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Even though there's not a lot of color to the Grand Vehicon General, he still looks awesome and glorious. The colors of the Takara Deployer Drift are good as usual for these Japanese toys. Nothing too surprising here!

SillySpringer wrote:I don't care if this Vehicon General doesn't make much sense,

I'm the toy's bio will attempt to justify this thing's fictional existence.

Sabrblade wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:I don't care if this Vehicon General doesn't make much sense,

I'm the toy's bio will attempt to justify this thing's fictional existence.

It exists to be a new standard of awesome, and nothing less

So Sabr, if you are the toy's bio, would you care to tell us what it is?



Also, I am looking forward to the in package pics, we will then know if it is Grand or Ground.

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I didn't post any links on 2 online Japan based stores with regards to TAV-28 because the sucker sold out like the minute it got posted.

Tried accessing amiami but the site kept giving me an error until they eventually put off the pre-order slot.I also tried hlj but also sold out. So I requested hobbysearch if the could also order some.

This is the response I got



So expect this early October.

https://twitter.com/TFYUKI/status/636100293566992384



More wanking as if the waiting isn't already killing us

fenrir72 wrote:https://twitter.com/TFYUKI/status/636100293566992384



More wanking as if the waiting isn't already killing us

So can we take this to mean that they should be winging their way to us very soon?

I would recommend that Override for interaction with Skylynx for sure he matches that colour scheme so well.

The little Black fella might go well with Grand Scourge or some hypothetical Nemesis Prime repaint that may get made one day. Not to mention the Unite Warriors set of course.

I do kind of wish they'd not put the hood logos on him though then the logo wouldn't be sideways when he's in chest plate mode. 4 logos is to many.

I like how Override's scannable logo is hidden too - that is a good idea.

RAR wrote:I would recommend that Override for interaction with Skylynx for sure he matches that colour scheme so well.

The little Black fella might go well with Grand Scourge or some hypothetical Nemesis Prime repaint that may get made one day. Not to mention the Unite Warriors set of course.

I do kind of wish they'd not put the hood logos on him though then the logo wouldn't be sideways when he's in chest plate mode. 4 logos is to many.

I like how Override's scannable logo is hidden too - that is a good idea.

Small-groove was never meant to interact/combine with sky lynx (to my knowledge) wreck-gar is just being released in that wave. And these aren't G1 so TT is not acknowledging that they combine, and are not designing them to do so.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

RAR wrote:I would recommend that Override for interaction with Skylynx for sure he matches that colour scheme so well.

The little Black fella might go well with Grand Scourge or some hypothetical Nemesis Prime repaint that may get made one day. Not to mention the Unite Warriors set of course.

I do kind of wish they'd not put the hood logos on him though then the logo wouldn't be sideways when he's in chest plate mode. 4 logos is to many.

I like how Override's scannable logo is hidden too - that is a good idea.

Small-groove was never meant to interact/combine with sky lynx (to my knowledge) wreck-gar is just being released in that wave. And these aren't G1 so TT is not acknowledging that they combine, and are not designing them to do so.

That doesn't mean they can't. I'd think you'd appreciate that HS.
Override might look real cool on Wave 1 Prime. Whom I know you don't appreciate HS.

Cobotron wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

RAR wrote:I would recommend that Override for interaction with Skylynx for sure he matches that colour scheme so well.

The little Black fella might go well with Grand Scourge or some hypothetical Nemesis Prime repaint that may get made one day. Not to mention the Unite Warriors set of course.

I do kind of wish they'd not put the hood logos on him though then the logo wouldn't be sideways when he's in chest plate mode. 4 logos is to many.

I like how Override's scannable logo is hidden too - that is a good idea.

Small-groove was never meant to interact/combine with sky lynx (to my knowledge) wreck-gar is just being released in that wave. And these aren't G1 so TT is not acknowledging that they combine, and are not designing them to do so.

That doesn't mean they can't. I'd think you'd appreciate that HS.
Override might look real cool on Wave 1 Prime. Whom I know you don't appreciate HS.

