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News Credits: 11 · Tue May 12, 2015 3:30 am

Oh, I've got that one. I've got him, the car one and the first edition one, all from Japan. I think the American versions even had different paint apps, too, so trip building is fun (or expensive). I wish the white ones were easily avoidable l available and in both car and jet versions, so we could repaint them. Possibly, there are knock offs?

This, too, could be the same with "junkion" here. Has anyone repainted him as wreck-gar/g1 junkion?

News Credits: 5 · Tue May 12, 2015 9:49 am

Has anyone noticed that Junkion's colors are exactly the same as that Animated Wreck Gar chase card thing?

News Credits: 462 · Tue May 12, 2015 9:55 am

primalxconvoy wrote:I think the Vehicons should have been repainted into the Autobot clones, rather than the Decepticon versions.

Except that the Vehicon molds are very very evil-looking as they are. No amount of repainting can change their hunched over, sickly, wicked creature look.

Besides, it's not like they were made into the actual Pounce and Wingspan themselves.

News Credits: 6188 · Thu May 14, 2015 1:44 am

Via the main Takara Tomy website, we have a new interview with one of their designers - specifically, with Yuya Onishi, the mind behind Transformers Adventure TAV01 Bumblebee (and Legends Tankor), the Japanese counterpart to the Hasbro Warrior class from Robots in Disguise.

You can find the interview in its entirety here, though it is all in Japanese, of course. If you are able to read it, please let us know what you make of it in the Energon Pub - and take a look at the mirrored images below, in the meantime.

News Credits: 11 · Thu May 14, 2015 2:08 am

Sabrblade wrote:
primalxconvoy wrote:I think the Vehicons should have been repainted into the Autobot clones, rather than the Decepticon versions.
Except that the Vehicon molds are very very evil-looking as they are. No amount of repainting can change their hunched over, sickly, wicked creature look.

Besides, it's not like they were made into the actual Pounce and Wingspan themselves.

I don't know about yours, but my Vehicons stand straight and tall. I'm sure that a new head and paint scheme would easily create them.

News Credits: 462 · Thu May 14, 2015 9:38 am

primalxconvoy wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
primalxconvoy wrote:I think the Vehicons should have been repainted into the Autobot clones, rather than the Decepticon versions.
Except that the Vehicon molds are very very evil-looking as they are. No amount of repainting can change their hunched over, sickly, wicked creature look.

Besides, it's not like they were made into the actual Pounce and Wingspan themselves.

I don't know about yours, but my Vehicons stand straight and tall. I'm sure that a new head and paint scheme would easily create them.

The head juts out forward at an angle. Removing it reveals the next piece to be diagonally positioned, so no matter how much one straightens out the body, the head will always be hunched over in an ogre-like fashion without having to completely re-engineer the torso.

Sure, one could just tilt the neck piece upward, but then that messes up the look of the chest by opening up the gap between the neck piece and the main body.

Aside from the issues with the head, though, the entire figure has many evil-looking design aspects all over its body. Jagged lines covering the torso, pointy vampiric fingers, spiked knees, sharp-looking razor wings on the Jet version, etc. etc.

The Vehicon design is very much meant to be an inherently creepy and wicked appearance.

News Credits: 11 · Thu May 14, 2015 11:29 am

Oh, I don't know...

- https://www.figurerealm.com/viewcustomf ... ?FID=48112

News Credits: 462 · Thu May 14, 2015 11:33 am

primalxconvoy wrote:Oh, I don't know...

- https://www.figurerealm.com/viewcustomf ... ?FID=48112

That is freaky-looking and way beyond the extent of any retoolings Fun Pub is allotted to do.

News Credits: 11 · Thu May 14, 2015 11:44 am

Just a different head, hands and extra arm pipes, is all.

The clones just need a new head and a lick of paint.

News Credits: 462 · Thu May 14, 2015 11:45 am

primalxconvoy wrote:Just a different head, hands and extra arm pipes, is all.

Again, that's all well beyond what the Club can do. They are only allotted to remold one part per mold.

News Credits: 11 · Thu May 14, 2015 11:46 am

Yes, and I then said all the CLONES would need is a new head and a new paint job.

News Credits: 6188 · Fri May 15, 2015 7:21 am

Via the YouTube channel for Takara Tomy, we get a promotional clip for three of their Transformers Adventure line figures: TED-06 Big Optimus Prime, the Japanese counterpart to Hyperchange Optimus; TAV-14 Ultra Magnus, of which you can see the Seibertron.com gallery here; TAV-13 Nemesis Prime, of which we also have a gallery. Check the clips out below!

