Collector Coin Images - Takara Transformers Unite Warriors UW-EX Lynxmaster

Insurgent wrote:Who is Battle Gear/Gaia and why do people want him?

Battle Gaia was a redeco of G1 Bruticus released by Takara in 1992 during the Operation Combination line of the Japanese G1 era. He, like his Autobot counterpart Guard City (a redeco of G1 Defensor) is desirable for how obscure and rare he is, having never been reissued nor having appeared in much fiction beyond the original Operation Combination fiction and some minor fanwanky Japanese fiction of recent years. And because his deco looks cool.

Insurgent wrote:Who is Battle Gear/Gaia and why do people want him?

Battle Gaia & Guard City were the first ever "repaints" if you will of Bruticus and Defensor respectively for the Japanese Manga Operation Combination @ 1992. I think its only one person that's asking, and doubtful these two versions will ever be remade. however I'm thinking that (at least with Battle Gaia), being the first Combiner repainted may have had some small part in making Bruticus the most often reproduced combiner to date.

That Baldigus set is gorgeous!

It's an instabuy for sure.

anyone know of any clean close-up pics of the Lynx Master Box Art Yet?

Huh. Cool. I knew about Guard City (Red Hotspot, right?) but never knew about the Bruticus repaint either.

o.supreme wrote:anyone know of any clean close-up pics of the Lynx Master Box Art Yet?

sorry, that pic is all we have online at the moment.

EI'll be getting Baldigus...

I must say though, I know the baby puke tan is accurate to the Takara version of the character, and I wouldnt expect Takara to do anything less. But blech. I do not like it. Nope.

Still, looking forward to my TFSS Scourge having some actually accurate Commandos, and not the Energon guys.

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:I wonder the possibilities of a Battle gear version?

Why do you keep calling him that? ガイアー means "Gaia" (Gaiā), not "Gear" (ギヤ Giya or ギア Gia).

That's just the OT JP way of calling him "GeAR".

Sabrblade wrote:

Insurgent wrote:Who is Battle Gear/Gaia and why do people want him?

Battle Gaia was a redeco of G1 Bruticus released by Takara in 1992 during the Operation Combination line of the Japanese G1 era. He, like his Autobot counterpart Guard City (a redeco of G1 Defensor) is desirable for how obscure and rare he is, having never been reissued nor having appeared in much fiction beyond the original Operation Combination fiction and some minor fanwanky Japanese fiction of recent years. And because his deco looks cool.

Cool x Infinity!

My Unite Warriors Lynxmaster came in the post today, and I've been having a lot of fun with it. The only problem I've had so far is the joints on some of the individual figures are a bit tight, particularly on Trailbreaker and Ratchet, to the point where every time I transform them I get worried about applying too much force and breaking something off. Wheeljack's combiner port also makes a worrying CLANG that's louder and feels more strained than the ports on any other Combiner Wars Deluxe I own. Despite this, I'm pleased with my purchase and I do like Lynxmaster more than Superion or Ultra Prime.

Munkky wrote:My Unite Warriors Lynxmaster came in the post today, and I've been having a lot of fun with it. The only problem I've had so far is the joints on some of the individual figures are a bit tight, particularly on Trailbreaker and Ratchet, to the point where every time I transform them I get worried about applying too much force and breaking something off. Wheeljack's combiner port also makes a worrying CLANG that's louder and feels more strained than the ports on any other Combiner Wars Deluxe I own. Despite this, I'm pleased with my purchase and I do like Lynxmaster more than Superion or Ultra Prime.

Could you take some pics of the toys and their box if possible to show us? Especially Ratchet since that toy is totally new.

Woohoo! Ruination! He looks awesome- I think I'd probably pick this up over Bruticus to be honest, provided there's no major QC issues.

That said, I'd still want to replace those awful hands and feet. Yes they make better feet than the HFGs...but that's not saying much. They still have no forward/backward ankle movement, and the HFGs actually made better hands than the dedicated fists, which have ZERO articulation. At least the HFGs had a finger flap and a moveable thumb.

Regardless, hopefully I'll be able to get him.

william-james88 wrote:Could you take some pics of the toys and their box if possible to show us? Especially Ratchet since that toy is totally new.

Apologies for the poor quality, I had to take these pics on my phone:






More pics to come.

(Combiner Wars Bruticus is the only Combiner I have on hand for a comparison right now)


While my version didn't come with a comic, there is this little drawing on the back of the instructions. You've got the Lynxmaster Autobots putting on a play; Sky Lynx is a dragon, Trailbreaker is a knight, Ratchet is a princess (Oh Japan, never ever change), and I think Hound and Wheeljack are doing light and stage effects with their HFG's. I don't know who the three people below Wheeljack singing opera are, if they're characters from Japanese or Sunbow G1 or if they're just entirely new. Optimus, Marissa Faireborne, Ironhide, Hot Spot and someone else (I can't tell who it is) are in the audience.

