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News Credits: 905 · by **Mach** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:48 am

Actoys user posted some images of possible Takara release Micro TF toys. Not sure is for which TF series, but the user who posted this images claimed that the is a 12 toys Box Gift sets.
He posted 3 of the 12 of the toys.
Also all 12 toys display together with Unicorn

See link:

http://www.actoys.net/bbs/read.php?tid-377833.html

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:54 am

MUST be a new Micron Booster. YES!

Someone wants a hug...not me, this guy:

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:18 pm

Real Devastator has found information on ACToys that indicate another micron booster set is to see release in Japan. Included in the post is pictures of several of these figures, such as a repaint of Classics Minicon Sledge.

Click here to see all the images of these new minicons.

News Credits: 12 · by **GuyIncognito** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:34 pm

Those look like the same repaints that were in the K-Mart exclusive set. Or at least most of them were; there might be one or two new ones there.

News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:46 pm

Oh look. More minicons...

Just give us the next line already...

News Credits: 11 · by **Bass X0** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:20 pm

First-Aid wrote:Oh look. More minicons...

Just give us the next line already...

You know they won't give us a new line until ROTF is finished with and how is Takara repainting three Mini-Cons in some way detrimental to a new line from coming?

News Credits: 5 · by **skywarp-2** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:11 pm

ah yes, more ways to cash in on our love for all thing transformers, just repaint some minicons and charge 35.00 Bucks for the pack.. and that should do it!

Pass

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:28 pm

skywarp-2 wrote:ah yes, more ways to cash in on our love for all thing transformers, just repaint some minicons and charge 35.00 Bucks for the pack.. and that should do it!

Pass

Looks like I'll be taking your spot in line.

(You know, as exclusives...they just give these away in Japan with purchases you're already making.)

News Credits: 12 · by **GuyIncognito** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:32 pm

skywarp-2 wrote:ah yes, more ways to cash in on our love for all thing transformers, just repaint some minicons and charge 35.00 Bucks for the pack.. and that should do it!

Pass

Yes, it's really annoying how a representative from Hasbro comes to your house and forces you at gunpoint to purchase everything they make, especially when these mini-con repaints are the only figures they're making this year.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:56 pm

Sledge's color scheme looks familiar somehow.

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:09 pm

More mini-cons... more power.

I want the Orange Dump truck. Orange is good.

by **Primus C-00** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:18 pm

Blurrz wrote:More mini-cons... more power.

I want the Orange Dump truck. Orange is good.

Serious question time here. How many mincons are there?

I mean if Armada was Transformers Pokemon, how many entires would the pokedex have?

Awesome!

:grin:

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:25 pm

Primus C-00 wrote:
Blurrz wrote:More mini-cons... more power.

I want the Orange Dump truck. Orange is good.

Serious question time here. How many mincons are there?

I mean if Armada was Transformers Pokemon, how many entires would the pokedex have?

Well, I'm not entirely sure how many Mini-cons there are, although I'm frankly sure they might outnumber the number of Pokemon out there, which is 493. It would have to take me some time to calculate just how many variations of mini-cons there are, although I'm sure our good friend Counterpunch can help us out.

by **Primus C-00** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:30 pm

What defines a mini-con?

Are micromasters their forefathers? Are the various mini-bots of the movieverse, All-spark infused consumer goods, housewares ,Scalpels and dare I say? Wheelies their children?

:-?

by **Primus C-00** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:33 pm

Blurrz wrote:Well, I'm not entirely sure how many Mini-cons there are, although I'm frankly sure they might outnumber the number of Pokemon out there, which is 493. It would have to take me some time to calculate just how many variations of mini-cons there are, although I'm sure our good friend [/color]Counterpunch can help us out.

I like how you say that as if summoning him. As if he's:

nearby.
*ducks around the corner, transforms to Punch*
...Real nearby.

News Credits: 1 · by **Nemesis Rodimus** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:05 pm

Minis...excellent! I love Mini-Cons, and if you read my post in the forum about Movie Thrust, you'll know why.
Anyway, I don't have the chunk of change required to pull a ball of yarn from Japan! Disappointing, since I love that police car in those colors. I want that mold so bad. I don't have the original Classics mold, a.k.a. Strongarm, Universe Flatfoot, or any of the other repaints. However, does anyone remember that Wal-Mart exclusive 10-pack we heard about alongside the Universe Basics? Hopefully, I'll be getting that.
Mini-Cons are the coolest, because they give other Transformers their power! Awesome! Without doubt, the Mini-Con Strongarm mold is my favorite, right up there with Over-Run, High Wire, and Sonar.

:MINI:

News Credits: 1 · by **Bumblebeast** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:39 pm

Those are horrible and don't deserve even thinking of them.

I feel like i need a shower after watching them.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 6:14 pm

Primus C-00 wrote:What defines a mini-con?

Are micromasters their forefathers? Are the various mini-bots of the movieverse, All-spark infused consumer goods, housewares ,Scalpels and dare I say? Wheelies their children?

