TakaraTomy Transformers Unite Warriors: Defensor & Groove Tweets

"Ger-ronny-do-ron-ronny-mMOOOOOoooo!"

Is it me or does the face of Takara's Blades look much friendlier than Hasbro's grimacing Marvel G2-esque Blades face?

So Takara started off with giving us repaints with new heads (Slingshot and Wildrider) for the first two combiners (Superion and Menasor), to make them more accurate to their original incarnations.

Now Defensor is getting a brand new figure to increase his accuracy, most likely because there are no bikes to give a new head to for Groove.

At this point, I'd be amazed if Takara DOESN'T make a Space Shuttle Blast Off (versus Hasbro's Purple and Brown Slingshot) figure for Bruticus.

I think, with the exception of those who need Groove as a limb and not a chest minion, Hasbro Defensor winds out. That one just doesn't look as good with that paint work. And I do not like the white Superion hands. They blend into the arms.

Gearslide wrote:So Takara started off with giving us repaints with new heads (Slingshot and Wildrider) for the first two combiners (Superion and Menasor), to make them more accurate to their original incarnations.

Now Defensor is getting a brand new figure to increase his accuracy, most likely because there are no bikes to give a new head to for Groove.

At this point, I'd be amazed if Takara DOESN'T make a Space Shuttle Blast Off (versus Hasbro's Purple and Brown Slingshot) figure for Bruticus.

I feel like they will, but I will be happy with a recon jet as Blastoff. Not accurate to most incarnations of the character, but fits the military vehicle profile much better

I kinda don't care that blast off isn't a space shuttle. never liked him as a space shuttle. Not really...combative. I'd actually applaud Takara if they just leave this one alone.

I'd love to see a side-by-side comparo of the Hasbro Aerialbots vs the Takara ones in their alt modes, to figure out which paint apps on the models that are shared across both look better.

This looks very nice. Much better then rook and a stupid chestplate bike. I really hope takara does a proper blast off as a shuttle with a faceplate. Slings**t just doesnt cut it for me.

Rated X wrote:This looks very nice. Much better then rook and a stupid chestplate bike. I really hope takara does a proper blast off as a shuttle with a faceplate. Slings**t just doesnt cut it for me.

The faceplate issue could easily be improved by using the mold's Firefly head. It's a hastily mocked up hand painted preproduction figure. Who knows what they might do for the actual figure.

Optimum Supreme wrote:

Rated X wrote:This looks very nice. Much better then rook and a stupid chestplate bike. I really hope takara does a proper blast off as a shuttle with a faceplate. Slings**t just doesnt cut it for me.

The faceplate issue could easily be improved by using the mold's Firefly head. It's a hastily mocked up hand painted preproduction figure. Who knows what they might do for the actual figure.

Keep the head, as the official stock photo still has Slingshot's head. Doesn't matter, he can be Blast Off's little brother called Take-Off.

so glad we get 50 repaints of everything but not groove

griftimus prime wrote:so glad we get 50 repaints of everything but not groove

Makes me wonder if even Takara are going to do anything else with it. Surely they see how well Slinger and Brake are selling? Are they really making so much on a limited release boxed set that they can afford to use a unique mold for no other markets?

So first aid gets his rear windows painted here which is nice but Streetwise looks grey for some reason. In all I'm not that bothered by this release.

munkimus prime wrote:So first aid gets his rear windows painted here which is nice but Streetwise looks grey for some reason. In all I'm not that bothered by this release.

Streewise was light gray in the cartoon.

Sabrblade wrote:

munkimus prime wrote:So first aid gets his rear windows painted here which is nice but Streetwise looks grey for some reason. In all I'm not that bothered by this release.

Streewise was light gray in the cartoon.

I do look forward to when Bruticus is released by Takara, sporting a sometimes grayish torso with a brown and purple chest piece but is somehow still supposed to look like Onslaught in robot mode.

