Official Images - Takara Tomy Transformers 10th Anniversary Grimlock and Strafe

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Via the website for the Japanese section of Toys'R'Us, we have some official, colour images of the upcoming 10th Anniversary reissue figures from the live action Transformers movies toy lines - and it's the two dinobots from Age of Extinction: Grimlock and Strafe! Each comes in a new deco, and featuring a small Autobot rider, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee respectively. Check them out below.

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Comment by Microraptor Oct 20, 2016

That Strafe is too pretty

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Comment by no-one Oct 20, 2016

Well poop on a stick if those dino decos aren't dyn-o-mite :michaelbay:

Strafe is kinda amazebawls amiright?

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Comment by william-james88 Oct 20, 2016

carytheone wrote:Well poop on a stick if those dino decos aren't dyn-o-mite

Strafe is kinda amazebawls amiright?

I admit he is, but I am surprised that he isnt screen accurate, I thought that was the point to this whole line.

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Comment by donzai Oct 20, 2016

are the dinobots in the new flick?

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Comment by D-Maximal_Primal Oct 20, 2016

donzai wrote:are the dinobots in the new flick?

They are supposed to be, along with "mini-dinobots"

I do like that Strafe with the Bee. It's kinda cute really

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Comment by DeathReviews Oct 20, 2016

The recolorings look better than the original movie toy deco - but that's not exactly shootin' for the moon. Alas, no amount of repainting can gloss over the fact that the movie Dinobots just weren't very good toys...

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Comment by Sabrblade Oct 20, 2016

william-james88 wrote:
carytheone wrote:Well poop on a stick if those dino decos aren't dyn-o-mite

Strafe is kinda amazebawls amiright?

I admit he is, but I am surprised that he isnt screen accurate, I thought that was the point to this whole line.

Maybe they felt the Black Knight version of Strafe was already so screen-accurate that it couldn't possibly be improved upon, and just decided to do something different, rather than better, for this version.

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Comment by Microraptor Oct 20, 2016

DeathReviews wrote:The recolorings look better than the original movie toy deco - but that's not exactly shootin' for the moon. Alas, no amount of repainting can gloss over the fact that the movie Dinobots just weren't very good toys...

Scorn, Slog, and Slug would disagree.

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Comment by shajaki Oct 20, 2016

william-james88 wrote:
carytheone wrote:Strafe is kinda amazebawls amiright?
I admit he is, but I am surprised that he isnt screen accurate, I thought that was the point to this whole line.

My sentiments exactly :???:

Y'know, that Grim is mighty tempting. I'm not sure how well he's fit in with my other Black Knights though. But the main thing that keeps me from jumping on this is the thought that this mold will be replaced with something superior when TF5 comes out... :-?

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Comment by DeathReviews Oct 20, 2016

Microraptor wrote:
DeathReviews wrote:The recolorings look better than the original movie toy deco - but that's not exactly shootin' for the moon. Alas, no amount of repainting can gloss over the fact that the movie Dinobots just weren't very good toys...

Scorn, Slog, and Slug would disagree.

I will admit that Snarl was pretty good. But as he was not in the movies... ;(

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Comment by william-james88 Oct 20, 2016

shajaki wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
carytheone wrote:Strafe is kinda amazebawls amiright?
I admit he is, but I am surprised that he isnt screen accurate, I thought that was the point to this whole line.
My sentiments exactly

Y'know, that Grim is mighty tempting. I'm not sure how well he's fit in with my other Black Knights though. But the main thing that keeps me from jumping on this is the thought that this mold will be replaced with something superior when TF5 comes out...

You think they will do some dinobot toys again for TF5? I would personally be very happy but so far there is no confirmation or hint that the Dinos from the last film are in the new movie.

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Comment by TulioDude Oct 20, 2016

Very awesome looking!

william-james88 wrote:
shajaki wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
carytheone wrote:
Y'know, that Grim is mighty tempting. I'm not sure how well he's fit in with my other Black Knights though. But the main thing that keeps me from jumping on this is the thought that this mold will be replaced with something superior when TF5 comes out...

You think they will do some dinobot toys again for TF5? I would personally be very happy but so far there is no confirmation or hint that the Dinos from the last film are in the new movie.

I think they might appear but not as central fighters and if that is true,Hasbro might be more comfortable releasing repaints(as it happend with previous characters.)

Anyways,the toys will tell.

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Comment by Emerje Oct 22, 2016

Ended up ordering MB-01 Optimus Prime (passed on every release until now) and MB-04 Shockwave even though I already own the Hasbro version, I love the mix of dark blue and purple.

Emerje

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Comment by shajaki Oct 23, 2016

I think the tempation of cashing in on robo dino's is too large. I bet they're in the movie, or in the toy line even if not.

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Comment by william-james88 Oct 23, 2016

Amazon Japan has a new image for the robot mode of the 10th Movie Anniversary Starscream figure Takara is releasing. This is the deco from the first film used for the Revenge of the Fallen voyager toy. He is currently 25% off on Amazon and while the site is entirely in Japanese, it is now possible for foreigners to order toys from the site. This anniversary line has also been featured in the latest Figure King magazine, and we have a scan from Loopaza.

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Comment by Wolfman Jake Oct 23, 2016

Starscream looks gorgeous painted up like this. Why didn't we get a release like this YEARS ago?

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Comment by Noideaforaname Oct 24, 2016

Man, Starscream looks so different without the tattoos. It should be the better deco because it's more realistic and all, but I think now I'm too used to him having black lines scrawled over him after owning the original (and Leader) for, like, forever now.

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Comment by Overcracker Oct 24, 2016

Wolfman Jake wrote:Starscream looks gorgeous painted up like this. Why didn't we get a release like this YEARS ago?

We did get a similarly painted release years ago, except it was on this mold:

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Comment by Wolfman Jake Oct 24, 2016

Overcracker wrote:
Wolfman Jake wrote:Starscream looks gorgeous painted up like this. Why didn't we get a release like this YEARS ago?

We did get a similarly painted release years ago, except it was on this mold:

Yeah, that's precisely the problem.

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Comment by Jelze Bunnycat Oct 24, 2016

Wolfman Jake wrote:
Overcracker wrote:
Wolfman Jake wrote:Starscream looks gorgeous painted up like this. Why didn't we get a release like this YEARS ago?

We did get a similarly painted release years ago, except it was on this mold:

Yeah, that's precisely the problem.

Not to mention we got the deco on the Leader Class figure as well... as a Masterpiece: