Just got back from Japan last week and thought I'd give a brief report on the transformers I saw there.

Overall they have mostly the same movie toys we have, as well as those weird shell TFs you build (I don't know thier name).

There was one collector type store in Akihabara Tokyo that had quite a few vintage TF's (Grotesque, Autobot clones) as well as rare ones, and even fully packaged Animated toys. Needless to say thier prices were ludicrous. In fact all the TF's I saw in Akihabara were exspensive save Reissue Skylink, Ratchet, ironhide and Jazz who were all quite cheap. Further afield in Tokyo the Toys r Us mostly just had movie toys.

The only Japanese Classic toys I found were in the toys stores of Hiroshima and Osaka, and even then it was only Mirage Grimlock and Bumblee.

I also found quite a few older japanese Transformers including Car Robots, Beast Wars Second, and Robot Masters at one of the big Capsule stores in Denden town Osaka.

That said I didn't actualy buy and TF's though.