Pretty cool, I wish I had the money to buy one, but that's reserved for toys at the moment.
Pretty cool, I wish I had the money to buy one, but that's reserved for toys at the moment.
Phew... glad I didn't click on order straight away. Would've been kicking myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by i_amtrunks
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Originally Posted by Paulbot
Hooley dooley, about 20 bucks shipping?Quote:
Originally Posted by llamatron
I tell ya though I love the box artwork. Aint missing out on this baby!
It's a very big heavy book, I think $20 shipping is pretty good value from anywhere.:cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tetsuwan Convoy
here a review and pictures of the book on thefwoosh
What is the packaging for shipping like for Book Depository? If it's a big heavy book it might get dinged in transit.
Here's the last big book I got from BD. It came in a solid cardboard envelope (thicker than the lighter cardboard envelopes my TPBs come in or the padded backs paperback books come in) that has a flexible holder that holds the book inside. This arrived with no problems. I personally prefer this to Amazon's boxes and have many hardcovers delivered from them.Quote:
Originally Posted by gamblor916
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Thanks Paul. Just what I needed to know. Off now to purchase this awesome volume!
Along with the original Generations book and the Vault, this is another "required" resource book that all long term fans should own.
It looks really nice... and I can't wait until mine arrives.
Mine shipped today from amazon, only 10 postage too!
Same here, just got the notification this morning. Projected delivery is Thursday the 30th, totally keen!Quote:
Originally Posted by Krayt
It's been a long time since I bought a TF book. Actually it was the Allspark Almanac.
So I'm looking forward to this :)
Comics & books don't normally interest me. But I'm keen on box art. Hell, I've even bought stuff cos of pretty box packaging/art.
I'm interested to see what's the exact contents - looking at G1 Boxes sure beats looking at a book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Megatran
I paid over the odds for this at my local comic shop but don't feel even slightly ripped off because this is one of the best, if not the best, TF books in my collection. A huge volume and beautifully presented. Includes quite a bit of Japanese stuff I had never come across before, such as variant catalogues, as well as a comprehensive rundown of G1 and G2 art. I'm sure anyone waiting for theirs to arrive will be very happy when it does.
Here's a full review of the book here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e06hAVthwR4
No real surprises, they have great job putting it together, but I don't think its a must have.
OK, having seen this now I'm not sure it's something that I would be particularly interested in buying, not for around $50 anyway. I have all of the images downloaded from Botch's website and I have no real interest in the Japanese stuff. It's a cool coffee table book but in all honesty, I expected more.
I got my copy today and I think it's great. Nice big pages, all the G1 toy art you could ever want. Also plenty of stuff I've never seen before (more than I would have expected).
Not perfect, the ordering of some of the characters is a little haphazard, and some stuff's on an angle that I wouldn't have done if laying out, but I'm very happy with it.
I'm curious what else you were expecting that might make it more appealing?Quote:
Originally Posted by 5FDP
Cool, they seem to be getting the latest stuff. Amazon showed $32 + $10 shipping (all USD) for me too. Average review is 4.5/5 stars.Quote:
Originally Posted by Facepunches
wanna know if this is comprehensive as I make it to be, is there character art for Bumblejumper in this book?
No because that toy was never released as a Transformer of its own that would have had box art done for it. This does feature repaint concepts that were never released but not box art for Japanese toys that never became Transformers.Quote:
Originally Posted by autobreadticon
And if there's some foreign language release where he does have box art, no the book doesn't cover those lines. It's really just US and Japanese market. Euro toys are excluded mostly too.
ah thanks for clearing that up with the foreign releases
, ahh the Euro G1 boxart were nice, sad to find out there were mostly excluded
I think the Bumblejumper/Bumper character art only ended up on Brazilian packaging. So even if the book covered the more obscure items, this is a rare bit of artwork to find, as this cut up card back was the best I could find online.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
Unless the pre-Transformers toy had character art on its packaging as well, the Brazillian toy (called Sedan) is probably the only one out there.
