Animated - what's left?

[Toastfarmer]

It's pretty crap that the line is over and all, especially since I tried to complete it as best I could. But I want to figure out what loose ends I can tie up.

It looks like I need to try and get:

Rodimus Minor
Arcee
Blackout
Electrostatic Soundwave
Freeway Jazz
Wingblade Optimus
Jetpack Bumblebee
Cybertron Mode Ironhide

Is there anything I've missed on this list? I think there may be a Bulkhead repaint or something that I've neglected.

[christalcase]

if it is unreleased stuff then you've missed:

Toxic Oil Slick
Fugitive Waspinator
Goldfire Grimlock
Thundercracker
Mudbuster Bulkhead

[tinyJazz]

Also Vortex Blurr

Have you got Cybertron Ratchet?

some of this stuff isn't guaranteed for release either :(

[Deceptic_Optic]

Rodimus Minor (TAKARA EXCLUSIVE - due out around september)
Arcee (already out in US hasbro version and japan takara version in pre order)
Cybertron Mode Ratchet (already out in US hasbro version and japan takara version in pre order)
Blackout (TAKARA EXCLUSIVE - out now)
Electrostatic Soundwave (US EXCLUSIVE - out now)
Freeway Jazz (US EXCLUSIVE - out now)
Wingblade Optimus (TAKARA EXCLUSIVE - due out around september)
Jetpack Bumblebee (TAKARA EXCLUSIVE - due out around september)
Cybertron Mode Ironhide (not sure when but probably the end of this year)
Thundercraker Voyager (still pending for production)
Sons of Cybertron (i think) Clear version of optimus prime and rodimus minor (out next month i think)

[liegeprime]

As seen in the botcon display - there's the upcoming Ironhide figure - looks like a retooled Cyb mode ratchet:)

[GoktimusPrime]

Isn't TakaraTOMY releasing an Activators Soundblaster later this year?

[Deceptic_Optic]

yup that too...:)

[Toastfarmer]

For a dead line there still seems to be a lot coming out. Thanks for the replies. :)

[kurdt_the_goat]

if it is unreleased stuff then you've missed:

Toxic Oil Slick
Fugitive Waspinator
Goldfire Grimlock
Thundercracker
Mudbuster Bulkhead

There's also a Mercenary Swindle (http://www.seibertron.com/events/fullsize.php?event_id=142&size=2&image=20).



Isn't TakaraTOMY releasing an Activators Soundblaster later this year?

If by later this year you mean a week or so ago, then yes :) He came out on the 19th June.

[tinyJazz]

Are you chasing up Japan only figures as well? All these are on my list to get :/ I have a spreadsheet.

EZ collection: (http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/official-images-of-takara-ez-collection-wave-4/19079/)
Clear Starscream (Light Purple, Blue or Yellow) chase figures? (http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/figure-king-149-new-figures-revealed/19006/)
Gold version Optimus
Elite Guard Optimus
Elite Guard Bumblebee
Elite Guard Prowl

NEW Mini EZ? scans on tfw (http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/animated-8/transformers-animated-mini-ez-collection-series-from-takara-tomy-170087/)
Bumblebee
Optimus
Starscream
Megatron

Other Japanese exclusives:

Deluxe Elite Guard Prowl (tokyo toy show 2010/eHobby) otca (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=8072) and here (http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/new-images-of-movie-dreadwing-smokescreen-elite-guard-prowl-too/19015/)
Deluxe Gold Optimus Prime (Paramount Japan DVD campaign (http://dvd.paramount.jp/tfa/#campaign), 1/8/10 -30/9/10, 1000 pieces, lucky draw?) seibertron.com news post (http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/takara-animated-dvd-exclusive-campaign-gold-deluxe-optimus-prime/18597/)

Retailer incentive Legends: (http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/new-images-of-takara-exclusive-clear-legends-smoke-prowl-yellow-bumblebee-and-purple-starscream/18408/)
Clear Red Optimus Prime (TRU Japan)
Clear Yellow Bumblebee (Itoyokado Store)
Clear Purple Starscream (Jusco)
Clear Grey Prowl (Apita Store)

RE: TFA sons of cybertron - Believe (http://www.e-hobby.co.jp/cgi-bin/omc?port=33301&req=PRODUCT&code=tfa_t07#) it! (http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/TF/products/2010/animated.html)

Please tell me that's it! :( I can't find anyone selling Jusco Purple Starscream or Apita Grey Prowl.

