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News Credits: 5 · by **Oilspill** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 10:23 am

FYI for any that didn't know (I only just discovered this myself) - if you click on the image in the auction you can zoom in a bit. It let me have a better look at Kup & Wreckgar's faces in particular.

Also, it's a shame that Takara aren't giving us a more G1 flame deco on Tracks' hood. *EDIT* Just read that apparently all the Pics besides Lugnut and Straxus are Hasbro pics - so maybe we will get a different Tracks deco and Wreck-gar wont have all that ugly grey plastic. There's a red autobot symbol on Kup's hood though - does this mean that Hasbro are reverting to coloured faction symbols (like they did with Drift)?

Here are the links to the auctions for your convenience:

Kup
Perceptor
Wreck-gar
Jazz
Lugnut
Tracks

Also, the extra pictures should definitely be frontpaged if they haven't been already!

News Credits: 11 · by **Overcracker** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 10:27 am

Very Very cool. I'm sure they can pull a Trailbreaker out of that mold easily.

Can't wait for Jazz, and Tracks. I need to be making more money.

News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 10:30 am

Pure secks. Nuff said.

News Credits: 1 · by **Sodan-1** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 10:35 am

I think Kup is easily the best looking of the 2011 figures. Pure brilliance. That weapon looks wrong though. He should at least have a sawn-off type weapon. Something small that packs a lot of punch.

Totally agree with Oilspill. A little bit of tinkering and that Perceptor would make pretty decent Trailbreaker and Hoist figures. I'd buy them.

News Credits: 5 · by **Oilspill** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 10:57 am

Sodan-1 wrote:A little bit of tinkering and that Perceptor would make pretty decent Trailbreaker and Hoist figures. I'd buy them.

Someone also mentioned that the bot mode looks a lot like Reflector. I think it does too, even without a new head (though I believe a new Reflector head was mentioned at Botcon). The alt mode is not too appropriate, but Hasbro have done worse in the past - and I like the half-track vehicle anyway.

If they did Perceptor, repainted into Reflector, then remoulded head and wheels for Trailbreaker then another head for Hoist - well if that happens I may just buy this mould 4 times :oops:

I'd love a towing assembly for Hoist, but they probably couldn't work that into the transformation.

News Credits: 194 · by **RodimusConvoy13** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 10:57 am

Along with images of Transformers United Kup that we posted earlier today, our readers have found new pictures of Transformers United Lugnut, Perceptor, Jazz and Wreck-gar. All of these images come from Amazon Japan. Check them out below and click on them to see their respective entries.

by **Badassimus Prime** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 11:13 am

Oilspill wrote:FYI for any that didn't know (I only just discovered this myself) - if you click on the image in the auction you can zoom in a bit. It let me have a better look at Kup & Wreckgar's faces in particular.

Also, it's a shame that Takara aren't giving us a more G1 flame deco on Tracks' hood. *EDIT* Just read that apparently all the Pics besides Lugnut and Straxus are Hasbro pics - so maybe we will get a different Tracks deco and Wreck-gar wont have all that ugly grey plastic. There's a red autobot symbol on Kup's hood though - does this mean that Hasbro are reverting to coloured faction symbols (like they did with Drift)?

Here are the links to the auctions for your convenience:

Kup
Perceptor
Wreck-gar
Jazz
Lugnut
Tracks

Also, the extra pictures should definitely be frontpaged if they haven't been already!

Thanks for the links Oilspill! I definitely took a closer look at all of them. Really great pieces these figures. Hopefully the Takara decos for Tracks screams G1.

News Credits: 5 · by **Oilspill** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 11:17 am

Actually, tackertackle of TFW2005 seems to have found even better quality pics in his post here.

I'm going to go drool at them a bit more. Wreckgar even has the chest-antennae-gun-things he had in G1.

News Credits: 1 · by **Vectorshot** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 11:52 am

They are ALL cool. They must've hired a true fan to do these designs.

News Credits: 3613 · by **Seibertron** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 11:59 am

I split this topic from the Kup one since there was already almost 100 posts about Kup before these images for these characters started being discussed.

by **Rodimus the Prime** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:02 pm

Fantastic! Jazz is awesome, pure joy!! Perceptor is awesome!!! Wreck-gar is awesome!! Tracks, Kup...AWESOME!! I think I might touch up Wreck-Gar with some metallic paint, actually! What a fantastic wave of figures! An ode to all Transformers fans, with a special wink and a kiss blown at us G1 era fans!!

by **barricade2218** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:03 pm

This line just keeps getting better and better..!

News Credits: 14 · by **DecepticonFinishline** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:04 pm

I'm so excited for absolutely all of these. My only concern is Lugnut. Becasue It would appear that the "Reveal The Shield" line is movie-formers and Classics 3.0 together. So, I don't know which category Lugnut really falls under. Though, I'll probably get him anyways, I'd like to avoid buying anymore movie-formers.

by **TeletranPrime** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:30 pm

Hasbro/Takara arent playing this time... these are kickass products, now all I need to see an accurate springer and redo of the 2010 combiners (Abominus, Computron, and Predaking)I dare them, how about that....... :grin:

YouTube · by **BobbyKyra** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:44 pm

Jazz, Wreck-Gar and Perceptor are just 3 very sexy toys! :grin:

What's that on Jazz' roof though?

by **Deludedcon** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:57 pm

It's over for me. Must have them all, no matter the cost!

Urrrrrrrgh. They are fantastic. 'Nuff said.

News Credits: 5 · by **--B--** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:57 pm

BobbyKyra wrote:Jazz, Wreck-Gar and Perceptor are just 3 very sexy toys!

What's that on Jazz' roof though?

Not for Resale.

YouTube · by **BobbyKyra** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:59 pm

Good, so that's going to dissapear then.

by **Liftgate** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 1:00 pm

WreckGar looks like a human being in a suit with that flesh-tone face. Cosplay WreckGar maybe?

Perceptor looks great, but maybe he should have been a CSI truck with a microscope and things in the back? Would be fun to build an actual truck like this, but I don't think the tracks would be street legal.

News Credits: 5 · by **horus** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 1:10 pm

Seems they are all coming out now with open fists

News Credits: 3 · by **Midnight_Fox** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 1:11 pm

The more I see United Lugnut, the more I have a feeling I'm going to ignore my rule about buying Hasbro over Takara versions with him.

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 1:16 pm

Ok i take it back Lugnut looks pretty damn cool in purple. All these look awesome cant wait to get em.

News Credits: 104 · by **Cyber Bishop** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 1:40 pm

And just so everyone realizes.. These are pre order

quoted from the translation

This product is projected release date of February 26, 2011

by **bengear** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 1:43 pm

Man, that perceptor is great....looks just like him. Is he going to come with a big gun? or just the shoulder missile/cannon?

by **Joker'sRequiem** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 1:56 pm

I like the alt mode colors on Hasbro Lugnut slightly better. Although his bot mode looks AMAZING with the purple, black and yellow. Hmmmm. I might get both if I can afford it. Perceptor is really shaping up to be a great figure, even without his traditional alt mode. He and Jazz will be BOS for me. I'm not the biggest Wreck-Gar fan, and without an army of Junkions he has less appeal to me, so I may wait on him.