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News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 7:23 am

Fellow Seibertronians, user Professor Smooth has shared with us pictures of the upcoming Takara Tomy Transformers Legends Ginrai! This leader-sized figure is an extensive retool of the already-released Titans Return Powermaster Optimus Prime, with a look much more resembling that of the toy from 1988. This reveal shows us colour pictures of the Vehicle and Robot Mode from the front and back, a couple development pictures and a comparison with his Hasbro counterpart; but leaves out the Base Mode for now. Take a look at the pictures below!

In other Legends news, fellow Seibertronian Cyberpath has shared with us a tweeted picture from Yuki of Hardhead singing Karaoke, along with a picture of his packaging, and of the latest Legends comic (number 37), which is a prologue to the comics found with the upcoming headmasters.

News Credits: 13 · by **steals_your_goats** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 7:34 am

I think he looks great all the way up until his feet. What the hell happened there? I'm definitely getting him though because I love the new cab and the other remolding and new guns are always a plus.

News Credits: 79 · by **Sigma Magnus** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 7:50 am

So glad I preordered this! Judging from some of the changed details, I'm fairly certain that Godbomber is coming.

Eventually.

News Credits: 372 · by **Cyberpath** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 7:57 am

News Credits: 458 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 7:59 am

Super Ginrai looks AMAZING!!!

steals_your_goats wrote:I think he looks great all the way up until his feet. What the hell happened there?

Those feet might be due to a forthcoming Godbomber upgrade meant to attach to those feet to give him his God Ginrai boots.

Also:

Cyberpath wrote:New comics finally!

http://tf.takaratomy.co.jp/toy/event/2014/06/web.html

HOLY SMOKING COW!!! That comic's set during the same year as the Grand Galvatron and Lynxmaster comics, ten years after The Headmasters cartoon, featuring characters from Masterforce alongside characters from The Headmasters, with little Headmaster Scorponok in his BlackZarak colors that were never seen in the show.

And it looks like we see how everyone got their Legends bodies, and how the non-Headmaster characters became Headmasters.

News Credits: 79 · by **Sigma Magnus** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:04 am

Small detail: Fort Max has the Master Sword in one panel. Given that Takara hasn't shown that Legends Max has it (which it probably definitely will), I thought it was notable.

...speaking of which, what the SHIZZLESNIT is taking them so long to show that off?

News Credits: 4853 · by **william-james88** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:04 am

steals_your_goats wrote:I think he looks great all the way up until his feet. What the hell happened there? I'm definitely getting him though because I love the new cab and the other remolding and new guns are always a plus.

Yeah, dont get the feet either. Not a fan. But it is cool how this is pretty much its own major retool of the already exsting retool. I really like that cab.

News Credits: 42 · by **Autobot N** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:07 am

Meh. I'll wait for Perfect Effect's Godbomber. >:oP

News Credits: 4853 · by **william-james88** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:08 am

Ok so the next time someone asks if it will be shown in the fiction or if any fiction covers non headmasters being headmasters, there is this.

News Credits: 458 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:13 am

william-james88 wrote:Ok so the next time someone asks if it will be shown in the fiction or if any fiction covers non headmasters being headmasters, there is this.

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:13 am

Well, Ginrai definitely now looks different from Powermaster!

News Credits: 194 · by **RodimusConvoy13** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:16 am

Sabrblade wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Ok so the next time someone asks if it will be shown in the fiction or if any fiction covers non headmasters being headmasters, there is this.

Sorry, this is the original and one and only mic drop. :-D

News Credits: 149 · by **Big Grim** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:26 am

Gotta say, that Super Ginrai looks freakin' amazing. I MIGHT just have to buy that!

News Credits: 458 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:28 am

william-james88 wrote:Ok so the next time someone asks if it will be shown in the fiction or if any fiction covers non headmasters being headmasters, there is this.

Also, just like Sakamoto promised at BotCon. :APPLAUSE:

News Credits: 4853 · by **william-james88** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:28 am

Autobot N wrote:Meh. I'll wait for Perfect Effect's Godbomber.

WHy pay more, both Takara and Hasbro are doing one.

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:32 am

Oh hey, there's a picture of the base mode now.

It's goofy and dumb.
I love it.

News Credits: 4853 · by **william-james88** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:33 am

Kurona wrote:Oh hey, there's a picture of the base mode now.

It's goofy and dumb.
I love it.

Yeah, its in your news post :-P

News Credits: 2 · by **SureShot18** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:38 am

Looks cool. I don't think I'll be getting Ginrai but that is an impressive retool. Besides the ankle tilts my favorite part of this figure is probably the 5 mm fists replacing the loose finger hands on Magnus and Powermaster Prime.

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:38 am

Looking at it a bit more, I think it's actually my favourite base mode so far for one particular reason: the cab's left untouched and on the ground.
It's sort of like Ginrai drove up and unfolded his trailer for a quick command base, sort of like how other versions of Optimus like the Armada guy would do so. I like it.

by **Dagon** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:41 am

RodimusConvoy13 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Ok so the next time someone asks if it will be shown in the fiction or if any fiction covers non headmasters being headmasters, there is this.

Sorry, this is the original and one and only mic drop.

I'm not sure that a response to a reasonable question is really the occasion for a mic drop.

News Credits: 458 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:46 am

Kurona wrote:Looking at it a bit more, I think it's actually my favourite base mode so far for one particular reason: the cab's left untouched and on the ground.
It's sort of like Ginrai drove up and unfolded his trailer for a quick command base, sort of like how other versions of Optimus like the Armada guy would do so. I like it.

This is probably due to the original toy having the cab not involved in the base mode.

by **Skull Grin** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:48 am

Ginrai looks great (do the feet rotate around, though? They look like they're supposed to go horizontal, not vertical), but what I'm really digging is that wee Tarantulas with a labcoat and tie. How much do I have to pay someone to get a figure/plushie of that?

News Credits: 191 · by **Kurona** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 8:50 am

Sabrblade wrote:
Kurona wrote:Looking at it a bit more, I think it's actually my favourite base mode so far for one particular reason: the cab's left untouched and on the ground.
It's sort of like Ginrai drove up and unfolded his trailer for a quick command base, sort of like how other versions of Optimus like the Armada guy would do so. I like it.
This is probably due to the original toy having the cab not involved in the base mode.

Really?
*looks at it again*
... oh, huh, you're right. Learn something new every day.