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Emerje wrote:Brokebot wrote:DeathReviews wrote:I'll be saving a bundle NOT buying this one. The rest of you collectors, have at it! I just don't see the lure...
Yeah, same here. $15 -$25 MAYBE for the novelty of it, but honestly it's a pretty ugly figure compared to other ones out there.
There are no other ones out there if you're going for the G1 toy aesthetic. For anyone that collects vintage G1 figures this one is some serious unfinished business.
Emerje
-Kanrabat- wrote:Emerje wrote:Brokebot wrote:DeathReviews wrote:I'll be saving a bundle NOT buying this one. The rest of you collectors, have at it! I just don't see the lure...
Yeah, same here. $15 -$25 MAYBE for the novelty of it, but honestly it's a pretty ugly figure compared to other ones out there.
There are no other ones out there if you're going for the G1 toy aesthetic. For anyone that collects vintage G1 figures this one is some serious unfinished business.
Emerje
Maybe he meant "3rd party," but I found them to be quite redundant. That TRUE G1 Arcee is something original.
Also, I do hope that Prototype G1 Unicron will have the ML treatment. Even if I have to pay Titan prices for it.
The ACTUAL Arcee prototype was made of styrofoam.Brokebot wrote:If you could get your hands on the ACTUAL Arcee prototype, now THAT would be a definite score.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
-Kanrabat- wrote:Even if I have to pay Titan prices for it.
Sabrblade wrote:The ACTUAL Arcee prototype was made of styrofoam.Brokebot wrote:If you could get your hands on the ACTUAL Arcee prototype, now THAT would be a definite score.
megatran wrote:Missing Link Anime Bee & Cliff 2-pack (C-09) displayed at Shizuoka Hobby Show (Japan) this week.
Boy, I hope the broken ankle/leg issue has been remedied.
Still no Destron. *sigh*
chuckdawg1999 wrote:megatran wrote:Missing Link Anime Bee & Cliff 2-pack (C-09) displayed at Shizuoka Hobby Show (Japan) this week.
Boy, I hope the broken ankle/leg issue has been remedied.
Still no Destron. *sigh*
What issue?
megatran wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:megatran wrote:Missing Link Anime Bee & Cliff 2-pack (C-09) displayed at Shizuoka Hobby Show (Japan) this week.
Boy, I hope the broken ankle/leg issue has been remedied.
Still no Destron. *sigh*
What issue?
In giving ML Toy version Bumble & Cliff articulated legs, the ankle circular joint was prone to break when transforming or trying articulated poses.
megatran wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:megatran wrote:Missing Link Anime Bee & Cliff 2-pack (C-09) displayed at Shizuoka Hobby Show (Japan) this week.
Boy, I hope the broken ankle/leg issue has been remedied.
Still no Destron. *sigh*
What issue?
In giving ML Toy version Bumble & Cliff articulated legs, the ankle circular joint was prone to break when transforming or trying articulated poses.
Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:megatran wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:megatran wrote:Missing Link Anime Bee & Cliff 2-pack (C-09) displayed at Shizuoka Hobby Show (Japan) this week.
Boy, I hope the broken ankle/leg issue has been remedied.
Still no Destron. *sigh*
What issue?
In giving ML Toy version Bumble & Cliff articulated legs, the ankle circular joint was prone to break when transforming or trying articulated poses.
Glad I've been careful with mine. No stressing from the looks of it but when I first transformed them I thought "oh yeah, that's a problem spot!"
It's funny you bring this up. Over in Japan, it's actually not very common for toys of villains to get released in children's toylines. When Transformers was first released in Japan, it was actually quite startling to them how many bad-guy toys there were in the range. Oftentimes, Japanese-original toylines will either release only a small few or even zero bad-guy toys at all, because it's the heroes that Japan wants kids to get into and admire, promoting them as good role models so that kids can grow up to become respectable and productive members of society. Bad guys are a bad influence, so they get little to no toys.megatran wrote:Where are the Destrons, Takara?
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:It's funny you bring this up. Over in Japan, it's actually not very common for toys of villains to get released in children's toylines. When Transformers was first released in Japan, it was actually quite startling to them how many bad-guy toys there were in the range. Oftentimes, Japanese-original toylines will either release only a small few or even zero bad-guy toys at all, because it's the heroes that Japan wants kids to get into and admire, promoting them as good role models so that kids can grow up to become respectable and productive members of society. Bad guys are a bad influence, so they get little to no toys.megatran wrote:Where are the Destrons, Takara?
