New images of Unite Superion set + Slingshot's new head confirmed
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Posted by william-james88 on January 23rd, 2015 @ 2:37pm CST
ZeroWolf wrote:Takara I love you and hate you at the same time. It will be hard to justify this with the missus
Do you already own the Hasbro one? The missus allows me to buy select transformers, and a more expensive version of one I already have would not work. Good thing I dont own the hasbro one yet. Not sure what I should do now.
Posted by ZeroWolf on January 23rd, 2015 @ 2:49pm CST
Posted by Desslok2201 on January 23rd, 2015 @ 3:03pm CST
william-james88 wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:Takara I love you and hate you at the same time. It will be hard to justify this with the missus
Do you already own the Hasbro one? The missus allows me to buy select transformers, and a more expensive version of one I already have would not work. Good thing I dont own the hasbro one yet. Not sure what I should do now.
Sometimes, what the missus doesn't know can't hurt me
Posted by william-james88 on January 23rd, 2015 @ 3:06pm CST
ZeroWolf wrote:I don't own the hasbro one yet its just the price and then shipping+import cost. I can get the hasbro one locally from tru but the takara ones are very pretty
But if you are in the UK, arent you better off with japanese online retailers? You will still be stuck with import fees and shipping but the base price might be cheaper.
Posted by Syn_13 on January 23rd, 2015 @ 3:18pm CST
ZeroWolf wrote:I don't own the hasbro one yet its just the price and then shipping+import cost. I can get the hasbro one locally from tru but the takara ones are very pretty
The Takara one is very pretty indeed, and a lot more accurate, especially with Slingshot in there. However, I don't think it's justified, price wise. The Hasbro ones are still good, and there's not enough of a change to merit spending a lot more £££.
Posted by ZeroWolf on January 23rd, 2015 @ 4:53pm CST
william-james88 wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:I don't own the hasbro one yet its just the price and then shipping+import cost. I can get the hasbro one locally from tru but the takara ones are very pretty
But if you are in the UK, arent you better off with japanese online retailers? You will still be stuck with import fees and shipping but the base price might be cheaper.
Never went with a Japanese retailer before so I'm not sure which one is considered the best
Posted by Wolfman Jake on January 23rd, 2015 @ 6:04pm CST
Posted by Desslok2201 on January 23rd, 2015 @ 6:23pm CST
Wolfman Jake wrote:Preordered! You can't beat that price. I'm curious if Takara has a good read on exactly how much of their product is sold on foreign markets?
I think the recent redeco of MP Exhaust should answer that for you
Posted by Optimum Supreme on January 23rd, 2015 @ 6:35pm CST
reluctantyouth wrote: I'll end up foregoing future Hasbro combiner limb releases and donate my Hasbro version with Dragstrip arm to St. Jude at the hospital I work at. The kids cannot get enough Transformers...especially when they are going through something out of their control. Bringing a smile to their faces in worth more than anything.
Puts things in perspective a bit.
Posted by Desslok2201 on January 23rd, 2015 @ 6:39pm CST
Optimum Supreme wrote:reluctantyouth wrote: I'll end up foregoing future Hasbro combiner limb releases and donate my Hasbro version with Dragstrip arm to St. Jude at the hospital I work at. The kids cannot get enough Transformers...especially when they are going through something out of their control. Bringing a smile to their faces in worth more than anything.
Puts things in perspective a bit.
Hey, where can I send some to donate? (Not kidding)
Posted by Robogeek1973 on January 23rd, 2015 @ 6:41pm CST
For some reason though, they haven't put these guys up yet, while most other stores have them up.
Posted by william-james88 on January 23rd, 2015 @ 7:35pm CST
Desslok2201 wrote:Optimum Supreme wrote:reluctantyouth wrote: I'll end up foregoing future Hasbro combiner limb releases and donate my Hasbro version with Dragstrip arm to St. Jude at the hospital I work at. The kids cannot get enough Transformers...especially when they are going through something out of their control. Bringing a smile to their faces in worth more than anything.
Puts things in perspective a bit.
