Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Computron and Technobots Teasers

huh ... so no Cosmos repaint (rumoured Scrounge) from these guys.

Might go with Hasbro this time.

Really liking the Rook remold, bot mode looks about the same as expected but alt mode is pretty different. Definitely getting both sets since they're shaping up to be quite different.

Once again, dangit Takara! Now I HAVE to get both and mix-and-match...anyone have an estimate on how much these'll cost?

Sigma Magnus wrote:Once again, dangit Takara! Now I HAVE to get both and mix-and-match...anyone have an estimate on how much these'll cost?

It's going to be a standard release so it's 15000 yen which would be about $135 in freedom bucks. If you import there will be discounts depending on which site you choose. Anime export will most likely have a 30% discount so it'll be around $95 but they typically sell out quick.

*GASP* That Strafe silhouette actually looks like Strafe! Now if the other Technobots would just follow suit...

I thought we were supposed to see new hands and feet with Computron?

MGrotusque wrote:I thought we were supposed to see new hands and feet with Computron?

Nope they're only on the hasbro release

Sigma Magnus wrote:Once again, dangit Takara! Now I HAVE to get both and mix-and-match...anyone have an estimate on how much these'll cost?

Both would cost you about 250$ shipped.

I dont need to mix and match anything, just take takara as this looks awesome! I already have the cosmos mold anyway and no need for fancy feet when that means the scramble city combiners dont all stand as tall.

Now we know 2 additonal things:

1: this comes out in august

2: afterburner is supposed to have that canopy windshiwld folded down

I dont think we lose whichever version we get as they all have new stuff and while takara might be the way to go I just want to see both before making up my choice. But regardles I dont think we'll need to mix and match too much.

Scattershot = CW Scattershot mold
Afterburner = UW Groove mold
Strafe = UW Blast Off mold
Lightspeed = CW Wheeljack mold
Nosecone = CW Rook mold

Each figure has new guns based on their G1 guns. Even the Hasbro Scattershot and Afterburner don't include them.

Scattershot is also not the same as Hasbro's due to the retooling of Computron's chest and head (who knows if other changes exist).

Randy

Powered Convoy wrote:Scattershot is also not the same as Hasbro's due to the retooling of Computron's chest and head (who knows if other changes exist).

I meant that it uses that same mold as a base, much like how Nosecone uses the Rook mold but not without changes to the mold.

For anyone on the fence about whether to go Hasbro or Takara on this, I'm leaning Takara.

I'm thinking that since 1) Hasbro's G2 Bruticus still uses the Firefly/Slingshot mold, and 2) Takara has now retooled shuttle blast off, that we actually may not see a Hasbro shuttle blast off release. So, since I already have Hasbro Bruticus (I really don't mind Blast Off as a jet), Going Takara for Computron at least gets me a version of the blast off mold which I don't have.

Still can't tell if either will be using Swindle's hands or Rook's nubbs.

Welp, I guess I'm getting the UW version.

I normally don't mind the Hasbro releases, but as we are duelling Boxsets here, I love that hellacious drill on Nosecone, much moreso than on the Brawl mold, and the Blast Off Mold will forever elude me. ot so heartset on the Cosmos repaint either, I don't need a Scrounge unless its out of the FOC diskbots and the HFG are Fne By Me. I don't like the Wheeljack mold arms, but the combined mode has proven consistently more stable than the swinging socket on Dead End/Streetwise/et al.

I hope two things about Nosecone:

1: The drill is removable, so Comp can have a drill hand.
2: He has Rook's nubs, so he can have a hulk hand and a giant drill (if it's removable).

I'm not seeing things, am I? The lower legs of Lightspeed are definately from the Wheeljack mold, aren't they?

Easy Tiger wrote:I'm not seeing things, am I? The lower legs of Lightspeed are definetely from the Wheeljack mold, aren't they?

Yes, they are. That's the only thing I don't like about this set.

