The Energon Pub

[Cyberpath]

You mean Hasui.

Sorry! where did you find these By the way? I'm fixing the story now.

https://twitter.com/Hasui_TF

Thanks!

still, wow...

Yeah. Thought looking at his feed and seeing this again..



..makes me wish that he'd come back and give us MP Megatron II finally.

Still, I really look forward to getting the Legends Headmasters. Bummer that Brainstorm will have a mouth.


Also, Alfes2010 tweeted some in-hand pix of LG23 Galvatron if anyone's interested:

https://twitter.com/Alfes2010/status/756506646898216961

https://twitter.com/Alfes2010/status/756508792888623105

[Randomhero]

Woah...that's pretty amazing. Now that it's out there I can't stop looking at the shared parts. I know I shouldn't worry because the torso is different but I hope he doesn't suffer scourges bobble head syndrome

[Down_Shift]

It was already know that Highbrow was a heavy retool of Scourge, but it is nice to get the designers input.

[Evil Eye]

I had high hopes for Takara's Legends version of PM Prime, but this is even better than I had dreamed.

Say it with me, everyone.


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[Randomhero]

I had high hopes for Takara's Legends version of PM Prime, but this is even better than I had dreamed.

Say it with me, everyone.


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Wins what? Sorry but I'm not paying $90+ for a piece in of plastic just to have a different cab, arms and pudgy feet.

[Evil Eye]

I had high hopes for Takara's Legends version of PM Prime, but this is even better than I had dreamed.

Say it with me, everyone.


TAKARA WINS AGAIN
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Wins what? Sorry but I'm not paying $90+ for a price of plastic just to have a different cab, arms and pudgy feet.

Wins just about everything save for price. Better paint apps, less hollow, better articulation (especially in the feet), better sculpt, better head...

Literally everything about him is an improvement over the original mold.

[Sabrblade]

better head...

But they didn't change the head.

[Sigma Magnus]

The one thing they didn't do was make the cab become another robot. It would've been perfect then...but still, this is amazing.

[Evil Eye]

better head...

But they didn't change the head.

Whoops. I stand corrected. The new cab seems to make the head look a lot better.

[Randomhero]

better head...

But they didn't change the head.

Whoops. I stand corrected. The new cab seems to make the head look a lot better.

No you're not the only one. It took a couple side by sides for me to notice it's the same.

[Overcracker]

WOW!. That's one heck of a retool.



THe cab looks fantastic. Though I'm not so sure about the feet. Are they mis transformed? They look very strange.

[Randomhero]

WOW!. That's one heck of a retool.



THe cab looks fantastic. Though I'm not so sure about the feet. Are they mis transformed? They look very strange.

No that's just how they are. Look behind them. That's a lot of emptiness. You rotate them anyway and all those gaps are more visible. People are speculation god bomber armor but who knows.

[william-james88]

Wins just about everything save for price. Better paint apps, less hollow, better articulation (especially in the feet), better sculpt, better head...

Literally everything about him is an improvement over the original mold.

Haha, I think that is a good example of seeing things through rose coloured glasses since the head isnt changed. We all have biases, I am not immune to that, but its important to remember and thus not look down on other toys.
And I dont find the feet superior to Hasbro's in the least.

THe cab looks fantastic. Though I'm not so sure about the feet. Are they mis transformed? They look very strange.

Not mistransformed. Its Takara trying to recreate the G1 feet:


Transformers Super God Masterforce Powermaster Optimus Prime (Super Ginrai) Gallery

[Sigma Magnus]

Honestly, I don't think the feet are that bad. Could be a bit wider though...

[DedicatedGhostArt]

I had high hopes for Takara's Legends version of PM Prime, but this is even better than I had dreamed.

Say it with me, everyone.


TAKARA WINS AGAIN
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Wins what? Sorry but I'm not paying $90+ for a price of plastic just to have a different cab, arms and pudgy feet.

Wins just about everything save for price. Better paint apps, less hollow, better articulation (especially in the feet), better sculpt, better head...

