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News Credits: 1 · Wed Jul 18, 2012 2:58 am

Does he come with missiles?

Obviously the Takara toy eschews Hasbro's light-up gun thing for an arms micron, but does it also do away with the missiles as well?

News Credits: 4 · Wed Jul 18, 2012 4:54 am

Nope, no missles. Just the Arms Micron.

News Credits: 12 · Wed Jul 18, 2012 7:58 am

AM-07 isn't a Powerizer.

News Credits: 1 · Wed Jul 18, 2012 6:56 pm

freaky777 wrote:Nope, no missles. Just the Arms Micron.

Thanks for the info, freaky777. Maybe I can try to fit MP Starscream's missiles onto him.

GuyIncognito wrote:AM-07 isn't a Powerizer.

Yeah, well, it's Hasbro's fault for making similar sounding names for their two larger classes.

Powerizer...weaponizer...AFAIC, I still see them as voyager and leader class. >:oP

News Credits: 15 · Wed Jul 18, 2012 10:32 pm

GuyIncognito wrote:AM-07 isn't a Powerizer.

Technically, he is. However, Powerizer is Hasbro's term, really. Powerizer is a voyager, and that's really all Screamer is. Screw the Revealers, Powerizers, and Weaponizers! Just call them Deluxes, Voyagers, and Leaders and get on with it...

News Credits: 12 · Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:46 am

PrimeStriker wrote:
GuyIncognito wrote:AM-07 isn't a Powerizer.

Technically, he is. However, Powerizer is Hasbro's term, really. Powerizer is a voyager, and that's really all Screamer is. Screw the Revealers, Powerizers, and Weaponizers! Just call them Deluxes, Voyagers, and Leaders and get on with it...

I could be mistaken, but I don't think the Takara Arms Micron figures have the light-up gimmick. (Do they?) That's where "Powerizers" get their name.

News Credits: 6188 · Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:52 am

GuyIncognito wrote:
PrimeStriker wrote:
GuyIncognito wrote:AM-07 isn't a Powerizer.

Technically, he is. However, Powerizer is Hasbro's term, really. Powerizer is a voyager, and that's really all Screamer is. Screw the Revealers, Powerizers, and Weaponizers! Just call them Deluxes, Voyagers, and Leaders and get on with it...

I could be mistaken, but I don't think the Takara Arms Micron figures have the light-up gimmick. (Do they?) That's where "Powerizers" get their name.

That was also my belief.

Also seeing as how there is nothing on the packaging which identifies the figures as such, only in the advertising (e.g. in catalogues and listings).

News Credits: 14 · Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:17 am

The Powerizer gimmick resides strictly in the figure's weapon. All 4 powerizers we have so far stick to this.
Which is why Bulkhead gets that obtrusive lump that's supposed to be his mace.

Anyway, AM-07 uses the Powerizer mold, but forgoes the light gimmicks weapon.

The microns so ar have no light up gimmick, and Takara, makes most of the translucent parts opaque. Rendering the gimmicks unusable.

News Credits: 12 · Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:33 am

In other words, "Powerizer" refers to the gimmick, not the size class.

News Credits: 241 · Thu Jul 19, 2012 2:42 pm

GuyIncognito wrote:In other words, "Powerizer" refers to the gimmick, not the size class.

Hasbro never officially used "Revealer" and "Powerizer" to refer to their size classes to begin with. It's always been "Deluxe" and "Voyager".

News Credits: 1 · Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:37 pm

So...he's basically a powerizer class toy but NOT a powerizer in the sense that his weapon doesn't light up?

Sheesh, maybe I should have just called him a fricking voyager.

News Credits: 3 · Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:09 pm

SKYWARPED_128 wrote:So...he's basically a powerizer class toy but NOT a powerizer in the sense that his weapon doesn't light up?

Sheesh, maybe I should have just called him a fricking voyager.

He IS a Voyager. Powerizer is the name of the gimmick, not the size class.

TFwiki says it best:

"Internally, these figures were referred to by Hasbro as "Powerizers" due to this gimmick, but the official name remains "Voyager Class". "

News Credits: 1 · Fri Jul 20, 2012 5:25 am

Midnight_Fox wrote:
SKYWARPED_128 wrote:So...he's basically a powerizer class toy but NOT a powerizer in the sense that his weapon doesn't light up?

Sheesh, maybe I should have just called him a fricking voyager.

He IS a Voyager. Powerizer is the name of the gimmick, not the size class.

TFwiki says it best:

"Internally, these figures were referred to by Hasbro as "Powerizers" due to this gimmick, but the official name remains "Voyager Class". "

Thanks for clearing that up. All this while I thought Powerizer was the new name for the voyager class.