Takara Tomy Transformers Legends In-Hand Roundup: Fortress Maximus, Broadcast, Rewind, And More

Though people originally thought that Blaster's Titan Master head was based on Perceptor, it actually seems to sculpted (not colored, but sculpted) more in homage to the headsculpt of Binaltech Asterisk Broad Blast.




Blaster's pack-in Legends comic seems to agree with this as there's a close up panel of Blaster's helmet-less head that also contains a thought bubble that flashes back to his Binaltech Asterisk body.

why is blasters face white

I wonder what Legends Blaster's deco is meant to be accurate to...

Bumblebee21 wrote:why is blasters face white

Because the head is in Twincast's colors. The larger body isn't the real Blaster, just a lifeless Transtector that Twincast, the head, controls.

I knew it wasn't a coincidence! The legends tablets confirmed to work with Fort Max's chest just made my day. I wonder why it wasn't mentioned on either TR legend tablets or Fort Max.

ok, thats weird

who is that blue cassette next to rewind

Bumblebee21 wrote:ok, thats weird

who is that blue cassette next to rewind

You mean Eject?

Sabrblade wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:ok, thats weird

who is that blue cassette next to rewind

You mean Eject?

its been soo long since ive seen him i forgot what color he was.

does that mean takara will make him

Terrsolpix wrote:I knew it wasn't a coincidence! The legends tablets confirmed to work with Fort Max's chest just made my day. I wonder why it wasn't mentioned on either TR legend tablets or Fort Max.

I'll just go with total design fluke.

Maximal Rainmaker wrote:I wonder what Legends Blaster's deco is meant to be accurate to...

The G1 cartoon of course, including the white face:

Bumblebee21 wrote:who is that blue cassette next to rewind

Eject, and completion's sake, the pink one's Rosanna.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Maximal Rainmaker wrote:I wonder what Legends Blaster's deco is meant to be accurate to...

The G1 cartoon of course, including the white face:

Though, for clarity's sake, this toy isn't being treated as Blaster's cartoon body proper, but is instead treated as an evolved form of that body, an upgrade from his Twincast body that he got in The Headmasters cartoon. A third form for Cartoon Blaster overall.

More Legends pack-in manga images - https://twitter.com/aonoseijakujp1/status/779750566058524672

LG28 Rewind & Nightbeat



LG29 Wheelie & Goshooter



LG30 Weirdwolf




Comments:

* So, Japanese Nightbeat is EVERYONE! (Specifically, Nightbeat is just a Headmaster Junior suit worn by... I guess all of the employees of the Axalon Trading Company, with Rattrap being the first one to don the armor via a pair of Master-Braces.)

* Uh, Wheelie, you do know that Arcee is usually naked 99% of the time, right? What you're peeking at is always exposed anyway.

* And Chromedome is still stuck inside Batora's mouth.

Wheelie hiking up Arcee's skirt is a sly reference to a similar incident in 15! 15! Go!

Why do they keep referencing that thing

Kurona wrote:Why do they keep referencing that thing

There was a lot of continuity-rich material in both Kiss Players Position and Teletraan 15 Go! Go!. And Sakamoto is a continuity nut himself who loves filling in continuity holes and referencing other materials to add to the continuity overall.

Kurona wrote:Why do they keep referencing that thing

i think one of them is a perv. cough cough kiss players cough cough cough.

Bumblebee21 wrote:

Kurona wrote:Why do they keep referencing that thing

i think one of them is a perv. cough cough kiss players cough cough cough.

Maybe because Kiss Play is one of the greatest stories ever told

Bumblebee21 wrote:

Kurona wrote:Why do they keep referencing that thing

i think one of them is a perv. cough cough kiss players cough cough cough.

By the same illustrator, no less. Mind you, he's also done Metro Wars, Train Wars, and done line work for FunPub. And skirt hiking is seemingly considered "humorous" over there as it incidentally pops up in manga, anime, and the occasional live action series.

...

Don't look at me like that!

Broadcast's transtector body mass shifts to the size of a Boombox?! Cool!

