New images and preorders available for Kotobukiya D-Style Seekers

Tuesday, May 12th, 2015 3:21PM CDT

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Fellow Seibertronian Emerje told us he found the first preorders for the Kotobukiya D-Style Seekers which include Starscream, Thundercrakcer and Skywarp.

AmiAmi has the first pre-orders I've seen up, all coming in September.

Starscream - http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=TOY-RBT-3906&page=top

Thundercracker and Skywarp - http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=TOY-RBT-3907&page=top

They really outdid themselves with the photos this time!

Emerje was right about those photos. Below is just a sampling of the slew of awesome photos these new listings provided, enjoy.

Credit(s): Amiami

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Re: New images and preorders available for Kotobukiya D-Style Seekers (1684714)
Posted by Cobotron on May 12th, 2015 @ 3:23pm CDT

The "yelling" faces all make them look like toddlers fighting over the only shovel in the sand box. :lol:

But all the faces are fun and hilarious. If I didn't already have a bunch of MyClones from back in the day, I'd be all over these.

Re: New images and preorders available for Kotobukiya D-Style Seekers (1684727)
Posted by Wheeljack808 on May 12th, 2015 @ 3:55pm CDT

These are actually adorable and HILARIOUS. I may just get these. :lol:

Re: New images and preorders available for Kotobukiya D-Style Seekers (1684731)
Posted by necr0blivion on May 12th, 2015 @ 4:06pm CDT

Preordered! Something about these cute little guys just melts my blackened heart. And of course, I'm cool with chibi.

Re: New images and preorders available for Kotobukiya D-Style Seekers (1684733)
Posted by Robogeek1973 on May 12th, 2015 @ 4:10pm CDT

I put together Megatron and still need to find time to put together Prime. I also need to pick something up that I can darken those open mouths with, so they look better than they do right now without any black.

The Seekers are fantastic, and I preordered them as well this morning at HLJ.

Re: New images and preorders available for Kotobukiya D-Style Seekers (1684758)
Posted by gothsaurus on May 12th, 2015 @ 5:09pm CDT

So.... do these actually transform? I'm not seeing any robot bits or thickness under that airplane mode. Also don't see any creases where wings should pivot.

Re: New images and preorders available for Kotobukiya D-Style Seekers (1684781)
Posted by no-one on May 12th, 2015 @ 6:53pm CDT

So are these snap together model kits like some of the other Kotobukiya kits? I'm assuming pre painted?

I have a few of the Megaman kits and they are pretty cool.

Re: New images and preorders available for Kotobukiya D-Style Seekers (1684786)
Posted by fenrir72 on May 12th, 2015 @ 7:18pm CDT

So adorably evil! Remembering the pilot episode 30 years ago......

Unfortunately Megs is already sold out :sad:

Re: New images and preorders available for Kotobukiya D-Style Seekers (1684793)
Posted by MelRains on May 12th, 2015 @ 7:45pm CDT

Yes these are snap together plastic and no they are not pre painted. They'll require some paint to look exactly like the stock images. Most of these kits seem to use 3 or 4 different colors of plastic.

Re: New images and preorders available for Kotobukiya D-Style Seekers (1684800)
Posted by Emerje on May 12th, 2015 @ 8:20pm CDT

MelRains wrote:Yes these are snap together plastic and no they are not pre painted. They'll require some paint to look exactly like the stock images. Most of these kits seem to use 3 or 4 different colors of plastic.

I haven't received Megatron yet (any day now), but Optimus had the yellow on his belt pre-painted. I assumed all of them have at least one detail painted. But really these guys (or at least Optimus) look pretty good without paint. They use a lot of small colored parts instead of needing painted details. Just use an ultra fine tip pen to do the panel lines and you're golden.

My only wish is that Starscream had a darker face.

Emerje

Re: New images and preorders available for Kotobukiya D-Style Seekers (1684801)
Posted by fenrir72 on May 12th, 2015 @ 8:27pm CDT

MelRains wrote:Yes these are snap together plastic and no they are not pre painted. They'll require some paint to look exactly like the stock images. Most of these kits seem to use 3 or 4 different colors of plastic.

Kind of like Bandai's Mastergrade series. Looks good already but with paint applications, more the better.

Re: New images and preorders available for Kotobukiya D-Style Seekers (1684808)
Posted by shajaki on May 12th, 2015 @ 8:47pm CDT

I was thinking about getting these, then ultimately decided that they were too expensive for something I have to assemble myself...

Re: New images and preorders available for Kotobukiya D-Style Seekers (1684810)
Posted by no-one on May 12th, 2015 @ 8:52pm CDT

shajaki wrote:I was thinking about getting these, then ultimately decided that they were too expensive for something I have to assemble myself...

If they are anything like the Megaman one's; assembling is the easy part. The parts have to be taken off the sprues, then the remaining bit cleaned up.

I enjoyed putting them together, but not the prep-work.

I do like the look of these. I would like to see them in their unfinished state though.

Re: New images and preorders available for Kotobukiya D-Style Seekers (1684812)
Posted by MelRains on May 12th, 2015 @ 8:58pm CDT

As someone who occasionally does Gundam model kits, assembling is part of the fun.

Most of these do look good out of box, but the mini alt modes seem to be missing a lot of color.

Re: New images and preorders available for Kotobukiya D-Style Seekers (1685663)
Posted by Robogeek1973 on May 14th, 2015 @ 4:20pm CDT

shajaki wrote:I was thinking about getting these, then ultimately decided that they were too expensive for something I have to assemble myself...

But that's part of the fun. :lol:

Re: New images and preorders available for Kotobukiya D-Style Seekers (1685669)
Posted by gothsaurus on May 14th, 2015 @ 4:28pm CDT

Yeah, when it's the Kabaya kits and assembling a tiny fort max.... So so so so fun.

Re: New images and preorders available for Kotobukiya D-Style Seekers (1685888)
Posted by noctorro on May 15th, 2015 @ 4:52am CDT

william-james88 wrote:Fellow Seibertronian Emerje told us he found the first preorders for the Kotobukiya D-Style Seekers which include Starscream, Thundercrakcer and Skywarp.

AmiAmi has the first pre-orders I've seen up, all coming in September.

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