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News Credits: 4880 · Mon Dec 21, 2015 9:50 am

Dammit Japan, you really dont want us to forget for one second that you have a deluxe groove?!

News Credits: 1646 · Mon Dec 21, 2015 11:09 am

1) Fracture is beautiful, but equal to hasbro in my opinion, so no matter which option you go with you will win here!

2) Poor Groove. can't get anyone off his back for too long

Mon Dec 21, 2015 11:39 am

william-james88 wrote:Dammit Japan, you really dont want us to forget for one second that you have a deluxe groove?!

"Oh, you want Deluxe Groove as a mass market release? Well why didn't you say so? I'll just make him a Japanese mall exclusive that you can only get in a bundle and NEVER use his mold again.

That way, everyone wins! Right?"

News Credits: 174 · Mon Dec 21, 2015 12:57 pm

Shuttershock wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Dammit Japan, you really dont want us to forget for one second that you have a deluxe groove?!

"Oh, you want Deluxe Groove as a mass market release? Well why didn't you say so? I'll just make him a Japanese mall exclusive that you can only get in a bundle and NEVER use his mold again.

That way, everyone wins! Right?"

That's something I'd have expected from hasbro, not TT [-(

Mon Dec 21, 2015 1:03 pm

Hellscream9999 wrote:
Shuttershock wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Dammit Japan, you really dont want us to forget for one second that you have a deluxe groove?!

"Oh, you want Deluxe Groove as a mass market release? Well why didn't you say so? I'll just make him a Japanese mall exclusive that you can only get in a bundle and NEVER use his mold again.

That way, everyone wins! Right?"

That's something I'd have expected from hasbro, not TT

My question is does Takara make the kind of money to afford building one-use molds just to appease collector's. I know there's a mark up on it but come on!

News Credits: 174 · Mon Dec 21, 2015 1:14 pm

Shuttershock wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:
Shuttershock wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Dammit Japan, you really dont want us to forget for one second that you have a deluxe groove?!

"Oh, you want Deluxe Groove as a mass market release? Well why didn't you say so? I'll just make him a Japanese mall exclusive that you can only get in a bundle and NEVER use his mold again.

That way, everyone wins! Right?"

That's something I'd have expected from hasbro, not TT

My question is does Takara make the kind of money to afford building one-use molds just to appease collector's. I know there's a mark up on it but come on!

Probably enough to break even, they don't seem as bent on profiteering from their consumers as hasbro does.

News Credits: 4880 · Mon Dec 21, 2015 1:38 pm

Shuttershock wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:
Shuttershock wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Dammit Japan, you really dont want us to forget for one second that you have a deluxe groove?!

"Oh, you want Deluxe Groove as a mass market release? Well why didn't you say so? I'll just make him a Japanese mall exclusive that you can only get in a bundle and NEVER use his mold again.

That way, everyone wins! Right?"

That's something I'd have expected from hasbro, not TT

My question is does Takara make the kind of money to afford building one-use molds just to appease collector's. I know there's a mark up on it but come on!

I dont see how they can. Their other in house designs for TAV are mass market.

So it could be that Hellscream9999 is right and that this isn't just TT but a Hasbro decision... Hasbro Asia. Hasbro Asia makes a nice little markup on Takara Tomy exclusives which it distributes across asia and retailers worldwide. By having TT make it an exclusive in Japan, people outside Japan cannot get this item (at least as easily) and are stuck getting the Hasbro Asia version. It is not hard to wonder if for the higher tcket items (sice it is becoming quite the trend, especially with the Masterpeice toys), the distribution contracts they already have (since TT toys are sold in Hong Kong TRUs through Hasbro Asia) have some new/extra clauses where certain items must be exclusive in Japan.

So in the end, it may be due to agreements with Hasbro Asia that these TT toys are exclusive.

News Credits: 12 · Mon Dec 21, 2015 3:09 pm

Wow, Fracture looks beautiful. I'm seriously contemplating getting him.

You know what I'd love to see though? A retool of him as Animated Oil Slick. I mean yes, the original toy is perfect as is, but more Animated homages are always welcome.

News Credits: 174 · Mon Dec 21, 2015 3:21 pm

Delta Magnus wrote:Wow, Fracture looks beautiful. I'm seriously contemplating getting him.

You know what I'd love to see though? A retool of him as Animated Oil Slick. I mean yes, the original toy is perfect as is, but more Animated homages are always welcome.

The originals' shoulders are too restricted, and I would get a retool of rid fracture as oilslick; he's great, you should get a version of him (for once hasbro's is show accurate >:oP

)

Mon Dec 21, 2015 4:38 pm

I still plan on doing this at some point:

News Credits: 462 · Mon Dec 21, 2015 10:27 pm

Shuttershock wrote:I still plan on doing this at some point:

News Credits: 1646 · Tue Dec 22, 2015 7:34 pm

Delta Magnus wrote:Wow, Fracture looks beautiful. I'm seriously contemplating getting him.

You know what I'd love to see though? A retool of him as Animated Oil Slick. I mean yes, the original toy is perfect as is, but more Animated homages are always welcome.

