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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jun 10, 2012 18:01:51 GMT
Release! Release!
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 10, 2012 19:17:28 GMT
Yes!
-Ralph
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Post by primenova on Jun 11, 2012 8:41:37 GMT
Do we known if there was any plans for releasing any other G1 original toys during G2 - apart from the 8 that we got [mode Optimus, Jazz, Sideswipe, Inferno, Starscream, Dinobots] Simon did seem to use some others in the comic, maybe Marvel came up with a list [not included the teams because the comic did not have them in repaint colours] & Hasbro only did some of them. Also not included minibots or Constructions repaints - same reason as the teams. No metal gold Bumblebee in the comic etc. But the 3 Dinobots where released & Grimlock was blue in #2.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 11, 2012 11:24:33 GMT
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Post by primenova on Jun 11, 2012 11:51:18 GMT
Sludge would have look great in those colours - better than original. Don't like that yellow Grimlock.
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Post by Toph on Jun 11, 2012 21:05:49 GMT
Do we known if there was any plans for releasing any other G1 original toys during G2 - apart from the 8 that we got [mode Optimus, Jazz, Sideswipe, Inferno, Starscream, Dinobots] Simon did seem to use some others in the comic, maybe Marvel came up with a list [not included the teams because the comic did not have them in repaint colours] & Hasbro only did some of them. Also not included minibots or Constructions repaints - same reason as the teams. No metal gold Bumblebee in the comic etc. But the 3 Dinobots where released & Grimlock was blue in #2. Simon was largely free of the "toy catalogue" restrictions he was under for G1. So any characters that appeared in his G2 comic really wasn't influenced by what Hasbro was doing. Which is why the main villain to this day has never received a toy, and why so many G1 characters had appearances. Most of his character choices were done because it made sense from where G1 left off. (Bludgeon as decepticon leader, the mayhem attack squad being high ranking decepticons, and such). As for the combiners not appearing in G2 colors... neither did most of the other G1 repaints. I think Sideswipe was about the only one. (Maybe Starscream, I can't remember very well) |
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Post by primenova on Jun 12, 2012 8:24:49 GMT
The only point in the comics where we got "hey its the new toy" was just Megatron [but that was in the Gijoe comic] But Simon just had Dreadwind #7 & rotor/laser then optimus Combat Hero at end.
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Post by Hero on Jun 15, 2012 9:35:14 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 4, 2013 13:13:25 GMT
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Post by Nigel on Sept 4, 2013 16:03:09 GMT
I didn't know Sgt Hound and friends had got quite so close to release. And I've never seen those Combat Heroes repaints before.
"One noteable thing - note how it says "Manufactured under licensce from Takara Co. Ltd." Hmm, so this means Takara not only designed Dreadwing/Smokescreen, they also held onto the licensce? "
Er, it says this on everything.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 4, 2013 16:25:21 GMT
I didn't know Sgt Hound and friends had got quite so close to release. And I've never seen those Combat Heroes repaints before. Have you not? That's the source of the Op that was in the Generations Ultimate battle set last year |
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Post by Nigel on Sept 4, 2013 16:48:32 GMT
I don't think I paid much attention to tht set.  |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 4, 2013 17:59:31 GMT
G2 catalogues bring supreme joy!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 8, 2013 18:42:23 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 8, 2013 18:48:23 GMT
Lovely.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 11, 2014 19:19:54 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 1, 2014 9:54:09 GMT
Support my memory or correct me folks:
My recollection here is that *generally* the Euro G2 releases were the year after the US ones.
So in 1994 we got black trailer Optimus, tank Megatron, recoloured cars and planes - and Superion as a woolworths exclusive on US cards
1995 was Archforce and Sureshot and the ATB (but also we caught up and got the first wave Cyberjets)
Anyone got any evidence to support this?
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 1, 2014 10:36:25 GMT
I got a Cyberjet from Argos in 1996. Prime was either Christmas 93 or 94. The recoloured cyberjets I got from a Morrisons in 96 or 97. But how long they had been out when I got any of them I don't know.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 1, 2014 10:39:17 GMT
I'm pretty sure we didn't get G2 here in 1993: I've got the Hasbro pack in catalogue for that year. My recall is it came out 1994 and for that year I don't have anything.
I've got a G2 product poster and a photocopy of a Hasbro toyfair brochure from either 95 or 96 - I'll dig those out.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 1, 2014 11:02:08 GMT
Found the G2 Poster on my HDD and unploaded it to flicker at www.flickr.com/photos/philip_ayres/sets/72157640371464226/ with the 92 & 3 Euro posters. In 1994 we got Optimus w black trailer Megatron 2 reissued cars, sideswipe in new colours 2 recoloured jets Dinobots Dreadwing Illuminators Combat Heroes Aquaspeeders Stormtroopers Rotorbots Sparkabots the last 5 are all euro exclusives of some description: CH had redone stickers and name, Aquaspeeders were different colours to the US, last 3 are straight euro exclusives. plus Axelerators, Skyscorchers, Lightformers & Trakkons carried over from the previous year |
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 1, 2014 11:34:08 GMT
My memories are blurred because I was on Holiday in the US in 93 and saw the full g2 range and its hard to believe there was an 18 month gap between getting G2 Starscream and G2 Prime. But it probably was or my parents picked up Prime on holiday and kept it till Christmas, though thats unlikely.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 1, 2014 13:46:30 GMT
I recall seeing the re-done versions of old moulds in shops quite a while before I saw any new moulds. For a long while in my area all I saw was black trailer Prime and recall being unimpressed by the new line just being a 10-year old toy!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 1, 2014 14:10:01 GMT
Another problem with the old moulds is that most of them had recently been sitting on the uk shelves in their original colours in classics boxes. Some of them, Optimus in particular, probably still were!
Of the old toys the UK got recolours of in 94 only Slag, Starscream and Ramjet hadn't been on UK shelves relatively recently.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 5, 2014 14:29:32 GMT
Phil, were Powermaster Darkwing's wings fixed - I remember them as moving, but it is a while since I've owned one and my brain might be going "He's a Tornado, of course they are." You're right they do move: compare jet and combined mode at www.tfu.info/1988/Decepticon/Darkwing/darkwing.htmBut the initial point still stands: It's only been done on a much larger toy before. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 28, 2014 10:56:22 GMT
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jun 28, 2014 13:47:32 GMT
How do we know he isn't one of the bidders already??
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 28, 2014 20:41:11 GMT
$6000 currently. What's the record for the highest price Transformer ever, and what was it?
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Post by Jaymz on Jun 29, 2014 2:09:14 GMT
$15k for an AFA graded US Piranacon giftset according to a thread on tfw2005.
G2 Stunticons are at $8k now, I can see it hitting $15k, if not more.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 29, 2014 5:01:54 GMT
$9k this morning
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 30, 2014 21:42:59 GMT
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