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.

Quantum Surge wrote:Though I have a feeling that we'll get a metallic paint Predaking.

I dont. I am pretty certain we wont get that.

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

Oooooh! I dig it!

Although $60 is a lot for a repaint of a figure I already have with 2 cassettes who look cool but don't go with anything I have.

I do think this is what Bee will look like at the end of the movie though, if that's the case I just might buy another SS Bumblebee and paint it to look like this, doesn't look like it'd be too difficult.

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

A quite note about the names:

Dairu: The original translation, "Dial" is actually an error as the original kana, ダイル, read as "Dairu", something the SDCC set got right ("Dial" has an extra ヤ, ya). It's from either "reptile" or "crocodile", resulting in "Dile" as a name.
Uruaz: "Zauru" spelled backwards Simply from "dinosaur", with "Saur" as alternate translation.

Color me surprised with this, I half expected the molds to be lost! Can we get Graphy and Noize too?

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.

Anybody notice the Studio Series number 19 on the packaging? So, where are the other 4 studio series figures? That being 15,16,17,18? Could those be the code-named Greaser Gang, Techie Team, Jock Squad and Toilet Troop?

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?

MegaX Master wrote:Anybody notice the Studio Series number 19 on the packaging? So, where are the other 4 studio series figures? That being 15,16,17,18? Could those be the code-named Greaser Gang, Techie Team, Jock Squad and Toilet Troop?

Makes sense, in that it doesn't make sense. They threw SS Thundercracker into the mix, with an already used number with zero regard. I don't think they care

This set is truly bizarre. I love it, but damn, that's what I call left field. Kinda bugs me how one of the tapes is candy and the other is solid. And there's two more missing.

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

Didn't the cassettes combine to form Legout?


Still I would have preferred the cassettes without the Bumblebee, not that I could ever get it

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

This is so weird, i have many questions, but I don't think I will get answers to them. This set is nice though, if only I would be able to get it.

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

it says volume 1. this makes me wonder if there will be a volume 2.
also it reminds me of Guardians of the Galaxy. and while you are here, whats your favorite song from the soundtrack. could be from either the first one or the second one

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

MegaX Master wrote:Could those be the code-named Greaser Gang, Techie Team, Jock Squad and Toilet Troop?

I think you might be right, though that would also mean these are going to be shared with Amazon, too. As soon as I saw "Retro Rock Garage" on the box I instantly thought Greaser Gang. Could it be that the other four will contain Graphy and Noise, Grand Slam and Raindance, and Beastbox and Squawktalk?

Who knew these molds were even still viable? What the heck, why didn't you reissue these years ago, Takara Tomy? And finally do the Seacons in the right colors while you're at it!

Emerje

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.

Welp, we called it on the Pidcast that SDCC woyld get a Bumblebee, although nit THAT Bumblebee.

And Cassettes? I wat those. I wount go through the hassle of SDCC exckusives to get them, so I probably wot ever own them, but I want them.

leokearon wrote:Didn't the cassettes combine to form Legout?

Yup. But its gonna be super weird here since one is translucent and the other isnt.


KO Transformers Legout Gallery

shajaki wrote:

MegaX Master wrote:Anybody notice the Studio Series number 19 on the packaging? So, where are the other 4 studio series figures? That being 15,16,17,18? Could those be the code-named Greaser Gang, Techie Team, Jock Squad and Toilet Troop?

Makes sense, in that it doesn't make sense. They threw SS Thundercracker into the mix, with an already used number with zero regard. I don't think they care

No they didn't. Thundercracker was 09. Nobody else used that number in Hasbro's SS line.

Takara's SS-09 was indeed Jazz, but they did not release Thundercracker at all. And switched the numbering for Brawl and Megatron. So Brawl ended up with the same number 12 in both lines, but for different reasons, and Megatron is #11.

In Hasbro's line release, The only 09 is Thundercracker. Jazz got number 10, and then everything else from there.

If this is Hasbro's #19. Then there should de 4 more SS released before it. Which makes the 4 unknown Amazon listings a pretty solid possibility.


With that said, its very interesting indeed they decided to release these cassettes. Instead of other non Japanese only cassettes in this set.

william-james88 wrote:

leokearon wrote:Didn't the cassettes combine to form Legout?

Yup. But its gonna be super weird here since one is translucent and the other isnt.

It's even weirder than that since one is an Autobot and the other is a Decepticon. What were they thinking?

Also noticed they retooled the limbs to remove the metal rivets, replacing them with metal pegs and pins. Probably the specialized machines required to do the riveting don't exist any more.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

leokearon wrote:Didn't the cassettes combine to form Legout?

Yup. But its gonna be super weird here since one is translucent and the other isnt.

It's even weirder than that since one is an Autobot and the other is a Decepticon. What were they thinking?

Also noticed they retooled the limbs to remove the metal rivets, replacing them with metal pegs and pins. Probably the specialized machines required to do the riveting don't exist any more.

Emerje

Funny, I looked at my Transmetal Waspinator and wondered why we don't get figures with those rivets anymore. Not that it especially bothers me in any way but it is interesting.

