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Cobotron wrote:Do you know what year Tomy bought Takara? Just wondering about the correlation between movies and buy out.

Circa 2005-2006.

Thanks!
Glad to meet a Maximal.

Lucky Logician wrote:After seeing so many people complain about how OP was going to be such a hot mess, it is nice to see a few people admitting they were wrong. It's not very often that you see people being that humble on this website.

Such agreement.

First things need to be shot down like crazy.
And people forget all the good figures Hasbro already made with the Generations line.

I think this Optimus is going to be, my, best prime so far.
Well, if MP10 was voyager sized then he'd have that crown of course. But I mainly collect the normal Transformers lines.

Gearslide wrote:Wouldn't surprise me in the least if we see a Takara (or maybe even Hasbro, if they feel like it) retool of Fireflight as Slingshot and Dead End as Wildrider, just to cater to the G1 team fans.

Yes, because there hasn't been any catering to G1 fans in the past year. (MP Wheeljack, MP Prowl, MP Soundwave, Evasion Optimus, Metroplex, FOC Thundercracker/Skywarp, Springer, Blitzwing, Skids, Jetfire, Hoist/Trainbreaker, Arcee!!!, SDCC Dinobots, etc.)

Some people are so needy

Autobot032 wrote:*looks at pictures over and over and over again*


I have FansProject's Menasor and nothing tops it for me, so Hasbro's is out. (Ugh.)
Optimus still looks bad. BAD. Zero interest in him and I see now that my money spent on ToyWorld's Orion was the right choice. (Probably my favorite Optimus mold, ever.)

Well, you do know you really kindo of have to say that don't you?

Don't get me totally wrong, I was tempted to get that Not-Motormaster because I really dig the character. But I've read about quality issues and the price doesn't really shout "toy".

I'm psyched about this Transformers release of Motormaster. I think they did the head way better than Fansproject. Haven't fully eyeballed the limb bots yet.
But I must say, the alt mode of the Fansproject looks better, it has a trailer.

Optimizzy wrote:Prime does look better...but it's still lacking. all that silver on his belly. It should be red. I collect primes, so I'll pick this up but I've been waiting on a perfect g1 incarnation to come out (that isn't a masterpiece or third party) and it looks like that just isn't going to happen. Oh well, still looks good. Motormaster looks amazing.

EDIT: didnt mean to post right after the other. sorry. didnt think.

Interesting, what is your current best G1 non-masterpiece / third party Optimus Prime figure?

Sabrblade wrote:

Cobotron wrote:Do you know what year Tomy bought Takara? Just wondering about the correlation between movies and buy out.

Circa 2005-2006.

Technically, Tomy didn't "buy out" Takara. The companies merged on equal terms.

Delta Magnus wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Cobotron wrote:Do you know what year Tomy bought Takara? Just wondering about the correlation between movies and buy out.

Circa 2005-2006.

Technically, Tomy didn't "buy out" Takara. The companies merged on equal terms.

Though Tomy does hold the majority of shares, it never had major repercussions for the Transformers brands aside from company name changes.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Delta Magnus wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Cobotron wrote:Do you know what year Tomy bought Takara? Just wondering about the correlation between movies and buy out.

Circa 2005-2006.

Technically, Tomy didn't "buy out" Takara. The companies merged on equal terms.

Though Tomy does hold the majority of shares, it never had major repercussions for the Transformers brands aside from company name changes.

That's reassuring. I'd hate to see Takara absorbed into nothingness.

Cobotron wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Delta Magnus wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Cobotron wrote:Do you know what year Tomy bought Takara? Just wondering about the correlation between movies and buy out.

Circa 2005-2006.

Technically, Tomy didn't "buy out" Takara. The companies merged on equal terms.

Though Tomy does hold the majority of shares, it never had major repercussions for the Transformers brands aside from company name changes.

That's reassuring. I'd hate to see Takara absorbed into nothingness.

Not much has changed really: The Takara side is for Japan only, while Tomy deals with international releases. That's reflected in the names used: "TakaraTomy" is used within Japan only, while the more recognized "Tomy" used internationally.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Cobotron wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Delta Magnus wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Cobotron wrote:Do you know what year Tomy bought Takara? Just wondering about the correlation between movies and buy out.

