New Box Image - Takara Tomy Transformers Unite Warriors UW-08 Computicon (Computron)

just got my payment request from amiami for computron, $165 after shipping. might be the last time i order direct from japan, $50 for shipping is a bit steep

I'm still waiting for Amazon to ship mine. They said it would be delivered between the 25th and the 30th of August, I think. I haven't been charged yet and I think I remember Amazon apologising for the delay?

Since the "Girls" already look quite G2 it would have been fun if they'd had tail fin or hood tampos showing off their powers or their card themed suit in their name Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs & Spades. With Mrs. Megatron being the "Queen" perhaps with all 4 suits on her like Optimus used to have multiple cyber planet key logos tampographed on him.

grimdragon2001 wrote:just got my payment request from amiami for computron, $165 after shipping. might be the last time i order direct from japan, $50 for shipping is a bit steep

Thats because the exchange rate changed too. It was always around the 4500 yen mark for UW sets but sicne the last combiner release, the yen has caught up to the US$ and is now on par. So whil the shipping might have increased a tiny bit (only 500 yen), the fact that its added to the on par exchang makes it look super steep.

Also, I didnt get my notification from anime export yet, should be soon if you got it from amiami. Cant wait to ship both him and blurr.

MaverickPrime wrote:

Bronzewolf wrote:

MaverickPrime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

DeadCaL wrote:For Hasbro, their releasing Computron is a huge deal. For Takara, their releasing Computron is just standard procedure.

"For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me... it was Tuesday."

A-frickin-+ reference, Mav.

Thanks! I read it and immediately thought of it, I assume DeadCaL was kinda referencing that as well

But I wrote that.

Got my email too. Super excited to get Computron in the mail.

Aaagh I want it in my hands right now.

Back to Megatronia for a bit, I think its a good case of Takara being different from hasbro and not better. Hasbro's deco is pretty good and highlights just as much detail if not more (plus you get Dust Up and dont need to import if you are in the west).



I will admit though that Megaempress looks sublime,but thats because she goes against the highlighter with black blotches theme of the rest.

william-james88 wrote:Back to Megatronia for a bit, I think its a good case of Takara being different from hasbro and not better. Hasbro's deco is pretty good and highlights just as much detail if not more (plus you get Dust Up and dont need to import if you are in the west).



I will admit though that Megaempress looks sublime,but thats because she goes against the highlighter with black blotches theme of the rest.

Personally, I never liked the grated detail on that mold's thighs, as it looks really tacky to me. Takara's decos coloring the grating in one solid color, the same color as the surrounding areas on thighs, doing their best to hide that obnoxious detail was always preferable to me.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Back to Megatronia for a bit, I think its a good case of Takara being different from hasbro and not better. Hasbro's deco is pretty good and highlights just as much detail if not more (plus you get Dust Up and dont need to import if you are in the west).



I will admit though that Megaempress looks sublime,but thats because she goes against the highlighter with black blotches theme of the rest.

Personally, I never liked the grated detail on that mold's thighs, as it looks really tacky to me. Takara's decos coloring the grating in one solid color, the same color as the surrounding areas on thighs, doing their best to hide that obnoxious detail was always preferable to me.

Ok, that Megatronia set needs a Flamewar repaint of Legends Groove to finish it off

william-james88 wrote:Back to Megatronia for a bit, I think its a good case of Takara being different from hasbro and not better. Hasbro's deco is pretty good and highlights just as much detail if not more (plus you get Dust Up and dont need to import if you are in the west).



I will admit though that Megaempress looks sublime,but thats because she goes against the highlighter with black blotches theme of the rest.

Wow, black really is slimming, isn't it?

The guy who did the alternative translations (alternative to those Memphis did) for the Woman Destron bios made a corrected version of Megaempress's bio:

Megaempress was created from spare parts from Megatron's construction in Cybertron's underground; once Megatron's equal, Megaempress formed and ruled over the Woman Destrons. But Laserwave, fearing her presence, stopped her functions and put her to sleep underground. She is the self-proclaimed wife of the Emperor of Destruction and Empress of the Destrons. She is always accompanied by her body guards, who she has christened the 4 Guards and who possess specific abilities. The rail fusion cannon on her back has a destructive power comparable to Megatron's fusion cannon; using the "Judge Pickel" weapon, she can smash everything. She has a noble and greedy personality. She transforms into a destructive fire engine.

