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News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 9:55 am

TFyuki's never ending Twitter feed brings us some more Transformers Adventure figures. For today's sampling we get to see TAV-02 Grimlock and TAV-05 Fixit, but MP-24 Starsaber was strangely absent. Don't be confused by Takara Tomy's TAV designation for Fixit though. Hasbro's Fixit is actually from the 1-Step line while Grimlock is a Warrior Class figure. Keep scrolling to see the images, and stay tuned to Seibertron.com for all your Transformers News!

News Credits: 4503 · by **william-james88** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 10:09 am

shajaki wrote:

The differences for Strongarm were very apparent but I dont see any for Grimlock.

News Credits: 438 · by **Sabrblade** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 10:33 am

I actually feel that Hasbro's Fixit has the more show-accurate colors. Deeper orange and light gray, instead of the lighter orange and dark gray seen here.

william-james88 wrote:The differences for Strongarm were very apparent but I dont see any for Grimlock.

Yeah, Grimlock's differences are extremely minor. His dino mode eyebrows and toes are painted black like in the cartoon, whereas the Hasbro toy left both unpainted.

News Credits: 668 · by **Autobot032** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 2:36 pm

Ugh. The Takara versions give you nothing over the Hasbro ones, especially on Fixit. I think Fixit looks better with silver, instead of black, plastic. Grimlock...maybe it's just me, but I'm not seeing a single change at first glance...

It's actually worth it to save the money and just buy domestic, here in the States. =\

News Credits: 4503 · by **william-james88** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 2:59 pm

Autobot032 wrote:Ugh. The Takara versions give you nothing over the Hasbro ones, especially on Fixit. I think Fixit looks better with silver, instead of black, plastic. Grimlock...maybe it's just me, but I'm not seeing a single change at first glance...

It's actually worth it to save the money and just buy domestic, here in the States. =\

One thing you might not have noticed, if you will look at the beast mode feet, the toe nails are painted black on the takara while left unpainted on the hasbro one. If you did notice, then sorry.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 3:02 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Autobot032 wrote:Ugh. The Takara versions give you nothing over the Hasbro ones, especially on Fixit. I think Fixit looks better with silver, instead of black, plastic. Grimlock...maybe it's just me, but I'm not seeing a single change at first glance...

It's actually worth it to save the money and just buy domestic, here in the States. =\

One thing you might not have noticed, iif you will look at the beast mode feet, the toe nails are painted black on the takara while left unpainted on the hasbro one. If you did notice, then sorry.

The key difference between the Hasbro and TakaraTomy versions lies in the symbols used for the Apps: Hasbro's use only two colors, while TakaraTomy's have a few more. The Grimlocks shown are both TakaraTomy: you just can't see the black dino toes because they aim backwards in robot mode (the lower arms turn 180).

News Credits: 438 · by **Sabrblade** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 7:15 pm

Sabrblade wrote:His dino mode eyebrows and toes are painted black like in the cartoon, whereas the Hasbro toy left both unpainted.

by **Mechafei** » Mon Mar 16, 2015 12:54 pm

Look at those white stressmarks on the arms, you just know they're about to explode :-?

News Credits: 461 · by **mooncake623** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 7:29 am

March 21st will be a busy day for Takara Tomy in Japan. With Masterpiece Star Saber and Exhaust Cloud Hellwarp and Roadbuster and the first wave of Transformers Adventure all due to be released on the same day! And thanks to Hisashi Yuki we get some new in package photos of Transformers Adventure Wave 1! Check out the images we've mirrored below and keep your eyes peel for those instock emails from your online retailer of choice!

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News Credits: 6 · by **Jones** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 8:44 am

That's a messed up name, right there.

News Credits: 438 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 8:47 am

Jones wrote:

Wait, why did they change they change the parsing of "Knock Out" to "Knockout"? They left it alone for "Medic Knock Out", so why the change for "Bloody Knockout"?

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 8:52 am

Bloody Knockout!? That is messed up!
Is he a repaint a Beast Hunters version of Knockout? Didn't know there was a BH version. As a big fan of Bluestreak, this paint job is really doing it for me. Might have to scoop this one up.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 9:19 am

Mechafei wrote:Look at those white stressmarks on the arms, you just know they're about to explode

Those aren't stress marks: they are exposed catches for the soft ratchet joints. I just found out about them when looking at RID 2015 Grimlock in packaging, and having them exposed may have been a bad idea. I've seen multiple reports on the catches detaching or breaking, leaving Grimlock with a limp arm.

