March JP Figure King magazine scans

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The March issue of the Japanese Figure King Magazine is apparently out (as usual, out 6 weeks before the month noted on the cover), and there are some pages of upcoming Transformers toys... some of which are a new reveal, so have their own news topic.

The UW-01 Superion Combiner is the big one, with Slingshot (redeco Firefly) instead of Alpha Bravo (our news topic is here for discussion about this one).
Since it has a single product code, it must be a boxset in Japan.

Also shown are the MP-21G Gen2 Bumblebee, LG-13 Legends Leader Megatron, Kreo blindpacks, and the TAV-01 RID Warrior Class Bumblebee.

The RID Bumblebee looks to only be there to detail the scanning feature of the toy. Similar to the Hasbro RID toys, the allegiance symbol will come with a unique circular "barcode" to unlock something on a Transformers App. The interesting thing is that the Japanese "barcode" is a different colouring to the Hasbro ones, and unlock animation on a different App to the game App that Hasbro Gaming created.


The "Phases" in the Figure King Magazine only appear to be of their creation, to split up the different types of toys... not something by TakaraTomy.
As such, it means a page is missing, with the Phase 4 section missing.
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More scans of the Japanese March toy/hobby magazines that have Transformers toys on them.

Dengeki Magazine

Hobby Magazine

Figure King Magazine


Not liking the yellow on Silverbolt. It's supposed to represent the gold chrome of the Gen1 toy, but doesn't quite pull it off... so it probably should have been a different colour or be chromed up (chroming is so common now, it mustn't be too difficult or expensive).