Titans Return Chromedome with Takara Face Found at US Walmart

WreckerJack wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:We have now reached Page 666.

All hail Unicron?

Maybe Galvatron

Albatross250 wrote:

Kurona wrote:I think he's specifically referring to the Needlenose on one of the rumour lists.

Yeah, i've been curious or whatsoever what's gonna be th mold of his? Either new or Retooled?
next waves are a mystery

Well, keep in mind that his name was only on one of the many, many rumour lists that were floating around a few months or so ago. Since this rumour list didn't come from a particularly trusted source, it's to be treated with a grain of salt and a lot of what's on there might not come true at all.

Kurona wrote:

Albatross250 wrote:

Kurona wrote:I think he's specifically referring to the Needlenose on one of the rumour lists.

Yeah, i've been curious or whatsoever what's gonna be th mold of his? Either new or Retooled?
next waves are a mystery

Well, keep in mind that his name was only on one of the many, many rumour lists that were floating around a few months or so ago. Since this rumour list didn't come from a particularly trusted source, it's to be treated with a grain of salt and a lot of what's on there might not come true at all.

Oh well, looks like i'll have to wait very patiently

How is that found at a US Walmart with Hasbro Canada stamp on the back?

Black Hat wrote:I wish my local toy stores were that well stocked- the only TR Voyagers I've seen thus far were a single Sentinel Prime and loads of Optimus Primes and Megatrons. I still want Alpha Trion and Galvatron goddamnit!

I'll trade you Optimus and Megatron for Galvatron and Alpha Trion, because that's all we have here

Galactic Prime wrote:How is that found at a US Walmart with Hasbro Canada stamp on the back?

The one in the Seibertron gallery has that as well, yet Ryan lives in Chicago.

Galactic Prime wrote:How is that found at a US Walmart with Hasbro Canada stamp on the back?

All Hasbro toys have a Hasbro Canada stamp on the back, its because that is where the packaging is printed.

I'm just realising now how much more bizarre this makes the toy.

This is an original toy-based body with MTMTE Chromedome's colours and JG1 Headmasters Chromedome's face.

This is so weird...wonder if we'll get reissues of the other classic Headmasters with Takara heads?

CrankyOldTruck wrote:

RAR wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:We have now reached Page 666.

I walked alone, my mind was blank...

Did you need time to think to get the Memories from your mind ?

What did I see? Could I believe??

LOL...I just caught what this is from, which is hilarious considering I just finally bought some Iron Maider songs off of iTunes 3 days ago (songs that I used to own as a kid).

Sigma Magnus wrote:This is so weird...wonder if we'll get reissues of the other classic Headmasters with Takara heads?

I'm really hoping for Hardhead since the character's consistently had a mouth in all Hasbro fiction and the brown on Takara's just looks bad. I'd love Takara's head with Hasbro Hardhead's grey

RustedCross wrote:Iron Maider

Sorry...had to do it.

Btw...Titans Return, yeah...Still Looking for a Six Shot....yup...

Shameless plug for my thread over in the customs section, but repainting Skullcruncher made me realize how much sculpted detail is actually on these things, and what a disservice the stock paintjobs are doing them.

Black Hat wrote:Shameless plug for my thread over in the customs section, but repainting Skullcruncher made me realize how much sculpted detail is actually on these things, and what a disservice the stock paintjobs are doing them.

Wow, those paint details look EXCELLENT

o.supreme wrote:

RustedCross wrote:Iron Maider

Sorry...had to do it.

Btw...Titans Return, yeah...Still Looking for a Six Shot....yup...

lol.....whoops

Found this guy at a Walgreens in New Orleans

I posted more pics in the "Running Change Chromedome??" thread at TFW2005.

Jedi Kermit wrote:I posted more pics in the "Running Change Chromedome??" thread at TFW2005.

Could you please post them here too?

Huh...if this is legit, I think I'll buy one to go with the other Headmasters, and to keep the IDW one with Rewind.