Jones wrote:

That's a messed up name, right there.

Well, he was the Decepticon Medic, and you know how mad doctors can get at times

Doesn't stop me from wanting him, I've been waiting for BH retool redecos that don't look like the original figure with new armor parts (looking at you, Ratchet).
With Ultra Magnus on the way later, that only leaves Sharkticon Megatron and Prowl.

Sabrblade wrote:Wait, why did they change they change the parsing of "Knock Out" to "Knockout"? They left it alone for "Medic Knock Out", so why the change for "Bloody Knockout"?

Mistake? What counts is that the name in Kana remains the same. Japanese uses no spaces between words in the same sentence, it's a long string of characters and kana, so it's up to the reader himself to discern the words. The only exception is the "forced space", denoted by ".", but it's usually only used for "the" which is a single kana (ザ za).

News Credits: 3554 · by **Seibertron** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 9:54 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Those aren't stress marks: they are exposed catches for the soft ratchet joints. I just found out about them when looking at RID 2015 Grimlock in packaging, and having them exposed may have been a bad idea. I've seen multiple reports on the catches detaching or breaking, leaving Grimlock with a limp arm.

I fixed two RID 2015 Deluxe Grimlocks by removing the pins in the elbow joint, removing the catch, applying super glue to the bottom of the catch to get the piece to stay attached inside his upper forearm, reassembling the figure, and problem solved! I should get another one to do a preventative repair video.

News Credits: 41 · by **Cobotron** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 10:14 am

Seibertron wrote: I should get another one to do a preventative repair video.

That would be helpful and AWESOME! Yes, please, and thank you.

Website · by **STngAR** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 2:22 pm

After seeing the out of package Knockout, I'm starting to dislike that RID sticker

:MAXIMAL:

by **kaijuguy19** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 2:50 pm

I hope we can get a closer look into the packages for TF Adventure Swoop and Slag/Slug because I love how despite they have the Animated designs they way they're drawn and painted in different colours reallt make them feel like they belong into the world RID15/TF Adventure. Knockout and Dreadwing's art looks cool too.

I can imagine how the upcoming TF Adventure Lockdown's packaging art will look like.

News Credits: 438 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 3:10 pm

Ladies and gentleman, after all these years, we finally have an official English spelling for the name "Greejeeber". :-B

Behold:

https://twitter.com/Alfes2010/status/578448925423636480

https://twitter.com/Alfes2010/status/578449265694900224

"GREGEVOR" #-o

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 3:32 pm

Gregevor... that's one way of translating the name グリジバー (gurijibā). For all it's worth, it looks better than "Greejeeber", but it loses the pun ("Green Jeep"). Apparently it flew by the translator as well. :lol:

Take note the translation only goes for the RID 2015 one, not RID Rollbar whose Japanese name is the same, but was never properly romanised.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 4:50 pm

Sabrblade wrote:"GREGEVOR"

Is his primary function "Greg Sepelak eater"?

I can't quite tell from pics I've seen, is the art trying to make the Strongarm mold look male for Greejeeber? I had just assumed it was a female take on the character.

Emerje

News Credits: 438 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 5:05 pm

Emerje wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:"GREGEVOR"

Is his primary function "Greg Sepelak eater"?

I can't quite tell from pics I've seen, is the art trying to make the Strongarm mold look male for Greejeeber? I had just assumed it was a female take on the character.

Emerje

Until we get its bio, there's no telling which gender Gregevor is supposed to be. *shrug*

News Credits: 4503 · by **william-james88** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 10:41 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Ladies and gentleman, after all these years, we finally have an official English spelling for the name "Greejeeber".

"GREGEVOR"

Care to explain? I dont get the history part of it or why it wasnt official before.

News Credits: 317 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Thu Mar 19, 2015 11:22 pm

Wow. Thought Roadbuster was released long time ago. I wonder when BBTS will get their stock in

by **noctorro** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 7:38 am

Jones wrote:

That's a messed up name, right there.

Holy Smack Jones!
I'm making it amission to get him just for that package!

by **noctorro** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 7:41 am

Sabrblade wrote:Ladies and gentleman, after all these years, we finally have an official English spelling for the name "Greejeeber".

Behold:

https://twitter.com/Alfes2010/status/578448925423636480

https://twitter.com/Alfes2010/status/578449265694900224

"GREGEVOR"

I hope the next Transformers's called "ERMEGHERD"