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News Credits: 1014 · by **First Gen** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:08 pm

E Hobby/Millionare Publishing has given us a link in which you can download a head cut out for their exclusive Movie green G1 Ratchet Mail away figure. You will need Adobe Acrobat, possibly with the Japanese language pack in order to view or print this cut out.

You can download the PDF here.

No word has been given regarding the exclusive Black Protect Ironhide, but use of an image editor such as Photoshop may provide the desired results.

For those of you that can't download it, you can find it here.

News Credits: 198 · by **DevastaTTor** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 1:49 pm

Is it just me or is this very unexciting? A paper head, a green Ratchet that costs $150... mmmm, yeah.

News Credits: 1014 · by **First Gen** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:06 pm

DevastaTTor wrote:Is it just me or is this very unexciting? A paper head, a green Ratchet that costs $150... mmmm, yeah.

You can view it like that, or view it like I do. Take the green Ratchet cutout, revamp it and Viola!!! You got heads for bot g1 Ratchet and Ironhide.

And you won't have to pay 35 bucks USD on ebay for them. Sounds good to me.

News Credits: 8 · by **NuclearConvoy** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:35 pm

1st off, Adobe Acrobat WILL prompt you to install an update.

2nd, Green Ratchet is not a 150$ figure. He's only expensive on the secondary market because he is unavailable outside of Japan. He was a mailaway exclusive figure that anybody who bought Transformers Visualworks and lived in Japan could get for quite cheap. I have Visualworks (awesome art book) and I have the little mailaway form, unfortunately I live in Canada. The price gets jacked up on websites like BBTS etc. because they need to find someone in japan to order a bunch of 40$ books, get the mailaway form, pay the fee for that and THEN ship it via registered EMS from Japan to their warehouses. EMS shipping can getting bloody psychotically expensive.

Basically, you aren't paying 150$ for the toy, you're paying 150$ for the hassle of getting the toy in stock.

News Credits: 21 · by **dragons** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:49 pm

wow 150 dollars for a cardboad head i smell rip off trying just to make money just like those repaints of the same figures that are going around on ebay with some minro detailes added to them with new heads and new paint colors added to them just not worth it

screw adobe i can veiw the the pdf file for free with out any updates
Foxit PDF Reader 2.2 thats what i use only tkaes (2.14MB) while adobe uses (22.32MB) its free and it does same almost anything thing that adobe does.

News Credits: 8 · by **NuclearConvoy** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:58 pm

dragons wrote:wow 150 dollars for a cardboad head i smell rip off trying just to make money just like those repaints of the same figures that are going around on ebay with some minro detailes added to them with new heads and new paint colors added to them just not worth it

screw adobe i can veiw the the pdf file for free with out any updates
Foxit PDF Reader 2.2 thats what i use only tkaes (2.14MB) while adobe uses (22.32MB) its free and it does same almost anything thing that adobe does.

Dude, did you not even read what I wrote?

News Credits: 4 · by **Bumblethumper** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 4:36 pm

Getting the cutout head for free to print out is pretty cool. I can use that to spruce up my old G1 Ironhide.

For the $150 green ratchet, well, I can understand the reasoning behind the price, but for that kind of money I'd sooner wait for the headmaster Ironhide that Jizaitoys are working on.

News Credits: 409 · by **Stormrider** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:20 pm

That's cool this is available. There is a cardboard cut out that comes with the Green Ratchet package, but it is the white version.

News Credits: 198 · by **DevastaTTor** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:40 am

First Gen wrote:
DevastaTTor wrote:Is it just me or is this very unexciting? A paper head, a green Ratchet that costs $150... mmmm, yeah.

You can view it like that, or view it like I do. Take the green Ratchet cutout, revamp it and Viola!!! You got heads for bot g1 Ratchet and Ironhide.

And you won't have to pay 35 bucks USD on ebay for them. Sounds good to me.

Touche!

News Credits: 198 · by **DevastaTTor** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:44 am

NuclearConvoy wrote:1st off, Adobe Acrobat WILL prompt you to install an update.

2nd, Green Ratchet is not a 150$ figure. He's only expensive on the secondary market because he is unavailable outside of Japan. He was a mailaway exclusive figure that anybody who bought Transformers Visualworks and lived in Japan could get for quite cheap. I have Visualworks (awesome art book) and I have the little mailaway form, unfortunately I live in Canada. The price gets jacked up on websites like BBTS etc. because they need to find someone in japan to order a bunch of 40$ books, get the mailaway form, pay the fee for that and THEN ship it via registered EMS from Japan to their warehouses. EMS shipping can getting bloody psychotically expensive.

Basically, you aren't paying 150$ for the toy, you're paying 150$ for the hassle of getting the toy in stock.

I suppose I need to focus more on ripping on the toy and not the face. Regardless of the cost, the toy is an expensive, hideous green turd (IMO). But for alternate purposes, I guess I do see the value in the PDF face, especially for updating the original G1 toy.

And my wife thinks I'm not flexible.

News Credits: 8 · by **NuclearConvoy** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:35 am

DevastaTTor wrote:
NuclearConvoy wrote:1st off, Adobe Acrobat WILL prompt you to install an update.

2nd, Green Ratchet is not a 150$ figure. He's only expensive on the secondary market because he is unavailable outside of Japan. He was a mailaway exclusive figure that anybody who bought Transformers Visualworks and lived in Japan could get for quite cheap. I have Visualworks (awesome art book) and I have the little mailaway form, unfortunately I live in Canada. The price gets jacked up on websites like BBTS etc. because they need to find someone in japan to order a bunch of 40$ books, get the mailaway form, pay the fee for that and THEN ship it via registered EMS from Japan to their warehouses. EMS shipping can getting bloody psychotically expensive.

Basically, you aren't paying 150$ for the toy, you're paying 150$ for the hassle of getting the toy in stock.

I suppose I need to focus more on ripping on the toy and not the face. Regardless of the cost, the toy is an expensive, hideous green turd (IMO). But for alternate purposes, I guess I do see the value in the PDF face, especially for updating the original G1 toy.

And my wife thinks I'm not flexible.

I'm neither for or against his colourscheme. I kinda want him because I have the Artbook and the mailaway form, but, unfortunately in this instance, I don't live in Japan. I'm also not willing to send 150$

So, if anybody is good with photoshop and can turn Green Ratchet in to Black Ironhide, do let me know. He's on his way here and I'd like to see how a cutout head looks on him.