots would wanna combine with the Decepticons....
You didn't get the joke, did you?

why is it when i read your response there......i'm hearing it in my head as Wentworth Miller's Captain Cold?

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