Takara Tomy Earthspark Toyline Revealed with Several Deco Changes

Yeah it will so epic once this lame @$$ line is finally gone....freeing up some shelf space of course for something much better hopefully! .......

I knew that brand unity couldn't last forever, the figures were just too underwhelming for the Japanese market. Is it me or does Deluxe Starscream look to have a new face?

I'll be honest, before Titans Return I only bought the Japanese releases when they were THAT much better or different. Toon accurate Astrotrain, Tracks with the proper flames, and stuff like that. With Titans Return, Takara went all in and their releases outshone almost every Hasbro release, new tooling, Targetmasters, and glorious paint. Unfortunately, even from Amazon Japan, the cost of importing has shot up so much that I'll have to be very, very choosy.

This is a dilemma for me. I want the show-accurate decos that Takara's Deluxes have, but I also want the Mandroid build-a-figure that Hasbro's Deluxes have. Couldn't Takara figure out a way to release Mandroid on his own?

Sabrblade wrote:This is a dilemma for me. I want the show-accurate decos that Takara's Deluxes have, but I also want the Mandroid build-a-figure that Hasbro's Deluxes have. Couldn't Takara figure out a way to release Mandroid on his own?

I'm sure they will

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:This is a dilemma for me. I want the show-accurate decos that Takara's Deluxes have, but I also want the Mandroid build-a-figure that Hasbro's Deluxes have. Couldn't Takara figure out a way to release Mandroid on his own?

I'm sure they will

I dunno, there's been a lot of figures Hasbro released that Takara didn't.

Sabrblade wrote:This is a dilemma for me. I want the show-accurate decos that Takara's Deluxes have, but I also want the Mandroid build-a-figure that Hasbro's Deluxes have. Couldn't Takara figure out a way to release Mandroid on his own?

I bet some of those will hit eBay and such once the figure's actually complete.

Sabrblade wrote:This is a dilemma for me. I want the show-accurate decos that Takara's Deluxes have, but I also want the Mandroid build-a-figure that Hasbro's Deluxes have. Couldn't Takara figure out a way to release Mandroid on his own?

Available with BD pre-orders and a blood sample through 7-11, via lottery, limited to 5.

Emerje

Nemesis Destron wrote:Yeah it will so epic once this lame @$$ line is finally gone....freeing up some shelf space of course for something much better hopefully! .......

When it ends they're just going to replace it with another line like this one replaced Cyberverse and that replaced RID.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Nemesis Destron wrote:Yeah it will so epic once this lame @$$ line is finally gone....freeing up some shelf space of course for something much better hopefully! .......

When it ends they're just going to replace it with another line like this one replaced Cyberverse and that replaced RID.

Emerje

Yes this is true. ....

Dangit, those Takara ones looks really nice.

They are also reminding me that I really hope Grimlock and Nightshade come in stock soon, I want both, they are both great characters in the show, and I really want to complete Mandroid, even if his toy does not match any of his fictional appearances funny enough.

Next wave of BAF will be Mandroid in the Season finale, calling it now.

It's been a while since I bought Japanese TFs. Where's the best place to get them these days? I'm in the UK though.

DeadCaL wrote:It's been a while since I bought Japanese TFs. Where's the best place to get them these days? I'm in the UK though.

Amazon Japan has been a good source for them

While the first wave of the Earthspark line was released almost all at once, the remainder of the line has been appearing sporadically on shelves and online. So while some may already have the toys below, they are the latest releases and we wanted to show you some reviews in case those who don't have them yet were curious. Below you will see three reviews from fellow Seibertronian Chuckdawg for Flip Changers Megatron, Twitch and Deluxe Grimlock. For Grimlock, he is currently available on Amazon if you want to get him.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:By this point, we all know what to expect from the Flip Changers. Megatron is one of the better ones since the propellers actually spin, I was expecting them to be molded in. It's touches like that, that I appreciate and I think you will too.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:The truest definition of a desk toy is something fun to fidget around with. We should all know what to expect with Flip Changers from Earthspark by this point. No articulation, all gimmicks. Terran Twitch looks really good and is close to the show model. As I always say do NOT throw these around as they can break, I'm especially concerned about the Vtol wings on Twitch.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Well, this figure almost fooled me. I first thought this was an all-new mold with so many new parts. Grimlock, is a heavy retool of the Cyberverse Deluxe figure, almost every exposed piece is retooled from that mold. While my copy is a bit loose in the hips, I find this to be the better of the two releases.

