Winter Wonder Fest Minerva, Minerva Night Beat/Muzzle, Ginrai and Hi-Q

[Sky Shadow]

Ginrai groupies:



Looks like Ginrai will use a lot more plastic than Minerva if he stays that size - the prices on these will inevitably be over $100.

[kup]

Are these actually licensed or are they unlicensed garage kits? (like say the BotCon Japan exclusive AI figure)

I'd say they are licensed limited run 'garage' kits. Takara-Tomy seems friendlier and more flexible in this regard than our local Hasbro. Hasbro Hong Kong is also friendlier apparently.

For me, they look nice but as LiegePrime said, they are too large and not really my thing.

[1orion2many]

Dollies aren't my thing but I can think of 2 or 3 West boys drooling over these, The old perv brothers I'd call them

[Quickstrike]

For those who missed it:

They're licensed. By Cms corp. Who make horribly expensive doll figures. There was a bit of stuff running around last year about the prototype of this.

Here

And Cms blog post here

Breifly talked about in the figma thread
It looks like the sign under Minerva blabbles on about the Nightbeat colour being a Wonderfest Summer special.

Can't see anything about the normal colour version. Nor Ginrai. Wouldn't surprise me to see a general release of these, although they usually go for about 8000 yen or so.

Ooo, More info from Here.

Yep, nightbeat colours are fro Wonderfest Summer. But Minerva and Ginrai will get general releases. The G1 nightbeats were borrowed from Tak tom for display. Normal Minerva will get a release along the same time as the Nightbeat colour version. So Summer 2012 for them (winter for us). No word on whether Ginrai is the same time as Minerva, but I ave a feeling it will be from what was read.

edit: there was more to this post. I don't know what happened to it!

[valkyrie_76]

Dollies aren't my thing but I can think of 2 or 3 West boys drooling over these, The old perv brothers I'd call them

Yes ol' head honcho

[Lord_Zed]

My crystal ball predicts Generations 2013 wave 2 Nightbeat, with wave 5 Minerva repaint.

I'd like to see that.

[1orion2many]

Yes ol' head honcho

What's that line you and Tets collect called Figma is it

[GoktimusPrime]

Muzzle looks like he's undergone an interesting new transformation.

I don't think that's meant to be Muzzle. There was a variant of Minerva called "Minerva Nightbeat" - it was sold as a mail-away exclusive for 1800JPY and four Robot Points. While the toy is identical to Nightbeat, it was marketed as Minerva.

[High_Q]

Woohoo! HLJ has now got Minerva up for preorder. Got one for myself.

[Sky Shadow]

Me too. Hurrah!