Hey, where can I send some to donate? (Not kidding)
Dont you have donation centres in your area? You could write your town name and "donation centre" on google and see what comes up. You can also go to a local church and ask if they accept donated toys.
Posted by Desslok2201 on January 23rd, 2015 @ 7:35pm CST
Posted by william-james88 on January 23rd, 2015 @ 8:18pm CST
Posted by fenrir72 on January 23rd, 2015 @ 8:22pm CST
Seibertron wrote:New images have surfaced of Takara Tomy's Aerialbots from the upcoming Unite line. As speculated earlier this week, Slingshot will have a new head mold similar to his G1 cartoon head. These pictures are courtesy e-hobby.co.jp which you can view here. We've mirrored the images below. Join our discussion about the Japanese release of the Combiner Wars figures by clicking here.
Need a new diaper.
Posted by Desslok2201 on January 23rd, 2015 @ 8:52pm CST
william-james88 wrote:Since I dont have the hasbro version yet, I am really debating getting this one. The price is fine and for once is not the issue, it's actually the deco. I dont really care about the character since I wasnt born when the show was on, but I do care for his toy since its one of the few G1s I have. And for once it seems Hasbro is the company more faithful to the G1 toy deco while Takara is more faithful to the G1 cartoon characer deco (so you see Shockblast 2, its like Jetfire's chrome, you cant make reason of these trends). While Takara's Superion looks nice and clean with all his white, the individual Silverbolt's yellow is really offputting to me. I LOVE the gold on the G1 toy and in it's context, it actually comes off as non flashy and darker, more similar to Hasbro's tan that they use instead of bright yellow. And while it is amazing that Takara has white on Silverbolt's chest and a full red upper chest on Superion (which the G1 toy could not do since both Superion and Silverbolt had that same chest piece), the full red chest makes Hasbro's version also more G1 toy accurate. Oh, decisions, decisions.
I totally understand your dilemma. I think what sways me towards Takara on this is the little details. The painted kneecaps, wingtips on the shoulders, etc. Superion's combined form is a hands down winner to Takara for me, but if you take Silverbolt alone, it's just the little bits that push him over, as I agree that Hasbro's is closer on that one.
Posted by william-james88 on January 23rd, 2015 @ 9:14pm CST
Desslok2201 wrote:I totally understand your dilemma. I think what sways me towards Takara on this is the little details. The painted kneecaps, wingtips on the shoulders, etc. Superion's combined form is a hands down winner to Takara for me, but if you take Silverbolt alone, it's just the little bits that push him over, as I agree that Hasbro's is closer on that one.
Thanks man, and yes, that is exactly my dilemma. Takara Superion is no question he better one. BUT I really preffer Hasbro's Silverbolt. And though the painted wingtips are nice from takara, he lack of paint matches with the G1 toy. Oh, first world problems.
Posted by Ultra Markus on January 23rd, 2015 @ 9:15pm CST
Posted by Stryfe Convoy on January 23rd, 2015 @ 9:15pm CST
I know bigbadtoystore is selling them for $130 as a set. I'm just not sure what the individual prices are, and I apologize if I missed them earlier in the thread.
Either way, that would be petty cool to have all 5 Aerialbots, instead of 4 Aerialbots and a helicopter....
Posted by william-james88 on January 23rd, 2015 @ 9:18pm CST
Stryfe Convoy wrote:Do you have to buy this as a set? Why not buy the Hasbro versions of the others, then buy Slingshot separately? Would it be more expensive or less expensive that way? Questions...
I know bigbadtoystore is selling them for $130 as a set. I'm just not sure what the individual prices are, and I apologize if I missed them earlier in the thread.
Either way, that would be petty cool to have all 5 Aerialbots, instead of 4 Aerialbots and a helicopter....
They are only sold as a set so there are no individual prices. But thats not an issue since a TRU listing states that Hasbro will also release a Slingshot seperately. There is no issue in that sense then. The only issue is which version of superion to get if you are only getting one. It's about the deco in this case.
