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ScottyP wrote:There is also a listing for Encore Unicron, but it is unlikely to be the regular colors. It is listed as "Micron Combine Type", and if that means what I think it means given the events of the show, this Encore is Unicron of Light!
ultraimpossibleman wrote:Grand innacurration and heavy mistakes !
Diem wrote:This is exactly the kind of nonsense I'm here for.
TheForgottenTaxi wrote:Man, it is beyond time we got a new Unicron mold. They just keep trotting out that 15-year-old Armada mold. It's getting tiresome.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
shajaki wrote:Been thinking. I thought the green Unicron was called "matrix glow" and was based on his death in the end of TFTM?
Lore Keeper wrote:Megatron for $315... Nope. I was fully committed to purchasing it until that. I will never pay that much for a single figure. Ever...
Emerje wrote:Lore Keeper wrote:Megatron for $315... Nope. I was fully committed to purchasing it until that. I will never pay that much for a single figure. Ever...
That's the full price, most Japanese exporters are going to reduce it further, maybe as low as $250. Of course the shipping is going to bounce the price up quite a bit, but probably not terribly since I doubt Megs will come in a very big box since the price comes from the electronics, not the contents of the box.
As for Unicron, considering the the last two Encores (God Fire Convoy and MW Optimus Prime) there's really no way it's just going to be a reissue of the Lucky Draw figure. Expect something painfully screen accurate, entirely neon green, maybe not even clear plastic (it wasn't clear in the cartoon), and no painted details. If Takara Tomy is dedicated to cartoon accurate reissues then that's what we should expect.
Emerje
The recent Platinum release had the mold showing its age a little, but not super badly. A few ratchets not quite as tight, a few sculpted details don't pop as much. The wings/planet pieces don't stay up in robot mode but I haven't had a Unicron outside of my original Micron Legend version where that wasn't a problem.Carnivius_Prime wrote:TheForgottenTaxi wrote:Man, it is beyond time we got a new Unicron mold. They just keep trotting out that 15-year-old Armada mold. It's getting tiresome.
Any mold degradation with that one yet?
True, but, the Unicron of Light was all glow-y in the show, and clear plastic has often been used to simulate glowing effects. Take Burning Convoy, for instance. He was solid in the movie, but because he glowed like the hair of a Super Saiyan God, both of his toys were mostly translucent red.Emerje wrote:As for Unicron, considering the the last two Encores (God Fire Convoy and MW Optimus Prime) there's really no way it's just going to be a reissue of the Lucky Draw figure. Expect something painfully screen accurate, entirely neon green, maybe not even clear plastic (it wasn't clear in the cartoon), and no painted details. If Takara Tomy is dedicated to cartoon accurate reissues then that's what we should expect.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Thinking more...JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:shajaki wrote:Been thinking. I thought the green Unicron was called "matrix glow" and was based on his death in the end of TFTM?
No, early fan conjecture. The original Lucky Draw was indeed called "Unicron of Light" and is firmly based on the Mini-Con-created copy in Armada.
I wouldn't expect the toy itself being a carbon copy, but at the very least switching out the inaccurate grey for a shade of green.
But it was a Lucky Draw toy for a contest held by the Micron Densetsu Year Book 2003 (a Japanese Armada guidebook).shajaki wrote:Thinking more...JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:shajaki wrote:Been thinking. I thought the green Unicron was called "matrix glow" and was based on his death in the end of TFTM?
No, early fan conjecture. The original Lucky Draw was indeed called "Unicron of Light" and is firmly based on the Mini-Con-created copy in Armada.
I wouldn't expect the toy itself being a carbon copy, but at the very least switching out the inaccurate grey for a shade of green.
I'm calling BS. The LD Unicron is nowhere near the correct color of green shown in that screen cap. Not to mention that the "Matrix Glow Rodimus" from that e-Hobby 3 pack is damn near the same green/teal as LDU, I'm convinced he's supposed to be based on death Unicron from TFTM.
I'm not saying that you or wiki is wrong in your info, just that Takara is full of it.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
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