New Takara Micron Gift Set

Oh look. More minicons...



Just give us the next line already...

First-Aid wrote:Oh look. More minicons...



Just give us the next line already...

You know they won't give us a new line until ROTF is finished with and how is Takara repainting three Mini-Cons in some way detrimental to a new line from coming?

ah yes, more ways to cash in on our love for all thing transformers, just repaint some minicons and charge 35.00 Bucks for the pack.. and that should do it!


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skywarp-2 wrote:ah yes, more ways to cash in on our love for all thing transformers, just repaint some minicons and charge 35.00 Bucks for the pack.. and that should do it!

Pass

Looks like I'll be taking your spot in line.

(You know, as exclusives...they just give these away in Japan with purchases you're already making.)

skywarp-2 wrote:ah yes, more ways to cash in on our love for all thing transformers, just repaint some minicons and charge 35.00 Bucks for the pack.. and that should do it!


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Yes, it's really annoying how a representative from Hasbro comes to your house and forces you at gunpoint to purchase everything they make, especially when these mini-con repaints are the only figures they're making this year.

Sledge's color scheme looks familiar somehow.

Blurrz wrote:More mini-cons... more power.

I want the Orange Dump truck. Orange is good.

Serious question time here. How many mincons are there?

I mean if Armada was Transformers Pokemon, how many entires would the pokedex have?

Awesome!

Primus C-00 wrote:

Blurrz wrote:More mini-cons... more power.

I want the Orange Dump truck. Orange is good.

Serious question time here. How many mincons are there?

I mean if Armada was Transformers Pokemon, how many entires would the pokedex have?

Well, I'm not entirely sure how many Mini-cons there are, although I'm frankly sure they might outnumber the number of Pokemon out there, which is 493. It would have to take me some time to calculate just how many variations of mini-cons there are, although I'm sure our good friend Counterpunch can help us out.

What defines a mini-con?

Are micromasters their forefathers? Are the various mini-bots of the movieverse, All-spark infused consumer goods, housewares ,Scalpels and dare I say? Wheelies their children?

Blurrz wrote:Well, I'm not entirely sure how many Mini-cons there are, although I'm frankly sure they might outnumber the number of Pokemon out there, which is 493. It would have to take me some time to calculate just how many variations of mini-cons there are, although I'm sure our good friend [/color]Counterpunch can help us out.

I like how you say that as if summoning him. As if he's:

nearby.
*ducks around the corner, transforms to Punch*
...Real nearby.

Those are horrible and don't deserve even thinking of them.

I feel like i need a shower after watching them.

Primus C-00 wrote:What defines a mini-con?

Are micromasters their forefathers? Are the various mini-bots of the movieverse, All-spark infused consumer goods, housewares ,Scalpels and dare I say? Wheelies their children?

In the Armada/Micron Legend cartoon, they were creations of Unicron's cells. In Cybertron/Galaxy Force, they originate from the planet Gigantion/Gigalonia, which serves as their homeworld. In the Classics comics, they were created by the Last Autobot. In other fiction they appear in, they're just there with no explained origin.

I can feel CP's OCD kicking in from thousands of miles away.

What would happen if they were to stop producing Mini-cons? Would CP go nuts?

I think I'll be buying these. I've been wanting to find a way in to the Mini-con hobby and this should do nicely.

GuyIncognito wrote:

skywarp-2 wrote:ah yes, more ways to cash in on our love for all thing transformers, just repaint some minicons and charge 35.00 Bucks for the pack.. and that should do it!


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Yes, it's really annoying how a representative from Hasbro comes to your house and forces you at gunpoint to purchase everything they make, especially when these mini-con repaints are the only figures they're making this year.

