New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons

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Several teasers have popped up on 2chan featuring e-Hobby Transformers United sets. The first image shows the three-packs we've seen before in a new angle. The Autobot set features Hot Rodimus, Kup and Scrap Heap. The Decepticon side has Galvatron and his goons, Cyclonus and Scourge. The second image shows a surprise. Power Core Combiner mini-cons have been taken under the wing of Takara! Monochrome variations of Mini-cons Chainclaw, Airlift, Caliburst are respectively Fracas, Recoil and Haywire. They await you when you purchase Transformers from e-Hobby. We'll give you more details after our translators get to work, so for now, drool over the images!

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Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149347)
Posted by Blurrz on November 22nd, 2010 @ 3:53am CST

OH SHI-

Counterpunch, Razorclaw0000.

3 of us on a plane to Japan.

Bob, you're the driver. Mike, you hit on the female e-Hobby factory manager. I'll take out the security cameras.

GGPO.

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149370)
Posted by Jazz-1982 on November 22nd, 2010 @ 5:14am CST

Can't wait to see the paint apps on these guys.

I would imagine that Cyclonus will be just like the version released already this year in that multi pack but I wonder about the rest. If the paint apps are just the same I might not bother but on the other hand a movie accurate Cyclonus + Scourge would be too much to resist and if they do a better job of Hot Rod than the one that came with Cyclonus (that version sucked) then I'd buy it.

I already own Galvatron, Cyclonus and Hot Rod and have pre-ordered Kup, WreckGar and Scourge but will cancel the pre-order for Kup and sell the Galvatron and Hot Rod I already have if the paint apps are more like Transformers the Movie.

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149378)
Posted by Dead Metal on November 22nd, 2010 @ 6:14am CST

Blurrz wrote:OH SHI-

Counterpunch, Razorclaw0000.

3 of us on a plane to Japan.

Bob, you're the driver. Mike, you hit on the female e-Hobby factory manager. I'll take out the security cameras.

GGPO.

Can I come? I'll "organise" the coffee and luggage.

Those mini-cons look a million times better than the original clear releases. I wants them.

Also it looks like Rodimus, Galvatron and Cyclonus will be very similar to the Henkei versions, you can see the chrome on Rods wings, Galvatrons arm, and Cyclonus wings and targetmaster.

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149380)
Posted by Sodan-1 on November 22nd, 2010 @ 6:25am CST

Brainstorm: "Six rebel sharpshooters?"

Spike: "Six Autobots. Let's do this."

Targetmasters baby!

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149381)
Posted by horus on November 22nd, 2010 @ 6:26am CST

so... we're gonna get targetmasters to issue to any transformer we want? (hot rod, scourge, kup, blur)

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149382)
Posted by Hal7300 on November 22nd, 2010 @ 6:32am CST

Blurrz wrote:Bob, you're the driver. Mike, you hit on the female e-Hobby factory manager. I'll take out the security cameras.

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149391)
Posted by Counterpunch on November 22nd, 2010 @ 6:50am CST

Dead Metal wrote:
Blurrz wrote:OH SHI-

Counterpunch, Razorclaw0000.

3 of us on a plane to Japan.

Bob, you're the driver. Mike, you hit on the female e-Hobby factory manager. I'll take out the security cameras.

GGPO.

Can I come? I'll "organise" the coffee and luggage.

Those mini-cons look a million times better than the original clear releases. I wants them.

YOU GOT IT!

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149398)
Posted by Razorclaw0000 on November 22nd, 2010 @ 7:02am CST

Counterpunch wrote:
Dead Metal wrote:
Blurrz wrote:OH SHI-

Counterpunch, Razorclaw0000.

3 of us on a plane to Japan.

Bob, you're the driver. Mike, you hit on the female e-Hobby factory manager. I'll take out the security cameras.

GGPO.

Can I come? I'll "organise" the coffee and luggage.

Those mini-cons look a million times better than the original clear releases. I wants them.

YOU GOT IT!

It's on.

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149406)
Posted by feeiq90 on November 22nd, 2010 @ 7:49am CST

will bumblebee be included in United line???the one on the pic looks more chromed even for a henkei.. :-?

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149412)
Posted by Mkall on November 22nd, 2010 @ 8:02am CST

oh wow. Minicons were a surprise. A pleasant one that's for sure.