Judge Pickel?

william-james88 wrote:Judge Pickel?

"Pickel" is a German word for "Pick-axe", and the term Japan uses to refer to the tool.

Caelus wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Back to Megatronia for a bit, I think its a good case of Takara being different from hasbro and not better. Hasbro's deco is pretty good and highlights just as much detail if not more (plus you get Dust Up and dont need to import if you are in the west).



I will admit though that Megaempress looks sublime,but thats because she goes against the highlighter with black blotches theme of the rest.

Wow, black really is slimming, isn't it?

Yeah it really is. Another part of the deco I love is the black hands and feet. Adds a nice unity to the whole combiner. The silver ones on Victorion stand out in comparison.

william-james88 wrote:Judge Pickel?

The Villain of the Dick Tracy/Judge Dredd crossover comic coming soon !

Wow looks great! When do you think we will get a Nightbird?

joevill wrote:Wow looks great! When do you think we will get a Nightbird?

From the victorion figure? Probably never, TT isn't known to release multiple repaints of a figure, adn they just released a really nice and accurate one a year ago...

Meant to say this before:

Pfft, you youngsters with your PreCures and your Shuffle Alliances. In my day we had the original card motif Sentai team!

Sabrblade wrote:Meant to say this before:

Pfft, you youngsters with your PreCures and your Shuffle Alliances. In my day we had the original card motif Sentai team!

I'll see your Sentai team, and raise you a Royal Flush Gang

o.supreme wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Meant to say this before:

Pfft, you youngsters with your PreCures and your Shuffle Alliances. In my day we had the original card motif Sentai team!

I'll see your Sentai team, and raise you a Royal Flush Gang

JAK-Q! Bunch'a cyborgs who met an accident and given a new lease in life. I used to watch this together with Go-Ranger/Star Rangers back in 1978.

joevill wrote:Wow looks great! When do you think we will get a Nightbird?

Already released.

Anyways I just got this.

Strange, I got my in-stock notification for LG Blurr and Shockwave, but nothing for Comps yet

xMXUx wrote:Strange, I got my in-stock notification for LG Blurr and Shockwave, but nothing for Comps yet

same

Override would probably make a good addition to this figure. He's on sale for $13 at https://www.amazon.com/Takara-Tomy-Transformers-Tav26-Override/dp/B012CIRSZ2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?tag=seibertron07-20&ie=UTF8&keywords=takara override&qid=1472146794&ref_=mp_s_a_1_1&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&linkId=c7dbc6628cd3fbb5fc32c5ce18abf9e8

I love the Legends Groove mold so I'd probably get it period lol

Nik Hero wrote:Override would probably make a good addition to this figure. He's on sale for $13 at https://www.amazon.com/Takara-Tomy-Transformers-Tav26-Override/dp/B012CIRSZ2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?tag=seibertron07-20&ie=UTF8&keywords=takara override&qid=1472146794&ref_=mp_s_a_1_1&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&linkId=c7dbc6628cd3fbb5fc32c5ce18abf9e8

Looks like Victorion will have some competition modeling the latest *ahem* Cover Plates

o.supreme wrote:

Nik Hero wrote:Override would probably make a good addition to this figure. He's on sale for $13 at https://www.amazon.com/Takara-Tomy-Transformers-Tav26-Override/dp/B012CIRSZ2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?tag=seibertron07-20&ie=UTF8&keywords=takara override&qid=1472146794&ref_=mp_s_a_1_1&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&linkId=c7dbc6628cd3fbb5fc32c5ce18abf9e8

Looks like Victorion will have some competition modeling the latest *ahem* Cover Plates

If someone doesn't do this soon after Megatronia is released I'm gonna be so mad

Kurona wrote:If someone doesn't do this soon after Megatronia is released I'm gonna be so mad

Oh I'm sure someone will...but you know Megatronia, she's a bad girl, she doesn't wear cover plates...

Whilst I'm actually planning on ending my moratorium on official Combiners, at least in this case, if I do get Megatronia I need to decide on some new names for at least the limbs. The default ones are absolutely appalling. Also I'll probably churn out some stupid headcanons for them because I'd a silly person.

I'm thinking...

