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News Credits: 16 · by **It Is Him** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 8:50 am

Can we stop quoting the same set of images fifty times?

News Credits: 1 · by **RhA** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 8:59 am

cramoptimus maximus wrote:Are the cassettes the same size as masterpiece jaguar and rumble? If so, then I may get this set just for that!

Does anybody know?

They are.

Rejoice.

News Credits: 19 · by **Stuartmaximus** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 9:12 am

fenrir72 wrote:
Va'al wrote:We've seen the Hasbro Platinum Edition Intel Ops set, with Perceptor and Blaster, show up at Philippine retail just recently, and we now have some official stock photography courtesy of Brazilian retailer HobbyBrinquedos. Check them out in package, out of package, with Ramhorn, Eject and Steeljawk - all mirrored below! And perhaps take a stroll down memory lane with our own galleries of the original toys, here and here.]

What are those red things in the lower middle of the package? I don't recall Blaster nor Perceptor having those things.

Aye I dunno what that is? looks like some kind of unit when transformed

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 9:18 am

Stuartmaximus wrote:
fenrir72 wrote:
Va'al wrote:We've seen the Hasbro Platinum Edition Intel Ops set, with Perceptor and Blaster, show up at Philippine retail just recently, and we now have some official stock photography courtesy of Brazilian retailer HobbyBrinquedos. Check them out in package, out of package, with Ramhorn, Eject and Steeljawk - all mirrored below! And perhaps take a stroll down memory lane with our own galleries of the original toys, here and here.

What are those red things in the lower middle of the package? I don't recall Blaster nor Perceptor having those things.

Aye I dunno what that is? looks like some kind of unit when transformed

It's a new accessory: a holder for the microscope slides for Perceptor to use.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 10:23 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Stuartmaximus wrote:
fenrir72 wrote:
Va'al wrote:We've seen the Hasbro Platinum Edition Intel Ops set, with Perceptor and Blaster, show up at Philippine retail just recently, and we now have some official stock photography courtesy of Brazilian retailer HobbyBrinquedos. Check them out in package, out of package, with Ramhorn, Eject and Steeljawk - all mirrored below! And perhaps take a stroll down memory lane with our own galleries of the original toys, here and here.

What are those red things in the lower middle of the package? I don't recall Blaster nor Perceptor having those things.

Aye I dunno what that is? looks like some kind of unit when transformed

It's a new accessory: a holder for the microscope slides for Perceptor to use.

As seen in the first two images. >:oP

by **1984forever** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 10:29 am

They need to shrink these guys down to 6 inches max and give Perceptor a new head.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 10:31 am

1984forever wrote:They need to shrink these guys down to 6 inches max and give Perceptor a new head.

Why? They're life-size (supposedly) as they are, plus they're the G1 original molds.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 10:50 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
1984forever wrote:They need to shrink these guys down to 6 inches max and give Perceptor a new head.

Why? They're life-size (supposedly) as they are, plus they're the G1 original molds.

To him, they're too tall to interact with the smaller toys of the characters that the two were the same height as in the cartoon.

by **Quinturion** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 10:58 am

It seems that the Eject cassette has painted details that mimic the original cassette decals. As far as I know that's a first. But why the purple? And the details on Ramhorn appear to be white which would be a first too. As a cassette collector these jokes make me run out of space and money.

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 11:37 am

Rated X wrote:So instead of getting rewind, perceptor gets a box of crap ? I dont see anyone buying this. Why is hasbro re-re-re-issuing stuff that was just re-issued maybe 2-3 years ago ? Seems like just yesterday I bought perceptor and the insecticons 3 pack at TRU for about 50 bucks a pop. Im not sure why anyone would want to pay double the price for a bigger box...

And big ups to Va'al for the debut of "Steeljawk"....you rock !

Well I dont have either and buying the reissues (especialy blaster) would cost me way more than the price this set will be (shown in a reply to Kanrabat below). And plus, Perceptor was rereleased 6 years ago, get your facts straight. As for Blaster, well:

-Kanrabat- wrote:
william-james88 wrote: I did some research on the previous Blaster release. While the insecticons were sold at large, Blaster wasn't. He was a con exclusive at first and found his way to HTS but was still quite limited. That release never got the same exposure as the insecticons or perceptor. And plus that was 7 years ago, so quite a while and thus I really dont get the complaining. Like last year's Predaking, its an easy toy to rerelease and finally make available to everyone who didnt get him, and at retail

-Kanrabat- wrote:Nice! But that set will be 200$ for sure. I'm not really interested in Perseptor and I always wanted Blaster. Maybe when this set will come out, this will drive the price of the latest reissue and the vintage down a bit.

