TakaraTomy Transformers Unite Warriors UW-07 Bruticus In-Package

I don't like the lighter brown on Blast-off, hopefully it will grow on me. I liked the darker brown a lot more, don't understand why they changed that. The other gripe is that they didn't bother to add a gun for Onslaught/Bruticus, i don't think it would've been too much to ask for. I will still get it though.

What little we see of Vortex looks much better. Don't like the color of Bruticus's chest plate though.

Hasbro repented of their slothfulness and put deluxe Groove on the market. Hopefully they will do the same with Takara's Blast-Off....

Optimum Supreme wrote:What little we see of Vortex looks much better. Don't like the color of Bruticus's chest plate though.

Have you not seen the official pics yet? Here's their Vortex:

DeathReviews wrote:Hasbro repented of their slothfulness and put deluxe Groove on the market. Hopefully they will do the same with Takara's Blast-Off....

If they do hopefully they change his colours. Takara's are terrible...

Kurona wrote:

DeathReviews wrote:Hasbro repented of their slothfulness and put deluxe Groove on the market. Hopefully they will do the same with Takara's Blast-Off....

If they do hopefully they change his colours. Takara's are terrible...

It'll most likely be the same as jet blast off deco wise, which would look a lot better. Luckily for me I don't see the problem with jet blast off, so I don't care if they do or don't bring over the UW mold

ZeroWolf wrote:

Kurona wrote:

DeathReviews wrote:Hasbro repented of their slothfulness and put deluxe Groove on the market. Hopefully they will do the same with Takara's Blast-Off....

If they do hopefully they change his colours. Takara's are terrible...

It'll most likely be the same as jet blast off deco wise, which would look a lot better. Luckily for me I don't see the problem with jet blast off, so I don't care if they do or don't bring over the UW mold

I doubt that. So far, the plastic colour for all releases of bonus members was the same no? If ever we get shuttle Blastoff, there wont be much difference from the Takara one, I think. However, unlike with Groove, I am not holding out hope Hasbro brings over Blastoff. Plus, with the prices people have been charging and paying for deluxe Groove, if you want a Bruticus with a shuttle Blastoff, I dont understand why people dont just get the UW version. Unlike Defensor, this isnt an exclusive and it only costs 25$ more than getting the Hasbro version of Bruticus.

william-james88 wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:

Kurona wrote:

DeathReviews wrote:Hasbro repented of their slothfulness and put deluxe Groove on the market. Hopefully they will do the same with Takara's Blast-Off....

If they do hopefully they change his colours. Takara's are terrible...

It'll most likely be the same as jet blast off deco wise, which would look a lot better. Luckily for me I don't see the problem with jet blast off, so I don't care if they do or don't bring over the UW mold

I doubt that. So far, the plastic colour for all releases of bonus members was the same no? If ever we get shuttle Blastoff, there wont be much difference from the Takara one, I think. However, unlike with Groove, I am not holding out hope Hasbro brings over Blastoff. Plus, with the prices people have been charging and paying for deluxe Groove, if you want a Bruticus with a shuttle Blastoff, I dont understand why people dont just get the UW version. Unlike Defensor, this isnt an exclusive and it only costs 25$ more than getting the Hasbro version of Bruticus.

Quickslinger and Wildrider were in different colours, but since Groove was in the same colours aside from like.... The screwheads, I think he'd be the same colours. Just holding onto vain hope.
To answer your second question, mostly because unlike Defensor the colours on Bruticus are vastly different to Hasbro's - more than any other release. And to many people's eye - including mine - it's kind of horrific. So a lot of people would appreciate being able to get a shuttle blast off alone for their Hasbro Bruticus they may prefer the colours on.

He looks good, but for the money im def sticking with my hasbro, this is one of those rare cases where takara version isnt miles ahead in terms of paint job over hasbros. For me anyway. Hes like 120 more to get Takara version in canada.

