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PaxCybertron82 wrote:I'm here every day. I'm talking official listings.

Something just seems weird here. But I guess I'm just partially jealous that I can't gank free toys off the assembly line and post pictures of them.

Oh, ok. But official listings are a bit wonky. Here's a one up on that Leader Starscream: RID legends toys that were actually found in store while there is still no official listing for them

Also, glad to hear you are here everyday

Ah, good point. I'm letting my raging jealously get the best of me.

Hulk Buster BAF too. .......so.......jealous.

Super Megatron wrote:I don't know if he "gank" it or not - most likely the stuff he gets are rejects that can't be sold because it doesn't meet standards or there is something wrong with the toy during manufacturing.

I see the guy also got his hands on a yet to be released Marvel Legends Blizzard as well...

I don't know about that. Usually if something is "defective" or "not to be sold" its destroyed. I work in an industry where that is a rule. First production is never to be sold, it's to be tested, refined, and then destroyed. It's very likely that this guy is just taking them or obtaining them from someone stealing them. It's nothing new. Hell, Peaugh made his start as a reviewer getting stolen animated prototypes. It used to be a very big thing when stolen protos wre getting out past 5 years it has died down but it does seem to be coming back lately.

There's the possibility of that, too. I'm thinking along the line that the guy saved the stuff that was supposed to be destroyed as opposed to just have the toy ended up in some landfill.

I'm sure the materials are recycled. Never want to believe a toy is thrown away.

All that aside I can't wait for this guy. I own Maketoys Green Giant but I am totally getting this. Though I do own 3rd party items I always get official figures and and usually they replace 3rd party stuff, I don't get rid of them, they just go in a shelf FP Menasor is a great figure but i can't stop playing with CW menasor.

Blogger slash Youtuber Open the Toy has posted a review of the Transformers Platinum Edition G1 Reissue Seeker Squadron! We also recently got the 3-Pack in hand and took a pile of pics, but now you can see them in motion. Open the Toy even has a stop motion(ish) transformation of the trio, so check it out. Stay tuned to Seibertron.com for all your Transformers News!

Serves to remind me of just how much toy tech has advanced since the 80s. The classics/generations seeker mold totally blows the G1s out of the water....

It would've been nice if they included extra seeker style guns for Dirge and Ramjet in addition to the bombs they were stuck with in robot mode.

They come with DIE-CAST?!?

MaverickPrime wrote:They come with DIE-CAST?!?

Obviously, like every G1 re-issues ever. If there were diecast originally, the diecast will remain. Only changes are the leight of smokestacks and missilles, plus the removing/weakening of firing mechanisms for new standards in security.

RiddlerJ wrote:It would've been nice if they included extra seeker style guns for Dirge and Ramjet in addition to the bombs they were stuck with in robot mode.

You willing to pay for the extra cost? And the default, machine guns/missiles launchers have been neutered.

MaverickPrime wrote:They come with DIE-CAST?!?

A lost art these days.

Shockwave7 wrote:Serves to remind me of just how much toy tech has advanced since the 80s. The classics/generations seeker mold totally blows the G1s out of the water....

In the points of articulation an improvement but as "K" previously mentioned, the original Diaclones who would eventually become Transformers, the robots were built around the vehicles in mind. Unlike today hence when you compare the Seeker sizes in robot modes, they stand just about the same but in vehicle mode, the size difference really shows.

Personally, I like the jet mode of the G1 Seekers best over the modern henkei molds.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

MaverickPrime wrote:They come with DIE-CAST?!?

Obviously, like every G1 re-issues ever. If there were diecast originally, the diecast will remain. Only changes are the leight of smokestacks and missilles, plus the removing/weakening of firing mechanisms for new standards in security.

Not necessarily. There is a version of Predaking that comes without Diecast but the recent rereleases kept the die cast instead.

The original G1 predaking in Japan was all plastic, but their reissue had die cast.

I am already the proud owner of the G1 original release of a Trypticon with working electronics and all his accessories. As much as I want this one because of the gorgeous box art, sadly I'll have to pass. Even the storage is getting full and the wife is beginning to lose her patience. But a Generations Titan Class Trypty to go along with the Titan Class Metroplex would be worth the argument and subsequent week long silent treatment. IJS

william-james88 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

MaverickPrime wrote:They come with DIE-CAST?!?

Obviously, like every G1 re-issues ever. If there were diecast originally, the diecast will remain. Only changes are the leight of smokestacks and missilles, plus the removing/weakening of firing mechanisms for new standards in security.

Not necessarily. There is a version of Predaking that comes without Diecast but the recent rereleases kept the die cast instead.

The original G1 predaking in Japan was all plastic, but their reissue had die cast.

On the flipside, Encore Bruticus is all plastic, while the originals had variations with die cast.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

MaverickPrime wrote:They come with DIE-CAST?!?

