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It looks like Torq III. https://goo.gl/images/XbvnEz

https://goo.gl/images/XbvnEz

william-james88 wrote:Please take no offense to this, but all that Sounded like complete nonsense to me.

I literally took it from the product description.

Studio Series presents Vol.1 of a totally awesome convention exclusive series. Packed with retro radness, this installment features a bodaciously Special Edition Bumblebee Gold Camaro figure and 2 dynamite dino-cassette figures, Dairu and Uruaz (the evil twin of Zauru), remixed from an '80s Japan-only release.

Some of what I wrote was just conjecture (like the Dile/Elid part or vol.2 being their counterparts), but they wouldn't have mentioned Zauru if they didn't intend to release him later.

Emerje

I know we give Hasbro a lot of flack for their crap photograpy, but I just noticed this and thought it was worth a closer look.



Just when you thought they couldn't get any worse they somehow don't know the end with the eyes is the head, to say nothing of the direction the toes are facing.

Emerje

Adimus Prime wrote:Those combined cassettes look terrible. Thankfully they weren't released in the US. It looks Go-Botish,full of screws, and. Awkward. That face. And as much as I love dinosaur transformers, it is too far a stretch to imagine a minicassette transform into a dinobot sized beast mode. Imagine how huge this cassette combiner's robot mode would be.

Yeah that's what I think too and don't get why people excited about them. I want the set but only for Bee to add to my Studio collection and I don't need the tapes at all.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

Adimus Prime wrote:Those combined cassettes look terrible. Thankfully they weren't released in the US. It looks Go-Botish,full of screws, and. Awkward. That face. And as much as I love dinosaur transformers, it is too far a stretch to imagine a minicassette transform into a dinobot sized beast mode. Imagine how huge this cassette combiner's robot mode would be.

Yeah that's what I think too and don't get why people excited about them. I want the set but only for Bee to add to my Studio collection and I don't need the tapes at all.

I'm the opposite I want the tapes not the Bumblebee

Then maybe you two could figure out a way to go halves on the set since you both want what the other doesn't

ZeroWolf wrote:Then maybe you two could figure out a way to go halves on the set since you both want what the other doesn't

There's a guy on Twitter who I've already spoken to who is buying the set and will be selling the Bee and will let me know when he gets it and will likely sell me it.
It's a strange set really appealing to very different fanbases.

I really don't care about the movie figures, but I'm going to have to get one of these. The dinosaur cassette combiners have been a want of mine for years, but they're too crazy expensive.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:Then maybe you two could figure out a way to go halves on the set since you both want what the other doesn't

There's a guy on Twitter who I've already spoken to who is buying the set and will be selling the Bee and will let me know when he gets it and will likely sell me it.
It's a strange set really appealing to very different fanbases.

Yeah, it is bizarre, they should have just released the two seperately

The cassettes are mother effing DUOCONS.

This make me want this set. Also, I don't have SS Bee yet so...

Emerje wrote:I know we give Hasbro a lot of flack for their crap photograpy, but I just noticed this and thought it was worth a closer look.

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Just when you thought they couldn't get any worse they somehow don't know the end with the eyes is the head, to say nothing of the direction the toes are facing.

Emerje

Wow... Kinda reminds me of Edward Drinker Cope's first interpretation of Elasmosaurus.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Wow... Kinda reminds me of Edward Drinker Cope's first interpretation of Elasmosaurus.

Yep, and more topical it reminds me of the G1 Bombshell KO that was clearly repurposed into a scorpion, but people would constantly refer to as a rhino beetle because they didn't turn it around.

-Kanrabat- wrote:The cassettes are mother effing DUOCONS.

One of four, but when you see them all together it's kinda obvious why Hasbro didn't release the Dinos before now.



Emerje

Emerje wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:One of four, but when you see them all together it's kinda obvious why Hasbro didn't release the Dinos before now.



Emerje

They look strange but that's why I like them and curse Hasbro for making these SDCC exclusives

If an exclusive is the only way to get these out, then I'm all for it.

For those of us who were not able to get this exclusive figure set at SDCC, it is now up for pre-order online to everyone. Both Entertainment Earth and Big Bad Toy Store are offering pre-orders on Transformers Studio Series 20 Deluxe Bumblebee Vol. 2. As depicted below this is a set containing a deluxe sized Bumblebee figure in a nice gold color and two cassette dinobots, Zauru and Uriad. Have a look at some of the pics and tell us what you think!

If you are a cassette fan or are just feeling a tad nostalgic we have a brand new full gallery of Transformers Bumblebee Movie Cassette toys in high quality.

Okay. Knowing we are getting both cassettes solid color and both clear, I'm pretty stoked. These will probably be the only toys I get from the Bee movie.

So they're making us get two Bumblebee toy sets in order to get ONE set of the original Dinocasette combiners and one clear plastic version of the same combiner, but that version is a Decepticon, and the other Dinocasette combiner is nowhere to be seen. Okaaaaaaay.....

[quote="Emerje"]And since they've basically confirmed they're making a tradition of this expect Decepticon Uriad and Autobot Zauru next year (or perhaps at NYCC?).

So I was right about Uriad, but wrong about NYCC. I think I'm going to pass on these unless I come into a sudden windfall and hope Takara does these in Encore.

Emerje

I'm confused. Is the vol 2 set available at SDCC now as well?

Bounti76 wrote:So they're making us get two Bumblebee toy sets in order to get ONE set of the original Dinocasette combiners and one clear plastic version of the same combiner, but that version is a Decepticon, and the other Dinocasette combiner is nowhere to be seen. Okaaaaaaay.....

It's entirely possible they only had Legout's mold(s) available and couldn't find Decibel's (if they still exist), kinda like how when FunPub used the Grand pretender shell, they had to substitute weapon molds from Titans Return because they couldn't find Grand's, of how they were going to put Takara's "Metals" version of Jaguar/Ravage in the BW 10th anniversary line but the mold went MIA at some point after 3H used it for Tigatron at Botcon '01 (if I'm remembering these things right).

Speaking of Legout, I'm calling the evil version "Leogut" until an official name surfaces, because it sounds like a decent bizzarro doppelganger name and "Tuogel" sounds like a brand of toothpaste.

I seem to be having to acquire wayyy more Movie BBs than had ever crossed my mind recently.

Well cool, I was just wondering how tough he'd Bee to pick up (hahahaha I'm not funny) but bam, right up on BBTS! I'm gonna grab him and the regular release, then display one with and one without the battle mask. He looks like a lot of fun, might even pick one up for my mom since she likes old VWs so much.

I neeeeed this Bee. I do not need crappy G1 cassettes that Hasbro didn't think were worth releasing in their original era.

I like that it is different from the SDCC version so people who did get the SDCC version wouldn't be cheated.

Got the sdcc version dumping Bee keeping the cassettes.