Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Blastoff New Images

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Just tossing in my 2 cents now: this looks aweful. I admire what they attempted to do, but it does not work for me in the slightest. Just not right to me

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Just tossing in my 2 cents now: this looks aweful. I admire what they attempted to do, but it does not work for me in the slightest. Just not right to me

They didn't carry over the shuttle nose-to-hands thing that made him so different for me - that's what made blast-off blast-off; without it, he looks like a cartoony aerialbot wannabe


But I will get any hasbro release of it, I just won't buy the UW set for it

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Just tossing in my 2 cents now: this looks aweful. I admire what they attempted to do, but it does not work for me in the slightest. Just not right to me

They didn't carry over the shuttle nose-to-hands thing that made him so different for me - that's what made blast-off blast-off; without it, he looks like a cartoony aerialbot wannabe


But I will get any hasbro release of it, I just won't buy the UW set for it

One bit thing for me is that his arms, all of them, are still just plopped on the side of the shuttle. All that beef, and they put it in the chest and lower legs yet can't hide the arms? I feel that is a let down

Hellscream9999 wrote:
Well, based on his legs, I'd imagine he uses the aerialbot transformation, so where would they put the arms... if they had kept the toys thing of having them become the cockpit, or allowed them to fold under the cockpit kibble, it'd have worked

Hellscream9999 wrote:
Well, based on his legs, I'd imagine he uses the aerialbot transformation, so where would they put the arms... if they had kept the toys thing of having them become the cockpit, or allowed them to fold under the cockpit kibble, it'd have worked

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:
Well, based on his legs, I'd imagine he uses the aerialbot transformation, so where would they put the arms... if they had kept the toys thing of having them become the cockpit, or allowed them to fold under the cockpit kibble, it'd have worked

Speaking of Aerialbots Blastoff kinda looks like they just took the base Aerialbot design and flipped it around.


Obviously not the actual case but it kinda looks like it.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:
Well, based on his legs, I'd imagine he uses the aerialbot transformation, so where would they put the arms... if they had kept the toys thing of having them become the cockpit, or allowed them to fold under the cockpit kibble, it'd have worked

He seems to keep up an aerielbot skeleton, just heavily reworked. And I think they could have done the nose up so it did turn into the arms, with the shoulder locations and all

Hellscream9999 wrote:
Well the same could be said for UW bigroove and offroad, but I agree, they could've had some shenanigans where his arms became part of the cockpit or something

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:
Well the same could be said for UW bigroove and offroad, but I agree, they could've had some shenanigans where his arms became part of the cockpit or something

I meant where the jet kibble is usually on the back and the combiner peg is the chest on the Aerialbots it's flipped around on Blastoff.

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:
Well the same could be said for UW bigroove and offroad, but I agree, they could've had some shenanigans where his arms became part of the cockpit or something

I meant where the jet kibble is usually on the back and the combiner peg is the chest on the Aerialbots it's flipped around on Blastoff.

Autobot Roadburn wrote:I gotta be honest, I like him a lot. His chest is a bit big and the arms outside the shuttle aren't great, but I love the rocket feet and his head sculpt. The head was the main thing that made me dislike the Hasbro version.

Autobot Roadburn wrote:I gotta be honest, I like him a lot. His chest is a bit big and the arms outside the shuttle aren't great, but I love the rocket feet and his head sculpt. The head was the main thing that made me dislike the Hasbro version.

Seibertron wrote:

Autobot Roadburn wrote:I gotta be honest, I like him a lot. His chest is a bit big and the arms outside the shuttle aren't great, but I love the rocket feet and his head sculpt. The head was the main thing that made me dislike the Hasbro version.

I'm in the same boat with you. Reading all of these negative comments about him makes me feel like I'm in an episode of the Twilight Zone. This version of Blast Off looks as good (or bad, depending on your viewpoint) as the rest of the Combiner Wars deluxes do.

Something is off about the head sculpt to me though, but it's much closer to the original and is leaps and bounds better than the Slingshot repaint we got from Hasbro. I feel like they generalized his features, I wonder if this head mold will be used for another upcoming figure (maybe Killbison or someone).

It'll be interesting to see how this mold gets reused upteenmillion times over the next year or two.

