Japanese RID series to be called "Transformers Adventure"

The TakaraTomy site has announced their name for the Robots In Disguise cartoon/series, as "Transformers Adventure" (hence the "TAV" code for the toys)... and some toy images are now being revealed as well from other sources.

The TakaraTomy site shows the Warrior Class Bumblebee toy, which we saw in the recent Figure King magazine scans... and gives us a closer look at the circular "barcode", which has six different colours compared to just two on the Hasbro ones. (the Japanese "barcode" unlocks animated clips on a Japanese app, as the Hasbro game app is just for the western Markets and the Hasbro toys)


As for toy reveals, a toy dealer site has been tweeting the toy images, which will probably be mirrored in the one news article at TFW, but as soon as the images were tweeted there were about 6 different news postings by fans trying to be the first with the news.

There look to be two groups of images, one lot that are toys for the TAV/RID cartoon, and one lot of redeco toys that are not from the cartoon.

The first batch (cartoon toys)...
TAV01 Bumblebee (RID warrior)
TAV02 Grimlock (RID warrior)
TAV03 Strongarm (RID warrior)
TAV04 Steeljaw (RID warrior)
TAV05 Fixit (RID One-Step changer)
TAV06 Underbite (RID One-Step changer)

The second batch (non-cartoon toys)...
TAV07 Roadblock (light green/purple redeco GEN DLX Scoop)
TAV08 Rival Strongarm (mid green/orange redeco RID Warrior Strongarm)
TAV09 Swoop (black/red/grey redeco Animated Swoop)
(TAV10 Snarl - NOT SHOWN, probably Animated Snarl)
TAV11 Knockout (grey/black/red redeco Beast Hunters DLX Knockout)
TAV12 Dreadwing (dark blue redeco Beast Hunters Dreadwing)
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TAV13 Transformers Nemesis Prime (black redeco RID Warrior Optimus)
TAV14 Transformers Ultra Magnus (minor redeco Beast Hunters VOY Ultra Magnus)


The release dates of these were previously noted as...
TAV01 - TAV12 - March
TAV13 - TAV14 - April
(might change)
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Some better pics up at Takaratomy mall.
TAV 10 is a TFA Snarl repaint. :)

Translations from the TakaraTomy Mall site

Warrior Class (plus some 1-step changers)

TAV01 Bumblebee
TAV02 Grimlock
TAV03 Strongarm
TAV04 Steeljaw
TAV05 Fixit
TAV06 Underbite

TAV07 Roadblock (Generations Scoop Repaint)
TAV08 Greejeeber (RiD2015 Warrior Strongarm Repaint as RiD2000 Rollbar who's japanese name was グリジバー/Greejeeber)
TAV09 Swoop (Animated Swoop Repaint)
TAV10 Slag/Slug (Animated Snarl Repaint
TAV11 Bloody Knockout (Beast Hunters Knockout Repaint) (Love the name)
TAV12 Dreadwing (Beast Hunters Dreadwing Repaint)

Warrior Class 2-packs

TAVVS01 Bumblebee vs Steeljaw
TAVVS02 Grimlock vs Greejeeber

1 step changers and other Simple toys (besides Underbite and Fix-it)
TED01 Bumblebee
TED02 Grimlock
TED03 Sideswipe
TED04 Prowl (AoE One Step Prowl)
TED05 Junkion (AoE Power Battlers Junkheap Repaint)

Preorders with pics at BBTS including additionally

TAV15 Lockdown
TAV16 Bombshell
TAV17 Shrapnel
TAV18 Drift

Preorders are up on HLJ

http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljlist/?SeriesID=6187

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Originally Posted by drahsrebu

Preorders are up on HLJ

http://www.hlj.com/scripts/hljlist/?SeriesID=6187

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Awesome. just canned a few of my BBTS orders :)

One thing I noticed on my RID One-Step Sideswipe toy was the same Kanji character on his chest and car front... but I'm having trouble trying to work it out.

The closest I could get to was 速 (which translates to Fast, so is related to the character)... but the sculpting on the toy has the top cut off.

On the Japanese version of this toy it has the Kanji panted, making me notice that there are two more on the rear of the car mode on each side as well... the second Character is the same as on the chest, but the first one is too distorted by the rear tyres for me to work out.
Anyone able to more easily recognise it?

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Originally Posted by griffin

One thing I noticed on my RID One-Step Sideswipe toy was the same Kanji character on his chest and car front... but I'm having trouble trying to work it out.

The closest I could get to was 速 (which translates to Fast, so is related to the character)... but the sculpting on the toy has the top cut off.

On the Japanese version of this toy it has the Kanji panted, making me notice that there are two more on the rear of the car mode on each side as well... the second Character is the same as on the chest, but the first one is too distorted by the rear tyres for me to work out.
Anyone able to more easily recognise it?

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Never mind, I was able to track it down by the 3-square box on the left of the character - 瞬 速 (which google translates to instantaneous speed).

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Originally Posted by griffin

Never mind, I was able to track it down by the 3-square box on the left of the character - 瞬 速 (which google translates to instantaneous speed).

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Confirming that your translation is correct. :) 瞬速 (Shunsoku) means instantaneous or blinding speed.

I hope Bombshell, Shrapnel and Powerglide are all in G1 decos, otherwise I'll have to go with Hasbro versions.