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Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos

Transformers News: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos

Thursday, May 5th, 2016 8:42AM CDT

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While we wait for the upcoming Seibertron Gallery of the Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron set (soon... soon), we bring you this video review from fellow Seibertronian Chuckdawg1999. Many fans are unsure if this exclusive set is worth the premium, let us know if this helps!

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Once again Takara finds a way to take a couple of repaints and create something absolutely briliant. Grand Galvatron combines the best of Japanese Transformers history while giving the fans some great figures. Obviously the standouts will be Starscream and Thrust, both featuring new heads that will get fans salivating at the possibilities. At the end of the day these are repaints, so we know what we're getting in terms of transformation, and durability. Now to figure out what to do with my Combiner Wars Cyclonus.



The latest tweets from TF Yuki feature Grand Galvatron as well. Especially the fact that this combiner can use upcoming Legends Galvatron's cannon. Enjoy!

Transformers News: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos

Transformers News: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos
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Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1786980)
Posted by kurthy on May 5th, 2016 @ 8:44am CDT
Has anyone seen TFyuki's pic with Grand Galvatron using Legends Galvatron's cannon? Now I'm going to need the Hasbro TR and TT legends to do this with both versions of Cyclonus. :BOWDOWN:
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1786993)
Posted by Randomhero on May 5th, 2016 @ 10:12am CDT
I'm sorry I can't watch this dudes reviews.

I really want this set but j can't justify the price of it. Hopefully grand galvatron like the rest of Takaras sets stay in stock for a while. Maybe in 6 months I can get him.
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787010)
Posted by Seibertron on May 5th, 2016 @ 1:41pm CDT
While I love Ghost Starscream and Curse Armada Thrust, they totally mixed up the robot modes. The mold used for Thrust would have been a much better choice for Starscream's robot and jet modes. I can't figure out why they did that unless they feel the "wings" in robot mode are more important than the jet mode, the engine inlets (which would be behind his shoulders but still visible in robot mode, and the overall look of the chest.

The head sculpts for both are fantastic. The very manga/anime looking Starscream head, and the new take on Armada Thrust is great (though I would have liked to see the "camo" paint that the original Armada Thrust had). I'd love to see all 6 of the Seekers done as Combiners but am happy for now with what we've got.

Great set, just feel like they mixed up the robot mode bodies for Armada Thrust and Ghost Starscream.
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787012)
Posted by Cobotron on May 5th, 2016 @ 1:50pm CDT
Seibertron wrote:Great set, just feel like they mixed up the robot mode bodies for Armada Thrust and Ghost Starscream.
Ha! I said this a couple posts back. Seems to be a very odd decision on Takara's part. But it really has no effect on my immense enjoyment of the set in any way.

Seibs, I have a ton of translucent toys, (mostly Microman) but not a lot of TFs. Have you ever seen this translucent paint they used on Starscream, on other TFs before?
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787013)
Posted by Hellscream9999 on May 5th, 2016 @ 1:52pm CDT
Seibertron wrote:While I love Ghost Starscream and Curse Armada Thrust, they totally mixed up the robot modes. The mold used for Thrust would have been a much better choice for Starscream's robot and jet modes. I can't figure out why they did that unless they feel the "wings" in robot mode are more important than the jet mode, the engine inlets (which would be behind his shoulders but still visible in robot mode, and the overall look of the chest.

The head sculpts for both are fantastic. The very manga/anime looking Starscream head, and the new take on Armada Thrust is great (though I would have liked to see the "camo" paint that the original Armada Thrust had). I'd love to see all 6 of the Seekers done as Combiners but am happy for now with what we've got.

Great set, just feel like they mixed up the robot mode bodies for Armada Thrust and Ghost Starscream.

I dunno whose decision it was, but if you look under airraid, there's a notch cut out for a conehead to fit, so this was built into the mold from the very start, it was likely chosen because the silhouette of the airraids cockpit piece looks more like thrusts armada jet mode than the angled skydive does and vice-versa for the raptor; not saying it's perfect, but it's something.
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787026)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 5th, 2016 @ 2:54pm CDT
From what I've heard, the heads are tied to specific molds so they very likely couldn't be swapped around.