Hellscream9999 wrote:So, wait, how exactly does the tail fin get from his ankles to the other side of his body in bot mode, also, where on earth does his nosecone go

Hellscream9999 wrote:So, wait, how exactly does the tail fin get from his ankles to the other side of his body in bot mode, also, where on earth does his nosecone go

fenrir72 wrote:

Genericon #378 wrote:

Rated X wrote:I have faith Blast Off will look a lot better than these blurry pics. Even if it isn't perfect, it's still 1000% improvement over a Slingshot dunked in dookie dye.

As expected, you are all still eating it up, even if it looks like utter trash.

It's just blurry pics and you base your decision/statement on blurry pics? How you know its trash?

But if you are already biased for a certain toyline or product, guess there's no convincing you to not snipe without basis. A pity you won't have the opportunity to enjoy the next mold.

Btw TT gets a 4 out of 5 in effort.

1. New mold for Blastoff
2. At least a bit of a retool for the rotor blades of Vortex ( wished it were a new body for the copter)plus incorporating them as a melee weapon like that in Car Robots.

Rated X wrote:Love that shuttle call it trash if you want but one mans trash is another mans treasure. Enjoy your brown slingshot and keep pretending its blast off. Maybe you can use fine sandpaper to remove his nose and mouth and give him a face plate. Im gonna drop the cash and have me a real blast off.

MemphisR56 wrote:Welp, called it. Massuve boob shelf.

I'll be honest. I held out for this, and I thought it would be brilliant, but I feel that the bot mode is rather dissapointing.

But then again? I'm not buying this set to display in individual bot modes.

Sure it looks a lpt like the character model, but it's one of the least toy accurate and dumb looking models in the original series.

I feel like somebody nailed it earlier in the thread when they said it looked like the designer couldn't pull off getting the nosecone to contain the arms. I just think they compromised the bot mode to get it to pull off all the other modes.

And it is totally a backwards version of the aerial bot transformation scheme, which, while kind of clever in a universe sunstreaker sort of way, is dissapointing because it's not an actual new layout.

tl;dr: It's not what I expected and I don't like it. But will buy it anyway because I'm an idiot.

Rated X wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Genericon #378 wrote:

Rated X wrote:I have faith Blast Off will look a lot better than these blurry pics. Even if it isn't perfect, it's still 1000% improvement over a Slingshot dunked in dookie dye.

As expected, you are all still eating it up, even if it looks like utter trash.

It's just blurry pics and you base your decision/statement on blurry pics? How you know its trash?

But if you are already biased for a certain toyline or product, guess there's no convincing you to not snipe without basis. A pity you won't have the opportunity to enjoy the next mold.

Btw TT gets a 4 out of 5 in effort.

1. New mold for Blastoff
2. At least a bit of a retool for the rotor blades of Vortex ( wished it were a new body for the copter)plus incorporating them as a melee weapon like that in Car Robots.

Love that shuttle ! Call it trash if you want but one mans trash is another mans treasure. Enjoy your brown slingshot and keep pretending its blast off. Maybe you can use fine sandpaper to remove his nose and mouth and give him a face plate. Im gonna drop the cash and have me a real blast off.

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:
For something that looks like "utter trash" looks surprisingly good!

Shuttle mode looks bad though.



Feet and chest are large too or at least disproportionate with his arms and thighs.


Not saying it looks awful but I'm pointing out flaws (or at least personal flaws)

Rated X wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Genericon #378 wrote:

Rated X wrote:I have faith Blast Off will look a lot better than these blurry pics. Even if it isn't perfect, it's still 1000% improvement over a Slingshot dunked in dookie dye.

As expected, you are all still eating it up, even if it looks like utter trash.

It's just blurry pics and you base your decision/statement on blurry pics? How you know its trash?

But if you are already biased for a certain toyline or product, guess there's no convincing you to not snipe without basis. A pity you won't have the opportunity to enjoy the next mold.

Btw TT gets a 4 out of 5 in effort.

1. New mold for Blastoff
2. At least a bit of a retool for the rotor blades of Vortex ( wished it were a new body for the copter)plus incorporating them as a melee weapon like that in Car Robots.

Love that shuttle ! Call it trash if you want but one mans trash is another mans treasure. Enjoy your brown slingshot and keep pretending its blast off. Maybe you can use fine sandpaper to remove his nose and mouth and give him a face plate. Im gonna drop the cash and have me a real blast off.

