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News Credits: 553 · by **Professor Smooth** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:34 pm

These have shown up on Ebay over the past few weeks and now we finally have more info on them. Thanks to a lot of work from Bottalk members DragonClaw and Z28Autobot, we've got the whole story.

This figure will NOT be given away if you buy a Chevrolet Aveo. In fact, buying the car isn't even necessary to get the exclusive.

Its a China only Promo for the Chevrolet Lova (Aveo in the U.S.).

The idea was you go to the movie, after you go to a Chevrolet dealer with the movie ticket(s) and test drive the Lova. You get the robot for test driving the car.

by **Sportimus Prime** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:35 pm

Words can not express how underwhelmed I am feeling. BTW, I like your sig.

News Credits: 2 · by **CyberTooth** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:39 pm

Wuh-wuh-waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah...

Well, maybe Hasbro'll bring it stateside for all of you who actually want one.

News Credits: 972 · by **i_amtrunks** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:07 pm

Thanks for the info Professor Smooth, front paged and credited.

by **magnusupreme** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:14 pm

well that sucks

News Credits: 4 · by **Blitzwing the warrior** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:21 pm

Chevy sells cars in China?

News Credits: 3 · by **muswp1** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:28 pm

I think the Aveo is actually made in China.

by **autobot commander** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:39 pm

i thought all tf toys where made in china

by **Nemesis Cyberplex** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:56 pm

whew......well, that makes me feel better. If this were a US figure, I'd be griping that my swerve collection was in jeparody of being incomplete, but I don't count foreign TFs as part of US sets, which is mainly what I collect. If I did, I'd be buying up a sh*tload of Binaltech & Kiss Players figures to complete my Alternator collection.

News Credits: 3 · by **coolpop** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:08 pm

Thanks for the info. Calling my travel agent for tickets flying to China now...

Cheers!

News Credits: 8 · by **Liege Evilmus** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:26 pm

I don't care, I have enough GM hookups where I'll still get mine

News Credits: 7 · by **Zeedust** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:30 pm

... Well, this just keeps getting more and more infuriating.

News Credits: 1 · by **Pontimax 01** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:40 pm

muswp1 wrote:I think the Aveo is actually made in China.

South Korea by Daewoo, whom GM bought a few years back after they went bankrupt.

It's suprising this isn't available in the country the movie was mostly geared towards. :???:

But GM is pushing the Chinese market pretty hard because it's growing so fast and they have an awesome foothold there, so I guess they feel they want a connection there too.

News Credits: 70 · by **Sideshow Sideswipe** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:46 pm

If it's being made in China and there's money to be made there will be plenty of KOs coming soon enough.

Or, if we whine loud enough maybe HASBRO will take pity and release it here as some kind of exclusive.

News Credits: 3 · by **Collector Maximus** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:55 pm

And I had been saving up to buy the car so I could get the Transformer...

by **Cliff Jumper** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:01 pm

that's ridiculous! Is Hasbro trying to go bankrupt?

by **AbsumZer0** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:04 pm

Considering it's rare for a Transformer mould to go without being repainted and sold again a few months later, I seriously SERIOUSLY doubt they created an entirely new mould just to use it for promotional giveaways in China.

News Credits: 26 · by **Wheeljack35** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:06 pm

I hope that we will see this sometime in the future in the Universe line

by **Cyber-Kun** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:06 pm

WHAT?
Hell no!

News Credits: 1 · by **Pontimax 01** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:07 pm

AbsumZer0 wrote:Considering it's rare for a Transformer mould to go without being repainted and sold again a few months later, I seriously SERIOUSLY doubt they created an entirely new mould just to use it for promotional giveaways in China.

Yeah, it'll surely end up as something else. Maybe in this case they released the crappy version first for the Chinese, and we'll get a nicer repaint. :lol:

by **E.P.Y.A.R.M.S.** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:14 pm

That is just too bad, this is one of the best transformers I have seen recently.

by **Dclone Soundwave** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:25 pm

Wait'l we see one of these on ebay in a few. I'm willing to bet the prices will sky rocket, if not be pretty high.

News Credits: 8 · by **NuclearConvoy** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:55 pm

Hrmmmm....dissapointed....

by **megatroptimus** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:04 pm

Waiting for the knock-off now. Should be 2-3 weeks from now.

by **reanimate28** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:53 am

why not just release these figures same with that botcon seeker stuff....its obvious that toy fans want them. hasbro is so dumb they will pump out a **** load of poopy repaints that will sit on the shelves but not produce stuff that they have different molds for and that the fans would be clammering for hasbro folks are brain dead