Megaempress is an OK name, so she can keep it. In my collection she'll be part of the Decepticon upper echelons rather than a rogue...though she'll still be a hopeless Megatron fangirl convinced that Megs is her hasubando.

Lunaclub will be renamed Windburn, and personality wise will remain much the same (immature Starscream stalker etc).

Moonheart will be renamed Pulsewave, and instead of merely training under Soundwave, she will actually have successfully wooed him. She'll also have the ability to summon Soundwave's minions via pocket dimension.

Flowspade will be renamed Motorhead. She'll be something of a Decepticon equivalent of a Noise Marine, and I'll probably make her a custom Shapeways sonic blaster of some description. She's also best buddies with Shockwave, as she's always willing to test out whatever crazy weapons and upgrades he's cranked out.

Trickdiamond will be renamed Razequeen. Her personality will remain much the same.

Together, they combine to form Gorgonia, a mighty but vain and arrogant warrior.

Any other ideas for names?

Sabrblade wrote:Meant to say this before:

Pfft, you youngsters with your PreCures and your Shuffle Alliances. In my day we had the original card motif Sentai team!

I was actually trying to draw a Precure comparison with the Dokidoki girls but aside from purple being spades, the colors and suits don't align.

Then again they don't especially match with JAKQ either.

Anyway does this mean Megaempress is Big One?

Still waiting on my shipping order from TFSource as well

At first I was like, "this is cool and I want it"...but the more I think about it the more I don't like it. I don't want a female galaxy force megatron. To me this is just not that interesting. Victorion is a better character in my opinion than Megatoronia. Just seems kind of lazy now to me.

Sigh.

Kurona wrote:

o.supreme wrote:

Nik Hero wrote:Override would probably make a good addition to this figure. He's on sale for $13 at https://www.amazon.com/Takara-Tomy-Transformers-Tav26-Override/dp/B012CIRSZ2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?tag=seibertron07-20&ie=UTF8&keywords=takara override&qid=1472146794&ref_=mp_s_a_1_1&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&linkId=c7dbc6628cd3fbb5fc32c5ce18abf9e8

Looks like Victorion will have some competition modeling the latest *ahem* Cover Plates

If someone doesn't do this soon after Megatronia is released I'm gonna be so mad

Victorion looks best with Wreck-Gar IMO.

I'll mention this here since Vicki is the current subject (sorta) but when I look at most Combiner Wars Boxed sets on Amazon it says "Shipping Plus customs deposit" as part of the price.

But vicki doesn't it just says free shipping even to the UK - so does that mean there is a fee to pay when she arrives then as if she's that cheap and has no additional fee's she's well worth it but if I have to pay £20.00 or so when she shows up not so much.

I know I'm going on and on about this, but I am so disappointing. I was really hoping for something like the UW Galvatronus. Megatronia is just an uninspired black repaint to me.

I like them making a decepticon team but why didn't they use iconic characters? Make a team out of the vilest decepticon females?

Animated Blacharachnia, Airachnid, Thunderblast, Nightracer, and maybe nightbird and Flamewar.

But seriously, I would have bought that set in a fast second. Ugh Im like sick that they didnt do that. I really thought it would be something like that.

Optimizzy wrote:I like them making a decepticon team but why didn't they use iconic characters? Make a team out of the vilest decepticon females?

Likely because, aside from Dust Up's head resembling Nightbird, none of the headsculpts look enough like any preexisting fembot characters to have been made into them.

Tbh if there's one thing I do like about the set, it's that they are new characters. While Hasbro has been upping it's game on new female characters recently - especially IDW - there still manages to be a severe shortage of female decepticons. I mean you've got Slipstream, Blackarachnia, and... then a bunch of one-offs, really. Ranging from major character in just one series (Thunderblast, Airachnid) to the really obscure (Lyzack, Esmeral). So it's nice to see some more deceptifemmes instead of copping out and going for another Nightbird and Arcee turned evil or something.

... I just wish they could be differentiated more from the Torchbearers. This is the thing that's holding me back the most if I'm completely honest; I just would not be able to see these characters with their Autobot counterparts existing in the same universe.

Just paid for UW-08 Computron from HLJ.

He'll be here oh so very soon ...

Sabrblade wrote:

Optimizzy wrote:I like them making a decepticon team but why didn't they use iconic characters? Make a team out of the vilest decepticon females?

