New Photos of Takara Tomy Transformers Legends LG20 Skids with Comparison to Hasbro Version
Saturday, May 28th, 2016 8:47AM CDT
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As you can see, the Takara version is far closer in deco to Alex Milne's comic book model, which can also be seen below.
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Posted by Cyberpath on May 29th, 2016 @ 1:44am CDT
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Posted by Sabrblade on May 29th, 2016 @ 7:13pm CDT
Posted by Kurona on May 29th, 2016 @ 7:17pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Heh, Cancer's operating Skull's gun.
There's a really horrible medical joke to be had here somewhere...
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on June 1st, 2016 @ 12:36am CDT
Kurona wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Heh, Cancer's operating Skull's gun.
There's a really horrible medical joke to be had here somewhere...
One of us already went there. Please, let's keep it at that person, huh?
I'm sorry, but in Dutch the word for cancer (along with other ailments like cholera if I may add) is used quite common as part of negative outings of any kind. Very trivially so, while cancer itself is no joke IMHO.
Posted by Cyberpath on June 1st, 2016 @ 5:29am CDT
パイロットフィギュア遊びが楽しいぞ♪
当然、ダイアクロン隊員も乗れるぞ!
小さいと思っていたレジェンズヘッドマスターが大きく見える不思議!
トランステクターを中間モード的な謎ビークルにしても、パイロットの存在がマシンとしての説得力を持たせてくれます。
Posted by Bumblebee21 on June 1st, 2016 @ 6:59am CDT
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on June 1st, 2016 @ 7:51am CDT
Posted by Kyleor on June 1st, 2016 @ 8:19am CDT
D-Maximus_Primal wrote:... Hardhead pulls off a mean standing gerwalk/tank/walker/thingy mode that shows off the titanmaster port...
Artillery/Bombardment mode, I think several other tanks can do a similar mode, and it usually looks cool.
Posted by william-james88 on June 1st, 2016 @ 8:46am CDT
Kyleor wrote:D-Maximus_Primal wrote:... Hardhead pulls off a mean standing gerwalk/tank/walker/thingy mode that shows off the titanmaster port...
Artillery/Bombardment mode, I think several other tanks can do a similar mode, and it usually looks cool.
Blurr can do it too:
Posted by RodimusConvoy13 on June 1st, 2016 @ 8:48am CDT
william-james88 wrote:Kyleor wrote:D-Maximus_Primal wrote:... Hardhead pulls off a mean standing gerwalk/tank/walker/thingy mode that shows off the titanmaster port...
Artillery/Bombardment mode, I think several other tanks can do a similar mode, and it usually looks cool.
Blurr can do it too:
That's actually really frakkin' cool.
Posted by Kurona on June 1st, 2016 @ 8:50am CDT
william-james88 wrote:Kyleor wrote:D-Maximus_Primal wrote:... Hardhead pulls off a mean standing gerwalk/tank/walker/thingy mode that shows off the titanmaster port...
Artillery/Bombardment mode, I think several other tanks can do a similar mode, and it usually looks cool.
Blurr can do it too:
A gerwalk mode Blurr.
A Blurrwalk.
Posted by Kyleor on June 1st, 2016 @ 9:07am CDT
william-james88 wrote:Kyleor wrote:D-Maximus_Primal wrote:... Hardhead pulls off a mean standing gerwalk/tank/walker/thingy mode that shows off the titanmaster port...
Artillery/Bombardment mode, I think several other tanks can do a similar mode, and it usually looks cool.
Blurr can do it too:
That looks more like it should be something from the NSFW manga series.
Posted by RodimusConvoy13 on June 1st, 2016 @ 9:23am CDT
Kyleor wrote:william-james88 wrote:Kyleor wrote:D-Maximus_Primal wrote:... Hardhead pulls off a mean standing gerwalk/tank/walker/thingy mode that shows off the titanmaster port...
Artillery/Bombardment mode, I think several other tanks can do a similar mode, and it usually looks cool.
Blurr can do it too:
That looks more like it should be something from the NSFW manga series.