Autobot N wrote:I hope two things about Nosecone:

1: The drill is removable, so Comp can have a drill hand.
2: He has Rook's nubs, so he can have a hulk hand and a giant drill (if it's removable).

I've got to believe the drill is removable since I believe there is already a 5mm port on the front of Rook, so they would only need to create the new drill piece for the alt mode. Leg mode would likely need a minor retool or additional partsform to connect the drill in the toy accurate downward position. This would likely also work for bot mode as well

Autobot N wrote:

Easy Tiger wrote:I'm not seeing things, am I? The lower legs of Lightspeed are definetely from the Wheeljack mold, aren't they?

Yes, they are. That's the only thing I don't like about this set.

To be fair though, CW Wheeljack has by far the closest vehicle mode to G1 Lightspeed out of all the available car molds in Combiner Wars...

G1 Lightspeed:


CW Dead End/Brake-neck Mold:


CW Breakdown Mold/Sunstreaker:


CW Streetwise/Prowl/Smokescreen Mold:


CW Wheeljack Mold:

Gearslide wrote:

Autobot N wrote:

Easy Tiger wrote:I'm not seeing things, am I? The lower legs of Lightspeed are definetely from the Wheeljack mold, aren't they?

Yes, they are. That's the only thing I don't like about this set.

To be fair though, CW Wheeljack has by far the closest vehicle mode to G1 Lightspeed out of all the available car molds in Combiner Wars...

Don't care. The Breakdown mold is a piece of crap.

Autobot N wrote:

Gearslide wrote:

Autobot N wrote:

Easy Tiger wrote:I'm not seeing things, am I? The lower legs of Lightspeed are definetely from the Wheeljack mold, aren't they?

Yes, they are. That's the only thing I don't like about this set.

To be fair though, CW Wheeljack has by far the closest vehicle mode to G1 Lightspeed out of all the available car molds in Combiner Wars...

Don't care. The Breakdown mold is a piece of crap.

This guy gets it. The only thing it's good for is arm mode, and even then, Menasor's sHoUlDeR hUrTs.

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

Autobot N wrote:

Gearslide wrote:

Autobot N wrote:

Easy Tiger wrote:I'm not seeing things, am I? The lower legs of Lightspeed are definetely from the Wheeljack mold, aren't they?

Yes, they are. That's the only thing I don't like about this set.

To be fair though, CW Wheeljack has by far the closest vehicle mode to G1 Lightspeed out of all the available car molds in Combiner Wars...

Don't care. The Breakdown mold is a piece of crap.

This guy gets it. The only thing it's good for is arm mode, and even then, Menasor's sHoUlDeR hUrTs.

Agreed, except for the fact that his arm mode isn't really that good anyway.

Autobot N wrote:

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

Autobot N wrote:

Gearslide wrote:

Autobot N wrote:

Easy Tiger wrote:I'm not seeing things, am I? The lower legs of Lightspeed are definetely from the Wheeljack mold, aren't they?

Yes, they are. That's the only thing I don't like about this set.

To be fair though, CW Wheeljack has by far the closest vehicle mode to G1 Lightspeed out of all the available car molds in Combiner Wars...

Don't care. The Breakdown mold is a piece of crap.

This guy gets it. The only thing it's good for is arm mode, and even then, Menasor's sHoUlDeR hUrTs.

Agreed, except for the fact that his arm mode isn't really that good anyway.

As much as I hate the mold, I will admit that from the combined-peg on down, it's my favorite. But above that peg though, where the hood of the car separates, it's my least favorite.

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

Autobot N wrote:

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

Autobot N wrote:

Gearslide wrote:

Autobot N wrote:

Easy Tiger wrote:I'm not seeing things, am I? The lower legs of Lightspeed are definetely from the Wheeljack mold, aren't they?

Yes, they are. That's the only thing I don't like about this set.

To be fair though, CW Wheeljack has by far the closest vehicle mode to G1 Lightspeed out of all the available car molds in Combiner Wars...

