New Images of Takara Transformers Legends Weirdwolf, Blaster, Wheelie, Rewind and Fortress Maximus In Packaging

Looking forward to wheelie, blaster and fort max. Hopefully they'll come in stock soon.

Just curious, but why for Blaster in Katakana, why did they use the "ya" in the third to last symbol rather than the "a" one? It comes out to burodokiyasuto instead of burodokiasuto.

I'm actually very happy with my Blaster, Rewind and Wheelie. I think they were better

That Fortress Maximus box is awesome.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I'm actually very happy with my Blaster, Rewind and Wheelie. I think they were better

I dont know if better, but most definitely good in their own right. And to me this is the best. I got really pissed off last year with the RID line comparing Takara's products where I really felt jipped to see how much Takara cared about bringing out some cool details and making them collecting worthy while Hasbro didnt seem to give two shits. but with the TR line, along with some CW toys this year, hasbro really upped their game in terms of making their toys just as collecting worthy, with precise referencing and detail. I love their trend this year of using tampographs to bring back sticker detail. Its really cool on legends groove for instance and its to die for on CW Trailbreaker. The only weak one I found so far was Blurr but for all the rest of Titans Return, hasbro has been giving us some great stuff and I really dont feel I have an inferior product in the least.

PS: I would have liked all the Hasbro smartphones to have the tape background, the tech stats on Rumble and Ravage seem a bit off.

Awwwwwwww! No giant window box for Fort Max? I'm disappointed!

HLJ sent payment request for LG30!

Takara is releasing these so slowly compared to Hasbro..

Cyberpath wrote:HLJ sent payment request for LG30!

Takara is releasing these so slowly compared to Hasbro..

I stil havent seen wave 2 around so it wouldnt surprise me if you have your takara Wierdwolf before I have my Hasbro one.

The differences in some of these offerings and the Hasbro versions don't look quite as drastic as they did with some of the previous Takara releases like Blurr and Scourge. In the case of Fort Max, it may just come down to whether you want a Fortress or a Cerebros for the head.

william-james88 wrote:Just curious, but why for Blaster in Katakana, why did they use the "ya" in the third to last symbol rather than the "a" one? It comes out to burodokiyasuto instead of burodokiasuto.

That's just how the English word "broadcast" is spelled in Katakana. "Burōdokyasuto"

Some words just use the キャ "kya" character instead of the カ "ka" character to approximate the "ka"/"ca" sound of foreign words. Another Transformers example that does this would be how the name of the Headmaster Junior "Cancer" is rendered as キャンサー "Kyansā".

It just hit me that the name of Weirdwolf's Partner Drone, the Apeface redeco, is the word "gorilla" with its Katakana spelled backwards: "Rarigo" (or "Llarigo", if you wish to keep to the English spelling of the word "gorilla").

Sabrblade wrote:It just hit me that the name of Weirdwolf's Partner Drone, the Apeface redeco, is the word "gorilla" with its Katakana spelled backwards: "Rarigo" (or "Llarigo", if you wish to keep to the English spelling of the word "gorilla").

What, does it play MMOs or something? It's pretty common for Japanese MMO players to reorder the katakana in their real names to make their player names.

Emerje

<--- Not that westerners wouldn't do that.

I have to say that I think Takara Wheelie looks miles better than Hasbro. As much better as Takara Blur to Hasbro. And I wish BBTS would get him in so I can ship my loot, I'm jonesing for my fix lol. Got Astrotrain, Mindwipe and then Wheelie coming.

So since Wallgreens has been difficult to track down for me, I've been considering getting LG-39 Brainstorm instead.

His mouthplate in MTMTE is removeable - and I would be getting him for MTMTE; I don't really care about how much it looks like the original toy or Headmasters - so this could work for me. Plus if I eventually get wallgreens/SDCC Brainstorm it could be fun to ocassionally swap out his normal head for his faceplateless one. And the black used sort of makes him look like he jumped out a comic page.
Only problem is the price... especially when I'm trying to decide on another relatively high-priced investment (MP Road Rage, currently on sale for £35)

LG32 Chromedome really appeals to me. The legs look much better than on the Hasbro one color-wise.



