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News Credits: 331 · by **chuckdawg1999** » Wed Jul 23, 2014 5:18 pm

Tigertrack wrote:I don't know much about Diaclone from a Japanese perspective, but it looks like the fan club is correct, a Diaclone colored set of exclusives may not be like printing money... police sunstreaker got a very tiny percentage of the vote... Even less than a Fallen repaint on a cruddy mold...

Or maybe people dislike the sideswipe/sunstreaker mold more than I know. I remember all of the hoots and gasps when that mold was initially shown in slides at Botcon.

I like GoShooter as a choice. I don't love it. Even if I can get over that he's not a headmaster, Siren in IDW is not either that we know of, and with the info shared by others of him no longer being an HM anyway, but it's not an AWESOME choice. Please throw Magnificus into the category of Million Publishing home runs (I believe he was by Million, as was the cool black/grey/clear Mirage). Artfire was a great choice, but QC really caused that one to be less well thought of... I think.

As time went on the lack of any real place or point to secure the arms wore on people

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Wed Jul 23, 2014 6:41 pm

Powered Convoy wrote:Million Publishing / Hero-X Exclusives include:

Gentei Ghost Starscream
Gentei Electro Disruptor (Clear) Ligier
Skids & Screech 2 Pack
Elite Guard Voyager Optimus
Stepper & Nebulon
Artfire, Nightstick & Sparks
Shouki & Daniel

I think that's all of them.

Randy

Don't forget Infiltration Starscream, a translucent redeco of the Fall of Cybertron Seeker mold meant to homage both Starscream's usual ghostly-self and his invisibility ability in the Fall of Cybertron game.

by **shockblast2** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 8:11 am

Well, all the choices sucked so it was kinda like voting for the president.

Goshooter? You can tell they are out of ideas when it comes to names.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 11:31 am

shockblast2 wrote:Goshooter? You can tell they are out of ideas when it comes to names.

Do you think they just made that name up for a new character? Goshooter, better known as "Shuta Go", was a Headmaster Junior from Transformers: Chojin Masterforce way back in 1988. The name is no less unusual-sounding than any other strange-sounding Japanese-original TF name from the past 30 years.

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Sat Aug 09, 2014 10:31 am

By way of our friends at Autobase Aichi we have new images of the upcoming Million Publishing/Hero-X exclusives, Shouki and GoShooter. These figures will be mail away exclusives the Transformers Generations 2014 Volumes 1 and 2 respectively. GoShooter, who is a redeco of the Generations Deluxe Nightbeat mold, was the winner of a fan poll to determine the Volume 2 exclusive. This image reveals that GoShooter will come with the Generations Blazemaster/Spinister Legends Targetmaster figure to represent Shuta Go. Check out the image mirrored below:

Update: Hero-X has updated with a couple of additional images.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Aug 09, 2014 10:51 am

GoShooter with Gō Shūta... :roll:

Well played.

I should note that to all the Japanophiles is that while the Transformer name uses Katakana (ゴーシューター Gōshūtā) the human as a native Japanese uses regular Kanji (剛秀太 Gō Shūta).

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sat Aug 09, 2014 11:02 am

Boo. They used an unfun mold for Shuta. I wanted one with more than just articulated shoulders. A PCC Micron would have worked better.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:GoShooter with Gō Shūta... Well played.

I thought you knew he was coming with Shuta.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Aug 09, 2014 11:06 am

Sabrblade wrote:Boo. They used an unfun mold for Shuta. I wanted one with more than just articulated shoulders. A PCC Micron would have worked better.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:GoShooter with Gō Shūta... Well played.
I thought you knew he was coming with Shuta.

Just that he came with a Mini-Con.

by **Rated X** » Sat Aug 09, 2014 12:18 pm

All the cool choices and the fans chose the crappiest character using the crappiest mold ? Who is this guy ? Is he even G1 ?

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Aug 09, 2014 12:25 pm

Rated X wrote:All the cool choices and the fans chose the crappiest character using the crappiest mold ? Who is this guy ? Is he even G1 ?

No, he's a previously unknown Gobot. :roll:

OK I was joking. Read the previous posts, Sabrblade has explained it already, so I'm not gonna repeat it

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Sat Aug 09, 2014 1:08 pm

I like it. Bit of Masterforce/Victory is usually good. I question the helicopter targetmaster for Shuta. But I'm not sure there is something that works better and looks somewhat like an exosuited human. I was thinking maybe a police car micron, but this is not a deal breaker. Cool.

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Sat Aug 09, 2014 3:47 pm

It's not the one I wanted most out of that poll, but I'll get him and place him beside Metalhawk.

by **hinomars19** » Sat Aug 09, 2014 3:56 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Boo. They used an unfun mold for Shuta. I wanted one with more than just articulated shoulders. A PCC Micron would have worked better.

I agree!