It would be cool to get another set with new movie Bumblebee and the othe two cassettes

I'll be getting this for the casettes

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Color me surprised with this, I half expected the molds to be lost! Can we get Graphy and Noize too?

If they manage that, maybe they could also find a use for the Squawktalk/Beastbox and Grandslam/Raindance molds too, just to round things out.

Interesting set.Looks cool.I wonder if the box gonna give some sort of lore to explain why these characters are together.

Munkky wrote:

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.

Same here,where I live,most movies Bumblebees are gone in short time after they appear.

Same here, the best selling toy from TLK was that repackaged one from AOE which was selling at a 33% premium. And it still sold like hot cakes.

Munkky wrote:So as much as we all hate him, I'd take that as a small indicator that Bumblebee toys do sell.

Wait, what? I don't hate him at all. :O

william-james88 wrote:

leokearon wrote:Didn't the cassettes combine to form Legout?

Yup. But its gonna be super weird here since one is translucent and the other isnt.


KO Transformers Legout Gallery

Legout looks super weird already, so it doesn't matter. Still it's a shame I wouldn't be able to get them.

This is certainly... unexpected, but hey, freakin' Dile and Saur, man. Goldbrick Bumblebee actually doesn't look too bad either.
They're gonna make one G2 neon funky looking Legout with those colors, though.

Ohhh. It’s Zauru spelled backwards.

william-james88 wrote:

Quantum Surge wrote:Though I have a feeling that we'll get a metallic paint Predaking.

I dont. I am pretty certain we wont get that.

that would look pretty awesome to have predaking with all the bling of gold chrome

If someone wants to go in for half, they can keep the Bumblejunk. All I want is the cassettes. Otherwise I'd drop the car into the Goodwill donation box.

I am so fracking stoked for the dino cassettes The Originals are always so expensive it'll be awesome to finally be able to own these molds officially..... And being somebody who is trying to collect one of every single mold from 1984 through this makes me very happy!!!

I am so fracking stoked for the dino cassettes The Originals are always so expensive it'll be awesome to finally be able to own these molds officially..... And being somebody who is trying to collect one of every single mold from 1984 through this makes me very happy!!!

gothsaurus wrote:Ohhh. It’s Zauru spelled backwards.

Not just that. Anyone tried converting his image to negative colors?

Creeping ever closer to San Diego Comic Con 2018, we have another set of images from fellow Seibertronian Blacklai, featuring the SDCC exclusives G1 Dino micro Cassettes Dairu and Uruaz - included in the set with Bumblebee - from a variety of angles and modes, including their combined form!

It looks like, along with SDCC, this set will also be found at the Animation-Comic-Game Hong Kong (ACGHK) 2018 event later in July, too, so there may be more of this sets available than initially thought, even for the secondary (official) market. Check them out below, and let us know what you think in the Energon Pub!

I want to see more of the Bee, with his wings properly transformed.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:I want to see more of the Bee, with his wings properly transformed.

Be thankful you got pictures of him at all always make it into crime against humanity that toy is not toy transformed properly toy shows is to show what is come in store release not have toy look perfect little kids don’t care if toy properly transformed or not it’s playabilty to them these toys are made kids not adults

KO Transformers Legout Gallery

Legout(Lag out?) on TFU.info.

Ok, am I missing something here?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

gothsaurus wrote:Ohhh. It’s Zauru spelled backwards.

Not just that. Anyone tried converting his image to negative colors?

Lets pretend I havent been near my laptop for a while and cant invert. What is it?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Legout(Lag out?) on TFU.info.

Ok, am I missing something here?

I dont know, what are you asking?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Ok, am I missing something here?

Nope, just further proof that Hasbro went far out of their way to repair this mold (and gave him a worse face than the KO).

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Ok, am I missing something here?

Nope, just further proof that Hasbro went far out of their way to repair this mold (and gave him a worse face than the KO).

Emerje

I find it so odd then that they recreated the original colours for just one of the two casettes.

Those combined cassettes look terrible. Thankfully they weren't released in the US. It looks Go-Botish,full of screws, and. Awkward. That face. And as much as I love dinosaur transformers, it is too far a stretch to imagine a minicassette transform into a dinobot sized beast mode. Imagine how huge this cassette combiner's robot mode would be.

william-james88 wrote:

Emerje wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Ok, am I missing something here?

Nope, just further proof that Hasbro went far out of their way to repair this mold (and gave him a worse face than the KO).

Emerje

I find it so odd then that they recreated the original colours for just one of the two casettes.

Because it's a different character. Dairu is the Studio Series version of Dile, but Uruaz is the evil twin to Zauru (hence being a Decepticon) according to Hasbro themselves. And since they've basically confirmed they're making a tradition of this expect Decepticon Uriad and Autobot Zauru next year (or perhaps at NYCC?). And looking into this it might also be why they didn't go with the name Dile since "Elid" seems to be a made up name used in the game Runescape, but nobody uses Uriad.

Emerje

Please take no offense to this, but all that Sounded like complete nonsense to me.

It looks like Torq III. https://goo.gl/images/XbvnEz

https://goo.gl/images/XbvnEz