Galvatron's transtector body functions by itself and treats the head like a soccer ball? Weird and not surprising. Galvatron is a looney as you can get.

All this references and retcons by Takara is really eerie yet fits.........as if they really planned the connections years ago.

Somewhat related,if that Megatronia combiner eventually becomes, which looks to be, canon in the JP continuity, Convoy dies after 7 days, Galvatron gets stasis lock and is thrown back into the Arctic then leads to Return of Convoy then leads to eventual Metrowars etc

Really eerie coincidental with the product background connections.(No wonder in one of the G2 comics a few years back, Broadcast was already in his G1 mode (i.e. red)..........enough to make your head spin and yet now makes sense.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:

Kurona wrote:Why do they keep referencing that thing

i think one of them is a perv. cough cough kiss players cough cough cough.

By the same illustrator, no less. Mind you, he's also done Metro Wars, Train Wars, and done line work for FunPub. And skirt hiking is seemingly considered "humorous" over there as it incidentally pops up in manga, anime, and the occasional live action series.

...

Don't look at me like that!

In other words, it's kinda cultural as I mentioned in Unite Warriors. This can be seen in anime since like Gatchaman (1972) (or even earlier Astroboy( not Tatsunoko) episodes and even religious Superbook where one of the boy characters are seen swimming nude which was eventually edited in later shows also by Tatsunoko) where you see Jun the Swan keeps getting gratuitous upskirt shots.

Why? Well JZGR says it all.

Seibertronians, our very own xRotorstormx is currently reporting directly from the Japanese convention Superfest. She's shared with us some exclusive additional pictures of LG-EX Convobat, along with his Ape-x drone. Check 'em out below and then tell us in the comments below: Do these additional images make you like the figure more or less? Will you be getting it when it comes out in December?








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Nice comparison

The Sentinel head looks really big on that body. I don't know, I like him but I don't think I $90 like him.

Yamato delivered Fort Max this afternoon.

I love the robot mode. The sculpting. The colors. And especially how well-articulated it is. Fort Max was my "white whale" for a very long time, and this updated version does it for me. It's a few bits of metal and some extra paint applications away from being a Masterpiece.

I also dig that TakaraTomy apparently went to the trouble and expense of getting Fortress' original Japanese voice actor to record lines for this release. That's both awesome *and* unnecessary, what with the lines just being lines from Headmasters. Plus, they tossed in the theme song, which is fun.

The box is neat, too. Puts the figure squarely in the Legends line, instead of using the Combiner Wars/Unite Warriors style that Hasbro's version used. Unless I missed it, the box wasn't even revealed until yesterday. If not for a chance click on another TF board, I wouldn't have known what the box looked like until I opened the massive shipping package from Amazon.

But it's not all sunshine and rainbows. There are a few (mostly minor) complaints I've got about LG-31.

The lack of accessories kind of hurts it. Not so much Cog, but having at least *one* of Max's trademark guns would have been nice. This bad boy retails for 28,000 yen. Would it really have broken the bank to throw in an extra stationary bit of plastic?

The alternate modes aren't as, let's say "convincing", as the original. While I outright applaud them for making a giant Transformer that kids could conceivably have fun with (a nice contrast w/ Titans Return/UW Devy), the alt modes just don't do much for me. Which, really, is fine, since I display my TFs in bot mode, anyway.

So, yeah. Nice figure. Could be nicer, but what figure couldn't. Worth the 18,000 yen Amazon charged. Not sure I'd be in for the 28,000 MSRP. But I'm happy with it.

The Real Last Knight (@singgg4 on twitter)

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Bumblebee21 wrote:

Kurona wrote:Why do they keep referencing that thing

i think one of them is a perv. cough cough kiss players cough cough cough.

By the same illustrator, no less.

But, that was Yuki Ohshima who did Kiss Players and 15 Go! Go!. This is Hayato Sakamoto doing these Legends manga.

