View Poll Results: JP United Stepper - worth buying?

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Thread: Toy Review - JP United Stepper

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  1. #1
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    Default Toy Review - JP United Stepper

    (Please post comments, photos or even a fully comprehensive review - these are just brief details to start you off)

    Toy Review - Stepper
    Series - United
    Sub-line - N/A
    Size/class - Deluxe
    New/remould/redeco - Redeco
    Wave - N/A
    Released here - not released here (Japan exclusive, Jan 2012)
    Approximate Retail Price - ?
    Approximate Size - 15cm
    Allegiance - Autobot
    Alt-mode - Race car
    Main Features/Gimmicks - (Flip out speakers in both modes)
    Main Colours - Black, white, gold, red
    Main Accessories - gun

    Note - figure was only available through mailaway, from one of the recent Japanese Generations guidebooks.


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    Quote Originally Posted by griffin View Post
    (Approximate Retail Price - ?
    I saw some today in Osaka selling for 7800JPY. <faints>

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    Personally I've never understood the attraction with Stepper. Looks like an undercooked egg on burnt toast.

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    I'd say the main appeal factor is that it's based on an obscure G1 toy - and a Japanese exclusive which makes it more exotic to Gaijin fans. I'll admit, that's what made Generations Sky Shadow appeal to me - it was a neat and cheap way to get a Black Shadow without forking out an arm and a leg for a G1 Black Shadow, which is basically just a repaint/retool of Thunderwing.

    Sky Shadow was released as a regular retail figure at the standard price of a Deluxe - albeit Hasbro AU didn't release it here, I managed to get a contact in Hong Kong to get it for me cheap (and someone volunteered to bring the toy back to Australia for me, so didn't have to pay for any postage!). I was happy to pay the RRP of a Deluxe for that toy, and if I ever found Stepper at the same price as a Deluxe, I'd be happy to pay that too. I'd be willing to pay a little bit more considering the limited exclusivity of the toy, but I wouldn't pay a whole lot more... but no where near something obscene like 7800 slaggin' Yen! ($98!)

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    That is still quite cheap Goki... he costs more than US$100 in BBTS and that's with postage cost on top...
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    Being a lesser rip-off doesn't equate cheapness in my books.

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