The final paint schemes for TakaraTomy's upcoming Transformers Henkei Dirge (Toy Hobby Exclusive) and Thrust (Ganbo-Store Exclusive) have now been revealed.

Both figures will go on sale on the 13th November (today) as 10am Japanese time (so they are already available for pre-ordering).  Both figures are 3465 yen including tax, with an order deadline of the 10th December 2008.  The figures will ship in March, so you can expect them to hit ebay at the end of that month and the start of April 2009.

Credit to Snakas for the original report.

thelastallosaur:

They do still have tech specs. It's simply part of the crime of multilingual packaging that we no longer see them in the UK. Look at the back of any US packaging and it's there. ROTF Legends Devastator for example, has the somewhat questionable rank of 9, but otherwise a reasonable mix of two twos, a three and four tens. As well as a full bio. ... Does anyone else feel like it's time for me to do my multilingual packaging rant again?.. EDIT: After looking at a few of the american boxes I have from the past few years, it seems that whilst the movie line, the 2009 Universe line and ROTF retained the tech specs in the US market, Animated did away with them all together. In case anyone's interested.

GALVY:

i mean a g1 kind of tech spec where if you were poor sighted you needed the red decoder to actually see the waveline. just on there own these are a great collectable and after destroying the modern packaging to get at your toy would save a lot of space instead of haveing a loft full of knackered boxes and cards.

KingGrimlock:

Character bios and tech specs are one of the things that set Transformers apart from so many similar lines in the 1980's and have to be considered partly responsable for the continued success of the brand. I'd like to see the instructions double sided with the box art, character bio and techspecs on the reverse.