Official images of Takara Transformers TAV 28 Grand Vehicon General and TAV 27 Deployer Drift

So glad to see Adventures Drift will come with both, and they actually look like the minicons! finally!

Nice to know that TAV Drift (and presumably TAV Fracture) will be coming with both of their respective minicon buddies. Any idea yet if Takara is bothering with the rest of the minicons that have come out in Hasbro markets in the past few weeks? I've been waiting to push the button on these in case of a Takara announcement, but I'm getting the feeling that Takara is just gonna pass on them altogether. Doesn't look like the Takara versions of Drift's minicons come with their clear plastic extra armor pieces and weapons either.

Wolfman Jake wrote:Nice to know that TAV Drift (and presumably TAV Fracture) will be coming with both of their respective minicon buddies.

Micron Shooter Fracture comes with Airazor but not Divebomb. Sandsting is included instead.

Sabrblade wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:Nice to know that TAV Drift (and presumably TAV Fracture) will be coming with both of their respective minicon buddies.

Micron Shooter Fracture comes with Airazor but not Divebomb. Sandsting is included instead.

Okay, that's bizarre. WTF, Takara Tomy?

Vehicon General looks really nice. Glad I've got a few of him preordered already. I wish the Jet Vehicons were slated for this line as well...

Yaaaaaaaa, that's a pretty sweet silver Cadillac CTS. Bot looks good too.

Hey guys, is the gun different than the original one? Because it looks different to me.

So Runabout is still on 'pre-order' at bbts; did I miss the boat on this one? Has anyone here gotten one from them yet?

Hellscream9999 wrote:So Runabout is still on 'pre-order' at bbts; did I miss the boat on this one? Has anyone here gotten one from them yet?

ETA end of August. Same Over ride. That's why I had to delay my UW Menasor, I combined them shipping.

fenrir72 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:So Runabout is still on 'pre-order' at bbts; did I miss the boat on this one? Has anyone here gotten one from them yet?

ETA end of August. Same Over ride. That's why I had to delay my UW Menasor, I combined them shipping.

Well they were july and now they're august (and I suspect its a feature of the site to automatically push up the date by every month); they still haven't gotten the next shipment of protectobots in, they've been on 'pre-order' since may

william-james88 wrote:Hey guys, is the gun different than the original one? Because it looks different to me.

I think same.

Cobotron wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Hey guys, is the gun different than the original one? Because it looks different to me.

I think same.

You know, because everything is silver I confused where the gun begins and ends. Yes, it is the same.

Vehicon looks great, will fit in well with the rest of my Vehiconic crew.

There are many copies. And they have a plan.

I don't care if this Vehicon General doesn't make much sense, I've been wanting that mold for a long time, and this seems like a great way to get it.

Optimizzy wrote:There are many copies. And they have a plan.

To look bitchin'

Even though there's not a lot of color to the Grand Vehicon General, he still looks awesome and glorious. The colors of the Takara Deployer Drift are good as usual for these Japanese toys. Nothing too surprising here!

SillySpringer wrote:I don't care if this Vehicon General doesn't make much sense,

I'm the toy's bio will attempt to justify this thing's fictional existence.

Sabrblade wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:I don't care if this Vehicon General doesn't make much sense,

I'm the toy's bio will attempt to justify this thing's fictional existence.

It exists to be a new standard of awesome, and nothing less

So Sabr, if you are the toy's bio, would you care to tell us what it is?



Also, I am looking forward to the in package pics, we will then know if it is Grand or Ground.

Do a good deed and you get good karma.

I didn't post any links on 2 online Japan based stores with regards to TAV-28 because the sucker sold out like the minute it got posted.

Tried accessing amiami but the site kept giving me an error until they eventually put off the pre-order slot.I also tried hlj but also sold out. So I requested hobbysearch if the could also order some.

This is the response I got



So expect this early October.

https://twitter.com/TFYUKI/status/636100293566992384



More wanking as if the waiting isn't already killing us

fenrir72 wrote:https://twitter.com/TFYUKI/status/636100293566992384



More wanking as if the waiting isn't already killing us

So can we take this to mean that they should be winging their way to us very soon?

