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Twin Twist unreleased box art on eBay

Twin Twist unreleased box art on eBay

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 5:17PM CDT

Categories: Auctions, Collectables, Toy News
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A new auction on eBay has been discovered containing a rare piece of Transformers history. Seen here sold by senuseret72 is Twin Twist coming out of a pretendershell. The Seller senuseret72 list the item as having been part of a proposal for having Twin Twist in the pretender line up. {L_IMAGE}
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Re: Twin Twist unreleased box art on eBay (813736)
Posted by Scaleface on October 15th, 2008 @ 5:33pm CDT
I reported this to Seiberton last month. I posted it here in the toy section on Sept 30th, and we all talked about it here:

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=44927&p=799256

It was submitted to the news department, and no one seemed to care.
Re: Twin Twist unreleased box art on eBay (813745)
Posted by zero-kaiser on October 15th, 2008 @ 5:44pm CDT
....and im pretty sure i read this a month ago :? ...hmm
Re: Twin Twist unreleased box art on eBay (813764)
Posted by Hoistimus on October 15th, 2008 @ 6:20pm CDT
Nice little bit of history....

For those who saw and reported this last month: wasn't Seibertron down due to Hurricane Ike shortly after this time last month? Might be why some failed to see this without checking out other TF websites.. which I keep forgetting there are.. hehe..
Re: Twin Twist unreleased box art on eBay (813767)
Posted by Zeds on October 15th, 2008 @ 6:25pm CDT
That is cool. The BIN price is not.

Top Spin would have also been in the Pretender line then by default.
Re: Twin Twist unreleased box art on eBay (813991)
Posted by Starscream on October 16th, 2008 @ 3:05am CDT
Obviously, the guy could find no private buyer.

A nice piece, but wtf, who wants this??
Re: Twin Twist unreleased box art on eBay (814035)
Posted by Stormrider on October 16th, 2008 @ 5:18am CDT
You are right, that it was submitted a month ago. The news team looked into it, and we don't think it is actually a legit art piece because it looks like a combination of two pieces of existing artwork - G1 Twintwist and one of the existing Pretender shells, which I don't know the name of - (possibly Cloudraker?)

The Seller has made a few claims though there is nothing to substantiate it at this time.
Re: Twin Twist unreleased box art on eBay (814176)
Posted by zero-kaiser on October 16th, 2008 @ 10:09am CDT
mmm i had a look on TFU.info at their pretender shells... couldnt see anything similar.. so im not sure.. that and i dont know much about pretenders.. other than the theme from the old adverts sticks in my head like nobodys business..
Re: Twin Twist unreleased box art on eBay (814336)
Posted by Free Fall 19 on October 16th, 2008 @ 1:43pm CDT
poor topspin and twintwist...destined to remain the ebay limo of unwanted junk lots..
Re: Twin Twist unreleased box art on eBay (814442)
Posted by Scaleface on October 16th, 2008 @ 3:09pm CDT
Stormrider wrote:You are right, that it was submitted a month ago. The news team looked into it, and we don't think it is actually a legit art piece because it looks like a combination of two pieces of existing artwork - G1 Twintwist and one of the existing Pretender shells, which I don't know the name of - (possibly Cloudraker?)

The Seller has made a few claims though there is nothing to substantiate it at this time.


I'm not sure which shell you mean, he's the colors of Waverider, but it's not his art. Additionally this is the ebay seller who has sold literally hundreds of prototypes and art prints from Hasbro, some of which have been reported on this site before. Seems worth mentioning - and I guess it was, as it got reported - the second time someone mentioned it.
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