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Post by Pinwig on Mar 4, 2015 20:18:51 GMT
I thought the legend went that the moulds were lost?
Interesting collection there. Suddenly quite a lot compared to the slow rate of the encores. I'm up for these if they're coloured properly. I know you chaps like the mental repaints but if they bring out something like Trypticon in bright pink I will burn down the world in apoplectic rage. Muck up Blaster and that'd be worth destroying a continent or two.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 4, 2015 22:41:33 GMT
Hmmm. Looks like the Dinobots 'news' is currently just 'some guy on the internet said so'. I'll hold off on the bunting for now.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Mar 4, 2015 23:11:32 GMT
"What have we got?"
"The Australian station chief passed this up the chain, but it is rumour at the moment - no second source confirmation."
"So, nothing actionable. Tell the analysts to keep their eyes open but concentrate on multiple-sourced data when they are building the tac-picture. Dinosaurs in the antipodes aren't a thing until we've got some verification."
Karl
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Post by kayevcee on Mar 5, 2015 0:18:25 GMT
Toy-Fu has am MP Grimlock coming their way. Much obliged, Colin! Yeah, park the Dinobots reissue in the "rumour" column for now I think. The rest we've seen reported before, although neither hide nor hair of them have been seen yet either. -Nick |
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Post by Toph on Mar 5, 2015 1:42:03 GMT
I do hope the dinobots rumor is true. I would kill to have nice brand new crisp dinobots.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 7, 2015 9:23:03 GMT
Yup, I don't know they would do much in the asian territories but a Dinobot boxed set would shift in the West easily.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 7, 2015 9:32:38 GMT
Phil needs a set of reissue Dinobots in their original colours.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 7, 2015 9:42:00 GMT
I want a set of original and then an E-hobby G2 set.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 7, 2015 9:46:05 GMT
I want orange ones.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 7, 2015 9:52:03 GMT
No you don't.
It would annoy you if they did that ahead of the proper or the G2 ones.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 7, 2015 9:54:27 GMT
I need all flavours of Dinobots.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 7, 2015 9:56:57 GMT
G2 would be a incomplete set though unless they used the unreleased colours.....
Surely a AOE set with
Gold/brass Grimlock
Blue Swoop
Purple Slag
Green Snarl
black & red Sludge
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 7, 2015 10:03:08 GMT
Yes, the unreleased colours would need to be used.
That is a good thing.
Andy
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Post by blueshift on Mar 7, 2015 10:20:50 GMT
I thought the legend went that the moulds were lost? Interesting collection there. Suddenly quite a lot compared to the slow rate of the encores. I'm up for these if they're coloured properly. I know you chaps like the mental repaints but if they bring out something like Trypticon in bright pink I will burn down the world in apoplectic rage. Muck up Blaster and that'd be worth destroying a continent or two. Don't forget, the big movie last year was really pushing Dinobots. Though that would mean the perfect time for a reissue would be last year. |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 7, 2015 11:24:32 GMT
Yes, but you don't want to be cannibalising your own sales, so having too many Dinobot products available might harm them,
We had repackages of the FOC/WFC Grimlock and the splendid Energon Grimlock.
Andy
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Post by kayevcee on Mar 7, 2015 13:16:22 GMT
Also don't forget that the Dinobots are *not* popular in Japan. At Botcon the Hasbro chaps talked about how hard it was to persuade Takara to do MP Grimlock. If the moulds were worn out as well, it would have taken a lot of persuasion (and cash) to get into a position to release the original Dinos again.
Or... maybe Hasbro decided to take matters into their own hands. Or something else entirely.
It is a bit weird that they didn't reissue the Dinobots last year. Maybe they were concerned about flooding the market, or the moulds weren't ready. Or something else entirely. EDIT: Like what Andy said.
-Nick
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 7, 2015 16:15:12 GMT
Energon Grimlock is AMAZING.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 7, 2015 17:44:07 GMT
No.
No he really, really isn't.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 7, 2015 21:57:38 GMT
I love him.
-Ralph
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Post by Toph on Mar 8, 2015 2:08:20 GMT
I'm an e-grimlock fan.
This is the first and ONLY attempt in a mainline to homage the classic Grimlock design.
I honestly don't understand the hate. He does what he's intended to, and well.
Swoop on the other hand, not so much.
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Post by Llama God on Mar 8, 2015 19:43:39 GMT
Yep, I like Energon Grimlock as well. He's not the best of the molds, but he's fun. And his bot mode has attitude.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 8, 2015 19:46:21 GMT
He has a certain charm, but is a step down and even among the range at the time I thought he wasn't that great. I think partly because I think Grimlock deserved something bigger and better. I mean the Energon Wheeljack (Downshift) was a much better crafted homage.
I do still want to get a Swoop and was miffed he wasn't reissued, given that Swoop is my favourite Dinobot.
Andy
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Post by duffism1981 on Mar 8, 2015 21:10:13 GMT
Wait, Japan don't like the Dinobots? This is the first time I have heard of this. Bad japan, bad!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 8, 2015 21:26:38 GMT
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Post by Bogatan on Mar 8, 2015 21:29:19 GMT
Yeah its baffling.
But apparently true. Or at least its true Takara told Hasbro that who in turn told a full panel at botcon.
Im not completely convinced as MP Grimlock has had a few Takara releases. Even the comic colour one got a reissue.
But Grimlock would be the most popular so I can believe the others might sell less well and for G1 reissues making new moulds means more expense and that means being convinced of getting a certain amount of use from the moulds.
The AOE colours schemes at least add one extra use along with original and G2. Maybe that was the magic number for them 3 commercially viable releases.
Oooh. I would love if they went and made official version of the Fourstar knock offs. Those things are amazing.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 8, 2015 21:49:31 GMT
Fourstar knock offs?
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Mar 8, 2015 22:03:50 GMT
Fourstar knock offs? -Ralph the fourstar KOs here I have a junker of the first Bombshell, it's missing the legs, but has the tail and its a solid toy. I gave it a junker bombshells legs and blutacked 2 broken pincers on the ends to recreate its true scorpion like form. I was thinking the dinobots were from the line, but it seems they were a different line called Prehistory DinosaurThe Sludge is a work of art. link |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 8, 2015 22:20:39 GMT
MY MIND JUST EXPLODED.
-Ralph
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Post by Llama God on Mar 8, 2015 22:32:49 GMT
All right, screw the reissues of the originals, they've had their time. I want good-quality reissues of those KOs NAO!!!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 15, 2015 18:20:43 GMT
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