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Differences between US and CAN versions of 09 Bumblebee. At first I thought it might have just been the autobot and decepticons cards as pictured from the front however there are many more differences.

Interesting.

Obviously they ahve to have different packaging for different areas (namely Europe and South America), but to have such vastly different packaging for the US and Canada is a little odd.
I would have thought they would have gotten more or less the same stuff from China...

skyblast wrote:Differences between US and CAN versions of 09 Bumblebee. At first I thought it might have just been the autobot and decepticons cards as pictured from the front however there are many more differences.

...yeah, me too!! I thought the only diff was between the top of the cards (autobot and decepticon). As far as the GM symbol goes I thought it was interesting that Canada had to give props to the US??? GM sorta sucks anyhow. I wish the US had better cars...

They usually just use the same/almost the same packaging on movie transformers here. I don't know why, probably because its cheaper.

i like the us packaging more... too bad i live in canda

Well of course Canadian packaging is different than American, seeing as Canadian has two official languages, requiring most of the packaging in Canada to have both french and english on the covers.

Trelve wrote:They usually just use the same/almost the same packaging on movie transformers here. I don't know why, probably because its cheaper.

do you like the US packing more because the BB is bigger?

i just like reading the bios before i buy the figure, cybertron's packaging was the same as the us, i don't see why they had to change it

skyblast wrote:

Trelve wrote:They usually just use the same/almost the same packaging on movie transformers here. I don't know why, probably because its cheaper.

do you like the US packing more because the BB is bigger?

I kind of like them both, on the Canadian one, you can actually see the figures pretty well and its fairly balanced layout wise. I like the US one because it has story and tech specs on the back. That and theres alot more effort put on the whole package design (as in each figure has its own original package.)

As Blurrz said, we have to have both French and Canadian on our packages. It wouldn't probably fit well on the US styled package.

yo canucks what does EDAD 5+ mean? It's right by the bubble on the left.

To sell a toy in Quebec, the product needs to have french instructions and the package needs to have french writings (it is the law).

That is why toys sold in Canada have different packaging.

Bumblebee78 wrote:To sell a toy in Quebec, the product needs to have french instructions and the package needs to have french writings (it is the law).

That is why toys sold in Canada have different packaging.

...but what is EDAD 5+? The EDAD part?

skyblast wrote:

Bumblebee78 wrote:To sell a toy in Quebec, the product needs to have french instructions and the package needs to have french writings (it is the law).

That is why toys sold in Canada have different packaging.

...but what is EDAD 5+? The EDAD part?

It is spanish for age

Bumblebee78 wrote:To sell a toy in Quebec, the product needs to have french instructions and the package needs to have french writings (it is the law).

That is why toys sold in Canada have different packaging.

what about the cybertron line? it had us style packaging

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I can't speak for all of Canada but, the Cybertron toys sold in Quebec had the 3 languages (French, English and Spanish) on the packaging.

and they couldn't do that for the movie line?????

autobot comander wrote:and they couldn't do that for the movie line?????

I know, maybe Hasbro knew it was going to hit a more world wide audience....so put the packaging in more languages?

Bumblebee78 wrote:I can't speak for all of Canada but, the Cybertron toys sold in Quebec had the 3 languages (French, English and Spanish) on the packaging.

The version sold in CANADA also makes its way to MEXICO. That is why Spanish is there.

The RID line sold in the US had only Engligh. Then Hasbro US changed that for the Armada and Energon lines which had all three languages on it just like those sold in CANADA. Hasbro US changed it back to all english for the Cybertron line.

skyblast wrote:Differences between US and CAN versions of 09 Bumblebee. At first I thought it might have just been the autobot and decepticons cards as pictured from the front however there are many more differences.

You had noted that the CAN BB had a different card back but since you decided to keep yours MOSC you did not realize that the tech specs that are on the back of the US BB is actually printed in colour on the flip side of the instructions included inside the CAN BB. I can post a pic if you would like to see it as it is quite impressive.

-Z- G1 Snarl Rules wrote:

skyblast wrote:Differences between US and CAN versions of 09 Bumblebee. At first I thought it might have just been the autobot and decepticons cards as pictured from the front however there are many more differences.

You had noted that the CAN BB had a different card back but since you decided to keep yours MOSC you did not realize that the tech specs that are on the back of the US BB is actually printed in colour on the flip side of the instructions included inside the CAN BB. I can post a pic if you would like to see it as it is quite impressive.

I actually enjoy having the Tech Specs on the back of the instructions as I don't have to keep the box packaging.

-Z- G1 Snarl Rules wrote:

skyblast wrote:Differences between US and CAN versions of 09 Bumblebee. At first I thought it might have just been the autobot and decepticons cards as pictured from the front however there are many more differences.

You had noted that the CAN BB had a different card back but since you decided to keep yours MOSC you did not realize that the tech specs that are on the back of the US BB is actually printed in colour on the flip side of the instructions included inside the CAN BB. I can post a pic if you would like to see it as it is quite impressive.

Yeah, I would love to see the instructions on the inside!!!

So there are now 2 tri-lingual packages?
-the North American version has US-English, French and Spanish.
-the European version has UK English, French and Spanish.

I thought Hasbro would have given up on single language packaging and done everything the same in tri-languages, we used to get the European packaging in the Pacific, so why not do the same now?

Blurrz wrote:I actually enjoy having the Tech Specs on the back of the instructions as I don't have to keep the box packaging.

I agree with you. I prefer the tech specs on the back of the card as well. I keep most of my TF MOSC and MISB. I like reading the tech specs on the back when I display them.

skyblast wrote:Yeah, I would love to see the instructions on the inside!!!

Here you go my friend. I put my G1 Unicron head from my Cybertron Primus figure for scale. The paper is quite large when you compare it against the tech specs on the US '08 BB card back.

wow, that's pretty nifty, i didn't even know there was different packaging. The decepticon symbol thing is pretty cool