This thing needs Clone Troopers. Looks like it's totally out of Clone Wars.
Posted by kurthy on June 1st, 2016 @ 9:26am CDT
Kyleor wrote:D-Maximus_Primal wrote:... Hardhead pulls off a mean standing gerwalk/tank/walker/thingy mode that shows off the titanmaster port...
Artillery/Bombardment mode, I think several other tanks can do a similar mode, and it usually looks cool.
I remember doing this with the original when I was kid because the front treads could rotate down, then extend the legs out and partially fold the cockpit so the gun would point up. It did not look half as good, but I used it as a base.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on June 1st, 2016 @ 11:33am CDT
Kurona wrote:william-james88 wrote:Kyleor wrote:D-Maximus_Primal wrote:... Hardhead pulls off a mean standing gerwalk/tank/walker/thingy mode that shows off the titanmaster port...
Artillery/Bombardment mode, I think several other tanks can do a similar mode, and it usually looks cool.
Blurr can do it too:
A gerwalk mode Blurr.
A Blurrwalk.
I love this way more than I probably should
Posted by Cyberpath on June 1st, 2016 @ 11:46am CDT
The first pic confirms that Takara's Skullcruncher comes with a gun. I didn't notice it before, tabbed underneath the reptile tail in the promo pic.
Still don't like Hardhead's chunky gun. Besides, all the Autobot Headmasters are supposed to have twin-guns.
Posted by Rainmaker on June 1st, 2016 @ 4:56pm CDT
Posted by Kurona on June 1st, 2016 @ 5:01pm CDT
[BW] Rainmaker wrote:What's the little tank next to Hardhead?
The Titan Master partner that comes with him. I think it's Nightbeat's in Hasbro's line...?
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on June 1st, 2016 @ 5:02pm CDT
[BW] Rainmaker wrote:What's the little tank next to Hardhead?
His alternate Triple-Changing weapon, redecoed from a Titan Master vehicle. It does not come with its corresponding Titan Master however.
For Legends, the components of the Titan Master Class sets have been split up between multiple releases: the vehicles go to some Deluxe releases, while the Titan Masters are paired with Legends Class toys.
Posted by steals_your_goats on June 1st, 2016 @ 5:43pm CDT
Kurona wrote:[BW] Rainmaker wrote:What's the little tank next to Hardhead?
The Titan Master partner that comes with him. I think it's Nightbeat's in Hasbro's line...?
Horri-bull and Flywheels actually
Posted by Mr Skram on June 2nd, 2016 @ 4:27pm CDT
Gonna have to get Blurr as well if I can find a preorder that isn't sold out.
Posted by Robogeek1973 on June 2nd, 2016 @ 6:06pm CDT
william-james88 wrote:Kyleor wrote:D-Maximus_Primal wrote:... Hardhead pulls off a mean standing gerwalk/tank/walker/thingy mode that shows off the titanmaster port...
Artillery/Bombardment mode, I think several other tanks can do a similar mode, and it usually looks cool.
Blurr can do it too:
Ok, that's pretty cool.
Posted by william-james88 on June 2nd, 2016 @ 6:17pm CDT
Mr Skram wrote:Woo! Skids is shipping out of BBTS today or tomorrow! First time I paid 30 bucks for a deluxe but he looked so good.
Gonna have to get Blurr as well if I can find a preorder that isn't sold out.
Here's the only place I found that wasnt sold out yet http://www.agesthreeandup.com/takara-tr ... g25-blurr/
Posted by Mr Skram on June 2nd, 2016 @ 6:32pm CDT
william-james88 wrote:Mr Skram wrote:Woo! Skids is shipping out of BBTS today or tomorrow! First time I paid 30 bucks for a deluxe but he looked so good.
Gonna have to get Blurr as well if I can find a preorder that isn't sold out.
Here's the only place I found that wasnt sold out yet http://www.agesthreeandup.com/takara-tr ... g25-blurr/
Thanks Will!
