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News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 11:32 am

"Everything I do is divinely sanctioned."

I just may need a new motto...

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 11:40 am

Counterpunch wrote:"Everything I do is divinely sanctioned."

I just may need a new motto...

I like this one too:

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 11:59 am

Sabrblade wrote:
sol magnus wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Ultra Magnus got new packaging for Australia.

Any pictures?

holy! thats mighty cool. howd that slip under the radar?

News Credits: 10 · by **sol magnus** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 12:35 pm

shajaki wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
sol magnus wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Ultra Magnus got new packaging for Australia.

Any pictures?

holy! thats mighty cool. howd that slip under the radar?

Is that the box? My instruction booklet has that exact image.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 3:03 pm

It'll be the instruction booklet.

News Credits: 10 · by **sol magnus** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 3:22 pm

Burn wrote:It'll be the instruction booklet.

What I'm trying to work out, is...there is a guy who is doing ENGLISH bios for certain markets, why and by what means are they "limited to Austrailia"...and if this is not the case, then perhaps (perhaps) a figure like Star Saber might be getting tooled up for American release (even though I wouldn't know why). The guy said he did English translation for Ultra Magnus. Okay, fine. Where is the product that features this translation, because I want that. Or, is it just the translation that we'd be getting in the US at some time in the future?

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 3:23 pm

Burn wrote:It'll be the instruction booklet.

So what does the box look like. And OH NO, this means Sabrblade was wrong abut something. Everyone, barricade your doors and windows, go down to the cellars, the world is ending!

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 3:28 pm

sol magnus wrote:
Burn wrote:It'll be the instruction booklet.

What I'm trying to work out, is...there is a guy who is doing ENGLISH bios for certain markets, why and by what means are they "limited to Austrailia"...and if this is not the case, then perhaps (perhaps) a figure like Star Saber might be getting tooled up for American release (even though I wouldn't know why). The guy said he did English translation for Ultra Magnus. Okay, fine. Where is the product that features this translation, because I want that. Or, is it just the translation that we'd be getting in the US at some time in the future?

It's right here:

http://www.toysrus.com.au/transformers-masterpiece-mp22-ultra-magnus_1193843/

It's the australasia release of Takara Ultra Magnus. It is not for the US release. A translation was also available for the Bumblebees that were distributed in autralasia, like the one found in australia's Toysrus. As you can see from the photo below, it is still a takara release, it just has english instructions inside. This by no means is to be beleived to mean Starsabre is geared up for America and in the improbable chance that he does, they will probably do their own in house bio.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 3:31 pm

sol magnus wrote:
Burn wrote:It'll be the instruction booklet.

What I'm trying to work out, is...there is a guy who is doing ENGLISH bios for certain markets, why and by what means are they "limited to Austrailia"...and if this is not the case, then perhaps (perhaps) a figure like Star Saber might be getting tooled up for American release (even though I wouldn't know why). The guy said he did English translation for Ultra Magnus. Okay, fine. Where is the product that features this translation, because I want that. Or, is it just the translation that we'd be getting in the US at some time in the future?

Goktimus Prime has done translations for MP Ultra Magnus, MP Bumblebee, AOE Stinger and now MP Star Saber at the request of Hasbro Australia as they will be importing all those products into Australia with the MP's being TRU exclusives.

This is just a continuation of Takara Tomy MP's being imported into Australia that began years ago with MP-02 Ultra Magnus (in TT packaging).

As far as an American release goes, you'd have to ask Hasbro US that. All this is done for the Australian market.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 3:34 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Burn wrote:It'll be the instruction booklet.

So what does the box look like. And OH NO, this means Sabrblade was wrong abut something. Everyone, barricade your doors and windows, go down to the cellars, the world is ending!

I've been plenty wrong about things before. I ain't perfect.

News Credits: 10 · by **sol magnus** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 3:37 pm

Anybody got an Austrailian Magnus Instruction booklet to sell?

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 3:38 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Burn wrote:It'll be the instruction booklet.

So what does the box look like. And OH NO, this means Sabrblade was wrong abut something. Everyone, barricade your doors and windows, go down to the cellars, the world is ending!
I've been plenty wrong about things before. I ain't perfect.

Maybe, but it was my first time experiencing it, and there's just something about your first time.

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 3:40 pm

sol magnus wrote:Anybody got an Austrailian Magnus Instruction booklet to sell?

Its not out yet. You can see the word preorder on the listing I posted.

News Credits: 10 · by **sol magnus** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 3:44 pm

william-james88 wrote:
sol magnus wrote:Anybody got an Austrailian Magnus Instruction booklet to sell?

