Via an Ebay listing we have what seems to be our possible first look at the new Beast Wars Vintage Tigatron Reissue.
We had previously reported the product number of this new Beast Wars reissue, and now we have a small stock image showing robot mode, beast mode and packaging. We have some noticeable differences compared to the original Hasbro release. First, Tigatron now shows a vibrant white plastic (similar to the original Takara release) and we can also notice a rocky bubble instead of a smooth bubble on the packaging. As usual, take this with a grain of salt until we find an official confirmation.
Update: More clear stock images via another Ebay listing now we have a look at the back of the packaging.
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VorZorV
RacerCheetor
Transformers Vintage Beast Wars Tigatron – Hasbro Pulse – UK
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Beastbot X
Yeah, I know. I just hope with what are apparently bad sales with the BW reissues they don't pull it before they get to that point.
payres
He's on the runway for 2022
Leaked 2022 SS and Evolution wave composition
Beastbot X
I hope they don't can the line before they get to K-9. That's like practically the only BW figure I don't have.
Roufuss
Out now in Canada via ToyShiz
Pixelmaster
Don’t worry in a few years they’ll revert back to Hasbro colors if you expose it to the sun long enough
SPLIT LIP
Can't wait. I still kind of wish they had gone with the original toy colours for nostalgia, but the Takara colours are certainly crisp and gorgeous.
Black Convoy
Card images via Robotkingdom
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DigitalBrave3
The reason that Rattrap, Cheetor, and Tigatron lack the phrase "The Heroic Maximal" on their cards is that the rocky bubble cards lacked that in the first place. That was added to the packaging when the smooth bubble cards replaced the rocky bubble cards. Polar Claw, Scorponok, Primal, and Megatron had the phrases "The Heroic Maximal" or "The Evil Predacon" above their names because they came out a bit later in 1996, after the smooth bubble had already replaced the rocky bubble. The reissue cardbacks are just replicating the rocky bubble cards. Let me use Cheetor as an example, as Tigatron was never available on a rocky bubble card back in the 90s.
Vintage Cheetor on Rocky Bubble Card:
Vintage Cheetor on Smooth Bubble Card:
Reissue Cheetor on Cardback:
See how only one of these has the phrase "The Heroic Maximal?"
Nevermore
It also has five languages. If someone were to actually go through all the trouble of faking reissue packaging for Beast Wars figures, they'd have to be proficient in four languages in addition to English, since
A) The "five languages on one worldwide packaging" combination only began in 2019
B) Some of these figures either never had European releases, or their European releases are so rare these days that you cannot simply Google for their European packaging to look up the translations
C) The translations are different than they were on those various multilingual international packaging variants back during the original Beast Wars run.
I can verify that the German translations are actually correct and don't read like auto-translated ghibberish.
Primal, Megatron and Scorponok all (at least partially, in Primal's case) share their names with G1 characters, so I guess those prefixes are there to differentiate them. "Cheetor", "Rattrap" and "Tigatron" are all BW-original names.
Purple Heart
I’ve always wanted a BW Scoroponok so I just might buy this if it isn’t more then $30.
SecretWyvern
Y E S
I would love to have that pair for my Beast Wars shelf