In the case of Missing Link, since it is a Transformers line, it's still in its infancy as a line, so starting off with a bunch of good guy toys is a much safer bet for the line to succeed in Japan. Bad guy toys may still come, but figuring out ways to give articulation to a lot of those old Diaclone and Micro Change toys is pretty tricky. A good starting point for the villains would be Soundwave, since his G1 toy already had some good articulation, so I'd expect to see him released first. What's stopping his release, however, may be his cassette minions, as figuring out how to increase their articulation may be the real difficulty and you just know fans would complain if Soundwave didn't come with at least one of his cassettes.
ScottyP wrote:Heads up if anyone was waiting on HLJ to process their preorder for Sunstreaker and Cordon - they don't even have them yet. I recommend canceling your order for them there and grabbing from somewhere like Amazon Japan while there are still a handful available, or just wait for the stateside e-tailers to get them.
Sabrblade wrote:It's funny you bring this up. Over in Japan, it's actually not very common for toys of villains to get released in children's toylines. When Transformers was first released in Japan, it was actually quite startling to them how many bad-guy toys there were in the range. Oftentimes, Japanese-original toylines will either release only a small few or even zero bad-guy toys at all, because it's the heroes that Japan wants kids to get into and admire, promoting them as good role models so that kids can grow up to become respectable and productive members of society. Bad guys are a bad influence, so they get little to no toys.megatran wrote:Where are the Destrons, Takara?
In the case of Missing Link, since it is a Transformers line, it's still in its infancy as a line, so starting off with a bunch of good guy toys is a much safer bet for the line to succeed in Japan. Bad guy toys may still come, but figuring out ways to give articulation to a lot of those old Diaclone and Micro Change toys is pretty tricky. A good starting point for the villains would be Soundwave, since his G1 toy already had some good articulation, so I'd expect to see him released first. What's stopping his release, however, may be his cassette minions, as figuring out how to increase their articulation may be the real difficulty and you just know fans would complain if Soundwave didn't come with at least one of his cassettes.
ScottyP wrote:Heads up if anyone was waiting on HLJ to process their preorder for Sunstreaker and Cordon - they don't even have them yet. I recommend canceling your order for them there and grabbing from somewhere like Amazon Japan while there are still a handful available, or just wait for the stateside e-tailers to get them.
Only on items that are considered eligible.megatran wrote:ScottyP wrote:Heads up if anyone was waiting on HLJ to process their preorder for Sunstreaker and Cordon - they don't even have them yet. I recommend canceling your order for them there and grabbing from somewhere like Amazon Japan while there are still a handful available, or just wait for the stateside e-tailers to get them.
Does Amazon Japan ship to US?
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Only on items that are considered eligible.megatran wrote:ScottyP wrote:Heads up if anyone was waiting on HLJ to process their preorder for Sunstreaker and Cordon - they don't even have them yet. I recommend canceling your order for them there and grabbing from somewhere like Amazon Japan while there are still a handful available, or just wait for the stateside e-tailers to get them.
Does Amazon Japan ship to US?
Sabrblade wrote:Only on items that are considered eligible.megatran wrote:ScottyP wrote:Heads up if anyone was waiting on HLJ to process their preorder for Sunstreaker and Cordon - they don't even have them yet. I recommend canceling your order for them there and grabbing from somewhere like Amazon Japan while there are still a handful available, or just wait for the stateside e-tailers to get them.
Does Amazon Japan ship to US?
I grabbed them from a third party where Amazon fulfills it, and they ended up being pretty much exactly the same price they would have been on HLJ. If those are also gone now, then sure, may not be the best choice any longer.chuckdawg1999 wrote:Amazon Japan only has stock from third party retailers right now.
Varies by item. If Amazon themselves is the seller, or if it's a third party seller where Amazon fulfills, things usually do, but not always. I don't have any idea what the criteria is.megatran wrote:ScottyP wrote:Heads up if anyone was waiting on HLJ to process their preorder for Sunstreaker and Cordon - they don't even have them yet. I recommend canceling your order for them there and grabbing from somewhere like Amazon Japan while there are still a handful available, or just wait for the stateside e-tailers to get them.
Does Amazon Japan ship to US?
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