Animated oil slick is really not that bad an idea. And if it is cheaper, I would strongly recommend hasbro Fracture if it is cheaper. That one is just as good as the takara one

News Credits: 174 · Thu Dec 24, 2015 8:16 pm

TAV Megatronus pics, he looks pretty nice...

Link cuz pics aren't working :HEADHURTS:

News Credits: 131 · Thu Dec 24, 2015 8:20 pm

TAV Megatronus looks like they pulled the best bits from the two Hasbrah releases.

Maybe I will finally get a Tak figure from the RID line.

News Credits: 60 · Thu Dec 24, 2015 11:40 pm

Megatronus

News Credits: 174 · Thu Dec 24, 2015 11:53 pm

fenrir72 wrote:Megatronus

He does look quite nice 8-)

News Credits: 174 · Fri Dec 25, 2015 12:19 am

Fellow Seibertronians, hot on the heels of TAV Fracture being revealed, below you will find, courtesy of Amazon Japan, the first full color stock images for:

Takara Transformers Adventure TAV37 Megatoronus
Takara Transformers Adventure TED18 Big Drift
Takara Transformers Adventure TED19 Spring Load

They are all to be released February 27.

So what do think of these newest additions to the TAV/TED line? Is Srpingload worth getting to you? Do you like TAV Megatronus more than either of Hasbro's offerings? Let us know what you think of these on the boards.

News Credits: 60 · Fri Dec 25, 2015 1:28 am

Hellscream9999 wrote:Fellow Seibertronians, hot on the heels of TAV Fracture being revealed, below you will find, courtesy of Amazon Japan, the first full color stock images for:

Takara Transformers Adventure TAV37 Megatoronus
Takara Transformers Adventure TED18 Big Drift
Takara Transformers Adventure TED19 Spring Load

They are all to be released February 27.

So what do think of these newest additions to the TAV/TED line? Is Srpingload worth getting to you? Do you like TAV Megatronus more than either of Hasbro's offerings? Let us know what you think of these on the boards.

That frog dude is one UgghLEEE mother marie! :lol:

Btw, how tall is this guy? Megatronus? As tall as the TT Optimus?

Amiami is up too.

http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail ... agecnt%3D1

News Credits: 174 · Fri Dec 25, 2015 1:34 am

fenrir72 wrote:That frog dude is one UgghLEEE mother marie!

Btw, how tall is this guy? Megatronus? As tall as the TT Optimus?

Amiami is up too.

http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail ... agecnt%3D1

How tall is who?

News Credits: 462 · Fri Dec 25, 2015 1:57 am

fenrir72 wrote:Btw, how tall is this guy? Megatronus? As tall as the TT Optimus?

Warrior class molds are Deluxe class-sized.

News Credits: 60 · Fri Dec 25, 2015 2:11 am

Sabrblade wrote:
fenrir72 wrote:Btw, how tall is this guy? Megatronus? As tall as the TT Optimus?
Warrior class molds are Deluxe class-sized.

So if I try to re-enact his battle with the TT longpants Optimus, he'd be just reaching his (Optimus') waiste then?

Thanks.

News Credits: 1646 · Tue Dec 29, 2015 11:10 am

Holy cows. They did an awesome job with Megs deco. Drift looks awesome. And yo that Springload!!!! I loved the hasbro version but that is just over the top!!!

News Credits: 4880 · Tue Dec 29, 2015 11:22 am

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Holy cows. They did an awesome job with Megs deco. Drift looks awesome. And yo that Springload!!!! I loved the hasbro version but that is just over the top!!!

Yeah that springload is just something else!

News Credits: 1646 · Tue Dec 29, 2015 11:45 am

william-james88 wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Holy cows. They did an awesome job with Megs deco. Drift looks awesome. And yo that Springload!!!! I loved the hasbro version but that is just over the top!!!

Yeah that springload is just something else!

I love my hasbro one. It is my favorite 1-step to date!! And these colors just bring it out soooooooooo well!

News Credits: 4880 · Thu Dec 31, 2015 9:42 am

Seibertron's Japan correspondent Matt from Japan has just picked up the recently released Transformers Adventures TAV 35 Autobots VS Decepticons set, which should be shipping out now from online retailers. He found this set of four legion class figures at Toysrus for ¥3,499 (which is 29$ US for all four and 7.25$ US each which is the SAME price the Hasbro counterparts sell for in the west). This set includes the Takara versions of Robots in Disguise legion class Optimus, Underbite, Grimlock and Steeljaw.

What is most bizarre though is that at first it seemed like you had to stick those app stickers yourself. There are molded indents on the figures and the faction symbols are found on a separate sheet.

This is what Matt has to say:

While each figure clearly has a space for a faction symbol sticker, they are not stickers at all. The faction symbols are printed on the paper and meant to be scanned individually. The instructions also say nothing about stickers. Guess you gotta get your own?

Matt from Japan

Curiouser and curiouser. In any case, enjoy the photos Matt sent us!