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149421)
Posted by Dead Metal on November 22nd, 2010 @ 8:42am CST

Razorclaw0000 wrote:
Counterpunch wrote:
Dead Metal wrote:
Blurrz wrote:OH SHI-

Counterpunch, Razorclaw0000.

3 of us on a plane to Japan.

Bob, you're the driver. Mike, you hit on the female e-Hobby factory manager. I'll take out the security cameras.

GGPO.

Can I come? I'll "organise" the coffee and luggage.

Those mini-cons look a million times better than the original clear releases. I wants them.

YOU GOT IT!

It's on.

Of to the Dethcopter!

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149438)
Posted by kirbenvost on November 22nd, 2010 @ 9:20am CST

Gotta admit, those minicons do look pretty good.

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149504)
Posted by T-Macksimus on November 22nd, 2010 @ 12:29pm CST

Dead Metal wrote:
Razorclaw0000 wrote:
Counterpunch wrote:
Dead Metal wrote:
Blurrz wrote:OH SHI-

Counterpunch, Razorclaw0000.

3 of us on a plane to Japan.

Bob, you're the driver. Mike, you hit on the female e-Hobby factory manager. I'll take out the security cameras.

GGPO.

Can I come? I'll "organise" the coffee and luggage.

Those mini-cons look a million times better than the original clear releases. I wants them.

YOU GOT IT!

It's on.

Of to the Dethcopter!

I'll set your guys' extraction team up just in case plans go south on ya, but you better at least have a case or 2 of these buggers stashed somewhere when we arrive and you best be ready to move out in a hurry.

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149508)
Posted by Counterpunch on November 22nd, 2010 @ 12:42pm CST

T-Macksimus wrote:
Dead Metal wrote:
Razorclaw0000 wrote:
Counterpunch wrote:
Dead Metal wrote:
Blurrz wrote:OH SHI-

Counterpunch, Razorclaw0000.

3 of us on a plane to Japan.

Bob, you're the driver. Mike, you hit on the female e-Hobby factory manager. I'll take out the security cameras.

GGPO.

Can I come? I'll "organise" the coffee and luggage.

Those mini-cons look a million times better than the original clear releases. I wants them.

YOU GOT IT!

It's on.

Of to the Dethcopter!

I'll set your guys' extraction team up just in case plans go south on ya, but you better at least have a case or 2 of these buggers stashed somewhere when we arrive and you best be ready to move out in a hurry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ_2q-_ra3s

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149522)
Posted by Blurrz on November 22nd, 2010 @ 1:47pm CST

feeiq90 wrote:will bumblebee be included in United line???the one on the pic looks more chromed even for a henkei..

Yes, Classics Bumblebee will be re-released and redeco'd in both RTS (Hasbro) and United (Takara).

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149533)
Posted by Editor on November 22nd, 2010 @ 2:51pm CST

Great news but nothing I find too exciting.

Then again, I've been treating the PCC 2-packs as Targetmasters since I picked up Smolder. No one said they had to keeped or displayed together.

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149537)
Posted by RiddlerJ on November 22nd, 2010 @ 2:55pm CST

and Scrapheap?

Wouldn't Hot Rod, Kup, and Blurr make more sense?

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149549)
Posted by OptiMagnus on November 22nd, 2010 @ 3:29pm CST

Not bad. But no way I'd ever pay all the dough for them.

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149553)
Posted by Rated X on November 22nd, 2010 @ 3:34pm CST

How many times are these mini-cons gonna get repainted ??? I just saw a couple new PCC 2 packs in wal-mart but I passed because the mini-cons are repaints and the new figures are nothing special. Im not a big mini-con fan anyways, Im more into 80's Classic G1 characters and the movie line is pretty cool as well.

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149616)
Posted by Anonymous on November 22nd, 2010 @ 5:46pm CST

Goldbug United is mine. Target Masters United will go perfectly with Scourge United. Rubsign free FTW. Takara wins this round.

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149620)
Posted by Powered Convoy on November 22nd, 2010 @ 5:52pm CST

Dead Metal wrote:Also it looks like Rodimus, Galvatron and Cyclonus will be very similar to the Henkei versions, you can see the chrome on Rods wings, Galvatrons arm, and Cyclonus wings and targetmaster.

That's because the images thus far are just their Henkei stock photography blackened out. They're not actual pictures of the new redecos.

horus wrote:so... we're gonna get targetmasters to issue to any transformer we want? (hot rod, scourge, kup, blur)

These won't fit Hot Rod/Rodimus' hands, because he has 4mm hand holes while these Minicons have 5mm pegs.

feeiq90 wrote:will bumblebee be included in United line???the one on the pic looks more chromed even for a henkei..