Posted by Sabrblade on June 2nd, 2016 @ 9:53pm CDT
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on June 2nd, 2016 @ 9:57pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Anyone else notice in Skids's comic that, after he guns down Megatron, the tiny Headmaster Megatron emerges from the larger Leader class dead body?
Do you have a scan of the comic? If so we can news it and we can all take a look!
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on June 2nd, 2016 @ 10:02pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Anyone else notice in Skids's comic that, after he guns down Megatron, the tiny Headmaster Megatron emerges from the larger Leader class dead body?
O for... Knowing the comic, he's probably had a Galvatron body built much in advance.
Posted by Sabrblade on June 2nd, 2016 @ 11:08pm CDT
Wiki summary:
Skids, a dimensional investigator, deems there to be too many Transformers from other dimensions living in the Legends Universe, and sets out to send them all back home and seal off the dimension (with special "keep out" tape). This concerns Rattrap, who doesn't want to lose his new friends, and Megatron and his female soldiers have no intention of leaving and confront the investigator, who calls forth the Skids Squadron, a team made up of alternate versions of himself. He then exposits to nobody in particular that he got his power to manipulate spacetime when he discovered quantum particles able to cross dimensions and bathed himself in them, and now he's become a powerful defender of peace throughout the multiverse instead of the overlooked nobody he was before.
While the Skids Squadron battles Megatron, Skids himself takes on Nightbird Shadow and Slipstream, shrugging off the latter's pleas that only prison awaits her back home. Despite his injuries, Megatron gets between Skids and his subordinates, warning him not to lay a hand on them, but the self-assured investigator exclaims that he's now stronger than even Megatron and uses his "Full Burst Mode" to blast the Decepticon leader with a lethal barrage of firepower. As he sees Megatron's underlings crowd around his body, however, Skids realizes to his shock that a Decepticon just sacrificed his life for his comrades, something Waspinator credits to the sense of justice that awakened within him during the G-2 era.
Rattrap and his friends then form a wall around Megatron's body and tell Skids that there are no factions in the Legends world: it's a place where everyone lives in peace and harmony, and Skids isn't protecting that peace, he's ruining it! Realizing the locals are right and that he's the bad guy here, Skids undoes the seal and leaves, but says he'll continue to monitor this dimension. A mysterious, tiny, but alive Megatron then climbs out of the Decepticon leader's remains, to the pleasant surprise of everyone present.
Later at a web cafe, Skids looks into his own appearances in the Transformers fiction available in the Legends Universe and is shocked to learn he only had two lines in the whole cartoon, yet he's also kinda happy he got any at all.
Posted by william-james88 on June 3rd, 2016 @ 7:15am CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on June 3rd, 2016 @ 8:07am CDT
Posted by william-james88 on June 4th, 2016 @ 2:32pm CDT
Skids, a dimensional investigator, deems there to be too many Transformers from other dimensions living in the Legends Universe, and sets out to send them all back home and seal off the dimension (with special "keep out" tape). This concerns Rattrap, who doesn't want to lose his new friends, and Megatron and his female soldiers have no intention of leaving and confront the investigator, who calls forth the Skids Squadron, a team made up of alternate versions of himself. He then exposits to nobody in particular that he got his power to manipulate spacetime when he discovered quantum particles able to cross dimensions and bathed himself in them, and now he's become a powerful defender of peace throughout the multiverse instead of the overlooked nobody he was before.
While the Skids Squadron battles Megatron, Skids himself takes on Nightbird Shadow and Slipstream, shrugging off the latter's pleas that only prison awaits her back home. Despite his injuries, Megatron gets between Skids and his subordinates, warning him not to lay a hand on them, but the self-assured investigator exclaims that he's now stronger than even Megatron and uses his "Full Burst Mode" to blast the Decepticon leader with a lethal barrage of firepower. As he sees Megatron's underlings crowd around his body, however, Skids realizes to his shock that a Decepticon just sacrificed his life for his comrades, something Waspinator credits to the sense of justice that awakened within him during the G-2 era.
