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Posted by craggy on March 16th, 2014 @ 1:13pm CDT
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on March 16th, 2014 @ 2:02pm CDT
Va'al wrote:As I resist the urge to make a joke along the lines of 'How to train your dragon'...
Oye vey
I'm just in love with that toy, I'll probably never get a proper chance to get him.
Posted by Mindmaster on March 16th, 2014 @ 2:08pm CDT
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Va'al wrote:As I resist the urge to make a joke along the lines of 'How to train your dragon'...
Oye vey
If you think that's bad, you should see our staff emails. The puns are endless. For example, when we were doing our Toy Fair coverage... "Toy Far CoverAge (of Extinction)".
Posted by Va'al on March 16th, 2014 @ 2:17pm CDT
Posted by Siger on March 16th, 2014 @ 2:41pm CDT
Va'al wrote:TILL ALL ARE PUN.
Hahaha that's so punny! Anyhoo back on topic, I'm not optimus about this ex line. They just look like a horrible mechs! Sorry to be a negatron...
Posted by Manterax Prime on March 16th, 2014 @ 2:50pm CDT
Anyway, nice fan-made dragon mode sir. Works better than the official one.
Posted by Siger on March 16th, 2014 @ 2:56pm CDT
Manterax Prime wrote:Any more puns and you can consider yourself Sharkticon food.
Anyway, nice fan-made dragon mode sir. Works better than the official one.
whaaa? I'm scared! I think I'm gonna star screaming if that happens! Iron hide in a corner and not come out anymore.
Posted by Mindmaster on March 16th, 2014 @ 3:13pm CDT
Siger wrote:Manterax Prime wrote:Any more puns and you can consider yourself Sharkticon food.
Anyway, nice fan-made dragon mode sir. Works better than the official one.
whaaa? I'm scared! I think I'm gonna star screaming if that happens! Iron hide in a corner and not come out anymore.
Posted by Sabrblade on March 16th, 2014 @ 3:16pm CDT
Posted by Va'al on March 16th, 2014 @ 3:23pm CDT
Mindmaster wrote:Siger wrote:Manterax Prime wrote:Any more puns and you can consider yourself Sharkticon food.
Anyway, nice fan-made dragon mode sir. Works better than the official one.
whaaa? I'm scared! I think I'm gonna star screaming if that happens! Iron hide in a corner and not come out anymore.
You are after my own heart, Siger.
But I'm going to start dragon this thread back on track, though, no more derailings.
Posted by Siger on March 16th, 2014 @ 4:13pm CDT
Va'al wrote:Mindmaster wrote:Siger wrote:Manterax Prime wrote:Any more puns and you can consider yourself Sharkticon food.
Anyway, nice fan-made dragon mode sir. Works better than the official one.
whaaa? I'm scared! I think I'm gonna star screaming if that happens! Iron hide in a corner and not come out anymore.
You are after my own heart, Siger.
But I'm going to start dragon this thread back on track, though, no more derailings.
OK OK, seriously though this set looks garbagio. You can't just slap an Optimus head on any robot body and call it OP... or can you? They should retool this and make it a Power Ranger set. The colors and combine form look all matches PR criterion already.
Posted by Sabrblade on March 16th, 2014 @ 4:19pm CDT
Except for the legal issues that would prevent that from happening. Namely that this is a TakaraTomy creation and Power Rangers is owned by Bandai, a completely diffferent and rival company. Someone would likely sue the other if they tried to do that.Siger wrote:Va'al wrote:Mindmaster wrote:Siger wrote:Manterax Prime wrote:Any more puns and you can consider yourself Sharkticon food.
Anyway, nice fan-made dragon mode sir. Works better than the official one.
whaaa? I'm scared! I think I'm gonna star screaming if that happens! Iron hide in a corner and not come out anymore.
You are after my own heart, Siger.
But I'm going to start dragon this thread back on track, though, no more derailings.
OK OK, seriously though this set looks garbagio. You can't just slap an Optimus head on any robot body and call it OP... or can you? They should retool this and make it a Power Ranger set. The colors and combine form look all matches PR criterion already.
Posted by LOST Cybertronian on March 16th, 2014 @ 4:26pm CDT
Posted by Siger on March 16th, 2014 @ 4:45pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Except for the legal issues that would prevent that from happening. Namely that this is a TakaraTomy creation and Power Rangers is owned by Bandai, a completely diffferent and rival company. Someone would likely sue the other if they tried to do that.Siger wrote:Va'al wrote:Mindmaster wrote:Siger wrote:Manterax Prime wrote:Any more puns and you can consider yourself Sharkticon food.
Anyway, nice fan-made dragon mode sir. Works better than the official one.
whaaa? I'm scared! I think I'm gonna star screaming if that happens! Iron hide in a corner and not come out anymore.
You are after my own heart, Siger.