Its not out yet. You can see the word preorder on the listing I posted.

Yeah, I guess I can..I was just focused on the translation part of it. Now I kind of want an Aussie Bumblebee...

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 3:45 pm

sol magnus wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
sol magnus wrote:Anybody got an Austrailian Magnus Instruction booklet to sell?

Its not out yet. You can see the word preorder on the listing I posted.

Yeah, I guess I can..I was just focused on the translation part of it. Now I kind of want an Aussie Bumblebee...

You can buy it from TRU Australia for 99$ australian. Just click on the listing I put and he's right there.

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 6:34 pm

Yesterday, we brought you news that an exclusive English bio was being made for a limited australasian distribution of Takara Masterpiece Star Saber by Hasbro. Now, the same person who wrote the bio, Goktimus Prime, has revealed the cover art for the instruction booklet along with the description of changes the exclusive english booklet will have:

here's what the front cover art of the booklet looks like. This is the original Japanese version, not the adapted version. The main difference with the adapted one is that "Cybertron Commander Starsaber" is replaced with "Autobot Enforcer Star Sabre." And naturally the Japanese text down the bottom is translated to English.

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News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 7:37 pm

Seems to be a trend. The manuals and the card no longer present a static engineer's pose but a morre artistic awesome depiction.

by **Robogeek1973** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 7:45 pm

Wow, that artwork is fantastic!

News Credits: 16 · by **Super Megatron** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 8:24 pm

"Autobot Enforcer"!?!?

Way to neuter a great Autobot leader, Takara Tomy. :roll:

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 8:25 pm

Super Megatron wrote:"Autobot Enforcer"!?!?

Way to neuter a great Autobot leader, Takara Tomy.

Dont know if you read above, but the translation is handled by Hasbro.

by **Desslok2201** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 9:26 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Super Megatron wrote:"Autobot Enforcer"!?!?

Way to neuter a great Autobot leader, Takara Tomy.

Dont know if you read above, but the translation is handled by Hasbro.

Well, maybe wrong target, but I agree 100% with the sentiment

News Credits: 1 · by **Bumblevivisector** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 9:41 pm

Desslok2201 wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Super Megatron wrote:"Autobot Enforcer"!?!?

Way to neuter a great Autobot leader, Takara Tomy.

Dont know if you read above, but the translation is handled by Hasbro.

Well, maybe wrong target, but I agree 100% with the sentiment

Though it is the logical, perhaps inevitable counterpart to downgrading great Decepticon Leaders to mad scientists. Preventing unstoppably-badass-leader-oversaturation is the minor downside to IDW G1 being awesome enough to include so very much and last so very long.

by **Desslok2201** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 9:59 pm

Bumblevivisector wrote:
Desslok2201 wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Super Megatron wrote:"Autobot Enforcer"!?!?

Way to neuter a great Autobot leader, Takara Tomy.

Dont know if you read above, but the translation is handled by Hasbro.

Well, maybe wrong target, but I agree 100% with the sentiment
Though it is the logical, perhaps inevitable counterpart to downgrading great Decepticon Leaders to mad scientists. Preventing unstoppably-badass-leader-oversaturation is the minor downside to IDW G1 being awesome enough to include so very much and last so very long.

If that's how you see it, great. I see it as a gross misuse of established and storied characters, stripping them down to something which is at best a parody of itself and at worst the removal of all interesting characteristics. Instead of destroying characters, how about making new ones? Expand the brand instead of destroying it's history. Furman made Xaaron, IDW made Rung, it can be done. Any character could have been created to become the 3rd rate religious zealot that Star Saber was turned into. The greatest swordsman in the universe with an adopted human child was not an Optimus Prime 'clone' as it was put, he was a real character, and a very interesting one. But I guess cannibalism is 'awesome'

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 10:07 pm

Desslok2201 wrote: The greatest swordsman in the universe with an adopted human child was not an Optimus Prime 'clone' as it was put, he was a real character, and a very interesting one. I guess cannibalism is 'awesome'

Woah woah, what does Optimus have to do with Lone Wolf and Cub?

by **Desslok2201** » Wed Feb 04, 2015 10:09 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Desslok2201 wrote: The greatest swordsman in the universe with an adopted human child was not an Optimus Prime 'clone' as it was put, he was a real character, and a very interesting one. I guess cannibalism is 'awesome'

Woah woah, what does Optimus have to do with Lone Wolf and Cub?

Sorry, I totally forgot about Lone Wolf and Cub. Dammit.