You're absolutely right, no one is making anyone buy these, and that's totally what skywarp-2 was implying - that these are the only option out there right now for purchase rather than a tally mark on the repaints for more cash list. Totally. I mean it's not like the company actually expects the buyers of its target niche in the market to lay down cash for these grabbagged Micromaster wannabe molds slapped with whatever paint they had leftover for a pricetag much higher than such items would have received as is seven or so years ago, which is why they made them. Sometimes its not about the money, I mean clearly they put higher pricetags on little trinkets like this in order to defer fans from purchasing. skywarp-2 totally had it wrong when he said, and I misquote, "Gawd I'm tired of them forcing us - barrel to temple - to dish out for the rediculous prices they've placed on this garbage". He should have posted something different, something speaking/implying of this notion that they have an expectation of their usual suspects of collectors will buy anything they repaint, and at higher prices.. ...though that would totally have been inaccurate as well.

Right?

Sabrblade wrote:Sledge's color scheme looks familiar somehow.

That probably thinking of Micromaster Combiner Pipeline, a repaint of Grit. He's partnered with Gusher.

And the Mini-Cons keep just on coming. Can't wait to see what they'll look like. Hopefully there are some molds previously unreleased in Japan in there; Broadside, Firebot, Oil Slick and Grindor.

And guys, you're forgetting this is Takara and especially Japan! Japanese love small and gimmicky collectibles (or so I think), this has absolutely nothing to do with the US directly. Sure, they're no better than us when it comes to cashing in on a hype, but you guys had better start worrying when they actually start appearing in Wal-Mart

Counterpunch wrote:

skywarp-2 wrote:ah yes, more ways to cash in on our love for all thing transformers, just repaint some minicons and charge 35.00 Bucks for the pack.. and that should do it!

Pass

Looks like I'll be taking your spot in line.

(You know, as exclusives...they just give these away in Japan with purchases you're already making.)

Yeah I remember that.. IF you live in Japan, but the real question is, do they charge online buyers extra for them??

MAN I WISH I COULD GO BACK TO KYOTO.. that was a fun city..
I miss going to the grocery store to get milk, eggs, butter, and a 1/100 Gundam kit, or a few bazillion Takara Transformers! you walk in and half the store is food, the other half chojokin! with extremely manicured shrubbery adorned throughout the entire store..

skywarp-2 wrote:

Yeah I remember that.. IF you live in Japan, but the real question is, do they charge online buyers extra for them??

Heh heh...I don't.

MAN I WISH I COULD GO BACK TO KYOTO.. that was a fun city..
I miss going to the grocery store to get milk, eggs, butter, and a 1/100 Gundam kit, or a few bazillion Takara Transformers! you walk in and half the store is food, the other half chojokin! with extremely manicured shrubbery adorned throughout the entire store..

It's like you've seen my combini shopping list:

1 Bottle of Coke
1 Tube of Pringles
1 Pathetic microwavable burger
1 Spicy chicken
2 sexy bikini Onepiece figurines
8 Minicons

Blurrz wrote:

Primus C-00 wrote:

Blurrz wrote:More mini-cons... more power.

I want the Orange Dump truck. Orange is good.

Serious question time here. How many mincons are there?

I mean if Armada was Transformers Pokemon, how many entires would the pokedex have?

Well, I'm not entirely sure how many Mini-cons there are, although I'm frankly sure they might outnumber the number of Pokemon out there, which is 493. It would have to take me some time to calculate just how many variations of mini-cons there are, although I'm sure our good friend Counterpunch can help us out.

I don't know man. There are a lot...and a lot of variations...and single production pieces...

The number of unique molds is probably something that can be discerned.

I added the first page of the Linkage story. It's kind of the Side-B, official story from the Micron's perspective.

Hell, here's the rest of Part 1.

Covenant wrote:

GuyIncognito wrote:

skywarp-2 wrote:ah yes, more ways to cash in on our love for all thing transformers, just repaint some minicons and charge 35.00 Bucks for the pack.. and that should do it!


Pass

Yes, it's really annoying how a representative from Hasbro comes to your house and forces you at gunpoint to purchase everything they make, especially when these mini-con repaints are the only figures they're making this year.

