Official Images: Takara Tomy Transformers Prime Arms Micron AM-17 Swerve & AM-18 Airachnid
Monday, July 23rd, 2012 12:03AM CDT
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Posted by Gearslide on July 23rd, 2012 @ 12:20am CDT
Wait, what's that? Swerve is awesome and so is his Micron? Darn. There goes my money.
And can I just buy those gold stickers on Airachnid's knees? Like, I don't want any of that except the stickers.
Posted by TulioDude on July 23rd, 2012 @ 12:24am CDT
Posted by SKYWARPED_128 on July 23rd, 2012 @ 12:31am CDT
As for Airachnid, not even an arms micron and stickers can save this mold. That said, I do like her arms micron. Not putting down any cash on the main figure just to get the micron, though. These Takara versions aren't exactly cheap.
Someone wake me up when Breakdown's Silas version pops up.
Posted by xyl360 on July 23rd, 2012 @ 12:47am CDT
Airachnid definitely looks better through the power of stickers. I'm still hoping for a new mold though.
Posted by Autobot032 on July 23rd, 2012 @ 1:54am CDT
He's an unfortunate redeco/remold. That mold will ALWAYS belong to Breakdown. You can tell it's Breakdown with a new head, whereas some redos have pwned the mold. Not so with this poor guy.
It's a shame, really, because the mold itself is awesome, just not in those colors and his Micron KICKS ASS.
All of it. Not just a little bit of it, but every danged inch of it.
Airachnid...eh...Hasbro did a better job, and her Micron is just unwieldy...
Posted by Genocide G2.0 on July 23rd, 2012 @ 3:06am CDT
Swerve again another repaint that i just don't get but his micron is cool looking also more like the g1 target masters.
Posted by Doubledealer93 on July 23rd, 2012 @ 7:28am CDT
i think both look terrible.
Posted by Sabrblade on July 23rd, 2012 @ 8:13am CDT
Not even TakaraTomy can save the Airachnid mold.
Posted by RhA on July 23rd, 2012 @ 8:55am CDT
He's like the granny-undies of the TF universe.
Posted by Gearslide on July 23rd, 2012 @ 9:26am CDT
Posted by RAcast on July 23rd, 2012 @ 9:48am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Swerve looks just as I expected him to, so no really issues there.
Not even TakaraTomy can save the Airachnid mold.
They tried though. It already LOOKS better than the Hasbro version, and the micron is nice...but I feel like they should have spent their budget re-engineering her hands. =_=;
Posted by Sodan-1 on July 23rd, 2012 @ 11:58am CDT
Posted by Rated X on July 23rd, 2012 @ 12:32pm CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on July 23rd, 2012 @ 12:37pm CDT
That's IF Takara does decide to release the FOC generations figures, as they didn't get the WFC video game in Japan and likely aren't getting FOC either. Shockwave is the only 2012 Generations figure they've announced a release of and it's gonna be a Prime toy for them. Their United toyline is only just now getting the PCC molds, so they're pretty behind in their releasing Generations Hasbro molds. Prime must be doing well in Japan if that seems to be their biggest focus right now.Rated X wrote:It would be nice if they would take a break from the Prime stuff and show us how Takara plans to repaint the FOC Generations molds. Right now bruticus is hot, and people deserve to know what Takara has coming before wasting money on one of the other 3 versions that are available. It would also be nice to find out if the Shockwave I pre-ordered is going to be different from the newly released Hasbro version.
Posted by Va'al on July 23rd, 2012 @ 1:21pm CDT
No, and no. More for you guys!
Posted by PrymeStriker on July 23rd, 2012 @ 2:05pm CDT
Swerve looks decent, but I won't be buying him. I don't want everyone in my TFP collection to have a repaint of one-another in some form. -.-
Posted by Blurrz on July 23rd, 2012 @ 2:18pm CDT
Posted by xyl360 on July 23rd, 2012 @ 2:33pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:That's IF Takara does decide to release the FOC generations figures, as they didn't get the WFC video game in Japan and likely aren't getting FOC either. Shockwave is the only 2012 Generations figure they've announced a release of and it's gonna be a Prime toy for them. Their United toyline is only just now getting the PCC molds, so they're pretty behind in their releasing Generations Hasbro molds. Prime must be doing well in Japan if that seems to be their biggest focus right now.Rated X wrote:It would be nice if they would take a break from the Prime stuff and show us how Takara plans to repaint the FOC Generations molds. Right now bruticus is hot, and people deserve to know what Takara has coming before wasting money on one of the other 3 versions that are available. It would also be nice to find out if the Shockwave I pre-ordered is going to be different from the newly released Hasbro version.
Yep, they didn't get the WfC game, but they still did the figures (and plenty of repaints of them as well) so I expect FoC to be no different.
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on July 24th, 2012 @ 7:35am CDT
Posted by Rated X on July 24th, 2012 @ 9:20am CDT
Sabrblade wrote:That's IF Takara does decide to release the FOC generations figures, as they didn't get the WFC video game in Japan and likely aren't getting FOC either. Shockwave is the only 2012 Generations figure they've announced a release of and it's gonna be a Prime toy for them. Their United toyline is only just now getting the PCC molds, so they're pretty behind in their releasing Generations Hasbro molds. Prime must be doing well in Japan if that seems to be their biggest focus right now.Rated X wrote:It would be nice if they would take a break from the Prime stuff and show us how Takara plans to repaint the FOC Generations molds. Right now bruticus is hot, and people deserve to know what Takara has coming before wasting money on one of the other 3 versions that are available. It would also be nice to find out if the Shockwave I pre-ordered is going to be different from the newly released Hasbro version.
They got all the WFC figures in the united line. I believe FOC Prime and Jazz were also getting a Takara release when I pre-ordered Shockwave. Im banking on them releasing the molds, because for the Japanese it's all about collecting figures, not playing video games.
Posted by metaphorge on July 26th, 2012 @ 3:08am CDT