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News Credits: 337 · by **Air Commander Starscream** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:58 am

A new auction has surface at the Taobao auctions website. This time the auction is for a boxed Transformers Movie Blackout figure. You can see some out of box pictures here.

You can see the auction here.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:48 am

Blackout eats little kitties?

Sure looks like he has the face of one molded into his forehead.

Anyhoo ... rounded packaging. Didn't like it in Armada, not going to like it now. But then again, who needs the packaging except weird hardcore collectors.

News Credits: 4 · by **the purifyer** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:06 am

Does it HAVE to be on an angle? why can't I look at the toy unless I were to pick it up and put into weird angles just to see most of it? Oh that's right Hasbros secret marketing tactics to make me pick up the box. Damn those smart and smug so and sos...

News Credits: 1 · by **Fang Wolf** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:15 am

Burn, why don't you keep the packaging? Or just cut out the pics you want or something?

Cool alt, Ugly face(Naturaly) and awful box, you can't flaten it.

News Credits: 1 · by **D-340** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:52 am

Man, his face is creepy.

News Credits: 3 · by **Kayevcee** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:07 am

Blackout is clearly a fan of Beast Wars Second, to the point where he had Moon's face carved into his headdress. Not that there's anything at all wrong with that

-Nick

News Credits: 2 · by **Overloaded** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:16 am

So we can take it that he bigger than a deluxe class

by **HitsugiKun** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:21 am

hes face looks awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by **HitsugiKun** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:23 am

i just bidid on him hes my fave so im gonna get him first

by **HitsugiKun** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:55 am

when i get him im cuting his face out and puting it on my wall.

News Credits: 8 · by **Liege Evilmus** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:00 am

the purifyer wrote:Does it HAVE to be on an angle? why can't I look at the toy unless I were to pick it up and put into weird angles just to see most of it? Oh that's right Hasbros secret marketing tactics to make me pick up the box. Damn those smart and smug so and sos...

Sad but true, I just wish they would do something with all that wasted space they keep throughing at us!

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:08 am

SuperSaiyajinSasuke wrote:Burn, why don't you keep the packaging? Or just cut out the pics you want or something?

I look at it from a storage/display perspective.

I don't have much room so a lot of my TF's get stored. Now if I store them in boxes those things aren't going to pack very well.

However if I display them, they're also not going to display well.

So I will stick with what i've been doing for Cybertron. Provided there's a bio and stuff on the back i'll cut that off and keep it.

But otherwise, rounded packaging, I just don't like it.

by **Tom_Servo** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:12 am

It might just be the lighting, but he looks to be a nice respectable gray in this pic.

News Credits: 23 · by **1337W422102** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:15 am

As usual, the head fails at life.

News Credits: 5 · by **skywarp-2** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:30 am

Nice touch witht he battery to give us a size perspective.

Yeah I feel all your angst about the pacikaging, its always been pretty crappy how American Toy manufacturers package their products. They could learn a thing or 2 from Japanese Manufacturers and their openable, collapsable boxes.. that you can break down and store, or place the product back in for transport...

I just hope the white "MIME" gloves are gone in this final version..What idiot at Hasbro decided that would be cool??

Its a shame really, if they are still white, then it just shows that they get so far, but keep missing the mark..

in the immortal words of William Shatner as Kirk: Still, "old friend." You've managed to kill everyone else but like a poor marksman, you keep missing the target.
Hasbro...on the Transformers Movie toys coloring and sculpts..

If only they would up their quality on that aspect..

Still its not all bad, i do like the overall look of Blackout, just not too fond of the white hands..of course it could have been worse, he could have the hands of Ratchet.. :shock:

News Credits: 5 · by **--B--** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:40 am

That is growing on me...

News Credits: 26 · by **Wheeljack35** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:09 am

D-340 wrote:Man, his face is creepy.

I was just thinking of how monsterous it looked

News Credits: 1 · by **Hairball178** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:27 am

Is that Shredder's or Sub-Zero's face on the front of the box?

News Credits: 665 · by **Skowl** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:27 am

Hairball178 wrote:Is that Shredder's or Sub-Zero's face on the front of the box?

Yeah, he does look like Shredder...

Still a cool toy, but those white hands just kill it for me.

by **grizzly1** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:35 am

(walks up to this guy like the idiot that he is...)
'dude, what's that thing on your head?

oh wait...

IT'S YOUR FACE! HA-'
(next scene we see is a humaniod outline flying through the sky)
... and thus, now their war is our war...

News Credits: 8 · by **Flashwave** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:34 pm

Liege Evilmus wrote:
the purifyer wrote:Does it HAVE to be on an angle? why can't I look at the toy unless I were to pick it up and put into weird angles just to see most of it? Oh that's right Hasbros secret marketing tactics to make me pick up the box. Damn those smart and smug so and sos...

Sad but true, I just wish they would do something with all that wasted space they keep throughing at us!

Well, I was going to say so we don't have boxes 3 inches wide and a yard long, but yours is funny.

Not a fan of the arted face, but I love the fig.

News Credits: 7 · by **Zeedust** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:40 pm

Blackout's face actually works for me, and I like what I;ve seen of this toy so far. I want.

News Credits: 1 · by **Ninja Sixshot** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:39 pm

the toy is half the size of the box? :shock:

. it looks weird like that, so ill just open him up. vant wait to see the leaders' boxes

News Credits: 21 · by **dragons** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:30 pm

i hat to ask whats with the battery? thought he had some trigger operation going on to move his propeeler? scorpoknock i dont really understand the whole concept behind him being packaged with blackout.

by **Greed** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 11:34 pm

dragons wrote:i hat to ask whats with the battery? thought he had some trigger operation going on to move his propeeler? scorpoknock i dont really understand the whole concept behind him being packaged with blackout.

Blackout carries Scorponok in him, why? Cause Blackout was originally going to be Soundwave, making Scorpy act as a a tape-ish mini bot.