Sigma Magnus wrote:Huh...if this is legit, I think I'll buy one to go with the other Headmasters, and to keep the IDW one with Rewind.

I suggest that if you come across one with the Takara Head that has been opened don't buy it. Someone probably bought it. Swapped the bodies of the Titan Masters to get the painted one and returned it.

I went back to get the other one. I say this is legit. Some have asked for location and this is in Spartanburg, SC. I hope the extra pics are able to provide answers.

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote:Huh...if this is legit, I think I'll buy one to go with the other Headmasters, and to keep the IDW one with Rewind.

I suggest that if you come across one with the Takara Head that has been opened don't buy it. Someone probably bought it. Swapped the bodies of the Titan Masters to get the painted one and returned it.

Like I said, if this is legit and an actual running change, I'll buy one. If it's a prank, I won't.

Sigma Magnus wrote:

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote:Huh...if this is legit, I think I'll buy one to go with the other Headmasters, and to keep the IDW one with Rewind.

I suggest that if you come across one with the Takara Head that has been opened don't buy it. Someone probably bought it. Swapped the bodies of the Titan Masters to get the painted one and returned it.

Like I said, if this is legit and an actual running change, I'll buy one. If it's a prank, I won't.

Yeah. I'll buy one to get the painted Titan Master and will probably swap the faces. I won't return the other one though. It'll just be an oddity.

I severely doubt someone ordered that many Takara Chromedomes, put the heads on a ton of Hasbro Chromedomes, and somehow managed to perfectly re-package them just for a prank. I think we can say this is legit, whether it's an intentional running change or a factory accident or whatnot.

And this image has me thinking this is a factory-level error and not a true running change.

I'm doing some quick comparing with LG32 Chromedome, and that Titan Master matches the LG Headmaster in both plastic color and especially paint apps. Normally running changes only affect deco and molding, and never switch out plastic colors. Besides, why would Hasbro have had the face painted in such detail?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

And this image has me thinking this is a factory-level error and not a true running change.

I'm doing some quick comparing with LG32 Chromedome, and that Titan Master matches the LG Headmaster in both plastic color and especially paint apps. Normally running changes only affect deco and molding, and never switch out plastic colors. Besides, why would Hasbro have had the face painted in such detail?

Couldn't the same be said for CW Groove, who was identical to UW Groove aside from pin colour?

Kurona wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

And this image has me thinking this is a factory-level error and not a true running change.

I'm doing some quick comparing with LG32 Chromedome, and that Titan Master matches the LG Headmaster in both plastic color and especially paint apps. Normally running changes only affect deco and molding, and never switch out plastic colors. Besides, why would Hasbro have had the face painted in such detail?

Couldn't the same be said for CW Groove, who was identical to UW Groove aside from pin colour?

UW Groove into CW Protectocbot Groove has some minor plastic color changes plus a very minor retool, hardly noticeable. They still count towards US/JP variants

This however is pretty odd. My guess is they were made concurrently with Legends Chromedome, but some mix-up resulted in TakaraTomy heads made for Hasbro bodies as the head variants look pretty similar, coming second to Highbrow.

I don't think this was intentional, but if the rest starts showing up with TakaraTomy heads I may reconsider that thought.

I saw some Chromedomes at Walmart yesterday but already having Chromedome and looking for Wave 3, I didn't look closely at all. If I go again I'll take a closer look.

SureShot18 wrote:I saw some Chromedomes at Walmart yesterday but already having Chromedome and looking for Wave 3, I didn't look closely at all. If I go again I'll take a closer look.

Same and same.

Well that is interesting about Chromedome. I'm going with a boo boo and a case of YMMV. Wish I'd known sooner cause I've seen so many CDs lately, but didn't give them a moment of thought other than there were not Kup.

Well I'll check all I see and add my findings to #chromedomegate

I'll have to check mine too we just restocked with Wave 2 revision, so Headmasters a plenty.

