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Comment by gothsaurus
Jul 19, 2018
Okay. Knowing we are getting both cassettes solid color and both clear, I'm pretty stoked. These will probably be the only toys I get from the Bee movie.
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Comment by Bounti76
Jul 19, 2018
So they're making us get two Bumblebee toy sets in order to get ONE set of the original Dinocasette combiners and one clear plastic version of the same combiner, but that version is a Decepticon, and the other Dinocasette combiner is nowhere to be seen. Okaaaaaaay.....
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Comment by Emerje
Jul 19, 2018
[quote="Emerje"]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?).
So I was right about Uriad, but wrong about NYCC. I think I'm going to pass on these unless I come into a sudden windfall and hope Takara does these in Encore.
Emerje
So I was right about Uriad, but wrong about NYCC. I think I'm going to pass on these unless I come into a sudden windfall and hope Takara does these in Encore.
Emerje
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Comment by chuckdawg1999
Jul 19, 2018
I'm confused. Is the vol 2 set available at SDCC now as well?
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It's entirely possible they only had Legout's mold(s) available and couldn't find Decibel's (if they still exist), kinda like how when FunPub used the Grand pretender shell, they had to substitute weapon molds from Titans Return because they couldn't find Grand's, of how they were going to put Takara's "Metals" version of Jaguar/Ravage in the BW 10th anniversary line but the mold went MIA at some point after 3H used it for Tigatron at Botcon '01 (if I'm remembering these things right).
Speaking of Legout, I'm calling the evil version "Leogut" until an official name surfaces, because it sounds like a decent bizzarro doppelganger name and "Tuogel" sounds like a brand of toothpaste.
Comment by Zeedust
Jul 19, 2018
Bounti76 wrote:So they're making us get two Bumblebee toy sets in order to get ONE set of the original Dinocasette combiners and one clear plastic version of the same combiner, but that version is a Decepticon, and the other Dinocasette combiner is nowhere to be seen. Okaaaaaaay.....
It's entirely possible they only had Legout's mold(s) available and couldn't find Decibel's (if they still exist), kinda like how when FunPub used the Grand pretender shell, they had to substitute weapon molds from Titans Return because they couldn't find Grand's, of how they were going to put Takara's "Metals" version of Jaguar/Ravage in the BW 10th anniversary line but the mold went MIA at some point after 3H used it for Tigatron at Botcon '01 (if I'm remembering these things right).
Speaking of Legout, I'm calling the evil version "Leogut" until an official name surfaces, because it sounds like a decent bizzarro doppelganger name and "Tuogel" sounds like a brand of toothpaste.
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Comment by triKlops
Jul 19, 2018
I seem to be having to acquire wayyy more Movie BBs than had ever crossed my mind recently.
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Comment by Autobot Roadburn
Jul 19, 2018
Well cool, I was just wondering how tough he'd Bee to pick up (hahahaha I'm not funny) but bam, right up on BBTS! I'm gonna grab him and the regular release, then display one with and one without the battle mask. He looks like a lot of fun, might even pick one up for my mom since she likes old VWs so much.
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Comment by Carnivius_Prime
Jul 20, 2018
I neeeeed this Bee. I do not need crappy G1 cassettes that Hasbro didn't think were worth releasing in their original era.
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Comment by leokearon
Jul 20, 2018
I like that it is different from the SDCC version so people who did get the SDCC version wouldn't be cheated.
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Comment by ausbot
Jul 20, 2018
Got the sdcc version dumping Bee keeping the cassettes.
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Comment by Gauntlet101010
Jul 20, 2018
I'm getting this for the cassettes, and the other version for them as well once it becomes available. I love me some transforming cassettes.
And it'll be nice to replace the KO versions I have with something legitimate.
I keep all my cassette guys separated. I really think these guys hit it out of the park all on their own and that's how I enjoy them most. Or maybe I'll keep my KOs out and combine these guys ...
As for Bee ... well, I'll enjoy him a bit before putting him away.
And it'll be nice to replace the KO versions I have with something legitimate.
I keep all my cassette guys separated. I really think these guys hit it out of the park all on their own and that's how I enjoy them most. Or maybe I'll keep my KOs out and combine these guys ...
As for Bee ... well, I'll enjoy him a bit before putting him away.
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Vol 1 is SDCC and later, HTS. Vol 2 is, well, pick an e-tailer!
Comment by ScottyP
Jul 20, 2018
Nah, some of us are just hurting from info overloadchuckdawg1999 wrote:I'm confused. Is the vol 2 set available at SDCC now as well?
Vol 1 is SDCC and later, HTS. Vol 2 is, well, pick an e-tailer!
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Comment by gothsaurus
Jul 20, 2018
Ok. Here's hoping they have something cooking for the near future to see a matching (double) release of the remaining dino cassettes. (Even if it means retooling them. Putting out half of them would be pretty cruel.)
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Comment by Sabrblade
Jul 21, 2018
New info from David Willis about how these cassettes were made:
Just goes to show how much Warden and his team love rare and obscure stuff from JG1 that they'd go to the trouble of making all new molds of super-rare Japanese-original cassette molds of Holy Grail status.
So these are not the original molds brought back after all, but brand new molds altogether.Msging with Phil Donnelly, who said he asked John Warden about how they got the dinocassettes back.
They're completely new tooling.
They're extrapolated from the original wooden two-ups, so they should be fairly accurate to the originals, but...
...they are new tooling.
*reads up*
also that might be why the combined form doesn't have a mouth
Just goes to show how much Warden and his team love rare and obscure stuff from JG1 that they'd go to the trouble of making all new molds of super-rare Japanese-original cassette molds of Holy Grail status.
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"Wooden two-ups"? So let me get this straight: are they referring to the original wooden models, twice the actual size of the toys, made before final changes that resulted in Legout having a mouth?
Comment by Jelze Bunnycat
Jul 21, 2018
Sabrblade wrote:New info from David Willis about how these cassettes were made:So these are not the original molds brought back after all, but brand new molds altogether.Msging with Phil Donnelly, who said he asked John Warden about how they got the dinocassettes back.
They're completely new tooling.
They're extrapolated from the original wooden two-ups, so they should be fairly accurate to the originals, but...
...they are new tooling.
*reads up*
also that might be why the combined form doesn't have a mouth
Just goes to show how much Warden and his team love rare and obscure stuff from JG1 that they'd go to the trouble of making all new molds of super-rare Japanese-original cassette molds of Holy Grail status.
"Wooden two-ups"? So let me get this straight: are they referring to the original wooden models, twice the actual size of the toys, made before final changes that resulted in Legout having a mouth?
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The Dinobots are way les obscure, why dont they get this tretment!?
Comment by william-james88
Jul 21, 2018
Sabrblade wrote:New info from David Willis about how these cassettes were made:So these are not the original molds brought back after all, but brand new molds altogether.Msging with Phil Donnelly, who said he asked John Warden about how they got the dinocassettes back.
They're completely new tooling.
They're extrapolated from the original wooden two-ups, so they should be fairly accurate to the originals, but...
...they are new tooling.
*reads up*
also that might be why the combined form doesn't have a mouth
Just goes to show how much Warden and his team love rare and obscure stuff from JG1 that they'd go to the trouble of making all new molds of super-rare Japanese-original cassette molds of Holy Grail status.
The Dinobots are way les obscure, why dont they get this tretment!?
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Not to mention that Archer's team didn't have the boner for G1 that Warden's team has, so they likely wouldn't have done this for the Dino cassettes if they were still around (instead of Warden's team) anyway. Archer's team never reproduced new G1 molds for reissues, they only reissued ones that were still around (though, the Jazz mold's degradation was fixed for Ricochet's reissue, but that was likely done by Takara themselves for their their contemporaneous Stepper reissue). So they wouldn't have gone to the trouble of making new molds of the G1 Dinobots.
And now that Warden's team has just so recently given us all new toys of the G1 Dinobots in POTP, that makes even less of an incentive for Warden's team to make new G1 Dinobot molds.
Comment by Sabrblade
Jul 21, 2018
I guess Warden and Friends figure that something never released in the U.S. before that has held "untouchable Holy Grail" status for all these years is special enough to warrant such special treatment, as opposed to the released-multiple-times-at-U.S.-mass-retail-in-both-the-80s-and-90s G1 Dinobot molds.william-james88 wrote:The Dinobots are way les obscure, why dont they get this tretment!?
Not to mention that Archer's team didn't have the boner for G1 that Warden's team has, so they likely wouldn't have done this for the Dino cassettes if they were still around (instead of Warden's team) anyway. Archer's team never reproduced new G1 molds for reissues, they only reissued ones that were still around (though, the Jazz mold's degradation was fixed for Ricochet's reissue, but that was likely done by Takara themselves for their their contemporaneous Stepper reissue). So they wouldn't have gone to the trouble of making new molds of the G1 Dinobots.
And now that Warden's team has just so recently given us all new toys of the G1 Dinobots in POTP, that makes even less of an incentive for Warden's team to make new G1 Dinobot molds.
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Comment by Emerje
Jul 22, 2018
That's interesting. I had assumed they were a partial retool using what was left of the original molds, but it's a little strange that they based it on the 2up which wouldn't have been the final design.
Emerje
Emerje
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Comment by gothsaurus
Jul 23, 2018
I'm pretty excited by the effort they made to do this. Give me hope for the other two to be release... and for other oddities I'd kinda stopped hoping or expecting to be released. Props to the new team for digging deep and giving us this. I'm glad to buy an extra bumblebee to get them. Glad to see them as an exclusive. Again, whatever it takes to find a good place to plug in the toys — convention or online store exclusive, box set, etc. Bravo.
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Comment by triKlops
Aug 4, 2018