Circa 2005-2006.

Technically, Tomy didn't "buy out" Takara. The companies merged on equal terms.

Though Tomy does hold the majority of shares, it never had major repercussions for the Transformers brands aside from company name changes.

That's reassuring. I'd hate to see Takara absorbed into nothingness.

Not much has changed really: The Takara side is for Japan only, while Tomy deals with international releases. That's reflected in the names used: "TakaraTomy" is used within Japan only, while the more recognized "Tomy" used internationally.

Good!
All my fears are being blasted to bits.
All though historically we have old G.I. Joe to thank for Transformers, We'd have nothing without Takara.
Thanks bot fans.

I just realized something interesting... These will be the FOURTH and FIFTH Generations Thundercracker toys released.

noctorro wrote:

Gearslide wrote:Wouldn't surprise me in the least if we see a Takara (or maybe even Hasbro, if they feel like it) retool of Fireflight as Slingshot and Dead End as Wildrider, just to cater to the G1 team fans.

Yes, because there hasn't been any catering to G1 fans in the past year. (MP Wheeljack, MP Prowl, MP Soundwave, Evasion Optimus, Metroplex, FOC Thundercracker/Skywarp, Springer, Blitzwing, Skids, Jetfire, Hoist/Trainbreaker, Arcee!!!, SDCC Dinobots, etc.)

Some people are so needy

In fact, isn't nearly all of the Generations line devoted to catering to G1 fans, with a few scattered nods to other Transformers lines here and there, and those being mostly phased out when Combiner Wars starts? "Generations" is kind of a misleading name, isn't it?

Nemesis Primal wrote:I just realized something interesting... These will be the FOURTH and FIFTH Generations Thundercracker toys released.

Is it? Lemme check...

1) Generations Thundercracker
2) GDO Legends Thundercracker
3) FoC/IDW Thundercracker
4) TakaraTomy Thundercracker
5) 2015 Legends Thundercracker
6) 2015 Leader Thundercracker

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:I just realized something interesting... These will be the FOURTH and FIFTH Generations Thundercracker toys released.

Is it? Lemme check...

1) Generations Thundercracker
2) GDO Legends Thundercracker
3) FoC/IDW Thundercracker
4) TakaraTomy Thundercracker
5) 2015 Legends Thundercracker
6) 2015 Leader Thundercracker

I counted FoC/IDW and its Japanese counterpart as the same toy. But if you count them separate, that's even MORE Thundercracker. Plus there's some non-Generations Thundercrackers from the same time period, like Hasbro's version of Masterpiece Thundercracker.

I think it's fair to say Skywarp's probably jealous.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:I just realized something interesting... These will be the FOURTH and FIFTH Generations Thundercracker toys released.

Is it? Lemme check...

1) Generations Thundercracker
2) GDO Legends Thundercracker
3) FoC/IDW Thundercracker
4) TakaraTomy Thundercracker
5) 2015 Legends Thundercracker
6) 2015 Leader Thundercracker

I counted FoC/IDW and its Japanese counterpart as the same toy. But if you count them separate, that's even MORE Thundercracker. Plus there's some non-Generations Thundercrackers from the same time period, like Hasbro's version of Masterpiece Thundercracker.

I think it's fair to say Skywarp's probably jealous.

Or afraid of Thundercracker's maxed out ego

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:I just realized something interesting... These will be the FOURTH and FIFTH Generations Thundercracker toys released.

Is it? Lemme check...

1) Generations Thundercracker
2) GDO Legends Thundercracker
3) FoC/IDW Thundercracker
4) TakaraTomy Thundercracker
5) 2015 Legends Thundercracker
6) 2015 Leader Thundercracker

I counted FoC/IDW and its Japanese counterpart as the same toy. But if you count them separate, that's even MORE Thundercracker. Plus there's some non-Generations Thundercrackers from the same time period, like Hasbro's version of Masterpiece Thundercracker.

I think it's fair to say Skywarp's probably jealous.

Or afraid of Thundercracker's maxed out ego

Maybe that's why he thinks he can get his horrible script produced.