Bronzewolf wrote:Seibertronians, our very own xRotorstormx is currently reporting directly from the Japanese convention Superfest. She's shared with us some exclusive additional pictures of LG-EX Convobat, along with his Ape-x drone. Check 'em out below and then tell us in the comments below: Do these additional images make you like the figure more or less? Will you be getting it when it comes out in December?

Surprised to see this in the main Legends thread instead of Convobat's own thread. Still cool.

Professor Smooth wrote:The lack of accessories kind of hurts it. Not so much Cog, but having at least *one* of Max's trademark guns would have been nice. This bad boy retails for 28,000 yen. Would it really have broken the bank to throw in an extra stationary bit of plastic?

The same applies to the Hasbro versions. No gun for any Fort Max. Though, it may not sting as much for the Takara version as far as Japan is concerned since Fort Max in Japan was never a gun wielder in The Headmasters cartoon, as he was only ever strictly a sword wielding bot. He never used a gun in the cartoon.

Professor Smooth wrote:The alternate modes aren't as, let's say "convincing", as the original. While I outright applaud them for making a giant Transformer that kids could conceivably have fun with (a nice contrast w/ Titans Return/UW Devy), the alt modes just don't do much for me. Which, really, is fine, since I display my TFs in bot mode, anyway.

For Japan, they've justified the new altmodes as the larger body is a new construct altogether, with the Battleship Mode being similar to the original and the City Mode now replaced with a Fortress Mode.

Sabrblade wrote:

Professor Smooth wrote:The lack of accessories kind of hurts it. Not so much Cog, but having at least *one* of Max's trademark guns would have been nice. This bad boy retails for 28,000 yen. Would it really have broken the bank to throw in an extra stationary bit of plastic?

The same applies to the Hasbro versions. No gun for any Fort Max. Though, it may not sting as much for the Takara version as far as Japan is concerned since Fort Max in Japan was never a gun wielder in The Headmasters cartoon, as he was only ever strictly a sword wielding bot. He never used a gun in the cartoon.

True. As is their way, TakaraTomy went for animation accuracy before anything else. Which is understandable. Still, it'd have been nice to have those cannons, even if just to spice up the different alt modes.

Sabrblade wrote:

Professor Smooth wrote:The alternate modes aren't as, let's say "convincing", as the original. While I outright applaud them for making a giant Transformer that kids could conceivably have fun with (a nice contrast w/ Titans Return/UW Devy), the alt modes just don't do much for me. Which, really, is fine, since I display my TFs in bot mode, anyway.

For Japan, they've justified the new altmodes as the larger body is a new construct altogether, with the Battleship Mode being similar to the original and the City Mode now replaced with a Fortress Mode.

I do appreciate TakaraTomy going to such lengths to explain away the discrepancy. They do good work.

Oh snap! It just hit me that Takara is treating the Base Mode of Blaster's toy as a Zone Mode! That's awesome!

Zone Modes were what the Base Modes of the Powered Masters (Dai Atlas, Sonic Bomber, and Roadfire) from Transformers: Zone were called. They could harness the power of the Zodiac energy and channel it into an extremely powerful energy blast. And when all of the Micromaster bases were all hooked up together on Planet Micro (then renamed Planet Zone), the combined base formation was referred to as the Zone Base.

What's the story behind Scourge's Hun-Gurrr impersonation?

Cyberpath wrote:What's the story behind Scourge's Hun-Gurrr impersonation?

Nothing too fancy. Just that the Zodiac he was wearing somehow turned him into a two-headed monster.

Sabrblade wrote:

Cyberpath wrote:What's the story behind Scourge's Hun-Gurrr impersonation?

Nothing too fancy. Just that the Zodiac he was wearing somehow turned him into a two-headed monster.

It reminds me of Deluxe Prime, they gave him Hun-grrry feet.

We have every comics page from this month's release of Takara Transformers Legends line. These figures include LG27 Blaster (Braodcast), LG28 Rewind, LG29 Wheelie and LG30 Weirdwolf. These come from Twitter user aonoseijakujp1 and have a ton of detail for hardcore fans. You can also see the tech sheets for the figures/characters and the art that comes with these toys.

Feel free to let us know if you find any interesting tidbits within these pages.

