Takara Masterpiece Reissues for 2015 - Convoy, Starscream, Alert, Lambor

[Blastwave]

New rumour on TFW2005 - Reissue announcement could be a fake.

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transf...t-year-17.html

[drifand]

I would say Takara Tomy is not waking up if this is fake.
Too bad, for us but money saved, no harm done.
Yes I still like a mp-10 but I am not desperate to buy a Eva version or YOTH.
Sucks, as I would have bought 3/4 items listed.

We will see, I believe "some will" make it to the reissue.

[griffin]

New rumour on TFW2005 - Reissue announcement could be a fake.

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transf...t-year-17.html

That TFW person claims that it is fake because his friend is in Japan and asked Japanese dealers.

The Japanese writing for the character names in that original posting is misleading, but I think that these were meant to be Hasbro HK reissues, since the original source of the list was from an Asian fansite (which would deal with Hasbro HK, not, TakaraTomy products).
Plus, as noted by others, Hasbro HK are more known for reissues of JP product than TakaraTomy.

Since Hasbro HK uses TakaraTomy packaging on their releases of TakaraTomy Transformers, it constantly confuses people into thinking that they are coming from Japan for the Japanese market/online stores.
But, we have to check the source of the information, to make sure if it is a JP release or a HK release.

In this instance, I think these are Hasbro HK products, but I'm not sure why they would be using Katakana (Japanese) and Yen in the image.
Perhaps the Asian fansite did up that image to go with a text listing they received.

(BTW, the Japanese yen symbol is the same as the Chinese Yuan... but the prices would be way off if it was a Yuan price)

[drifand]

TRU have never re-issued any of their exclusives tho. If the Hasbro version of MP-10 is re-issued it won't be on these shores.

Here's the catch, the entire mp line for Hasbro has rebooted, meaning mp-01, 02, 03 and 04 has now been confirmed and Optimus is going to be along those lines. This may not happen, but it also can happen. I just see how it goes and I will grab the Takara version if nothing comes along but you can't justify the high price when Ultra Magnus is so much cheaper and bigger.