Obviously, like every G1 re-issues ever. If there were diecast originally, the diecast will remain. Only changes are the leight of smokestacks and missilles, plus the removing/weakening of firing mechanisms for new standards in security.

Not necessarily. There is a version of Predaking that comes without Diecast but the recent rereleases kept the die cast instead.

The original G1 predaking in Japan was all plastic, but their reissue had die cast.

On the flipside, Encore Bruticus is all plastic, while the originals had variations with die cast.

In Onslaught's case, was the entire silver chest die-cast? Painted or molded silver? 'cause I've seen some Japan vintage boxes of him but already plastic. Those must have sold out in a flash back then.

fenrir72 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

MaverickPrime wrote:They come with DIE-CAST?!?

Obviously, like every G1 re-issues ever. If there were diecast originally, the diecast will remain. Only changes are the leight of smokestacks and missilles, plus the removing/weakening of firing mechanisms for new standards in security.

Not necessarily. There is a version of Predaking that comes without Diecast but the recent rereleases kept the die cast instead.

The original G1 predaking in Japan was all plastic, but their reissue had die cast.

On the flipside, Encore Bruticus is all plastic, while the originals had variations with die cast.

In Onslaught's case, was the entire silver chest die-cast? Painted or molded silver? 'cause I've seen some Japan vintage boxes of him but already plastic. Those must have sold out in a flash back then.

Yeah, I had most of Bruticus as a kid, and I don't remember any die cast on any of the limbs. (I didn't have Onslaught. )

What's funny is, my World's Smallest Transformer Thrust has landing gears that are attached and able to rotate out of the way for transformation. No need to detach it and store in the cockpit. yet the Transformation and attaching of the hands (which sadly I lost) is much like the G1 Larger counterparts.

Please release the other three seekers as well.

And please release Sixshot as well.

superchook6909 wrote:What's funny is, my World's Smallest Transformer Thrust has landing gears that are attached and able to rotate out of the way for transformation. No need to detach it and store in the cockpit. yet the Transformation and attaching of the hands (which sadly I lost) is much like the G1 Larger counterparts.

Please release the other three seekers as well.

And please release Sixshot as well.

Sixshot have already beed re-issued. With chrome overkill!

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Transformers-G1- ... 2c8a03152a


Still, why bother buying that pricey reissue when the vintage original is way cheaper?

-Kanrabat- wrote:

superchook6909 wrote:What's funny is, my World's Smallest Transformer Thrust has landing gears that are attached and able to rotate out of the way for transformation. No need to detach it and store in the cockpit. yet the Transformation and attaching of the hands (which sadly I lost) is much like the G1 Larger counterparts.

Please release the other three seekers as well.

And please release Sixshot as well.

Sixshot have already beed re-issued. With chrome overkill!

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Transformers-G1- ... 2c8a03152a


Still, why bother buying that pricey reissue when the vintage original is way cheaper?

I think people prefer re-issues simply due to the fact that it's a good way to get a mint condition figure. Some people probably also don't want to deal with used figures that have been handled by little kids and are missing stickers or whatnot.

Moosey wrote:I think people prefer re-issues simply due to the fact that it's a good way to get a mint condition figure. Some people probably also don't want to deal with used figures that have been handled by little kids and are missing stickers or whatnot.

Maybe. But when the reissue is nearly 200$ When you can get a PERFECT condition and COMPLETE vintage for less than 100$, the question still stand.

-Kanrabat- wrote:With chrome overkill!

-Kanrabat- wrote:But when the reissue is nearly 200$ When you can get a PERFECT condition and COMPLETE vintage for less than 100$, the question still stand.

Ehhhhhhh.... you and I may have different definitions of "perfect". To me, there's NO way to recapture the feeling of opening your own brand new TF. Which is why I'm only going to buy vintage G1's when I absolutely have to. Cause even though I bought it, its not mine y'know?

JMO

shajaki wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:But when the reissue is nearly 200$ When you can get a PERFECT condition and COMPLETE vintage for less than 100$, the question still stand.

Ehhhhhhh.... you and I may have different definitions of "perfect". To me, there's NO way to recapture the feeling of opening your own brand new TF. Which is why I'm only going to buy vintage G1's when I absolutely have to. Cause even though I bought it, its not mine y'know?

JMO

So... You'll only buy an original vintage G1 Transformer only if it's SEALED IN PACKAGE so you can have the pleasure to OPEN it?

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Moosey wrote:I think people prefer re-issues simply due to the fact that it's a good way to get a mint condition figure. Some people probably also don't want to deal with used figures that have been handled by little kids and are missing stickers or whatnot.

Maybe. But when the reissue is nearly 200$ When you can get a PERFECT condition and COMPLETE vintage for less than 100$, the question still stand.

*Searches for g1 Sixshot on google* OOOHHHHH I gotcha, sorry about that. Didn't realize Sixshot came so cheap.