In the Armada/Micron Legend cartoon, they were creations of Unicron's cells. In Cybertron/Galaxy Force, they originate from the planet Gigantion/Gigalonia, which serves as their homeworld. In the Classics comics, they were created by the Last Autobot. In other fiction they appear in, they're just there with no explained origin.

News Credits: 12 · by **robofreak** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:54 pm

I can feel CP's OCD kicking in from thousands of miles away.

What would happen if they were to stop producing Mini-cons? Would CP go nuts?

I think I'll be buying these. I've been wanting to find a way in to the Mini-con hobby and this should do nicely.

Like Covenant on Facebook · by **Covenant** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 9:09 pm

GuyIncognito wrote:
skywarp-2 wrote:ah yes, more ways to cash in on our love for all thing transformers, just repaint some minicons and charge 35.00 Bucks for the pack.. and that should do it!

Pass

Yes, it's really annoying how a representative from Hasbro comes to your house and forces you at gunpoint to purchase everything they make, especially when these mini-con repaints are the only figures they're making this year.

You're absolutely right, no one is making anyone buy these, and that's totally what skywarp-2 was implying - that these are the only option out there right now for purchase rather than a tally mark on the repaints for more cash list. Totally. I mean it's not like the company actually expects the buyers of its target niche in the market to lay down cash for these grabbagged Micromaster wannabe molds slapped with whatever paint they had leftover for a pricetag much higher than such items would have received as is seven or so years ago, which is why they made them. Sometimes its not about the money, I mean clearly they put higher pricetags on little trinkets like this in order to defer fans from purchasing. skywarp-2 totally had it wrong when he said, and I misquote, "Gawd I'm tired of them forcing us - barrel to temple - to dish out for the rediculous prices they've placed on this garbage". He should have posted something different, something speaking/implying of this notion that they have an expectation of their usual suspects of collectors will buy anything they repaint, and at higher prices.. ...though that would totally have been inaccurate as well.

Right?

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:33 am

Sabrblade wrote:Sledge's color scheme looks familiar somehow.

That probably thinking of Micromaster Combiner Pipeline, a repaint of Grit. He's partnered with Gusher.

And the Mini-Cons keep just on coming. Can't wait to see what they'll look like. Hopefully there are some molds previously unreleased in Japan in there; Broadside, Firebot, Oil Slick and Grindor.

And guys, you're forgetting this is Takara and especially Japan! Japanese love small and gimmicky collectibles (or so I think), this has absolutely nothing to do with the US directly. Sure, they're no better than us when it comes to cashing in on a hype, but you guys had better start worrying when they actually start appearing in Wal-Mart

News Credits: 5 · by **skywarp-2** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:46 am

Counterpunch wrote:
skywarp-2 wrote:ah yes, more ways to cash in on our love for all thing transformers, just repaint some minicons and charge 35.00 Bucks for the pack.. and that should do it!

Pass

Looks like I'll be taking your spot in line.

(You know, as exclusives...they just give these away in Japan with purchases you're already making.)

Yeah I remember that.. IF you live in Japan, but the real question is, do they charge online buyers extra for them??

MAN I WISH I COULD GO BACK TO KYOTO.. that was a fun city..
I miss going to the grocery store to get milk, eggs, butter, and a 1/100 Gundam kit, or a few bazillion Takara Transformers! you walk in and half the store is food, the other half chojokin! with extremely manicured shrubbery adorned throughout the entire store..

News Credits: 217 · by **Diem** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:27 am

skywarp-2 wrote:

Yeah I remember that.. IF you live in Japan, but the real question is, do they charge online buyers extra for them??

Heh heh...I don't.

MAN I WISH I COULD GO BACK TO KYOTO.. that was a fun city..
I miss going to the grocery store to get milk, eggs, butter, and a 1/100 Gundam kit, or a few bazillion Takara Transformers! you walk in and half the store is food, the other half chojokin! with extremely manicured shrubbery adorned throughout the entire store..

It's like you've seen my combini shopping list:

1 Bottle of Coke
1 Tube of Pringles
1 Pathetic microwavable burger
1 Spicy chicken
2 sexy bikini Onepiece figurines
8 Minicons

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:31 am

Blurrz wrote:
Primus C-00 wrote:
Blurrz wrote:More mini-cons... more power.

I want the Orange Dump truck. Orange is good.

Serious question time here. How many mincons are there?

I mean if Armada was Transformers Pokemon, how many entires would the pokedex have?

Well, I'm not entirely sure how many Mini-cons there are, although I'm frankly sure they might outnumber the number of Pokemon out there, which is 493. It would have to take me some time to calculate just how many variations of mini-cons there are, although I'm sure our good friend Counterpunch can help us out.

I don't know man. There are a lot...and a lot of variations...and single production pieces...

The number of unique molds is probably something that can be discerned.

I added the first page of the Linkage story. It's kind of the Side-B, official story from the Micron's perspective.