That said, I agree in wishing that the Starscream head had been pretooled to the Air Raid mold and the Conehead head pretooled to the Skydive mold, as not only would doing so have given Starscream and Thrust more accurate altmodes but the rectangles on the Air Raid mold's chest would have worked well as Starscream's pectorals.

However, I have seen one decent argument for the way they were done as they are. The Skydive mold's torso is built more like the tradition Seeker torso, complete with shoulder notches that emulate Starscream's shoulder intakes, while the wide and boxy build of the Air Raid mold's torso is more evocative of Armada Thrust's own wide and boxy torso, which also enabled one of his boxy pecs to be colored red like on both the original Armada Thrust toy and cartoon model.
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787037)
Posted by StarFireMk4 on May 5th, 2016 @ 3:36pm CDT
Only figure I'm really feeling from this set is Thrust. Not a big fan of the others. :( (which is fine, seeing as how I'm saving for UW Comps)
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787043)
Posted by Seibertron on May 5th, 2016 @ 5:04pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:From what I've heard, the heads are tied to specific molds so they very likely couldn't be swapped around.

That said, I agree in wishing that the Starscream head had been pretooled to the Air Raid mold and the Conehead head pretooled to the Skydive mold, as not only would doing so have given Starscream and Thrust more accurate altmodes but the rectangles on the Air Raid mold's chest would have worked well as Starscream's pectorals.

However, I have seen one decent argument for the way they were done as they are. The Skydive mold's torso is built more like the tradition Seeker torso, complete with shoulder notches that emulate Starscream's shoulder intakes, while the wide and boxy build of the Air Raid mold's torso is more evocative of Armada Thrust's own wide and boxy torso, which also enabled one of his boxy pecs to be colored red like on both the original Armada Thrust toy and cartoon model.


Working on the robot mode galleries for Armada Thrust and Ghost Starscream currently. While working on Starscream's, one of the wings popped off very easily which gave me an idea. So I popped off the other wing, flipped them around, and now you end up with wings that are very evocative of G1 Starscream in robot mode. I can't help but think this was the reasoning at some point in the development process. Pics will be in the gallery once it is completed some time tomorrow.
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787047)
Posted by Cobotron on May 5th, 2016 @ 5:24pm CDT
Grandvatron is on my desk right now and the sun is creeping through the blinds behind him just lighting up Starscream like a magic energon crystal. Looks so awesome, just had to share. :D 8-}
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787049)
Posted by Mr Skram on May 5th, 2016 @ 5:29pm CDT
Cobotron wrote:Grandvatron is on my desk right now and the sun is creeping through the blinds behind him just lighting up Starscream like a magic energon crystal. Looks so awesome, just had to share. :D 8-}


Let us see and I might finally pull the trigger on this beautiful disaster of a combiner!
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787062)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 5th, 2016 @ 6:26pm CDT
Seibertron wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:From what I've heard, the heads are tied to specific molds so they very likely couldn't be swapped around.

That said, I agree in wishing that the Starscream head had been pretooled to the Air Raid mold and the Conehead head pretooled to the Skydive mold, as not only would doing so have given Starscream and Thrust more accurate altmodes but the rectangles on the Air Raid mold's chest would have worked well as Starscream's pectorals.

However, I have seen one decent argument for the way they were done as they are. The Skydive mold's torso is built more like the tradition Seeker torso, complete with shoulder notches that emulate Starscream's shoulder intakes, while the wide and boxy build of the Air Raid mold's torso is more evocative of Armada Thrust's own wide and boxy torso, which also enabled one of his boxy pecs to be colored red like on both the original Armada Thrust toy and cartoon model.