Yeah, I'm really thinking this is a factory error unless a considerable number more show up. The difference in plastic color is enough to raise an eyebrow alone, but to also have the Legends paint really lowers the likelihood of this being a true running change.

I haven't seen Chromedome since December, was this found with the rest of wave 2 or in the revision wave?

Emerje

Emerje wrote:Yeah, I'm really thinking this is a factory error unless a considerable number more show up. The difference in plastic color is enough to raise an eyebrow alone, but to also have the Legends paint really lowers the likelihood of this being a true running change.

I haven't seen Chromedome since December, was this found with the rest of wave 2 or in the revision wave?

Emerje

The revised wave 2 is being put out at some Walmarts at the moment. At least two in my area have tons of them.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Emerje wrote:Yeah, I'm really thinking this is a factory error unless a considerable number more show up. The difference in plastic color is enough to raise an eyebrow alone, but to also have the Legends paint really lowers the likelihood of this being a true running change.

I haven't seen Chromedome since December, was this found with the rest of wave 2 or in the revision wave?

Emerje

The revised wave 2 is being put out at some Walmarts at the moment. At least two in my area have tons of them.

Same with most of the Walmarts I have gone to. Flooded with that revision wave. I'm still seeing wave 2 and Brainstorm heavy at Walgreens as well. I'm surprised I've seen a few wave 3'rs pop up at a few WMs.

Emerje wrote:Yeah, I'm really thinking this is a factory error unless a considerable number more show up. The difference in plastic color is enough to raise an eyebrow alone, but to also have the Legends paint really lowers the likelihood of this being a true running change.

For me its the difference in screws that confirms it.

It would be right after we passed page 666 that we receive some confusion and discussing over the guy with horns on his head, huh?

Kurona wrote:It would be right after we passed page 666 that we receive some confusion and discussing over the guy with horns on his head, huh?

Chromedome leads us astray, distracting us from the True Glory that is... uh...

Anyone got anything?


Anyways, I think I only have one Chromedome near me (and he's been around since Wave 2 actually came out), but I didn't really bother checking up on him so I'll report my findings later this afternoon.

(Plus I'm pretty sure that my stores are going to restock in the next few days - I'm always pretty sure of that, aren't I? - so either I'll finally see Wave 4 Deluxes or there'll be more Chromedomes for me to check up on. That or more Wave 3. Please not more Wave 3.)

...guys. I just checked my shelf...my Chromedome has the Takara head.

It's not a running change.

It's not a prank.

It's an INFECTION.







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The difference in plastic colors, along with the different screws (Hasbro always goes for "silver" screws, while Takara does the black ones), leads me to believe as others have said that this is a factory error. It makes me wonder if there are some Takara Chromedomes out their with Hasbro heads? Weird.

Wolfman Jake wrote:The difference in plastic colors, along with the different screws (Hasbro always goes for "silver" screws, while Takara does the black ones), leads me to believe as others have said that this is a factory error. It makes me wonder if there are some Takara Chromedomes out their with Hasbro heads? Weird.

If there are, it would support my theory that the Chromedomes of either side had their production schedules overlap, resulting in mix-ups like this.

I believe there is a slight error in this theory. I have one of the original Chromedome's that was not a Takara variant, and it has a stamped code. The code is different though, it is 62641. I am not saying that the one found is NOT a Takara, but I am saying the "normal" ones have a code too. You can't just base it on code or absence of code, but the actual number itself.

Wayne2049 wrote:I believe there is a slight error in this theory. I have one of the original Chromedome's that was not a Takara variant, and it has a stamped code. The code is different though, it is 62641. I am not saying that the one found is NOT a Takara, but I am saying the "normal" ones have a code too. You can't just base it on code or absence of code, but the actual number itself.

What code are we talking here, and where was it located?

The stamped number I think is the production run number, and I don't know if that's determined by the factory, or by either Hasbro or TakaraTomy. They should differ anyway as they're considered different products, plus later runs have different, higher, numbers.
The painted code is the product ID number, which remains the same. For Stylor & Chromedome it's #B7034.

