JP TakaraTomy items for January-March

Since release items are quite light for Japan in the months leading up to the Movie line, I've decided to bundle these three months together (and add to the first posting with anything new confirmed for these months).

JANUARY
25th - G26 GO! Optimus EX Prime (train, dragon) (last of the GO! series?)


FEBRUARY
22nd - MP12G Masterpiece Generation 2 Sideswipe
22nd - TG30 Generations Waspinator
22nd - TG31 Generations Rhinox


MARCH
29th - MP13B Masterpiece Soundblaster w/ Ratbat
29th - TG32 Generations Minicon Set (currently says "Minicon" on JP Amazon)
29th - TG33 Generations Armada Starscream (currently says "Armada" on JP Amazon)
29th - Generations Fire Blast Grimlock (Bic Camera exclusive)
Late - Generations Thundercracker (several stores exclusive)
Late - Generations Infiltrator Starscream (Generations Book mailaway exclusive)

Some reference pics/links...

Waspinator at Amazon Japan
Rhinox at Amazon Japan
Waspinator and Rhinox from TakaraTomy site

MP Gen2 Sideswipe at Amazon Japan
MP Soundblaster at Amazon Japan

Armada Starscream at Amazon Japan
Minicon set at Amazon Japan

G26 Optimus EX Prime at Amazon Japan
G26 Optimus EX Prime combinations on twitter

Generations Infiltrator Starscream at Million Publishing
Generations Fire Blast Grimlock & Thundercracker at TakaraTomy site

Have Waspinator, Rhinox and Soundblaster on preorder. Might add Sideswipe also because I like Lamborghini's. I'm still undecided about Exprime, he is a unique Optimus mold, but not a good one.

this prime seems to be very colorful...

Now that GO! Optimus EX Prime is out, a large gallery has been mirrored here of it in-hand.

The other two February items have been released with MP Sideswipe (who has his own news topic), and some comparison images to the Hasbro versions can be seen here.

Not sure if its the product photoshopping or that my eyes are playing tricks on me, but the TG Minicon Assault Team looks almost teal/purple rather than green/black - a bit weird because the individual photos look just like the Hasbro release. If it is recoloured, I wouldn't mind another one for troop building.

I think it is just the scans, as the individual ones on the left look green and black, but the gloss of the magazine pages might be giving off a glare, distorting the colours of the combined version.
And the official images that were released makes them look like the Hasbro version too.

Not worth starting up a review topic for the EXprime Optimus, so will just stick the photos in here....

Robot mode with the other eight.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/blog/b777.jpg

Alt-modes
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/blog/b778.jpg

Vehicles only...
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/blog/b779.jpg

Combiners - the two regular teams, and Optimus with the two black redecos.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/blog/b780.jpg

I love dragon-formers, shark-formers, train-formers, and most of all: combiners. However I really can't bring myself to finish collecting these sets.

Didn't see it picture, but did you get the Microns to go with Kenzan, Jinbu and Ganoh?

I must have those combiner sets!

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Originally Posted by SuspectimusPrime

I love dragon-formers, shark-formers, train-formers, and most of all: combiners. However I really can't bring myself to finish collecting these sets.

Didn't see it picture, but did you get the Microns to go with Kenzan, Jinbu and Ganoh?

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I did get them, but didn't include them in the photos as they didn't really fit with the point of these group shots. I have the golden head-piece coming, which was the other freebie item for these figures, so will see if it fits on the black & Optimus combiner.

Apparently the Infiltrator Starscream was delayed, but was still supposed to be out by today or tomorrow.
The rest of the March figures have apparently now been released, and some galleries have been posted up of the Thundercracker and Grimlock, and the Armada Starscream.

Grimlock and Starscream are significant redecoes, but the Thundercracker looks very similar to the Hasbro version.

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Originally Posted by griffin

I did get them, but didn't include them in the photos as they didn't really fit with the point of these group shots. I have the golden head-piece coming, which was the other freebie item for these figures, so will see if it fits on the black & Optimus combiner.

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The gold chromed head piece should colour-match pretty well with the black leaders & EX Prime.

The head pieces are specially moulded for each toy it came with so unfortunately it wont go with EX-Prime combiner :(

Infiltrator Starscream, finally out (a couple pics of the box and toy).

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Originally Posted by griffin

Infiltrator Starscream, finally out (a couple pics of the box and toy).

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Wow from Artfire & Stepper to this? :confused::confused:

It does look cool, but not $100+ cool :cool: but a 'ghost' Starscream has been done to death... Surely they could have thought of another figure.

Looks like I will be saving my money this year.

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Originally Posted by MayzaPrime

Wow from Artfire & Stepper to this? :confused::confused:

It does look cool, but not $100+ cool :cool: but a 'ghost' Starscream has been done to death... Surely they could have thought of another figure.

Looks like I will be saving my money this year.

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Yep. They would've had my money if they continued along the lines of unlikely-to-be-mainstream-released Japanese Targetmasters.