TakaraTomy Transformers Adventure: Clear EZ Collection In Hand

Given the context of the show, Optimus is the only one of those who makes sense, fictionally, as a translucent figure. He'd be the only one I'd be interested in getting if I were collecting the Legion figures (Fixit's the only one I'm interested in, currently).

Why can't we have nice (translucent) things stateside? D:

I mean, yeah, I love Prime Abominus in all his translucent goodness, but we never get stuff like this, do we?

Cobotron wrote:

RAcast wrote:Why can't we have nice (translucent) things stateside? D:

I mean, yeah, I love Prime Abominus in all his translucent goodness, but we never get stuff like this, do we?

NO!

What we get here is a bit laughable: right now Hasbro is holding a promotion, if you buy over €30 of TF merchandise, you get...

A GOODIE BAG!

Cobotron wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote: A GOODIE BAG!

Do tell. What's inside?

Don't get your hopes up The last one for Age of Extinction had:

- a swimming bag
- a folding frisbee
- a folding drinking bottle
- 2 key chains

All Transformers-themed of course.

RAcast wrote:Why can't we have nice (translucent) things stateside? D:

I mean, yeah, I love Prime Abominus in all his translucent goodness, but we never get stuff like this, do we?

I will answer why, because everytime we might, there is a huge backlash. Takara had gorgeous chrome on their figures for years. The takara classics seekers are superior to Hasbro's just because of it. We were clamoring for better deco and Generations Jetfire finally gave us a bunch of gorgeous chrome on bits that we could use to embellish our toy as we wanted (which means we could also display him without his weapons and thus without the chrome). But do the fans rejoice? NO. Instead there is a huge backlash. "Dumb Hasblow, thats not even close to being cartoon accurate, look at how smart takara was at not including chrome".
Another example? Ehobby does a bunch of expensive exclusives geared only at collectors with deep pockets and some are in really interesting and out there decos. Hasbro tries it out with their own exclusive G1 figures in decos that are totally left field homages (Platinum Astrotain and Blitzwing homaging the duacons and victory figures) and it sounds like they commit the biggest fault of the century. "Dumb Hasbo, no one wants these, what were you thinking, this is terrible".

So you could see why Hasbro is not keen on trying things that are too left field and trying to maintain a steady revenue stream y appealing to a younger audience and their parents instead of fans who are so hard to please (though I say they are totally rocking Combiner Wars on all acounts).

I can totally picture having these clear toys on the shelves:

"Dumb Hasbro, NO ONE asked for this"
"Clear plastic Hasbro? BREAKAGE ALERT!"
"Hey Hasbro, why are you making variants to toys which even the originals are worthless?"
"Lamest store exclusive ever! There isnt even any paint"
"No one wants these baby toys anyway"
"This size class should only be for figures who are actually small in scale, why is the Scout class dead?!"

And on and on. And fans are voting with their wallets too, its not just words (as I expect the Titan Devastator critiques to be). The last time Hasbro tried toys EXACTLY like these, it was the Dark Energon exclusives for the Prime line and as Cobotron can attest, the demand was so low that they are still available at deep deep discounts.Hasbro cant waste their time making toys like these.

william-james88 wrote:[snip!]

Yeah...yeah. You're absolutely correct, and it sucks. Though, for what it's worth, I usually like the oddball homage decos. I'd be pretty crazy for the Blitzwing/Astrotrain set if it weren't going to be prohibitively expensive.

william-james88 wrote:

RAcast wrote:

william-james88 wrote:[snip!]

Yeah...yeah. You're absolutely correct, and it sucks. Though, for what it's worth, I usually like the oddball homage decos. I'd be pretty crazy for the Blitzwing/Astrotrain set if it weren't going to be prohibitively expensive.

Well if you like shiny clear toys, why not get the Dark Energon exclusives for the Prime line.

Also, the EHobby exclusives are always prohibitively expensive. The the astrotrain/blitzwing set is going for the same price as their latest exclusive, CW Scourge.

I do, and I just might. That's a pretty good price right there.

RAcast wrote:I do, and I just might. That's a pretty good price right there.

I got them purely on translucency (and they where a few molds I didn't already have).
They are a fun cheap fix.

william-james88 wrote:

Cobotron wrote:Wow Will! &

My answer was just gonna be, because it's not the late 90's anymore.

Haha, thanks. But you know, the last person to give me a clap was .... Rated X. So either I am a bringer of peace and everyone agrees with me or I am a total schizo.

Your avatar is BW Megatron... Yeess.

Cobotron wrote:

RAcast wrote:I do, and I just might. That's a pretty good price right there.

I got them purely on translucency (and they where a few molds I didn't already have).
They are a fun cheap fix.

Sounds like you had an easy justification of it, I've got at least one of all of those already except Starscream.

I've played with the Japanese version of strongarm (deluxe) and can confirm tha the insignia sticker can indeed come off fairly easily. Underneath, was painted detail, showing the (faux?) black car detail, to mirror the other ide of the chest, albeid indented in the circular space where the sticker woud be.

I suspect that all of this line features similar stickers and "hidden" detail.