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My Re-Action to these figures:

Ew... Goddamn ugly, limited articulations, and almost 20$US each. All of my nope.
Still, the artwork on the cards are amazing. If by some bizarre circumstance I buy one of these, the toy would remain sealed and I'd hang the card on the wall.

New Super 7 toys have been found at Target by RMaster who posted images on Twitter. The two toys found were G2 Grimlock and toy deco Galvatron. However, the even bigger news here is that the back of the card revealed more toys coming in this line. We can see Cyclonus, Ultra Magnus, Wreck-Gar, Sharkticon, Quintesson and best of all Unicron. And this isn't modelled after the Transformers movie but is instead modelled after the original prototype of the G1 Unicron toy. You can see an image of that original toy below. So now that means that this never released design will actually get a release. Albeit a smaller non transforming one. Still, it will be a 6 inch ReAction figure, so it will be one of the bigger figures in this line.









Transformers G1 1986 Unicron Gallery

This is incredible but I have to admit it does feel a little off this Unicron is being done by a company that's not Hasbro.

gonna need to buy out all the sharks!

So, Action Master Unicron...HOLDING A GUN, no less! Ever since I got Action Master Bumblebee and Devastator and had them duke it out when I was 12, I've had a sort of long-running fever-dream that if the U.S. G1 line had continued into 1992 instead of pausing before G2, Hasbro would've produced this very toy.

I mean, who/what is he going to shoot with that thing? Tornadron? (If it's an energy-draining de-kineto blaster) Eternity? The Living Planet? Those assume TF Marvel Continuity never totally splintered off from the Marvel Universe...

...Oh right, continuity splinters! After his third attack on Cybertron in Aspects of Evil Part 5, he came back in an even smaller body to go on a shooting spree right after Peace, reuniting the warring Autobots against a common enemy, then realized Peace was just the future of Earth Force continuity and fled to Japan, where he hid inside that Beast Wars Neo toy, trapped temporarily when it was cancelled...

...but only until an all new TF comic universe came into existence for him to devour, so he came back in an even smaller form...

...Pat Lee. And this absurd ReAction figure tells the whole story, better than any "Ultimate". Well done, Super 7.

Not that I'm knocking the gun, per se. It makes more sense than that one Frieza toy that came with a machine gun.

Am I the only one who always thought The Revenge looked like it had previously doubled as Unicron's handgun, even before the combining rail gun gimmick with Kingdom Galvatron?
Okay, I'll get off this...

Dang, each new ReAction wave has even more figures I'm going to have to make exceptions for. And if I end up going back to complete earlier waves on the secondary market, ugh...

An interesting deep cut of a decision, and honestly I'm all for it.
Especially interesting considering the rest are based on animation models, but I guess they wanted to put the old concept out since there's already an official Unicron figure with a 'toon accurate look!

SpaceEagle wrote:An interesting deep cut of a decision, and honestly I'm all for it.

An interesting, deep fans-service of a decision.

cloudballoon wrote:

SpaceEagle wrote:An interesting deep cut of a decision, and honestly I'm all for it.

An interesting, deep fans-service of a decision.

You said it better than me!

FYI, Unicron's gun is based on an early concept where the figure would come with a stand that transformed into a blaster.

Oh you son of a bitch, I'm in!

chuckdawg1999 wrote:This is incredible but I have to admit it does feel a little off this Unicron is being done by a company that's not Hasbro.

Indeed. Still hold out the faintest hope, this Unicron will see a "release" in the G1 Reissue line, some day.

Looks like I'm buying my first ReAction figure. This is the kind was weird thing I want to see Super7 doing. Now do some humans!

Emerje

I am mad the quintesson is not a six inch. That would have been cool. I need an inexpensive quintesson.

-Kanrabat- wrote: and almost 20$US each.

never mind then....

wait-WHY ISN'T JETFIRE A 6 INCH?

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:wait-WHY ISN'T JETFIRE A 6 INCH?

Because then he'd be the same size as Devastator and Unicron. They only reserve the 6" for the really giant characters.

Emerje

This is great news you guys!

Big Unicron out and about! Great Super7 (not my fav company) is doing this, hope it does well and Hasbro takes a hint.

Just Haslab the original Unicron and I think plenty of us old folk will support and buy it. This G1 Unicron, is he Titan size or smaller? If they can get big boy to be under 200 euro's it's a no brainer for me.

I will get this, it needs to happen!

noctorro wrote: This G1 Unicron, is he Titan size or smaller?

Uh… he’s 6 inches tall.

Decepticon Stryker wrote:

noctorro wrote: This G1 Unicron, is he Titan size or smaller?

Uh… he’s 6 inches tall.

The full quote:

noctorro wrote:Just Haslab the original Unicron and I think plenty of us old folk will support and buy it. This G1 Unicron, is he Titan size or smaller? If they can get big boy to be under 200 euro's it's a no brainer for me.

Was referring to this guy:



Not the Super7 figure.

As far as we're aware of his intended size:

TFWiki wrote:Though the prototype had the tallest robot mode at the time of its planned release, it was ultimately shorter than Fortress Maximus.