Working on the robot mode galleries for Armada Thrust and Ghost Starscream currently. While working on Starscream's, one of the wings popped off very easily which gave me an idea. So I popped off the other wing, flipped them around, and now you end up with wings that are very evocative of G1 Starscream in robot mode. I can't help but think this was the reasoning at some point in the development process. Pics will be in the gallery once it is completed some time tomorrow.
Oh man, the wings being flipped around like that would have made the Skydive mold even more perfect for Thrust since his original toy and cartoon model had his wings flipped around in robot mode as well. Such a missing opportunity for Hasbro having pretooled the heads to opposite molds.
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787069)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on May 5th, 2016 @ 6:47pm CDT
If they had released Roller and Breakdown by themselves, I would so have got them. Roller for the Lost Light (yeah yeah ya don't need to tell me he was never on board, but he was in the comic) and Breakdown for a proper Prime version of him. Ghost Scream is really cool and may have been a buy, but I don't really have any attraction to Thrust and I love my Cyclonus :MAXIMAL:
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787122)
Posted by Hellscream9999 on May 5th, 2016 @ 10:21pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Oh man, the wings being flipped around like that would have made the Skydive mold even more perfect for Thrust since his original toy and cartoon model had his wings flipped around in robot mode as well. Such a missing opportunity for Hasbro having pretooled the heads to opposite molds.

Speaking of missed opportunities, anyone think Hasbro is gonna milk these molds ('seeker' and 'conehead') at all? Hasbro not using them is so counter to their whole business strategy right now - especially, since they're there already :BANG_HEAD:
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787128)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on May 5th, 2016 @ 10:48pm CDT
Hellscream9999 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Oh man, the wings being flipped around like that would have made the Skydive mold even more perfect for Thrust since his original toy and cartoon model had his wings flipped around in robot mode as well. Such a missing opportunity for Hasbro having pretooled the heads to opposite molds.

Speaking of missed opportunities, anyone think Hasbro is gonna milk these molds ('seeker' and 'conehead') at all? Hasbro not using them is so counter to their whole business strategy right now - especially, since they're there already :BANG_HEAD:

Imagine if you could make that combiner from the Deviations comic. You could almost do that with the molds and heads available :MAXIMAL:
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787136)
Posted by Kurona on May 5th, 2016 @ 11:56pm CDT
Megascream and the Megascream combiner were like, the only good thing about the Deviations comic... and I'd love it.
Just.
Silverbolt for Screamer, Thrust for Dirge and... Thrust; UW Blast Off for Astrotrain, and...
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Offroad for Soundwave...?
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787139)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on May 6th, 2016 @ 12:05am CDT
Kurona wrote:Megascream and the Megascream combiner were like, the only good thing about the Deviations comic... and I'd love it.
Just.
Silverbolt for Screamer, Thrust for Dirge and... Thrust; UW Blast Off for Astrotrain, and...
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Offroad for Soundwave...?

Works for me! :MAXIMAL:
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787141)
Posted by Hellscream9999 on May 6th, 2016 @ 12:11am CDT
D-Maximus_Primal wrote:
Kurona wrote:Megascream and the Megascream combiner were like, the only good thing about the Deviations comic... and I'd love it.
Just.
Silverbolt for Screamer, Thrust for Dirge and... Thrust; UW Blast Off for Astrotrain, and...
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Offroad for Soundwave...?

Works for me! :MAXIMAL:

Woulda been better than Optimus Maximus, or Sky Regin >:oP
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787191)
Posted by Counterpunch on May 6th, 2016 @ 9:27am CDT
The Grand Galvatron set is plainly stated, GDLK.

Anyone else feel that this is the best Classics Cyclonus now?
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787203)
Posted by Seibertron on May 6th, 2016 @ 10:07am CDT
Counterpunch wrote:The Grand Galvatron set is plainly stated, GDLK.

Anyone else feel that this is the best Classics Cyclonus now?