I know there's a market for these things - but they're just too 'kiddie' for my taste. Like with Cyberverse, I've eschewed the Earthspark toys completely. I haven't seen any that seem shelf-worthy.

Grimlock looks very nice, really like that twist on his transformation.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Next wave of BAF will be Mandroid in the Season finale, calling it now.

If there is another wave. Cyberverse only did the one BAF of Maccadam, and all Deluxe waves after those with his parts nixed the BAF incentive entirely.

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Next wave of BAF will be Mandroid in the Season finale, calling it now.

If there is another wave. Cyberverse only did the one BAF of Maccadam, and all Deluxe waves after those with his parts nixed the BAF incentive entirely.

I was saying it sarcastically but also wishfully, i don't expect another BAF or to see mandroid in that form in toy form

I got my deluxe Grimlock in and opened him up last night. He is OK. I wasn't a huge fan of the cyberverse Grimlock deluxe, but I think that release served this mold better, it was able to be a little goofier, while this one feels a bit hindered. And the tolerance of the leg that goes on the back really messes with the alt mode integrity.

I like it, but I feel this one suffers from being a retool.

But at the same time, it is awesome to have Keith David toys alongside Tony Todd toys on the shelves.

As anyone still looking for some of 2015's RID toys on e-bay can attest, the original figure of a new Transformers character can become very expensive as the demand grows year after year. Hence why many fans have been looking forward to getting their hands on the Earthspark Nightshade figure, along with the need to simply own a toy of a character they like. Hasbro has finally officially revealed the final wave of Earthsaprk deluxes for this year, with preorders for Nightshade available on Pulse and Amazon. We have links below. You can also tempt your luck to find them at retail with them starting to appear at Walmart stores in the US.

In other Earthspark news, Hasbro revealed some new toys at the Toy Fair in New York. These are the Cyber Combiners which are similar to the crash combiners we had in previous lines. This time, it's a combination of an action figure of the human characters in an exo suit, combined with a transforming figure of Twitch or Bumblebee. You can see the photos below.

Preorders for Nightshade:

https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-TRA ... 107&sr=8-1?tag=seibertron07-20&

https://hasbropulse.com/products/transf ... uSbGKerAbM

EARTHSPARK CYBER-COMBINER BUMBLEBEE AND MO MALTO
EARTHSPARK CYBER-COMBINER TERRAN TWITCH AND ROBBY MALTO













The pictures above were taken by the TFW2005 team who were at the event.

Neither "WEIRD" nor "UGLY" are enough.

Maybe "CREEPY" is appropriate.

I should know better.

The late Cyberverse Roll & Combine figures told me loud and clear that the RID Crash Combiner concept had no hidden potential waiting to be unlocked by future toylines. Even the awesome interchangeability of the Deluxe and Voyager Energon Autobots wore thin all too soon, but I attributed that to the wretched cartoon having caused the very act of combining to lose all meaning by the bitter end; maybe the Unicron Singularity affected my memory too.

But because my favorite toy of all time is Slamdance, the reveal of any sort of dual-combining TFs just fills me with hope of recapturing the joy I felt stumbling across those last 2 Autobot cassettes in Toys'R'Us!

Interesting that we've been getting so many TF toys of humans in exo-suits lately. I thought conventional wisdom was that parents outside of SE Asia couldn't be bothered to understand the difference between sentient robots, piloted mecha, and drones (boy, that term's gotten loaded with new connotations over the past decade or so, thanks to pesky reality), so toylines never got into many categories beyond 2 major factions, hence Nightbird becoming more of a sentient-Decepticon-all-along with each subsequent toy and fiction incarnation, and no toys of her rough Marvel counterpart Centurion.

So now human children have the ability to form PANTS to prop up alien robots! We'll see if this causes an even bigger slag-storm than Nightshade's clunky pronoun declaration...of course we'll have to wait a year after their debut to be sure there's any reaction at all...

I've seen better looking Happy Meal toys. The bright side is they make the rest of the line look almost passable by comparison.