Some Non transforming for anyone who's interested:
TFA Keychain Plushies? (http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/new-transformers-animated-keychain-plushies/18715/)
Mini Figurines and Collectable Cards (http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/takara-animated-figurines-and-collectible-cards/18779/)

[liegeprime]

hmm so they are making a Fugitive wasp ei? or plan to... wish they'll make an activator version as well. That Deluxe bee mold just doesnt fit in sizewise (what am I talking about, in the whole history of TFs sizing has ALWAYS been a problem/major frustration!!:eek::eek:) with the rest of the figs.

[Deceptic_Optic]

not sure but somewhere here said that Jetpack Bumblebee will be in scale with rest of the deluxe or maybe i red it somewhere?

[autobreadticon]

http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/animated-8/new-transformers-animated-microbots-capsule-toys-169598/

i like to think they are Animated Robot Heroes :)

[Toastfarmer]

Sorry to revive an old topic, but better than starting a new one on the same subject. I kind of went into hiatus on trying to track down what was left in the Animated series but I've come back around to it. I've now picked up the final American releases such as Arcee, Rodimus and Cybertron Ironhide/Ratchet, and I know I need to get JP releases like Blackout, Wingblade Optimus, Jetpack Bumblebee and Soundblaster (Activator). I also managed to pick up the JP Skywarp and Ramjet Activators.

But I'm feeling a little overwhelmed by the amount of stuff still out there - Black Rodimus, Black Optimus Prime, Elite Guard Prowl, the Sons Of Cybertron set. Then on top of that there's all the neat Botcon stuff like Cheetor, the Stunticons set (which I absolutely love), the Autotroopers, Fisitron, Toxitron and Sideswipe.

My question is really where the line should be drawn on what is a 'complete' collection. I know that's entirely up to me in this context but I'm interested to hear the opinions of others.

[Doubledealer]

My idea of a complete TFA collection is every characters Hasbro release (full scale for each toy bar BB where my preference goes to the activator) and the following:

-Custom Wasp made from an Activator Bumblebee (my favourite TFA character, I couldn't imagine my collection without the little fella)
-All Botcon 2011 toys (as average as I find her bot mode, I really hope Minerva gets a commercial release...It's a horrible feeling knowing how unattainable this characters toy is :()
-TFCC Cheetor
-Takara Blackout
-Takara Soundblaster (deluxe)
-Takara Activator Ramjet (nice going finding one, this is still on my to buy list)
-Takara Jetpack Optimus & Bumblebee

As for toys like Elite Guard BB, Prowl & Prime, Black Takara Rodimus, the clear toys etc. I think they're ugly and pointless :p

[kaiden]

you need a deluxe springer and minerva too.

but seriously the botcon stuff is really pricey so i wouldn't care about them too much.

[Doubledealer]

you need a deluxe springer and minerva too.

but seriously the botcon stuff is really pricey so i wouldn't care about them too much.

Wasn't Springer a fan-made custom? The Botcon toys are expensive but if you love TFA and can afford them, they're totally worth it. If you can't afford all of the toys, my advice is to go for just the box set. The Motormaster & Breakdown are ridiculously cool and the best uses of each respective mould in my humble opinion.

The way I see it, buying the Botcon toys is a win-win situation. If you ever regret buying them, chuck them back on ebay and you'll get as much, if not more than you paid for them in the first place. You won't want to sell them though! :D

[Krayt]

why jap soundblaster and not just the US version?

[Toastfarmer]

As far as I can tell, there is no deluxe Soundblaster, just an Activator. It's basically just an Activator version of Electrostatic Soundwave by another name.