You're absolutely right, no one is making anyone buy these, and that's totally what skywarp-2 was implying - that these are the only option out there right now for purchase rather than a tally mark on the repaints for more cash list. Totally. I mean it's not like the company actually expects the buyers of its target niche in the market to lay down cash for these grabbagged Micromaster wannabe molds slapped with whatever paint they had leftover for a pricetag much higher than such items would have received as is seven or so years ago, which is why they made them. Sometimes its not about the money, I mean clearly they put higher pricetags on little trinkets like this in order to defer fans from purchasing. skywarp-2 totally had it wrong when he said, and I misquote, "Gawd I'm tired of them forcing us - barrel to temple - to dish out for the rediculous prices they've placed on this garbage". He should have posted something different, something speaking/implying of this notion that they have an expectation of their usual suspects of collectors will buy anything they repaint, and at higher prices.. ...though that would totally have been inaccurate as well.

Right?

yeah, cause I was totally saying that hasbro/Takara Forces us to pay lots of money for crappy figures, or we get thrown into a prison and tortured..

actually, I don't understand the instant reaction to someone who isn't interested in paying 35.00 for a set of Minicons?? It's my choice, and I'm not like dissing them, all I said was that here we go again..some people like them, that is fine..I prefer the slightly larger Henkei minibots teams.. those sets I like because they are good reminders of the G-1 days..

I never said a word about a Hasbro representative with a Gun?? I don't know how far out of context my original quote was taken, and I sure as heck don't think that I implied any of that...

Diem wrote:

skywarp-2 wrote:

Yeah I remember that.. IF you live in Japan, but the real question is, do they charge online buyers extra for them??

Heh heh...I don't.

MAN I WISH I COULD GO BACK TO KYOTO.. that was a fun city..
I miss going to the grocery store to get milk, eggs, butter, and a 1/100 Gundam kit, or a few bazillion Takara Transformers! you walk in and half the store is food, the other half chojokin! with extremely manicured shrubbery adorned throughout the entire store..

It's like you've seen my combini shopping list:

1 Bottle of Coke
1 Tube of Pringles
1 Pathetic microwavable burger
1 Spicy chicken
2 sexy bikini Onepiece figurines
8 Minicons

He he he! mine was actually Meiji Fruit Drop Hard Candy, Rice cakes, Kasugai Brown Sugar Candy a personal favortie... and some diet coke..Love the spicy chicken
with a Gundam eraser that was posable, and a Bandai Soul of Chogokin mazinger Z (God I miss that figure.. all shinny and metal diescast!!)

Do they still have the Transformers Henkei deluxes for sale in the Grocery stores?? I remember that some stores would mark their figures about 15 yen cheaper then online retailers..

skywarp-2 wrote:
He he he! mine was actually Meiji Fruit Drop Hard Candy, Rice cakes, Kasugai Brown Sugar Candy a personal favortie... and some diet coke..Love the spicy chicken
with a Gundam eraser that was posable, and a Bandai Soul of Chogokin mazinger Z (God I miss that figure.. all shinny and metal diescast!!)

Do they still have the Transformers Henkei deluxes for sale in the Grocery stores?? I remember that some stores would mark their figures about 15 yen cheaper then online retailers..

In conbinis? Sadly, no. COD retail seems to have become more popular. So you go into Lawsons, or whatever, and use their in-store computer to order your lovely exclusives. Then it comes to your door three months later. Maybe Kyoto was different, I'm a Tokyo boy through and through.

Blurrz wrote: Hahaha. Linkage is good stuff. More mini-cons.. boobies... and mini-cons. And then Overload comes out of nowhere and starts blasting people.

God, what I'd do to get that Pink mini-con team...

I am surprised not more people were interested in Linkage.

I still need Twirl and Fracia from that set you're referring to. I got Combustia at BotCon.

Did anyone else see the blue A-10 and think "Little Cobra symbols would like nice on that.", or was it just me?

Counterpunch wrote:

Blurrz wrote: Hahaha. Linkage is good stuff. More mini-cons.. boobies... and mini-cons. And then Overload comes out of nowhere and starts blasting people.

God, what I'd do to get that Pink mini-con team...

I am surprised not more people were interested in Linkage.

I still need Twirl and Fracia from that set you're referring to. I got Combustia at BotCon.

I'd just about kill for the Aqua Raider team. Pirate minicons FTW! Indivdual names are awesome too (Freeboot, Bilge, and Sunburn).