New Image of Takara Transformers Unite Warriors UW-EX Megatronia

I really had no interest in this (or the room) ... but looking at those colours ... damn! Starting to get tempted.

This looks so much better then the one released by Hasbro.

Rodimus Knight wrote:This looks so much better then the one released by Hasbro.

You mean the Torchbearer set, Victorion? I kinda like em both, but probably won't get either unless I find one for a ridiculously low price (like the guys in the US did on Amazon...)

Dr Va'al wrote:The official Takara Tomy Transformers Twitter account has shared a new image of the Unite Warriors UW-EX combiner figure Megatronia, standing proudly and multi-coloured over her sword. Check it out mirrored below, compare it to the original Victorion toy with our galleries, and join the discussion in the Energon Pub!

Damn, now I want this even more. A shame her hands suck and her feet only have rockers with no tilts, but eh, they can be replaced.

Those are some really nice colors. I'm also a bit of a sucker for black

Interesting repaint. I can't wait to see more images of her.

OptimalOptimus2 wrote:Interesting repaint. I can't wait to see more images of her.

Search the Toy News section with her name as a keyword and you shall.

100% better color scheme than Victorion.

I wonder how Megatronia would look wielding dual-wielding the swords from both bots.

Still only want the hands, feet, and sword/weapons though.

Still not a fan of the colour scheme. Hate to throw around 'neon', but... this is just atrocious

Kurona wrote:Still not a fan of the colour scheme. Hate to throw around 'neon', but... this is just atrocious

Yikes. I think my old phone screen made the colors appear duller but.. Wow. That hurt my eyes for a bit. This isn't a joke, my eyes actually had to adjust a bit. They don't look neon, just a bit darker. But I'd hate to see them if they were.

Kurona wrote:Still not a fan of the colour scheme. Hate to throw around 'neon', but... this is just atrocious

I find them atrociously awesome. So ugly that they are cute, like a pug. Plus, you also have the option to consider them a G2 Victorion.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

Kurona wrote:Still not a fan of the colour scheme. Hate to throw around 'neon', but... this is just atrocious

I find them atrociously awesome. So ugly that they are cute, like a pug. Plus, you also have the option to consider them a G2 Victorion.

... if it wasn't for the fact Megatronia is a Decepticon

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

Kurona wrote:Still not a fan of the colour scheme. Hate to throw around 'neon', but... this is just atrocious

I find them atrociously awesome. So ugly that they are cute, like a pug. Plus, you also have the option to consider them a G2 Victorion.

... if it wasn't for the fact Megatronia is a Decepticon

Shattered Glass Victorion then after she changed sides

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

Kurona wrote:Still not a fan of the colour scheme. Hate to throw around 'neon', but... this is just atrocious

I find them atrociously awesome. So ugly that they are cute, like a pug. Plus, you also have the option to consider them a G2 Victorion.

I guess... but it doesn't quite pass into that threshold that G2 Bruticus and Action Master Thundercracker do for me. It just kind of looks bad, as if someone desperately wanted to prove to me that no, black with everything isn't always good despite what I usually think.

TF-fan kev777 wrote: So ugly that they are cute, like a pug.

YODA!

What if they were actually neon? Like light up tubes of gas? That would be AMAZFACE!
Light piping from the future!

Cobotron wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote: So ugly that they are cute, like a pug.

YODA!

What if they were actually neon? Like light up tubes of gas? That would be AMAZFACE!
Light piping from the future!

I really like this

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Cobotron wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote: So ugly that they are cute, like a pug.

YODA!

What if they were actually neon? Like light up tubes of gas? That would be AMAZFACE!
Light piping from the future!

I really like this

Damn, me too.

I wonder if they would glow under a blacklight? I now know the 1st thing I'm trying once I get my hands on them.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:I wonder if they would glow under a blacklight? I now know the 1st thing I'm trying once I get my hands on them.

Unless Death beats you to it . I wasn't even aware the G2 CW sets glowed under black light until I saw his reviews. I still wonder if that was intentional by Hasbro or just coincidental.

o.supreme wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:I wonder if they would glow under a blacklight? I now know the 1st thing I'm trying once I get my hands on them.

Unless Death beats you to it . I wasn't even aware the G2 CW sets glowed under black light until I saw his reviews. I still wonder if that was intentional by Hasbro or just coincidental.

I hope on purpose. I love glowing things

I honestly don't see how this is any harder to look at than CW Liokaiser.

Emerje

The colors give me a 1980's Punk vibe.

Yep....those colors look amazing on this combiner. Waaaay better than Victorion. Maybe it's the pose and symmetry of it that really make those colors really pop.

I'd buy this. It does need some more neon though.

If/when I get this I'm going to combine her asymmetrically I think. Not sure whether to go "one side helicopters, one side cars" or complete chaos/diagonal asymmetry. I'm also going to get Shapeways...ing and make Megaempress some upgrades to make her look more railgun-y but that's another story.

Takara had a missed opportunity in painting inside the two holes on Shuttler's chest either black or dark gray to both break up the sea of orange on his chest and to emulate the vents he had on his chest in those spots in the cartoon:

Sabrblade wrote:Takara had a missed opportunity in painting inside the two holds on Shuttler's chest either black or dark gray to both break up the sea of orange on his chest and to emulate the vents he had on his chest in those spots in the cartoon:

No panel/intake to paint on.

fenrir72 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Takara had a missed opportunity in painting inside the two holds on Shuttler's chest either black or dark gray to both break up the sea of orange on his chest and to emulate the vents he had on his chest in those spots in the cartoon:

No panel/intake to paint on.

I see a typo I wrote. "Holds" should have been "holes". That make more sense to what I wrote?

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Takara had a missed opportunity in painting inside the two holds on Shuttler's chest either black or dark gray to both break up the sea of orange on his chest and to emulate the vents he had on his chest in those spots in the cartoon:

No panel/intake to paint on.

I see a typo I wrote. "Holds" should have been "holes". That make more sense to what I wrote?

I get what you mean about breaking the color monotony but to put the parts in human terms, the Shuttler/Blastoff mold doesn't have too much of an "underboob" where he a "human". It's more of a "petanko" that even if Takara painted on it it would come out clumsy. At least that's how I see it in my UW Bruticus.

fenrir72 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Takara had a missed opportunity in painting inside the two holds on Shuttler's chest either black or dark gray to both break up the sea of orange on his chest and to emulate the vents he had on his chest in those spots in the cartoon:

No panel/intake to paint on.

I see a typo I wrote. "Holds" should have been "holes". That make more sense to what I wrote?

I get what you mean about breaking the color monotony but to put the parts in human terms, the Shuttler/Blastoff mold doesn't have too much of an "underboob" where he a "human". It's more of a "petanko" that even if Takara painted on it it would come out clumsy. At least that's how I see it in my UW Bruticus.

I'm just suggesting that they paint the holes black/gray, not that they paint actual vent lines in those holes.

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Takara had a missed opportunity in painting inside the two holds on Shuttler's chest either black or dark gray to both break up the sea of orange on his chest and to emulate the vents he had on his chest in those spots in the cartoon:

No panel/intake to paint on.

I see a typo I wrote. "Holds" should have been "holes". That make more sense to what I wrote?

I get what you mean about breaking the color monotony but to put the parts in human terms, the Shuttler/Blastoff mold doesn't have too much of an "underboob" where he a "human". It's more of a "petanko" that even if Takara painted on it it would come out clumsy. At least that's how I see it in my UW Bruticus.

I'm just suggesting that they paint the holes black/gray, not that they paint actual vent lines in those holes.

Looking on Computicon, they could have but they didn't as that image I put ups seems to be that Baldigus has gone gold already. I could be wrong but highly unlikely.

fenrir72 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Takara had a missed opportunity in painting inside the two holds on Shuttler's chest either black or dark gray to both break up the sea of orange on his chest and to emulate the vents he had on his chest in those spots in the cartoon:

No panel/intake to paint on.

I see a typo I wrote. "Holds" should have been "holes". That make more sense to what I wrote?

I get what you mean about breaking the color monotony but to put the parts in human terms, the Shuttler/Blastoff mold doesn't have too much of an "underboob" where he a "human". It's more of a "petanko" that even if Takara painted on it it would come out clumsy. At least that's how I see it in my UW Bruticus.

I'm just suggesting that they paint the holes black/gray, not that they paint actual vent lines in those holes.

Looking on Computicon, they could have but they didn't as that image I put ups seems to be that Baldigus has gone gold already. I could be wrong but highly unlikely.

That's why I used the words "missed opportunity" in my original post.

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Takara had a missed opportunity in painting inside the two holds on Shuttler's chest either black or dark gray to both break up the sea of orange on his chest and to emulate the vents he had on his chest in those spots in the cartoon:

No panel/intake to paint on.

I see a typo I wrote. "Holds" should have been "holes". That make more sense to what I wrote?

I get what you mean about breaking the color monotony but to put the parts in human terms, the Shuttler/Blastoff mold doesn't have too much of an "underboob" where he a "human". It's more of a "petanko" that even if Takara painted on it it would come out clumsy. At least that's how I see it in my UW Bruticus.

I'm just suggesting that they paint the holes black/gray, not that they paint actual vent lines in those holes.

Looking on Computicon, they could have but they didn't as that image I put ups seems to be that Baldigus has gone gold already. I could be wrong but highly unlikely.

That's why I used the words "missed opportunity" in my original post.

In the show, was it really a paint app or just a shadow formed from an angle?

fenrir72 wrote:In the show, was it really a paint app or just a shadow formed from an angle?

He had vents on his chest in the show, yes.





As did his original toy (but on which were unpainted):



And his Japanese box art:

Sabrblade wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:In the show, was it really a paint app or just a shadow formed from an angle?

He had vents on his chest in the show, yes.





As did his original toy (but on which were unpainted):



And his Japanese box art:

Too bad that his "modern" version doesn't have one.

From official Takara Tomy Transformers account TF_pr, we have a new image of members of their upcoming Unite Warriors UW-EX Megatronia set, featuring the helitwins! Repaints of the Victorion set's Stormclash and Skyburst figures (the Alpha Bravo mold with new headsculpts) Lunaclub and Moonheart also come with the butterfly swords we saw in the Torchbearer team. Check it out below!

Kinda like the team better individually, but at the same time the colours are a bit... I dunno. A bit too pastel-y, a bit too light? If it was a darker shade of red and a darker shade of blue I'd be all over them. Dunno why they went for this shade.

Kurona wrote:Kinda like the team better individually, but at the same time the colours are a bit... I dunno. A bit too pastel-y, a bit too light? If it was a darker shade of red and a darker shade of blue I'd be all over them. Dunno why they went for this shade.

Because it's intended to homage Sentai(power rangers)? That's the entire reason. Brightly flashy colors.

so I finally purchased UW-04 Devastator, found one for a decent price in eBay ($160 MISB) free shipping.

What an amazing toy!. I love how solid it is for such a big toy, wish the other UW/CW toys were as sturdy in their combined modes. It is nice being so BIG, but my only regret is that it is not to scale with al the others, well that and the fact that the packaging was not window boxed, or that TT used Hasbro box art recolored instead of their own, but those are minor nitpicks. Kind of hard to play out "Starscream's Brigade" with Dev being 1/3 taller than Bruticus . But all that aside, it is a great toy. Looks like BBTS still has plenty of stock, though they lowered their price by $40 (From $220 down to $180), I foresee another price drop coming soon, they wont want to hand on to those forever, so anyone waiting, the holiday time might be a good time to pick up this giant, as the price goes down, the value for what you get definitely goes up.

o.supreme wrote:so I finally purchased UW-04 Devastator, found one for a decent price in eBay ($160 MISB) free shipping.

What an amazing toy!. I love how solid it is for such a big toy, wish the other UW/CW toys were as sturdy in their combined modes. It is nice being so BIG, but my only regret is that it is not to scale with al the others, well that and the fact that the packaging was not window boxed, or that TT used Hasbro box art recolored instead of their own, but those are minor nitpicks. Kind of hard to play out "Starscream's Brigade" with Dev being 1/3 taller than Bruticus . But all that aside, it is a great toy. Looks like BBTS still has plenty of stock, though they lowered their price by $40 (From $220 down to $180), I foresee another price drop coming soon, they wont want to hand on to those forever, so anyone waiting, the holiday time might be a good time to pick up this giant, as the price goes down, the value for what you get definitely goes up.

I only have the Hasbro version which fits my needs just fine. I don't mind his size because he started as the biggest and baddest but I wouldn't complain if that KO company WuJiang did a downsized version with his components being deluxe size to fit in with the others a little better.

News title says "Moonspade" but her name is "Moonheart".

Kurona wrote:Kinda like the team better individually, but at the same time the colours are a bit... I dunno. A bit too pastel-y, a bit too light? If it was a darker shade of red and a darker shade of blue I'd be all over them. Dunno why they went for this shade.

well you know they are female and they always dress pretty

Randomhero wrote:Because it's intended to homage Sentai(power rangers)? That's the entire reason. Brightly flashy colors.

I think it's a little more Mahou Shoujo/Magical Girl than Super Sentai.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Randomhero wrote:Because it's intended to homage Sentai(power rangers)? That's the entire reason. Brightly flashy colors.

I think it's a little more Mahou Shoujo/Magical Girl than Super Sentai.

Emerje

Yeah I am not seeing super sentai. Especially when the colours used arent primary.

william-james88 wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Randomhero wrote:Because it's intended to homage Sentai(power rangers)? That's the entire reason. Brightly flashy colors.

I think it's a little more Mahou Shoujo/Magical Girl than Super Sentai.

Emerje

Yeah I am not seeing super sentai. Especially when the colours used arent primary.

There was one evil all-female Sentai team in Kakuranger (the series that was adapted into MMPR season 3 and MMAR) whose main colors were atypical of the usual Sentai color coding (i.e. - no red or yellow), and who also had black as their secondary color and silver as their tertiary color.

Likewise, these Woman Destrons each have a main color with black as their secondary color and silver as their tertiary color (though, in Megaempress's case, silver is her main color while red becomes her tertiary color).

Not calling this a direct homage to that. Just citing a Sentai example of an evil female Sentai team whose colors were just as abnormal as those of the Woman Destrons.

I remember that. Though I think the similarities to magical girls stretch a little further. For example Megaempress reminds me of all those secretly a princess team leaders that are hooked up on love. Even her Judge Pickel could be seen as a sort of magical girl rod/stick/scepter. There are other things as well and I'm sure we'll see others when the Baldigus set comes out.

Emerje

They all have powers which could be deemed magical, too - one could probably say the same thing for a lot of other transformer powers, but many of those tend to be more mechanical or technological in nature like sonic booms or holograms. Elemental powers are more magically-aligned.

Though, couldn't one argue that a fair number of those magical girl teams are themselves a bit Sentai-esque, being color-coordinated, themed, superhero teams consisting of 3, 5, or a similar number of members? After all, not every Sentai homage needs to specifically resemble the masked, spandex-suited hero look to qualify as such a homage.

Wow, are we going that direction now?

I'll have you know such powers are not unprecedented in Transformers lore. One quick look at a certain Transformers anime, called Choujin Masterforce reveals that the Godmasters have elemental powers as well:

Ginrai: Fire
Lightfoot: Water
Ranger: Earth
Road King: I guess his spinning attack classifies him as Wind?
Hydra: Wind
Buster: Lightning

Not saying the Magical Girl comparison is totally inaccurate, but there are more ways of looking at the Woman Destron than just that way.

Sure, but when it's an all female team it seems much less likely that the creator had sentai in mind.

Maybe we should have a proper sentai team in UW? Takara Tomy could do a repaint of CW Computron and make one of them a female character in pink.

Emerje

Better than making Captain Planet comparisons.