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News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:03 pm

The last time Transformers and Building Blocks had a fully fledged union was Built To Rule, back in 2003 that coincided with the Armada toy line. Unfortunately it did not end so well. Fast forward 7 years, and we look to have another union between building blocks and Transformers, as Takara gives their shot with their Transformers Animated toy line. Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are the first two selections to get the Diablock treatment, images courtesy of Red Leader of Kapow Toys.

The two are set for release in June.

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News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:32 pm

Those are definitely not LEGO and they look horrible Bumblebee doesn't even look remotely like the character.

News Credits: 5 · by **Oilspill** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:35 pm

Thought for the day: Lego is real-life pixelation.

News Credits: 9 · by **Hip-Hoptimus Rime** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:48 pm

Oh the humanity.

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:51 pm

Oilspill wrote:Thought for the day: Lego is real-life pixelation.

Not if done properly by MOCcers who know what they're doing. This is just really crap.

News Credits: 1 · by **Lord Onixprime** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:02 pm

at least you can vaguely see the resemblance with prime, but Bumblebee, what in the world? it looks awful. not even close.

News Credits: 3603 · by **Seibertron** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:05 pm

And my wallet sighed relief.

by **Swiftpaw** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:06 pm

Sad thing is despite only being so-so, they still look better than Build To Rule did.

I don't mind the visible building block look to the bodies, but they really should of just made seperate pieces that look like the heads and maybe the hands so they'd at least be reconizable who they are.

As much as I <3 both transformers and legos, pass here.

News Credits: 11 · by **Overcracker** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:07 pm

Did not work with Armada, and fails even harder with Animated. Lego and Transformers just don't go well. You really need a very large amount of pieces with some specialty parts and hinges to pull of a decent representation.

News Credits: 2 · by **Requiem Prime** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:12 pm

Meh,

I get turning Animated to blocks is probably more evil than most, but they could try a little harder on the faces.

by **Hard Hacker** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:13 pm

Cute attempt guys.

But very no.

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:23 pm

There was a transforming G1 Prime done a few years back, Japanese market also, much more detailed, just trying to remember who made it...closer in style to the old 'Lokblocks' type of blocks rather than LEGO. These look to be smaller, but by the same company.

News Credits: 12 · by **nemesis-prime** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:23 pm

that looks the KO **** no way no how :-x

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:33 pm

tigertracks 24 wrote:There was a transforming G1 Prime done a few years back, Japanese market also, much more detailed, just trying to remember who made it...closer in style to the old 'Lokblocks' type of blocks rather than LEGO. These look to be smaller, but by the same company.

That would be Kawada, under the "Diablock" line in 2007, and it was licensed to boot. With that, the news item is slightly incorrect.

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:51 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
tigertracks 24 wrote:There was a transforming G1 Prime done a few years back, Japanese market also, much more detailed, just trying to remember who made it...closer in style to the old 'Lokblocks' type of blocks rather than LEGO. These look to be smaller, but by the same company.

That would be Kawada, under the "Diablock" line in 2007, and it was licensed to boot. With that, the news item is slightly incorrect.

Yes, Diablock. Thanks! I have it at home with my Primes.

News Credits: 3 · by **Kibble** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:05 pm

I've seen fan-made lego TFs that looked vastly superior to these...at least I'm pretty sure they weren't official TF releases.

by **Liftgate** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:23 pm

Yeah, these certainly arn't genuine Legos. If they were actually made by Lego I'm sure they would look ALOT better, they make some pretty sweet looking stuff these days. But am I the only one who thinks Bee in robot mode looks like movie version?

News Credits: 8 · by **Forgotten** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:29 pm

uhhhh, NO.

News Credits: 7 · by **Narc** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:31 pm

Hell NO!

News Credits: 1 · by **rpetras** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:41 pm

Lego and Transformers go together like tuna and gum.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 3:52 pm

rpetras wrote:Lego and Transformers go together like tuna and gum.

