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Transformers Kiss Players - Transformers Kiss Players Convoy x Melissa
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| Series |
Transformers Kiss Players |
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| Title |
Transformers Kiss Players Convoy x Melissa |
| Release Date |
August 2006 |
| Manufacturer |
Takara |
| Suggested Price (JPY) |
6,500 |
| Scale |
1/24 |
| Height (cm) |
Car: 22 cm (L) x 9 cm (W) x 8 cm (H)
Robot: 21.5 cm (full height) |
| No. of Parts |
1 Dodge RAM SRT-10 + 1 secret weapon + 1 color instruction manual + 1 ID Card + 1 6-tracks audio CD + 1 surfboard + 1 Melissa PVC figure with spare parts |
| My Rating |
Below Average |
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Comment
This is a huge disappointment! The usual Takara line
of Binaltech (BT) and Binaltech-Asterisk (BTA) is
made of metal and yet this new series announce as
KISS Player is completely made of plastic. The
series name, obviously derived from current trend of
Japanese perversion toward “Lolicon” (Lolita Complex
a.k.a. pedophile), is about the story of little
girls powering-up Transformers by giving them
kisses. This package comes with an in-scale figure
of Melissa with spare hands and lower body to swap
for some different poses. She is designed and
sculpted by Yuki Ohshima and obviously another
"designer label" scheme cook-up by Takara to slapped
a higher price on this. This marketing strategy is
clearly been seen as in
THS-02 Convoy.
Takara also introduce a new packaging for this
item. The box is quite huge designed in an odd shape
and clearly a designer’s disease infected from
Hasbro. I prefer the older Binaltech boxes. This box
is quite huge and contains quite a lot of unused
space and definitely not as collector friendly as
the previous lines did.
The box comes with an Audio CD featuring 6 tracks
of voice acting in some gibberish language that I
think it is Japanese. The CD is completely useless
to me.
Convoy is packaged in his vehicle form, Dodge RAM
SRT-10, a red colored pick-up truck. Both doors,
bonnet opens. The hood reveals his secret weapon, a
Viper Engine, and it transforms into a hand gun that
is 2 sizes too small for the big Convoy. With that
design limitation, Takara includes a second secret
weapon which is a pink surfboard. It transforms into
a single sword or 2 smaller blades.
Although, this series does not have the novelty
of metal, the paint job is similar to the Binaltech
line. It comes in shinny red similarly plague with
paint-chipping problem. Paint run and scratches are
detected out-of-the-box and seemingly the quality
control is becoming worse or at least never has
improved. I might sound fuzzy but I am a lot more
lenient towards the Alternator line just because
Hasbro never did charge a premium like Takara did
while getting away by giving me Alternator quality.
At least Convoy in robot form does not look ugly.
He does look bulky and charismatic as an Autobot
leader and best of all, it comes with a G1 head
sculpt.
In overall, this is not a bad collectible. It is
simply the mega disappointment towards the exclusion
of die-cast metal from the series plus they are
charging the same premium for it. Takara did try
their best to compensate by including a “gachapon”
figure, a second secret weapon and a useless
Audio-CD. However, all these junk should not cost me
the price of another Alternator! This is item is
absolutely overprice so get yourself the Alternator
version instead.
This item is purchase from Midvalley Megamall.
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| All these junks cost
me the price of one Alternator |
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Document Date : 2006-09-01 |
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