Jizai Toys have updated their page with a pair of images of a recolor of their Powerglide kit recolored as the Decepticon, Bad Boy! Bad Boy was a recolor originally introduced as a part of the E-Hobby Minibots repaint set alongside Bug Bite, Small Foot and others.
Click discuss to talk about this story on our 2005 Boards.
Update – Ricochet of our 2005 Boards has informed us that this will not be a new project. Rather, it is a one-off sample for exhibition at the Japan Summer Wonderfest, to show how the mold will look in these colors. The mold is apparently already showing signs of degradation so it is unlikely that there will be a full production run of Bad Boys.
Ricochet
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they sell Wheelie and Powerglide at summer WonderFes.
Wheelie – 7000 yen, limited 40 units
Powerglide – 10000 yen, limited 40 units
both are colored resin kits.
screw, polycap, ball-joint, brass wire, sticker included.
deaculpa
i've seen the jizatoys cyclonus and wheelie on ebay for about $200, painted. does anyone know where i can just get the unpainted/unassembled set for any of the jizaitoys transformers?
Ramrider
What are you talking about? You practically have – repaint Hasbro PG's head white and his face blue, and you're pretty much there…
ninety
They're sold at Wonderfest in Japan, Jizai gets a one day license (as do others) to sell TF products. I think he still had Wheelie/Cyclonus kits leftover after Wonderfest, but can't sell them now as the license is no longer valid.
Rodr-Evil
Cool! my favorite is Cyclonus.
Sol Fury
Thanks for the update. I will add this to the frontpage.
Black Sideswipe
Woah, didn't know Ironhide was going to be a Brainmaster. That's really cool.
I think getting mass-produced toys that look like these is pretty much the holy grail of G1 fans. Amazing work.
UTK007
I have the e-Hobby version… but I hope we get a Universe Badboy from the Collector's Club.
Kimmer
how do u get these? what about the quality? does anyone have the wheelie or cyclonus ones?
G1Wheeljack
Badboy has a heart, I should have seen that coming. If these guys are starting to do repaints, then I see a Ratchet from these guys sometime in the future.
Johnator
That Powerglide looks really good. Too bad I will probably never be able to afford one.
Lupis Convoy
Oh man, how I wish I could get my hands on one of those…
aussiehippy
Frog girl rules, she has eye-boobies.
Takara_destron
Pretty cool looking.
Ricochet
It's not exactly "new project". this Bad Boy is a one-off only for display at WonderFes, and the mold is "quite fatigued" now, written in the entry.
Sol Fury
I was looking at the pictures below. Some crazy stuff, but the frog-girl looks quite clever. I'd have never thought you could make a frog turn into a girl keeping all the right proportions.
Silent_Magnus
These are (mostly) unofficial garage kits.
Meaning you have to assemble and paint them yourself.
GavynN.X.
That Octane is marvelouS!!!!!!!!!!!!
So much better than "Tankor"
BigRC83
Nice.
artiepants
yeah, in general i think the "anime accurate" is a bit of a detraction, in that they tend to loose a lot of detail when based on the animation models: Powerglide works for me because the original toy was so sparsely detailed he's way more of an upgrade
(plus that transformation is just sick)