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News Credits: 409 · by **Stormrider** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:05 am

KISS Players eHobby Exclusive Cassettes have begun shipping. AC Toys has posted new pictures of the cassettes as well as the box art and trading cards. This exclusive can still be ordered at eHobby.

(Please note that some pictures may not be deemed suitable for all viewers.)

Cassettes
Cassettes
Cassettes

Art Work
Art Work
Art Work

CD

Box Art
Box Art
Box Art

Click here to read more about the KISS Players and the voice actresses that will be doing a live radio show at the Tokyo Toy Festival.

News Credits: 1 · by **Ninja Sixshot** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:08 am

these things take forever to load.

News Credits: 409 · by **Stormrider** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:17 am

Here's another handy link to pictures. Although this may take just as long to load.

http://www.actoys.net/bbs/read.php?tid=168856

by **gothsaurus** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:27 am

I'm actually really excited about these. Love the cassettes - and a white Ravage is just tops! As usual, just shrugging off the cute pink packaging.

News Credits: 42 · by **Psychout** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:59 am

What a dumbass toyline.

Where's the cassette player to use them with?

by **Roboto750** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:20 am

The cassettes alone arn't bad. But, I still can't stand this line. I know, I know, we've been around the block about 1,000 times on this before, but, I'm sorry, it just irritates me. Going beyond the whole "little girl" thing, having a TF being kissed to gain powers? That's weak even for a Japanese storyline (yes, I know there's some other similar stories out there, but still). Looking at the box art, I don't know whether to laugh or cry when I see the girls smooching the cassette bots. Don't even get me started on the fact that Rosanna's a girl....

News Credits: 2 · by **TFBuyer** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:44 am

I agree about the lameness of this line and the whole "kiss power-up" idiocy, but I still want to get a KISS Hot Rod and add it to my Alt. collection.... I'll just get rid of the little girly-ness.

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:46 am

Can you say...."repaint!!"

by **GeidiPrime** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:59 am

How do you say "These things suck balls" in a really nice way as to not offend everyone?

News Credits: 5 · by **God Magnus** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:07 am

Finally, a female cassette! Let the love triangles commence!

News Credits: 2 · by **grimlockprime108** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:18 am

actually ehobby's twincast had a female cassette

by **tile_mcgillus** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:45 am

Weird and disturbing. Thanks again Kiss Players. Every Kiss Player released is another Trans toy I don't have to buy. I look at it as them saving me money by making crap.

News Credits: 3 · by **Samsonator** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:16 pm

I love how unhappy "Sundor" looks as he's getting kissed on the side of the package, kinda like an "I'm gonna eat your head" look.

by **Cyber-Kun** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:38 pm

Only Japan...

News Credits: 1 · by **Crystal Rodimus** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:56 pm

Do they come w/ a copy of Toto IV?

by **Contron** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 1:29 pm

I honestly thought the japaneses couldn't screw up the transformers story line any more than the cybertron tv show

and then i saw this crap :sad:

News Credits: 2 · by **Basketball Jones** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 1:42 pm

Why would cassettes be used in a modern-day storyline? Other modern adaptations have featured the cassette Transformers in newer, more timely forms such as the "bomb" Laserbeak present with Cybertron Soundwave.

News Credits: 3 · by **ShGarland_1383** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 3:50 pm

I wish these'd just come out already.

News Credits: 3 · by **ShGarland_1383** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 3:56 pm

Psychout wrote:What a dumbass toyline.

Where's the cassette player to use them with?

If this were an American release I'd just point out the G1CS Soundwave.

Basketball Jones wrote:Why would cassettes be used in a modern-day storyline? Other modern adaptations have featured the cassette Transformers in newer, more timely forms such as the "bomb" Laserbeak present with Cybertron Soundwave.

Maybe its because Soundwave and his cassettes are among the greatest transformers ever, and figures that good tend to get a timeless quality to them. That's just my opinion though.

News Credits: 409 · by **Stormrider** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 5:27 pm

I actually like the KISS line. It offers a completely different story line, which seems to be a little refreshing right now. How many times can the original story lines be done before it gets too old?

In a couple years we'll probably never see this line again and people will look back at it for it's originality, colorful artwork, and detailed figures. Enjoy it while you can. Don't be put off by the little figurines. They're only one inch tall and fit comfortably in the looming boxes, while you play with the articulate and well painted toys.

News Credits: 2 · by **Basketball Jones** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:08 pm

Maybe its because Soundwave and his cassettes are among the greatest transformers ever, and figures that good tend to get a timeless quality to them. That's just my opinion though.

I have purchased the G1 Soundwave reissue and am very impressed with it.

It's a reissue, however, and has a certain retro appeal to it. It is permissible to use cassettes in a reissue with a 1980s feel, but in a storyline that takes place in modern times, it seems a bit odd.

In the opposite direction, it'd be odd to have Soundwave be a cassette player in a theoretical Transformers series that occurred in the 1940s.