I would recommend that Override for interaction with Skylynx for sure he matches that colour scheme so well.

The little Black fella might go well with Grand Scourge or some hypothetical Nemesis Prime repaint that may get made one day. Not to mention the Unite Warriors set of course.

I do kind of wish they'd not put the hood logos on him though then the logo wouldn't be sideways when he's in chest plate mode. 4 logos is to many.

I like how Override's scannable logo is hidden too - that is a good idea.

RAR wrote:I would recommend that Override for interaction with Skylynx for sure he matches that colour scheme so well.

The little Black fella might go well with Grand Scourge or some hypothetical Nemesis Prime repaint that may get made one day. Not to mention the Unite Warriors set of course.

I do kind of wish they'd not put the hood logos on him though then the logo wouldn't be sideways when he's in chest plate mode. 4 logos is to many.

I like how Override's scannable logo is hidden too - that is a good idea.

Small-groove was never meant to interact/combine with sky lynx (to my knowledge) wreck-gar is just being released in that wave. And these aren't G1 so TT is not acknowledging that they combine, and are not designing them to do so.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

RAR wrote:I would recommend that Override for interaction with Skylynx for sure he matches that colour scheme so well.

The little Black fella might go well with Grand Scourge or some hypothetical Nemesis Prime repaint that may get made one day. Not to mention the Unite Warriors set of course.

I do kind of wish they'd not put the hood logos on him though then the logo wouldn't be sideways when he's in chest plate mode. 4 logos is to many.

I like how Override's scannable logo is hidden too - that is a good idea.

Small-groove was never meant to interact/combine with sky lynx (to my knowledge) wreck-gar is just being released in that wave. And these aren't G1 so TT is not acknowledging that they combine, and are not designing them to do so.

That doesn't mean they can't. I'd think you'd appreciate that HS.
Override might look real cool on Wave 1 Prime. Whom I know you don't appreciate HS.

Cobotron wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

RAR wrote:I would recommend that Override for interaction with Skylynx for sure he matches that colour scheme so well.

The little Black fella might go well with Grand Scourge or some hypothetical Nemesis Prime repaint that may get made one day. Not to mention the Unite Warriors set of course.

I do kind of wish they'd not put the hood logos on him though then the logo wouldn't be sideways when he's in chest plate mode. 4 logos is to many.

I like how Override's scannable logo is hidden too - that is a good idea.

Small-groove was never meant to interact/combine with sky lynx (to my knowledge) wreck-gar is just being released in that wave. And these aren't G1 so TT is not acknowledging that they combine, and are not designing them to do so.

That doesn't mean they can't. I'd think you'd appreciate that HS.
Override might look real cool on Wave 1 Prime. Whom I know you don't appreciate HS.

Yeah, 2 op's is a bit much in 1 year

And I do know that they can, what i meant was, TT is not designing the deco (specifically the sideways on runabout) to work with the torso guys. But yeah, cannot wait to have runabout chillin' with blackjack on my desk; he is such a superb little figure.

Cobotron wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

RAR wrote:I would recommend that Override for interaction with Skylynx for sure he matches that colour scheme so well.

The little Black fella might go well with Grand Scourge or some hypothetical Nemesis Prime repaint that may get made one day. Not to mention the Unite Warriors set of course.

I do kind of wish they'd not put the hood logos on him though then the logo wouldn't be sideways when he's in chest plate mode. 4 logos is to many.

I like how Override's scannable logo is hidden too - that is a good idea.

Small-groove was never meant to interact/combine with sky lynx (to my knowledge) wreck-gar is just being released in that wave. And these aren't G1 so TT is not acknowledging that they combine, and are not designing them to do so.

That doesn't mean they can't. I'd think you'd appreciate that HS.
Override might look real cool on Wave 1 Prime. Whom I know you don't appreciate HS.

They both look good and have nice colors. I think they'd both look good on their molds respective combiners. Color schemes great

Hellscream9999 wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:https://twitter.com/TFYUKI/status/636100293566992384



More wanking as if the waiting isn't already killing us

So can we take this to mean that they should be winging their way to us very soon?

There's still 5 days til the end of August.