I'd love to get this! Siren was my only headmaster toy as a kid, so I quite like Go-shooter. Sadly funds make it pointless to try and get one. Maybe if Nightbeat feels like turning up at retail I'll get 2 and paint my own...

Website · by **DMSL** » Sat Aug 09, 2014 4:11 pm

A very nice figure, but i don't care about the ugly targetmaster wannabee or the "aqua" guns this mold comes with. Hopefully it will have a normal gun that you can hide somewhere. What they really should have done is actually make him a new mold and a headmaster.

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Sat Aug 09, 2014 4:34 pm

DMSL wrote:A very nice figure, but i don't care about the ugly targetmaster wannabee or the "aqua" guns this mold comes with. Hopefully it will have a normal gun that you can hide somewhere. What they really should have done is actually make him a new mold and a headmaster.

quite true for 90% of reprints we get...then there would have been a lot more choices on the poll to vote for if they weren't doing repaints of existing figures. Hasbro/Takara doesn't seem to have much interest in actual headmasters, except the soon to be released Brainstorm. So Million Pub doesn't have many options for using I that regard.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sat Aug 09, 2014 9:52 pm

Rated X wrote:All the cool choices and the fans chose the crappiest character using the crappiest mold ? Who is this guy ? Is he even G1 ?

I'll do JelZe to favor of say, yes, he is a G1 character, and a well done one at that.

Goshooter, better known as Shuta Go, was one of the Autobot Headmaster Juniors from the Japanese Super-God Masterforce cartoon. His toy was a redeco of the G1 Siren toy.

However, don't let that video clip fool you. Though he looks to be a mere human merging with a lifeless Transformer body when he transforms into robot mode in this video, the end of the series had all of the human-bonded TFs gaining their own life and separating from the humans completely, no longer needing them anymore.

This new toy of Goshooter represents the fully-living robot version of him after that series, so there's no need to worry about some human boding with him to give him life. But, the little Targetmaster this toy comes with is meant to be that same human, by now grown up into an adult, likely wearing a Targetmaster exosuit like those we saw the G1 Targetmasters wearing in the three-part G1 cartoon episode "The Rebirth".

Though, you did previously make this post in this topic, so this news about Goshooter shouldn't be new to you.

News Credits: 461 · by **mooncake623** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 12:34 pm

Last week we reported our first look at clear images of Goshooter here And now thanks to HeroX we have new images of the fan voted Million Publishing exclusives GoShooter in both Robot and Alt modes as well as his Targetmaster. Check out the images we've mirrored below and remember keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 12:49 pm

There's something in one of the bios about either Goshooter or Shuta being a "Godmaster Junior", but it's difficult for me to make out as it sounds like the smaller helicopter figure is the Godmaster Junor Transtector instead of the larger Deluxe figure (which would make more sense than the smaller figure, but it sounds like it is referring to the smaller figure, hence the confusion here).

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 12:58 pm

I just noticed something in the robot mode: the shoulder kibble has an alternate transformation to make it look more like the original G1 Siren/Goshooter toy:

It makes me wonder if that's the reason why Gen. Bumblebee was used for Nightbeat/Siren instead of RtS Jazz. :-?

News Credits: 1 · by **Skywarp64** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 1:43 pm

Still can't believe this utter nobody Go-Shooter was elected rather than Alpha Trion. So pissed at that.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 1:48 pm

Skywarp64 wrote:Still can't believe this utter nobody Go-Shooter was elected rather than Alpha Trion. So pissed at that.

He is not a nobody in Japan, where this poll was aimed at. Japan got many many more iconic, beloved, very popular G1 characters that the Western World never got. It's like when Star Saber won the Masterpiece Fans Choice poll. These characters won these Japanese polls because they're very darn popular characters in Japan.

And that Alpha Trion toy looked less like Alpha Trion and more like Scourge cosplaying as Alpha Trion.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 1:51 pm

Skywarp64 wrote:Still can't believe this utter nobody Go-Shooter was elected rather than Alpha Trion. So pissed at that.

And we don't go BS crazy when an obscure character like Scoop gets a new toy? :roll:

by **gothsaurus** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 1:51 pm

Yeah, I totally think this was designed as Nightbeat, and the alternate transformation and Bumblebee version was tacked on second. With the shoulders down, it really does make a great GoShooter/Nightbeat. This paint job also looks like it has a lot of detail. Really happy with it.

That said, I DO really hope they re-visit the list they showed. Many — like Alpha Trion — deserve to be made. Police Sunstreaker also in my top choices.

As for the Omnibots... I hope they get their own new molds. While they were at the top of my choices, they were each admittedly a little off.

News Credits: 8 · by **Flashwave** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 2:07 pm

The more I look at this, the more I wish this mold had become Barricade instead of BH Smokescreen.

by **K2vox** » Tue Aug 12, 2014 2:24 pm

WTF is with that stupid blue panel right by the door??? Talk about a fail. All the other paint apps look good but geez.. throw this toy in the garbage! :SICK: