New Galleries: Unite Warriors UW-06 Combiner Haunt Leader Grand Galvatron

Optimizzy wrote:Do you get like kickbacks or something? Every damn time I think "oh I don't want that" you put out a gallery and I think "oh I HAVE to get this". I mean. Damn.

Mkall wrote:Roller wins this set.

Mkall wrote:Roller wins this set.

Lucky Logician wrote:

Mkall wrote:Roller wins this set.

He is the one figure from this that I really want. Time to start stalking around to see if I can find someone breaking up the set and selling him for a decent price.

Seibertron wrote:I'm not a fan of Wandering Roller but I give them an A for effort for coming up with a proper story for him.

Sabrblade wrote:

Seibertron wrote:I'm not a fan of Wandering Roller but I give them an A for effort for coming up with a proper story for him.

I like that it gives us some follow up on what happened to him after his going MIA in MTMTE #36 (if he didn't become Tarn, that is).

Seibertron wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Seibertron wrote:I'm not a fan of Wandering Roller but I give them an A for effort for coming up with a proper story for him.

I like that it gives us some follow up on what happened to him after his going MIA in MTMTE #36 (if he didn't become Tarn, that is).

Now that's a toy I really, really, really want. Tarn and Rung. Make it a gift pack and call it a day.

Seibertron wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Seibertron wrote:I'm not a fan of Wandering Roller but I give them an A for effort for coming up with a proper story for him.

I like that it gives us some follow up on what happened to him after his going MIA in MTMTE #36 (if he didn't become Tarn, that is).

Now that's a toy I really, really, really want. Tarn and Rung. Make it a gift pack and call it a day.

Seibertron wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Seibertron wrote:I'm not a fan of Wandering Roller but I give them an A for effort for coming up with a proper story for him.

I like that it gives us some follow up on what happened to him after his going MIA in MTMTE #36 (if he didn't become Tarn, that is).

Now that's a toy I really, really, really want. Tarn and Rung. Make it a gift pack and call it a day.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:In all honesty, I'm thinking of cancelling my pre-order for the UW version and get this one. It is looking better and the gallery is beautiful. Plus. he does look better combined than I previously saw and he's much cheaper and I want Scrounge

Autobot N wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:In all honesty, I'm thinking of cancelling my pre-order for the UW version and get this one. It is looking better and the gallery is beautiful. Plus. he does look better combined than I previously saw and he's much cheaper and I want Scrounge

Pretty sure you can't cancel pre-orders with TFSource (I remember you saying that you had ordered him from there).

Autobot N wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:In all honesty, I'm thinking of cancelling my pre-order for the UW version and get this one. It is looking better and the gallery is beautiful. Plus. he does look better combined than I previously saw and he's much cheaper and I want Scrounge

Pretty sure you can't cancel pre-orders with TFSource (I remember you saying that you had ordered him from there).

Autobot N wrote:

Autobot N wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:In all honesty, I'm thinking of cancelling my pre-order for the UW version and get this one. It is looking better and the gallery is beautiful. Plus. he does look better combined than I previously saw and he's much cheaper and I want Scrounge

Pretty sure you can't cancel pre-orders with TFSource (I remember you saying that you had ordered him from there).

Huh. I had remembered reading somewhere that you couldn't cancel pre-orders.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I'm really considering it and I may cancel the pre-order tonight.

Autobot N wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I'm really considering it and I may cancel the pre-order tonight.

He is an awesome figure. Only thing I don't like is Brawlcone.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Autobot N wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I'm really considering it and I may cancel the pre-order tonight.

He is an awesome figure. Only thing I don't like is Brawlcone.

That's the one thing I hate about the set, but he'll be combined most of the time and I really want Scrounge more than ever. Plus, even with the Superion head the combined mode still looks good and I'm liking the color diversity more.

Arrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Autobot N wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Autobot N wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I'm really considering it and I may cancel the pre-order tonight.

He is an awesome figure. Only thing I don't like is Brawlcone.

That's the one thing I hate about the set, but he'll be combined most of the time and I really want Scrounge more than ever. Plus, even with the Superion head the combined mode still looks good and I'm liking the color diversity more.

Arrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

My recommendation would be:
Buy Hasbrotron
Scour eBay for a Takaracone.

RiddlerJ wrote:The thing is, if these were sold as separate figures, the one I'd be most interested in would be Lightspeed (well, after Scrounge). Just because he looks so unlike Lightspeed, I could make him be a different character entirely.

Slightly off topic: I wonder what G2 Technobots would look like.

RiddlerJ wrote:Slightly off topic: I wonder what G2 Technobots would look like.

Giant Purple Griffin wrote:This set is to good in hand. I haven't seen so much paint slathered on a Hasbro release in a long time. These galleries really show how well he and his individual members actually do match up with their G1 counterparts. Even Lightsteed, especially in car mode, is closer to his counterpart than you might think at first glance.

Bumblebee21 wrote:Is the second image on the news post a teaser for what's next

william-james88 wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:Is the second image on the news post a teaser for what's next

This one?

Bumblebee21 wrote:Yes
It has UW Computron's hands And feet

william-james88 wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:Yes
It has UW Computron's hands And feet

Ooouuu, look at you and your eagle eyes. I hadnt noticed that. But yes, the UW gallery is being worked on

Seibertron wrote:The Computron galleries took way longer than I had anticipated ... plus I've had the flu or really bad cold for the past week and managed to destroy one of my camera lenses during the process of photographing both Computron sets (thanks to me taking apart a lens to try to get rid of some dust that was causing the lens to not focus properly and then being unable to get it back together properly after 8 hours). UW-08 Computron set will be posted soon. Just finished the photos for MP-31 Delta Magnus!

william-james88 wrote:Sorry to hear about all that Seibertron, I hope you are feeling better. Between the two Computron sets, which do you preffer?

