Japan Exclusive G1 Dino Casettes Being Released in the US As Part of Bumblebee Themed SDCC Exclusive

If I'm honest, a forest battle 4 pack would be better. Though I have a feeling that we'll get a metallic paint Predaking.

Pics are broken.... or maybe it's just my work computer. If they are, here ya go:

Bumblebee has finally fallen so low that they have to pack in other exclusives to get people to buy him. The oversaturation is real.

Lucky Logician wrote:Bumblebee has finally fallen so low that they have to pack in other exclusives to get people to buy him. The oversaturation is real.

Says you. I'd really like that gold studio Bumblebee and would be happy to just sell on the Cassettes if I was lucky enough to get this set.


Pains me they didn't fold his lower wing pieces down away from the doors for the promo pic though.

Now that is something I was not expecting, I was certain it was just going to follow other traditions and be Predaking but this is a nice surprise. Now why is it they decided to give the Dino tapes a release?

Now THAT is a reissue I wasn't expecting. But damn it's a cool one.

THEY HAD BETTER BE PRODUCING THE OTHER PAIR IN ANOTHER EXCLUSIVE OR SOMETHING I SWEAR

Awesome. Just awesome.

I guess there's an extra Bumblebee in this set, whatevs.

Would love to see more of these G1 cassettes like this, especially the other two molds as well as Zaur (or whoever) in the original colors - but also Dairu in a matching clear maybe? Either way, I think fans have a bigger appetite for oddball Deployer recolors than Hasbro realizes. Stick those in a blind box assortment and watch a Transformers blind box assortment actually sell for once

I wonder, will these cassette bots (although one is reassigned as a "con"), be featured in the Bumblebee movie?

Wolfman Jake wrote:I wonder, will these cassette bots (although one is reassigned as a "con"), be featured in the Bumblebee movie?

At the very most, I'm guessing their colour schemes will be based on cassettes from the movie, but I don't think we'll see Uruaz and Dairu themselves.

Lucky Logician wrote:Bumblebee has finally fallen so low that they have to pack in other exclusives to get people to buy him. The oversaturation is real.

I don't know what it's like elsewhere, but there are little to no Bumblebees left in any toy store where I live. The only Bumblebee figure still shelfwarming is the TLK one-step changer (and even then he's outnumbered by Grimlock), all the others are gone. There are plenty of Twinfernos, Hot Rods, Grimlocks, Soundwaves and even Megatrons, but not many Bumblebees. So as much as we all hate him, I'd take that as a small indicator that Bumblebee toys do sell.