Yes as it was mentioned earlier he is in United (and in Reveal the Shield - though both are different than each other and all other releases).

He's not chrome but metallic gold paint (like with most of the TakaraTomy Animated figures).

RiddlerJ wrote:and Scrapheap?

Wouldn't Hot Rod, Kup, and Blurr make more sense?

Yes, but Blurr might not have been done because he's based on the comic appearance rather than the toy (TakaraTomy's version even tries to recreate the comic colors more than Hasbro did).

Plus this is probably the only way that TakaraTomy was going to release the other Junkion (Scrapheap).

Rated X wrote:How many times are these mini-cons gonna get repainted ??? I just saw a couple new PCC 2 packs in wal-mart but I passed because the mini-cons are repaints and the new figures are nothing special. Im not a big mini-con fan anyways, Im more into 80's Classic G1 characters and the movie line is pretty cool as well.

Well these are the FIRST time they're getting a release in Japan, and who would have thunk, they're 80's Classic G1 characters (Fracas, Recoil, and Haywire were all in G1 in 1987).

The mold for Haywire has already been redecoed twice, and once Salvage comes out (he's not out yet) the mold for Fracas will be redecoed twice in the US.

As for Recoil, the original version of this mold isn't even available yet as he comes with Skyhammer and he hasn't been released.

So I wouldn't make any complaints about these molds yet, especially since these are the first time they're coming out in Japan.

Randy

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149652)
Posted by Blurrz on November 22nd, 2010 @ 7:19pm CST

Ah crap.

The mini-cons(targetmasters) names are Fracas, Recoil and Haywire.

Well good game, now I really need these guys.

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149660)
Posted by Down_Shift on November 22nd, 2010 @ 7:52pm CST

Yup. I'll be getting this set for sure.

I'm cool with the minicon targetmasters but I won't be one bit surprised when FansProject or iGear come out with a new target master set to go along with all of the Targetmaster characters.

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149695)
Posted by Megatron Wolf on November 22nd, 2010 @ 10:21pm CST

So have they been retooled so that they have an actual handle or are these the only PCC minicons that have real gun modes? I have the one that came with huffer and i dont see how they can get a real gun mode out of it wothout some retooling.

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149698)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on November 22nd, 2010 @ 10:32pm CST

Megatron Wolf wrote:So have they been retooled so that they have an actual handle or are these the only PCC minicons that have real gun modes? I have the one that came with huffer and i dont see how they can get a real gun mode out of it wothout some retooling.

All PCC Mini-Cons have a Weapon Mode with just a few twists and turns. I'm not bothered with how they look. If you're looking for the peg on Caliburst, squeeze the legs together.

I must say I'm really surprised with this move. Then again, the PCC Mini-Cons aren't gangmolded with any larger partner, so we should have seen this coming.

Anybody get me a set? I have cookies ;;)

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149781)
Posted by Powered Convoy on November 23rd, 2010 @ 7:00am CST

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:I must say I'm really surprised with this move. Then again, the PCC Mini-Cons aren't gangmolded with any larger partner, so we should have seen this coming.

Anybody get me a set? I have cookies

They are gang molded, that's why the Wave 3 Minicons all ended up different colors than were originally shown on the back of their cards, as they ended up the colors of the eyes used for their original partners Wave 3 redecos. That's why the Searchlight Minicon is solid red instead of clear brown (Searchlight's redeco has red eyes) and why Huffer's original Minicon was clear green instead of clear orange (because Crankcase had clear green eyes in his super mode).

Randy

Re: New Teasers for e-Hobby United Three-Packs and Mini-Cons (1149838)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on November 23rd, 2010 @ 9:51am CST

Powered Convoy wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:I must say I'm really surprised with this move. Then again, the PCC Mini-Cons aren't gangmolded with any larger partner, so we should have seen this coming.

Anybody get me a set? I have cookies

They are gang molded, that's why the Wave 3 Minicons all ended up different colors than were originally shown on the back of their cards, as they ended up the colors of the eyes used for their original partners Wave 3 redecos. That's why the Searchlight Minicon is solid red instead of clear brown (Searchlight's redeco has red eyes) and why Huffer's original Minicon was clear green instead of clear orange (because Crankcase had clear green eyes in his super mode).

Randy

That gave the phrase "more than meets the eye" a whole new meaning... #-o