Gotta say, I'm impressed. I like the original Robots in Disguise show and love any variation of the Combaticons and the Commandos. Unfortunately, I think I would suffer from buyer's remorse since I already have Hasbro Bruticus (I'm very proud that I got all of them individually) and Baldigus is basically a recolor with some new weapons and different hands... Ah well, there goes however much he's worth outta my wallet. And since they made Baldigus.... Could Takara possibly make Scourge out of TR Laser Prime?

Smokescreen was cool and all, but I'm so jelly they got Ratchet instead.

fenrir72 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:I wonder the possibilities of a Battle gear version?

Why do you keep calling him that? ガイアー means "Gaia" (Gaiā), not "Gear" (ギヤ Giya or ギア Gia).

That's just the OT JP way of calling him "GeAR".

"OT"? I don't think the "Gear" name was even considered at the time.

As for why Baldigus over Battle Gaia, the latter hasn't been created yet at the fiction takes place, between Masterforce and Victory in 2021. Baldigus has, in 2000 in the Car Robots timeframe. Remember, Car Robots is considered G1, while the Robots in Disguise dub is its own universe. That's also why no US RiD names are used.

Looks great...still not sure what the reasoning was with the almost 45 degree angle shot. would have looked just as nice standing straight, and in form with all the other UW boxart

Wow. This surprised me quite a bit. I went to my go-to importer, TFSource, to order Baldigus, and found their preorder price is $199.99. WTF!? I went to my second choice, BigBadToyStore, and pre-ordered Baldigus for the MUCH more sane price of $159.99. What gives with the $40.00 mark-up at TFSource? Yikes!

o.supreme wrote:Looks great...still not sure what the reasoning was with the almost 45 degree angle shot. would have looked just as nice standing straight, and in form with all the other UW boxart

What, you don't want to catch the perfect angle to show Sky Lynx's grandeur? This is Captain Modesty we're talking about.

Munkky wrote:While my version didn't come with a comic, there is this little drawing on the back of the instructions. You've got the Lynxmaster Autobots putting on a play for Optimus and who I'm assuming is Marissa Faireborne; Sky Lynx is a dragon, Trailbreaker is a knight, Ratchet is a princess (Oh Japan, never ever change), and I think Hound and Wheeljack are doing light and stage effects with their HFG's. I don't know who the three people below Wheeljack singing opera are, if they're characters from Japanese or Sunbow G1 or if they're just entirely new.

I had to look a little, but it takes place on Eurythma. The singers there are from "Carnage in C-Minor", that episode takes place there.

Expect the one for Baldigus to take place inside a bath complex as every member has his own preferred type of bath. O, coffee milk is a must

Fellow Seibertronian Munkky has received the latest Takara Tomy Transformers Unite Warriors UWEX Lynxmaster set, and as we had yet to see any proper in hand images of SkyLynx, Hound, Wheeljack, Trailbreakercuttersomething, but most of all Ratchet - which was only available in the US via the BotCon 2016 custom class - has shared some images with all of us. Check them out below, including the box art and a one piece by Hayato Sakamoto (of the Legends comics)!

Thanks for the Pics, Munky!!!!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:What, you don't want to catch the perfect angle to show Sky Lynx's grandeur? This is Captain Modesty we're talking about.

You can even see it in his name: Special Saviour Combiner? It's Skylynx thinking he's the messiah.

Ratchet looks great.

Hound looks better than the CW version, but the $3 Reprolabel set got the same effects...

Trailbreaker looks ok. I kind of like the sleek CW bot mode better, but this is really more classic.

Wheeljack I really expected to look a lot better. Seems that the white is more white-ish, but the paint apps are too cartoony, needs more.

Skylynx has marginally different paint apps. I actually dislike the red weapons.


Overall, I was hoping for a little more premium out of this set.

I believe that is meant to refer to how they're a rescue team...

...but hey, you're probably right.

Counterpunch wrote:Trailbreaker looks ok. I kind of like the sleek CW bot mode better, but this is really more classic.
Skylynx has marginally different paint apps. I actually dislike the red weapons.
Overall, I was hoping for a little more premium out of this set.

For Skylynx, I actually thought they were using the hasbro stand in the first time we saw it. There really isnt much difference and whatever difference there is doesnt really make it premium or superior. And I totally agree on trailbreaker. I love what Hasbro did with him. I really like the heavy use of tampos we have (like the G1 stickers and even his entire windshield), the Hasbro version already feels and looks very finished with takara not really adding something to make it look premium. That was never really their intention, they just want things to look cartoon accurate, but that just means that Hasbro did a pretty decent job on their end. Its too bad many fans have to get this set just to they can have a factory painted ratchet when the hasbro equivalents for most of the others are perfectly fine.