Fellow Seibertronian Fenrir has sent some fun stuff our way. TF Yuki has posted another image of an upcoming Transformers Adventure product. This time it is in package images of the two TAV products being released in just a few days:
TAV 25 Autobot Decepticon Runabout
TAV 26 Override



If you have preordered yours, prepare to get a shipping notification very soon.

I just recently acquired some TAV figures. I got Gregevor, and all though the paint apps look great in robot mode, I realized her paint apps in alt mode are exactly the same layout as Hasbro's Strongarm. Needless to say they are kind of lack luster.
But hey, I like the mold, and now I have an extra Con for my RID collection.

It seems there isn't that much love for the 3-step Transformers among the collector community. But what if they looked good? I mean real good? Like this:




These are pictures from Hishashi Yuki's Twitter (TF Yuki) of the upcoming TED-11 Big Steeljaw and below you can see the difference between the Takara and Hasbro releases.



While the 3 steps may be for a younger audience, they are still engineered by Takara (3 step Grimlock and Bumblebee are done by the same guy who made MP 10) and I like how they show great pride in their accomplishments throughout the line, regardless of the amount of steps it takes to transform.

Well speaking of paint apps. Those are some worth looking at.

Cobotron wrote:I just recently acquired some TAV figures. I got Gregevor, and all though the paint apps look great in robot mode, I realized her paint apps in alt mode are exactly the same layout as Hasbro's Strongarm.

Greejeeber is a male.

Cobotron wrote::lol: Well speaking of paint apps. Those are some worth looking at.

But seriously, nothing beats that drift. That thing has so many amazing paint apps in robot mode, its crazy!

Sabrblade wrote:Greejeeber is a male.

Well if I'm going to be bewitched in the sauna bath, I'm gonna go ahead and pretend he's a she.

william-james88 wrote:

Cobotron wrote::lol: Well speaking of paint apps. Those are some worth looking at.

But seriously, nothing beats that drift. That thing has so many amazing paint apps in robot mode, its crazy!

I believe Drift is the winner of the line, not gonna lie. And that 3-step does have a nice head. Really nice looking

Cobotron wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Greejeeber is a male.

Well if I'm going to be bewitched in the sauna bath, I'm gonna go ahead and pretend he's a she.

"See you at the baths, sweetheart!"

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Cobotron wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Greejeeber is a male.

Well if I'm going to be bewitched in the sauna bath, I'm gonna go ahead and pretend he's a she.

"See you at the baths, sweetheart!"

I am never going to a sauna or taking a bath ever again......

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Cobotron wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Greejeeber is a male.

Well if I'm going to be bewitched in the sauna bath, I'm gonna go ahead and pretend he's a she.

"See you at the baths, sweetheart!"

I am never going to a sauna or taking a bath ever again......

More room for James Earl Jones and Sheldon Cooper, then.

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Cobotron wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Greejeeber is a male.

Well if I'm going to be bewitched in the sauna bath, I'm gonna go ahead and pretend he's a she.

"See you at the baths, sweetheart!"

I am never going to a sauna or taking a bath ever again......

More room for James Earl Jones and Sheldon Cooper, then.

That's it! I'm out of here!

D-Max: out!!

The mold isn't all that great, but at least Takara does an excellent job at detailing. However, there's one thing I don't like. Why does the blue have to be that dull? Steeljaw looks like he would need a bath himself.

Sabrblade wrote:More room for James Earl Jones and Sheldon Cooper, then.

Yeah, there's always someone.

OptimalOptimus2 wrote:The mold isn't all that great, but at least Takara does an excellent job at detailing. However, there's one thing I don't like. Why does the blue have to be that dull? Steeljaw looks like he would need a bath himself.

Sabrblade wrote:More room for James Earl Jones and Sheldon Cooper, then.

Yeah, there's always someone.

...to sit with you and let it all out, sweat it all out.

Also, that 3 step Steeljaw is look a lot better than Hasbro's effort. I do like the 3-step guys. Is there any word on Takara's take on Thunderhoof? I already liked Hasbro's, but looking at what they're doing to Steeljaw, me thinks Takara might one-up Hasbro.

Having worked on MP Transformers should make him even MORE ashamed to have worked on these things. There's a reason why people aren't buying them, and the reason is: There are better ones to be had.

