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News Credits: 4 · by **craggy** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:08 pm

very tempted by Cliff, Megatron and Ratchet. CJ's colours are pretty nice and that targetmaster is pretty awesome. megs looks much better and that's a funky ape minicon cannon. Ratchet, whilst cool and all, pales in comparison to the sword, that looks like one of the coolest transformers weapons/transformers figures in recent memories. Skywarp is a nice looking toy, but I've no need for Prime styled seekers, and the micron is just freaky, I don't get it at all. I'm very willing to settle for the Starscream version of that mold at a cheaper cost. I like Prime's gun fine, but neither it or the figure itself make me like them enough to pay for the gun alone. Since he's very Shockwave looking, he'd go nice with a Classics Shockwave or even Henkei Megs, so hoping for a Hasbro release on that mold.

News Credits: 387 · by **Bounti76** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:09 pm

My thoughts/observations....

1. I wish Voyager Megatron's head folded away into his body. Having it sitting in the middle of his ship mode, clearly spottable, is sort of annoying. Still, I actually really like the robot mode...it's a great melding of his G1 and movie incarnations.

2. Am I the only one who thinks the Starscream/Skywarp mold is more than a bit too feminine for male characters? A few paint applications and possibly some slight retooling and BAM.... Slipstream.

3. While the weapons/Microns (is that a new name for Minicons?) are pretty cool looking for the most part, does every character need to be a Targetmaster now?

4. Ratchet's sword in robot mode is...ahem....rather well-endowed. Don't designers think of those things when making what are essentially KIDS' toys??

by **Doubledealer93** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:25 pm

WANT!!!!!! how can i get these with out getting the actual TF. i want just the micron. nothing else. :KREMZEEK:

by **ausbot** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:15 pm

Darn you takara, i didn't want to collect transformers Prime, but you went and added minicons!

by **CrimsonPrime** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:30 pm

Bounti76 wrote:My thoughts/observations....

1. I wish Voyager Megatron's head folded away into his body. Having it sitting in the middle of his ship mode, clearly spottable, is sort of annoying. Still, I actually really like the robot mode...it's a great melding of his G1 and movie incarnations.

2. Am I the only one who thinks the Starscream/Skywarp mold is more than a bit too feminine for male characters? A few paint applications and possibly some slight retooling and BAM.... Slipstream.

3. While the weapons/Microns (is that a new name for Minicons?) are pretty cool looking for the most part, does every character need to be a Targetmaster now?

4. Ratchet's sword in robot mode is...ahem....rather well-endowed. Don't designers think of those things when making what are essentially KIDS' toys??

Umm that's not a pic of the Voyager. Even if you're talking about the Voyager on a seperate discussion other than this topic, people have said it a lot of times. His head is SUPPOSED to pop out like that.It's not that Hasbro screwed up or anything.If you wanna blame anyone blame the designer for "Prime" Megatron >.>...

On topic...Gotta say not interested in the other micron arms except for one...The knife O.O !!! IT LOOK SO FRICKIN AWESOME !!! Too bad that Ratchet will probably be expensive T_T...

by **dillotron** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:39 pm

i am so getting all of these :grin:

News Credits: 1 · by **Flakmaster** » Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:54 pm

Darn, these figures actually make me wish Hasbro would release MORE gimmicky figure designs.

Unlike the Hasbro versions, which are simply a devolution of their first edition predecessors,
the mini-con 'microns' and the powerlinx ports give the Takara figures a nostalgic Armada feel to them.

If Hasbro had released them this way, they would have actually gotten my money for these guys.

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 5:05 am

News Credits: 1235 · by **LOST Cybertronian** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 7:26 am

Flakmaster wrote:Darn, these figures actually make me wish Hasbro would release MORE gimmicky figure designs.

Unlike the Hasbro versions, which are simply a devolution of their first edition predecessors,
the mini-con 'microns' and the powerlinx ports give the Takara figures a nostalgic Armada feel to them.

If Hasbro had released them this way, they would have actually gotten my money for these guys.

Targetmasters = Yes (even though not show accurate, can always use more)
Huge ass ugly ports = Hell No (especially since not show accurate)

by **Vicalliose** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 10:09 am

Apart from the fact that ratchet has a LIVING KNIFE i really do not care for these, due to the ports. On the other hand they are at least adding something to make up for the fact that the figures are so damn small.

Website · by **Flux Convoy** » Fri Mar 02, 2012 10:53 am

So, holy ****! I really like these. I'm not buying all of those to get them but the Microns look pretty awesome to me. Kinda looks like Megatron only comes with the Micron and not his blaster as well. That's not cool.