Heh, turns out Weirdwolf's new Transtector is alive, behaving like a big animal pet. Its name is "Wolnosuke", a portmanteau of the word "wolf" and the Japanese name particle "-nosuke".

Hm, Road-Rage is slightly more busty than I remember.

SillySpringer wrote:Hm, Road-Rage is slightly more busty than I remember.

Um, where did you see Roadrage?

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:Hm, Road-Rage is slightly more busty than I remember.

Um, where did you see Roadrage?

Top panel:

Sabrblade wrote:Heh, turns out Weirdwolf's new Transtector is alive, behaving like a big animal pet. Its name is "Wolnosuke", a portmanteau of the word "wolf" and the Japanese name particle "-nosuke".

It's more of a nickname, really... nothing official.

This looks great!

SillySpringer wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:Hm, Road-Rage is slightly more busty than I remember.

Um, where did you see Roadrage?

Top panel:

Oh bewbs Stop the presses!

Anyways, Scourge always gets an allergy attack when he gets close to a super charged power source.

fenrir72 wrote:
Oh bewbs

Uh she forgot to turn off her airbags after a crash due to her "roadrage" right?

Official 3rd mode? (Pics from Planet Iacon on Facebook)

Oh hey, Road Rage! Not sure why she's there in-universe but it's a nice reference to how her MP has Twincast as an accessory.

Kurona wrote:Oh hey, Road Rage! Not sure why she's there in-universe but it's a nice reference to how her MP has Twincast as an accessory.

The scene is a reference to Road Rage's MP bio in which she has placed Flip Sides on trial for suspicion of being a Decepticon spy, and Twincast is trying to defend Flip Sides. But it turned out that Flip Sides was guilty and Twincast had to learn to live with the fact that one of his friends and closest comrades was really a traitor.

Sabrblade wrote:Though, for clarity's sake, this toy isn't being treated as Blaster's cartoon body proper, but is instead treated as an evolved form of that body, an upgrade from his Twincast body that he got in The Headmasters cartoon. A third form for Cartoon Blaster overall.

Yet the colours being so slavishly G1 indicate that Takara did cilour this in hope to also please collectors who want an accurate G1 Blaster in their collction. If he was truly a new form in every way, then there would be no need to mirror that deco to a T.

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Though, for clarity's sake, this toy isn't being treated as Blaster's cartoon body proper, but is instead treated as an evolved form of that body, an upgrade from his Twincast body that he got in The Headmasters cartoon. A third form for Cartoon Blaster overall.

Yet the colours being so slavishly G1 indicate that Takara did cilour this in hope to also please collectors who want an accurate G1 Blaster in their collction. If he was truly a new form in every way, then there would be no need to mirror that deco to a T.

I mean, it's a new form that allows Twincast to go back to being his old Blaster self, in which Takara is using to let him look as much like his old self from the cartoon as possible (within reason, of course, as they kept the toy-accurate shoulder designs intact and did integrate a ton of show-inaccurate blue joint pieces into the figure).

It a new form for the cartoon character but with some newness added to it, yet still tied more closely to the cartoon's lore than the Hasbro version.

It's a weird thing Takara always does. They paint over details to make things more accurate... and then say in the comic it's a new body, so the painting over details then feels extremely pointless.

Sabrblade wrote:

Kurona wrote:Oh hey, Road Rage! Not sure why she's there in-universe but it's a nice reference to how her MP has Twincast as an accessory.

The scene is a reference to Road Rage's MP bio in which she has placed Flip Sides on trial for suspicion of being a Decepticon spy, and Twincast is trying to defend Flip Sides. But it turned out that Flip Sides was guilty and Twincast had to learn to live with the fact that one of his friends and closest comrades was really a traitor.

Speaking of which- Legends/MP Flip Sides when? I want my Decepticon infiltrator fembot.

Wheelie

So I guess that there is more of a connection to G1 Wheelie and Movie Wheelie eh?

Thanks to Transformers Square One on Facebook: Scourge and Blurr with their G1 Targetmasters