Bumblevivisector wrote:So now human children have the ability to form PANTS to prop up alien robots! We'll see if this causes an even bigger slag-storm than Nightshade's clunky pronoun declaration...of course we'll have to wait a year after their debut to be sure there's any reaction at all...

Actually these are closer to Energon figures than Crash Combiners. Not only is the combined bot articulated, but they can also trade places so the bot forms the pants. I think they're neat and actually worth getting compared to the previous attempts.

Emerje

Yeah these are pretty cool. Definitely a further testing for possible Energon figures in Generations. During one of the livestreams a year or so ago they mentioned they were looking into it but they wanted to make sure the Autobots could still combine. So this looks like a test run. The figures while still awkward, look pretty decent. The combined mode looks decent as well and has almost full articulation. Just no waist or thigh swivels or ankle tilts for the combined mode. They managed this much with what are basically $15 figures each if we split the cost of the set for each figure. Imagine what they could do with the full budget of a $25 or $35 figure.

I'll most likely be getting two of each because I'm crazy and want them to combine with themselves. I grabbed four Hishoumaru figures for this exact reason. One to combine with Gekisoumaru and Sensuimaru and the other three to combine with each other. This was back when they were on Amazon for like $17 each though.

If I only get one set each then I'll switch the Matlos. Mo with Twitch and Robby with Bumblebee.

Bumblevivisector wrote:So now human children have the ability to form PANTS to prop up alien robots! We'll see if this causes an even bigger slag-storm than Nightshade's clunky pronoun declaration...of course we'll have to wait a year after their debut to be sure there's any reaction at all...

It won't.

Interesting. Maybe these "Cyber-Combiners" will feature in the show's second season?

I got Nightshade, and they are a pretty dang nice toy. Nice to see all 4 of the larger Terrans got good figures. Now Hashtag needs a good toy.

Also took some photos of Mandroid, Grimlock, and Jawbreaker.

The siblings united.

Now we just need a proper sized Hashtag

With Earthspark Shockwave being a rerelease of his mold in Cyberverse, it made sense to assume that the upcoming Prowl would be a rerelease of of that same mold as well. BUT NO. Instead, Earthspark Prowl will be a straight redeco of Cyberverse deluxe Hot Rod. While it makes for an original deco for a Hot Rod toy, that original mold was panned by fans for having major clearance/articulation issues. Still, odd redecos like this have their fans, so let us know what you think.
Also, in what might possible be even bigger news, we have our first look at deluxe Thrash.

william-james88 wrote:With Earthspark Shockwave being a rerelease of his mold in Cyberverse, it made sense to assume that the upcoming Prowl would be a rerelease of of that same mold as well. BUT NO. Instead, Earthspark Prowl will be a straight redeco of Cyberverse deluxe Hot Rod. While it makes for an original deco for a Hot Rod toy, that original mold was panned by fans for having major clearance/articulation issues. Still, odd redecos like this have their fans, so let us know what you think.
Also, in what might possible be even bigger news, we have our first look at deluxe Thrash.

Where?

william-james88 wrote:With Earthspark Shockwave being a rerelease of his mold in Cyberverse, it made sense to assume that the upcoming Prowl would be a rerelease of of that same mold as well. BUT NO. Instead, Earthspark Prowl will be a straight redeco of Cyberverse deluxe Hot Rod. While it makes for an original deco for a Hot Rod toy, that original mold was panned by fans for having major clearance/articulation issues. Still, odd redecos like this have their fans, so let us know what you think.
Also, in what might possible be even bigger news, we have our first look at deluxe Thrash.

Why?

Overcracker wrote:

william-james88 wrote:With Earthspark Shockwave being a rerelease of his mold in Cyberverse, it made sense to assume that the upcoming Prowl would be a rerelease of of that same mold as well. BUT NO. Instead, Earthspark Prowl will be a straight redeco of Cyberverse deluxe Hot Rod. While it makes for an original deco for a Hot Rod toy, that original mold was panned by fans for having major clearance/articulation issues. Still, odd redecos like this have their fans, so let us know what you think.
Also, in what might possible be even bigger news, we have our first look at deluxe Thrash.

Why?

Kinda makes him look a little like Checkpoint, even.

