New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 2:17AM CST
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Seibertron.com is pleased to add Takara's latest Encores, Soundblaster and Twincast, to our ever expanding galleries. Each figure comes with two all new cassette repaints. Twincast comes with Nightstalker, a black Steeljaw reapaint, and Stripes, an orange and black striped repaint of Ravage. Soundblaster comes with Enemy, a red repaint of the Frenzy/Rumble mold, and Wingthing, a repaint of Ratbat. In addition to the new cassettes each figure has underwent some slight changes. Twincast now has a smooth tapedeck, gold face with blue eyes, and tampographed Autobot symbol. Soundblaster also features a tampographed faction symbol along with a silver face and red eyes. Check out the various tweaks in the galleries below.
Soundblaster (Communications, Reissues)
Encore
Twincast (Communications, Reissues)
Encore
Wingthing (Communications)
Encore
Enemy (Communications)
Encore
Nightstalker (Communications)
Encore
Stripes (Communications)
Encore
Soundblaster (Communications, Reissues)
Encore
Twincast (Communications, Reissues)
Encore
Wingthing (Communications)
Encore
Enemy (Communications)
Encore
Nightstalker (Communications)
Encore
Stripes (Communications)
Encore
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Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker (1355704)
Posted by alldarker on March 7th, 2012 @ 3:54am CST
Posted by alldarker on March 7th, 2012 @ 3:54am CST
Wow, those cassettes are pretty...
Glad to see Soundblaster DOES have a volume-wheel; one of the first Soundblasters out there in hand was noted to lack that volume button, but that must have been a QC problem...
These pics make it very tempting to hit that BBTS PoL (where my Soundblaster and Twin cast currently reside) shipping button.
BTW, I never owned a Blaster or a Twincast, so I'm pretty surprised to see such a big size difference between Twincast and Soundblaster.
Glad to see Soundblaster DOES have a volume-wheel; one of the first Soundblasters out there in hand was noted to lack that volume button, but that must have been a QC problem...
These pics make it very tempting to hit that BBTS PoL (where my Soundblaster and Twin cast currently reside) shipping button.
BTW, I never owned a Blaster or a Twincast, so I'm pretty surprised to see such a big size difference between Twincast and Soundblaster.
Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker (1355718)
Posted by DevastaTTor on March 7th, 2012 @ 6:24am CST
Posted by DevastaTTor on March 7th, 2012 @ 6:24am CST
Makes me think I migh need to pick up Soundblaster while I'm here in Singapore. Those tapes are kickass!
Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker (1355747)
Posted by mattwhite924 on March 7th, 2012 @ 8:30am CST
Posted by mattwhite924 on March 7th, 2012 @ 8:30am CST
Dang, I was gonna try and avoid getting these, but they look so dang nice. I'm at least going to have to pick up Soundblaster.
Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker (1355756)
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on March 7th, 2012 @ 9:02am CST
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on March 7th, 2012 @ 9:02am CST
No shots of Nightstalker with his former comrade Ravage?
These guys look great. Especially the cassettes. I wish Takara would make new G1-style cassettes, though. New molds, not just recolors.
These guys look great. Especially the cassettes. I wish Takara would make new G1-style cassettes, though. New molds, not just recolors.
Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker (1355789)
Posted by Mkall on March 7th, 2012 @ 11:00am CST
Posted by Mkall on March 7th, 2012 @ 11:00am CST
I'm very greatful I ditched the Prime Line in favour of these guys.
Great shots boss!
Great shots boss!
Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker (1355795)
Posted by XenoStryker on March 7th, 2012 @ 11:14am CST
Posted by XenoStryker on March 7th, 2012 @ 11:14am CST
In my opinion, the quality of these toys is sub-par. Honesty not worth the money you're going to have to dish out. The pictures are nice, but once it's in hand it's another story altogether. I'll be making a full post/mini-review later today on the forum as to why I feel that way.
Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker (1355812)
Posted by El Duque on March 7th, 2012 @ 11:38am CST
That's unfortunate, look forward to your review.
Posted by El Duque on March 7th, 2012 @ 11:38am CST
XenoStryker wrote:In my opinion, the quality of these toys is sub-par. Honesty not worth the money you're going to have to dish out. The pictures are nice, but once it's in hand it's another story altogether. I'll be making a full post/mini-review later today on the forum as to why I feel that way.
That's unfortunate, look forward to your review.
Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker (1355835)
Posted by Seibertron on March 7th, 2012 @ 12:14pm CST
XenoStryker, do you own other versions of these molds? I'm curious to read your review as well. I own 5 different versions of the Blaster/Twincast mold and 7 versions of the Soundwave/Soundblaster mold, and every single Transformers cassette mold ever made, I don't see how this release is any different than previous releases. Quality is the same as with other releases.
On a personal note, I think these two sets are ingenious. I love that someone at Takara Tomy took the time to find such obscure characters in the Transformers Universe. Wingthing was long overdue, Enemy ... well, it's about time, Nightstalker and Stripes are pure genius uses of existing molds and the weapon swap was really awesome. They even took the time to update the box artwork accordingly, which I think went far beyond the call of duty.