It's strange and wonderful how those little yellow stripes on Hound make all the difference in the world.

And correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that Wheeljack deco ia an homage to a Diaclone version of the Lancia toy.


Or maybe that Diaclone just doesn't have his stickers applied.

Also, love that box painting! Awesome how Lynx is air dropping in the team!

I'm going to ignore all the crazy and point out the irony of Sky Lynx balancing on the one foot that always collapses on itself (at least on my Hasbro one, pretty sure it's a widespread issue tho).

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:That's also why no US RiD names are used.

Takara did use "Sky-Byte" in Latin script for Legends Gelshark, though.

william-james88 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:What, you don't want to catch the perfect angle to show Sky Lynx's grandeur? This is Captain Modesty we're talking about.

You can even see it in his name: Special Saviour Combiner? It's Skylynx thinking he's the messiah.

Sigma Magnus wrote:I believe that is meant to refer to how they're a rescue team...

...but hey, you're probably right.

The actual Kanji on the box instead translates more accurately into something like "Special Disaster Relief" as Lynxmaster's function.

william-james88 wrote:

Counterpunch wrote:Trailbreaker looks ok. I kind of like the sleek CW bot mode better, but this is really more classic.
Skylynx has marginally different paint apps. I actually dislike the red weapons.
Overall, I was hoping for a little more premium out of this set.

For Skylynx, I actually thought they were using the hasbro stand in the first time we saw it. There really isnt much difference and whatever difference there is doesnt really make it premium or superior.

Yeah, the most that looks different on Sky Lynx are the red inside his shuttle mouth (which was gold on Hasbro's), the red inside his lynx mouth (which again was gold on Hasbro's), and the weapons being red (which were gray on Hasbro's) as a homage to Sky Lynx's longer red tail on both Sky Lynx's original toy and cartoon model.

Cobotron wrote:And correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that Wheeljack deco ia an homage to a Diaclone version of the Lancia toy.

It's the cartoon colors. The cartoon model was less colorful than the original stickered-up toy was.

http://m.imgur.com/iQf550L

I ended up creating what is probably my favorite combined mode earlier

ebo716 wrote:http://m.imgur.com/iQf550L

I ended up creating what is probably my favorite combined mode earlier

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But if your using imgur, just use the brackets and the actual link you get by clicking on the image. It's the second one down on the right. Then we can see it here!

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

ebo716 wrote:http://m.imgur.com/iQf550L

I ended up creating what is probably my favorite combined mode earlier

Post isn't working.

But if your using imgur, just use the brackets and the actual link you get by clicking on the image. It's the second one down on the right. Then we can see it here!


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Hopefully that will work

ebo716 wrote:

I ended up creating what is probably my favorite combined mode earlier

Bro, do you even lift?

That is great.

I thought of doing something similar with Prime so he could have massive gorilla arms, Cybertron style

Regarding Baldigus: how will they translate his Function/Title into English?

戦闘スペシャリスト (sentō supesharisuto) Combat Specialist is pretty straightforward, but what faction will they use? Destronger? Combatron? Commando? Or even Predacon like they did for LG-EX Black Convoy?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:but what faction will they use? Destronger? Combatron? Commando? Or even Predacon like they did for LG-EX Black Convoy?

I wouldn't even rule out them going with Decepticon. Less likely, but hardly impossible.

Sabrblade wrote:And I don't know what Grand Scourge's being a dimension-hopper has to do with this since Baldigus himself isn't a dimension-hopper. Car Robots is part of the Japanese G1 cartoon continuity timeline.

Why would Baldigus have to be a dimension hopper if Grand Scourge is? The point is that there's really nothing keeping people from displaying Grand Scourge with Baldigus, or any Transformers from any line for that matter.

Wolfman Jake wrote:Wow. This surprised me quite a bit. I went to my go-to importer, TFSource, to order Baldigus, and found their preorder price is $199.99. WTF!? I went to my second choice, BigBadToyStore, and pre-ordered Baldigus for the MUCH more sane price of $159.99. What gives with the $40.00 mark-up at TFSource? Yikes!

Yeah, I was shocked when I saw the price was so high. I've been ordering my UW figures from TFSource because of the free shipping, but it looks like I need to dust off my BBTS account. Even after shipping it's only at least $166.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:I thought of doing something similar with Prime so he could have massive gorilla arms, Cybertron style

Prime already has massive gorilla arms.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:I thought of doing something similar with Prime so he could have massive gorilla arms, Cybertron style

Prime already has massive gorilla arms.

