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Takara Tomy has updated the Transformers website with the following new information or new release for the month of October 2010:

a) Alternity Thundercracker


b) EZ Collection Volume 5


c) Masterpiece Movie Starscream


d) Famimart Lottery Prizes



You can view Takara Tomy Transformers website by clicking here: http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/TF/index.html

Seibertron, Ultimate Transformers Resource!

The FamiMart stuff is nose-bleed quality amazing. And so is MM Starscream. Oh Takara..

Why do WE never get any of the clear figures?!? Darn japan always getting the good stuff!

REGIFISHY wrote:Why do WE never get any of the clear figures?!? Darn japan always getting the good stuff!

cuz most americans don't have a clear figure fetish. weirdo japanese.

LOST Cybertronian wrote:

REGIFISHY wrote:Why do WE never get any of the clear figures?!? Darn japan always getting the good stuff!

cuz most americans don't have a clear figure fetish. weirdo japanese.

But they're SO COOOOOL! I'm sure a lot of people would like it if they were brought over here!

REGIFISHY wrote:

LOST Cybertronian wrote:

REGIFISHY wrote:Why do WE never get any of the clear figures?!? Darn japan always getting the good stuff!

cuz most americans don't have a clear figure fetish. weirdo japanese.

But they're SO COOOOOL! I'm sure a lot of people would like it if they were brought over here!

I should mention Clear Plastic figures don't fare well under stress. The plastic's too hard for its own good, and will snap or break far more easily.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

REGIFISHY wrote:

LOST Cybertronian wrote:

REGIFISHY wrote:Why do WE never get any of the clear figures?!? Darn japan always getting the good stuff!

cuz most americans don't have a clear figure fetish. weirdo japanese.

But they're SO COOOOOL! I'm sure a lot of people would like it if they were brought over here!

I should mention Clear Plastic figures don't fare well under stress. The plastic's too hard for its own good, and will snap or break far more easily.

Well that's a downside, And may even explain why they don't ship to here because it would arrive mint in box, just in a thousand different pieces. Still, they could probably find a way to make it less tough. After all, we DID get that TFA stealth lockdown!

REGIFISHY wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

REGIFISHY wrote:

LOST Cybertronian wrote:

REGIFISHY wrote:Why do WE never get any of the clear figures?!? Darn japan always getting the good stuff!

cuz most americans don't have a clear figure fetish. weirdo japanese.

But they're SO COOOOOL! I'm sure a lot of people would like it if they were brought over here!

I should mention Clear Plastic figures don't fare well under stress. The plastic's too hard for its own good, and will snap or break far more easily.

Well that's a downside, And may even explain why they don't ship to here because it would arrive mint in box, just in a thousand different pieces. Still, they could probably find a way to make it less tough. After all, we DID get that TFA stealth lockdown!

I mean that Clear Plastic is more prone to snapping because it's so hard: it takes more force to bend it than regular plastics, and excessive force will make it snap. Because it's clear, stress marks are far more noticeable. Because the figures sometimes rely on plastic bending (for tabs for instance) Clear Plastic is hardly used for complete figures by Hasbro.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

REGIFISHY wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

REGIFISHY wrote:

LOST Cybertronian wrote:

REGIFISHY wrote:Why do WE never get any of the clear figures?!? Darn japan always getting the good stuff!

cuz most americans don't have a clear figure fetish. weirdo japanese.

But they're SO COOOOOL! I'm sure a lot of people would like it if they were brought over here!

I should mention Clear Plastic figures don't fare well under stress. The plastic's too hard for its own good, and will snap or break far more easily.

Well that's a downside, And may even explain why they don't ship to here because it would arrive mint in box, just in a thousand different pieces. Still, they could probably find a way to make it less tough. After all, we DID get that TFA stealth lockdown!

I mean that Clear Plastic is more prone to snapping because it's so hard: it takes more force to bend it than regular plastics, and excessive force will make it snap. Because it's clear, stress marks are far more noticeable. Because the figures sometimes rely on plastic bending (for tabs for instance) Clear Plastic is hardly used for complete figures by Hasbro.

Oh, that's quite a problem...

I can actually count the amount of clear figures released by Hasbro on a single hand:

- Animated Stealth Lockdown
- BotCon Mirage

No more.