I really like the Takara Bruticus, but I am partial to slavishly correct Sunbow G1 colour schemes. Every figure looks better the way Takara has done them and Blast Off is real sweet looking. Had Bruticus on pre-order up until a couple days ago when I realized I cannot afford a whole combiner this month on with the new figuarts SSJ Trunks plus Titan Returns stuff

I'm expecting two Unite Warriors Bruticus sets at the end of this month, so I'm all in for light brown shuttle Blast-Off. Looks like he still retains some darker brown parts too. The superior face sculpt and G1 accurate alt mode trump Hasbro's dark brown Slingshot repaint for me.

So Skyreign will be the priciest one yet eh? That's disappointing.

Budgetary constraints have made me put a number of these on the back burner (Convoy, Galvy, and likely SkyR). Unless SkyR is drastically different than Hasby's, I think I'll be getting Grandvatronbiner first.

shajaki wrote:So Skyreign will be the priciest one yet eh? That's disappointing.

Budgetary constraints have made me put a number of these on the back burner (Convoy, Galvy, and likely SkyR). Unless SkyR is drastically different than Hasby's, I think I'll be getting Grandvatronbiner first.

I would consider the inclusion of Ratchet over Smokescreen as pretty drastically different, though we won't really know for certain for a few more days.

Wolfman Jake wrote:I would consider the inclusion of Ratchet over Smokescreen as pretty drastically different, though we won't really know for certain for a few more days.

What would be perfect is if his limbs were: Hoist, Bluestreak, Ratchet, and Sideswipe.

shajaki wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:I would consider the inclusion of Ratchet over Smokescreen as pretty drastically different, though we won't really know for certain for a few more days.

What would be perfect is if his limbs were: Hoist, Bluestreak, Ratchet, and Sideswipe.

Afraid Bluestreak's already booted out of possibility fam :[

Kurona wrote:

shajaki wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:I would consider the inclusion of Ratchet over Smokescreen as pretty drastically different, though we won't really know for certain for a few more days.

What would be perfect is if his limbs were: Hoist, Bluestreak, Ratchet, and Sideswipe.

Afraid Bluestreak's already booted out of possibility fam :[

Why?

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:

Kurona wrote:

shajaki wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:I would consider the inclusion of Ratchet over Smokescreen as pretty drastically different, though we won't really know for certain for a few more days.

What would be perfect is if his limbs were: Hoist, Bluestreak, Ratchet, and Sideswipe.

Afraid Bluestreak's already booted out of possibility fam :[

Why?

Cos there ain't no Prowl/Streetwise/Dead End mold on the silhouette

Kurona wrote:

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:

Kurona wrote:

shajaki wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:I would consider the inclusion of Ratchet over Smokescreen as pretty drastically different, though we won't really know for certain for a few more days.

What would be perfect is if his limbs were: Hoist, Bluestreak, Ratchet, and Sideswipe.

Afraid Bluestreak's already booted out of possibility fam :[

Why?

Cos there ain't no Prowl/Streetwise/Dead End mold on the silhouette

Yeah, the limbs seen in the silhouette are the Offroad mold, the Swindle mold, the First Aid mold, and the Wheeljack mold, which pegs them as being Trailbreaker (or Hoist), Hound, Ratchet, and Wheeljack, respectively.

*fairly* certain they will keep them as Trailbraker, Hound, Wheeljack. They seem to be keeping with the 1984 TF's, with the exception of Sky Lynx obviously. I don't think they would throw a random Hoist in for no reason. As soon as this is announced, Hopefully I can just grab a CW Smokescreen, and just await this release.

I think they'll keep Trailbreaker purely because he's tooling Japan doesn't have yet. It keeps in with the only one we know is dumped (smokescreen) being the only one with absolutely no new tooling.

