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Post by Hanyoutai on Aug 19, 2020 14:12:03 GMT -5
Hasbro's Consumer Care website now includes several manuals for the upcoming Zoids Wild kits, with instructions in multiple languages and some new gimmicks! Zoids are sorted into three classes: Giga, Mega, Beta. We also now know that Hunter Wolf will be Alpha Shadow, and Salt will be named Apex. Aside from that, we see the box art for Tryke, Alpha Shadow, and Liger. The Zoids come with a box that can be unfolded into a playmat, so that children can have their Zoids duke it out. Courtesy to RPZ for pointing out that the rules are included in the PDFs, and providing the following info: ZOIDS BATTLE RULES1. Start with Zoids battler on the orange hexagon with all feet on the mat. 2. Ready, Set, Unleash! Knock your opponent’s battler off the mat to score 1 point. Having two or more feet off the mat means the battler has been knocked off. 3. First battler to 3 points wins the match!         |
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Post by fpjonesiii on Aug 19, 2020 15:14:17 GMT -5
It's not much, but this is some really good news. Hopefully this is a sign that Hasbro is still planning on releasing their versions of the kits.
I'm assuming the class sizes correlate to how they'll be priced. Though I'm a little surprised that Tanks and Ruin aren't in the same class as Liger, but Trykes is.
The play mat and sorta game feature is a nice addition for the target demographic.
I wonder if this is all, or at least most of what they're planning for wave 1.
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Post by bladeligerzero94 on Aug 19, 2020 15:55:25 GMT -5
Ther pieces look exactly identical to their original Japanese counterparts. Could these kits be Japanese imports?
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Post by fpjonesiii on Aug 19, 2020 16:23:05 GMT -5
Ther pieces look exactly identical to their original Japanese counterparts. Could these kits be Japanese imports? Some are more modified than this, but all of them apear to have the eyes built into the parts they would have connected to in the original Japanese releases. |
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Post by Hanyoutai on Aug 19, 2020 16:38:03 GMT -5
The pieces shown in the instruction manual include all of the Hasbro modifications that we saw before, like Gannontoise' modified gun and the two-tone bodies that are black and brown instead of pure black. Out of the first wave that we saw (Needle, Pincers, Ruin, Rapterrix, Phobia, and Tanks) only 2 had actual mold changes outside of the eye, so most parts will look identical.
Hasbro has been through so many trials through the licensing process of this series, but these instructions are quite high quality for what I would've expected. Hunter Wolf and I think maybe Tryke have all new images in the same style as the Zoids Wild manga, and the box art is beautiful. An entirely different league than the box art used for the Japanese kits. I hope it can recover from whatever issues are going on behind the scenes. I know I'll be picking up any Wild kit that lands locally.
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Post by bladeligerzero94 on Aug 19, 2020 17:58:30 GMT -5
They look like the Japanese versions to me hence the Takara Tomy logo on every instruction booklet.
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Post by Hanyoutai on Aug 19, 2020 18:35:23 GMT -5
They're probably required to display their logo, depending on the deal they worked out. These aren't leftovers from the TT instructions, though. They are entirely different. The Hasbro release of the kits probably have mostly the same molds as the Japanese version, with additional pre-assembly (for the eyes). There are some that are different, though, and the kits are also different colors than the Japanese versions. These are not imports. They are Hasbro's own version. Every kit in the lineup has at least color differences. |
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Post by bladeligerzero94 on Aug 19, 2020 18:42:21 GMT -5
Didn't Hasbro make their own Zoids once? Look at Ray Saurer. That kit never got a Japanese release.
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Post by Hanyoutai on Aug 19, 2020 18:48:50 GMT -5
Yeah, Hasbro has made a few of their own kits, and quite a few unique color variations.
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Post by Snowflake on Aug 20, 2020 16:06:39 GMT -5
Didn't we already see a version of gannontoise that was completely different and changed in several ways, for a hasbro release? I can't have just hallucinated that
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Post by fpjonesiii on Aug 20, 2020 16:57:57 GMT -5
Didn't we already see a version of gannontoise that was completely different and changed in several ways, for a hasbro release? I can't have just hallucinated that You're definitely not hallucinating. Last year the Facebook page of a UK based toy store posted stock photos of some of Hasbro's versions of the kits: imgur.com/a/b3O0w59 |
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Post by Ernestotaku on Aug 21, 2020 3:40:10 GMT -5
They have some modifications on the kits, don't they?
And maybe some colors too.
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Post by fpjonesiii on Aug 21, 2020 14:00:26 GMT -5
They have some modifications on the kits, don't they? And maybe some colors too. They do. All of them have the eyes built into the pieces they originally connected to, and some like Tanks have now alterations. As for the colors, there's more complexity to some of these kits. Like Ruin has some medium gray parts that were originally black for the Gilraptor kit. Hasbro's Liger even has some light gray parts that were originally black. |
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Post by Snowflake on Aug 21, 2020 15:11:04 GMT -5
I'm torn because hasbro kits mean a nice affordable way to check out the new zoids, but major changes are unacceptable (and honestly baffling). But on the other hand I care little for Wild, and any kits I buy are getting modified into 1/72s anyway, so it's not like I'm invested in having kits that match Wild's canon...
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Post by bladeligerzero94 on Aug 21, 2020 17:03:27 GMT -5
The last time we got a Zoids toyline in the USA was back in the early 2000's when Hasbro imported kits from the NJR line to promote the shows airing on Cartoon Network.
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