Actually, those are just generic building blocks, not exactly "legos" as Lego has no involvement as far as I can tell. In fact, upon further inspection I see the word "Diablock", which could mean they're new entries for Kawada's line.

On a side note, Lego did request people not to refer to building blocks as "legos" in order to keep their trademark from becoming generic.

by **Artakha Prime** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 4:13 pm

I don`t think these are fo`real...

Why would LEGO support another toy line by making sets like these? Simple; they wouldn`t.

I think these are MegaBloks... MegaBloks is a rip-off toy company, that makes money by copying other toy lines ideas. They, for an example, have copied the LEGO brick, and used their "MegaBloks" to themes as "MegaBloks Halo" and "MegaBloks Marvel".

With other words, these figures suck. Hard. Only MegaBloks would be stupid enough to do such a bommer.

Or at least i hope so...

P.S. I`m a LEGO fan, thereore my knowledge. I especially collect Bionicle...

News Credits: 4 · by **Megazarak** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 4:21 pm

Optimus? Ya, I could see that. Bumblebee? Nope. That doesn't look like him in either mode. Actually, as a drone it doesn't look that bad, but as Bumblebee? It couldn't be farther from the character unless they made him green.

I'm pretty sure this isn't Lego's doing. Maybe it's the same group of people that made this

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 4:22 pm

Changed the topic since everyone seems to be getting so antsy about it this not being Lego.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
That would be Kawada, under the "Diablock" line in 2007, and it was licensed to boot. With that, the news item is slightly incorrect.

Nuuuuuu I mean like an entire toy line, not some one time only thing.. I expect an entire toy line out of this from Diablock

Artakha Prime wrote:I don`t think these are fo`real...

Why would LEGO support another toy line by making sets like these? Simple; they wouldn`t.

I think these are MegaBloks... MegaBloks is a rip-off toy company, that makes money by copying other toy lines ideas. They, for an example, have copied the LEGO brick, and used their "MegaBloks" to themes as "MegaBloks Halo" and "MegaBloks Marvel".

With other words, these figures suck. Hard. Only MegaBloks would be stupid enough to do such a bommer.

MegaBlocks isn't a KO company, they're legit, they have contracts with various companies to produce figures for them. Halo and Marvel are as legit as anything Lego has produced, heck I'd say it's even better. Regardless, this is Diablock, not any of the European/American building block companies.

Sorry guys, guess I wasn't exactly immersed in the building block knowledge like I thought I was. Time to go slit my wrists with lego bricks. Wait I mean MegaBlock bricks. :grin:

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 4:30 pm

Blurrz wrote:Changed the topic since everyone seems to be getting so antsy about it this not being Lego.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
That would be Kawada, under the "Diablock" line in 2007, and it was licensed to boot. With that, the news item is slightly incorrect.

Nuuuuuu I mean like an entire toy line, not some one time only thing.. I expect an entire toy line out of this from Diablock

Artakha Prime wrote:I don`t think these are fo`real...

Why would LEGO support another toy line by making sets like these? Simple; they wouldn`t.

I think these are MegaBloks... MegaBloks is a rip-off toy company, that makes money by copying other toy lines ideas. They, for an example, have copied the LEGO brick, and used their "MegaBloks" to themes as "MegaBloks Halo" and "MegaBloks Marvel".

With other words, these figures suck. Hard. Only MegaBloks would be stupid enough to do such a bommer.

MegaBlocks isn't a KO company, they're legit, they have contracts with various companies to produce figures for them. Halo and Marvel are as legit as anything Lego has produced, heck I'd say it's even better. Regardless, this is Diablock, not any of the European/American building block ocmpanies.

Us? Antsy? Nah ;;)

I admit, I can be very antsy...

One final thing: the patent for the original basic Lego brick has expired, thus the design for the most basic of figures and brick are now public domain, meaning any company can use the designs as they see fit.