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News Credits: 12 · by **GuyIncognito** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 11:18 am

Seibertron's new WST galleries have inspired me to think about buying a few of these. But I have two questions:

1) Are there "legitimate" WSTs as opposed to "knock-off" WSTs? Or are they all basically the same? Is there anything I need to look out for?

2) What are the best places to buy them? eBay? online import dealers? Any particular sites I should try?

by **travicon** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:41 pm

All the WST's out there right now other than the dinobots are legit takara product. the dinobots and any other wst's that are due out are by a company called Just it toys. for some reason takara stoped with the awesome wst's so JIT started making them.

the only ones i have are the dinobots, i just got them yesterday, and good god they kick ass!

and it seems that TFSource is a good, fair priced site to go through. thats where i went, fast shipping and great packaging!

hope this helps...

News Credits: 7 · by **Chaoslock** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:53 pm

I remember there are several Knockoff WSTs out there, most of them are variants and easily recognisable (ghost-translucent versions) but I didn't really follow that line...

by **travicon** » Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:03 pm

oh ok, well there ya go, just basicly look for the takara lable if you dont want any ko or unofficial product.
but the dinos do kick serious booty!

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:04 pm

travicon wrote:All the WST's out there right now other than the dinobots are legit takara product. the dinobots and any other wst's that are due out are by a company called Just it toys. for some reason takara stoped with the awesome wst's so JIT started making them.

the only ones i have are the dinobots, i just got them yesterday, and good god they kick ass!

and it seems that TFSource is a good, fair priced site to go through. thats where i went, fast shipping and great packaging!

hope this helps...

Not quite. Heerotoysmaker (SP) sells many WSTs. He has created Ramjet, and Dirge, Tracks and Road Rage, iPod Convoy trailer, and more.

I also have a WST Springer from last year's Summerfest show in Japan.

There are KO's of Fort Max, Devastator, Bruticus, Menasor, and Defensor, just like the normal sized versions, but shrunk so they are similar to WST size.

Coolpop would be good to PM if you want to know even more.

No Tak Tomy started it, but others took up the slack.

by **travicon** » Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:38 pm

oh crap. i guess i dont know as much as i thought, my bad...

But i do know that the wst dinos kick ass!

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 6:37 am

travicon wrote:oh crap. i guess i dont know as much as i thought, my bad...

But i do know that the wst dinos kick ass!

Indeed they do.

News Credits: 2 · by **GreenLantern of Cybertron** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:53 pm

My favorite atm is WST Devastator.
the nice thing about WST is that they are in better scale with eachother than the G1 line

News Credits: 10 · by **Lapse Of Reason** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:30 pm

I sold off a bunch of mine in favor of the new Universe toys. The problem with WST is that they are so delicate.

by **videriant** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 12:33 am

All the clear seekers are KO's. The only conehead Takara made was thrust. You can tell the difference by looking at the gun/missile launcher. Takara's was fat, like an atom bomb. The KO's actually make the guns look more authentic. Plastic on the KO's are slightly lower then Takara's. If it's going for cheap then chances are the Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker is a KO ($10). The Takara Thrust is pretty easy to find (<$10).