TakTom TF4 "Lost Age" Advance toyline

[griffin]

The pre-order discount (30%) cut-off at Anime-Export is tomorrow, and I was trying to decide if I should pre-order some of the ones that we don't yet know are coming through Hasbro, while at a fairly cheap price.

Anyone here already looking at getting any of these Japanese Advanced figures? (which ones?)

Do you think that these will still be released by Hasbro in their later waves?

Is anyone pre-ordering the AD-018 and AD-019 before they are revealed, or will you wait? (the discount ends tomorrow for those two as well, and since they charge straight away, who would risk buying something that doesn't even have a name, let alone image).

[UltraMarginal]

I got a few of the first wave, I'm looking at most of the cars for teh second wave, assuming that they'll have better paint jobs but who can know for sure?

[Omega Metro]

BBTS had the Ad-20 Grimlock but it's sold out. GRRR

[UltraMarginal]

if that's the black knight one, it's still available at anime export.

[griffin]

BBTS & HJL have already sold out of about half of the Advanced figures... that's fast, or they didn't order many to begin with.

[Omega Metro]

I only discovered these a few hours ago. As usual, the ones I like are sold out on BBTS. I like the BBTS POL system. It's the only place I will 'preorder' something from. Especially since I can't see what the final look of the figures will be.

Yes it is the Black Knight Grimlock. It's apparently in silver and black but dunno if it's worth paying a premium for a Grimlock with less colour than the Hasbro version.

[griffin]

Is it Black Knight or Black Night?

Both make sense, with so many Silver Knight Optimus toys from Hasbro... but also as a dark deco if it is "Night".

I'm leaning towards Night, as Japan hasn't got any Silver Knight Optimus toys in the first four months of their toyline... so doesn't make sense in the Japanese market without the Hasbro "Knight Optimus" to go with it.

[reillyd]

I'm on the fence about ordering Dinobot A & B sight unseen, and RK won't cancel preorders. Does anyone know if these are repaints? Photo is grimlock mold, blacked out

[Paulbot]

The Grimlock is most likely a placeholder image like the Bumblebee one to show what type of TF it is (Dino or Vehicle). There's artwork for two more Dinobots we've not seen toys for, so those could be them.