Takara Transformers Unite Warriors TFYuki Images Round-Up

Here you go, guys

So it looks like Takara's version of Galvatronus comes with the Rook mold, the Ironhide/Off Road mold, the Air Raid mold and the Skydive mold. If they're simple repaints or minor remolds, they'll be easy passes. Really....the only way I'd be interested in this set is if they're completely different characters that haven't had a toy in a while.

Amelie wrote:Here you go, guys

So no Alphabravo JP version eh?

Hellscream9999 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Come on you guys, he doesnt have less paint. All his wheels are painted, like in the G1 cartoon, plus he has that added silver on the left foot which works wonders, and he has Bonecrisher's inner threads painted to match the other side. And finally, while it isnt paint, they use an extra plastic colour to give him the correct purple hands AND they paint both the inside missiles of the transformed inner hands plus give a nice grey painted line in the forearm to breakup all that black.

This is such a welcome change to the drab looking Hasbro one. Look at the colours from the begining of his forearm to the end of his fingers, its just all boring black plastic.

Takara improves this more than people are letting on. Hasbro's is the one whose combined mode looks like unpainted ass:

I'll grant you the wheels, those were a godsend. And hasbro's version is about as cheaply made as possible.

But they could have added something to break up the absolute sea of nasty constructicon green. Even if all they did was add some visual flairs to the combined mode, like hazard stripes across the thighs, or scuffing on the buckets' teeth (scrappers specifically), pick out some details like ladders or stuff in silver, or color the exhaust vents black, something, anything, there's so much green...

If you are in to upgrading the details, Ocean Designs and it's doppleganger Eness are sure to come up with a remedy for the plain"ness"

Bounti76 wrote:So it looks like Takara's version of Galvatronus comes with the Rook mold, the Ironhide/Off Road mold, the Air Raid mold and the Skydive mold. If they're simple repaints or minor remolds, they'll be easy passes. Really....the only way I'd be interested in this set is if they're completely different characters that haven't had a toy in a while.

My thoughts are they are going to be some iteration of Scourge, Hook, Line and Sinker. We'll just have to wait and see.

Motorcycle figure replace iron hide not important what limbs like see difference in paint detail on figure itself

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:So it looks like Takara's version of Galvatronus comes with the Rook mold, the Ironhide/Off Road mold, the Air Raid mold and the Skydive mold. If they're simple repaints or minor remolds, they'll be easy passes. Really....the only way I'd be interested in this set is if they're completely different characters that haven't had a toy in a while.

My thoughts are they are going to be some iteration of Scourge, Hook, Line and Sinker. We'll just have to wait and see.

Evil rook with possible new head? Yes please

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:So it looks like Takara's version of Galvatronus comes with the Rook mold, the Ironhide/Off Road mold, the Air Raid mold and the Skydive mold. If they're simple repaints or minor remolds, they'll be easy passes. Really....the only way I'd be interested in this set is if they're completely different characters that haven't had a toy in a while.

My thoughts are they are going to be some iteration of Scourge, Hook, Line and Sinker. We'll just have to wait and see.

Evil rook with possible new head? Yes please

Still not a bad idea I'll be happy with pretty much anything. Sure to be some good eye candy

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:So it looks like Takara's version of Galvatronus comes with the Rook mold, the Ironhide/Off Road mold, the Air Raid mold and the Skydive mold. If they're simple repaints or minor remolds, they'll be easy passes. Really....the only way I'd be interested in this set is if they're completely different characters that haven't had a toy in a while.

My thoughts are they are going to be some iteration of Scourge, Hook, Line and Sinker. We'll just have to wait and see.

Evil rook with possible new head? Yes please

Still not a bad idea I'll be happy with pretty much anything. Sure to be some good eye candy

Though, what's the point of releasing the mold, if people in japan wanted the character? For rook, it works, b/c they haven't gotten the mold at all, but without ruckus' head, offroad is really no different than the ironhide they're getting...

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:So it looks like Takara's version of Galvatronus comes with the Rook mold, the Ironhide/Off Road mold, the Air Raid mold and the Skydive mold. If they're simple repaints or minor remolds, they'll be easy passes. Really....the only way I'd be interested in this set is if they're completely different characters that haven't had a toy in a while.

My thoughts are they are going to be some iteration of Scourge, Hook, Line and Sinker. We'll just have to wait and see.