Dunno if I could get LG Blurr though even though I want it OH SO BAD!

SillySpringer wrote:LG32 Chromedome really appeals to me. The legs look much better than on the Hasbro one color-wise.



Dunno if I could get LG Blurr though even though I want it OH SO BAD!

Little too much brown for my tastes; nearing Hasbro blue-rr levels. Or kinda looks like he's wearing a brown set of dungarees.

Kurona wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:LG32 Chromedome really appeals to me. The legs look much better than on the Hasbro one color-wise.



Dunno if I could get LG Blurr though even though I want it OH SO BAD!

Little too much brown for my tastes; nearing Hasbro blue-rr levels. Or kinda looks like he's wearing a brown set of dungarees.

...and that's the Chromedome I know.





GEEWUUN Chromey for the win.

SillySpringer wrote:

Kurona wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:LG32 Chromedome really appeals to me. The legs look much better than on the Hasbro one color-wise.



Dunno if I could get LG Blurr though even though I want it OH SO BAD!

Little too much brown for my tastes; nearing Hasbro blue-rr levels. Or kinda looks like he's wearing a brown set of dungarees.

...and that's the Chromedome I know.





GEEWUUN Chromey for the win.

Eh, that's fair

The Chromedome I know has brown jeans with red underwear on top and he's wearing big, blocky, tan shoes. A silly but unique look that I absolutely love.

Kurona wrote:So since Wallgreens has been difficult to track down for me, I've been considering getting LG-39 Brainstorm instead.

You're a little early with that, he's due there in Mid-October.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Kurona wrote:So since Wallgreens has been difficult to track down for me, I've been considering getting LG-39 Brainstorm instead.

You're a little early with that, he's due there in Mid-October.

I know

For the remaining original Headmaster characters I think Takara's Mindwipe is a clear winner over Hasbro. They actually made use of the legs/wings colour-changing engineering trick.


But for Chromedome, Highbrow and Brainstorm I prefer Takara's bodies with, I think, Hasbro's heads.


CD & HB heads are consistent enough between both companies in way of having either a mouth or a plate. But not Brainstorm.


Takara's Brainstorm's head is actually pretty Rebirth-y aside for the mouth. So I think I'm going to try to give him a 3D print plate that tabs into these two slots.


Unless someone wants to come up with a cheap "upgrade kit" featuring Rebirth-accurate faces.

Fortmax is now available and amiami is asking for the payment

[quote="Cyberpath"]From Loopaza Mega Store:

So Tarantulas hacked Metroflex to get him to fight 'max who was "sick" and recuperating? Also, There can be only one who can use Fortress' transtector unlike the other Hms who can trade bodies or only 'bots to 'bots and 'cons to 'cons?

ISP hiccups!

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Hasbro version sounds (for a fast comparison)

Fellow Seibertronian Logan79 is on fire today, finding Transformers news and sharing it with us. He has found this short video from "three star star" on youtube which shows us the sound effects made by Takara's Transformers Legends LG31 Fortress Maximus. The toy has far more sound effects than the standard Hasbro release with many Japanese lines along with "TransfOOOrm!" and, best of all, the Japanese theme song to the cartoon (starting at the 53 second mark). The toy is being released in Japan this week and should be shipping out to international customers soon, if not already.

"Transform!"

"I'm Fortress"

"Master Sword!"

"Head On!"

"Here I come"

The rest I can't get

Wooooooooooooooooohooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

I'm really hoping he arrives before my birthday in the middle of next month!! Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh buddy!!

fenrir72 wrote:Also, There can be only one who can use Fortress' transtector unlike the other Hms who can trade bodies or only 'bots to 'bots and 'cons to 'cons?

Yeah, maybe firewall against Decepticon hijackers. Or maybe Weirdwolf was overwhelmed by Fortress' power.

Seibertronian Cyberpath has alerted us to the presence of Takara Tomy's Transformers Legends Fortress Maximus, which has had its box art and manga revealed thanks to Loopaza Mega Store! The manga is a 6 page comic featuring Fortress as well as the full Fortress Maximus body, while the boxart shows off Fortress Maximus standing tall and ready to battle. You can check out the comic as well as the manga below, and let us know what you think in the comments section below.