PS, Thanks mods for moving the topic.

[jaydisc]

Hasbro Electrostatic Soundwave = Soundblaster (http://www.google.com.au/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=hasbro+electrostatic+soundwave&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1183&bih=573)

[LordCyrusOmega]

From my list of what I need:
Activator Ramjet
Tokyo show Exclusive Elite Guard Prowl ( for Yukitron)
Botcon Stunticon Set
Botcon Minerva
Botcon Fistitron
Botcon Toxitron
Botcon Sideswipe
TFCC Cheetor (incoming)

Not released:
Fugitive Wasp

I think thats all I want

[JuzMel]

My collection is "complete" to me when I get all the characters that appear in the cartoon/movie itself. And a couple of selective ones that I really like, like Wingblade Optimus Prime and Jetpack Bumblebee.

It's expensive to buy toys that you don't really like just to complete the collection. Maybe just get the ones that you really like and you can focus on completing your "other collections" too. :)

[LordCyrusOmega]

My collection is "complete" to me when I get all the characters that appear in the cartoon/movie itself. And a couple of selective ones that I really like, like Wingblade Optimus Prime and Jetpack Bumblebee.


I made a list of all Animated characters that appear in the series.
Cybertron mode:
Bulkhead
Bumblebee
Prowl
Wasp
Sentinel Prime

Decepticons:
Strika
Spittor
Cyclonus
Slipstream
Dirt Boss
Mixmaster
Scrapper

Autobots
Elita-1
Warpath
Yukitron
Brawn
Dion
Red Alert
Omega Supreme
Rattrap
Perceptor
Wheeljack

And many more I can't think of now and who will probably never see the light of day. Which means my Animated collection will never be complete and this is annoying cause I loves Animated :(

[Doubledealer]

why jap soundblaster and not just the US version?

A picture (or two) tells a thousand words. :D

Hasbro Soundblaster:
http://i34.tinypic.com/dxig3n.jpg

Takara Soundblaster:
http://cdn.tfw2005.com/resources/attach/4/0/5/9/7/TA47-Soundwave-Electrostatic-Robot_1291505049.jpg

[Paulbot]

And many more I can't think of now and who will probably never see the light of day. Which means my Animated collection will never be complete and this is annoying cause I loves Animated :(
Every TF cartoon, comic, and movie has TF characters that never have toys doesn't mean you can't complete the toy collection that accompanies it.

I think you could call your TFA collection complete if you have vrything Hasbro released. The BotCon stuff is additional but falls into a limited exclusive category in my mind that is a bonus to the collection not a key part of it.

[UltraMarginal]

Every TF cartoon, comic, and movie has TF characters that never have toys doesn't mean you can't complete the toy collection that accompanies it.

I think you could call your TFA collection complete if you have vrything Hasbro released. The BotCon stuff is additional but falls into a limited exclusive category in my mind that is a bonus to the collection not a key part of it.

but having a Minerva in your animated collection would really round it out... :o

[UltraMarginal]

I've actually tried to stear clear of muying much animated, as I hadn't seen the series and apart from getting a couple characters, Jazz especially, I didn't want to start something that would cost more in the long run than sticking to my other transformers collections.

Now though, since I did go to Botcon and get the box set and previously watched all of animated in preperation for Botcon, I've got a lot of animated figures and I really like them. I have been steadily purchasing animated figures since before the start of the year. The engineering is quite impressive and they look great. Prowl is my favorite motorbike of all transformers motorbikes at this stage.

As for completing the Animated collection, I don't think I will ever get them all, I tend to pick a preferred representation of a character and stick with that one. I now seem to also have a need to ensure I have an even number of Decepticons and Autobots on my shelf, this causes me to perhaps miss out on a figure/prioritise which figure I finish off on, to make sure the battle is on fair standing:D

[LordCyrusOmega]

Every TF cartoon, comic, and movie has TF characters that never have toys doesn't mean you can't complete the toy collection that accompanies it.

