Toy Review - Platinum Edition Breakout Battle

[griffin]

I do have a question though. The feet and helmet on the Hasbro one seem to have a blue-ish tinge to them in some of your pictures. Can you confirm whether there is any blue in the colouring or if it's just a dark metallic grey? I see the tiny bits of muted red in the joints and on the missile so I'm wondering whether Hasbro is actually trying to do a very subtle blue/red colour scheme here.

Under a bright light, it does indeed have a very faint blue tinge to that dark plastic on the head and feet... but too faint to be obvious.

[kurdt_the_goat]

It wasn't until I saw that red missile in Prime's gun that i realised it was there at all in my regular TT version!

[Omega Metro]

I think that it's great that both versions of rusty Prime are quite a bit different from each other.

[Yongeltron]

Under a bright light, it does indeed have a very faint blue tinge to that dark plastic on the head and feet... but too faint to be obvious.

Sweet. Thanks for confirming.

For me, even if it's hardly noticeable, that's still extra points in favour of the Hasbro. Actually, especially if it's hardly noticeable, because I love finding and savouring that kind of super-subtle detail.

I've seen some heated discussions online about which version is more screen-accurate. For me though, the fact that those colour design elements are indeed still present on the toy makes me appreciate the Hasbro version more as a representation of the character in that period.

It's definitely a good thing that the Hasbro and Takara versions are such different takes on it. It makes for a much more interesting purchase decision than just whether to pay import price for a few more paint-apps on an almost identical toy.

[Holdobot]

Robot Kingdom have just listed their Pre-order for this set. It is priced at US$89, available on the 1st Sept. That, I guess means Myer will be definitely breaking the $100 mark.

[Sinnertwin]

Robot Kingdom have just listed their Pre-order for this set. It is priced at US$89, available on the 1st Sept. That, I guess means Myer will be definitely breaking the $100 mark.

Go with Robo -at least they put padding in their boxes.
Myer has his regular retail at $169. Yeah, you could wait for a Myer sale, but delivered to your door, i think that's a much, much better price.

[Omega Metro]

Go with Robo -at least they put padding in their boxes.
Myer has his regular retail at $169. Yeah, you could wait for a Myer sale, but delivered to your door, i think that's a much, much better price.

If Myer was to have 20% off toys at some point, it would work out roughly the same price as RK's shipped and converted price. Would really prefer the Myer option cos RK are just painful.

[Yongeltron]

Go with Robo -at least they put padding in their boxes.
Myer has his regular retail at $169. Yeah, you could wait for a Myer sale, but delivered to your door, i think that's a much, much better price.

Hear hear.

Plus you'd probably get it considerably quicker too if you shell-out the little bit extra for express postage (especially vs. waiting for them to go on sale here). All that, and it's still probably cheaper than you'll be able to get on retail in this country.

Seems like a no-brainer to me.

[Kyle]

The paint method of both appear to be different as well. Either the Hasbro one was brushed on, or the resolution of their spray was finer, because the*
Japanese paint deco looked like one of those bad reprints of a 1980s comic.
From a distance it looks really nice, but close up it looks really bad.

It's interesting to see the Takara paint job up close. On some pictures I had seen, it looked as though there were fingerprints in the paint (talk about quality control!). I realise now that it was just a visual artefact from taking digital pictures of a printed dot-pattern.

The rust pattern of TakTom Rusty Prime's truck mode exterior is actually tampo printed (stamped on like stickers), not sprayed or painted on. Exterior robot mode panels are painted though.

[Holdobot]

Go with Robo -at least they put padding in their boxes.
Myer has his regular retail at $169. Yeah, you could wait for a Myer sale, but delivered to your door, i think that's a much, much better price.

That is such a pity, I do prefer to get things from Aus. But Myer tax is always a hard pill to swallow.