No, this will sell at around the same price as the seekers, predaking and insecticons, confirmed here so hopefully Walmart gets these instead of toysrus. It's odd, aside from Trypticon and the 2 year of the goat issues, who sells for 200$ everywhere, the rest of the platinums all seem to retail for the similar 100$ price point, as if they looked at the size of the box instead of the toys inside.

Sabrblade wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
1984forever wrote:They need to shrink these guys down to 6 inches max and give Perceptor a new head.

Why? They're life-size (supposedly) as they are, plus they're the G1 original molds.
To him, they're too tall to interact with the smaller toys of the characters that the two were the same height as in the cartoon.

With a names like 1984forever, he should know the scale of the original toys, and wish them to be that way forever (which is exactly what Hasbro is doing with these).

by **1984forever** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 1:02 pm

I hated the original sizes of these toys. Christmas '86 I completed the movie cast with Blaster and Perceptor, and I hated how Blaster was bigger than Metroplex! My name may be '84forever but I'm a Chug/Mp guy all the way.

News Credits: 668 · by **Autobot032** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 2:19 pm

So, I get that the ...container thingy is used to hold the slides for Perceptor's microscope mode, but what the heck does it do in robot mode and why does it open up like a tripod? I must be missing something here.

News Credits: 3600 · by **Seibertron** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 2:19 pm

cramoptimus maximus wrote:Are the cassettes the same size as masterpiece jaguar and rumble? If so, then I may get this set just for that!

Does anybody know?

The vintage G1 Cassettes are the same size in Cassette mode as the Masterpiece Cassettes.

News Credits: 3600 · by **Seibertron** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 2:21 pm

Autobot032 wrote:So, I get that the ...container thingy is used to hold the slides for Perceptor's microscope mode, but what the heck does it do in robot mode and why does it open up like a tripod? I must be missing something here.

Looking forward to seeing what the slides are. Maybe it'll be a tease for an upcoming product or something cool or the coordinates for a reissue of Rewind. His absence is baffling to me.

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 2:24 pm

Seibertron wrote:
Autobot032 wrote:So, I get that the ...container thingy is used to hold the slides for Perceptor's microscope mode, but what the heck does it do in robot mode and why does it open up like a tripod? I must be missing something here.

Looking forward to seeing what the slides are. Maybe it'll be a tease for an upcoming product or something cool or the coordinates for a reissue of Rewind. His absence is baffling to me.

What is odd is that he is also missing from the previous rerelease. Was there ever an explanation for that?

News Credits: 668 · by **Autobot032** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 2:25 pm

Seibertron wrote:
Autobot032 wrote:So, I get that the ...container thingy is used to hold the slides for Perceptor's microscope mode, but what the heck does it do in robot mode and why does it open up like a tripod? I must be missing something here.

Looking forward to seeing what the slides are. Maybe it'll be a tease for an upcoming product or something cool or the coordinates for a reissue of Rewind. His absence is baffling to me.

Tease would be nice. Probably Viewmaster like screenshots of the G1 cartoon, though.

News Credits: 3600 · by **Seibertron** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 2:36 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Seibertron wrote:
Autobot032 wrote:So, I get that the ...container thingy is used to hold the slides for Perceptor's microscope mode, but what the heck does it do in robot mode and why does it open up like a tripod? I must be missing something here.

Looking forward to seeing what the slides are. Maybe it'll be a tease for an upcoming product or something cool or the coordinates for a reissue of Rewind. His absence is baffling to me.

What is odd is that he is also missing from the previous rerelease. Was there ever an explanation for that?

The previous release was just lazy and taking a short cut and was also a while before Rewind gained popularity amongst fans thanks to the current run of IDW Transformers comics and James Roberts writing talents.

This release, it's silly and unfortunate that he's not included, or better yet that they should have done him as Rewind and not as Eject. Oh well. What do we know?

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 2:51 pm

The only guess I could make as to why they went with Eject over Rewind is that they might have guessed more people would find Eject the more visually appealing, being a more colorful blue instead of black.

