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News Credits: 119 · by **daimchoc** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 6:26 am

by **necr0blivion** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 2:25 pm

Okay, the Vangelus video is cute and FPC made a big thing about using a different style box to homage the Sonoking. I just want the team already, the first two were very fun to play with.

This just keeps getting weirder.

by **Rated X** » Wed Dec 18, 2013 6:50 am

They really need to revisit this idea and do a classics style version of these characters. For me, the nostalgia lies within the fact that they are transformable robots. The brick throwback concept is unessacary and annoying

News Credits: 668 · by **Autobot032** » Wed Dec 18, 2013 8:16 am

necr0blivion wrote:Okay, the Vangelus video is cute and FPC made a big thing about using a different style box to homage the Sonoking. I just want the team already, the first two were very fun to play with.

This just keeps getting weirder.

It shows me that FansProject has a twisted sense of humor. I like it.

News Credits: 119 · by **daimchoc** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 7:36 pm

Yes, it all a joke..
https://www.fpcore.com/news/2013/12/20/ ... ent-update

Dear FP Core Members,

We just wanted to give you all an update on the progress of the Megazero disaster from a couple weeks ago. The manufacturer has informed us of a find in Korea that will help us keep our shipment schedule on track. Apparently several years after the release of the North American version of the Glacialbots, the release was made available to the Korean market.

Quoted here from a letter to our manufacturer, Korean warehouse workers that had been working with the manufacturer to hunt these down were gracious enough to allow us access to the entire inventory:

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우리는 당신에게 우리 창고 구석에 흘려져 있던 메가제로 상품 몇몇개를 발견한것을 알려드리게 되어 기쁩니다.이 상품들은 여러 해 이곳에 보관되어 있었으며 우리는 이것들을 지금 다시 발견하게 되었습니다.

우리는 신속하게 당신에게 처리해 드리겠습니다.
상품 관리 소홀로 인하여 시간이 길어지고 기간이 연장된 부분에 대하여 진심으로 사과드립니다.

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It was in a old abandoned distribution center just a few hours outside of Busan, that they discovered there were still some of these versions stored away.

Although featured in different packaging, this version of Megazero is exactly the same as it's North American counterpart and come complete with sticker sheets, instructions and accessories.

We have put a rush on the delivery of these and what this means is that Megazero will be shipped out with Tusker and Razorspike as originally intended.

Go ahead and use your translation service of choice... LOL

News Credits: 4 · by **Tsutsukakushi** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 4:24 pm

I think this has got to be the worse 3rd party combiner hands down.

Show of hands,whose buying this toy & why?

With all the 3rd party stuff that gets delayed then cancelled. I was hoping this would fall into this category. I was surprised to see FP release this after a lengthy hiatus.

Perhaps the best joke in this thread. was when someone called the Red Mammoth,Snuffleupagus,from Sesame street.

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 4:45 pm

Tsutsukakushi wrote:I think this has got to be the worse 3rd party combiner hands down.

Show of hands,whose buying this toy & why?

With all the 3rd party stuff that gets delayed then cancelled. I was hoping this would fall into this category. I was surprised to see FP release this after a lengthy hiatus.

Perhaps the best joke in this thread. was when someone called the Red Mammoth,Snuffleupagus,from Sesame street.

This hits a very niche group. I don't know of anybody who is buying this (I think there was some chatter over on TFW2005) but I was sorely tempted. If I didn't have money invested in Diesel and MMC's Predaking, I may just have gotten this. (I might still) G1 isn't a big part of my collection, but I do have a G1 and G2 shelf. Like I said earlier, I'd love to get this to stump my friends who had Transformers as kids. I wouldn't get this for the same reasons I get the Classics/Generations/Neo G1 stuff. This would be all about the nostalgia of playing with G1 toys.

by **Rated X** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 6:37 pm

Bricks dont float.

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 7:07 pm

Rated X wrote:Bricks dont float.

Lego bricks do.

News Credits: 1235 · by **LOST Cybertronian** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 8:17 pm

I am very interested in this set if it ever went to other retailers other than FPC. If BBTS carried these, I am in.