Posted by Desslok2201 on January 23rd, 2015 @ 9:33pm CST
william-james88 wrote:Desslok2201 wrote:I totally understand your dilemma. I think what sways me towards Takara on this is the little details. The painted kneecaps, wingtips on the shoulders, etc. Superion's combined form is a hands down winner to Takara for me, but if you take Silverbolt alone, it's just the little bits that push him over, as I agree that Hasbro's is closer on that one.
Thanks man, and yes, that is exactly my dilemma. Takara Superion is no question he better one. BUT I really preffer Hasbro's Silverbolt. And though the painted wingtips are nice from takara, he lack of paint matches with the G1 toy. Oh, first world problems.
While hasbro's deco on Silverbolt is closer to G1, Silverbolt's section of Superion is not. Those wonky bits of red going down the sides were totally covered by the large white chest shield in G1, Takara's nicely duplicates that. So I guess it becomes a matter of how you'll display him. If you want Silverbolt, Hasbro, Superion, Takara.
Posted by Rated X on January 23rd, 2015 @ 10:28pm CST
This takara version rocks ! I might just skip the hasbro version altogether since the only ones ive found is alpha bravo and drag strip. But june is a hell of a long wait. I can see my self double dipping just out of bordom waiting for takara.
Posted by Sabrblade on January 23rd, 2015 @ 11:05pm CST
Some people who grew up on G1 toys didn't grow up watching the cartoon.Rated X wrote:I never understood why people would want a cartoon accurate mold/sculpt in vintage toy accurate colors. It boggles the mind.
If, say, you had lived in the UK instead of Miami back in the 1980s, you would not have grown up watching the Transformers cartoon because it didn't air there. The UK got the toys and the comics (even creating a ton of UK-original comics the U.S. didn't get back then) and the 1986 movie, but the cartoon barely ever aired over there, airing only a scant few episodes of season 1 before just disappearing from UK television completely. UK fans in the 1980s had only the toys and the comics to get their fill of the Transformers, and since the comics largely drew from the decos of the toys themselves moreso than the cartoon did, people developed a certain fondness for the look and colors of the toys over what they characters looked like in the cartoon (cuz they weren't watching it since it wasn't on).
Some kids in other markets had ONLY the toys and NO cartoon or comics, having to play with the toys by making up their own stories with them, and making their attachment to the toys' looks even more justified.
Not everyone allowed the cartoon to dictate how they feel a character should look. Some simply preferred how the toys looked over their cartoon looks, and some didn't even get to watch the cartoon to really make a choice and just defaulted to the toys' looks anyway.
Posted by Desslok2201 on January 23rd, 2015 @ 11:38pm CST
Posted by SkyWarpt on January 23rd, 2015 @ 11:44pm CST
Posted by noctorro on January 24th, 2015 @ 3:00am CST
Optimum Supreme wrote:reluctantyouth wrote: I'll end up foregoing future Hasbro combiner limb releases and donate my Hasbro version with Dragstrip arm to St. Jude at the hospital I work at. The kids cannot get enough Transformers...especially when they are going through something out of their control. Bringing a smile to their faces in worth more than anything.
Puts things in perspective a bit.
This just gave me a great idea.
Good post sir.
Ontopic:
I think Hasbro will also release Slingshot at some point.
I already have wave 1 so I won't get the Takara one. I like Alpha Bravo, he's
different enough to have an extra limb. Something like Slingshot dissapeared in
a battle and they needed a new member. Later the dude returned from whatever and
then there were 6 team members.
Posted by ZeroWolf on January 24th, 2015 @ 12:34pm CST
Sabrblade wrote:Some people who grew up on G1 toys didn't grow up watching the cartoon.Rated X wrote:I never understood why people would want a cartoon accurate mold/sculpt in vintage toy accurate colors. It boggles the mind.
If, say, you had lived in the UK instead of Miami back in the 1980s, you would not have grown up watching the Transformers cartoon because it didn't air there. The UK got the toys and the comics (even creating a ton of UK-original comics the U.S. didn't get back then) and the 1986 movie, but the cartoon barely ever aired over there, airing only a scant few episodes of season 1 before just disappearing from UK television completely. UK fans in the 1980s had only the toys and the comics to get their fill of the Transformers, and since the comics largely drew from the decos of the toys themselves moreso than the cartoon did, people developed a certain fondness for the look and colors of the toys over what they characters looked like in the cartoon (cuz they weren't watching it since it wasn't on).