It's completely the wrong color! Cyclonus should not be blue. I'll stick with my Combiner Wars Cyclonus (though I wish he was closer to G1 Cyclonus or at least a bluer purple instead of a reddish purple). I really like Unite Warriors Cyclonus, he's just flat out the wrong color though. It'd be amazing if it had been purple like he should be.
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787204)
Posted by Seibertron on May 6th, 2016 @ 10:12am CDT
As promised, here's a Ghost Starscream image with the wings reversed

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And here's the "original" Combiner Haunt team :D

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Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787205)
Posted by Kurona on May 6th, 2016 @ 10:20am CDT
... I mean, Universe Cyclonus...

also holy shit that 'original' team really compounds how insane this set is.
... RIP Inferno
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787211)
Posted by no-one on May 6th, 2016 @ 11:05am CDT
Hellscream9999 wrote:Speaking of missed opportunities, anyone think Hasbro is gonna milk these molds ('seeker' and 'conehead') at all?
I'm surprised they're not. I'm pretty much done with CW, but I'd pick up a Starscream if they released one.

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Awesome :APPLAUSE:
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787214)
Posted by galvatron00 on May 6th, 2016 @ 11:31am CDT
D-Maximus_Primal wrote:
Kurona wrote:Megascream and the Megascream combiner were like, the only good thing about the Deviations comic... and I'd love it.
Just.
Silverbolt for Screamer, Thrust for Dirge and... Thrust; UW Blast Off for Astrotrain, and...
...
Offroad for Soundwave...?
Works for me! :MAXIMAL:
That's an awesome idea, and Has/Tak needs to get on that. Last week. ;)^
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787215)
Posted by galvatron00 on May 6th, 2016 @ 11:32am CDT
Seibertron wrote:And here's the "original" Combiner Haunt team :D
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Reminds me of that panel in MTMTE when the characters turned into their G1 toys :lol: :APPLAUSE:
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787224)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 6th, 2016 @ 12:29pm CDT
Cyclonus's blue seems to be from his first appearance in the movie:

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And from other points in the cartoon when he was blue, but not as bright and vibrant a blue as hr was in the above movie scene:

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The rest of the time, he was inconsistently colored varying shades of purple, including the light lavender that Ryan loathes so much.
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787226)
Posted by Kurona on May 6th, 2016 @ 12:39pm CDT
Is it just me, or is the debate over Cyclonus and Galvatron's colour scheme becoming the new FIRRIB?



for the record frenzy is blue
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787228)
Posted by no-one on May 6th, 2016 @ 12:44pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:The rest of the time, he was inconsistently colored varying shades of purple, including the light lavender that Ryan loathes so much.
Cyclonus is just way ahead of his time and sports that rad flip flop periwinkle.

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Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787243)
Posted by william-james88 on May 6th, 2016 @ 2:49pm CDT
Seibertron wrote:I can't figure out why they did that unless they feel the "wings" in robot mode are more important than the jet mode

Yeah, I think its how the wings look in robot mode. However, its possibly about the head on the mold which I have a tough time understanding since I thoght these heads were on seperate molds anyway. Or else we would have a ton of these secondary heads taking space in a Hasbro warehouse out there.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:Roller for the Lost Light

He was never on the lost light .............. :-P

Hellscream9999 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Oh man, the wings being flipped around like that would have made the Skydive mold even more perfect for Thrust since his original toy and cartoon model had his wings flipped around in robot mode as well. Such a missing opportunity for Hasbro having pretooled the heads to opposite molds.

Speaking of missed opportunities, anyone think Hasbro is gonna milk these molds ('seeker' and 'conehead') at all? Hasbro not using them is so counter to their whole business strategy right now - especially, since they're there already :BANG_HEAD:

Just curious, but if they were to make one more seeker, would this mold count a s a seeker mold :-?

Seibertron wrote:
Counterpunch wrote:The Grand Galvatron set is plainly stated, GDLK.
Anyone else feel that this is the best Classics Cyclonus now?