News Credits: 1 · by **Sodan-1** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 9:47 pm

So what in the hell is actually going on with this destroyed MegaZero shipment story? An old crate of figures found in Korea? :???:

If this is a joke I'd probably have found it more funny if I wasn't busy scratching my head trying to figure out if it was simply a poorly worded translation.

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Sat Dec 21, 2013 10:01 pm

Sodan-1 wrote:So what in the hell is actually going on with this destroyed MegaZero shipment story? An old crate of figures found in Korea? If this is a joke I'd probably have found it more funny if I wasn't busy scratching my head trying to figure out if it was simply a poorly worded translation.

Pretty sure it's been a joke all along. The story was just too....weird to be true. (Of course, the world is full of stories like that...)

News Credits: 2 · by **xyl360** » Mon Dec 23, 2013 3:20 am

Agamemnon wrote:
Sodan-1 wrote:So what in the hell is actually going on with this destroyed MegaZero shipment story? An old crate of figures found in Korea? If this is a joke I'd probably have found it more funny if I wasn't busy scratching my head trying to figure out if it was simply a poorly worded translation.

Pretty sure it's been a joke all along. The story was just too....weird to be true. (Of course, the world is full of stories like that...)

Yep, it was just a gag to promote the fact that this particular bot uses packaging which homages the Sonokong releases of Takara Transformers products throughout several lines from the past in South Korea.

News Credits: 4 · by **Tsutsukakushi** » Tue Dec 24, 2013 8:51 pm

xyl360 wrote:
Agamemnon wrote:
Sodan-1 wrote:So what in the hell is actually going on with this destroyed MegaZero shipment story? An old crate of figures found in Korea? If this is a joke I'd probably have found it more funny if I wasn't busy scratching my head trying to figure out if it was simply a poorly worded translation.

Pretty sure it's been a joke all along. The story was just too....weird to be true. (Of course, the world is full of stories like that...)

Yep, it was just a gag to promote the fact that this particular bot uses packaging which homages the Sonokong releases of Takara Transformers products throughout several lines from the past in South Korea.

I read the story & immediatley thought of the TFCC fiction & Takara BT,Alternity fiction.

The guys who created this probably figured out at the last minute,it won't sell. As hardly any import sites wanted this. This made up container story sounds like a desperate frustrated plea to get some buyers to buy this.

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Tue Dec 24, 2013 10:03 pm

Tsutsukakushi wrote:
xyl360 wrote:
Agamemnon wrote:
Sodan-1 wrote:So what in the hell is actually going on with this destroyed MegaZero shipment story? An old crate of figures found in Korea? If this is a joke I'd probably have found it more funny if I wasn't busy scratching my head trying to figure out if it was simply a poorly worded translation.

Pretty sure it's been a joke all along. The story was just too....weird to be true. (Of course, the world is full of stories like that...)

Yep, it was just a gag to promote the fact that this particular bot uses packaging which homages the Sonokong releases of Takara Transformers products throughout several lines from the past in South Korea.

I read the story & immediatley thought of the TFCC fiction & Takara BT,Alternity fiction.

The guys who created this probably figured out at the last minute,it won't sell. As hardly any import sites wanted this. This made up container story sounds like a desperate frustrated plea to get some buyers to buy this.

Did you read the responses you quoted? This whole project is one big homage to G1, including the packaging.

News Credits: 4 · by **Tsutsukakushi** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 11:18 am

Agamemnon wrote:
Tsutsukakushi wrote:
xyl360 wrote:
Agamemnon wrote:
Sodan-1 wrote:So what in the hell is actually going on with this destroyed MegaZero shipment story? An old crate of figures found in Korea? If this is a joke I'd probably have found it more funny if I wasn't busy scratching my head trying to figure out if it was simply a poorly worded translation.

Pretty sure it's been a joke all along. The story was just too....weird to be true. (Of course, the world is full of stories like that...)

Yep, it was just a gag to promote the fact that this particular bot uses packaging which homages the Sonokong releases of Takara Transformers products throughout several lines from the past in South Korea.

I read the story & immediatley thought of the TFCC fiction & Takara BT,Alternity fiction.

The guys who created this probably figured out at the last minute,it won't sell. As hardly any import sites wanted this. This made up container story sounds like a desperate frustrated plea to get some buyers to buy this.

