As always, 2005 Boards members Type-R and payres are delivering info from Takara Tomy regarding their upcoming figure Transformers Legends LG-43 Dinosaurer (known by many as Trypticon).
What we have now is a tie-in comic book showcasing the aforementioned figures as well as Metroplex, Galvatron, Swerve, Wipe-Out, Nekro, and many others.
Only 4 pages are currently available in Japanese.
We’ve mirrored those pages with this news post and you can check ’em out, after the jump.
03Mach1
Titans Return Trypticon – Batch #
RKillian
Maz had a thread for serial or batch numbers but he hasn't been around much since he got told for advertising TFsource too hard. Go to the search and lookup subject "Trypticon serial" or "Trypticon batch" by poster Maz. I'd do it and post a link but it's a pain on a phone.
Lex79
So, I just found a Legend Trypticon for a very good price, but I'm still scared from the qc problems. There are news on that front? Are the latest batches of this figure safer, or it's still a lottery?
stad
NOCV
Question:
I need to replace the springs in the hips of mine because I loosened them up too much and now his legs sorta flop around. Has a proper replacement one been identified?
DarkEyes
But true is that Hasbro version is considerable cheaper. Really doubt they were afraid about a ton of unsold Hasbro Trypticon in favor of the Takara one.
Plus, the times in which Takara offered a better product are in the past, a long time ago. Particularly, I have no interest in paying more than the double in Takara version , it is actually hard to pay Hasbro price because of all the issues of the figure.
Hasbro should be afraid about a ton of unsold Trypticons not because of Takara but because of the quality issues.
ultramagnus1
No I don't think its doom and gloom that some people think. Takara are by and large a lot more expensive anyway so picking up the Hasbro ones make more sense economically.
I'm also of the opinion that Hasbro isn't always inferior to takara either. Sometimes Hasbro do a better job. After what happened with trypticon I wasn't really expecting potp to be radically different and sadly for some of you i was right.
mcart
That's my takeaway too. Although I do wonder if this will be true for this year's Titan too? Possibly they have agreed that for the Titans they just need to do one solid release for the world rather than do a Hasbro run, change the plastic and do a Takara run. Maybe the numbers just don't support alternatives.
It didn't seem to stop them adding target masters to Titans return so I don't think we're in too bad a situation
Lex79
I don't think there is any evil plan behind this. Probably they simply figured that the two versions would be very similar and so it made sense saving the money.
[Wing_Saber-X]
Welp. This right here shows how scared shitless Hasbro are with Takara's perceived and sometimes " superior" made and released toys. It also confirms my suspicions that Takara's hand was really forced by Hasbro to directly import the unchanged POTP stuff as is into the Japanese market. Tsk.
mcart
Was a very quick conversation several months (almost a year) ago, basic gist was as I said that they agreed to make a single version of Trypticon. I honestly didn't think it was true so I didn't even mention it at the time. It was only when the reports of Takara Trypticon being the same came in that I realized she was right.
But no, she didn't say anything about the Takara one being better, just that they agreed to make the same design with no differences.
Digger
Wait did they say actually say better? If so, why didn't they sell the one takara was gonna do? Everyone wins aperently!
[Wing_Saber-X]
Well fuck off then Hasbro.
shamanking282
And now it looks like that may have become the business model, unfortunately.
mcart
When I spoke to a Hasbro rep about it she said that they had made a decision with Takara to create a single version of the figure and not separate versions per market. So I'm guessing that they didn't want a ton of unsold US Trypticon due to collecters buying the "better" one from Takara so they made them the same.
Bucket Head
nice scorponok, Sammael. Where'd you get that??
bucket
Digger
I was thinking maybe costs, they've done so much work on fort max and other exclusive figures that I guess he ended on the short list
ultramagnus1
Takara just decided they were selling the same fig to their market. For whatever reason. Too much effort? Who knows.
Glad I got the Hasbro one
Digger
I still don't get why it's the same bloody toy? Aren't takara supposed to be cartoon fanboys or something? I want my black Trypticon!