Does anyone know if Takara did another release of UW-01 Superion? I just noticed a couple of online retailers get them back in stock, albeit at a slightly higher price. I've seen sites like BBTS occasionally get a small restocking, but this is more than 24 (their max order limit for one item). It doesn't matter really as I already have Superion, but I was waiting/hoping that some of the others would go on clearance, Devastator in particular as it appears they still have many of them in stock.

o.supreme wrote:Does anyone know if Takara did another release of UW-01 Superion? I just noticed a couple of online retailers get them back in stock, albeit at a slightly higher price. I've seen sites like BBTS occasionally get a small restocking, but this is more than 24 (their max order limit for one item). It doesn't matter really as I already have Superion, but I was waiting/hoping that some of the others would go on clearance, Devastator in particular as it appears they still have many of them in stock.

There are no re-releases as far as I know, however Hasbro Australia did release a slightly different version of the UW Superion set. No changes to the toys themselves, but parts of the box have been translated into English.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:There are no re-releases as far as I know, however Hasbro Australia did release a slightly different version of the UW Superion set. No changes to the toys themselves, but parts of the box have been translated into English.

Hrm...now you have me curious. I'd love to see a side-by-side comparison of the original release vs the Hasbro Aus. one to see the differences in the packaging.

o.supreme wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:There are no re-releases as far as I know, however Hasbro Australia did release a slightly different version of the UW Superion set. No changes to the toys themselves, but parts of the box have been translated into English.

Hrm...now you have me curious. I'd love to see a side-by-side comparison of the original release vs the Hasbro Aus. one to see the differences in the packaging.

In a nutshell it uses the same style, but US names (like Quickslinger instead of either Sling or Slingshot). Here's the page that first announced it:

UW Superion to be released in Australia on Talk Transformers.

Fellow Seibertronians, the Tokyo Toy Show is kicking off, and is wasting no time with their reveals. Courtesy of Twitter user gadepon, along side MP Thrust and Inferno, we get a reveal of Unite Warriors EX Sky Reign. Along with this reveal, we get confirmation of the suspected use of Combiner Wars Ratchet as a component of Sky Reign in lieu of Smokescreen.

It should be noted that the figure seen below seems to be using Hasbro toys for a few figures, Sky Lynx among them; but it gives us a look at what is planned for this figures. The image has been mirrored below, along side a link to our very own Sky Reign gallery. So, is this enough to reserve this figure? Are you even more excited? Let us know in the comments below.

At least the legs are the same mold and match up knee-cap wise. looks pretty good from that picture

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:At least the legs are the same mold and match up knee-cap wise. looks pretty good from that picture

It's the painted hubcaps, hasbro should really get a clue

Hellscream9999 wrote:It's the painted hubcaps, hasbro should really get a clue

Yes out of all things that are important Hubcaps should be Hasbro's priority /s.

Deadput wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:It's the painted hubcaps, hasbro should really get a clue

Yes out of all things that are important Hubcaps should be Hasbro's priority /s.

Considering how wheels are used as decoration in bot mode, and their prominence in vehicle mode, you'd be amazed at how much it makes a figure pop

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:At least the legs are the same mold and match up knee-cap wise. looks pretty good from that picture

It's the painted hubcaps, hasbro should really get a clue

They did, hence why Hasbro Trailbreaker has painted hubcaps, and thats probably the same toy we see in the pic.

william-james88 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:At least the legs are the same mold and match up knee-cap wise. looks pretty good from that picture

It's the painted hubcaps, hasbro should really get a clue

They did, hence why Hasbro Trailbreaker has painted hubcaps, and thats probably the same toy we see in the pic.

Nope, it's because it shares paint apps with it's mold-mates, one reason why both ironhide and offroad have them, and first aid doesn't. Rook didn't have them, and neither swindle nor hound have them (hound arguably has no paint apps) The only ones to go against this are breakdown into wheeljack, and streetwise into Prowl

Either way, painted hubcaps really need to be a standard, the last two waves of cw had some appalling lack of paint apps, and rid is little better

Fellow Seibertronians, hot on the heels of his reveal, and courtesy of fellow fan Taylor Ivie, we now know that TakaraTomy Mall have put up official images of the newly rechristened Unite Warriors EX Lynx Master. It shows the team off in their combined form as well as in their individual modes, and seems to indicate that Ratchet will include Rooks weapon accessory as well as Trailbreaker having a painted hand/foot/gun accessory. The site further states that it will retail for 16,200 Yen. The images can be seen below, and, as always, leave your thoughts and comments below.