Some kids in other markets had ONLY the toys and NO cartoon or comics, having to play with the toys by making up their own stories with them, and making their attachment to the toys' looks even more justified.
Not everyone allowed the cartoon to dictate how they feel a character should look. Some simply preferred how the toys looked over their cartoon looks, and some didn't even get to watch the cartoon to really make a choice and just defaulted to the toys' looks anyway.
Actually the videos of the cartoon were easily accessible and the key to vector sigma and a lot of the following episodes were aired as I watched them growing up from videos taped off tv. We even got season 3 on tape. don't quote me on this but the wide awake club programming block may have shown it all.
Posted by william-james88 on January 24th, 2015 @ 12:56pm CST
ZeroWolf wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Some people who grew up on G1 toys didn't grow up watching the cartoon.Rated X wrote:I never understood why people would want a cartoon accurate mold/sculpt in vintage toy accurate colors. It boggles the mind.
If, say, you had lived in the UK instead of Miami back in the 1980s, you would not have grown up watching the Transformers cartoon because it didn't air there. The UK got the toys and the comics (even creating a ton of UK-original comics the U.S. didn't get back then) and the 1986 movie, but the cartoon barely ever aired over there, airing only a scant few episodes of season 1 before just disappearing from UK television completely. UK fans in the 1980s had only the toys and the comics to get their fill of the Transformers, and since the comics largely drew from the decos of the toys themselves moreso than the cartoon did, people developed a certain fondness for the look and colors of the toys over what they characters looked like in the cartoon (cuz they weren't watching it since it wasn't on).
Some kids in other markets had ONLY the toys and NO cartoon or comics, having to play with the toys by making up their own stories with them, and making their attachment to the toys' looks even more justified.
Not everyone allowed the cartoon to dictate how they feel a character should look. Some simply preferred how the toys looked over their cartoon looks, and some didn't even get to watch the cartoon to really make a choice and just defaulted to the toys' looks anyway.
Actually the videos of the cartoon were easily accessible and the key to vector sigma and a lot of the following episodes were aired as I watched them growing up from videos taped off tv. We even got season 3 on tape. don't quote me on this but the wide awake club programming block may have shown it all.
In my case though, I was born after the G1 show so I never watched it. But I did get to play with the toys and own some, hence my attachement to the toys rather than the show character.
Posted by grimdragon2001 on January 24th, 2015 @ 1:03pm CST
Posted by Optimum Supreme on January 24th, 2015 @ 7:25pm CST
Sabrblade wrote:Some kids in other markets had ONLY the toys and NO cartoon or comics, having to play with the toys by making up their own stories with them, and making their attachment to the toys' looks even more justified.
Somewhere they even got weird comics where Optimus was replaced by Jetfire. I wonder if those people are nostalgic for that.
Posted by Sabrblade on January 24th, 2015 @ 9:06pm CST
That so? Well then, as I was going by things that Simon Furman and James Roberts had recalled from the 80's, I guess there were some small details that they weren't fully aware of.ZeroWolf wrote:Actually the videos of the cartoon were easily accessible and the key to vector sigma and a lot of the following episodes were aired as I watched them growing up from videos taped off tv. We even got season 3 on tape. don't quote me on this but the wide awake club programming block may have shown it all.
Twas but one single catalog mini-comic (in which Shockwave was also replaced by Soundwave in the former's prehistoric fight against the Dinobots), but I wouldn't be surprised if some held nostalgia to it.Optimum Supreme wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Some kids in other markets had ONLY the toys and NO cartoon or comics, having to play with the toys by making up their own stories with them, and making their attachment to the toys' looks even more justified.
Somewhere they even got weird comics where Optimus was replaced by Jetfire. I wonder if those people are nostalgic for that.