Looks fun! Will someone please translate or at least provide a summary? It is cool to see Titan Metroplex in this story along with Fort Max. Bring on more Titans, I say!

Hmm...I guess that the Autobots don't have much of a clothing budget for T-Ai, unless they're just a bit too eager to see a nearly nude human female.

That was the best story I couldn't understand that I've read today

Basically, Fort Max decides to go out for a hamburger, he meets up with Metroplex who asks him to pick up a chicken sandwich while he's out, then at the end he realizes that he left his wallet on Cybertron.

Yep,......I can't read it either.

So what's with the beat up Brave Maximus early on? Seems a little out of place.

Via Facebook (by a fan)

Fortress Maximus In Hand

Railbomb wrote:So what's with the beat up Brave Maximus early on? Seems a little out of place.

Ehe... that's one of the many retcons from... wait for it...

Kiss Play Position!

Long story short, lots of time/dimensions traveling, RiD Fortress Maximus was used in the past to protect something, and G1 Fortress Maximus is based on him. The End.

Railbomb wrote:So what's with the beat up Brave Maximus early on? Seems a little out of place.

It's a reference to Kiss Players Position, in which Brave Maximus got sent back in time to crash-land on the Planet Master, where Fortress would see it crash and take inspiration from Brave Maximus to perfect his Headmaster technology and construct Battleship Maximus.

Sabrblade wrote:

Railbomb wrote:So what's with the beat up Brave Maximus early on? Seems a little out of place.

It's a reference to Kiss Players Position, in which Brave Maximus got sent back in time to crash-land on the Planet Master, where Fortress would see it crash and take inspiration from Brave Maximus to perfect his Headmaster technology and construct Battleship Maximus.

Hmmmm...and given that the Maximus battleship configuration and the Macross are probably loosely based on Whitebase, I believe that particular time travel trope is an Inverse-Macek-Loop.

Bumblevivisector wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Railbomb wrote:So what's with the beat up Brave Maximus early on? Seems a little out of place.

It's a reference to Kiss Players Position, in which Brave Maximus got sent back in time to crash-land on the Planet Master, where Fortress would see it crash and take inspiration from Brave Maximus to perfect his Headmaster technology and construct Battleship Maximus.

Hmmmm...and given that the Maximus battleship configuration and the Macross are probably loosely based on Whitebase, I believe that particular time travel trope is an Inverse-Macek-Loop.

BullsEye!

Kind of also a bit like how the Ark crashed into prehistoric Earth. Fortress reversed engineered the divine sourced technology into what would become planet Master's super science which G1 Optimus Prime didn't use back in the year 2000 up 'cause another retcon had Brave Max becoming the core of Autobot City aside from Metroplex being the mobile sentient portion of it. Just imagine if Optimus reversed engineered brave Max back then, then the war would have been over.

Logan. wrote:Via Facebook (by a fan)

Fortress Maximus In Hand

I'll be able to pay for him this Monday

Btw, sort of a reverse. In the original G1, Cerebros/Fortress is smaller than the regular Hm. Now, it's him who is taller (the head version compared to the deluxe Hms).

Fyi. Inspiration for Tai bikini armor archetype can be traced from these three especially the last one (US popular culture did,t add Jane Fonda ).

Leda

Princess Leia

Red Sonja

Except they do in bishoujo style

TF YUKI

Wait, I've never seen this done before. Is this something intentional that Hasbro/TT forgot to tell us about or is it just something he figured out? There's no real need for this, but it's strange coincidence if it wasn't intended. When one of TT's designers does this it feels intentional.

Emerje

Thanks to Loopaza Mega Store

Comparison In Hand (Thanks to Planet Iacon on Facebook)

More images, again and again (Thanks to @tagoal on twitter)

This is the first time we've seen this right? I had no idea the whole head was white and blue, I'm not sure how I feel about it. I mean the helmet covers it, and it's not a deal breaker but it's unexpected.