Don't care. The Breakdown mold is a piece of crap.

This guy gets it. The only thing it's good for is arm mode, and even then, Menasor's sHoUlDeR hUrTs.

Agreed, except for the fact that his arm mode isn't really that good anyway.

As much as I hate the mold, I will admit that from the combined-peg on down, it's my favorite. But above that peg though, where the hood of the car separates, it's my least favorite.

I could care less about the hood, but I hate the elbow down.

On the other hand, the leg mode is acceptable to me, mostly because it's just a rectangle that holds together fairly well (unless it's Wheeljack you're talking about).

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

Autobot N wrote:

Gearslide wrote:

Autobot N wrote:

Easy Tiger wrote:I'm not seeing things, am I? The lower legs of Lightspeed are definetely from the Wheeljack mold, aren't they?

Yes, they are. That's the only thing I don't like about this set.

To be fair though, CW Wheeljack has by far the closest vehicle mode to G1 Lightspeed out of all the available car molds in Combiner Wars...

Don't care. The Breakdown mold is a piece of crap.

This guy gets it. The only thing it's good for is arm mode, and even then, Menasor's sHoUlDeR hUrTs.

I voted the Brakdown mold worst of 2015, I hate it. BUT I am a huge sucker for mold diversity and I would rather end up with a retool I dont have (wheeljack) than one I do have (both streetwise AND Dead End AND Wildrider). So it will be more fun to mix and match if ever I want to later (or my kids, when they come of age).

Autobot N wrote:

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

Autobot N wrote:

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

Autobot N wrote:

Gearslide wrote:

Autobot N wrote:

Easy Tiger wrote:I'm not seeing things, am I? The lower legs of Lightspeed are definetely from the Wheeljack mold, aren't they?

Yes, they are. That's the only thing I don't like about this set.

To be fair though, CW Wheeljack has by far the closest vehicle mode to G1 Lightspeed out of all the available car molds in Combiner Wars...

Don't care. The Breakdown mold is a piece of crap.

This guy gets it. The only thing it's good for is arm mode, and even then, Menasor's sHoUlDeR hUrTs.

Agreed, except for the fact that his arm mode isn't really that good anyway.

As much as I hate the mold, I will admit that from the combined-peg on down, it's my favorite. But above that peg though, where the hood of the car separates, it's my least favorite.

I could care less about the hood, but I hate the elbow down.

On the other hand, the leg mode is acceptable to me, mostly because it's just a rectangle that holds together fairly well (unless it's Wheeljack you're talking about).

I hate the leg mode because of that stupid knee-pad thing that can either fold all the way down and looks like a tumor or food at a nearly 90-degree angle and look like a broken bone.

Nemesis Maximo wrote:I hate the leg mode because of that stupid knee-pad thing that can either fold all the way down and looks like a tumor or food at a nearly 90-degree angle and look like a broken bone.

I agree so much with this. Hence why I dont want to end up with too much of that base mold.

I think what we can all agree about is that Breakdown sucks.

Love the Breakdown mold, love it as an arm; go both him and sunstreaker equipped to some combiners; I would've loved to get a well painted wheeljack, and I hate that TT and hasbro's computrons are so different, d|ck move guys, d|ck move

I love the mold too, and now that I painted WJ I can see him for the awesome that he is.

I do not get this intense hatred for the Breakdown mold.

That Bot wrote:I do not get this intense hatred for the Breakdown mold.

Don't you know? He personally set fire to all the user's houses :-

The stunticons never made it to the UK so I may never experience them in their original forms (unless I get unlazy and order online) so the only way I can form a proper opinion is to look at what they were retooled into

He's the Michael Bay of Combiner Wars ... so many rapehoods that have been childed.

Burn wrote:He's the Michael Bay of Combiner Wars ... so many rapehoods that have been childed.

