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Kiss-Play Sparkabots (Egg-Bots) images

The TakaraTomy website has been updated with images of the new Kiss-Play Sparkabots (Eggbots). The names of the Sparkabots appear to be Stardust (the green Eggbot Robot), Angela (a pink Eggbot Lion) and Zangetsu (the eagle).

*Story Updated with the final name of Zangetsu at 19:30. Name taken from The Allspark*

The toys will come in a set of three with a CD, although the exact date of release is yet to be decided.

Category: Older News | Submitted by: Moonbug - on: Friday, 19th January 2007 at 08:52:44 GMT | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Full Size KissPlay Autorooper Released

The full sized Kiss Play Autorooper toy has now been released in Japan. You can see images over on the the Hong Kong newsgroup, Talk TF.

Category: Older News | Submitted by: quartz - on: Tuesday, 26th December 2006 at 18:26:11 GMT | Share: | Discuss: Read on

e-Hobby Cassettes update

The e-Hobby Shop has been updated with some more informaiton on it's Transformers Kiss-Play cassettes.

To go with the English translations of the profiles, the set now offers 30 people the chance to win signed version of the Kiss Play character cards or instruction manuals for the Kiss Play figures, signed by the radio voice actors. The cards / manuals are of Convoy, Rodimus and Autorooper.

Category: Older News | Submitted by: Moonbug - on: Wednesday, 29th November 2006 at 18:30:08 GMT | Share: | Discuss: Read on

e-Hobbies Kiss-Play cassetes for sale - £35.00

We are taking orders for the following e-Hobbies items :

E-Hobby Exclusive Kiss-Player Cassettes - £35.00 (inc delivery in the UK)
E-Hobby Exclusive Kiss-Player Cassettes & Autorooper set - £75.00 (inc delivery in the UK).

Pre orders need to be with us by the 30th November, so you haven't got long.

To order email us at transformers@themoon.co.uk or post on our message board

Category: Older News | Submitted by: Moonbug - on: Tuesday, 28th November 2006 at 13:23:25 GMT | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Next e-Hobby toys, Laserbeak, Ravage, Eject Kiss-Play recolours

Part One Ltd have updated e-Hobby shop with a preview of their next exclusive toys. These are set to be more re-coloured versions of the Laserbeak, Ravage and Eject toys.

The toys are available in two forms, just the three cassettes along with a CD or the three cassettes along with Kiss-Play Autorooper (full sized) and the CD.

The translation, via Excite reads as follows: (beware this is an exact translation).

From Bunka Broadcasting "Transformer kiss TF Intelligence Agency" as a program synchronous plan commodity. The set of special CD appears as e-HOBBY limitation with original color cassette Ron.

Program appearance radio actor's "", "Kano Masa", and "Discernment Sacasatomi" : cassette Ron of an original color.
It becomes commercialization by thought coloring. In special CD, it is the first TF series work. ｢Fight. Super-robot life transformer｣Dependence
Three people cover the one that opening theme tune "TRANSFORMER" was arranged and it collects. Of course, drawing the lower illustration of Masakishi Oshima is used for the package. To the kiss world in the cassette Ron participation, New..development.

So basically the colours of the toys are to be designed by the Kiss-Play actors. The box art will be by Masakisi Oshima.

Category: Older News | Submitted by: Moonbug - on: Wednesday, 15th November 2006 at 08:35:43 GMT | Share: | Discuss: Read on

More full-size Autorooper images

Fan to Fan have images from the latest edition of Hyper Hobby which include new images of the full size Kiss-Play Autorooper figure, with Atari and Kremzeek

Category: Older News | Submitted by: Moonbug - on: Wednesday, 1st November 2006 at 18:34:31 GMT | Share: | Discuss: Read on

Designer Shoji Kawamori interview: MP-03 design / Kiss-Play

Seibertron have a translation of the interview with Shoji Kawamori featured in the lastest edition of Hobby Magazine in Japan. The interview covers Masterpiece Starscream and the Kiss-Play toys. Some of the key points are:

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Tomy-Takara plans to market Transformers to adults for a while and not to children. We've been witnessing this already as Takara created the Binaltechs, Binaltech Astericks, Masterpieces, and now KISS Players.

Female figurines are popular in Japan among male adults. Tomy-Takara jumped on the bandwagon and included them in their KISS products. A radio show of KISS now airs in Japan.

Takara did not mention how long they will continue this campaign, but hinted that we will see other KISS Transformers released in the near future. Takara revealed that both the KISS and Masterpiece series are doing very well.

It is not known whether Tomy-Takara plans to release additional series in the near future.

Starscream:
Takara pretty much gave Shoji the reigns to make changes where he saw fit. The mold changes were made (as you can guess) to make the jet mode more complete. Some of these include (as you know) part of the fuselage on Starscream's arms, shoulders, and hips.

The tail stabilizers were moved from his legs to his hips to create the appearance of a samurai wearing two swords.

Shoji originally wanted to make the robot parts completely hidden on the undercarriage of the jet. He was not happy that the forearms and chest were visible during the alt mode. He also was not satisfied with the head. He played around with designs to cover these parts up but then scrapped the idea because it would have sacrificed the robot mode too much.