New Images of Takara Animated Pose Figures

Great finds Diem!

fenrir72 wrote::APPLAUSE: Great finds Diem!

Thanks mate.

I have to say that cheap though these guys are their paint apps are superlative. No smudging, no funky edges. Shame that Megatron's face looks a little too cadaverous, Optimus is barely holding his axe (and has a sore case of Tiny Head Syndrome) and Bumblebee...actually, 'Bee's fine.

I don't see the point of Transformers that don't transform and have almost no articulation.

fenrir72 wrote:@Autobot32

Chalk it to Japanese "Engrish". What the line meaning "Pose" figures means, well the figures doing their animation poses. Not necessarily meaning "poseable" like Figma or Revoltech.

So technically speaking, Diem's title is accurate.

Fair enough.

Still sucks though.

Autobot032 wrote:Wow, those are incorrectly labeled.

There's nothing to pose, they're just rubber statues with a few moving parts.

Now, if they had been Revoltech or something, that would've been impressive.

To put it in context:

In Japan, it's pretty common to get figures from popular anime or games that come in sets like this. For example, when I bought these three there were figures for Onepiece and Dragonball. The big difference between those sets and the Animated sets is that those sets are made of nicer plastic, are a little more expensive and are completely unposable. They're basically statuettes.

Hence Takara calling these guys "Pose Figures". They wanted to make it extra clear, I guess. There's blurb on the front and side of the box going on about the mighty six-part articulation they have, so...

Mykltron wrote:I don't see the point of Transformers that don't transform and have almost no articulation.

Robot Heroes are awesome.

These Pose Figures are almost certainly aimed at little kids who love the cartoon but can't yet handle a real Transformer without breaking all the pegs and eating the accessories. It's pretty common over here to be able to buy indestructible plas-rubber figures of toddler role models such as Ultraman for two-year-olds to drag around, chew on and hit one-another over the head with.

Diem wrote:Robot Heroes are awesome.

I couldn't agree more. These however, do nothing for me.

Ugh, shrimps. The only small-fries I'll ever get is the mini-Megatron that's coming out later. Technically, I have the Megatron pistol that came with MP Prime, but I'm getting the Legends figure anyway, just to say I got him.

Totally aware of the translation, and the DBZ figures are very nice. I have a few with the figures from waaay back when I was watching DBZ before the toonami poularity phase. Those DBZ figures sat at my desk when I worked at the Citadel back in '98 - 2000. I had the ones from GT with the interchangeable heads if we're talking about the same ones.

Now to non transformable TF's, I don't like them. Attactix, 3" titanium, and Robot Heroes are really backwards to me. What TF fans see in them I don't know but I teach my yougins the art of transforming. It's just my two year old likes his toys in vehicle mode, including his Alternators which surprisingly are intact because of it.