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 8:24 pm

Seibertron wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Seibertron wrote:
Autobot032 wrote:So, I get that the ...container thingy is used to hold the slides for Perceptor's microscope mode, but what the heck does it do in robot mode and why does it open up like a tripod? I must be missing something here.

Looking forward to seeing what the slides are. Maybe it'll be a tease for an upcoming product or something cool or the coordinates for a reissue of Rewind. His absence is baffling to me.

What is odd is that he is also missing from the previous rerelease. Was there ever an explanation for that?

The previous release was just lazy and taking a short cut and was also a while before Rewind gained popularity amongst fans thanks to the current run of IDW Transformers comics and James Roberts writing talents.

This release, it's silly and unfortunate that he's not included, or better yet that they should have done him as Rewind and not as Eject. Oh well. What do we know?

Stupid it is. Instead of adding those "slides" for Perceptor, Hasbro could have added Rewind instead. Weird business choices.

News Credits: 650 · by **ScottyP** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 8:19 am

Seibertron wrote:The previous release was just lazy and taking a short cut and was also a while before Rewind gained popularity amongst fans thanks to the current run of IDW Transformers comics and James Roberts writing talents.

This release, it's silly and unfortunate that he's not included, or better yet that they should have done him as Rewind and not as Eject. Oh well. What do we know?

Taking a leap/assumption that the mold is around: they're just waiting to do a Rechrome set.

News Credits: 119 · by **megatronus** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 8:30 am

ScottyP wrote:
Seibertron wrote:The previous release was just lazy and taking a short cut and was also a while before Rewind gained popularity amongst fans thanks to the current run of IDW Transformers comics and James Roberts writing talents.

This release, it's silly and unfortunate that he's not included, or better yet that they should have done him as Rewind and not as Eject. Oh well. What do we know?

Taking a leap/assumption that the mold is around: they're just waiting to do a Rechrome set.

That's a tantalizing possibility...

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 8:32 am

megatronus wrote:
ScottyP wrote:
Seibertron wrote:The previous release was just lazy and taking a short cut and was also a while before Rewind gained popularity amongst fans thanks to the current run of IDW Transformers comics and James Roberts writing talents.

This release, it's silly and unfortunate that he's not included, or better yet that they should have done him as Rewind and not as Eject. Oh well. What do we know?

Taking a leap/assumption that the mold is around: they're just waiting to do a Rechrome set.

That's a tantalizing possibility...

Could you guys help me out here, I dont get why rewind would be put on the sideline while waiting for a rechrome set.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 8:55 am

william-james88 wrote:
megatronus wrote:
ScottyP wrote:
Seibertron wrote:The previous release was just lazy and taking a short cut and was also a while before Rewind gained popularity amongst fans thanks to the current run of IDW Transformers comics and James Roberts writing talents.

This release, it's silly and unfortunate that he's not included, or better yet that they should have done him as Rewind and not as Eject. Oh well. What do we know?

Taking a leap/assumption that the mold is around: they're just waiting to do a Rechrome set.

That's a tantalizing possibility...

Could you guys help me out here, I dont get why rewind would be put on the sideline while waiting for a rechrome set.

They mean a two-pack with just Rewind and Chromedome. As in, maybe Hasbro left Rwind out of this set so that they could release him in a two-pack with G1 Chromedome.

News Credits: 650 · by **ScottyP** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 10:25 am

Sabrblade wrote:They mean a two-pack with just Rewind and Chromedome. As in, maybe Hasbro left Rwind out of this set so that they could release him in a two-pack with G1 Chromedome.

Or a set with Rewind, Chromedome, Overlord, the "Under Cold Blue Stars" comic, and a box of tissues.

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 10:57 am

ScottyP wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:They mean a two-pack with just Rewind and Chromedome. As in, maybe Hasbro left Rwind out of this set so that they could release him in a two-pack with G1 Chromedome.

Or a set with Rewind, Chromedome, Overlord, the "Under Cold Blue Stars" comic, and a box of tissues.

Oh, I get it. I would LOVE that! Actually, I would love any rerelease of G1 toys containing smaller figures like Headmasters and pretenders. I am kinda tired of going to cons to only find a bunch of cheap pretender shells and headless headmaster bodies.

Although, as you say scotty, its all wishful thinking. I really think that the reason rewind isnt there is because he wasnt there in the last "lazy" reissue and they just redid it for whatever reasons they had last time. This is a rushjob of another rushjob.

Then again, that Trypticon rerelease was a total surprise.