I would appreciate a new mold for Blast Off, just because I feel that a lot of the more common G1 Decepticon characters haven't been given proper updated versions.
And no, Blast Off is not some unique character that deserves special treatment.
But with all of the molds being re-used in this line, my personal bias makes me want a new mold.

Do I think the current offering is bad? Absolutely not. I think it works very very well.
Will I buy the UW version if it offers a shuttle alt mode for him? Maybe, and most likely.
Knowing that all of the other paint jobs would be more cartoon accurate, and that Bruticus's head will probably be gray and not black/dark gray would probably be enough to pull that trigger.

I will say, if we find out that Hasbro's version in fact uses a different, more accurate head sculpt, who knows, I could stick with their's.

The more I think about it, the more I know it's possible that I will be changing Menasor and Bruticus into their separate team members regularly,
making the bot modes as if not more important than how each limb/torso looks combined.

The exception to this will be Devastator. Although, if I could get an extra Hook and Scrapper to keep in bot mode, I would. Love those guys.

It wouldn't surprise me if Takara will do better than Hasbro with Blast Off.


I like how in the cartoon Bruticus' chest piece was formed from Blast-Off's wings. It was a nice touch.





Predaking's back had a similar thing with Divebomb.

I'm prone to thinking that they may remold blastoff's head. Much of the shots for the figures displayed at the panel look like mock-ups and not actual photos. It has rightly been pointed out that many of the pictures look like they are renderings from a 3D program. They probably just ran out of time before the panel reveal and retouched Quicksling vs. rendering a new head for him.

It's easy to believe then, since most of these figures won't see the light of day until mid-next year at the earliest, that Blastoff's head was a placeholder, and that his actual head will be much more show-accurate. Or so it is to be hoped. They've gone through a lot of effort to make sure that all the other figures have show-accurate heads at least. I can't imagine the would just totally broom blastoff like that. Why go through all the time and effort to make G1 accurate heads for Sunstreaker, Ironhide, et. all, and then ignore Blastoff?

Gearslide wrote:So Takara started off with giving us repaints with new heads (Slingshot and Wildrider) for the first two combiners (Superion and Menasor), to make them more accurate to their original incarnations.

Now Defensor is getting a brand new figure to increase his accuracy, most likely because there are no bikes to give a new head to for Groove.

At this point, I'd be amazed if Takara DOESN'T make a Space Shuttle Blast Off (versus Hasbro's Purple and Brown Slingshot) figure for Bruticus.

To be fair though there is no confirmation that it was Takara who gave us those wildrider and slingshot heads since Hasbro also released those very molds. It could have been Hasbro who designed those heads since they designed everything else combiner wars related with the exception of Groove (which is the only mold which was said to not be available (at retail price of course) overseas). Since they made their own mold with Groove it wouldnt surprise me they make their own with Blast Off. Here is hoping he isnt a takara tomy mall exclusive either, jacking up the price again.

william-james88 wrote:

Gearslide wrote:So Takara started off with giving us repaints with new heads (Slingshot and Wildrider) for the first two combiners (Superion and Menasor), to make them more accurate to their original incarnations.

Now Defensor is getting a brand new figure to increase his accuracy, most likely because there are no bikes to give a new head to for Groove.

At this point, I'd be amazed if Takara DOESN'T make a Space Shuttle Blast Off (versus Hasbro's Purple and Brown Slingshot) figure for Bruticus.

To be fair though there is no confirmation that it was Takara who gave us those wildrider and slingshot heads since Hasbro also released those very molds. It could have been Hasbro who designed those heads since they designed everything else combiner wars related with the exception of Groove (which is the only mold which was said to not be available (at retail price of course) overseas). Since they made their own mold with Groove it wouldnt surprise me they make their own with Blast Off. Here is hoping he isnt a takara tomy mall exclusive either, jacking up the price again.

If they do, it will most-assuredly be done similarly to groove, as there would be no reason not too - unless the tomy mall groove set doesn't sell well (which I don't see why it wouldn't do well ).