Posted by Desslok2201 on January 24th, 2015 @ 9:47pm CST
Sabrblade wrote:That so? Well then, as I was going by things that Simon Furman and James Roberts had recalled from the 80's, I guess there were some small details that they weren't fully aware of.ZeroWolf wrote:Actually the videos of the cartoon were easily accessible and the key to vector sigma and a lot of the following episodes were aired as I watched them growing up from videos taped off tv. We even got season 3 on tape. don't quote me on this but the wide awake club programming block may have shown it all.Twas but one single catalog mini-comic (in which Shockwave was also replaced by Soundwave in the former's prehistoric fight against the Dinobots), but I wouldn't be surprised if some held nostalgia to it.Optimum Supreme wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Some kids in other markets had ONLY the toys and NO cartoon or comics, having to play with the toys by making up their own stories with them, and making their attachment to the toys' looks even more justified.
Somewhere they even got weird comics where Optimus was replaced by Jetfire. I wonder if those people are nostalgic for that.
Weren't those mini comics in the Milton Bradley releases?
Posted by Sabrblade on January 24th, 2015 @ 9:49pm CST
It was from Milton Bradley in European markets, yes.Desslok2201 wrote:Weren't those mini comics in the Milton Bradley releases?
Posted by ZeroWolf on January 25th, 2015 @ 2:59am CST
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on January 25th, 2015 @ 6:33am CST
ZeroWolf wrote:Wasn't there an issue with prime that made it necessary to change him out of the story on the Milton Bradley releases?
It was more of a licensing issue in the Benelux area: at the time, Joustra was still releasing their own version of Diaclone (which included Microman molds), and Optimus Prime was one of them. MB was unable to release him as long as Joustra still had the rights straight from Takara.
Posted by Mr_Autobot411 on January 25th, 2015 @ 10:29pm CST
the white hands make it looks sleek and uniformed......what a diff paint makes.
Posted by primeghost_2 on January 25th, 2015 @ 11:24pm CST
Posted by ZeroWolf on January 26th, 2015 @ 5:50am CST
Posted by SkyWarpsGhost on January 26th, 2015 @ 6:12am CST
ZeroWolf wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Some people who grew up on G1 toys didn't grow up watching the cartoon.Rated X wrote:I never understood why people would want a cartoon accurate mold/sculpt in vintage toy accurate colors. It boggles the mind.
If, say, you had lived in the UK instead of Miami back in the 1980s, you would not have grown up watching the Transformers cartoon because it didn't air there. The UK got the toys and the comics (even creating a ton of UK-original comics the U.S. didn't get back then) and the 1986 movie, but the cartoon barely ever aired over there, airing only a scant few episodes of season 1 before just disappearing from UK television completely. UK fans in the 1980s had only the toys and the comics to get their fill of the Transformers, and since the comics largely drew from the decos of the toys themselves moreso than the cartoon did, people developed a certain fondness for the look and colors of the toys over what they characters looked like in the cartoon (cuz they weren't watching it since it wasn't on).
Some kids in other markets had ONLY the toys and NO cartoon or comics, having to play with the toys by making up their own stories with them, and making their attachment to the toys' looks even more justified.
Not everyone allowed the cartoon to dictate how they feel a character should look. Some simply preferred how the toys looked over their cartoon looks, and some didn't even get to watch the cartoon to really make a choice and just defaulted to the toys' looks anyway.
Actually the videos of the cartoon were easily accessible and the key to vector sigma and a lot of the following episodes were aired as I watched them growing up from videos taped off tv. We even got season 3 on tape. don't quote me on this but the wide awake club programming block may have shown it all.
I remember it being on every morning on ITV, either before or part of TV:AM.
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on January 26th, 2015 @ 8:26am CST
ZeroWolf wrote:alpha Bravo probs is going to get a head change for blades though takara are stuck for groove as he's only a legends with Rook taking his place.
Not only that, if they have to include Legends Menasor would pose a problem. Blackjack was never released as is in Japan, instead he was redecoed in black and yellow into the Cybertron (Autobot) Micromaster Blackheat. I guess TakaraTomy will either keep his US identity or turn him into a drone.