More text / background information. I've seen most of the pictures already, I'd like to know the stories behind them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
Mine arrived today, and there are definitely some nice surprises from page 71 on - Pretender faces logo, Decepticon Quickswitch, US Multiforce, G2 Jazz 2.0, etc. Some things are lovely to see full sized - particularly the Action Masters artwork and any packaging art that was cut off or obscured by things like blisters. Also, I had no idea that some Turbomasters and Predators had different heads in Japan. The chosen order of images is odd, but begins to make more sense once you're used to it. This would have been a beloved book twenty years ago - now that the internet has spoiled us, it's a lot less exciting. Ironically, if I were a more casual fan the book would be more amazing, because I wouldn't have spent the past thirty years seeking out 99% of these images myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skullcruncher
A very pretty book - I now feel inspired to make some G1 box-style art myself.
My book finally arrived..... and it a massive book , thick with high glossy pages of beautifully art work .... some of the characters i totally forgot about that i own or remembering bugging my parent to get but they didn't , so having it all in one book reminded me how important the art was to fuel my imagination....
I suspect that without the internet this book wouldn't have been possible. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Sky Shadow
No matter what the price of it was, this book was more than worth it for this long-time collector.
Every page or two, I was mouthing, "wow"... it was like seeing the boxed toys at the store, as the character art used to be a significant feature of Gen1 toys, so it really took me back to the 80s, 90s, and the early 2000s when I chased up the last of the Gen1 toys.
And a lot of it, like Micromasters and other small packaging images, were blown up to show details I never realised before. The Pretenders pages were also some of the best.
Then there was all the battle art, from the back of boxes and jigsaw puzzles.
And if that wasn't enough, there was a heap of unused artwork that even I didn't know existed. Things like Gen2 Sludge and Swoop, Gen2 Monstructor, and Gen2 Dirge, Thrust and Ramjet. Generation 2 was certainly meant to have a lot of toys in it before it was axed.
Plus the unused artwork that we did know about (like the Gen2 Protectobots and Stunticons), which very few people have seen decent sized copies of their artwork before.
Wow... is the best word I can use to sum up this book for me, because it is so reminiscent of my early years as a collector.
I expected this book to be a necessary addition to my reference book collection, and I was NOT disappointed in the slightest. For me it was value from cover to cover. One of the few books I've bought, that I looked at EVERY single page, at the moment I got it (today), and couldn't put it down until I had reached the back cover. :D
I hope this book does really well, but unfortunately, I don't expect fans and collectors who got into Transformers after 1995, to have as much interest or see the value in buying it, over what you can see online for free.
That's actually pre-Japanese-Transformers Dirge, Thrust and Ramjet. (Basically Skywarp, Thundercracker and Starscream 'upgraded' with new wings, tailfins and/or weapons, exactly the same as they were in that prototype image from which they created e-Hobby Bad Boy and Pathfinder.) The SpaceBridge.net used to have those illustrations years ago when it was online, but most of it can now be seen here. That 'Thrust' is retconned to become TFCC's Nacelle character.Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
Yes and no - yes, of course there's no way all the people and materials involved here would have ever been found without the internet, but pretty much nothing in the book has been 'taken from the internet' in the traditional sense. They've gone back to the original art wherever possible - even box scans generally weren't high enough resolution for the book. It really is a beautiful achievement.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tetsuwan Convoy
I've bitten the bullet and ordered via Book Depository :o It will be a nice little Xmas pressie to myself and the next best thing to actually opening a vintage G1 toy on Xmas morning :cool:
Yeah, I know about those ones... I saw them in the book with three redecos of Starscream that were noted as "unreleased Gen2", but didn't see where it said "unreleased Gen1" next to the "coneheads". :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Sky Shadow
Still, there were 31-ish unreleased Gen2 toys that were included in the book, plus a few others we've known about... which is a lot that they had in the pipeline when the line was axed.
(each time I go back to that book for something, I get so distracted at all the purdy pictures)
I might have to do the same, use of the original art where possible really makes the images pop.Quote:
Originally Posted by 5FDP
I have that Japanese poster where the artwork is from, didn't give it a second thought until now :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Sky Shadow
Received my copy last Friday and although I'm not meant to have looked at it yet (it's supposed to be a Xmas pressie from the wife), I snuck a quick peek. Very impressed by the quality of the images!
With the joy you old G1 fans are expressing about the book, I can only hope something similar is produced for the Beast Era at some point in the future.
Yeah, loving my copy! And its interesting to see how when I show it to mates their eyes light up when they spot the package art from a TF they recieved as a kid :DQuote:
Originally Posted by griffin