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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 23, 2015 16:44:07 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 23, 2015 16:49:12 GMT
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Post by Toph on Jan 23, 2015 16:52:44 GMT
Thats mildly tempting to get and slap an autobot sticker on him as Armada Scavenger |
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Post by Toph on Jan 23, 2015 16:58:47 GMT
New animated repaints!
Can't pass Slag and Swoop!
Also, this should give us an idea of how little we should expect from "RiD." They're making up decepticon repaints of autobots from this series, and other molds to pad out the line and make it more even.
Plus two one-step changers pretty much show we're not likely to get real figures of those characters.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 23, 2015 17:14:21 GMT
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Post by Llama God on Jan 23, 2015 18:07:27 GMT
This is... random. But interesting.
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 23, 2015 18:28:28 GMT
Swoop and Slag look good. Th RID Grimlock will go well with them.
If RID is going to be that small that Takara need to pad it out like that then its good news for CW. A classics line with almost no competition from other TF lines.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 23, 2015 20:07:42 GMT
I'm not that keen on RID.... but I'm all there for a mad Japanese repaint line. I said in the Generations thread that Scoop was a construction recolour. It's only now I've seen his Japanese name at HLJ, Roadblock, that I've twigged he's a G2 Autoroller homage: www.tfu.info/1995/Decepticon/Roadblock/roadblock.htm |
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Post by Toph on Jan 23, 2015 20:11:41 GMT
My friend pointed this out to me, too.
Also, having pulled Strongarm out again, the Adventures version prooves that she wouldn't have been half as disappointing if she'd had something approaching a cohesive deco.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 23, 2015 20:45:54 GMT
G2 Autoroller homage! How random. I approve.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 23, 2015 22:08:31 GMT
Shattered glass Animated Dinobots? Sold!
I agree this does all look very odd in terms of line longevity if Takara have packed out the initial waves with that many repaints. I also do think it's odd that they're doesn't seem to be a voyager equivalent for this range. I'm very interested to see what Toy Fair shows us for the rest of this year's RiD toys next month.
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Post by Toph on Jan 23, 2015 22:23:06 GMT
Everyone (well, by everyone i mean a friend, and a couple people I see here or there) seems to be expecting big stuff revealed for this line, and CW at toyfair.
But while I know there will be a few things, I don't think there's going to be anything revolutionary coming.
For the past several years, Toyfair is not a big reveal event, for Hasbro.
They used Botcon for that, until they stopped with that, too saving most of the really big things for SDCC.
Toyfair is a sneek perk for Botcon, which is a sneek peek for SDCC.
I think we'll see Sideswipe, and Drift. And a couple Decepticons we've seen animated clips of. Nothing really new new.
Maybe Megatron.
There's a listing on BBTS for "Snarl," that looks like a Steeljaw repaint. We may, or may not see that. Assuming that isn't a japanese thing.
My friend, and some on TFW seem to think we're getting a full line, a new size range, and the kind of reveals saved for the convention circuit.
(For the record, I'll also be stunned if we get a cw Devastator reveal, too.)
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 23, 2015 22:44:03 GMT
We should see Devastator. We got Metroplex two years ago at Toyfair and SDCC is going to have Devastator as an exclusive so I doubt they'll only just be revealing it then or the month before at Botcon. In fact if the release time frame is the same as Metroplex BBTS or someone else will probably have a first supply of retail Devastators for sale there.
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 23, 2015 22:45:32 GMT
From what's been revealed in Tokyo I expect to see some or all of Defensor plus the Masqurade set and Devastator. I'm not following RID enough to know what to expect.
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 23, 2015 22:51:58 GMT
Something doesn't add up with it all. The news sites today are carrying a PR from Hasbro saying that RiD is one of their big five brands for this year, which seems odd from the handful of Warrior toys we know about. It doesn't feel like a *big* line launch; four deluxes with a few more to come.
Also, more on topic for this thread, am I right in looking at that list thinking Takara are doing a Nemesis Prime from the new RiD Warrior mould before releasing an actual Prime? I know Japan is the home of the black repaints, but that seems odd to me too.
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Post by Toph on Jan 23, 2015 22:52:42 GMT
True about the sdcc dev exclusive.
I was banking on botcon, because NOT revealing it at Toyfair would only serve to hike the hype up into a frenzy, at this point.
