Dead Metal wrote:Also it looks like Rodimus, Galvatron and Cyclonus will be very similar to the Henkei versions, you can see the chrome on Rods wings, Galvatrons arm, and Cyclonus wings and targetmaster.
That's because the images thus far are just their Henkei stock photography blackened out. They're not actual pictures of the new redecos.
horus wrote:so... we're gonna get targetmasters to issue to any transformer we want? (hot rod, scourge, kup, blur)
These won't fit Hot Rod/Rodimus' hands, because he has 4mm hand holes while these Minicons have 5mm pegs.
feeiq90 wrote:will bumblebee be included in United line???the one on the pic looks more chromed even for a henkei..

Yes as it was mentioned earlier he is in United (and in Reveal the Shield - though both are different than each other and all other releases).
He's not chrome but metallic gold paint (like with most of the TakaraTomy Animated figures).
RiddlerJ wrote:and Scrapheap?
Wouldn't Hot Rod, Kup, and Blurr make more sense?
Yes, but Blurr might not have been done because he's based on the comic appearance rather than the toy (TakaraTomy's version even tries to recreate the comic colors more than Hasbro did).
Plus this is probably the only way that TakaraTomy was going to release the other Junkion (Scrapheap).
Rated X wrote:How many times are these mini-cons gonna get repainted ??? I just saw a couple new PCC 2 packs in wal-mart but I passed because the mini-cons are repaints and the new figures are nothing special. Im not a big mini-con fan anyways, Im more into 80's Classic G1 characters and the movie line is pretty cool as well.
Well these are the FIRST time they're getting a release in Japan, and who would have thunk, they're 80's Classic G1 characters (Fracas, Recoil, and Haywire were all in G1 in 1987).
The mold for Haywire has already been redecoed twice, and once Salvage comes out (he's not out yet) the mold for Fracas will be redecoed twice in the US.
As for Recoil, the original version of this mold isn't even available yet as he comes with Skyhammer and he hasn't been released.
So I wouldn't make any complaints about these molds yet, especially since these are the first time they're coming out in Japan.
Randy