I think you could call your TFA collection complete if you have vrything Hasbro released. The BotCon stuff is additional but falls into a limited exclusive category in my mind that is a bonus to the collection not a key part of it.

I accept this now though it took a while to do it. So I only need a couple to complete it now. Not holding my breath on the Botcon stuff though.

[kaiden]

Wasn't Springer a fan-made custom?

yeah you're right.

[jaydisc]

My idea of a complete TFA collection is every characters Hasbro release (full scale for each toy bar BB where my preference goes to the activator) and the following:

-Custom Wasp made from an Activator Bumblebee (my favourite TFA character, I couldn't imagine my collection without the little fella)
-All Botcon 2011 toys (as average as I find her bot mode, I really hope Minerva gets a commercial release...It's a horrible feeling knowing how unattainable this characters toy is :()
-TFCC Cheetor
-Takara Blackout
-Takara Soundblaster (deluxe)
-Takara Activator Ramjet (nice going finding one, this is still on my to buy list)
-Takara Jetpack Optimus & Bumblebee

As for toys like Elite Guard BB, Prowl & Prime, Black Takara Rodimus, the clear toys etc. I think they're ugly and pointless :p

I think this is a good list and I agree with everything on it. The Soundblaster difference is subtle, so I think the Hasbro one is fine there (although I do have a Takara ACTIVATOR Soundblaster).

Fortunately for me, Fisatron, G2 Sideswipe and Toxitron from Botcon 2011 did not make my list. They're characters from different eras, were never feature din the fiction, and are utterly hideous.

[Doubledealer]

I think this is a good list and I agree with everything on it. The Soundblaster difference is subtle, so I think the Hasbro one is fine there (although I do have a Takara ACTIVATOR Soundblaster).

Fortunately for me, Fisatron, G2 Sideswipe and Toxitron from Botcon 2011 did not make my list. They're characters from different eras, were never feature din the fiction, and are utterly hideous.

Cheers bud. :) Like you say, the Hasbro Soundblaster is perfectly acceptable and his Ratbat is probably the nicer of the two versions, it just really bugged me that he wasn't jet black and that's why I ended up getting the Takara release along with the Hasbro one.

Not that I'm trying to temp you Jay (:D) but check out the bio's for those three characters you mentioned, particularly Fisitron and Toxitron. I love the fact that Fistron made Prime's laser axe!!

http://i661.photobucket.com/albums/uu332/Doubledealer_83/fisitron.jpg
http://i661.photobucket.com/albums/uu332/Doubledealer_83/toxitron.jpg
http://i661.photobucket.com/albums/uu332/Doubledealer_83/sideswipe-1.jpg

[LordCyrusOmega]

http://i661.photobucket.com/albums/uu332/Doubledealer_83/fisitron.jpg
http://i661.photobucket.com/albums/uu332/Doubledealer_83/toxitron.jpg
http://i661.photobucket.com/albums/uu332/Doubledealer_83/sideswipe-1.jpg

Thing of beauty, want em all

[Paulbot]

Fortunately for me, Fisatron, G2 Sideswipe and Toxitron from Botcon 2011 did not make my list. They're characters from different eras, were never feature din the fiction, and are utterly hideous.

Depends if you count the BotCon comic as part of the fiction. It's probably the closest to s4 we'll get (at least in the short term).

[Doubledealer]

Thing of beauty, want em all

That's the spirit! :D How good are the bio's, gotta love the G1 styling

[GoktimusPrime]

"Nemisis Prime"?? ???

Heh, Toxitron is like Bizarro Optimus ;)

[loophole]

Heh, Toxitron is like Bizarro Optimus ;)

i like that line of thinking

[UltraMarginal]

Toxitron is pretty hideous at first, but after you look at him a few times, he becomes more attractive. I think they deco'd him really well, I'd say my least favorite of the whole lot is shattered glass Galvatron, largely because of the mold, but even that one's pretty good.

Fisitron is great though, love his design. Sideswipe is pretty good, doesn't hurt the eyes like other g2 inspired stuff/.

