Transformers Collaborative (Transformers X Sonic the Hedgehog)

[Nevermore]

So both Street Fighter II sets have been found at multiple Target stores in the US...


Despite the ridiculously steep price, someone bought one of the sets and discovered something weird:


That's a Takara box, complete with Takara instructions... inside an outer Hasbro box!

So did Hasbro just take existing Takara stock and shove it into a new box?

On the other hand, that's very similar to how Takara Masterpiece, Selects and Premium Finish figures are shipping when purchased via Hasbro Pulse: A Takara box inside a back Hasbro sleeve. And yet, those figures are separate production runs specifically for Hasbro, complete with Hasbro product codes stamped onto them.

So... what are these, then?

Someone in the TFWiki Discord provided this photo:


That's not only a Hasbro product code etched (not stamped) into the figure, but also a manufacturing date code.

I don't remember how I am supposed to read those, but I'm pretty sure this indicates that this figure was made in either 2021 or 2022. The Takara figures were released in 2018.


So... why did Hasbro produce extra Takara packaging, then?

 

[ZacWilliam1]

Probably for the cache of being a Japanese exclusive set.

-ZacWilliam, which given its subject matter is also thematically fitting.

 

[Princess Viola]

I like to imagine they did it deliberately to confuse people tbh.

 

[Andrusi]

So you can have your choice of names for Dictator.

 

[Donocropolis]

For you, the day you dropped $113 on a set of repaints was the most important day of your life.

For him, it was Tuesday.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

I'm guessing Hasbro sent the factory instructions to do another production run of the whole set and pack it in the new box, and someone at the factory had a very literal-minded interpretation of what they meant by "the whole set".

 

[Undead Scottsman]

“Tra Gen Project Bear
EAN: 5010996145697
Product Number: F7142”

New collaborative listing for Project Bear

Tra Gen Project Bear EAN: 5010996145697 Product Number: F7142

www.tfw2005.com

Care Bears would be my first guess, but who knows. Anything "bear" would be a good name for?

 

[Princess Viola]

finally the yogi bear transformer we've all been waiting for

 

[Sabrblade]

“Tra Gen Project Bear
EAN: 5010996145697
Product Number: F7142”

New collaborative listing for Project Bear

Tra Gen Project Bear EAN: 5010996145697 Product Number: F7142

www.tfw2005.com

Care Bears would be my first guess, but who knows. Anything "bear" would be a good name for?

 

[Shadewing]

 

[Future_Erika]

significant bears I can think of

my girlfriend
freddy fazbear
yogi bear
care bears
paddington bear
teddy ruxpin
gummi bears
the bimbo mascot
cocaine bear
smokey the bear
bear in the big blue house
the berenstain bears
po
fozzy bear
various other disney bears

 

[ZacWilliam1]

"Fozzy Bear"

Please be an Autobot Studebaker.

-ZacWilliam, "Right frog."

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

significant bears I can think of

my girlfriend
freddy fazbear
yogi bear
care bears
paddington bear
teddy ruxpin
gummi bears
the bimbo mascot
cocaine bear
smokey the bear
bear in the big blue house
the berenstain bears
po
fozzy bear
various other disney bears

We Bare Bears

 

[Dekafox]

Chicago Bears too.

 

[ChessPieceFace]

Did the transforming Bearbricks get released in the U.S. already? If not, maybe it's one of those. Or, Barbearian/Cocaine Bear!

 

[Blot]

"Fozzy Bear"

Please be an Autobot Studebaker.

-ZacWilliam, "Right frog."

That'd be "Project Tomato"

 

[ZacWilliam1]

Dnd Is coming to Theaters. I'd play a ton for a Transformers x Owlbear.


-ZacWilliam, yes I know about the transforming D20s. I'd still buy this.

 

[Salt-Man Z]

Dnd Is coming to Theaters. I'd play a ton for a Transformers x Owlbear.

-ZacWilliam, yes I know about the transforming D20s. I'd still buy this.

Shoot, when I first saw images of the transforming converting D20 owlbear out of context, my initial thought was it was Legacy Icebird.

 

[Platypus Prime]

My heat pump blew, but for those who haven't had their house eat their paycheck, the GI Joe Transformers are on sale on Amazon, HISS Megatron is $72.99, and Striker Bumblebee is $61.99 as of when I write this.

 

[G.B.Blackrock]

Shoot, when I first saw images of the transforming converting D20 owlbear out of context, my initial thought was it was Legacy Icebird.

Do they actually say "converting" rather than "transforming" on that toy? Hasbro's typically been fine using the word "transform" on non-Transformers.