It's completely the wrong color! Cyclonus should not be blue. I'll stick with my Combiner Wars Cyclonus (though I wish he was closer to G1 Cyclonus or at least a bluer purple instead of a reddish purple). I really like Unite Warriors Cyclonus, he's just flat out the wrong color though. It'd be amazing if it had been purple like he should be.

I think Counterpunch was referring to him over Universe Cyclonus. While the scale for CW Cyclonus is a good size and has a great alt mode seen from the top, I much preffer the transformation for Universe cyclonus and his alt mode when seen in a 360 view. I dislike having the entire bot under a flat ship.
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787244)
Posted by Seibertron on May 6th, 2016 @ 2:54pm CDT
Yah nothing is going to top the amazing universe cyclonus mold. I really like combiner wars cyclonus but the dedicated mold with nightstick is just tough to beat, though that face sculpt on cw cyclonus is pretty awesome.
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787246)
Posted by Hellscream9999 on May 6th, 2016 @ 3:01pm CDT
william-james88 wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Oh man, the wings being flipped around like that would have made the Skydive mold even more perfect for Thrust since his original toy and cartoon model had his wings flipped around in robot mode as well. Such a missing opportunity for Hasbro having pretooled the heads to opposite molds.

Speaking of missed opportunities, anyone think Hasbro is gonna milk these molds ('seeker' and 'conehead') at all? Hasbro not using them is so counter to their whole business strategy right now - especially, since they're there already :BANG_HEAD:

Just curious, but if they were to make one more seeker, would this mold count a s a seeker mold :-?

Not sure what you mean by that, I guess it would count as a variant, I just want a fleet of seekers/coneheads for my galvatronus and Bruticus, nothing else really matters in my books.
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787263)
Posted by Seibertron on May 6th, 2016 @ 4:58pm CDT
Cyclonus' colors and the various discrepancies make my head hurt. This is why "G1 cartoon" accuracy needs to get tossed out the window other than for general face sculpts and general body shape/silhouette but with the complexity and detailing that goes along with the licensed vehicles and the colors of the G1 toys for the most part. Starscream doesn't need light blue, Optimus Prime needs dark blue, Shockwave is a dark purple, Cyclonus is a bluish purple but lighter than Shockwave (and neither should ever be lavender), Unite Warriors Blast Off's cartoon accuracy worked out well (right???), etc. Basically G1 toy accurate colors. The cartoon was simplified versions of the toys ... I have never wanted simplified looking toys. If they want to do that, do what Masters of the Universe Classics is currently doing with the Filmation accurate toys, otherwise let's stay away from "cartoon" accuracy.
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787266)
Posted by Cobotron on May 6th, 2016 @ 5:17pm CDT
Amen to that, Brothertron!
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787267)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 6th, 2016 @ 5:20pm CDT
Seibertron wrote:The cartoon was simplified versions of the toys ...
Except for the movie characters, which Cyclonus was one of, since Floro Dery made those designs first and then Hasbro/Takara turned those into toys. If anything, his original toy got the purple wrong since he was rarely ever as dark a purple as his toy's purple in the movie or cartoon.

Though, really, does it matter that much about this particular Cyclonus toy? I mean, this isn't his cartoon body, but an evolved form of it from after Masterforce. Should it matter that much if his new body is colored like or unlike his either cartoon body, his 1986 toy, or anything else?

And it's not like he hasn't been blue before. He was blue in his very first appearance in the movie, in various instances during cartoon, in many instances during The Headmasters, and even on this Japanese DVD cover art:

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And I for one think he looks gorgeous in it.
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787282)
Posted by Cobotron on May 6th, 2016 @ 6:47pm CDT
Just to clarify. This...

Seibertron wrote:This is why "G1 cartoon" accuracy needs to get tossed out the window other than for general face sculpts and general body shape/silhouette but with the complexity and detailing that goes along with the licensed vehicles and the colors of the G1 toys for the most part.

... is what I was amening.

