Official and In Hand Images of the Yolopark Transformers One Kits

Why has Hasbro let two different companies issue the same style of snap together figures?
https://yolopark.com/collections/transformers
And
https://blokees.com/collections/transformers

I know the yolo ones are a little bigger but they are more or less the same size and style.

Shockwave_640 wrote:

Zordon wrote:Why has Hasbro let two different companies issue the same style of snap together figures?
https://yolopark.com/collections/transformers
And
https://blokees.com/collections/transformers

I know the yolo ones are a little bigger but they are more or less the same size and style.

You couldn’t be more wrong. Yolopark are essentially budget friendly Three Zero figures in close to SS, very accurate detail too.

Blokees are very stylized and chibified movie characters and G1/IDW Characters in a very small, almost Core class/Action Master scale and style.

They also don’t assemble in nearly the same way, Yolopark is just “put a few pieces together” while Blokees are more akin to a PlaMo kit with runners.


The price points and collector draw are also very different, Yolopark’s figures are anywhere from $15-60 ish, while Blokees range from like $7-15 in (mostly) blind boxes

The more apt comparison is between Blokees vs. Yolopark AMK Mini, not with the AMK line.

https://yolopark.com/collections/amk-mini-series

TimothyR wrote:I would much prefer these were more gundam style kits.. I mean, if these constitute a model kit then so do marvel and DC BAF’s.

I’m not saying they don’t look great, they do.. just calling them model kits doesn’t sit right with me.

People speculate that's due to a kind of licensing rights limitation. Seems to me traditional Gundam style HG-size model kits are locked up by Flame Toys for G1 characters. Smaller movie ones were licensed to Trumpeteer for BBM. Chibi/SD scale to Blokees. So maybe options were given to Flametoys/Trumpeteer before Yolopark? It's not like Yolopark can't do proper model kits, I have its PMK BBM OP and it was like PG Gundam 2.0 level of amazing.

So in the end, whatever licensing Yolopark got for the AMK lines, it's probably just a financial decision for them, thinking calling these BAF "Action Model Kits" is the best way to go for mass appeal.

I personally love them, I have as much Gundam as Transformers, while I miss the building from the ground up process, I also love that I don't have to spray paint the kits (the part of the process I hate/avoid the most, even worse than sanding) and I just concentrate on panel lining, detailing and weathering. And they are many, many times more fun to pose and can take a hunch more abuse than Gundam kits.

I was surprised to see Walmart was running a featured sale on Yolopark's Transformers One cog-less figures dropping the price from $60 to $22... only to find out $22 is actually the MSRP. They say "sold and shipped by Yolopark" so it sounds like they've pulled some shady price inflation to get these to sell better. Seems to work, Elita is sold out.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/YOLOPARK-Tra?wmlspartner=FYAGeMjDX6c&=&affs=p&wid=5b6b4213e4b0bcb699adeb9f&u1=&oid=223073.10006940&sourceid=37141976172661509211&affillinktype=3&veh=aff ... 8360756620

Emerje

Since I got the SS Apelinq, I broke out my Yolopark Apelinq again. I know it's based on a custom of Primal, but dang do I love this robot mode more than the official. A bit limited in articulation, but just so dang cool looking

Got my first Yoloparks, the TF1 cogless D-16, Orion Pax, and B-127. The only ones that make sense owning because they couldn't transform.

The extra hands, cogs, jetpacks, and that Bee helmet shall remain in storage.

They were super easy to build and they do look awesome.

New wave for AMK G1 charaacters is out now in my country.
Looks like there is no longer any need to look for chase figures. Also other than the two the rest are the same figures from wave 1 in new boxes.

megatran wrote:

Ebonsaber wrote:New wave for AMK G1 charaacters is out now in my country.
Looks like there is no longer any need to look for chase figures. Also other than the two the rest are the same figures from wave 1 in new boxes.

What?! AMK Mini wave 2 characters are same as wave 1, but not blind boxes now?
I bought 2 cases of blind box wave 1.

The box still says wave 1, so I guess this is just basically a rebrand/package refresh, with the expansion of the chase figures being directly purchaseable now.

Ebonsaber wrote:

megatran wrote:

Ebonsaber wrote:New wave for AMK G1 charaacters is out now in my country.
Looks like there is no longer any need to look for chase figures. Also other than the two the rest are the same figures from wave 1 in new boxes.

What?! AMK Mini wave 2 characters are same as wave 1, but not blind boxes now?
I bought 2 cases of blind box wave 1.

The box still says wave 1, so I guess this is just basically a rebrand/package refresh, with the expansion of the chase figures being directly purchaseable now.

Did a google search for AMK Mini wave 2... and came up with:
https://www.facebook.com/indemandtoys/p ... 879972288/

All Autobots.

Did the US market get the Wave 1 chase characters Skywarp and Nemesis Prime?