JP GEN Seacons wave 3 - Overbite and Tentakil

[griffin]

The final pair of Seacons have now been added to the TakaraTomyMall website, for release in late March.
Overbite the shark and Tentakil the octopus (for 4180yen each) or both together for 8360yen.

Images of all five modes of each toy (bot, beast, gun, leg, arm).









Apparently in America, the Seacons ended up being Pulse store exclusives, as it looks like Hasbro America weren't letting anyone else sell them over there.

Fortunately for us, this third pair will be up on the EB games website in the next few days.

[Paulbot]

There's the Overbite/Jawbreaker I've been looking forward to the most.

Hopefully, even if they do none of the others, they'll make a Scylla out of Tentakil.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

TTmall listed up a 6 page comic.

here's the English version for your reading pleasure
https://tetstoys.blogspot.com/2019/1...ga-part-6.html

[griffin]

Can anyone see any obvious recycled parts with Overbite and Tentakil from previous toys? There looks to be a lot of extra work on these two, but they have all been scratch-built, with some recycling parts or limbs of previous toys.


One thing I have noticed though is that the TakaraTomyMall listings have increased the prices for all of the Seacons, including the first four which were originally listed with cheaper prices. I wonder if these last two cost a little more to produce, or the Seacons were more popular than they expected and they are price-gouging the fans who will need the final two to complete the set.
It's only an extra 78yen for each deluxe, which is about AU$1.10 for each toy, but to change the prices of the others after their pre-order period had closed seems a bit sneaky, as if they were trying to hide the price difference by saying that the last two are just the same price as the other Deluxes. (or they are planning to make extras to sell on the TTM website at the higher prices)

And it's not a pre-order discount either, because the last two Deluxes are on pre-order at the new higher price.
The Voyager Turtler was 7020yen, but is now 7150yen.
The five Deluxes were 4104yen, but are now 4180yen.

(as noted on TFW for the first pair and the second pair, compared to the third pair)

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Can anyone see any obvious recycled parts with Overbite and Tentakil from previous toys? There looks to be a lot of extra work on these two, but they have all been scratch-built, with some recycling parts or limbs of previous toys.


One thing I have noticed though is that the TakaraTomyMall listings have increased the prices for all of the Seacons, including the first four which were originally listed with cheaper prices. I wonder if these last two cost a little more to produce, or the Seacons were more popular than they expected and they are price-gouging the fans who will need the final two to complete the set.
It's only an extra 78yen for each deluxe, which is about AU$1.10 for each toy, but to change the prices of the others after their pre-order period had closed seems a bit sneaky, as if they were trying to hide the price difference by saying that the last two are just the same price as the other Deluxes. (or they are planning to make extras to sell on the TTM website at the higher prices)

And it's not a pre-order discount either, because the last two Deluxes are on pre-order at the new higher price.
The Voyager Turtler was 7020yen, but is now 7150yen.
The five Deluxes were 4104yen, but are now 4180yen.

(as noted on TFW for the first pair and the second pair, compared to the third pair)

Japan had their GST type tax increase from 8% to 10% on some things (not all, but some... It's terribly confusing), and the mall site includes the tax in the price (lots of places don't as it is a choice up to the retailer, annoying), so maybe they adjusted to reflect that change. Which is silly, as you would have had to pay that higher tax rate anyway and they had plenty of time to sort that kind of thing out. So it could be that.

[Seraphim Prime]

Overbite is Rippersnapper with a new beast head and robot head.

Tentakil looks pretty much a brand new mould. Although some suggest it could be brand new tooling around the Moonracer architecture

[griffin]

TakaraTomyMall have added some new combined mode (King Poseidon) images.