I rather like the blue on this UW Cyclonus. The whole deco is sweet!
Also, personaly, it helps justify having two of the same figure. :-P
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787343)
Posted by Wolfman Jake on May 6th, 2016 @ 11:10pm CDT
Sabrblade, I love the thorough work you do on figuring out where Hasbro and Takara deco choices come from. Think you have it in you to do one like your latest Cyclonus review for Galvatron and perhaps show us where Takara is coming from with their favorite colors for their releases of his toys? Most importantly, I think, would be anything from the original cartoon/movie media that matches the upcoming Transformers Legends release. :)
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787346)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 6th, 2016 @ 11:15pm CDT
Wolfman Jake wrote:Sabrblade, I love the thorough work you do on figuring out where Hasbro and Takara deco choices come from. Think you have it in you to do one like your latest Cyclonus review for Galvatron and perhaps show us where Takara is coming from with their favorite colors for their releases of his toys? Most importantly, I think, would be anything from the original cartoon/movie media that matches the upcoming Transformers Legends release. :)
I'll do you one quicker and easier for Galvatron: Look through this gallery for any cartoon pics of Galvatron in which his purple hued towards the lighter, rather than the darker, end of the spectrum.
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787362)
Posted by Wolfman Jake on May 6th, 2016 @ 11:39pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:
Wolfman Jake wrote:Sabrblade, I love the thorough work you do on figuring out where Hasbro and Takara deco choices come from. Think you have it in you to do one like your latest Cyclonus review for Galvatron and perhaps show us where Takara is coming from with their favorite colors for their releases of his toys? Most importantly, I think, would be anything from the original cartoon/movie media that matches the upcoming Transformers Legends release. :)
I'll do you one quicker and easier for Galvatron: Look through this gallery for any cartoon pics of Galvatron in which his purple hued towards the lighter, rather than the darker, end of the spectrum.


Wow. That's an embarrassment of riches in terms of Galvatron screen caps. There's definitely a TON of instances of a very light/pastel shade of purple or purple-ish blue for Galvatron. Even in the original movie, his hue changes from scene to scene. Funny how I never really noticed during any of the dozens of time I've watched the movie before. I think Unicron created Galvatron with some weird mood ring type of metal that changes the intensity of his purple depending on his current emotional state: either crazy-angry or angry-crazy, I guess.
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Posted by Hellscream9999 on May 6th, 2016 @ 11:40pm CDT
Wolfman Jake wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Wolfman Jake wrote:Sabrblade, I love the thorough work you do on figuring out where Hasbro and Takara deco choices come from. Think you have it in you to do one like your latest Cyclonus review for Galvatron and perhaps show us where Takara is coming from with their favorite colors for their releases of his toys? Most importantly, I think, would be anything from the original cartoon/movie media that matches the upcoming Transformers Legends release. :)
I'll do you one quicker and easier for Galvatron: Look through this gallery for any cartoon pics of Galvatron in which his purple hued towards the lighter, rather than the darker, end of the spectrum.


Wow. That's an embarrassment of riches in terms of Galvatron screen caps. There's definitely a TON of instances of a very light/pastel shade of purple or purple-ish blue for Galvatron. Even in the original movie, his hue changes from scene to scene. Funny how I never really noticed during any of the dozens of time I've watched the movie before. I think Unicron created Galvatron with some weird mood ring type of metal that changes the intensity of his purple depending on his current emotional state: either crazy-angry or angry-crazy, I guess.


I always thought it was an admirable attempt at lighting, but maybe that's giving them too much credit :-?
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787454)
Posted by Sowndwave76 on May 7th, 2016 @ 10:10am CDT
Hellscream9999 wrote:
Wolfman Jake wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Wolfman Jake wrote:Sabrblade, I love the thorough work you do on figuring out where Hasbro and Takara deco choices come from. Think you have it in you to do one like your latest Cyclonus review for Galvatron and perhaps show us where Takara is coming from with their favorite colors for their releases of his toys? Most importantly, I think, would be anything from the original cartoon/movie media that matches the upcoming Transformers Legends release. :)
I'll do you one quicker and easier for Galvatron: Look through this gallery for any cartoon pics of Galvatron in which his purple hued towards the lighter, rather than the darker, end of the spectrum.