Sabrblade wrote:

Overcracker wrote:

william-james88 wrote:With Earthspark Shockwave being a rerelease of his mold in Cyberverse, it made sense to assume that the upcoming Prowl would be a rerelease of of that same mold as well. BUT NO. Instead, Earthspark Prowl will be a straight redeco of Cyberverse deluxe Hot Rod. While it makes for an original deco for a Hot Rod toy, that original mold was panned by fans for having major clearance/articulation issues. Still, odd redecos like this have their fans, so let us know what you think.
Also, in what might possible be even bigger news, we have our first look at deluxe Thrash.

Why?

Kinda makes him look a little like Checkpoint, even.

Checkpoint? As in Energon Checkpoint? Redeco of race truck Rodimus Prime?


Maybe a little yes.

Checkpoint it is. Though kind of want a truck Checkpoint now in Legacy.

Sabrblade wrote:

Overcracker wrote:

william-james88 wrote:With Earthspark Shockwave being a rerelease of his mold in Cyberverse, it made sense to assume that the upcoming Prowl would be a rerelease of of that same mold as well. BUT NO. Instead, Earthspark Prowl will be a straight redeco of Cyberverse deluxe Hot Rod. While it makes for an original deco for a Hot Rod toy, that original mold was panned by fans for having major clearance/articulation issues. Still, odd redecos like this have their fans, so let us know what you think.
Also, in what might possible be even bigger news, we have our first look at deluxe Thrash.

Why?

Kinda makes him look a little like Checkpoint, even.

Interesting, and I concur on the Energon Checkpoint connection. Actually, he reminds me of Prime Smokescreen too.

Thanks to InDemand Toys, we have our first images of the upcoming deluxe class Prowl and Thrash from the Transformers Earthspark toyline.

Thrash is a brand new mold that is based on his appearance in the show. Compared to his warrior toy, which is a good toy in and of itself, This toy is more articulated, but appears to have a less pleasing color scheme. He also comes with his shield and a small gun.

Prowl is a little weird though, as he is a repaint of the Cyberverse deluxe class Hot Rod toy. The art on his box suggests he has a very IDW look to him in the show, but the toy uses the Hot Rod mold for some odd reason. There is no retooling done, and he still comes with the flame effects. He does make for a nice little roundabout Energon Checkpoint homage though.

Check out the images below, and let us know what you think in the comments section below!

Thrash looks like a sidestep really, I think his warrior toy looks better color wise.

Prowl is weird, but I like it? It makes no sense, but OK. I like it.

Yeah prowl makes no sense but I think the toy looks better than in its original deco

The unintentional recreation of Checkpoint with that Prowl toy makes it one I have to get. I kind of see why that's the mold they picked when looking at the cartoon design. It would be funny if they made a Hotrod using the Prowl mold to follow this up with.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Thrash looks like a sidestep really, I think his warrior toy looks better color wise.

That's a nice way to put it, but I don't think trading the sidecar for more articulation was the right move. The sidecar is essential I think, that shield is a poor substitute.

Prowl is so strange. Really does look more like Prime Smokescreen. Maybe I should just make him that and stick him with the Legacy guys since he really doesn't look like ES Prowl.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:Maybe I should just make him that and stick him with the Legacy guys since he really doesn't look like ES Prowl.

To be fair, we don't really know what EarthSpark Prowl actually looks like, since he's never appeared in the show outside of a cameo appearance of his G1 counterpart's cartoon model in Alex's fantasy-sequence retelling from Episode 1 of how the Transformers' war began.

For all we know, he could very well look like a Hot Rod recolor.

Sabrblade wrote:

Emerje wrote:Maybe I should just make him that and stick him with the Legacy guys since he really doesn't look like ES Prowl.

To be fair, we don't really know what EarthSpark Prowl actually looks like, since he's never appeared in the show outside of a cameo appearance of his G1 counterpart's cartoon model in Alex's fantasy-sequence retelling from Episode 1 of how the Transformers' war began.

For all we know, he could very well look like a Hot Rod recolor.

I'm saying that based on the box art for him which I would guess is accurate and looks nothing like Hot Rod.

Emerje

Sabrblade wrote:

Emerje wrote:Maybe I should just make him that and stick him with the Legacy guys since he really doesn't look like ES Prowl.

