E-Hobby to make BT-18 Mirage Clear Type.

Oh yeah, this has "BUY ME" all over it!!

given ehobbys penchant for this sort of thing;i'd say alt body for the binaltech story

Redimus wrote:BT?

Preytell, how wil they manage to make diecast clear? Or will this offcially be the first ever all plastic BT?

I am having a hard time trying to figure out if it will be straight up see through or translucent. I would think it would be safe to say it would be all plastic for the clear.

It just dawned upon me that if e-hobby is doing this "clear" version then TakaraTomy are most likely doing either a Die-cast BT or plastic Kiss Players Mirage. I would hope for the BT, as I really miss the sweet, sweet kiss of well used Die-cast.

Sweet, can these be purchased directly from ehobby?

Is it Alternator or BinalTech?

Megatron_Wolf wrote:Is it Alternator or BinalTech?

It is going under the Binal Tech line, but it's unclear so far if it's die-cast or plastic. Mind you, it would have to be at least, mostly plastic as I don't think they can make see through die-cast metal

What a 'clear.ver' idea!

I can't wait to get a couple!

It cant be 100% clear can it, it would look pretty bad with all those pins and screws showing. I guess they will give him coloured tints.

Actually, I cant wait to see how they give him an invisible look. I hope its not just one flat colour, they have an opportunity to mix some reflective flakes in with the plastic or something.

never saw him in the stores for the alt line... this might be a buy just for the coolness factor

Down_Shift wrote:

Megatron_Wolf wrote:Is it Alternator or BinalTech?

It is going under the Binal Tech line, but it's unclear so far if it's die-cast or plastic. Mind you, it would have to be at least, mostly plastic as I don't think they can make see through die-cast metal

Clear die-cast would be awsome. I hope its Alt because i only seen the regular Mirage alt once at walmart. I still cant find the new Ravage alt or Rumble alt. So lets hope that this is an alt and they will ship him with the other two.

Intriguing.

One could produce (essentially) transparent die-cast metal via a meshing technique, but it would be fragile and appear rather odd.

Ravage XK wrote:It cant be 100% clear can it, it would look pretty bad with all those pins and screws showing. I guess they will give him coloured tints.

Actually, I cant wait to see how they give him an invisible look. I hope its not just one flat colour, they have an opportunity to mix some reflective flakes in with the plastic or something.

Some of the e-hobby G1 "ghost" figures are all clear plastics. You can't really see the pegs and screws a whole lot and they look pretty decent.

As do however love the the reflective flake idea! Like when he would go invisable it ususally had a twilighty/warp to the bridge kind of look to it. Or maybe it could come with a little bit of light pipping to form his "disappearing box" effect.

Dude, that is the awesomest E-Hobby exclusive EVER.

any "secret" sources where we can go to reserve a piece of this cutting out the middle man with the inflated prices?

i feel really bad not grabbing a ghost starscream back when it was still affordable...trancluent stuff are wicked

I just might get this. I was lucky enough to pick up Alternator Mirage in the stores and he was a great toy. I really hope he's translucent to completely clear BUT with white paint highlights for details. Why? Old school animation used to use the same technique for invisible charectors. Such as the 60's Fantastic Four cartoon for Sue and even in certain episodes of G1 if memory serves. It would be a very nice touch.

YEAH I THINK IT WILL BE MADE THE SAME WAY ALONG THE LINES OF THE GHOST OF STARSCREAM FIGURE

Thats cool but a clear Classic Mirage would realy get me jumping!

Now, who ever said the BT line was dead?

Oh gee let me think since metal can't be clear it has to be glass
of course it is going to be plasic or of some kind of plastic

I'm hoping that it will have a few die-cast parts such as the interior frame, and a clear blue plastic.

Hmm...imagine if it was produced out of very pure, highly polished ulexite.

The figure would be expensive and fragile, but the effect would be incredible.

If you're uncertain as to the visual effect it provides, two-dimensional images don't really do it justice-it displays the surface of whatever is behind it on the face of it.

bbts has preorder up , sorry if this has already been posted

New face, eh?

Meh, boring, but curious how it will look.

Hmm...imagine if it was produced out of very pure, highly polished ulexite.

dude, that would be awesome! And since its not a flat surface, it'd have a cool Predator warping effect when it moves! But impossible... they may as well say they'd make it out of fabachay(?) eggs. Awesome mental visual though...

Megatron_Wolf wrote:

Down_Shift wrote:

Megatron_Wolf wrote:Is it Alternator or BinalTech?

It is going under the Binal Tech line, but it's unclear so far if it's die-cast or plastic. Mind you, it would have to be at least, mostly plastic as I don't think they can make see through die-cast metal

Clear die-cast would be awsome. I hope its Alt because i only seen the regular Mirage alt once at walmart. I still cant find the new Ravage alt or Rumble alt. So lets hope that this is an alt and they will ship him with the other two.

The other two alts are already shipping. This is an E-Hobby exclusive. Overseas...as in japanese exclusive. I can't recall any E-hobby exclusives being released over in the US...ever. But maybe my memory is faulty or something.

But maybe my memory is faulty or something.

Nope, no eHobby for us, ever...

Stormrider wrote:I'm hoping that it will have a few die-cast parts such as the interior frame, and a clear blue plastic.

It's actually not going to be clear. It will have a cloaking device and will be made of alien metal that allows near invisibility.
Now where did I put that thing.....

Down_Shift wrote: Or maybe it could come with a little bit of light pipping to form his "disappearing box" effect.

That would be kickass. It would be a must buy then.

Ultra Markus wrote:Oh gee let me think since metal can't be clear it has to be glass
of course it is going to be plasic or of some kind of plastic

You know... logic don't get much clearer than that.

buddha-con wrote:bbts has preorder up, sorry if this has already been posted

and somewhat reasonably priced. I've atleast reserved my pre-order at this point.

Depending on the price tag, this might be mine come September....

Often we debate which company is better Hasbro or Takara. I think Takara is going to up Hasbro again if their Mirage clear version comes off well.

Stormrider wrote:Often we debate which company is better Hasbro or Takara. I think Takara is going to up Hasbro again if their Mirage clear version comes off well.

Well, let's see they released a Hot Rod version of it, with fishing pole accesories...cool. (Winna' Takara)

Now a clear Mirage to represent his 'mirage' ability...how sweet! (Winna' Takara)

Now if Takara truly wants to win in that comparison, they need to include a fishing pole with Mirage that can work on the other arm of Hot Rodimus...so you can have a pair for your KP Rodimus...of course.

"Now you see me.... now you don't." -Mirage lol.

So cool! I was thinking how cool a clear version would be when he came out. Yay for e-hobby!

Not to mention Masterpiece Megs - Winna Takara

Let's all just move to Japan guys.