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News Credits: 4877 · Fri Sep 30, 2016 3:06 pm

Arent the top of Starscream's shoulders supposed to be blue?

News Credits: 462 · Fri Sep 30, 2016 5:09 pm

william-james88 wrote:Arent the top of Starscream's shoulders supposed to be blue?

They look gray to me in that pic.

Keep in mind that whole image is blue-tinted given it's from a recording of a recording, so everything in it has a blue hue to it.

News Credits: 4877 · Wed Oct 05, 2016 2:47 pm

Fellow Seibertronian Chuckdawg has gotten his mits on Takara's Transformers Adventure TAV 56 Nemesis Prime. Below are his thoughts on the figure which he compared to the Clash of the Transformers vesion.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Nemesis Prime is a fantastic repaint of the Clash of the Transformers, Power Surge Optimus Prime, itself a retool of the Warrior Class Optimus Prime figure. The black and silver pops on the figure thanks to the teal highlights. The mold features a great cross play pattern with the weapons. If you can only get one, either US version is great, but if you can get two, Nemesis Prime is worth the price.

News Credits: 11 · Wed Oct 05, 2016 3:33 pm

I sort of wish he'd had a red blade on his axe - what colour was the axe on the previous one ?

News Credits: 4877 · Wed Oct 05, 2016 4:15 pm

RAR wrote:I sort of wish he'd had a red blade on his axe - what colour was the axe on the previous one ?

Exactly that, a red blade:

I gues they wanted to give a different weapon colour than before since it would be the same weapon again

News Credits: 11 · Thu Oct 06, 2016 2:27 pm

I really must buy both kinds of Nemesis & Voyager sized Former Prime darker blue Ultra Magnus sometime... They keep slipping my mind though.

News Credits: 6188 · Sat Oct 08, 2016 3:20 am

Fellow Transformers fan kyano13neo on Twitter was able to acquire a handful (yes, really) of Toys'R'Us Japan Takara Tomy exclusive TAV Optimus Prime figures, revealed last month, with the retailer specific deco and naming - made to look similar to the shop's Jeffrey the giraffe mascotte - and shared image of the figure for all to see! Included below are comparisons with the previous, Legion class, version of the toy, some fan modes, shots of the robot and vehicle mode, and a look at the bio.

News Credits: 11 · Sat Oct 08, 2016 3:31 am

Just as I thought: no real noticable differences between the original fig and the mass-released version. I will stick with the original, then.

Sat Oct 08, 2016 6:33 am

the team who did the color scheme were probably Toqger fans. :???:

Sat Oct 08, 2016 2:27 pm

I dearly hope this gets repurposed as SG Longrack.

News Credits: 4877 · Sat Oct 08, 2016 2:50 pm

Microraptor wrote:I dearly hope this gets repurposed as SG Longrack.

News Credits: 4877 · Sat Oct 15, 2016 8:13 am

Like last year, Toysrus Japan will also have the Clash of the Transformers Adventure figures found in the west. All three are currently listed on Japan's Toysrus website and include the white redeco of Power Surge Optimus Prime, Starscream and Scavenger (Paralon). They are 2,299 yen each. As you will notice, this is the second version of Starscream available in Japan and while we do not know if that means Hasbro will also have a different mainline Starscream release, it is important to remember that the same thing happened last year with Takara offering a different Supreme Mode Bumblebee aside from the one available exclusively at Toysrus.

News Credits: 462 · Sat Oct 15, 2016 8:58 am

Weird how they changed Paralon's name to the name of his group. I guess it was a part of a mistranslation in the Japanese thinking that Paralon being called "a scavenger" referred to his name instead of what kind of person he is. Hope they don't make the same mistake with the rest of his group should more of them besides Scatterspike get Adventure toys.

News Credits: 241 · Sat Oct 15, 2016 11:07 am

Sabrblade wrote:Weird how they changed Paralon's name to the name of his group. I guess it was a part of a mistranslation in the Japanese think that Paralon being called "a scavenger" referred to his name instead of what kind of person he is. Hope they don't make the same mistake with the rest of his group should more of them besides Scatterspike get Adventure toys.

On a hunch I decided to Google パラロン pararon and I'm getting some interesting results, like one relating to a Multi-Sport event called パラロン・パンバンサpararon panbansa and 全国パラロン・ケミアスルーフ防水工事業協同組合 zenkoku pararon kemiasurūfu bōsui kōji-gyō kyōdō kumiai, a roofing contractor company. Trademarks shouldn't be that much of a problem since they're not in Toys & Games, but still... Most results referred to our Paralon though, from blogs who got the US version first.

News Credits: 191 · Sat Oct 15, 2016 3:02 pm

This makes me kinda sad.

Like, they haven't randomly borrowed a toy from another toyline like Generations Skrapnel or Animated Swoop since Wave 8. C'mon Takara, that was half the fun of this!

News Credits: 241 · Sat Oct 15, 2016 3:22 pm

Kurona wrote:This makes me kinda sad.

Like, they haven't randomly borrowed a toy from another toyline like Generations Skrapnel or Animated Swoop since Wave 8. C'mon Takara, that was half the fun of this!

TAV30 Battle Grimlock, TAV31 Black Shadow, TAV32 Rumble & Frenzy, and TAV VS-SP Dogfight vs. Decepticon Runamuck were the last ones, huh? I guess the line no longer needed bolstering, and the Legends Class figures now have a place in Legends.