Emerje

for your amusement:

prime doesnt look amused

Bumblebee21 wrote:prime doesnt look amused

When is he ever these days?

Sabrblade wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:for your amusement:

prime doesnt look amused

When is he ever these days?

The funny thing is, I didn't see "Optimus Prime" when I looked at that picture. I saw IDW's Nova/Nemesis Prime. That might be because I've repurposed my Battle Core Optimus Prime as Nova Prime, of course.

Munkky wrote:

Hmmm...perhaps one of our resident Transformers media buffs can answer this one for me. Where does that red rectangle on Takara's Unite Warriors version of Trailbreaker come from? It's not from the cartoon. The rest of the changes in plastic and paint apps from the Hasbro version certainly seem to be for the sake of screen accuracy. For that matter, why didn't they paint the joint of the combiner peg blue to match the faux windows on his robot mode chest? They did so for Ratchet to give an illusion of a full windshield. Come to think of it, they didn't do that for Ironhide either. Dang.

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Munkky wrote:

Hmmm...perhaps one of our resident Transformers media buffs can answer this one for me. Where does that red rectangle on Takara's Unite Warriors version of Trailbreaker come from? It's not from the cartoon. The rest of the changes in plastic and paint apps from the Hasbro version certainly seem to be for the sake of screen accuracy. For that matter, why didn't they paint the joint of the combiner peg blue to match the faux windows on his robot mode chest? They did so for Ratchet to give an illusion of a full windshield. Come to think of it, they didn't do that for Ironhide either. Dang.

You know what? I honestly don't know. It's not in Marvel, Dreamwave, IDW, any of his toys... the best I can guess are animation errors or it's a reference to how his visor is red sometimes.

Wolfman Jake wrote:Hmmm...perhaps one of our resident Transformers media buffs can answer this one for me. Where does that red rectangle on Takara's Unite Warriors version of Trailbreaker come from? It's not from the cartoon.

His cartoon model does have a little rectangle on its forehead, but like you said, it's not colored red in the cartoon. Maybe it's a subtle nod to the original G1 toy's red visor. Or maybe the Takara toy color person/people saw that detail and misremembered its not being colored in the cartoon.

Kurona wrote:You know what? I honestly don't know. It's not in Marvel, Dreamwave, IDW, any of his toys... the best I can guess are animation errors or it's a reference to how his visor is red sometimes.

Yeah, referencing the red visor of the G1 toy and some other fictional appearances is he only thing I could think of, but it's also an odd thing to reference. Takara already released Generations Trailbreaker a few years ago with a red visor, so fans who like that can always fall back on that version. I also wish someone at some point realized that Trailbreaker's gun hand is on the wrong arm! >.< That would have been easy to fix at the design stage.

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Kurona wrote:You know what? I honestly don't know. It's not in Marvel, Dreamwave, IDW, any of his toys... the best I can guess are animation errors or it's a reference to how his visor is red sometimes.

Yeah, referencing the red visor of the G1 toy and some other fictional appearances is he only thing I could think of, but it's also an odd thing to reference. Takara already released Generations Trailbreaker a few years ago with a red visor, so fans who like that can always fall back on that version. I also wish someone at some point realized that Trailbreaker's gun hand is on the wrong arm! >.< That would have been easy to fix at the design stage.

Easy fix: put a mirror next to him!

Kurona wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Kurona wrote:You know what? I honestly don't know. It's not in Marvel, Dreamwave, IDW, any of his toys... the best I can guess are animation errors or it's a reference to how his visor is red sometimes.

Yeah, referencing the red visor of the G1 toy and some other fictional appearances is he only thing I could think of, but it's also an odd thing to reference. Takara already released Generations Trailbreaker a few years ago with a red visor, so fans who like that can always fall back on that version. I also wish someone at some point realized that Trailbreaker's gun hand is on the wrong arm! >.< That would have been easy to fix at the design stage.

Easy fix: put a mirror next to him!

That's crazy talk! What am I going to do with TWO Trailbreakers, then?

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Kurona wrote:You know what? I honestly don't know. It's not in Marvel, Dreamwave, IDW, any of his toys... the best I can guess are animation errors or it's a reference to how his visor is red sometimes.

Yeah, referencing the red visor of the G1 toy and some other fictional appearances is he only thing I could think of, but it's also an odd thing to reference. Takara already released Generations Trailbreaker a few years ago with a red visor, so fans who like that can always fall back on that version. I also wish someone at some point realized that Trailbreaker's gun hand is on the wrong arm! >.< That would have been easy to fix at the design stage.

Easy fix: put a mirror next to him!

That's crazy talk! What am I going to do with TWO Trailbreakers, then?

Shattered Glass guy decided to paint himself black?