Yeah, 2 op's is a bit much in 1 year

And I do know that they can, what i meant was, TT is not designing the deco (specifically the sideways on runabout) to work with the torso guys. But yeah, cannot wait to have runabout chillin' with blackjack on my desk; he is such a superb little figure.

Cobotron wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

RAR wrote:I would recommend that Override for interaction with Skylynx for sure he matches that colour scheme so well.

The little Black fella might go well with Grand Scourge or some hypothetical Nemesis Prime repaint that may get made one day. Not to mention the Unite Warriors set of course.

I do kind of wish they'd not put the hood logos on him though then the logo wouldn't be sideways when he's in chest plate mode. 4 logos is to many.

I like how Override's scannable logo is hidden too - that is a good idea.

Small-groove was never meant to interact/combine with sky lynx (to my knowledge) wreck-gar is just being released in that wave. And these aren't G1 so TT is not acknowledging that they combine, and are not designing them to do so.

That doesn't mean they can't. I'd think you'd appreciate that HS.
Override might look real cool on Wave 1 Prime. Whom I know you don't appreciate HS.

They both look good and have nice colors. I think they'd both look good on their molds respective combiners. Color schemes great

Hellscream9999 wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:https://twitter.com/TFYUKI/status/636100293566992384



More wanking as if the waiting isn't already killing us

So can we take this to mean that they should be winging their way to us very soon?

There's still 5 days til the end of August.

Fellow Seibertronian Fenrir has sent some fun stuff our way. TF Yuki has posted another image of an upcoming Transformers Adventure product. This time it is in package images of the two TAV products being released in just a few days:
TAV 25 Autobot Decepticon Runabout
TAV 26 Override



If you have preordered yours, prepare to get a shipping notification very soon.

I just recently acquired some TAV figures. I got Gregevor, and all though the paint apps look great in robot mode, I realized her paint apps in alt mode are exactly the same layout as Hasbro's Strongarm. Needless to say they are kind of lack luster.
But hey, I like the mold, and now I have an extra Con for my RID collection.

It seems there isn't that much love for the 3-step Transformers among the collector community. But what if they looked good? I mean real good? Like this:




These are pictures from Hishashi Yuki's Twitter (TF Yuki) of the upcoming TED-11 Big Steeljaw and below you can see the difference between the Takara and Hasbro releases.



While the 3 steps may be for a younger audience, they are still engineered by Takara (3 step Grimlock and Bumblebee are done by the same guy who made MP 10) and I like how they show great pride in their accomplishments throughout the line, regardless of the amount of steps it takes to transform.

Well speaking of paint apps. Those are some worth looking at.

Cobotron wrote:I just recently acquired some TAV figures. I got Gregevor, and all though the paint apps look great in robot mode, I realized her paint apps in alt mode are exactly the same layout as Hasbro's Strongarm.

Greejeeber is a male.

Cobotron wrote::lol: Well speaking of paint apps. Those are some worth looking at.

But seriously, nothing beats that drift. That thing has so many amazing paint apps in robot mode, its crazy!

Sabrblade wrote:Greejeeber is a male.

Well if I'm going to be bewitched in the sauna bath, I'm gonna go ahead and pretend he's a she.

william-james88 wrote:

Cobotron wrote::lol: Well speaking of paint apps. Those are some worth looking at.

But seriously, nothing beats that drift. That thing has so many amazing paint apps in robot mode, its crazy!

I believe Drift is the winner of the line, not gonna lie. And that 3-step does have a nice head. Really nice looking

Cobotron wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Greejeeber is a male.

Well if I'm going to be bewitched in the sauna bath, I'm gonna go ahead and pretend he's a she.

"See you at the baths, sweetheart!"

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Cobotron wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Greejeeber is a male.

Well if I'm going to be bewitched in the sauna bath, I'm gonna go ahead and pretend he's a she.

"See you at the baths, sweetheart!"

I am never going to a sauna or taking a bath ever again......

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Cobotron wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Greejeeber is a male.

Well if I'm going to be bewitched in the sauna bath, I'm gonna go ahead and pretend he's a she.

"See you at the baths, sweetheart!"

I am never going to a sauna or taking a bath ever again......

More room for James Earl Jones and Sheldon Cooper, then.