Well this just goes to show how my luck runs. Somewhere out there there are Chromedomes randomly and sporadically packed with the Takara head, meanwhile I pick the voyager class Optimus Prime yesterday and it comes with everything it is supposed to have EXCEPT the instruction booklet and it happens to be one of those fiddly figures where having said instructions, while not necessary, would really have made my life a bit easier.
I'm just curious as to what other factory screw ups are floating around out there. I know that at least one Twinferno was packaged with a TM that had two left arms. My son got blessed with that one. Has no bearing on anything functional at all but once you see it you can't really un-see it.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Wayne2049 wrote:I believe there is a slight error in this theory. I have one of the original Chromedome's that was not a Takara variant, and it has a stamped code. The code is different though, it is 62641. I am not saying that the one found is NOT a Takara, but I am saying the "normal" ones have a code too. You can't just base it on code or absence of code, but the actual number itself.

What code are we talking here, and where was it located?

The stamped number I think is the production run number, and I don't know if that's determined by the factory, or by either Hasbro or TakaraTomy. They should differ anyway as they're considered different products, plus later runs have different, higher, numbers.
The painted code is the product ID number, which remains the same. For Stylor & Chromedome it's #B7034.

This one. It is embossed on the back of the package. 63161

Sigma Magnus wrote::shock:

...guys. I just checked my shelf...my Chromedome has the Takara head.

It's not a running change.

It's not a prank.

It's an INFECTION.








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so those Chromedomes are infected with headmaster sickness?

william-james88 wrote:We have some surprising news regarding Hasbro's Titans Return Chromedome. Jedi Kermit from the TFW boards found two sealed Chromedomes in Walmart with the Takara face.

Fellow Seibertronian Sabreblade breaks this down for us:

Sabrblade wrote:Guys. We might have ourselves a running change variant on TR Chromedome.

Jedi Kermit found, at his local Walmart, two Hasbro Chromedomes... with the TAKARA face mold! Not a joke. Not a toy-swapped return. Two actual, MOSC Hasbro Chromedomes that have the Takara facesculpt.

He picked one up and took pics of it still in its package:







Take note of the stamped code in this third pic. 63161. It might be key here since the one in the Seibertron gallery has no stamped code:


Transformers Titans Return Chromedome Gallery

Either a mix up or intentional. Need to know if it has the same paint apps (the headmaster ) as the Takara ones.

fenrir72 wrote:Either a mix up or intentional. Need to know if it has the same paint apps (the headmaster ) as the Takara ones.

Check back a page: the Titan Master has the same plastic colors and deco as the TakaraTomy one. We've concluded it's a mix-up, but what's behind it is a mystery.

Great, now I don't know which variant I'd like.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:Either a mix up or intentional. Need to know if it has the same paint apps (the headmaster ) as the Takara ones.

Check back a page: the Titan Master has the same plastic colors and deco as the TakaraTomy one. We've concluded it's a mix-up, but what's behind it is a mystery.

Great, now I don't know which variant I'd like.

Now that is one collectible error.

fenrir72 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:Either a mix up or intentional. Need to know if it has the same paint apps (the headmaster ) as the Takara ones.

Check back a page: the Titan Master has the same plastic colors and deco as the TakaraTomy one. We've concluded it's a mix-up, but what's behind it is a mystery.

Great, now I don't know which variant I'd like.

Now that is one collectible error.

It makes it cheap to re-enact part of the LG-EX Headmaster set: just by one of each and have JP Stylor man the cockpit in robot mode.

fenrir72 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:Either a mix up or intentional. Need to know if it has the same paint apps (the headmaster ) as the Takara ones.

Check back a page: the Titan Master has the same plastic colors and deco as the TakaraTomy one. We've concluded it's a mix-up, but what's behind it is a mystery.

Great, now I don't know which variant I'd like.

Now that is one collectible error.

ZACTLY