Evil rook with possible new head? Yes please

Still not a bad idea I'll be happy with pretty much anything. Sure to be some good eye candy

Though, what's the point of releasing the mold, if people in japan wanted the character? For rook, it works, b/c they haven't gotten the mold at all, but without ruckus' head, offroad is really no different than the ironhide they're getting...

True...maybe they'll make Hook, line or sinker have some new heads? Or maybe some new characters. Who knows. I babble

Would like to a see is they handle the deco on Galvatronus before I make a definite decision. If they're all Decepticons and they somehow establish the torso as someone that's not Cyclonus (doubtful), then I'll most likely bite. If not this and what Hasbro's going for, then it'll be a pass.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:So it looks like Takara's version of Galvatronus comes with the Rook mold, the Ironhide/Off Road mold, the Air Raid mold and the Skydive mold. If they're simple repaints or minor remolds, they'll be easy passes. Really....the only way I'd be interested in this set is if they're completely different characters that haven't had a toy in a while.

My thoughts are they are going to be some iteration of Scourge, Hook, Line and Sinker. We'll just have to wait and see.

Evil rook with possible new head? Yes please

Still not a bad idea I'll be happy with pretty much anything. Sure to be some good eye candy

Though, what's the point of releasing the mold, if people in japan wanted the character? For rook, it works, b/c they haven't gotten the mold at all, but without ruckus' head, offroad is really no different than the ironhide they're getting...

True...maybe they'll make Hook, line or sinker have some new heads? Or maybe some new characters. Who knows. I babble

Maybe they'll give evilrook a hook to plug into his hand, and he can be... sinker ('cuz he punctures things with the hook)

Someone on another board suggested that the UW release of Galvatronus could be another Energon homage like Convoy Grand Prime was. This idea led me to make the following guesses:

Cyclonus as Energon Megatron
Rook as Snow Cat
Offroad as dump truck Demolishor
Skydive as Starscream
Air Raid as Jet Mode Scorponok

Galvatronus as Megatron Hyper Mode

Sabrblade wrote:Someone on another board suggested that the UW release of Galvatronus could be another Energon homage like Convoy Grand Prime was. This idea led me to make the following guesses:

Cyclonus as Energon Megatron
Rook as Snow Cat
Offroad as dump truck Demolishor
Skydive as Starscream
Air Raid as Jet Mode Scorponok

Galvatronus as Megatron Hyper Mode

Will buy ASAP if this happens. Love me some Energon homages.

That would be really cool.

Cobotron wrote:That would be really cool.

Indeed, I missed out on the energon galvatron/megs so that would be a neat homage to get, wonder if they would change all the heads too?

The guy who replaces Rook looks nice...

Agregor wrote:The guy who replaces Rook looks nice...

A grayscale toy is nice-looking?

Sabrblade wrote:

Agregor wrote:The guy who replaces Rook looks nice...

A grayscale toy is nice-looking?

I think he's referring to bigroove

Sabrblade wrote:Someone on another board suggested that the UW release of Galvatronus could be another Energon homage like Convoy Grand Prime was. This idea led me to make the following guesses:

Cyclonus as Energon Megatron
Rook as Snow Cat
Offroad as dump truck Demolishor
Skydive as Starscream
Air Raid as Jet Mode Scorponok

Galvatronus as Megatron Hyper Mode

It would push the bounds of "Energon" (maybe Unicron Trilogy homage?) but I find Cybertron Thundercracker closer in style to Skydive. *shrug*

Agamemnon wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Someone on another board suggested that the UW release of Galvatronus could be another Energon homage like Convoy Grand Prime was. This idea led me to make the following guesses:

Cyclonus as Energon Megatron
Rook as Snow Cat
Offroad as dump truck Demolishor
Skydive as Starscream
Air Raid as Jet Mode Scorponok

Galvatronus as Megatron Hyper Mode

It would push the bounds of "Energon" (maybe Unicron Trilogy homage?) but I find Cybertron Thundercracker closer in style to Skydive. *shrug*

While true, I feel that any update to Cybertron Thundercracker needs to retain his signature giant gun arm.

Unite Warriors answer to Galvatronus on left of image....

Starscream looks like one arm, the other looks like Skyquake to me perhaps, possibly Soundwave is the other leg and as for the Rook repaint the only thing it reminds me of at first glance is Overlord, certainly isn't Quake.

The set looks like it's nothing to do with Leo Kaiser either.. so we may still have that to come too in Unite Warriors form.

http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Liokai ... kaiser.htm

What I find odd though is the colours the non-Starscream looking arm most resembles to me is Armada Thrust !!!