• My biggest issue with this set is that while it attempts to homage the original toys, instead of the cartoon models, it fails to do that very thing since there were so many discrepancies and missed opportunities, which were brought more to the forefront than normal simply because the Takara Tomy set strove so hard to homage the cartoon version of the Technobots.
• The other big issues that I have with this set are the lack of the guns that came with the individual figures in the UW-08 set as well as the new heads and other remoldings.
• I feel like since many of us already bought Scattershot as a single packed Voyager Class figure, that not providing us with the Takara Tomy remoldings for both chests, the guns, and the Computron head is kind of a slap in the face. I feel like I've paid for those retoolings already because I have purchased so many different versions of this mold.
• Scrounge is awesome and it's nice to see a figure that is along the lines of a BotCon figure being released at retail. Obscure, but important, and nice to finally have after 30+ years.
• Lightsteed is good in vehicle mode, but does not look like Lightspeed in robot mode.
• Nosecone is probably the weakest of the bunch. At a minimum, he needed a new head. Brawl, in different colors, is still Brawl.
• Strafe is the most bewildering to me. The "nosecone" or whatever distinct front piece he has should be called, seems like it's a spot that will easily break as soon as a Computron tumbles off someone's display shelf. As it is, I now have two cracks in mine after knocking out the pin so that I could display him holding his "guns". It's dumbfounding that this piece wasn't designed as a pop-off piece so he could have a weapon accessory, and to help reduce it as a breakage point.
• Afterbreaker looks good and having Groove's accessories helps with the homage. However, unlike the UW-08 Afterburner, you can't attach the accessories to the peg hole on top of the cockpit. Mine cracked after attempting to do this while he was attached as Computron's arm.
• Computron is OK. A proper head would have gone a long ways toward selling me on this set. In fact, I feel like Hasbro really missed an opportunity to do something truly unique with this set. I wish they had just gone all out trying to match the G1 toys with the heads, accessories, and colors. While I like UW-08 Computron's head, that head is the Headmasters cartoon head. It is not the extremely distinct toy head, which would have been really cool to have seen Hasbro done that, not with just Computron, but with all of the heads. Just make the Hasbro set a true homage to the toys to contrast Takara Tomy's version being an homage of the cartoon models.
• The new hands and feet are nice. They are a very welcomed and long overdue addition to this line. However, it's a little too late. While it's nice on Computron, it's odd that he's the only one beside the Victorion set, that doesn't have the standard Combiner Wars hand-foot-gun accessory. I guess my biggest thing is that I'd just like to see the unique hands and feet used on Computron be offered as appropriately colored sets for the other Combiners such as Defensor, Menasor, Superion, etc.

• Afterburner is nice, though I definitely prefer his toy colors. The Technobots were on-screen for such a small amount of time, that I've never considered his cartoon colors to be accurate and have always thought of any of the indiscrepancies with the colors of the Technobots to be an error in the cartoon. Another odd thing with Afterburner/Afterbreaker (and Groove as well), why in the world do these two figures have the light piping eyes? That's one of my favorite features on Transformers since the early 90s which I've been bummed to see going away recently, but it looks a little out of place on this mold when none of the other Combiner Wars/Unite Warriors figures have light piping. Love the new guns.
• Lightspeed is great, but something is off about the head. It looks better in person, and in my photos, than I saw in the video reviews I watched prior to working on these galleries, but something is just a little off about it.
• Nosecone is good, but again, something just seems off. While the new drill piece looks good, it's a little too big and it bugs me that the drill doesn't spin. It's a minor feature, but at this point with all of the remoldings and all of the money I have spent on this molds over the past 2 years, it seems like a minor feature that would have been nice to have. Something is off with his head as well. It's a little too wide or something compared to the cartoon model. I'm also not a fan of the Rook "hands", not sure why this opportunity wasn't taken to remold the hands finally to give him proper fists.
• Strafe is pretty good. I haven't photographed Blast Off yet so Strafe is pretty new to me still. I like how he's a reversed Blast Off. Very clever. I also like that the front orange gun pieces detach to become hand held accessories, even if that's unnecessary since he comes with his proper gun (which again, is very welcomed). I like the cartoon head, but for some reason the toy's head is more representative of Strafe to me (especially since his Marvel Comics model had the toy head).
• Scattershot is the most welcomed change other than Computron as a whole. Thank you for remolding Scattershot's chest, Computron's chest, providing new distinct guns, and doing a new head for Computron! Colors also look great. This is what I expect at this point after already purchasing so many different versions of this mold already. I didn't realize that the chests were remolded prior to working on the gallery so it was a very welcomed surprise!
• Computron is the Computron I wanted. I'm not a fan of the hands and feet, but at this point, I think it would have been very odd if Takara Tomy had released this set with the Hasbro version's hand and feet. They're not the greatest, but they work. I'm not quite sure what to make of the combined gun. Usually when this is done, ALL of the guns combine to form one BFG, not just some of the guns. The combined Scattershot guns seem like they would have sufficed to represent G1 Computron's gun. It looks cool, but just seems odd at the same time if that makes any sense.

Seibertron wrote:[*]Computron is OK. A proper head would have gone a long ways toward selling me on this set. In fact, I feel like Hasbro really missed an opportunity to do something truly unique with this set. I wish they had just gone all out trying to match the G1 toys with the heads, accessories, and colors.

Seibertron wrote:I'm also not a fan of the Rook "hands", not sure why this opportunity wasn't taken to remold the hands finally to give him proper fists.