Cyberpath wrote:I think he looks good. They even put the fin on his back like his character-model. (Do you think there's some "partforming" there, like Brawl's gun?)

It's refreshing to see a new mold. The repaint/retool in CW/UW was kind of an overkill. It's one thing in the same group of jets/cars.. but across factions? And passing a brown Slingshot as Blast Off was the line's least inspired move, I think.

ZeroWolf wrote:For some reason my subscription to this thread has played up again so u almost missed this.

These are much better pictures, I love the shuttle mode and the feet don't bother me that much, wonder if you can give him a fanmode to have him hovering like bm jetstorm.

The chest is bulky, no getting around that but considering everything else it's just making a mountain out of a molehill.

If I had the money, this would be mine as I have a soft spot for shuttles...

Stuartmaximus wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:For some reason my subscription to this thread has played up again so u almost missed this.

These are much better pictures, I love the shuttle mode and the feet don't bother me that much, wonder if you can give him a fanmode to have him hovering like bm jetstorm.

The chest is bulky, no getting around that but considering everything else it's just making a mountain out of a molehill.

If I had the money, this would be mine as I have a soft spot for shuttles...

including Sky Lynx

Cyberpath wrote:I think he looks good. They even put the fin on his back like his character-model. (Do you think there's some "partforming" there, like Brawl's gun?)

It's refreshing to see a new mold. The repaint/retool in CW/UW was kind of an overkill. It's one thing in the same group of jets/cars.. but across factions? And passing a brown Slingshot as Blast Off was the line's least inspired move, I think.

Stuartmaximus wrote:any chance that they could retool the new Blast Off as Astrotrain?

Rated X wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Genericon #378 wrote:

Rated X wrote:I have faith Blast Off will look a lot better than these blurry pics. Even if it isn't perfect, it's still 1000% improvement over a Slingshot dunked in dookie dye.

As expected, you are all still eating it up, even if it looks like utter trash.

It's just blurry pics and you base your decision/statement on blurry pics? How you know its trash?

But if you are already biased for a certain toyline or product, guess there's no convincing you to not snipe without basis. A pity you won't have the opportunity to enjoy the next mold.

Btw TT gets a 4 out of 5 in effort.

1. New mold for Blastoff
2. At least a bit of a retool for the rotor blades of Vortex ( wished it were a new body for the copter)plus incorporating them as a melee weapon like that in Car Robots.

Love that shuttle ! Call it trash if you want but one mans trash is another mans treasure. Enjoy your brown slingshot and keep pretending its blast off. Maybe you can use fine sandpaper to remove his nose and mouth and give him a face plate. Im gonna drop the cash and have me a real blast off.

Delta Magnus wrote:

Rated X wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Genericon #378 wrote:

Rated X wrote:I have faith Blast Off will look a lot better than these blurry pics. Even if it isn't perfect, it's still 1000% improvement over a Slingshot dunked in dookie dye.

As expected, you are all still eating it up, even if it looks like utter trash.

It's just blurry pics and you base your decision/statement on blurry pics? How you know its trash?

But if you are already biased for a certain toyline or product, guess there's no convincing you to not snipe without basis. A pity you won't have the opportunity to enjoy the next mold.

Btw TT gets a 4 out of 5 in effort.

1. New mold for Blastoff
2. At least a bit of a retool for the rotor blades of Vortex ( wished it were a new body for the copter)plus incorporating them as a melee weapon like that in Car Robots.

Love that shuttle ! Call it trash if you want but one mans trash is another mans treasure. Enjoy your brown slingshot and keep pretending its blast off. Maybe you can use fine sandpaper to remove his nose and mouth and give him a face plate. Im gonna drop the cash and have me a real blast off.

Silly X, didn't you read Blastoff's bio? He's canonically a jet now! Takara got his vehicle mode wrong!

Rated X wrote:

Delta Magnus wrote:

Rated X wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Genericon #378 wrote:

Rated X wrote:I have faith Blast Off will look a lot better than these blurry pics. Even if it isn't perfect, it's still 1000% improvement over a Slingshot dunked in dookie dye.

As expected, you are all still eating it up, even if it looks like utter trash.

It's just blurry pics and you base your decision/statement on blurry pics? How you know its trash?