Posted by Seibertron on March 7th, 2012 @ 12:14pm CST
El Duque wrote:XenoStryker wrote:In my opinion, the quality of these toys is sub-par. Honesty not worth the money you're going to have to dish out. The pictures are nice, but once it's in hand it's another story altogether. I'll be making a full post/mini-review later today on the forum as to why I feel that way.
That's unfortunate, look forward to your review.
XenoStryker, do you own other versions of these molds? I'm curious to read your review as well. I own 5 different versions of the Blaster/Twincast mold and 7 versions of the Soundwave/Soundblaster mold, and every single Transformers cassette mold ever made, I don't see how this release is any different than previous releases. Quality is the same as with other releases.
On a personal note, I think these two sets are ingenious. I love that someone at Takara Tomy took the time to find such obscure characters in the Transformers Universe. Wingthing was long overdue, Enemy ... well, it's about time, Nightstalker and Stripes are pure genius uses of existing molds and the weapon swap was really awesome. They even took the time to update the box artwork accordingly, which I think went far beyond the call of duty.
Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker (1355842)
Posted by leokearon on March 7th, 2012 @ 12:27pm CST
Posted by leokearon on March 7th, 2012 @ 12:27pm CST
Got mine in the post this morning and I love both of them
Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker (1355950)
Posted by craggy on March 7th, 2012 @ 6:18pm CST
Posted by craggy on March 7th, 2012 @ 6:18pm CST
not buying these, but those cassettes look really nice. I'll second the call for new mold Cassetticons, even if they're PE-effect style/upscaled mini-cons.
Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker (1356073)
Posted by Screamfleet on March 8th, 2012 @ 6:32am CST
Posted by Screamfleet on March 8th, 2012 @ 6:32am CST
soundblaster will have to be something I think about. The price is just, not very agreeable though.
Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker (1357118)
Posted by Blurrz on March 11th, 2012 @ 5:17am CDT
Posted by Blurrz on March 11th, 2012 @ 5:17am CDT
Twincast just looks exceptional.
Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker (1359604)
Posted by Bowspearer on March 18th, 2012 @ 12:29pm CDT
Posted by Bowspearer on March 18th, 2012 @ 12:29pm CDT
To me, this set picks up the ball and then drops it. Enemy you can let slide, but the fact that they went with Wingthing and then didn't continue it screams out missed opportunity.
Just using the Cassette molds that have been released there was so much scope to cover Action Master partners in addition to Wingthing. Here are some possibilities which come to mind:
Ramhorn: Firebeast (Charger), Top Heavy (Skyfall)
Steeljaw: Lionizer (Rad)
Lazerbeak: Sights (Jackpot), Screech (Take-Off)
Ravage: Catgut (Treadshot)
Overkill: Tyrannitron (Snarl)
Yet this seems to have been completely ignored with Cassette choices for Twincast. Hopefully we get another Encore Cassette set or 2 that gives us these figures.
Just using the Cassette molds that have been released there was so much scope to cover Action Master partners in addition to Wingthing. Here are some possibilities which come to mind:
Ramhorn: Firebeast (Charger), Top Heavy (Skyfall)
Steeljaw: Lionizer (Rad)
Lazerbeak: Sights (Jackpot), Screech (Take-Off)
Ravage: Catgut (Treadshot)
Overkill: Tyrannitron (Snarl)
Yet this seems to have been completely ignored with Cassette choices for Twincast. Hopefully we get another Encore Cassette set or 2 that gives us these figures.
Re: New Toy Galleries: Encores Soundblaster with Enemy & Wingthing and Twincast with Stripes & Nightstalker (1360218)
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on March 19th, 2012 @ 10:58pm CDT
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on March 19th, 2012 @ 10:58pm CDT
Just got both of these guys in today. Ain't gonna lie: I bought the sets just for the casettes ... especially since I already have Twincast.
I don't know why they use those terrible looking tape spools on NightStalker. A lot of HATE for that choice. But, that's nitpicking terribly on such a great addition to the casettte cast! He's definately my favorite of them all. He has a great connnection both visially and fictionally with Ravage and shares his awsome color scheme.
Still ... I wish Takara would make some new casette molds for any new characters. As neat as it is to have "wacky" colors for these well known molds, I'd have liked it better had they made Nightstalker and Striped entirely new molds instead of repaints. Although, considering the job they did on Universe Ravage .... maybe they've lost their touch.
I don't know why they use those terrible looking tape spools on NightStalker. A lot of HATE for that choice. But, that's nitpicking terribly on such a great addition to the casettte cast! He's definately my favorite of them all. He has a great connnection both visially and fictionally with Ravage and shares his awsome color scheme.
Still ... I wish Takara would make some new casette molds for any new characters. As neat as it is to have "wacky" colors for these well known molds, I'd have liked it better had they made Nightstalker and Striped entirely new molds instead of repaints. Although, considering the job they did on Universe Ravage .... maybe they've lost their touch.
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