Rattrap and his friends then form a wall around Megatron's body and tell Skids that there are no factions in the Legends world: it's a place where everyone lives in peace and harmony, and Skids isn't protecting that peace, he's ruining it! Realizing the locals are right and that he's the bad guy here, Skids undoes the seal and leaves, but says he'll continue to monitor this dimension. A mysterious, tiny, but alive Megatron then climbs out of the Decepticon leader's remains, to the pleasant surprise of everyone present.
Later at a web cafe, Skids looks into his own appearances in the Transformers fiction available in the Legends Universe and is shocked to learn he only had two lines in the whole cartoon, yet he's also kinda happy he got any at all.
Posted by Fires_Of_Inferno on June 4th, 2016 @ 3:40pm CDT
Posted by Kurona on June 4th, 2016 @ 3:48pm CDT
Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:Thanks, Japan. Now I need a tiny Megatron.
Not long until LG Galvatron with the Megatron Titan Master comes out.
Posted by Emerje on June 4th, 2016 @ 4:25pm CDT
Emerje
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on June 4th, 2016 @ 5:04pm CDT
Emerje wrote:So they've explained Titan Master (or whatever) Megatron, let's see how they explain the rest.
Emerje
I don't think they all need explaining, just the ones who resemble a certain G1 character, like Nucleon, Twin Cast and Soundblaster. In the latter two's case, how much you wanna bet they're gonna pull out the Time/Dimension Travel trope? Twincast and Soundblaster travel back in time and merge with their past selves, easy!
Posted by Sabrblade on June 4th, 2016 @ 5:12pm CDT
One of these days, I'd like to take all of the online Legends comics and the pack-in Legends comics and, using the Wiki's summaries for all of them as a reference, put them in a chronological reading order.
Posted by Poyguimogul on June 4th, 2016 @ 5:24pm CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on June 4th, 2016 @ 5:31pm CDT
Dead horse, beaten, to death.Poyguimogul wrote:Ai Chan, in a bikini,not cool.
Posted by Kurona on June 4th, 2016 @ 5:34pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Dead horse, beaten, to death.Poyguimogul wrote:Ai Chan, in a bikini,not cool.
Kind of is, yeah. Wish Takara'd stop it.
Posted by Poyguimogul on June 4th, 2016 @ 5:42pm CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on June 4th, 2016 @ 6:04pm CDT
Just because she's never reverted out of the impractical 80's bikini armor back to her original officer uniform doesn't mean she's also doing anything erotic. She continues to act like a law enforcement officer, trying to uphold the law and keep the peace (even if irately at times).Kurona wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Dead horse, beaten, to death.Poyguimogul wrote:Ai Chan, in a bikini,not cool.
Kind of is, yeah. Wish Takara'd stop it.
Besides, nothing too racy of hers (like her chest or her behind) is exposed or exaggerated in any of her appearances.
Do I wish she had gone back to wearing her original uniform back when the crisis involving Tankor's 80s Transformation Beam had been averted? Of course I do. But it's a complaint whose train left the station a long time ago.
Posted by Poyguimogul on June 4th, 2016 @ 6:52pm CDT
when you say it like that now I see the Ai Chan plays with car robots fire convoy and sharkbyte at the pool and is called a way to deal with a crisis.
Posted by Windsweeper on June 5th, 2016 @ 4:40am CDT
Posted by fenrir72 on June 5th, 2016 @ 6:17am CDT
Posted by ebonyleopard on June 6th, 2016 @ 9:20am CDT
Posted by Evil Eye on June 6th, 2016 @ 12:22pm CDT
That Yuki Oshima designed figure of T-AI in the pool is creepy as f*ck, yes, but mainly because of how young she looks. She's quite clearly an adult (or at least in her late teens) in the Legends comic.
But seriously. It's a cartoon depiction of a hologram of a fictional alien artificial intelligence. WHOOOOOOOOOO CARES.
Posted by Sabrblade on June 6th, 2016 @ 12:47pm CDT
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on June 6th, 2016 @ 5:39pm CDT