For what it's worth, it did cut down the list of unused toolings to this:

- Gears
- Huffer
- Chop Shop
- Windcharger
- Warpath
- Wreck-Gar

- Goldfire
- Dreadwing
- Jhiaxus
- Crosscut

- Starscream (Leader)

News Credits: 191 · Sat Oct 15, 2016 3:27 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Kurona wrote:This makes me kinda sad.

Like, they haven't randomly borrowed a toy from another toyline like Generations Skrapnel or Animated Swoop since Wave 8. C'mon Takara, that was half the fun of this!

TAV30 Battle Grimlock, TAV31 Black Shadow, TAV32 Rumble & Frenzy, and TAV VS-SP Dogfight vs. Decepticon Runamuck were the last ones, huh? I guess the line no longer needed bolstering, and the Legends Class figures now have a place in Legends.

For what it's worth, it did cut down the list of unused toolings to this:

- Gears
- Huffer
- Chop Shop
- Windcharger
- Warpath
- Wreck-Gar

- Goldfire
- Dreadwing
- Jhiaxus
- Crosscut

- Starscream (Leader)

A lot of those make sense to me; but I'm surprised they didn't go for Gears, Windcharger and Crosscut since those are retools that happened with the original toys too. Then again, they've only just released Skids recently, so maybe we'll see Crosscut from them soon?

News Credits: 656 · Sun Oct 16, 2016 8:03 pm

Something about organizing Takara products into "waves" makes me twitchy. They release stuff each month, on a somewhat consistent day. That is, generally speaking, not how the "wave" distribution model works.

News Credits: 191 · Sun Oct 16, 2016 8:26 pm

ScottyP wrote:Something about organizing Takara products into "waves" makes me twitchy. They release stuff each month, on a somewhat consistent day. That is, generally speaking, not how the "wave" distribution model works.

Well... since October 2015 then.

News Credits: 332 · Mon Oct 17, 2016 1:10 am

That TRU Prime is nice, but not $45 US nice. Here's a look at the Takara Windblade, overall a better figure, but I was surprised Hasbro went further with the sword.

News Credits: 4877 · Mon Oct 17, 2016 9:32 am

chuckdawg1999 wrote:That TRU Prime is nice, but not $45 US nice. Here's a look at the Takara Windblade, overall a better figure, but I was surprised Hasbro went further with the sword.

That TRU prime is only expensive because BBTs hadto buy it off someone who bought it at TRU in japan. The price is more represetative of their hassel to get it than what the toy is actually worth.

Also what do you mean hasbro went further with the sword, they just left is all in black:

It you are comparing it to the SDCC exclusive, then I dont get the point since they are totally different versions and one is a premium exclusive being compared to a standard retail takara release. The only fair comparison to make is with the actual Hasbro Warrior toy whichw as also a standard retail release.

News Credits: 332 · Fri Oct 21, 2016 12:04 am

Yes I am since that's the version in the video, and I feel it's a fair comparison since the SDCC version and the Takara version go for roughly the same amount.

News Credits: 191 · Fri Oct 21, 2016 12:22 am

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Yes I am since that's the version in the video, and I feel it's a fair comparison since the SDCC version and the Takara version go for roughly the same amount.

But... they're not going for the same thing. If someone wants a Windblade accurate to the show - or, for that matter, the comics - they're certainly not going to get the SDCC version. It's a bit like saying "Well, I know some of you are on the fence on which version of Starscream to get; Hasbro or Takara... so to compare to Takara's Starscream, here's Hasbro's Thundercracker".
I get where you're coming from, but the two figures are trying to accomplish two very different things.

News Credits: 332 · Fri Oct 21, 2016 1:21 am

Kurona wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Yes I am since that's the version in the video, and I feel it's a fair comparison since the SDCC version and the Takara version go for roughly the same amount.

But... they're not going for the same thing. If someone wants a Windblade accurate to the show - or, for that matter, the comics - they're certainly not going to get the SDCC version. It's a bit like saying "Well, I know some of you are on the fence on which version of Starscream to get; Hasbro or Takara... so to compare to Takara's Starscream, here's Hasbro's Thundercracker".
I get where you're coming from, but the two figures are trying to accomplish two very different things.

But I'm talking about the swords, and that if Hasbro wanted to they could've done something really nice for RID Windblade. Also, who says that Windblade isn't going to show up in season whateverthey'recallingitnow of RID in those colors?

News Credits: 191 · Fri Oct 21, 2016 1:32 am

chuckdawg1999 wrote:
Kurona wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Yes I am since that's the version in the video, and I feel it's a fair comparison since the SDCC version and the Takara version go for roughly the same amount.

But... they're not going for the same thing. If someone wants a Windblade accurate to the show - or, for that matter, the comics - they're certainly not going to get the SDCC version. It's a bit like saying "Well, I know some of you are on the fence on which version of Starscream to get; Hasbro or Takara... so to compare to Takara's Starscream, here's Hasbro's Thundercracker".
I get where you're coming from, but the two figures are trying to accomplish two very different things.

But I'm talking about the swords, and that if Hasbro wanted to they could've done something really nice for RID Windblade. Also, who says that Windblade isn't going to show up in season whateverthey'recallingitnow of RID in those colors?

Probably the fact this is a Generations boxset rather than an RiD one. And also that it's an SDCC exclusive which is most certainly not marketed towards children hence would make no sense to put on the show.
But on the small chance she does, that's when it'd be relevant; not now. And even then the comparison still wouldn't be apt, because if you wanted a representation of those colours, you certainly wouldn't go Takara.