Second Chance to Own Takara Transformers United UN-22 G2 Optimus Prime

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Great news for those of you who missed out on Takara's Transformers United UN-22 G2 Optimus Prime the first time around, it appears the figure is getting a second release! Site sponsors BigBadToyStore, TFsource, Robotkingdom, and Kapow Toys have all relisted the figure for pre-order with an expected release date this month.

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Re: Second Chance to Own Takara Transformers United UN-22 G2 Optimus Prime (1377160)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 5th, 2012 @ 1:45pm CDT

Hah, YES! Just in time for my birthday! :DANCE:

Re: Second Chance to Own Takara Transformers United UN-22 G2 Optimus Prime (1377161)
Posted by Grahf_ on May 5th, 2012 @ 1:46pm CDT

Well at least TT knows how to take advantage of the ko battle tankers that have been flooding the market.

Re: Second Chance to Own Takara Transformers United UN-22 G2 Optimus Prime (1377169)
Posted by xyl360 on May 5th, 2012 @ 2:08pm CDT

Alpha Weltall wrote:Well at least TT knows how to take advantage of the ko battle tankers that have been flooding the market.

Hehe, yes. It seems that Takara understands the principle of supply and demand. They did the same with Henkei Hot Rod/Rodimus a while back due to the existing demand (thank you FansProject

!) and now they've done a second run of G2 Laser Prime from United.

Hasbro needs to pay attention to the actions and market reactions of their collector-centric overseas counterpart, yeesssss!

Re: Second Chance to Own Takara Transformers United UN-22 G2 Optimus Prime (1377269)
Posted by deaduniverse on May 5th, 2012 @ 9:10pm CDT

Now, if they only re-release classics magnus and skywarp :grin:

Re: Second Chance to Own Takara Transformers United UN-22 G2 Optimus Prime (1377277)
Posted by gavinfuzzy on May 5th, 2012 @ 9:50pm CDT

deaduniverse wrote:Now, if they only re-release classics magnus and skywarp

Yes, I would like a single pack classics Skywarp... :-(

Re: Second Chance to Own Takara Transformers United UN-22 G2 Optimus Prime (1377291)
Posted by xyl360 on May 5th, 2012 @ 10:27pm CDT

deaduniverse wrote:Now, if they only re-release classics magnus and skywarp

That 2-pack was Hasbro-only. The only Skywarp I know of was Henkei, which sadly had no re-release (great figure though, although the Hasbro version has its merits as well

Re: Second Chance to Own Takara Transformers United UN-22 G2 Optimus Prime (1377341)
Posted by RhA on May 6th, 2012 @ 4:08am CDT

gavinfuzzy wrote:
deaduniverse wrote:Now, if they only re-release classics magnus and skywarp

Yes, I would like a single pack classics Skywarp...

Come on Hasbro, milk us with easy repaints. We're asking for this one.

Re: Second Chance to Own Takara Transformers United UN-22 G2 Optimus Prime (1377343)
Posted by Dead Metal on May 6th, 2012 @ 4:18am CDT

xyl360 wrote:
deaduniverse wrote:Now, if they only re-release classics magnus and skywarp

That 2-pack was Hasbro-only. The only Skywarp I know of was Henkei, which sadly had no re-release (great figure though, although the Hasbro version has its merits as well ).

It doesn't need a re-release, it was made to order. The pre-order counter only went up to 99999, which was reached within 2 days, and more where pre-ordered after that plus extras. There are more Henkei Skywarps and Thundercrackers than Henkei Starscreams. And Starscream was the mass released one. :lol:

Re: Second Chance to Own Takara Transformers United UN-22 G2 Optimus Prime (1377344)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 6th, 2012 @ 4:27am CDT

Dead Metal wrote:
xyl360 wrote:
deaduniverse wrote:Now, if they only re-release classics magnus and skywarp

That 2-pack was Hasbro-only. The only Skywarp I know of was Henkei, which sadly had no re-release (great figure though, although the Hasbro version has its merits as well ).

It doesn't need a re-release, it was made to order. The pre-order counter only went up to 99999, which was reached within 2 days, and more where pre-ordered after that plus extras. There are more Henkei Skywarps and Thundercrackers than Henkei Starscreams. And Starscream was the mass released one.

Now that's irony :lol:

Re: Second Chance to Own Takara Transformers United UN-22 G2 Optimus Prime (1377368)
Posted by fenrir72 on May 6th, 2012 @ 9:58am CDT

henkei Starscream is much more rare than the Ganbo(iirc) exclusives Sw and TC? Irony indeed! Good thing I managed to snag one waaaay back. If only Hasbro releases Sw as a single fig then all my seekers would be complete(except for Acidstorm)