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News Credits: 13 · by **steals_your_goats** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 1:45 am

Are... Are you **** kidding me? Did you not read a single word I wrote??

News Credits: 13 · by **steals_your_goats** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 1:56 am

william-james88 wrote:Guys, just putting it out there, the takara version is not always the most collectable. For Combiner Wars/Unite Warriors, it seems a full combiner from either company goes for as much on the secondary market with takara usually being cheaper to get out of the two just because Hasbro didnt reales them all together.

Are they though? I just did a quick eBay search and the Takara sets seem to be $30-50 more than the Hasbro ones with the exception really being Memasor. Not trying to argue just curious where they're similar prices because I'm looking for a convoy grand prime for a decent price

News Credits: 4856 · by **william-james88** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 10:16 am

steals_your_goats wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Guys, just putting it out there, the takara version is not always the most collectable. For Combiner Wars/Unite Warriors, it seems a full combiner from either company goes for as much on the secondary market with takara usually being cheaper to get out of the two just because Hasbro didnt reales them all together.

Are they though? I just did a quick eBay search and the Takara sets seem to be $30-50 more than the Hasbro ones with the exception really being Menasor. Not trying to argue just curious where they're similar prices because I'm looking for a convoy grand prime for a decent price

You have to compare apples to apples. Grand Convoy, grand Galvatron, and a few others were exclusives so the only way to get them was through the hasbro asia version which was priced higher.

Menasor was a standard release hence why he is the same price and its those I was referring to. And I dont know how you compared for superion since I cant find any listings to get a hasbro superion all at once.

News Credits: 13 · by **steals_your_goats** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 10:54 am

william-james88 wrote:
steals_your_goats wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Guys, just putting it out there, the takara version is not always the most collectable. For Combiner Wars/Unite Warriors, it seems a full combiner from either company goes for as much on the secondary market with takara usually being cheaper to get out of the two just because Hasbro didnt reales them all together.

Are they though? I just did a quick eBay search and the Takara sets seem to be $30-50 more than the Hasbro ones with the exception really being Menasor. Not trying to argue just curious where they're similar prices because I'm looking for a convoy grand prime for a decent price

You have to compare apples to apples. Grand Convoy, grand Galvatron, and a few others were exclusives so the only way to get them was through the hasbro asia version which was priced higher.

Menasor was a standard release hence why he is the same price and its those I was referring to. And I dont know how you compared for superion since I cant find any listings to get a hasbro superion all at once.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/272599512229

http://www.ebay.com/itm/182502007684

http://www.ebay.com/itm/292051521783
All Hasbro versions and the incision of alpha bravo doesn't discredit these listings since he's the regular retail limb for Hasbro. Of course if you absolutely have to include Hasbro slingshot then the prices change but then it's not "apples to apples" since slingshot was an exclusive.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/272327889091 this is the cheapest Takara listing.

News Credits: 4856 · by **william-james88** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 12:08 pm

steals_your_goats wrote:http://www.ebay.com/itm/272327889091 this is the cheapest Takara listing.

You wouldnt count this?

http://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1030219631&ref=list

And here's a UW Bruticus for less than $70 http://jungle-scs.co.jp/sale_en/?page_id=121&id=1810108

And for you, here is a ton of Grand Prime listings starting at less than $100

http://jungle-scs.co.jp/sale_en/?page_i ... 1000052330

I really dont think the Japanese mainline ones are thus more colelctable. Any price difference stateside is still just because of shipping expenses to import. That doesnt mean the toy itself is worth more. Technically in their respective markets, the most collectable item from this whole line is Hasbro's Prime.

News Credits: 13 · by **steals_your_goats** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 1:42 pm

I had no idea those sites existed so thanks for that. I feel like collectability is one of those things that's really hard to measure since it's so subjective. Interesting discussion though ;)^

News Credits: 4856 · by **william-james88** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 7:49 pm

steals_your_goats wrote:I had no idea those sites existed so thanks for that. I feel like collectability is one of those things that's really hard to measure since it's so subjective. Interesting discussion though

Yeah, it was fun

And I am glad you know that site now, my backlog of toys to get dropped quick when I discovered it. You also get to see the price of these toys in their native japanese market and what is hot or not. Like classics toys are really expensive but animated is cheaper than when it first came out for many of them.

In the end, all I wanted to show here was that buying Takara just because its Takara doesnt mean it will be worth more later or that its more "collectable". All these Unite Warriors set are now less on that site than they were when they first came out and that can happen to Legends Trypticon too. So I say just go with your heart

Those people who bought a Hasbro's combiner wars Optimus because they liked Optimus were the real winners in the end.

News Credits: 419 · by **Bronzewolf** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 10:08 pm

We've got some new in-hand photos of LG-43 Dinosaurer, courtesy of the TakaraTomyToys twitter! (that's a mouthful!)
The new photos show the massive dino doing some finances and balancing some budgets. Who knew he was so fiscally responsible? Check out the photos below, and make sure to sound off on the boards to tell fellow Seibertronians if plan to make Dinosaurer (or Trypticon) your accountant when he comes out later this year!

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 10:35 pm

Phew, I'm glad they showed him with that calculator. It's the perfect scale to judge him against.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 10:42 pm

Kurona wrote:Phew, I'm glad they showed him with that calculator. It's the perfect scale to judge him against.

As I said before, that 10 Yen coin is roughly the size of a quarter.