Likely because, aside from Dust Up's head resembling Nightbird, none of the headsculpts look enough like any preexisting fembot characters to have been made into them.

I would have liked to see new heads from them. Why not go all out? they usually do.

Burn wrote:Just paid for UW-08 Computron from HLJ.

He'll be here oh so very soon ...

As a first time buyer from TFsource, how soon after HLJ do other stores generally get takara products?

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Burn wrote:Just paid for UW-08 Computron from HLJ.

He'll be here oh so very soon ...

As a first time buyer from TFsource, how soon after HLJ do other stores generally get takara products?

Honestly couldn't tell you, but I would imagine it wouldn't be too far apart.

Optimizzy wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Optimizzy wrote:I like them making a decepticon team but why didn't they use iconic characters? Make a team out of the vilest decepticon females?

Likely because, aside from Dust Up's head resembling Nightbird, none of the headsculpts look enough like any preexisting fembot characters to have been made into them.

I would have liked to see new heads from them. Why not go all out? they usually do.

Because the whole point of making this set is to use the new tooling it has

Sabrblade wrote:

MaverickPrime wrote:

Bronzewolf wrote:

MaverickPrime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

DeadCaL wrote:For Hasbro, their releasing Computron is a huge deal. For Takara, their releasing Computron is just standard procedure.

"For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me... it was Tuesday."

A-frickin-+ reference, Mav.

Thanks! I read it and immediately thought of it, I assume DeadCaL was kinda referencing that as well

But I wrote that.

I'm so sorry! I misread the quote, Sabr

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Burn wrote:Just paid for UW-08 Computron from HLJ.

He'll be here oh so very soon ...

As a first time buyer from TFsource, how soon after HLJ do other stores generally get takara products?

A few days. TFSource and BBTS dont have a direct link to Takara so they dont have them in their warehouses in advance. They instead have to wait for their middleman supplier to ship it to them. Shipping from Japan can be very quick though, so I'd assume 2 days.

And dammit Anime Export, WHY YOU NO MARK HIM IN STOCK!!!!???!!!

Kurona wrote:I just would not be able to see these characters with their Autobot counterparts existing in the same universe.

Good thing they technically all don't, then.

Sabrblade wrote:

Kurona wrote:I just would not be able to see these characters with their Autobot counterparts existing in the same universe.

Good thing they technically all don't, then.

Oh that's true. I must admit that like, this isn't actually really a criticism, and more a preference of mine. Unless I'm getting together figures for a specific display of a specific series - a MTMTE or TFP shelf - then the figures I get I tend to like bunching into it's own little make-believe universe. So yes; TFP Vehicons, Universe Dropshot, RiD Strongarm, Armada Tidal Wave, Combiner Wars Bruticus, Generations Roadbuster, the-eventual-obvious-scourge-repaint-of-titans-return-G2-Optimus... all in one little insane universe. And I love it.
So it's just a bit of a shame to me personally that I can't shove something this cool into it when it looks so much like something I find cooler is all

I just paid for UW Computron. I got it from AmiAmi because at the time I was looking to pre-order the set about two months ago, AmiAmi was the only website that had the UW Computron pre-order available. The other websites stateside were "sold out" of their pre-orders.

So I ended up paying about $160 for the set, so the exchange rate screwed me up. Of course a couple days ago I checked BBTS and UW Computron's pre-order was open again. I could've saved $15 going through BBTS. Such is life

BATTLEMASTER IIC wrote:I just paid for UW Computron. I got it from AmiAmi because at the time I was looking to pre-order the set about two months ago, AmiAmi was the only website that had the UW Computron pre-order available. The other websites stateside were "sold out" of their pre-orders.

So I ended up paying about $160 for the set, so the exchange rate screwed me up. Of course a couple days ago I checked BBTS and UW Computron's pre-order was open again. I could've saved $15 going through BBTS. Such is life

you and me both dude

That Bot wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Meant to say this before:

Pfft, you youngsters with your PreCures and your Shuffle Alliances. In my day we had the original card motif Sentai team!

I was actually trying to draw a Precure comparison with the Dokidoki girls but aside from purple being spades, the colors and suits don't align.

Well, Hisashi Yuki's Twitter feed largely consists of Retweets of PriPara, Pretty Rhythm, and PreCure tweets so it wouldn't surprise me at all if he was thinking magical girls when he redesigned them.

Emerje