But I'm going to start dragon this thread back on track, though, no more derailings.
OK OK, seriously though this set looks garbagio. You can't just slap an Optimus head on any robot body and call it OP... or can you? They should retool this and make it a Power Ranger set. The colors and combine form look all matches PR criterion already.
That wasn't a real suggestion lol
Posted by vectorsigma757 on March 17th, 2014 @ 12:13am CDT
I just wanted to say that. Not throwing shade on this set, I want to like it but I just don't at this time. Nice concept though.
Posted by Va'al on March 18th, 2014 @ 12:33pm CDT
Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Cyberverse Ultra Magnus
Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Cyberverse Bludgeon
Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Cyberverse Unicron Megatron
Posted by Noideaforaname on March 18th, 2014 @ 1:18pm CDT
... though I kinda wish Bludgeon was based on BM Scavenger instead. He looks closer to the Vehicon as it is.
Posted by Primeultimus on March 18th, 2014 @ 1:21pm CDT
Posted by welcometothedarksyde on March 18th, 2014 @ 1:24pm CDT
Posted by rpetras on March 18th, 2014 @ 2:42pm CDT
That doesn't surprise me as I really like that mold for Optimus as well.
The Bludgeon would be OK if they had done a remold of the gun as well.
With that big arm, the mold still screams "Shockwave" to me. A more traditional arm with a fold away barrel would have been better IMO.
The Megatron is a weak mold, at least for alt mode, and those dorky colors don't help. Not a fan.
Posted by T-Macksimus on March 18th, 2014 @ 7:45pm CDT
As for Megatron... well, you can take one look at that color and conclude for yourself just what I think THAT version resembles.
Two out of three. Not too bad Hasbro. In fact, pretty darn good considering how much I generally dislike the Prime BH line.
Posted by Manterax Prime on March 19th, 2014 @ 6:16pm CDT
Now, where's Voyager Bludgeon and Unicron Megs?
Posted by Sabrblade on March 19th, 2014 @ 8:56pm CDT
Not coming. They never promised us those.Manterax Prime wrote:Alright, looks good Hasbro.
Now, where's Voyager Bludgeon and Unicron Megs?
Posted by El Duque on March 20th, 2014 @ 7:44pm CDT
Convention & Club Exclusives Predaking (Shockwave's Lab)
Posted by Sabrblade on March 20th, 2014 @ 7:47pm CDT
Posted by Autobot032 on March 29th, 2014 @ 12:25am CDT
It's not the first time this mold has been reused, either. The first time was another Takara Tomy exclusive, Leo Prime, from the Arms Micron line. (Takara Tomy's main line for Prime, featuring slight remolds based on PRID.)
His Micron partner is a reuse, too. Micron Go is a shark based Micron which originally debuted with Arms Micron Dreadwing. A Micron by the name of Jigu. (You can see both galleries for Dreadwing and Jigu here and here.)
And now, our featured gallery:
Transformers Go! Go Prime
Transformers Go! Go
Keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!
Posted by Sabrblade on March 29th, 2014 @ 8:06am CDT
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on March 29th, 2014 @ 2:42pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:The sensei master of the six Swordbots has arrived.
Could he double as a "black repaint" of Leo Prime? Furthermore, does he have sticker or is it all paint?
Posted by Sabrblade on March 29th, 2014 @ 3:43pm CDT
Paint.JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Sabrblade wrote:The sensei master of the six Swordbots has arrived.
Could he double as a "black repaint" of Leo Prime? Furthermore, does he have sticker or is it all paint?
Posted by rockman_fan on March 29th, 2014 @ 5:33pm CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on March 29th, 2014 @ 9:57pm CDT
Whoa, good eye. I didn't notice that.rockman_fan wrote:guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuyyyyys... you mistransformed him... the sides of the lion face move down. it was like that in the box. now im a mad and angry nerd on the internet, so my opinion is obviously important.
Whereas Thundertron and Leo Prime are fine.
Posted by Siger on March 29th, 2014 @ 10:58pm CDT
Ninja face, cool ninja weapons, no strange arms micron weapon, and it would have been sold!
Posted by Sabrblade on March 29th, 2014 @ 11:04pm CDT
But he's not solely a ninja master. He's a Samurai master as well.Siger wrote:Ninja face, cool ninja weapons, no strange arms micron weapon, and it would have been sold!
Posted by Autobot032 on March 30th, 2014 @ 12:02am CDT
Speaking of which, first up is Huffer. He's based on the Beast Hunters Cyberverse Commander Class figure of Trailcutter, and both redecoed remolds feature a new head, remolded shoulders (to include cannons), plus various blades on their bodies to differentiate from the original mold, PRID Commander Class Ironhide. Decoed up in G1 Huffer orange and blue, he's an homage to the original figure but has become quite the battle ready tough guy, which is where he differs from the G1 original, greatly.