Wow. That's an embarrassment of riches in terms of Galvatron screen caps. There's definitely a TON of instances of a very light/pastel shade of purple or purple-ish blue for Galvatron. Even in the original movie, his hue changes from scene to scene. Funny how I never really noticed during any of the dozens of time I've watched the movie before. I think Unicron created Galvatron with some weird mood ring type of metal that changes the intensity of his purple depending on his current emotional state: either crazy-angry or angry-crazy, I guess.


I always thought it was an admirable attempt at lighting, but maybe that's giving them too much credit :-?


I completely agree with this Hellscream... 100%. It's just logical that this is the case.

Having looked quite a bit now, I really wish I could be my hands on the UW version of Cyclonus without having to get that whole set.
I'm okay with Hasbro's, but the colors of the UW version are really really nice.
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787456)
Posted by Kurona on May 7th, 2016 @ 10:17am CDT
Sowndwave76 wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:
Wolfman Jake wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Wolfman Jake wrote:Sabrblade, I love the thorough work you do on figuring out where Hasbro and Takara deco choices come from. Think you have it in you to do one like your latest Cyclonus review for Galvatron and perhaps show us where Takara is coming from with their favorite colors for their releases of his toys? Most importantly, I think, would be anything from the original cartoon/movie media that matches the upcoming Transformers Legends release. :)
I'll do you one quicker and easier for Galvatron: Look through this gallery for any cartoon pics of Galvatron in which his purple hued towards the lighter, rather than the darker, end of the spectrum.


Wow. That's an embarrassment of riches in terms of Galvatron screen caps. There's definitely a TON of instances of a very light/pastel shade of purple or purple-ish blue for Galvatron. Even in the original movie, his hue changes from scene to scene. Funny how I never really noticed during any of the dozens of time I've watched the movie before. I think Unicron created Galvatron with some weird mood ring type of metal that changes the intensity of his purple depending on his current emotional state: either crazy-angry or angry-crazy, I guess.


I always thought it was an admirable attempt at lighting, but maybe that's giving them too much credit :-?


I completely agree with this Hellscream... 100%. It's just logical that this is the case.

Having looked quite a bit now, I really wish I could be my hands on the UW version of Cyclonus without having to get that whole set.
I'm okay with Hasbro's, but the colors of the UW version are really really nice.

"I really wish I could get _____ without getting the whole set" has been my motto for this entire line ;;
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787489)
Posted by Wolfman Jake on May 7th, 2016 @ 12:33pm CDT
Hellscream9999 wrote:
Wolfman Jake wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Wolfman Jake wrote:Sabrblade, I love the thorough work you do on figuring out where Hasbro and Takara deco choices come from. Think you have it in you to do one like your latest Cyclonus review for Galvatron and perhaps show us where Takara is coming from with their favorite colors for their releases of his toys? Most importantly, I think, would be anything from the original cartoon/movie media that matches the upcoming Transformers Legends release. :)
I'll do you one quicker and easier for Galvatron: Look through this gallery for any cartoon pics of Galvatron in which his purple hued towards the lighter, rather than the darker, end of the spectrum.


Wow. That's an embarrassment of riches in terms of Galvatron screen caps. There's definitely a TON of instances of a very light/pastel shade of purple or purple-ish blue for Galvatron. Even in the original movie, his hue changes from scene to scene. Funny how I never really noticed during any of the dozens of time I've watched the movie before. I think Unicron created Galvatron with some weird mood ring type of metal that changes the intensity of his purple depending on his current emotional state: either crazy-angry or angry-crazy, I guess.


I always thought it was an admirable attempt at lighting, but maybe that's giving them too much credit :-?