Personally, I don't think there is a need for HasLab-Greed.



Remaking this mold wouldn't exactly cost the Earth today. As mentioned earlier, he could easily be sold under the reissue banner in G1 packaging. For potentially the price of a Devastator boxset. As he should have been all those years ago.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

Decepticon Stryker wrote:

noctorro wrote: This G1 Unicron, is he Titan size or smaller?

Uh… he’s 6 inches tall.

The full quote:

noctorro wrote:Just Haslab the original Unicron and I think plenty of us old folk will support and buy it. This G1 Unicron, is he Titan size or smaller? If they can get big boy to be under 200 euro's it's a no brainer for me.

Was referring to this guy:



Not the Super7 figure.

As far as we're aware of his intended size:

TFWiki wrote:Though the prototype had the tallest robot mode at the time of its planned release, it was ultimately shorter than Fortress Maximus.

Personally, I don't think there is a need for HasLab-Greed.



Remaking this mold wouldn't exactly cost the Earth today. As mentioned earlier, he could easily be sold under the reissue banner in G1 packaging. For potentially the price of a Devastator boxset. As he should have been all those years ago.

Ah, my mistake then.

I'd cream my pants if "G1" Unicron is the next titan.

Hell, I'd do more than cream my pants. I'd bake them into a freaking wedding cake!

Emerje wrote:

RodimusPrimeUkraine1 wrote:wait-WHY ISN'T JETFIRE A 6 INCH?

Because then he'd be the same size as Devastator and Unicron. They only reserve the 6" for the really giant characters.

Emerje

Are you saying devastator and unicron being the same size is good scale?

-Kanrabat- wrote:I'd cream my pants if "G1" Unicron is the next titan.

Hell, I'd do more than cream my pants. I'd bake them into a freaking wedding cake!

Titan class is too small for unicron
and he already got the haslab, so the next unicron will probably take a while to come out officially if at all.

-Kanrabat- wrote:I'd cream my pants if "G1" Unicron is the next titan.

Hell, I'd do more than cream my pants. I'd bake them into a freaking wedding cake!

Why? I get that it was the original prototype, but that thing is ugly as hell. Wouldn't it be better for Hasbro/Takara to focus their efforts on better toys, or improving old toys, instead?

transformers_va wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:I'd cream my pants if "G1" Unicron is the next titan.

Hell, I'd do more than cream my pants. I'd bake them into a freaking wedding cake!

Why? I get that it was the original prototype, but that thing is ugly as hell. Wouldn't it be better for Hasbro/Takara to focus their efforts on better toys, or improving old toys, instead?

Well, because it will be different from what we usually gets.
Also, many like myself LOVES the appeal of old vintage clunky things. The price and demand of old G1 Transformers and other vintage toys is proof enough.

Be honest.
Compared to let's say Leader Earthrise Optimus Prime, the original G1 Optimus Prime is a "bad toy" (ignoring the trailer, of course.), and is basically "garbage" compared to today's standards.
But people keep buying him. Over and over. Why? It's not because it's the "better" Optimus. It's nostalgia and the vintage appeal.

I bet many TF fans who were not even alive when Beast Wars came out are now adult today and spend a fortune on G1 toys. There's also a huge market for old metal vehicles from last century.

Feel free to not like the old stuff, but I know I'm not alone in wanting "new" G1 toys like the unreleased Unicron prototype. The G1 Arcee too.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

transformers_va wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:I'd cream my pants if "G1" Unicron is the next titan.

Hell, I'd do more than cream my pants. I'd bake them into a freaking wedding cake!

Why? I get that it was the original prototype, but that thing is ugly as hell. Wouldn't it be better for Hasbro/Takara to focus their efforts on better toys, or improving old toys, instead?

Well, because it will be different from what we usually gets.
Also, many like myself LOVES the appeal of old vintage clunky things. The price and demand of old G1 Transformers and other vintage toys is proof enough.

Be honest.
Compared to let's say Leader Earthrise Optimus Prime, the original G1 Optimus Prime is a "bad toy" (ignoring the trailer, of course.), and is basically "garbage" compared to today's standards.
But people keep buying him. Over and over. Why? It's not because it's the "better" Optimus. It's nostalgia and the vintage appeal.

I bet many TF fans who were not even alive when Beast Wars came out are now adult today and spend a fortune on G1 toys. There's also a huge market for old metal vehicles from last century.

Feel free to not like the old stuff, but I know I'm not alone in wanting "new" G1 toys like the unreleased Unicron prototype. The G1 Arcee too.

If they actually produced this, my bet would be it would be a shelfwarmer. It would be geared towards a minority subset of the collector community, just like the BW characters. Personally, I'm getting sick of tired of seeing 25 Scorponoks, 40 Shadow Panthers, 30 Waspinators, etc taking up the shelves in the stores, to please the few, but don’t see better characters like Legacy Cosmos, Motormaster, Blitzwing, etc. which seem to be in higher demand.

*Edit: forgot to mention the BW reissues that are littering the shelves... every character I've seen, ends up in the clearance section, because there isn't a high demand for them...