The Energon Pub

[El Duque]

Japanese blogger Alfes 2010 has been a busy guy with the release of the Takara DOTM line. Now he's added a gallery for Takara's Deluxe Air Raid. Air Raid is a repaint of ROTF's Deluxe Thrust who was of course a repaint/remold of ROTF's Duluxe Breakaway. We've mirrored a sampling of his images below, to view his gallery click here.

[T3c4x3r0]

Ive always liked this mold, but I wish they would add some variances like they do with the seekers. Kewl that the weapon is a homage (color wise) to the lighter variant of Breakaway though.

[Blurrz]

And this proves that Air Raid and Arcee are Takara exclusives then. Packaging for the Takara toys shared with Hasbro features the Hasbro symbol on the packaging. Air Raid does not feature any Hasbro logos! Uh-oh!

[Rated X]

This is one repaint I can do without. Thrust and Breakaway went in my box last month to make room for my growing classics collection.

[TFGnome]

Fred Flintstones toes

[D-340]

If Air Raid is a Takara/Tomy exclusive, I'll be importing him then. Like the mold, like the paint scheme, like the homage. A bit depressing though, I was hoping he'd come state side.