Posted by Sabrblade on January 26th, 2015 @ 8:43am CST
Or release him as Runabout.JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:alpha Bravo probs is going to get a head change for blades though takara are stuck for groove as he's only a legends with Rook taking his place.
Not only that, if they have to include Legends Menasor would pose a problem. Blackjack was never released as is in Japan, instead he was redecoed in black and yellow into the Cybertron (Autobot) Micromaster Blackheat. I guess TakaraTomy will either keep his US identity or turn him into a drone.
Posted by ZeroWolf on January 26th, 2015 @ 8:45am CST
Posted by MemphisR56 on January 26th, 2015 @ 8:50am CST
SkyWarpsGhost wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Some people who grew up on G1 toys didn't grow up watching the cartoon.Rated X wrote:I never understood why people would want a cartoon accurate mold/sculpt in vintage toy accurate colors. It boggles the mind.
If, say, you had lived in the UK instead of Miami back in the 1980s, you would not have grown up watching the Transformers cartoon because it didn't air there. The UK got the toys and the comics (even creating a ton of UK-original comics the U.S. didn't get back then) and the 1986 movie, but the cartoon barely ever aired over there, airing only a scant few episodes of season 1 before just disappearing from UK television completely. UK fans in the 1980s had only the toys and the comics to get their fill of the Transformers, and since the comics largely drew from the decos of the toys themselves moreso than the cartoon did, people developed a certain fondness for the look and colors of the toys over what they characters looked like in the cartoon (cuz they weren't watching it since it wasn't on).
Some kids in other markets had ONLY the toys and NO cartoon or comics, having to play with the toys by making up their own stories with them, and making their attachment to the toys' looks even more justified.
Not everyone allowed the cartoon to dictate how they feel a character should look. Some simply preferred how the toys looked over their cartoon looks, and some didn't even get to watch the cartoon to really make a choice and just defaulted to the toys' looks anyway.
Actually the videos of the cartoon were easily accessible and the key to vector sigma and a lot of the following episodes were aired as I watched them growing up from videos taped off tv. We even got season 3 on tape. don't quote me on this but the wide awake club programming block may have shown it all.
I remember it being on every morning on ITV, either before or part of TV:AM.
I was born a bit late (88) for the whole thing, but my exposure was mostly through the Goldbox Classics figures and vicariously, through video store rentals and VHS tapes we owned.
They seemed to be well distributed from what I remember. I remember seeing a lot of episodes on video
Starscream's brigade, revenge of bruticus, the key to vector sigma, dinobot island, more than meets the eye, nightmare planet, only human, forever is a long time coming, ghost in the machine/starscream's ghost.
Even if the TV showings were obscure, it seemed pretty easy to have stumbled over the cartoons.
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on January 26th, 2015 @ 8:52am CST
ZeroWolf wrote:So far it seems that only bombshell is going there as part of the adventures line
Skrapnel/Shrapnel too: he's TAV17, right after Bombshell. Powerglide and Cosmos will appear there too.
Posted by MemphisR56 on January 26th, 2015 @ 8:55am CST
The 2 pack figures mentioned in the listings for the upcoming takara figures seemed a mystery, I've been nosing through HLJ on my lunchbreak and they have them both listed as GRIMLOCK vs. STRONGARM Rival pack and BUMBLEBEE vs. STEELJAW Enemy pack.
Nothing new and interesting there then.
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on January 26th, 2015 @ 9:02am CST
MemphisR56 wrote:Anyway, in a more contributory post;
The 2 pack figures mentioned in the listings for the upcoming takara figures seemed a mystery, I've been nosing through HLJ on my lunchbreak and they have them both listed as GRIMLOCK vs. STRONGARM Rival pack and BUMBLEBEE vs. STEELJAW Enemy pack.
Nothing new and interesting there then.
The first one is actually "R Strongarm" (short for "Redeco Strongarm"), which turned out to be Decepticon called "Greejeeber". You may know him as RiD 2001 Rollbar There's also a third set, but the contents are unknown at this point.