But if you are already biased for a certain toyline or product, guess there's no convincing you to not snipe without basis. A pity you won't have the opportunity to enjoy the next mold.

Btw TT gets a 4 out of 5 in effort.

1. New mold for Blastoff
2. At least a bit of a retool for the rotor blades of Vortex ( wished it were a new body for the copter)plus incorporating them as a melee weapon like that in Car Robots.

Love that shuttle ! Call it trash if you want but one mans trash is another mans treasure. Enjoy your brown slingshot and keep pretending its blast off. Maybe you can use fine sandpaper to remove his nose and mouth and give him a face plate. Im gonna drop the cash and have me a real blast off.

Silly X, didn't you read Blastoff's bio? He's canonically a jet now! Takara got his vehicle mode wrong!

Nah bro. So some corporate boob in Hasbro orders a repaint to save money and the writers attempt to legitimize the decision with a lame bio. Buy into it if you like. You know the real reason no matter how hard they sugarcoat it. Dont compare new CHUG molds to a lazy, penny pinching repaint. And since youre big on anything "official" consider this:

Takara just officially delegitimized Hasbros attempt to cheap out on the character. Even if Hasbros attempt was supposed to be a "NEO" take on the character, Takara basically called them out and said "silly Hasbro, repaints are for kids". Dont try to compare this to legends vs. deluxe groove. Its not the same thing because in that controversy they Hasbro gave us new molds but made a decision based on their interpretation of scale. In the case of blast off, they just made a decision based on utter cheapness.

Microraptor wrote:

Rated X wrote:

Delta Magnus wrote:

Rated X wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Genericon #378 wrote:

Rated X wrote:I have faith Blast Off will look a lot better than these blurry pics. Even if it isn't perfect, it's still 1000% improvement over a Slingshot dunked in dookie dye.

As expected, you are all still eating it up, even if it looks like utter trash.

It's just blurry pics and you base your decision/statement on blurry pics? How you know its trash?

But if you are already biased for a certain toyline or product, guess there's no convincing you to not snipe without basis. A pity you won't have the opportunity to enjoy the next mold.

Btw TT gets a 4 out of 5 in effort.

1. New mold for Blastoff
2. At least a bit of a retool for the rotor blades of Vortex ( wished it were a new body for the copter)plus incorporating them as a melee weapon like that in Car Robots.

Love that shuttle ! Call it trash if you want but one mans trash is another mans treasure. Enjoy your brown slingshot and keep pretending its blast off. Maybe you can use fine sandpaper to remove his nose and mouth and give him a face plate. Im gonna drop the cash and have me a real blast off.

Silly X, didn't you read Blastoff's bio? He's canonically a jet now! Takara got his vehicle mode wrong!

Nah bro. So some corporate boob in Hasbro orders a repaint to save money and the writers attempt to legitimize the decision with a lame bio. Buy into it if you like. You know the real reason no matter how hard they sugarcoat it. Dont compare new CHUG molds to a lazy, penny pinching repaint. And since youre big on anything "official" consider this:

Takara just officially delegitimized Hasbros attempt to cheap out on the character. Even if Hasbros attempt was supposed to be a "NEO" take on the character, Takara basically called them out and said "silly Hasbro, repaints are for kids". Dont try to compare this to legends vs. deluxe groove. Its not the same thing because in that controversy they Hasbro gave us new molds but made a decision based on their interpretation of scale. In the case of blast off, they just made a decision based on utter cheapness.

Or, quite possibly, they decided that having a SPACE SHUTTLE on a team of combat vehicles was silly. Scale also has something to do with this, because a space shuttle is much bigger than the other vehicles.

william-james88 wrote:

Emerje wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:But then why was defensor an exclusive?

Insurgent wrote:Maybe they saw the demand for Defensor and realised they could sell a ton more if they don't make it exclusive?

No. Firstly, Defensor was not an exclusive everywhere, just an exclusive in japan. There are thousands of Defensors out there and he is still readily available everywhere... but for a price.

That's like saying SDCC exclusives aren't exclusives because you can buy them from Hasbro Toy Shop and scalpers. The only store that sells Defensor (and Convoy Grand Prime and Grand Galvatron) in Japan is the Takara Tomy Mall. They charge the same price as the regular retail figures, but only ship within Japan so importers have to pay full price (15,000JPY or about US$128) plus tax (8% so 16,200 or about US$139) plus shipping so we end up paying US$160 or so to get them (more if the store doesn't offer free shipping). I don't know exactly how the coin system works in Asia, but even with the coin Robot Kingdom is calling these TTM Exclusives and they are definitely not sold at mass retail. Transformers Asia says the coin releases are only sold at "selected stores in Asia" which would also indicate exclusivity even if shared.