News Credits: 11 · by **Nexus Knight** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 11:07 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Kurona wrote:Phew, I'm glad they showed him with that calculator. It's the perfect scale to judge him against.

As I said before, that 10 Yen coin is roughly the size of a quarter.

Let the dude be snarky, yo. :-P

This beast is amazingly beautiful. TB it's :TAKARATOMY:

's, though... never have been willing to ship overseas for a product I can get hear, cheaper.

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 11:13 pm

Nexus Knight wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Kurona wrote:Phew, I'm glad they showed him with that calculator. It's the perfect scale to judge him against.

As I said before, that 10 Yen coin is roughly the size of a quarter.

Let the dude be snarky, yo.

This beast is amazingly beautiful. TB it's 's, though... never have been willing to ship overseas for a product I can get hear, cheaper.

Not to worry; while no-one of course has it in hand yet, pictures of both the Hasbro version and the Takara version seem to show the differences between each are negligible. The biggest difference, really, is just going to be the box they're in.

News Credits: 4 · by **Relic0037** » Sun Mar 26, 2017 11:43 pm

Kurona wrote:Phew, I'm glad they showed him with that calculator. It's the perfect scale to judge him against.

The calculator is there so you can figure out how quickly a Transformers addiction can put you in the poor house.

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 12:01 am

Bronzewolf wrote:We've got some new in-hand photos of LG-43 Dinosaurer, courtesy of the TakaraTomyToys twitter! (that's a mouthful!)
The new photos show the massive dino doing some finances and balancing some budgets. Who knew he was so fiscally responsible? Check out the photos below, and make sure to sound off on the boards to tell fellow Seibertronians if plan to make Dinosaurer (or Trypticon) your accountant when he comes out later this year!

Money! Amnumnumnumnum!

News Credits: 2 · by **Insurgent** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 5:34 am

This is obviously the Marvel comics Trypticon, who has decided he doesn't want his next mission to be cut short because of fuel expendatures again, so he's making sure he'll have a second Dinobot thrashing in his budget before he goes out.

Bad ass, and fiscally responsible. Now that's a role model kids!

News Credits: 21 · by **dragons** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 6:28 am

Kurona wrote:
Nexus Knight wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Kurona wrote:Phew, I'm glad they showed him with that calculator. It's the perfect scale to judge him against.

As I said before, that 10 Yen coin is roughly the size of a quarter.

Let the dude be snarky, yo.

This beast is amazingly beautiful. TB it's 's, though... never have been willing to ship overseas for a product I can get hear, cheaper.

Not to worry; while no-one of course has it in hand yet, pictures of both the Hasbro version and the Takara version seem to show the differences between each are negligible. The biggest difference, really, is just going to be the box they're in.

I really want to talk that person who buy trypticon for box and not for small minor color differences who would want to do that?

Be sticking with hasbro version here

News Credits: 4856 · by **william-james88** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 8:11 am

Nexus Knight wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Kurona wrote:Phew, I'm glad they showed him with that calculator. It's the perfect scale to judge him against.

As I said before, that 10 Yen coin is roughly the size of a quarter.

Let the dude be snarky, yo.

This beast is amazingly beautiful. TB it's 's, though... never have been willing to ship overseas for a product I can get hear, cheaper.

Well your in luck because so far it looks like this beautiful beast will look very similar coming from Hasbro. so much so that there is still debate over whether or not the toy in these images is indeed the Takara version or the hasbro version.

by **1984forever** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 8:12 am

Hasbro could've lowered the price by not including the calculator.

News Credits: 459 · by **Sabrblade** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 8:28 am

1984forever wrote:Hasbro could've lowered the price by not including the calculator.

But this is Takara.

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 8:31 am

I'm glad Takara includes a calculator with all their products, to be honest. It reminds you to make calculations to see if you're spending too much on these dumb robots :-P

News Credits: 16 · by **It Is Him** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 11:51 am

That calculator accessory is a real clincher. I wonder if TT Trypticon can also handle my taxes this year?

News Credits: 653 · by **ScottyP** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 11:53 am

Insurgent wrote:This is obviously the Marvel comics Trypticon, who has decided he doesn't want his next mission to be cut short because of fuel expendatures again, so he's making sure he'll have a second Dinobot thrashing in his budget before he goes out.

Bad ass, and fiscally responsible. Now that's a role model kids!

Or: he stole Ratbat's calculator so that he could change out of base mode and do something :lol:

by **RiddlerJ** » Mon Mar 27, 2017 1:14 pm

ScottyP wrote:
Insurgent wrote:This is obviously the Marvel comics Trypticon, who has decided he doesn't want his next mission to be cut short because of fuel expendatures again, so he's making sure he'll have a second Dinobot thrashing in his budget before he goes out.

Bad ass, and fiscally responsible. Now that's a role model kids!
Or: he stole Ratbat's calculator so that he could change out of base mode and do something

A calculator would be the perfect alt mode for Ratbat.

News Credits: 372 · by **Cyberpath** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 5:06 am

https://youtu.be/uK2FpR7SH2Y

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 5:11 am

The official Takara Tomy YouTube channel has uploaded a new clip featuring the upcoming Transformers Legends figure LG-43 Dinosaurer - or Trypticon, if you will - in a five minute demo of the various aspects of the t-rex mode (including chicken arms and Titan Master eating mode). You can check it out below thanks to fellow Seibertronian Cyberpath!