March 2018 Japanese Transformers

[griffin]

Some more photos have been found, giving us a clearer look of this new toy, and it looks like it must have been on display somewhere.... unfortunately, it is not next to anything else to know the scale or size of it yet.
If the screw in the shoulder is a standard sized one, you could probably estimate the size of the toy... which can be a bit deceptive with the big wings adding a lot of empty bulk to it.

[griffin]

The March items (Seaspray, Twintwist, Topspin, God Fire Convoy, Darth Vader, reissue MP Bumblebee, Movie Nitro) are all now on HLJ.

[DELTAprime]

Some info on the electronics for God Fire Convoy. They have recorded new dialog with the original voice actors and it has new sound effects. TFND says it's 40 sounds in this release.

https://www.seibertron.com/transform...release/39797/

[DELTAprime]

Voice samples for Fire God Convoy.

http://tf.takaratomy.co.jp/products/tf_encore/gfc_sound

[griffin]

A coloured sample of the Darth Vader Transformer.

[DELTAprime]

More voice samples, this time for Mangus.

http://tf.takaratomy.co.jp/products/tf_encore/audition1

[bowspearer]

In the process of trying to download the sound clips for Encore GFC and digging through my cache, I discovered that the file names for the clips were

item_tf_encore_gfc_sound04.mp3
item_tf_encore_gfc_sound05.mp3
item_tf_encore_gfc_sound06.mp3
item_tf_encore_gfc_sound07.mp3
item_tf_encore_gfc_sound08.mp3
item_tf_encore_gfc_sound09.mp3

While I couoldn't access the directories themselves, getting creative with the URLs od the sound locations did yield the other 3 clips (I checked and there is no item_tf_encore_gfc_sound0a.mp3 or item_tf_encore_gfc_sound10.mp3).

The URLs for the other 3 sounds, which appear to be for Fire Convoy, are:

http://tf.takaratomy.co.jp/wpadmin/w...fc_sound01.mp3

http://tf.takaratomy.co.jp/wpadmin/w...fc_sound02.mp3

http://tf.takaratomy.co.jp/wpadmin/w...fc_sound03.mp3

Unfortunately I can't find a webpage to access them from that I can put through Google Translate.

The second clip is clearly "Blizzard Storm! Fire!"+Sound Effect, but the other 2 are a mystery.

Anyone able to translate the first and third clips?

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

First one says
AI, Member Select!

third one says
A destron has appeared.

Also on the Legends side, Amazon Japan has the next wave as being out on Nov 17
Sixshot, Broadside, Misfire and Doublecross

[bowspearer]

Thanks Tetsuwan. I think I may need to strongly consider this release now, as much as I'll likely hate myself for it heh.

[DELTAprime]

Even though it's really expensive I'm looking forward to getting Encore God Fire Convoy. All the effort Takara are putting into the electronics is great.

If I lost my entire collection Car Robots would be the one non-CHUG or MP line I replace. I love that line.