New Pictures Of Dark Of The Moon Figures, Botcon Dead End And EHobby Battle Damaged Kup

I much prefer the regular United Kup to the E-Hobby or Hasbro ones. Easily the best of the three IMO.

Have we got a better release date for those e-hobby sets yet? Something other than "Q1 2011"?

Jazz-1982 wrote:I heard that they would be released in April. With the current situation in Japan I would expect release dates for any Takara Tomy Transformers to be delayed.

I hadn't heard the "April" dates mentioned before, but the other part of your post makes perfect sense, there are more important things than toys.

On lighter note, the e-hobby kup looks fantastic, I can't wait for him to be released and swap the head over with the igear one

Pretender Skywarp wrote:

Jazz-1982 wrote:I heard that they would be released in April. With the current situation in Japan I would expect release dates for any Takara Tomy Transformers to be delayed.

I hadn't heard the "April" dates mentioned before, but the other part of your post makes perfect sense, there are more important things than toys.

On lighter note, the e-hobby kup looks fantastic, I can't wait for him to be released and swap the head over with the igear one

It'll no doubt be the same situation for Masterpieces Prime and Megatron and the last wave of United but as you said, no one's going to complain.

I liked the look of those igear heads too, my favourite replacement head has to be the devil horns one for Cliffjjumper though.

iGear has a preorder up for that Sideswipe repaint. They claim it's limited to 1000 pieces. They also have a shot of him in bot mode.

The NASCAR sideswipe sucks. They havent even released the real wreckers figure and they already want to paint sideswipe to look like him.

Dead End and the stunticons are starting to grow on me. I may go to Botcon and get them but skip the other animated exclusives.

The teleporting repaints are just plain silly.

Im liking Kup. Wish he didnt have the battle damage, but glad I ordered the set. I have a feeling were going to see these sets very soon. Japanese people are very resourceful and will get things better quick. This is their livelihood and and it is our continued purchases of everything from Transformers, LCD TV's, to Import cars that will help them rebuild. I wish them a speedy recovery.

kirbenvost wrote:Nascar Sideswipe looks okay, but better in vehicle mode than robot. He'll probably be some weird no-name character or '______ Sideswipe', so I'll likely pass. Shame, because I'd like an excuse to pick up that mold.

Don't know what they're thinking with the weird half-transparent figures. Gimmickier and gimmickier, as Alice would say.

I thought Alice was only interested in robot-human "relations".

kirbenvost wrote:Don't know what they're thinking with the weird half-transparent figures.

I wonder if their inspired by FrenzyRumble's Mid-ward Skywarp.

I like the Sideswipe repaint quite a bit.

I'm loving the EHobby Kup. Fantastic paint job there. All the Kup paint schemes look good to me. Not one is a fail.

I actually like that Sideswipe pretty well. Far better than the awful version we got in America with the cheap red flames. If it ends up being released here, I'll probably try to get it. I wonder how it'll be as Nightbeat.