Shockwave7 wrote:Having worked on MP Transformers should make him even MORE ashamed to have worked on these things. There's a reason why people aren't buying them, and the reason is: There are better ones to be had.

WHAT?!?!?!!?

Dude, its a job, the man was given a contract by his company. Its not like he has a choice, and he chooses to make the best of it. Should the caretaker of a luxury hotel feel ashamed of taking out the trash too? More to the point (since its the same guy who also did Devastator), should he feel ashamed that he couldnt give more articulation to Devastator because Hasbro wouldnt let him add more parts? WTF?! Shame on your comment.

william-james88 wrote:

Shockwave7 wrote:Having worked on MP Transformers should make him even MORE ashamed to have worked on these things. There's a reason why people aren't buying them, and the reason is: There are better ones to be had.

WHAT?!?!?!!?

Dude, its a job, the man was given a contract by his company. Its not like he has a choice, and he chooses to make the best of it. Should the caretaker of a luxury hotel feel ashamed of taking out the trash too? More to the point (since its the same guy who also did Devastator), should he feel ashamed that he couldnt give more articulation to Devastator because Hasbro wouldnt let him add more parts? WTF?! Shame on your comment.

Imagine if someone else designs a 3-step. oh the things that could happen.....

Clarification :

SkyLynx has Wreck Gar interact with him - I think he fits on his back if I recall correctly - anyway he's officially part of that Gestalt team.

My comment is that since Override is the same mould and thus functionally identical to Wreck Gar his interaction with Sky Lynx would be preferable as the colours are far more suitable than Wreck Gar's brown is for the overall look.

Someone who was at Botcon had said that Wreck Gar fits on a chest plate mode like addition but on the back of the toy instead of the front.
However I notice Victorion seems to use the Motorcycle mould also as an arm cannon (as well as a chest plates) so that may be an option for Sky Lynx too.


Anyway the colours look better than Wreck Gar for that given purpose which is the core of my point.

william-james88 wrote:

Shockwave7 wrote:Having worked on MP Transformers should make him even MORE ashamed to have worked on these things. There's a reason why people aren't buying them, and the reason is: There are better ones to be had.

WHAT?!?!?!!?

Dude, its a job, the man was given a contract by his company. Its not like he has a choice, and he chooses to make the best of it. Should the caretaker of a luxury hotel feel ashamed of taking out the trash too? More to the point (since its the same guy who also did Devastator), should he feel ashamed that he couldnt give more articulation to Devastator because Hasbro wouldnt let him add more parts? WTF?! Shame on your comment.

Agreed Mr. William, I don't hammer down on him not being allowed to put more articulation into Devy, in fact before I was planning to get the CW version, until I saw the UW version. Devy is a great looking figure, and he did the best he could, but he had a lower budget than when he does the Masterpieces! Give the man a break Shockwave7! All the UW version does, is improve it, and make it like how he WANTED it to be like. As he said, he wanted to make it as close to a Masterpiece Devastator as possible. Considering the fact that this is the price of 6 voyagers, and that it has MORE IN IT than just the voyagers (like the the combiner bits), it's understandable that he had to take out some articulation. I know I may be restating some things that I and other people have already said, but that's my view. William-James88, I agree with you whole heartedly buddy.

SillySpringer wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Shockwave7 wrote:Having worked on MP Transformers should make him even MORE ashamed to have worked on these things. There's a reason why people aren't buying them, and the reason is: There are better ones to be had.

WHAT?!?!?!!?

Dude, its a job, the man was given a contract by his company. Its not like he has a choice, and he chooses to make the best of it. Should the caretaker of a luxury hotel feel ashamed of taking out the trash too? More to the point (since its the same guy who also did Devastator), should he feel ashamed that he couldnt give more articulation to Devastator because Hasbro wouldnt let him add more parts? WTF?! Shame on your comment.

William-James88, I agree with you whole heartedly buddy.

Glad you agree. Although he was talking about the three steps and how the same guy who made devy and the mps should be ashamed of working on the 3 steps. And I simply said there was nothing to be ashamed of, its his job, he is told what to work on. And devastator was an example that showed he obviously cant always do what he wants to do, he makes the best of it.