Takara Tomy Transformers Adventure TAV-53 and 54 Sideswipe and Scorponok Stock Images

Orders are up for these guys at the usual Japanese retailers. Shame the exchange rate is no longer in our favor and I've got some $300 into August already. I'm ordering Scorponok off HLJ so I can cancel later if need be.

BTW, bigger pictures of Scorponok on HLJ.







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What, no boxing gloves?

I do like that Scorponok. The browns and yellows are interesting colors for transformers and finally a figure where chicken legs actually work awesomely in bot mode.

I placed an order for TAV-33 because a good deal came up and in anticipation I was searching for reviews demonstarting his new features. But there are none in English. This was the best I could find and I wish it were longer.

Via another of our site sponsors, BigBadToyStore, we have a look at some more upcoming Takara Tomy Transformers Adventure figures, as we breach number 60 in the line with TAV 58 Sideswipe with Windstrike, TAV 59 Ratchet, TAV 60 Bisk, TAV 61 God Optimus Prime (Power Surge for Hasbro, as seen here), and TAV 62 being another mystery character, just like TAV 57. Check out the images mirrored below!

That Ratchet is far from being a decent improvement over the Hasbro one. The Alt modes are just as bland, here's the Hasbro one.



Quite dissapointed with this.

Wait, is Takara doing two releases of the Power Surge OP mold?

I was going to say, that's a "level-up" from the original and nothing like the Hasbro version. Hard to tell if the image is grayscale or painted that way.

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TAV 50 Hyper Surge Optimus has been out for a little while now and yet hasn't had much coverage. This is probably due to him being more for a younger audience and even more because the Hasbro version was out at the same time and doesn't require importing for the west. However, we were able to find a fun stop motion video of this toy from youheidx. This video shows the play-ability aspect of this toy in its Takara premium deco. Enjoy!

These figures really ain't for me at all but I just like stop motion animation with Transformers figures.