G1 Shockwave Reissue coming our way?? Could be indeed!
 

Hi everyone!

Could this be a preview of things to come from Takara? We have received this week the Chronicles 2-pack DOTM/G1 Megatron and Optimus Sets. When you open the box, you'll see on the inner side flaps some intriguing pictures suggesting that there will be more Chronicle Sets to be released. Optimus' box was advertising a 2-pack including DOTM/G1 Ratchet....and the Megatron's box was advertising a 2-pack including DOTM/G1...Shockwave!!! Could it be that Takara will indeed reissue this legendary G1 Decepticon after all? :clapping:

Sorry if this is already old news. :-)

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If it is, I'm definitely picking it up.

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Hells yeah! Hope this is true!

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Optimus' box other side flaps: G1/DOTM BB set and G1/DOTM Ironhide also advertised!

Megatron's box: G1/DOTM Starscream also advertised!

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BB set, haha, better not be even remotely the same price as the megs/op sets. Def need a Wheeljack and Mirage set seeing as they've never had a reissue.

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Holy f#ckity f#ck-f#uck! A G1 Shockwave has eluded me for years, especially when looking for a legit/decent condition/reasonably priced one! But isn't the rights to his G1 mold (by 'Toybox' or something) what's keeping from a reissue all these years? [then again we got reissue Omega Supreme & Skylynx which iirc was a similar situation]

Don't tease me, bro!

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THIS!!!!!!!!!!!

THIS TOO!!!!!

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G1 Shockwave?!?!?!?

Now, this I would buy.

Then I would Skype one or two people I know and friendily rib them about how I'll have a way to get a complete Shockwave for a decent price when I know they'll have paid more for theirs.

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Woot woot!

Daddy's gonna get something big, purple and flashy in his stocking this Christmas!

Wow...that does not sound appealing at all :p.

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It better not be an Energon Shockwave repaint, standing in as a G1 replacement.

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Why do you speak of such plastic crack pipe dreams. I would totally go for a new G1 Wheeljack and Mirage to replace my older versions. The thing that makes yuor comment hurt so good is the fact that it can fit into this line.

Skylinx and Omega Supreme were owned by TOMY and released after the merger. I dunno how it will work with TOYBOX but I can not understand why they would just do a photo mockup of Shockwave and yet not release it.

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Pics or this is a terrible terrible tease...

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If true, thats pretty great. If pics surface soon...I'm off to buy an overpriced G1 battery cover to replace my broken one before those filthy reissue ones start showing up.

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you know it figures. The year I finally get my true G1 Shockwave...and they're possibly coming out with a reissue.

I swear takara and Hasbro monitor my toy purchases :primelaugh:

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Id be happy with that too....

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actually, they were toybox, which tomy acquired in a merger sometime in the past, they were found in the inventory lists when takara and tomy merged, i remember my g1 sky lynx having toybox written on the bottom, not sure if they removed it for the reissues, i'd have to check

if this is true, awesome, that's the only way i'd pick up a dotm shockwave though lol

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Well then if Omega and Skylynx were Toybox and Toybox became Tomy and Tomy merged with Takara...Seems like we are going to be seeing a Shockwave reissue :)

It would fit in to the TT rumour I heard that they will be hitting up the G1 reissues again. Only thing is I hear that if they are Classics they will be a reissue and Shockwave has yet to get that Classics treatment.


I WANT G1 SHOCKWAVE!!

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I read ages ago that the reason for this was the original molds were either lost or damaged.

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Thanks for the info, Mario...fingers crossed for sure.

Hell, I'd even be 'all bills in' for a CHUG Shockwave chronicle, but that is doubly unlikely...lolzzzz

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Very interesting. More so I am curious about how G1 Shockwave's high in robot mode will work with these chronicle boxes..... everything thus far has been 8-9 inch Voyager scaled stuff or below, even on the G1 side..... so it makes me wonder and sad to say..... even worry about the toy itself.

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This. Takara would have issued it long ago if they were in possession IMO. A robot that turns into a gun? That's awesome, no matter what decade you're in!

Maybe they found them?

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Id rather a classics Shockwave.

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Guess this kills the rumour:
http://twitpic.com/6tej6b

Pic is of the CARTOON G1 Shockwave, not toy

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Looking at those pictures just now, I can't help but think, "Hey! All those guys are in the Hall of Fame! 'Cept Shockwave...yet." Why doesn't Hasbro do this same thing as a Chronicles, but rename it the Transformers Hall of Fame line and release it over here?

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True it's a picture of the actual cartoon G1 character, still, since the purpose of the Chronicles Sets is to release recent version of a character's toy with its G1 counterpart, seems unlikely that Takara would release a ''replacement'' for G1 Shockwave.

Unless they would produce an entirely new ''Classics/G1-style'' mold for Shocky?

Hmm.

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you now i would still buy it if it was the energon mold. dont judge me. :primelaugh:

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Oh wow, I hope this is true. I'm glad I never caved for one of the KOs.

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I'm glad i did, its great.

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All the other pictures in that shot are carton style pictures, not the pictures of the actual figures, including the ones for Primes and Megatrons which have been released. So it is inconclusive to say it will not be released. I certainly do hope a Shockwaves set will be released in the near future.

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Would it be weird to have DoTM Shockwave displayed with my Classics?

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Entirely up to you.

Movieverse Lockdown/Bludgeon are in with my Classics stuff, after all. As are a few other movie toys.

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or they could have re-engineered them? Longshot, but you never know.

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There could have been rights issues, too. Shockwave wasn't a Takara mold but was instead owned by ToyCo.

Perhaps this is a similar situation as with Sky Lynx, where Tomy owned the rights to the mold, and their merger with Takara allowed them to reissue it at long last in the Transformers toyline?

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Well, if they reissue it, I know I'll pick that up.

I mean, even if I had one, I'd want them to reissue him so more people could have him. To hell with the financial value of a figure, spread the joy.

Actually, I'd want them to give him the G3 treatment too with all the awesome posable goodness. And then turn around and release a WFC figure.