Hey now, I absolutely loooooove Off Road. My childhood was the 90s anyway, so no intercoursual unconsention there. No, I just hate how lame Breakdown is in robot and leg mode. My hatred for him has subsided a little as I've played with him more and, like I said, I 75% like his arm mode and 100% like his car mode. So let's use math to figure this out:

100% awesome divided by 4 modes; 100/4 = 25; so 25% points to each mode. Meaning that a perfect score on one mode is 25 points out of 100. Here we go.


Car mode: 100% = 25
Arm mode: 75% = 18.75
Robot mode: 10% = 2.5
Leg mode: 0% = 0

Grand total: 46.25

So I guess I should start saying I 46.25% like him.

Break down is fine in vehicle mode. Its mainly the robot mode's dumb hips and dumb legs and feet and dumb arms that makes him.... dumb. Otherwise he's fine.

MelRains wrote:Break down is fine in vehicle mode. Its mainly the robot mode's dumb hips and dumb legs and feet and dumb arms that makes him.... dumb. Otherwise he's fine.

Haha, I love that. Breakdown: if you can get past how bad and dumb every single one of his limbs are, he's fine

Fellow Seibertronian Autobot N has pointed us towards Autobase Aichi and the blog on snakas, in which we find some screencaps of a video showing off the prototype for the Takara Tomy Unite Warriors Computron (Computicon, apparently) set - and the confirmation of the molds used for the various figures! Check out the mirrored images below, and let us know what you think in the Energon pub.

It might just be me, but that gun kinda looks it's formed out of the individual bots' guns.

It's getting easier and easier to get both. With all the differences between Hasbro and Takara they're pretty much different combiners. Gotta say though I'm not loving the Rook remold like I thought I would. I think the alt mode is going to look unfinished with his hands just blatantly poking out, at least hound/swindle covered theirs with the jeep canopy.

Wow, looks like a proper Silverbolt remold complete with new Computron chest, not just a new head. This is definitely looking like the one to get for me.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:Wow, looks like a proper Silverbolt remold complete with new Computron chest, not just a new head. This is definitely looking like the one to get for me.

Emerje

Me too. This is a far more complete retool of the silverolt mold than the Hasbro version. That head looks awesome, it is so much different than the Superion head. And I love their take on Afterburner as an arm. It really seems like Hasbro and Takara are giving that arm different official transformations. And that Strafe looks awesome!

Its on BBTS now but I cant see the listing. Can anyone tell me if it has a price that is similar to the standard releases of TTmall exclusive releases?

william-james88 wrote:

Emerje wrote:Wow, looks like a proper Silverbolt remold complete with new Computron chest, not just a new head. This is definitely looking like the one to get for me.

Emerje

Me too. This is a far more complete retool of the silverolt mold than the Hasbro version. That head looks awesome, it is so much different than the Superion head. And I love their take on Afterburner as an arm. It really seems like Hasbro and Takara are giving that arm different official transformations. And that Strafe looks awesome!

Its on BBTS now but I cant see the listing. Can anyone tell me if it has a price that is similar to the standard releases of TTmall exclusive releases?

They're asking $160 but this isn't a TTMALL exclusive so I'd just wait for an import site.

BBTS lists it at $159.99.

Sadly, it's the TT Mall price.

Still pre-ordered it, though.

this might be the first UW I get....

Optimizzy wrote:this might be the first UW I get....

Same. I thought about it a lot this weekend. I think I will skip Bruticus and go for this guy. I don't mine hasbros it's really cool but I should give a Takara combiner a shot and this guy is different enough all over to get. However I will probably shell out for the PE hands and feet. I caved and got all the others and they're pretty solid

steals_your_goats wrote:
They're asking $160 but this isn't a TTMALL exclusive so I'd just wait for an import site.

That is the TTMall exclusive price. Takara has yet to reveal if it is or not, but BBTS putting it at that price instead of 125$ means other import wites wont be listing it.

Sad day.

It's official, gettin' both.