Takara Tomy beginning to take action against 3rd products in Japan?

[liegeprime]

That's a hell of a creative solution to a problem dude if I'd ever heard of one, I imagine you'd be pretty good at Origami then?
The MMM's I hate the most were the one's with the detachable 'Throttlebot-esque' motor, they always broke on me but things like this guy I found to be passable.

yeah most of em imagine would break since its diecast on plastic, not really lasting, thank goodness for balljoint tech. Still a shame, since some of the characters they have are really enjoyable and I think would make a great TF if a version (ala Crasher = Fracture, and Bugbite) was made... Id like to see Buggyman, Creeper Jeeper, Fitor, Turbo, Cykill and Leader one.. oh and Scooter too, weve never had a scooter TF

I wasnt really that good in origami though I enjoyed making my TF's. one good thing about toy displays way back then in Philippines is that you CAN pick it up and fiddle with it, that helps a lot in figuring out minute details I cant glean from staring at catalogues

My room got quite messy often from leftover paper cut offs. Still, I had more TFs than my neighbors ( who had original toys but preferred to play with my stuff hehehe)..and I can customize mine. The Joes were a very cheap alternative so I got me more of those instead at those times, doh!! but the vehicles I made myself as well - Hisstank anyone?

[Hursticon]

Haha, that's cool man, well done!
This partially explains why your collection today is apparently HUGE!

This has made me look at my Animated Papermus Prime in a different light too.

[UltraMarginal]

Your lucky you had paper!
When i was a kid, we had to mill and pulp our own wood to make paper before we could even think of making origami transformers.
To make matters worse, it was a hundred mile treck into the wild to get trees that were of the right qualities, and we had to drag them home by hand.

don't get me started on colouring either. I had to use my own blood to paint my optimus prime cab, you don't want to know where I got colours for my blaster and shockwave!!

Seriously though, that is really cool, how industrious you can be when you only have certain tools at your disposal is very impressive.

[kaiden]

when the day comes for hasbro to upgrade their online sales, i wonder what will happen to 3rd party products?

i prefer to shop online and avoid the hassle of going to the store and not finding what i am looking for and just generally being around other shoppers.

i wish i could buy Transformers when i felt like it instead of having to shop elsewhere due to retail stores refusing to order more of their products and therefore having all those warpaths stuck in a warehouse costing space and money.

whats surprising to me is the death penalty within china. i thought they didnt care about laws outside their own country as they seem to be mostly able to do as they wish. their currency is artificially low, and they can KO anything!

I figured they would protect their economy not kill off their own, but i guess they dont care about the individual since their population growth makes it irrelevant as they're evidently replaceable.

[liegeprime]

Well they have really harsher laws there I guess. Must be a way of really deterring the populace, and were talking millions and millions of people here since they're overpopulated. .... for a second there it crossed my mind ( really sick joke) but it could be China's way of population control... they make KOs kill em all!! They wee in public, kill em all!!, they make too many babies, kill em all!!

Oh and Hursty, the head in those paper bots are 4 dimensional too so they took me quite awhile to finish 1 ( about a day for 1) but I make the heads last so that I have proper dimensions and they dont come out disproportionate to the body.

Ultramarginal: you can boil some berries and use the concentrated liquid for ink to color Shockwave ... it helps to be creative when one has no money heheheh I used to use white computer paper and had markers to color m, but that took ages so when I discorvered Cartolina craft paper (comes in oodles o color) never looked back heheh,

[GoktimusPrime]

and were talking millions and millions of people here

Over a billion.

<insert.rantage.here> China seems to have a lot of the disadvantages of a large population _without_ the advantages... 'cept for better shopping hours. Then again, Australia's shopping hours suck.

I was shopping in a supermarket today and while passing the DVD section I saw a cartoon called "Robo Warriors" -- the images on the cover were retooled KOs of Transformer Go-Bots! I've seen the KO toys themselves at a department store, but I didn't know they made a cartoon based on this line of KOs!! So apparently even making a cartoon to promote your line of KO Transformer toys isn't enough to rouse Hasbro's wrath.

I guess those 3rd party sellers in Japan and iGear just got unlucky?

[liegeprime]

Over a billion.

<insert.rantage.here> China seems to have a lot of the disadvantages of a large population _without_ the advantages... 'cept for better shopping hours. Then again, Australia's shopping hours suck.

I was shopping in a supermarket today and while passing the DVD section I saw a cartoon called "Robo Warriors" -- the images on the cover were retooled KOs of Transformer Go-Bots! I've seen the KO toys themselves at a department store, but I didn't know they made a cartoon based on this line of KOs!! So apparently even making a cartoon to promote your line of KO Transformer toys isn't enough to rouse Hasbro's wrath.

I guess those 3rd party sellers in Japan and iGear just got unlucky?

Well the thing is, Igear sells worldwide and are really sought after by collectors and other online stores (BBTS, et al) which redirects sales from the coffers of Hastak products and in turn their IP. KO Products from China even with cartoons, are, I guess mostly confined within China.. See no one even knows there was a cartoon for these Kos .. until now that youve discovered it. So the few cheapcheapcheap looking KOs that get sold outside China , in dollar shops mostl,y here in Aus are not a real threat to HAstaks IP or sales... certainly not a bother. Buyers of these a very very few as well.

[UltraMarginal]

Ultramarginal: you can boil some berries and use the concentrated liquid for ink to color Shockwave ... it helps to be creative when one has no money heheheh I used to use white computer paper and had markers to color m, but that took ages so when I discorvered Cartolina craft paper (comes in oodles o color) never looked back heheh,

Dude, I just saw your picture above (couldn't see it at work), you are truly a genius!

[liegeprime]

Dude, I just saw your picture above (couldn't see it at work), you are truly a genius!

Thanks.

[kaiden]

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wow igear really are taking things too far. now they're going to steal a Transfans work to do their Ultra Magnus upgrade.

Death Penalty!