[GoktimusPrime]

I think Toxitron was intended to be a Bizarro Optimus, but of course, the name and concept of Bizarro is owned by DC - but I think it's suggested in the tech specs line "a bizarre duplicate of Optimus Prime" -- and just as Bizarro is like the opposite of Superman in many ways, it seems that Toxitron is the opposite of Optimus Prime.

Bizarro has the same abilities and powers as Superman, but some of them are 'reversed' (e.g. freeze vision instead of heat vision, vacuum breath instead of super breath, vulnerable to blue Kryptonite instead of green Kryptonite etc.) - Toxitron has some traits similar to Optimus Prime, most noteably both have exceptional physical strength. But a lot of Toxitron's features are reversed to Animated Optimus Prime, e.g. Prime's cannon can shoot fire retardant chemicals, whereas Toxitron's cannon shoots corrosive chemicals. Optimus Prime has a high intelligence, whereas Toxitron has a 'stunted intellect.' Toxitron even drives in reverse. :p Also, Bizarro is meant to be ugly, and I'd say that was the intent for Toxitron too. ;) Toxitron was created as a failed experiment to 'artificially' create a warrior in an Autobot shell - Bizarro was created in an attempt to clone a Kryptonian (Pre-Crisis Bizarros = clones of Zod, Post-Crisis Bizarro = clone of Superman).

RE: Fisitron's function... "weapondry"? So... his function is to dry wet weapons?? Or does someone note know how to spell 'weaponry' (possibly the same person who can't spelly 'nemesis'?). ???

[jaydisc]

Not that I'm trying to temp you Jay (:D) but check out the bio's for those three characters you mentioned, particularly Fisitron and Toxitron. I love the fact that Fistron made Prime's laser axe!!

I love temptation! :D

For me, it's like this:

Fisitron was/is a bit tempting.

Sideswipe would be HUGELY tempting if he wasn't G2 colored. Can you imagine that toy in a nice, solid red? But both him and Toxitron (even Fisitron a little bit) seem to be part of this fan love of grossly coloured G1.5/G2/Shattered Glass toys that just do absolutely nothing to float my boat (quite the reverse actually).

My distaste for Toxitron is only compounded by the use of the voyager class Pig-Nose Prime mold, which I already have little-to-no time for. Their decision to use that mold for Motormaster almost made me boycott the box set. I don't even use it to represent Optimus Prime in my display because I dislike it so. (Cybertron Deluxe FTW!)

As to whether I'd count the Botcon comic as fiction, if it's sole purpose wasn't to unite this latest round of disconnected figures with the pre-existing fiction, I'd give it more credence. Are Galvatron and Thundercracker in the comic? If so, that would definitely discount it as not having any merit in my world.

Gosh, I miss Animated. It's a shame that it seems key folk at FunPub aren't big fans and this will be their last use (or so it has been theorized).

[Paulbot]

As to whether I'd count the Botcon comic as fiction, if it's sole purpose wasn't to unite this latest round of disconnected figures with the pre-existing fiction, I'd give it more credence. Are Galvatron and Thundercracker in the comic? If so, that would definitely discount it as not having any merit in my world.
No, Galvatron and Thundercracker are not in the Animated comic. Having listened to the comic performed by Transformers voice actors, including David Kaye as Optimus, helps elevate the story and characters a bit more part of the continuity, but it is a case of "you had to be there".

[Sky Shadow]

All Animated fans should read The Stunti-Con Job. It's written and plotted by Marty Isenberg, Derrick J. Wyatt and Matt Youngberg and is supposed to fit in with their plans for Season Four - most interestingly (for me) regarding the roles of Sentinel and Optimus.

Actually I was just thinking what a better ending to DOTM might have been.

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MEGATRON: What are you waiting for, Autobot? Finish me.

OPTIMUS: That would be the easy way out, Megatron. You don't deserve it.

...

I miss Animated too.

[Toastfarmer]

I'm trying to get hold of the Botcon Stunticon set at the moment so hopefully I'll have the opportunity to read the comic soon!