ZeroWolf wrote:Has takara had a hand in designing all of the cw figures?
Just I wondered if the reason takara was able to do more with unite warriors is because they didn't have to pay to develop all the molds. So when it came to paint apps, there was more money to spend. This is just my theory however.
I dont think they had a hand in designing any of them aside from the 2 inhouse molds. Even the extra headsculpts like Starscream, were designed by Hasbro. Takara did make the engineering do they could have planned ahead different uses or different ideas when doing that part. But I dont think this is indicative of the budget. Look at Battle Grimlock from Transformers Adventures. They totally redid that initial grimlock sculpt and arent charging much for that added work, just the price of a voyager.
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
This is so beautiful, I love that design. It was my favourite part of the Blackout mold and I am glad to see it used here.
Nemesis Maximo wrote:And I especially love how Takara has removed all the yellow from Vortex. **** yellow.
Yeah same here! #@%$ yellow!
I shouldnt be talking too loud my wife and baby are both asianmegatronus wrote:I would love a Generations-style Incinerator out of the HFTD Highbrow / GDO Powerdive mold. The vehicle modes are off, but the robot mode would be spot on!
Yeah, thats an awesome mold. Although I am far more fond of the vehicle mode on that toy than I am for the robot mode with the odd forearms and cockpit butt.
Cockbutt?Crosscheck wrote:MemphisR56 wrote:There's some much higher res pics out, you can see the deco for the bot modes much better here.
Faux jeep chest swindle!
Bigger image just confirms my thoughts on the UW Combaticons.
1. Blast Off is way too orange-brown. He is supposed to be dark brown. Colors are way off. Which is a shame because the figure looks quite good otherwise.
2. The blue on Vortex is way too bright compared to the cartoon. Should be dark gray-blue. Otherwise the gray is appropriate. Like the show-accurate version better than Hasbro's toy-accurate version.
3. Swindle and Brawl both look good. Higher res images show off a lot of the painted detail on Swindle. It looks like they painted all of his rollbars silver. Robot mode looks good. Brawl is pretty well immeasurably different from the Hasbro version. Orange eyes are nice.
4. Onslaught's vehicle mode suffers from the Bruticus chest being painted to look like Blast Off. Robot mode looks very nice, though I am still happy with Hasbro's version.
5. Bruticus still looks pretty bad with the faux Blast Off chest. I like Hasbro's toy-accurate silver much better. I definitely don't care for the feet.
All good points. My main beef is with the bright blue on Vortex. He has dark blue, to go with his darker and more matte tints. The fluo blue is really off. I dont mind the colours on BlastOff themselves but I think the come together super poorly in the spaceship mode. It doesnt look good at all there, looks more like a Piet Modrian painting.
Emerje wrote:Oh man, that's just beautiful! Still waiting on AmiAmi to start taking order so I can decide where I'm getting mine from.
Emerje
Same here, but I am also looking into Nippon Yassan, they have that sweet boat option