RAR wrote:

Unite Warriors answer to Galvatronus on left of image....

Starscream looks like one arm, the other looks like Skyquake to me perhaps, possibly Soundwave is the other leg and as for the Rook repaint the only thing it reminds me of at first glance is Overlord, certainly isn't Quake.

The set looks like it's nothing to do with Leo Kaiser either.. so we may still have that to come too in Unite Warriors form.

http://www.tfu.info/1989/Destron/Liokai ... kaiser.htm

What I find odd though is the colours the non-Starscream looking arm most resembles to me is Armada Thrust !!!

Folks have been speculating that this will be unicron trilogy themed, due to Rook's colour scheme resembling one of demolishor's many repaints, and a grey cyclonus, among other things.

There *was* also that version of onslaught with the Demolishor head that showed up somewhere a few weeks back, so we know the head mould exists already.

Several Seibertronians - RAR, MemphisR56 and Mindmaster among them - have been speculating on the appearance of the silhouette for the upcoming Takara Tomy release under the Unite Warriors line, of the Combiner Wars Galvatronus/Cyclonus mold. What seems to be the latest rumour from the image mirrored below from TakaraTomyMall, is that the entire set will be homaging the Unicron Trilogy, 'due to Rook's colour scheme resembling one of Demolishor's many repaints, and a grey Cyclonus, among other things'. Rightly pointed out 'there *was* also that version of Onslaught with the Demolishor head that showed up somewhere a few weeks back, so we know the head mould exists already'. What do you make of this? Check out the image, and speculate away in the Energon Pub!

Wow, this has me very interested. Just on the colors alone, regardless of what it may homage.

Did Starscream ever wear his traditional colors in the Unicron Trilogy?

On one hand, I really hope this is true. On the other, my wallet is begging me for it to be false.

Energon starscream had a g1 homage. I'm really down for this. I've been wanting some random 'con combiner limbs.

More bogus homage repaints instead of new characters. Money saved. Now where is Victorian and G2 Superion already?

Cobotron wrote:Wow, this has me very interested. Justt on the colors alone, regardless of what it may homage.

Did Starscream ever wear his traditional colors in the Unicron Trilogy?

Energon Starscream was repainted/remolded into his G1 not-undead look.

All in all, this seems strange to me. I would have expected a line up based on characters' start of show colors, not their repaints, and if they were doing an Energon homage, I would have expected torso-tron to be rendered in white, blue, and green (start of Energon), or to look more like the American version of CW Cyclonus, the G1 colors a close match to Energon Megatron's G1-Galvatron-style repaint.

Edit: I really feel like his left arm is supposed to look like Cybertron Crumplezone, but except for the torso being Thundercracker (if it uses Scattorshot's head), nothing else seems to line up with Cybertron/Galaxy Force. Plus, if they were doing Cybertron, I'd have expected Hotspot and Groove to be Mudflap and Ransack.

Edit 2: Left arm could be Armada Thrust? But again, the rest don't really line up with Armada.

Caelus wrote:Energon Starscream was repainted/remolded into his G1 not-undead look.

Ah right. Thanks. I have Ghostscream. Forgot about the repaint.

I'm not convinced on the homage theories yet, though I'm open to them. I'm hoping it's just some wacky new cannon on Takara's part.

Obviously, the right arm is Starscream and the left leg is most likely Demolishor. The torso looks like it could be either Cybertron Galvatron or Energon Megatron (keep in mind that I know next to nothing about the UT. I'm just going off of colors). Left arm has Armada Thrust colors. And the right leg could be Brushguard. Or maybe an upsized Payload.

Pretty nice colors at least. Now give us some official names and shots!

Left arm looks like g1 starscream, right arm looks like its armada thrust with those colors, the left leg looks like its soundwave, and the right leg idk who its supposed to be but until then the supense will be killing us XD but I bet some people are annoyed that the limbs aren't alpha bravo, off-road, and Rook XD

I think the torso could be homaging G1 Galvatron's toy colors.

Theres probably some hardcore fan screaming at the screen the character they think the right leg is XD

Just what in the world is this thing supposed to be?!

Sabrblade wrote:Just what in the world is this thing supposed to be?!

Some sort of meta-homage? Various ut figure homages combining to homage g1 toy galvatron... He even has the two-toned cannon... man he does seem a little out there...



I like it, seriously might pre-order this

I wonder if it's an intentional mish-mash of loosely Unicron related characters?