It's quite possibly an attempt at dynamic lighting, but the hues don't really match up in the different lighting environments. You don't go from periwinkle to eggplant purple just by dimming the lights.
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787510)
Posted by shajaki on May 7th, 2016 @ 1:11pm CDT
Transfest2016 strikes again, hitting us with a display of TakaraTomy Transformers Unite Warriors UW-07 Bruticus! Twitter users くろさび@chromless and 江東のマサ@MASABON2011 are at the event taking many pics, mainly showing off the new exclusive mold: Blast-Off who sports his proper shuttle alt mode. See those shots below, and stay tuned to Seibertron.com: home for the best Galleries and Conversation around!

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Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787512)
Posted by Wolfman Jake on May 7th, 2016 @ 1:22pm CDT
It's a shame Takara didn't whip up a couple of new guns for Onslaught and Bruticus. To keep their G1 silhouettes, you need to keep the guns attached to Onsalught's and Bruticus' backs. That leaves the team leader and the gestalt form without any firearms. I guess fisticuffs will have to suffice?
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787514)
Posted by Kurona on May 7th, 2016 @ 1:29pm CDT
Wolfman Jake wrote:It's a shame Takara didn't whip up a couple of new guns for Onslaught and Bruticus. To keep their G1 silhouettes, you need to keep the guns attached to Onsalught's and Bruticus' backs. That leaves the team leader and the gestalt form without any firearms. I guess fisticuffs will have to suffice?

To be fair, Bruticus' bios do specify he's one of the overall strongest transformers. Plus every time he fought in the cartoon he either used his fists, Vortex' blades and then there was the one time he used Shockwave.
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787526)
Posted by RiddlerJ on May 7th, 2016 @ 1:41pm CDT
His fists do have guns built into them so he doesn't need to remove the guns from his back. Onslaught is a different story. I had to give a 3rd party gun to him.
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787533)
Posted by Optimizzy on May 7th, 2016 @ 2:06pm CDT
Blast Off would be better if he had a darker brown in my opinion. Still looks a little odd to me. Good looking set on everyone else though.
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787539)
Posted by Wolfman Jake on May 7th, 2016 @ 2:31pm CDT
Optimizzy wrote:Blast Off would be better if he had a darker brown in my opinion. Still looks a little odd to me. Good looking set on everyone else though.


Agreed, though you do see some of the "proper" dark brown coloring peppered about his robot mode and alt mode, it's just that it's more of a highlight color instead of the main color, which is that light brown. If they had swapped those browns around, I think it would have worked out quite nicely, with light brown highlights to help break up the dark pallet of the original toy and show model a bit. C'est la vie.
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787558)
Posted by Sowndwave76 on May 7th, 2016 @ 5:02pm CDT
Wolfman Jake wrote:
Optimizzy wrote:Blast Off would be better if he had a darker brown in my opinion. Still looks a little odd to me. Good looking set on everyone else though.


Agreed, though you do see some of the "proper" dark brown coloring peppered about his robot mode and alt mode, it's just that it's more of a highlight color instead of the main color, which is that light brown. If they had swapped those browns around, I think it would have worked out quite nicely, with light brown highlights to help break up the dark pallet of the original toy and show model a bit. C'est la vie.


I'll second this... This lighter brown color is a bit surprising as well as a little disappointing.
While I don't really mind this color on the chest plate of Brut, on Blast-off it's a little much.
In terms of appearances, I also think Onslaught's blue is a little saturated; should be more of a slate blue.
But other than those couple issues, I think this set looks good. With the PE hands/feet it should be amazing.
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787563)
Posted by Mr Skram on May 7th, 2016 @ 5:14pm CDT
I might yet sell my hasbro Brut so I xan get the UW version.
Re: Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron Video Review and New TF Yuki Photos (1787566)
Posted by Sowndwave76 on May 7th, 2016 @ 5:19pm CDT
Mr Skram wrote:I might yet sell my hasbro Brut so I xan get the UW version.


I don't blame you... I think this set is well worth the price.

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