However, IF groove is a remold of the technobot that would be why it was easy for TT to do this, just replace a piece of the vehicle mode to get a different bike mode, that would mean that TT would need a figure to remold blastoff from or into. This could mean that the flying technobot could be re-interpreted as a futuristic shuttle (which would fall in with the general theme of futuristic vehicles) and therefore capable of remolding into a normal shuttle.

jay5 wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:from https://www.facebook.com/Planetiacon.stfu?fref=nf

Just to wet our appetite........again!

ETA?

If they arrive in the States in June, we'll get them in the mail in early July is my guess. Maybe just in time for the weekend of the 4th?

Depends n the shipping rates you paid for. But your ETA is more or less correct.

Mindmaster wrote:Do we have any idea when Devastator will be released? Just wanted to get an idea of when so I know how long I have to build up the funds to snag him.

Inferencing the release date.

Superion end of June 2015

Menasor end of August

Defensor end of October (Tomy Mall)

all by 2 months interval.

Maybe for Devastar, end of December 2015?

fenrir72 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:Do we have any idea when Devastator will be released? Just wanted to get an idea of when so I know how long I have to build up the funds to snag him.

Inferencing the release date.

Superion end of June 2015

Menasor end of August

Defensor end of October (Tomy Mall)

all by 2 months interval.

Maybe for Devastar, end of December 2015?

From what I can tell, UW Devastar has no ID number, just "UW" so he may be released "out of sequence". And don't forget Ultra Prime/Optimus Maximus, he was also teased:



Knowing TakaraTomy, they'll likely use the Star Convoy-like Battle Core head for Prime.

Hey guys about Blastoff's head I realize that when I'm only looking at his eyes/visor and not the rest of his face it does look like Blastoff spot on even the helmet looks like him.



A quick fix would be to get some brown putty or something like that and cover the mouth area and boom you get a G1 Blastoff head.


Would this idea work or am I just crazy?

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:Hey guys about Blastoff's head I realize that when I'm only looking at his eyes/visor and not the rest of his face it does look like Blastoff spot on even the helmet looks like him.



A quick fix would be to get some brown putty or something like that and cover the mouth area and boom you get a G1 Blastoff head.


Would this idea work or am I just crazy?

No, you can put down the crazy pills. He does have big googly eyes like Blast Off.

Shuttershock wrote:
No, you can put down the crazy pills. He does have big googly eyes like Blast Off.

Wait is his forehead miscolored as his eyes?

Fingers crossed for a Wreck Gar repaint, or an actual Over ride, since tfcc is doing Ruckus and Windsweeper.

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:

Shuttershock wrote:
No, you can put down the crazy pills. He does have big googly eyes like Blast Off.

Wait is his forehead miscolored as his eyes?

Yeah, apparently that was a running animation goof, which was fairly common with the Combaticons.

Then again, the original toy didn't seem to help:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:Do we have any idea when Devastator will be released? Just wanted to get an idea of when so I know how long I have to build up the funds to snag him.

Inferencing the release date.

Superion end of June 2015

Menasor end of August

Defensor end of October (Tomy Mall)

all by 2 months interval.

Maybe for Devastar, end of December 2015?

From what I can tell, UW Devastar has no ID number, just "UW" so he may be released "out of sequence". And don't forget Ultra Prime/Optimus Maximus, he was also teased:



Knowing TakaraTomy, they'll likely use the Star Convoy-like Battle Core head for Prime.

Yah. But TT would or should give our wallets time to recover

And the Optimus combiner, me hopes that they'll color him standard Star Convoy color apps..... and not white.

Groove doesn't excite me nearly as much as some of those sweet paint apps. Streetwise and Blades look top notch! Wow!

It Is Him wrote:Groove doesn't excite me nearly as much as some of those sweet paint apps. Streetwise and Blades look top notch! Wow!

Takara did make the better Blades. But Hasbro's Streetwise, in hand, is a pretty sweet TF. I'm impressed, even for a remold.

He's HERE!

Amiami is requesting for payment now. UW Superion and TAV Cosmos (I combined both)is now available for shipping.

fenrir72 wrote:He's HERE!

