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Seibertron recently unveiled the gallery for Combiner Wars Computron and now we have his Japanese fraternal twin to share with you in this gallery of the Unite Warriors UW-08 Technobots Combiner Computron Set. This is historically unprecedented in the hobby where both Takara and Hasbro are releasing such different versions of a character. It's not just a change in deco, or head or some extra tooling, but a major change in toys constituting the same combiner. As you will see from the comparisons, the only toy which is the same in both sets is Afterburner, who still has a very different paint scheme and accessories from the Hasbro version. Every other member either has new tooling or is a completely different mold, which is the case for Nosecone, Strafe and Lightspeed. They are all sporting heads never released by Takara yet and all feature their own individual and unique guns which can be combined to give Computron a nice big techno assault rifle (or even a bow).

Enjoy the images below where we compare all the figures. Have you decided which one you are getting yet? If you have both, which do you prefer? Let us know in the discussion!

Transformers Unite Warriors Computron (140 images) - Combiners, Technobots
















Transformers Unite Warriors Scattershot (119 images) - Technobots, Voyager Class










Transformers Unite Warriors Nosecone (102 images) - Deluxe Class, Technobots










Transformers Unite Warriors Strafe (117 images) - Deluxe Class, Technobots










Transformers Unite Warriors Afterburner (97 images) - Deluxe Class, Technobots










Transformers Unite Warriors Lightspeed (96 images) - Deluxe Class, Technobots

Robotkingdom finally got back to me about my defective Strafe and is sending me a replacement right leg! I can't wait to get it and put him in all his posing glory!

I really enjoy the Unite set. It's my first and will be my only Takara Combiner team and I chose him not because i felt Takaras was superior to Hasbros, I just wanted to get at least one Takara set-originally it was going to be bruticus but I think the cartoon colors on it are dreadful and the QC issues with blast off made be change my mind- so I decided on computron. I have no childhood connection with the character, I just wanted to get at least one japan set. Glad I chose computron, he's a great figure and all the figures(except lighyspeed) are great.

I like the HEAD better for Takara Computron, but that's about it. The Hasbro head with the soft, rubbery antenna? I prefer hard plastic. With all the shenanigans mortal children get up to, a hard plastic, slightly pointy antenna on an action figure is the LEAST of their problems....

Seibertron wrote:[*]Computron is OK. A proper head would have gone a long ways toward selling me on this set. In fact, I feel like Hasbro really missed an opportunity to do something truly unique with this set. I wish they had just gone all out trying to match the G1 toys with the heads, accessories, and colors.

Why would hasbro go all out for anything if they can't make a gross profit off of it

Seibertron wrote:I'm also not a fan of the Rook "hands", not sure why this opportunity wasn't taken to remold the hands finally to give him proper fists.

That seems to be the one thing people seem to be having the most fun with though, which is weird. I don't like them from the stand point of display-ability, but the guns and drill were all designed to be hulk-handed with him, and it's fun putting different weapons into his hand-ports. If anything it would have been cool to remove the hand moldings and just use the ports as 'multi-tool hands' like cybertron red alert

Grrr, when's BBTS gonna send me my Computron?

Just look at that smugly handsome face of his. "I'm here to kick ass and look good, and I just ran out of ass to kick."

So Seib, what does your perfect Computron look like?