And last, but not least, we end this spotlight on our galleries with Beast Blade Optimus Prime. This figure is a redeco of the original Beast Hunters Commander Class Optimus Prime who is also the basis for the newly released Voyager Class "simplified" Optimus. (Which we reported on here, and have a gallery of, here.)
This Optimus is redecoed in the same color scheme as the Weaponizers repaint Beast Tracker Optimus (which can be seen here.) and comes with the battlewing shield.
To see the full galleries of both figures, click on their respective images, below:
Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Cyberverse Huffer
Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Cyberverse Beast Blade Optimus Prime
Keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!
Posted by Autobot032 on April 4th, 2014 @ 12:33am CDT
Hunter Arcee (a redeco/remold of PRID Arcee, which you can see here)
Hunter Bulkhead (A redeco based on an US Beast Hunters mold, which you can see here)
Hunter Wheeljack (a redeco/remold of PRID Wheeljack, which you can see here)
Hunter Soundwave (who is not only a redeco/remold of PRID Soundwave, but he's also partnered with Ravage, instead of Laserbeak. You can see the original duo here)
And now, onto the picture links:
Transformers Go! Hunter Arcee
Transformers Go! Hunter Bulkhead
Transformers Go! Hunter Wheeljack
Transformers Go! Hunter Soundwave
Transformers Go! Ravage
Keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!
Posted by welcometothedarksyde on April 4th, 2014 @ 9:30am CDT
Cobra
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on April 4th, 2014 @ 9:41am CDT
welcometothedarksyde wrote:Who else suspects that if the US releases looked like this, they wouldn't be clearancing them for $5 each.
Cobra
They look too similar to the originals then, so they may actually be worse off with less knowledgeable customers.
And I'm slowly falling in love with the Beast retoolings, thanks to Go! Ratchet (redubbed Flatline) and BH Dreadwing. I'm looking at Arcee and Starscream now...
Posted by Noideaforaname on April 4th, 2014 @ 10:18am CDT
I was going to say Soundwave looks good now that he doesn't look like a macaw, but now I'm disappointed they didn't go full Cobra Commander on him. The screenface would make a perfect metal faceplate.
Posted by BERSEKAEL on April 4th, 2014 @ 11:57am CDT
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on April 4th, 2014 @ 1:06pm CDT
BERSEKAEL wrote:Are those really GO show, or only GO packages?
Just packaging. The only figures featured in the DVD anime shorts are the Predacons, the Samurai and Shinobi Teams, and Optimus Exprime.
Posted by Stormtalon on April 8th, 2014 @ 11:03am CDT
Posted by LOST Cybertronian on January 7th, 2015 @ 11:04pm CST
Also featured is galleries of the promotional Arms Microns that came from certain Japanese retailers with a purchase of 3,000 yen of Transformers Go! product. These Arms Microns are Shou, Sen and Geki. As always click the following pictures to see the full gallery.
Transformers Go! Gekisoumaru
Transformers Go! Hishoumaru
Transformers Go! Sensuimaru
Transformers Go! Shou
Transformers Go! Sen
Transformers Go! Geki
Posted by Emerje on January 8th, 2015 @ 12:10am CST
The Ninja team consists of two of the best figures original to Go!: Gekisoumaru and Hishoumaru; and the absolute worst of the line: Sensuimaru. Ganoh is still my favorite.
Emerje
Posted by Sabrblade on January 8th, 2015 @ 7:40am CST
Posted by ScottyP on January 8th, 2015 @ 9:00am CST
Posted by jogunwarrior on January 8th, 2015 @ 11:29am CST
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on January 8th, 2015 @ 11:56am CST
jogunwarrior wrote:Any chance of these ever being imported into the US for sale at retail? I dig them!
I'd say no, given their unorthodox price points and (really) Japanese styling.
Posted by Sabrblade on January 8th, 2015 @ 12:20pm CST
Steep discount, you say? Got a link to where you got yours?ScottyP wrote:Ha, what funny timing! I got the Phoenix and the Shark last week. I enjoy them, but glad I got them on a steep discount. Will probably grab the Lion at some point too.
Posted by Seibertron on January 8th, 2015 @ 3:33pm CST
Sabrblade wrote:Steep discount, you say? Got a link to where you got yours?ScottyP wrote:Ha, what funny timing! I got the Phoenix and the Shark last week. I enjoy them, but glad I got them on a steep discount. Will probably grab the Lion at some point too.
They've been on Amazon (all of the Go! figures) for dirt cheap for imports.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?tag=seibertron07-20& ... SENSUIMARU
You can get them for less than US retail ($19 shipped for one of them, $22 shipped for the other, I just got an extra Kenzan for $30 shipped the other day from Amazon to fix the problem with mine having a broken pony tail from the factory ... urgh).
Posted by LOST Cybertronian on January 9th, 2015 @ 10:11pm CST