Did you read the responses you quoted? This whole project is one big homage to G1, including the packaging.

I know what this is,I've been following it from the start. I'm aware of the clever brick faux brick formers with the hidden articulation. I know about the art that makes it look like the boxes are damaged. I know about the Sono Kong box. I realize this toy scale was done to mimick a decades old toy.

I hardly would call this toy a G-1 homage. As it doesn't homage any decades old TF toy design,characters or media.

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 11:45 am

Tsutsukakushi wrote:
Agamemnon wrote:
Tsutsukakushi wrote:
xyl360 wrote:
Agamemnon wrote:
Sodan-1 wrote:So what in the hell is actually going on with this destroyed MegaZero shipment story? An old crate of figures found in Korea? If this is a joke I'd probably have found it more funny if I wasn't busy scratching my head trying to figure out if it was simply a poorly worded translation.

Pretty sure it's been a joke all along. The story was just too....weird to be true. (Of course, the world is full of stories like that...)

Yep, it was just a gag to promote the fact that this particular bot uses packaging which homages the Sonokong releases of Takara Transformers products throughout several lines from the past in South Korea.

I read the story & immediatley thought of the TFCC fiction & Takara BT,Alternity fiction.

The guys who created this probably figured out at the last minute,it won't sell. As hardly any import sites wanted this. This made up container story sounds like a desperate frustrated plea to get some buyers to buy this.

Did you read the responses you quoted? This whole project is one big homage to G1, including the packaging.

I know what this is,I've been following it from the start. I'm aware of the clever brick faux brick formers with the hidden articulation. I know about the art that makes it look like the boxes are damaged. I know about the Sono Kong box. I realize this toy scale was done to mimick a decades old toy.

I hardly would call this toy a G-1 homage. As it doesn't homage any decades old TF toy design,characters or media.

I think it can be considered an homage to Generation 1 toys as a group. It doesn't have to homage any particular character or media. It was made in the principles that G1 was made. I think this is a reasonable argument. You don't have to buy it (the argument, I mean) but it is still a well reasoned argument, and one that I do indeed buy (the argument.)

Now, I just need to see if I can get the funds together to buy it (the figure, not the argument.

)

by **Rated X** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 1:21 pm

All this nonsense makes me want classics versions of the characters even more. But they can keep the bricks.

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 1:25 pm

Rated X wrote:All this nonsense makes me want classics versions of the characters even more. But they can keep the bricks.

I'd enjoy modern versions of these figures as well.

News Credits: 4 · by **Tsutsukakushi** » Wed Dec 25, 2013 9:21 pm

Mkall wrote:
Rated X wrote:All this nonsense makes me want classics versions of the characters even more. But they can keep the bricks.

I'd enjoy modern versions of these figures as well.

But these are modern versions. as they were made recently. :roll:

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Thu Dec 26, 2013 1:09 am

Tsutsukakushi wrote:
Mkall wrote:
Rated X wrote:All this nonsense makes me want classics versions of the characters even more. But they can keep the bricks.

I'd enjoy modern versions of these figures as well.

But these are modern versions. as they were made recently.

Do you think I did not know that?

News Credits: 119 · by **daimchoc** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 9:34 am

News Credits: 2 · by **Banjo-Tron** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 9:51 am

This is such a cool set. If I ever finish my current collection, then I could justify buying this

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 1:34 pm

Banjo-Tron wrote:This is such a cool set. If I ever finish my current collection, then I could justify buying this

"Finish my current collection." That's funny! I keep telling myself that I'm done buying Hasbro TFs, then the next batch comes along and I buy nearly, if not all, of them. Props to you if you can finish your collection!

News Credits: 2 · by **Banjo-Tron** » Tue Jan 07, 2014 2:17 pm

Agamemnon wrote:
Banjo-Tron wrote:This is such a cool set. If I ever finish my current collection, then I could justify buying this

"Finish my current collection." That's funny! I keep telling myself that I'm done buying Hasbro TFs, then the next batch comes along and I buy nearly, if not all, of them. Props to you if you can finish your collection!

Well I've narrowed my focus to modern interpretations of all Geewun figures who appeared in the cartoons and a handful of comic characters, so actually I'm not too far off being done now