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New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker
Posted by El Duque
Mar 7, 2012 at 2:17am CST
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Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker
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Comment by alldarker
Mar 7, 2012
Wow, those cassettes are pretty...
Glad to see Soundblaster DOES have a volume-wheel; one of the first Soundblasters out there in hand was noted to lack that volume button, but that must have been a QC problem...
These pics make it very tempting to hit that BBTS PoL (where my Soundblaster and Twin cast currently reside) shipping button.
BTW, I never owned a Blaster or a Twincast, so I'm pretty surprised to see such a big size difference between Twincast and Soundblaster.
Glad to see Soundblaster DOES have a volume-wheel; one of the first Soundblasters out there in hand was noted to lack that volume button, but that must have been a QC problem...
These pics make it very tempting to hit that BBTS PoL (where my Soundblaster and Twin cast currently reside) shipping button.
BTW, I never owned a Blaster or a Twincast, so I'm pretty surprised to see such a big size difference between Twincast and Soundblaster.
Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker
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Comment by DevastaTTor
Mar 7, 2012
Makes me think I migh need to pick up Soundblaster while I'm here in Singapore. Those tapes are kickass!
Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker
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Comment by mattwhite924
Mar 7, 2012
Dang, I was gonna try and avoid getting these, but they look so dang nice. I'm at least going to have to pick up Soundblaster.
Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker
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Comment by Gauntlet101010
Mar 7, 2012
No shots of Nightstalker with his former comrade Ravage?
These guys look great. Especially the cassettes. I wish Takara would make new G1-style cassettes, though. New molds, not just recolors.
These guys look great. Especially the cassettes. I wish Takara would make new G1-style cassettes, though. New molds, not just recolors.
Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker
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Comment by Mkall
Mar 7, 2012
I'm very greatful I ditched the Prime Line in favour of these guys.
Great shots boss!
Great shots boss!
Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker
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Comment by XenoStryker
Mar 7, 2012
In my opinion, the quality of these toys is sub-par. Honesty not worth the money you're going to have to dish out. The pictures are nice, but once it's in hand it's another story altogether. I'll be making a full post/mini-review later today on the forum as to why I feel that way.
Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker
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That's unfortunate, look forward to your review.
Comment by El Duque
Mar 7, 2012
XenoStryker wrote:In my opinion, the quality of these toys is sub-par. Honesty not worth the money you're going to have to dish out. The pictures are nice, but once it's in hand it's another story altogether. I'll be making a full post/mini-review later today on the forum as to why I feel that way.
That's unfortunate, look forward to your review.
Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker
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XenoStryker, do you own other versions of these molds? I'm curious to read your review as well. I own 5 different versions of the Blaster/Twincast mold and 7 versions of the Soundwave/Soundblaster mold, and every single Transformers cassette mold ever made, I don't see how this release is any different than previous releases. Quality is the same as with other releases.
On a personal note, I think these two sets are ingenious. I love that someone at Takara Tomy took the time to find such obscure characters in the Transformers Universe. Wingthing was long overdue, Enemy ... well, it's about time, Nightstalker and Stripes are pure genius uses of existing molds and the weapon swap was really awesome. They even took the time to update the box artwork accordingly, which I think went far beyond the call of duty.
Comment by Seibertron
Mar 7, 2012
El Duque wrote:XenoStryker wrote:In my opinion, the quality of these toys is sub-par. Honesty not worth the money you're going to have to dish out. The pictures are nice, but once it's in hand it's another story altogether. I'll be making a full post/mini-review later today on the forum as to why I feel that way.
That's unfortunate, look forward to your review.
XenoStryker, do you own other versions of these molds? I'm curious to read your review as well. I own 5 different versions of the Blaster/Twincast mold and 7 versions of the Soundwave/Soundblaster mold, and every single Transformers cassette mold ever made, I don't see how this release is any different than previous releases. Quality is the same as with other releases.
On a personal note, I think these two sets are ingenious. I love that someone at Takara Tomy took the time to find such obscure characters in the Transformers Universe. Wingthing was long overdue, Enemy ... well, it's about time, Nightstalker and Stripes are pure genius uses of existing molds and the weapon swap was really awesome. They even took the time to update the box artwork accordingly, which I think went far beyond the call of duty.
Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker
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Comment by leokearon
Mar 7, 2012
Got mine in the post this morning and I love both of them
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Comment by craggy
Mar 7, 2012
not buying these, but those cassettes look really nice. I'll second the call for new mold Cassetticons, even if they're PE-effect style/upscaled mini-cons.
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Comment by Screamfleet
Mar 8, 2012
soundblaster will have to be something I think about. The price is just, not very agreeable though.
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Comment by Blurrz
Mar 11, 2012
Twincast just looks exceptional.
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Comment by Bowspearer
Mar 18, 2012
To me, this set picks up the ball and then drops it. Enemy you can let slide, but the fact that they went with Wingthing and then didn't continue it screams out missed opportunity.
Just using the Cassette molds that have been released there was so much scope to cover Action Master partners in addition to Wingthing. Here are some possibilities which come to mind:
Ramhorn: Firebeast (Charger), Top Heavy (Skyfall)
Steeljaw: Lionizer (Rad)
Lazerbeak: Sights (Jackpot), Screech (Take-Off)
Ravage: Catgut (Treadshot)
Overkill: Tyrannitron (Snarl)
Yet this seems to have been completely ignored with Cassette choices for Twincast. Hopefully we get another Encore Cassette set or 2 that gives us these figures.
Just using the Cassette molds that have been released there was so much scope to cover Action Master partners in addition to Wingthing. Here are some possibilities which come to mind:
Ramhorn: Firebeast (Charger), Top Heavy (Skyfall)
Steeljaw: Lionizer (Rad)
Lazerbeak: Sights (Jackpot), Screech (Take-Off)
Ravage: Catgut (Treadshot)
Overkill: Tyrannitron (Snarl)
Yet this seems to have been completely ignored with Cassette choices for Twincast. Hopefully we get another Encore Cassette set or 2 that gives us these figures.
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Comment by Gauntlet101010
Mar 19, 2012
Just got both of these guys in today. Ain't gonna lie: I bought the sets just for the casettes ... especially since I already have Twincast.
I don't know why they use those terrible looking tape spools on NightStalker. A lot of HATE for that choice. But, that's nitpicking terribly on such a great addition to the casettte cast! He's definately my favorite of them all. He has a great connnection both visially and fictionally with Ravage and shares his awsome color scheme.
Still ... I wish Takara would make some new casette molds for any new characters. As neat as it is to have "wacky" colors for these well known molds, I'd have liked it better had they made Nightstalker and Striped entirely new molds instead of repaints. Although, considering the job they did on Universe Ravage .... maybe they've lost their touch.
I don't know why they use those terrible looking tape spools on NightStalker. A lot of HATE for that choice. But, that's nitpicking terribly on such a great addition to the casettte cast! He's definately my favorite of them all. He has a great connnection both visially and fictionally with Ravage and shares his awsome color scheme.
Still ... I wish Takara would make some new casette molds for any new characters. As neat as it is to have "wacky" colors for these well known molds, I'd have liked it better had they made Nightstalker and Striped entirely new molds instead of repaints. Although, considering the job they did on Universe Ravage .... maybe they've lost their touch.