He's no longer called "Sky Reign". The combined form of Captain Modesty is now called Lynx Master (リンクスマスター rinkusumasuta).

Hellscream9999 wrote:Either way, painted hubcaps really need to be a standard, the last two waves of cw had some appalling lack of paint apps, and rid is little better

The only deluxes with unpainted hubcaps are the military and civil service vehicles...but hey, who am I to judge if you want shiny things on your combat units?

See, this is how you do repaints; You paint the F&%KING FIGURE, GOD, hasbro screwed these guys over

Randomus wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Either way, painted hubcaps really need to be a standard, the last two waves of cw had some appalling lack of paint apps, and rid is little better

The only deluxes with unpainted hubcaps are the military and civil service vehicles...but hey, who am I to judge if you want shiny things on your combat units?

Combat units have colored rims, usually something in drab military colors, as do civil service vehicles, firetrucks have normal chromed rims, like cars...

Hellscream9999 wrote:See, this is how you do repaints; You paint the F&%KING FIGURE, GOD, Hasbro screwed these guys over

Wheeljack looks MUCH better with the chest paint. The black shoulders and forearms also help to break up the boringness. He also pops better in white instead of whatever off-white color Hasbro put out.

I would have far and away preferred getting that Ratchet over Smokescreen.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I would have far and away preferred getting that Ratchet over Smokescreen.

Agreed

Lucky Logician wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:See, this is how you do repaints; You paint the F&%KING FIGURE, GOD, Hasbro screwed these guys over

Wheeljack looks MUCH better with the chest paint. The black shoulders and forearms also help to break up the boringness. He also pops better in white instead of whatever off-white color Hasbro put out.

Yeah, I know, who'da figured, right? The figures look amazing, when you give them paint apps

That WJ is how I wished the MP was colored

In this case I like more SkyLinx from Hasbro

Sky Lynx himself doesn't look all that different from Hasbro's, but the added paint on all of the limb-bots really make them pop!

Trailbreaker having a painted hand/foot/gun accessory, which would be a first in either line

Not true. Breakdown's HFG piece was lavender painted over black.

Sabrblade wrote:Sky Lynx himself doesn't look all that different from Hasbro's, but the added paint on all of the limb-bots really make them pop!

It does, doesn't it? It's really sobering to see what could have been

Nexus Knight wrote:

Trailbreaker having a painted hand/foot/gun accessory, which would be a first in either line

Not true. Breakdown's HFG piece was lavender painted over black.

Really? I've never seen a pic of that...

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Nexus Knight wrote:

Trailbreaker having a painted hand/foot/gun accessory, which would be a first in either line

Not true. Breakdown's HFG piece was lavender painted over black.

Really? I've never seen a pic of that...

Don't forget the Hasbro version of Trailbreaker had painted fingers

Well, I'd show you a picture of mine, but for some reason the photos that my Kindle takes are too large to upload.

However if you look on TFwiki under Breakdown's Combiner Wars entry, it'll note the painted bit.

SOLD! I'll take two, please!

Takara has knocked it out of the park with Sky Reign/Lynx Master. Everything about it is an improvement over Hasbro's release. You can't even quibble on the color choices either, like some do with UW Bruticus, or the mold choices, like with CW vs. UW Computron. Now, let's just hope this isn't the most expensive Unite Warriors release yet.

Wolfman Jake wrote:Now, let's just hope this isn't the most expensive Unite Warriors release yet.

the price given in the news story says it will be 16200 yen, just north of $150 US dollars

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Nexus Knight wrote:

Trailbreaker having a painted hand/foot/gun accessory, which would be a first in either line

Not true. Breakdown's HFG piece was lavender painted over black.

Really? I've never seen a pic of that...

Don't forget the Hasbro version of Trailbreaker had painted fingers

Oh, yeah, I forgot that they had actually given those figures a paint app or two (fine, I'll change it...)