Torso looks to be based on Galvatron's G1 toy, with the prominent white/lavender.
You've got G1 Starscream on the right arm, and he (pretended to) helped Unicron in the Cartoon.
Left arm looks like Armada Thrust, who was convinced by Sideways to work for Unicron.
Right Leg might be Animated Soundwave? Cybertron Soundwave worked for Unicron, so maybe it's a loose connection?

As for the Left Leg, the only character I know of with that balance of white and red/orange was the 2007 Movie figure Wreckage, who also transformed into that type of vehicle. Although he has zero to do with the big yellow devilbot, so I don't know.

In other Unite Warriors news, a collector got their hands on Guardian early and posted an extensive gallery of in-hand images - https://picasaweb.google.com/113374949723608070584/UW03

Sabrblade wrote:Just what in the world is this thing supposed to be?!

If Sabr can't figure this out ... we're all DOOMED!!!

Sabrblade wrote:In other Unite Warriors news, a collector got their hands on Guardian early and posted an extensive gallery of in-hand images - https://picasaweb.google.com/113374949723608070584/UW03

Man, those painted rims really do a world of good for these figures, I hate that hasbro has cheaped out on paint so much that they can't even paint the rims on their figures

Combined mode still looks like garbage with all that molded detail washed out

Cobotron wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Just what in the world is this thing supposed to be?!

If Sabr can't figure this out ... we're all DOOMED!!!

Yeah, I can see how original idea's can throw people for a loop in a toyline that has devolved into nothing but homages and updates

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:In other Unite Warriors news, a collector got their hands on Guardian early and posted an extensive gallery of in-hand images - https://picasaweb.google.com/113374949723608070584/UW03

Man, those painted rims really do a world of good for these figures, I hate that hasbro has cheaped out on paint so much that they can't even paint the rims on their figures

There's a rim job joke somewhere around here.

Seibertron wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:In other Unite Warriors news, a collector got their hands on Guardian early and posted an extensive gallery of in-hand images - https://picasaweb.google.com/113374949723608070584/UW03

Man, those painted rims really do a world of good for these figures, I hate that hasbro has cheaped out on paint so much that they can't even paint the rims on their figures

There's a rim job joke somewhere around here.

Yeah, somebody sig'ed a good one a while back

You gonna do galleries for the uw guys - or, at least, defensor, bruticus, and whatever this guy is, since they'll all be 'new'?

Sabrblade wrote:Just what in the world is this thing supposed to be?!

Whoever they are, I'm now interested in them. Guess I ought to start setting some aside for Galvatronus (if that even is his name).

I do like the theory that each part of the combined mode has some sort of association with Unicron.

Hellscream9999 wrote:You gonna do galleries for the uw guys - or, at least, defensor, bruticus, and whatever this guy is, since they'll all be 'new'?

I'm planning on it but probably only after UW Devastator and other new molds that are out currently. Not until after the new year unfortunately.

Mindmaster wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Just what in the world is this thing supposed to be?!

Whoever they are, I'm now interested in them. Guess I ought to start setting some aside for Galvatronus (if that even is his name).

I do like the theory that each part of the combined mode has some sort of association with Unicron.

Yeah, it's a lot more interesting/relevant/proper than making up some bullsh!t excuse for not giving him his own limbs (especially with two whole sets of dumb '84 limbs in the line)

Seibertron wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:You gonna do galleries for the uw guys - or, at least, defensor, bruticus, and whatever this guy is, since they'll all be 'new'?

I'm planning on it but probably only after UW Devastator and other new molds that are out currently. Not until after the new year unfortunately.

That's cool, no need to feel rushed on my account, besides, with yuki having tweeted about bigroove most of the last half a year, we've seen about everything there is to see of him. Still wouldn't mind a junkion two-pack of him

(could you please name deluxe grooves gallery 'Bigroove'?)

The apparent steel blue/silver gradient makes me think of Movie Megatron's early toys.

Mindmaster wrote:I do like the theory that each part of the combined mode has some sort of association with Unicron.

Starscream was killed by a Unicron-powered Galvatron, Thrust was killed by Unicron's shoulder transforming... hell, Megatron could be considered "killed" to create Galvatron... who else was indirectly killed by Unicorn?

Railbomb wrote:I think the torso could be homaging G1 Galvatron's toy colors.

Just thinking about this. IF they are homaging the G1 Galvatron toy, (seems pretty logical) why would they homage Hasbro's?
Takara's looked like this.


Edit: My bad. That is the 2005 re-issue. Helps to read the fine print sometimes.