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Post by Toph on Jan 23, 2015 22:55:32 GMT
Something doesn't add up with it all. The news sites today are carrying a PR from Hasbro saying that RiD is one of their big five brands for this year, which seems odd from the handful of Warrior toys we know about. It doesn't feel like a *big* line launch; four deluxes with a few more to come. Also, more on topic for this thread, am I right in looking at that list thinking Takara are doing a Nemesis Prime from the new RiD Warrior mould before releasing an actual Prime? I know Japan is the home of the black repaints, but that seems odd to me too. As far as Hasbro is concerned, there's a shitton of product. Dozens of one steps, three steps, over sized, titan figures, legions, warriors. While it's not HUGE, it's a sizable launch. We only see four deluxes/warriors, and the legions. As a business, they see the entire thing. |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 23, 2015 22:55:43 GMT
Liking the look of Swoop and Slag.
Andy
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Post by Toph on Jan 23, 2015 23:02:30 GMT
I'm getting the Animated dinobots (slag's soooo gunna be my TFA Killerpunch). And G2 Roadblock.
Dreadwing feels too samey, but Knockout looks nice. On the fence about Rollbar. Ugly colorscheme, with a deco about as cohesive as hasbro's Strongarm. But... It's another new femmebot.
Here's hoping she gets a hasbro release.
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Post by Pinwig on Jan 23, 2015 23:02:44 GMT
As far as Hasbro is concerned, there's a shitton of product. Dozens of one steps, three steps, over sized, titan figures, legions, warriors. While it's not HUGE, it's a sizable launch. We only see four deluxes/warriors, and the legions. As a business, they see the entire thing. I had thought of that, but it didn't seem to me that there was that much in the other lines either, but when you put it like that... All I care about now is Thunderhoof. There must be a toy for him. I will even buy a one step. A moose themed Decepticon with a tractor alt mode? that is quite simply the best. thing. evah. I have to have that. A TRACTOR with MOOSE antlers. Tell me that isn't just brilliant. |
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Post by blueshift on Jan 24, 2015 0:18:34 GMT
Something doesn't add up with it all. The news sites today are carrying a PR from Hasbro saying that RiD is one of their big five brands for this year, which seems odd from the handful of Warrior toys we know about. It doesn't feel like a *big* line launch; four deluxes with a few more to come. Also, more on topic for this thread, am I right in looking at that list thinking Takara are doing a Nemesis Prime from the new RiD Warrior mould before releasing an actual Prime? I know Japan is the home of the black repaints, but that seems odd to me too. I think the age of big toylines is over, given how horribly AoE seems to have bombed, at least from a 'looking what actually got to the shelves' view. I imagine Hasbro are being a lot more cautious now. (Or did I miss an entire toyline?) |
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Post by Llama God on Jan 24, 2015 9:57:38 GMT
Most people missed an entire toyline, on account of the fact that nothing other than (parts of) the first wave actually hit the shelves. On account of that first wave being made up of shit.
Consider, though, exactly how much new product we actually got with AoE, too. That line was *stuffed* with repaints. (Indeed, the thing I got most excited about were the Asda-exclusives repaints of Beast Wars (Neo) characters.) I know that part of that was because they also put out all the one-steps, battlers, etc, which diluted resources that would've been spent on creating more toys of new characters. So yes, this does very much seem to be the strategy now - put out less characters, but a lot more variants on those, and call it a complete line. Quite how much this is driven by the "do less with more" approach that is driving all industries at the moment is uncertain, and whether or not it's successful will be proven by financial results. But since it's an ideology they've adopted chances are they're going to stick with this for the next couple of years at least. That's what big companies do...
In terms of Adventures being stuffed with repaints, though, consider also how much Takara's Movie Advanced line was also stuffed with repaints. And probably for the exact same reasons as mentioned above - Hasbro wanted less characters (so they could put out more variants), but I guess that that approach doesn't fly with the Japanese customer base. So if Hasbro do stick with this idea, it'll be interesting to see what Takara do in the longer term. Because they'll eventually run out of molds to repaint... (Okay, they won't. But still.)
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Post by Toph on Jan 24, 2015 17:49:40 GMT
Takara will only suffer repaints for so long. If Hasbro doesn't do enough new molds, Takara will eventually start going back to making their own molds.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 21, 2015 9:44:19 GMT
Wave 1 of Transformers Adventure, the Japanese RID2015 + extras line, has hit in Japan and here's some promo videos
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 21, 2015 16:39:27 GMT
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Post by Toph on Mar 21, 2015 19:04:52 GMT
I'm all in for the animated repaints.
Also Rollbar being an homage to rid rollbar is win.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 15, 2015 17:09:43 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 15, 2015 20:52:36 GMT
Yes.
-Ralph
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Post by Toph on Apr 21, 2015 3:36:18 GMT
Got Roadblock, Rollbar, Swoop, and Slug today.
All are fab. Rollbar is ugly as sin, but true RiD homage ftw.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 22, 2015 11:42:27 GMT
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