To be fair, we don't really know what EarthSpark Prowl actually looks like

There's a character model of Prowl on the box. Either way, there's an error done here. Either the toy looks nothing like the show character or the artwork used on the box doesn't.

Huh. I gotta say, and agree with others, that Thrash IS a step down. At least it looks like it so far, maybe they’ll surprise us. Instead of him, how about a warrior Hashtag?

Prowl looks cool as a Prowl repaint of Hot Rod.
As Hot Rod the mold looks cool, clean, simple and sleek.

Thrash looks nice/normal, nothing special.

Anybody already know what comes after Earthspark? I'm not fond of the style of the faces and the whole woke series big nope.

That new Grimlock does look amazing!

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Thrash looks like a sidestep really, I think his warrior toy looks better color wise.

Prowl is weird, but I like it? It makes no sense, but OK. I like it.

i do as well

Stormshot_Prime wrote:Huh. I gotta say, and agree with others, that Thrash IS a step down. At least it looks like it so far, maybe they’ll surprise us. Instead of him, how about a warrior Hashtag?

We need a proper bigger Hashtag. I hope she gets a deluxe, but she needs a full proper voyager. We almost need a legacy version of her in the voyager assortment.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Stormshot_Prime wrote:Huh. I gotta say, and agree with others, that Thrash IS a step down. At least it looks like it so far, maybe they’ll surprise us. Instead of him, how about a warrior Hashtag?

We need a proper bigger Hashtag. I hope she gets a deluxe, but she needs a full proper voyager. We almost need a legacy version of her in the voyager assortment.

Maybe EarthSpark will eventually get an Ultra class assortment like Cyberverse had, and then Hashtag could get an Ultra figure with a decent amount of articulation.

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Stormshot_Prime wrote:Huh. I gotta say, and agree with others, that Thrash IS a step down. At least it looks like it so far, maybe they’ll surprise us. Instead of him, how about a warrior Hashtag?

We need a proper bigger Hashtag. I hope she gets a deluxe, but she needs a full proper voyager. We almost need a legacy version of her in the voyager assortment.

Maybe EarthSpark will eventually get an Ultra class assortment like Cyberverse had, and then Hashtag could get an Ultra figure with a decent amount of articulation.

Would be nice of her to get the Thunderhowl treatment if you will. Hopefully with a rotating head at least

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Stormshot_Prime wrote:Huh. I gotta say, and agree with others, that Thrash IS a step down. At least it looks like it so far, maybe they’ll surprise us. Instead of him, how about a warrior Hashtag?

We need a proper bigger Hashtag. I hope she gets a deluxe, but she needs a full proper voyager. We almost need a legacy version of her in the voyager assortment.

Maybe EarthSpark will eventually get an Ultra class assortment like Cyberverse had, and then Hashtag could get an Ultra figure with a decent amount of articulation.

Would be nice of her to get the Thunderhowl treatment if you will. Hopefully with a rotating head at least

Then again, her getting an Ultra class toy would also make her tower over the other Autobot and Decepticon Deluxe and Warrior toys, when she's supposed to be the same height as Bumblebee, and both are supposed to be smaller than the other 'Bots and 'Cons.

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Stormshot_Prime wrote:Huh. I gotta say, and agree with others, that Thrash IS a step down. At least it looks like it so far, maybe they’ll surprise us. Instead of him, how about a warrior Hashtag?

We need a proper bigger Hashtag. I hope she gets a deluxe, but she needs a full proper voyager. We almost need a legacy version of her in the voyager assortment.

Maybe EarthSpark will eventually get an Ultra class assortment like Cyberverse had, and then Hashtag could get an Ultra figure with a decent amount of articulation.

Would be nice of her to get the Thunderhowl treatment if you will. Hopefully with a rotating head at least

Then again, her getting an Ultra class toy would also make her tower over the other Autobot and Decepticon Deluxe and Warrior toys, when she's supposed to be the same height as Bumblebee, and both are supposed to be smaller than the other 'Bots and 'Cons.

True, but I would almost rather her scale with her siblings than with the other bots. Twitch is already really big in comparison, and I would like to let Twitch sit on Hashtags shoulder