Beast Hunters Ultimate Optimus & Predaking out & pics

[Gouki]

I'm happy to help get some for people if my K-Mart has any, especially to help overseas fans, so PM me if you're serious, but I'd want some proof that you are.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Fair warning to all US visitors looking for these guys - the only way any of us Aussies will be able to get them is at Aussie prices, and Hasbro adds a pretty hefty markup to what you're used to paying.

That said, it'd be nice to have a bit more of an international exchange thing going on. Many thanks to Gouki (and any others) for taking that first step, I hope it'll turn out to benefit everyone - Internationals and Aussies both - in the long run.
If more people from elsewhere are really looking for a trade, I hear Australia is missing out on quite a few of the upcoming Generations figures...

[Bulkhead]

Fair warning to all US visitors looking for these guys - the only way any of us Aussies will be able to get them is at Aussie prices, and Hasbro adds a pretty hefty markup to what you're used to paying.

That said, it'd be nice to have a bit more of an international exchange thing going on. Many thanks to Gouki (and any others) for taking that first step, I hope it'll turn out to benefit everyone - Internationals and Aussies both - in the long run.
If more people from elsewhere are really looking for a trade, I hear Australia is missing out on quite a few of the upcoming Generations figures...

What Generations figures are you missing? I'm always happy to help out a fan and if I can find I'll get it for you.

[lololol]

Fair warning to all US visitors looking for these guys - the only way any of us Aussies will be able to get them is at Aussie prices, and Hasbro adds a pretty hefty markup to what you're used to paying.

That said, it'd be nice to have a bit more of an international exchange thing going on. Many thanks to Gouki (and any others) for taking that first step, I hope it'll turn out to benefit everyone - Internationals and Aussies both - in the long run.
If more people from elsewhere are really looking for a trade, I hear Australia is missing out on quite a few of the upcoming Generations figures...

Name your price and/or figure..cant pm but my email is seppe786@yahoo.com!! hope to do serious business also have a huge loose generations collection
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[Omega Metro]

Grabbed one this morning from kmart. I gotta say it looks mighty impressive! Mines staying MISB so unsure about the robot mode but the matt black and orange with silver bits look real nice. Nice looking Dragonbot!

[liegeprime]

Sigh, Kmarts everywhere have this guy except my local, what a bummer.

[griffin]

The Kmart at Sunnybank only had Predaking.


NOTE FOR ANYONE outside of Australia - if you are wanting one, be aware that usually it appears in America within a couple weeks anyway. There are probably some people here willing to help out, but as noted above, PRICES are higher outside of America. We are about 1-to-1 with the US$ at the moment, so what you see in AU$ is close to what you'd be paying before postage.
That said, try to prioritise dealing with Australians that are existing members of a global site (like TFW or Seibertron), so that it might be easier to communicate, and might be more reliable than dealing with someone new on an unknown messageboard.

Most of us here aren't too bad, but if something goes wrong, or it gets lost in the mail, I don't want it degenerating into a blanket "avoid those Australians, they can't be trusted".

Now, onto some photos....
(more taken, I just need to upload them later tonight)

[Sinnertwin]

I like those facts about the Infernum blade, especially the second one. Reminds me of Mjolnir

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

What Generations figures are you missing? I'm always happy to help out a fan and if I can find I'll get it for you.

Name your price and/or figure..cant pm but my email is seppe786@yahoo.com!! hope to do serious business also have a huge loose generations collection
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Cheers muchly, but I'm all good myself. I was thinking more about the majority of posters here - Hasbro Australia really doesn't look after Aussies very well.
I live in Osaka, Japan so I'm covered by TakaraTomy Classicsverse-wise.

Also, before anyone asks, my contract doesn't allow me to 'earn income' on the side so I can't score any Japanese TFs and do the reimbursement thing or I risk losing my job. Many apologies - I'd love to have a little side business/hobby selling JP TFs but them's the rules.

[griffin]

Rest of my images as promised. I tried not to double up with anyone else's.

For those wanting the barcode of this one it's 6-53569-84949-0

Packaging...

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Still in the insert. Legs are not transformed into beast mode. There are two joints in the knee, and they just left the legs in robot mode and just bent them at the knee.

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This is the beast mode with the legs properly transformed as beast legs. It's not noticeably different (I wouldn't even have noticed if I didn't see the extra hinge and tabs when transforming it), so it can work either way in Beast mode, if you were lazy and wanted to skip a step of the transformation.

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All the bits that come off. I was surprised that the wings just slip right off... often while just transforming it. They sit over the battery covers, so probably was unavoidable, although it makes it another gimmick that ends up sabotaging the playability of the toy (because it is frustrating how easily they come off).

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The transformation is as simple as most of the Deluxe Beasts in this series, in that it pretty much just stands up and folds out the legs and head. The wrists are ball-socket joints, which have very little strength for the heavy "sword". If you pose it with the sword on an angle, the hand will flop down from the weight of it. It seems ironic that the bio says no one else can wield the mighty infernum sword, but the design of this toy makes it difficult for Predaking to hold it as well.
With the fist holes going all the way through the hands, it makes it possible to have the two missile launchers on one hand if it is holding the sword in the other, or stick them in the post-holes on the outsides of each forearm like on the packaging.

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Bit disappointed that the sword/tail isn't painted part-orange like on the box. But I guess it was one of the cost elements to be cut between prototype and production.

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Another shot of all three size classes of Predaking.


Now to find Optimus...