Amiami is requesting for payment now. UW Superion and TAV Cosmos (I combined both)is now available for shipping.

I was hoping that first line referred to the Devastator preorder, but oh well. They have yet to contact me.

Just paid for the set. Knowing amami, they'll be shipping him office hours tomorrow 06/26/15.



Addendum: I feel this is thread related (as to availability of the product)and should not be confined to pm regarding online store policies and all that kind of jazz

Ah, TAV Drift didnt come out yet, hence why I have yet to get that e-mail.

william-james88 wrote:Ah, TAV Drift didnt come out yet, hence why I have yet to get that e-mail.

You combined them yes?

fenrir72 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Ah, TAV Drift didnt come out yet, hence why I have yet to get that e-mail.

You combined them yes?

Yup, hence why I have to wait for everything to be out to get the e-mail, should be very very soon. (also thats a nice pun there considering this thread)

william-james88 wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Ah, TAV Drift didnt come out yet, hence why I have yet to get that e-mail.

You combined them yes?

Yup, hence why I have to wait for everything to be out to get the e-mail, should be very very soon. (also thats a nice pun there considering this thread)

This one sounds better or bad@ss.........

"......gattai!............." or ala Masterforce......".......chojin gattai!......." too bad I can't get no clips of that bad@ss phrase.

Oh cool, UW-01 is shipping! Yay!

Btw, it's already the 26th in Asia so it's shipping AS WE SPEAK.

jay5 wrote:Oh cool, UW-01 is shipping! Yay!

Btw, it's already the 26th in Asia so it's shipping AS WE SPEAK.

Hopefully 1st week of July at least

Payment request for UW01 Superion (The Temporary Name) (that's what it's called!) from HLJ received.

Sure enough right after people start getting email notifications that their TakaraTomy Transformers United Warriors UW-01 Superion is in stock and ready to ship, we've already got in hand galleries! Care of Prime0318 & TFyuki we get a glimpse of the snow white behemoth in all his glory, in and out of box. As we all know by now, this Superion differs from Hasbro's by being very G1 faithful in deco and members. So sorry Alpha Bravo supporters! And as a special treat, Yuki also Tweeted a humorous shot of upcoming Unite Warriors Hotspot with a herd of Starsaber Brains of Courage! See the pics below, and stay tuned to Seibertron.com: home for the best Galleries and Conversation around!

the white looks amazing!

Also, that is a terrible way to transform streetwise in arm mode. And last thing... Rook?!

william-james88 wrote:And last thing... Rook?!

Defensor from the first set of photos is the Hasbro version, however, in the second set, Hot Spot with all the little Brainmasters was the Takara one.

Must be nice being Yuki. That many Brain of Courages would cost a normal person more than $2K. I imagine he just walked over to a bin at the factory and grabbed a couple handfuls. I guess when you design these things there isn't much stopping you from taking what you want.

Emerje

shajaki wrote:

Thanks for that! Just confirmed I'll be picking up the US version of Air Raid and Skydive for their (imho nicer) altmode paint schemes while awaiting UW-01's arrival. =)

looks cool

Gearslide wrote:So Takara started off with giving us repaints with new heads (Slingshot and Wildrider) for the first two combiners (Superion and Menasor), to make them more accurate to their original incarnations.

Now Defensor is getting a brand new figure to increase his accuracy, most likely because there are no bikes to give a new head to for Groove.

At this point, I'd be amazed if Takara DOESN'T make a Space Shuttle Blast Off (versus Hasbro's Purple and Brown Slingshot) figure for Bruticus.

If Takara makes their own Blast Off then I'll pass entirely on Hasbro's Combaticons. Except for Brawl, and Swindle.

After Quickslinger I'm like 90%+ happy with Hasbro Superion, but looking at those lovely pics sure is riling up that ~10%.

Optimum Supreme wrote:After Quickslinger I'm like 90%+ happy with Hasbro Superion, but looking at those lovely pics sure is riling up that ~10%.

I won't lie, that ~10% could be solved with PE's Return of G1 Swag.