News Credits: 6188 · Sat May 16, 2015 2:10 pm

In addition to yesterday's promo video, and of course, the Seibertron.com galleries, fellow member chuckdawg1999 has also just shared with us a video review of two Takara Tomy Transformers Adventure toys: TAV-08 Gregevor (Greejeeber) and TAV-13 Nemesis Prime. The latter is the one we've covered already, but the former, an homage to the 2000 RID line Rollbar, is in fact a male redeco of Strongarm, which you can find here for comparison. Check out the embedded clip below!

Takara always seems to deliver unique repaints that homage niche characters from their market, and black Optimus Primes. Gregevor is one of those homages going back to the early 2000's RID character Rollbar. Nemesis Prime I guess could be said is a tribute to Scourge/Black Convoy from the same line; even though there have been many takes on the black Prime over the years. Both are worth a look if you're interested in well done repaints.

News Credits: 21 · Sat May 16, 2015 2:23 pm

Thanks for sharing I didn't bother watching I saw video of original figures before they where repainted don't need same
Video again

News Credits: 6188 · Sat May 16, 2015 2:41 pm

dragons wrote:Thanks for sharing

You are more than welcome.

News Credits: 332 · Sat May 16, 2015 3:39 pm

dragons wrote:Thanks for sharing I didn't bother watching I saw video of original figures before they where repainted don't need same
Video again

But you might have missed out on dancing girls at the end

News Credits: 4877 · Sat May 16, 2015 4:50 pm

Va'al wrote:
dragons wrote:Thanks for sharing

You are more than welcome.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:
dragons wrote:Thanks for sharing I didn't bother watching I saw video of original figures before they where repainted don't need same
Video again

But you might have missed out on dancing girls at the end

I especially liked when they took their tops off. Oh my!

(o)(o)

News Credits: 131 · Sat May 16, 2015 5:15 pm

william-james88 wrote:
Va'al wrote:
dragons wrote:Thanks for sharing

You are more than welcome.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:
dragons wrote:Thanks for sharing I didn't bother watching I saw video of original figures before they where repainted don't need same
Video again

But you might have missed out on dancing girls at the end

I especially liked when they took their tops off. Oh my!

(o)(o)

Looks like you missed out guy. YouTube took it down and now only the edited version is available.

So scandalous :shock:

News Credits: 41 · Sat May 16, 2015 5:40 pm

william-james88 wrote:(o)(o)

News Credits: 4877 · Sat May 16, 2015 5:55 pm

Cobotron wrote:
william-james88 wrote:(o)(o)

Haha, glad you liked it, here are a few more:

National geographic:

（@ㅅ@）

Melissa McCarthy:

（。 ㅅ 。）

Jenny McCarthy:

（•_ㅅ_•）

The Rock:

[_._][_._]

News Credits: 3 · Sat May 16, 2015 6:06 pm

Chuck! Stop!
:evil:

News Credits: 3 · Sat May 16, 2015 7:16 pm

Well this thread just got interesting nice and quick.

News Credits: 2 · Sat May 16, 2015 10:33 pm

Holy-crap...I hope they include those sound FX when I get UM and Nemesis just like those Japanese reviews.

News Credits: 462 · Sat May 16, 2015 11:07 pm

"And yes, you have to say it like that. GREH-GHEE-VOR."

No you don't. "Gregevor" is a bad Engrish transliteration of グリジバー, which Romanizes out to being "Gurijibaa", with the two I's both sounding like "ee". It is a portmanteau of "Green" and "Jeep" with a modified end, hence the longstanding transliteration of "Greejeeber" being the more accepted name since the Car Robots character of the same name was established back in the year 2000.

The two E's in "Gregevor" are long "ee" sounds, and the second G is a hard G (or J) sound. The V came from B and V being essentially the same sound in Japanese. So whoever transliterated グリジバー ("Gurijibaa") into "Gregevor" apparently didn't recognize the "Green Jeep" reference and gave us a more wonky name than the more likely intended "Greejeeber".

News Credits: 11 · Sat May 16, 2015 11:38 pm

Exactly. I've already stated at these boards the same thing. The English text on the package for this toy is incorrect, if the aim was to represent "Green-Jeeper" (which was the originally intended name, similar to "Tankor", " Rot-or", or other proper nouns derived from adding the regular "er" to verb forms in order to make a "job noun").

Basically, the etymology, as it were, was " Green Jeep/Green-Jeeper/Greenjeeber" (ignoring the katakana and other romaji orthographic depictions, such as "gurujiiba", etc).

However, IF the original word WAS "Gregevor" (in English), then the Japanese (romaji) could be "gureijiiba".

What has (almost) happened then, is that, over time, they took an English term, converted it into Japanese katakana/,romaji, turned THAT back into katakana again, before finally turning it "back" into romaji/katakana.

It's a bit like how Takara have done the same with "convoy" (convoy/conboy), by first getting the name "right", then probably turning it back into katakana and back to romaji (or having no original romaji/English source to reference).

Hypothetically, this could happen to "Minerva":

Minerva/Mineruba/Minerba/Menorbar".