Takara Website Update - Alternity Bumblebee & ROTF Toys

Real Devastator wrote:Mr. Kobayashi is famous for his work on Transformers ROTF Buster Prime, EZ Devastator, Masterpiece Grimlock and Armada Unicorn.

Armada Unicorn, with rainbow blast action!

I passed a yellow Swift today, kinda felt like I was seeing a massive toy on the roads.

After examining this figure I can now state that I have gone from passing on this to being on the fence. Have to wait and see what Diem says about it!

I'm a big Alternity fan and I've been faithful to the chunky Hornhead since nearly the beginning of the figure's announcement so I must get it. I want to get Cliff too. The added bonus is that the head sculpt is different so I'm not just getting a repainted figure.

I just hope that scale is maintained. From previous photos of Alternity Bumble and Alternity Megatron in the same display, Bumble looks a bit big. That may have been an issue with distortion of perspective, though, so here's hoping we don't get a giant Bumble to tower over Alternity Convoy and Megatron.

Anyone care to speculate what the third paint job of the mold will be? I'm assuming there will be a third paint job since that's the trend started by Convoy and Megatron, both of which have 3 paint jobs each.

Diem wrote:

Blurrz wrote:Well Alternity comes out on the 9th I believe... I'm sure there's someone fortunate enough(and there always is) who will get the figure before the release date..... Or maybe not. Takara has been pretty tight with factory security lately.

The 9th? To the best of my knowledge it's scheduled to come out this coming Thursday, or at the very latest, "late November." If it is this Thursday, I have the day off so I'll be getting the figure asap and reviewing it for your good selves.

Excellent, looking forward to the review!

Diem wrote:

Convotron wrote:
Anyone care to speculate what the third paint job of the mold will be? I'm assuming there will be a third paint job since that's the trend started by Convoy and Megatron, both of which have 3 paint jobs each.

Goldbug (actually gold), G2 Bumblebee, Bugbite,Glyph, Tapout, or some kind of black Bumblebee like the rare keychain.

Or maybe Bumblebee in Movie colours.

Goldbug would actually be pretty sweet, IMO.

cant wait i have both preordered all i ask that takara stick to the solid color schemes love the color choices so far stay away from patterns and if you do bugbite make him pearl white.

Much as I dislike repaints the Goldbug idea is good. The various Prime/Meg repaints are for different dimensional incarnations so I'd say a non-retooled repaint in that direction is likely for all characters in this line.

Darn. Well, here's hoping that's correct...except that November only has 30 days.

Diem wrote:

kirbenvost wrote:Darn. Well, here's hoping that's correct...except that November only has 30 days.

Whoops. Yep. The 30th.

And here I was thinking you were making a subtle joke about release dates always being accurate.

A November 31st release date would be worse than February 29th!