New Working KO Version of Real Gear Meantime

Wow, just goes to show how much Hasbro (at times) sucks.

just to add to that, it's great they have a working watch, but yellow and purple?

Even though Hasbro cheaped out on a working digital, at least he still looked cool.

Hasbro so could have done this.

Then again, with an expendable watch and some tools, we could do Jin's mod ourselves...

Bumblethumper wrote:Wow, just goes to show how much Hasbro (at times) sucks.

Care to expand on that thought? This is a KO release. Or are you saying, that Hasbro should have done this instead of a KO company making it?

OH NO KO'S, not even this can lure me in!

I saw Jin's custom walk through, and I want the quality silver KronoForm Watch/Calculator guy that my sister lost on me back in the day(yes G1 had real RealGears).

So I say NO to your temptations tempting as they may be!

Plus I don't like wearing watches, so if that helps me stay vigilant, so be it!

Still, I sead it from the start, this should have been done in the first place.

what is that one in the picture next to "cool"? another colorway, perhaps?

"cool"+"go to school"= ROFL

So the RealGear become 'REAL' gear that can function.

Er 1 question, What is 'KO' mean? I've heard this many time in toy forum, did it mean bootleg?

Might_Jin wrote:So the RealGear become 'REAL' gear that can function.

Er 1 question, What is 'KO' mean? I've heard this many time in toy forum, did it mean bootleg?

aye. it stands for "Knock-Off"

i_amtrunks wrote:

Bumblethumper wrote:Wow, just goes to show how much Hasbro (at times) sucks.

Care to expand on that thought?

They suck when the KO version does something that the original couldn't, but by all rights should've. They sucked by cheaping out on the official toy. Even in the eighties they were able to do working watch transformers with the Kronoforms.

More krazy colours on show in GotoSchool's store:





And one half decent one in more or less official colours:

im diggin the Blanka one!

You know, I would by a working Meantime watch. That is, ofcourse, that it could fit one my wrist unlike the official one. It would be nice if Hasbro made a working Meantime watch available. Perhaps in the new Premium series? Adjust the wristband of the toy so it can fit on any adults wrist. Make it look a little more realistic. And ofcourse, add a real working clock mechanism. Maybe even make out of metal/diecast. If costs $100, so be it. I'd buy 1. It would make a great BotCon attendee exclusive.

Won't fit on my wrist. Oh well.

I like the idea but if the real one wont stay on my wrist i doubt this one will. It doesnt look like they extended the wristband part.

fraggin' a! duz he still have all teh articulation of teh original meantime? lmao that the official one is actually LESS appealing than a ko w/ a rediculous color scheme

Now, that was what I was expecting from that partiocular tf. Awesome!

I hope they make a KO Real Gear Power Up VT6

working or not,
fits or not,

the most important thing to me for a TF watch alt mode
is it needs to look bling-bling.

two-words

Gold Lightan

YEAH BABY!!!

none of those colors look good

It's a nice gimmick, but it's not really worth it ... I'd never actually wear a watch like that.

And what's with the colors? Honestly, it's like they looked at G2 for inspiration on these...

definitely feeling some G2 there, although the navy-colored one is pretty sweet

I probably would've worn these in Elementary School. I wore a watch-replica of the communicator from Power Rangers, that's how much of a dork I was. Actually I don't know if that would've been considered dorky, because ALL my friends were into G2 at the time. I was the only one with Bruticus, too.

I have to admit tho ... Even tho I've never worn one and would never wear a novelty watch, if HasTak made a working Meantime it'd be bumped to a "must have" purely for the novelty value.

If they had good colors anyhow.

I don't think it's fair to say they dropped the ball (for those who do) on not making him a working watch ... doing so would raise the price of the toy and it's not like he's a memorable character or anything, so it'd be a risk.

I like it. Hasbro should have done this and sold him as a slightly marked up realgear - maybe the realgear decepticon leader or such like. I like KO's that use originality or slight mold changes, I just hate it when people make KO's in the right colours and try to pass them off as the real thing. Btw - Meantime fits on my wrist an I'm 29 so some of you must have damn big wrists! ( or maybe I got slim ones :-p )

Why does the box he comes in say "Lunchables" in the corner? lol

I hate the Real Gear, therefore I hate this. Yuck

doomboy536 wrote:I hate the Real Gear, therefore I hate this. Yuck

In Russia, Real Gear hates YOU!

and so does Bonecrusher... he hates Russia, too. and Real Gear.

doomboy536 wrote:I hate the Real Gear, therefore I hate this. Yuck

Well, I hated the movie, hate the movie toys just as bad... but a working watch Transformer is something I find hard to not love.

Of course, Hasbro didn't make it, but I also find it hard to give a crap at this point lol. (Better) Knock-Offs ahoy!

And what's with the colors? Honestly, it's like they looked at G2 for inspiration on these...

Older. That orange and green one reminds me of Max Calibur (G1 Roadbuster).

wow a mean time ROLEX that be so cool

Everyone is kind of mad at hasbro for not doing this in the first place...but think about it. First, does Hasbro have the facilities to do a working watch? Second, would they have been able to keep the Real Gear price point with a fully functional watch?

The screen doesn't seem to rotate... that's a bit annoying. The blue one looks cool.

Like Dr. Z pointed out, I wouldn't wear this as a watch (even if it did fit on my wrist) because the screen would be 90* off from me trying to read it... I think it'd be quite annoying, although you could probably get used to it after a while...

First-Aid wrote:Everyone is kind of mad at hasbro for not doing this in the first place...but think about it. First, does Hasbro have the facilities to do a working watch?

Watch components and or third party manufacturers for such things are a dime a dozen. If they have them in gumball machines for 25 to 50 cents, it shouldn't be to hard an item to acquire.

Second, would they have been able to keep the Real Gear price point with a fully functional watch?

Maybe, maybe not... but to anyone who knows their stuff, it should (keyword "should") be understood that it's a no-brainer as far as demand goes.
Whether it's a child bringing a transformer toy to school and having a functional excuse to do so, or a dude bringing one with him to the office to sit on his desk and look retro/cute/cool/nerdy... it'd sell at double it's price point, worst case scenario at 150% it's current cost.

There's a reason there were a dozen different Kronoform type guys in the past.
Even more reason that they sold out well even though mass-produced.

Transformers fans grew up... child Transformers customers have grown up... the toys need to too, by adding that valid excuse to have them.

It's 2008... I want to walk into Walmart and buy a transformer wristwatch, a transformer boombox, a transformer mp3 player, transformer computer speakers...
...you know, stuff that isn't merely a toy... something to validate it's purchase in front of those who find it a total lost cause of childishness.
A humorous excuse to still remain a kid.


(and for Hasbro, profit!)

It's a truly untapped market.

You can get a working watch at a dollar store. Thus it falls to reason that a company can get the inner workings of a digital watch for less than a dollar. At most this means if they had designed Meantime from the ground up to be a working watch, it would have added at most a dollar to the design, and that's if they went out and bought real watch mechanisms retail! If they did that AND add a band-extender for adult sized wrists, I'd say LOTS of adult TF fans be wearing working Meantimes right now as a novelty.

Dare I say that one, good, functional, adult-fitting Meantime figure sold at $10 could quite possibly have brought in more profit than all the (yawningly) diverse movie toys put together?

We should be WEARING functional Transformers all over us by now.

We should all have that ONE device somewhere in our lives that we use daily, which transforms into a toy robot.

Yeah, this thing is a little exposing for Hasbro, to say the least.

what?

real gears are just toys designed to mimic every day objects. they were never intended to actually work as every day objects.

they really are just pretend toys for kids.

Those colours are just NASTY! As usual though the KOs do a better job than HASBRO by actually adding the working watch function to this.

I could use that thing for my kitbash project if the price is about $2.

mattyc1007 wrote:wow a mean time ROLEX that be so cool

that's what I'm talkin aboot!!!!!