New Galleries: Q-Transformers from Takara Tomy

I hate to admit it, but I just might have to get these guys. Really dig the intro to the animation.

We've seen the confusingly amusing animated shorts for the series, we've seen multiple posts for different parts of the line, and a previous gallery update with the earlier wave - now you can take a proper, full look at some of the Takara Tomy super deformed Q Transformers!

The newest update in the Seibertron.com galleries brings us QT11 Autobot Meister (Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86), QT12 Sunstreaker (Mazda RX-7 FD3S), QT13 Alert (Lamborghini Countach LP500S), and QT14 Smokescreen (Nissan Fairlady Z 280Z-T) in their homage to the Choro-Q line (which you might know as Penny Racers outside of Japan - click on any image below to view the full works!

Q-Transformers Smokescreen








Q-Transformers Red Alert








Q-Transformers Sunstreaker








Q-Transformers Jazz

Jazz and Sunstreaker vehicles are all so oddly wrong. After putting out one Lambo, I can't believe they can't follow up with a matching one. So strange. Same for Bluestreak on the horizon. Why not all three Datsuns.

Someone up there needs a stern talking to.

That said, of course I LOVE these. If they can stick to their guns a little better, I'll be really pleased.

Starting the week with some more Takara Tomy Q-Transformers photogalleries, one of our site owner's newly developed pleasures! Check out below three new molds from the superdeformed little formers, currently part of a marketing initiative in Tokyo Bay, and spanning animated and live-action aesthetics.

This update brings us all QT-18 Nemesis Prime (Western Star 4900 SB), QT-15 Hound (Suzuki Hustler) and QT-16 Bluestreak (Subaru WRX STI). Click on any of the images below to view the full galleries!

Q-Transformers Nemesis Prime






Q-Transformers Hound






Q-Transformers Bluestreak

their target audience is me. I'm putting them on my desk.

Rated X wrote:Exactly who is the target audience supposed to be for these things ? I dont get it...

Japanese consumers love tiny cute things.

When Bot Shots were sold over in Japan as the BeCool line, the game aspect we had in the West was excised over there, and the marketing gimmick that they used instead was just the small, simple, cutesyness of the toys alone, and it worked enough for them to even get versions of the toys that we never got.

It's just a different market with a different mindset.


And as an aside, the show's hilarious (though it would probably be moreso if it were subbed in English, since I can only get a basic understanding of what they're saying in Japanese).

I love the heads on these things, anyone know if the heads would look out of place on say a generations figure? I cant find a pic for scale reference

Rated X wrote:Exactly who is the target audience supposed to be for these things ? I dont get it...

probablythe same people who also find bot shots cool
anyway i think these ones look way better http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Choro-Q
too bad they didn't make more like that

We have some more Seibertron.com exclusive toy galleries, featuring some more superdeformed Takara Tomy Q Transformers! Feast your eyes below on the leaders of the Autobot and Decepticon factions from wave 5 - the same as Nemesis Prime here: QT-19 Optimus Prime (Convoy), in his G1 flatnosed truck cab, and QT-20 Megatron, sporting a Lamborghini Veneno altmode. Click on any image below to view the full galleries!


Q-Transformers Convoy








Q-Transformers Megatron

They are fun little figures, but expensive for what they are. There are already recolours, so I suspect that TT will milk them dry. The G1 Prime has already been scalped at a Toys R us near me (notably as every single other figure was still there, in large amounts), so I suspect they have all gone to either Hong Kong scalpers, or domestic ones via Yahoo Japan auctions.