With the Combaticons not being exclusives we can get the retailer discounts that we can't from the TTM exclusives. Now instead of paying US$160 we're closer to US$96. That's what makes them being non-exclusive so much better for us.

Emerje

Hyperbole will get you nowhere Emerge, comparing what I wrote to scalpers doesnt help the conversation.

There are TWO versions of these TTMall exclusives, and as the transformers reporter for tomopop you should be aware of this. And being available in more than on place (as you confirmed) mkes it no longer a srict TTMall exclusive. While one may have a limit of 2000, the other, from Hasbro Asia, does not. This is what I was trying to say, maybe I was not clear.

Here is proof: for legal reasons, this is what TFSoure says about Ramjet, a supposed "ttmall exclusive":

This highly sought after masterpiece brings the popular seeker Ramjet to the Takara Tomy lineup with an all new color scheme and exclusive to TakaraTomy Mall! This is the Asian market release of this product

Notice their wording. There are 2 SEPERATE releases/versions, automatically making this figure no longer exclusive.

A true TTMall exclusive would mean that the ONLY place to get your copy would be from TTMall. But that isnt true. Thats just he only place you can get it in japan. And they use that slogan willy nilly to trick buyers into thinking it is more limited. TTMall tells you how many units it is limited to while Hasbro Asia does not.

Hasbro Asia produces as many units as they want snd sell it throughout the world at all online outlets.

SO the figure no logner becomes exclusive in a worldwide context (while still being only at one retailer in Japan). And thus I repeat what I say:

No. Firstly, Defensor was not an exclusive everywhere, just an exclusive in japan. There are thousands of Defensors out there and he is still readily available everywhere... but for a price.

And that price, is the Hasbro Asia price. A price which was confirmed by an exec to be based on the demand of asian collectors and not the manufacturing cost of the product. And the legal writing confirms that it is a seperate release that has no alloted limited number of units.

The only thing exclusive about a TTMall release, is the price since only in Japan can you get the actual Japan release which doesnt come witha coin but comes with a cheaper price.

Rated X wrote:

Delta Magnus wrote:

Rated X wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Genericon #378 wrote:

Rated X wrote:I have faith Blast Off will look a lot better than these blurry pics. Even if it isn't perfect, it's still 1000% improvement over a Slingshot dunked in dookie dye.

As expected, you are all still eating it up, even if it looks like utter trash.

It's just blurry pics and you base your decision/statement on blurry pics? How you know its trash?

But if you are already biased for a certain toyline or product, guess there's no convincing you to not snipe without basis. A pity you won't have the opportunity to enjoy the next mold.

Btw TT gets a 4 out of 5 in effort.

1. New mold for Blastoff
2. At least a bit of a retool for the rotor blades of Vortex ( wished it were a new body for the copter)plus incorporating them as a melee weapon like that in Car Robots.

Love that shuttle ! Call it trash if you want but one mans trash is another mans treasure. Enjoy your brown slingshot and keep pretending its blast off. Maybe you can use fine sandpaper to remove his nose and mouth and give him a face plate. Im gonna drop the cash and have me a real blast off.

Silly X, didn't you read Blastoff's bio? He's canonically a jet now! Takara got his vehicle mode wrong!

Nah bro. So some corporate boob in Hasbro orders a repaint to save money and the writers attempt to legitimize the decision with a lame bio. Buy into it if you like. You know the real reason no matter how hard they sugarcoat it. Dont compare new CHUG molds to a lazy, penny pinching repaint. And since youre big on anything "official" consider this:

Takara just officially delegitimized Hasbros attempt to cheap out on the character. Even if Hasbros attempt was supposed to be a "NEO" take on the character, Takara basically called them out and said "silly Hasbro, repaints are for kids". Dont try to compare this to legends vs. deluxe groove. Its not the same thing because in that controversy Hasbro gave us new molds but made a decision based on their interpretation of scale. In the case of blast off, they just made a decision based on utter cheapness.