Literally everything about him is an improvement over the original mold.

Also the plastic color doesn't look as nastily brown like the Hasbro one. That alone is a huge improvement.

Now, one thing I noticed about this version is that he has a striking resemblance to Inferno.

[Kurona]

better head...

But they didn't change the head.

Whoops. I stand corrected. The new cab seems to make the head look a lot better.

It's the chest windows, really. They make him.

[Sabrblade]

It's the chest windows, really. They make him.

Wish they didn't stick so far into the chest, though. Or that the side panels didn't stick so far out in front of them. It makes his chest look like it has a big open gap in it.

[Randomhero]

I had high hopes for Takara's Legends version of PM Prime, but this is even better than I had dreamed.

Say it with me, everyone.


TAKARA WINS AGAIN
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Wins what? Sorry but I'm not paying $90+ for a price of plastic just to have a different cab, arms and pudgy feet.

Wins just about everything save for price. Better paint apps, less hollow, better articulation (especially in the feet), better sculpt, better head...

Literally everything about him is an improvement over the original mold.

Also the plastic color doesn't look as nastily brown like the Hasbro one. That alone is a huge improvement.

Now, one thing I noticed about this version is that he has a striking resemblance to Inferno.

That "nasty" brown is the color of the original from the 80s. The chrome one that keeps getting posted is the Takara release from 10 years ago.

[Kurona]

I had high hopes for Takara's Legends version of PM Prime, but this is even better than I had dreamed.

Say it with me, everyone.


TAKARA WINS AGAIN
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Wins what? Sorry but I'm not paying $90+ for a price of plastic just to have a different cab, arms and pudgy feet.

Wins just about everything save for price. Better paint apps, less hollow, better articulation (especially in the feet), better sculpt, better head...

Literally everything about him is an improvement over the original mold.

Also the plastic color doesn't look as nastily brown like the Hasbro one. That alone is a huge improvement.

Now, one thing I noticed about this version is that he has a striking resemblance to Inferno.

That "nasty" brown is the color of the original from the 80s. The chrome one that keeps getting posted is the Takara release from 10 years ago.

doesnt make it any less nasty

[DedicatedGhostArt]

That "nasty" brown is the color of the original from the 80s. The chrome one that keeps getting posted is the Takara release from 10 years ago.

doesnt make it any less nasty

Yeah just because it's from the 80s, doesn't mean it's pretty. G1 Blaster's slightly brown color on parts of him looks good because it contrasts well with the other colors, and doesn't have too much white and silver to clash with it. PMP on the other hand, is like HALF that cream brown color, and ruins itself with silver paint to clash. Silver paint doesn't always work.

[Sabrblade]

G1 Blaster's slightly brown color on parts of him looks good because it contrasts well with the other colors,

Brown contrasts better with orange and yellow than silver does?

[william-james88]

That "nasty" brown is the color of the original from the 80s. The chrome one that keeps getting posted is the Takara release from 10 years ago.

doesnt make it any less nasty

Yeah just because it's from the 80s, doesn't mean it's pretty. G1 Blaster's slightly brown color on parts of him looks good because it contrasts well with the other colors, and doesn't have too much white and silver to clash with it. PMP on the other hand, is like HALF that cream brown color, and ruins itself with silver paint to clash. Silver paint doesn't always work.

I dont know if it works better or not but I have no complaints over the look of my TR Blaster. Everything looks fine.

[DedicatedGhostArt]

G1 Blaster's slightly brown color on parts of him looks good because it contrasts well with the other colors,

Brown contrasts better with orange and yellow than silver does?

At least for me. And the "orange" on Blaster is actually red. And plus, the yellow is not on TOP on the brownish color, but rather in the middle of a bunch of red. The colors are spread right on Blaster, which I can't say about Optimus.

Just look at the bit of silver on his chest in the middle of a bunch of brown. Don't you agree that this is horribly eye-sore inducing?

[galvatron00]

Checking options for this amazing Super Ginrai.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Dangit Cram!

But I agree, I like hasbro Blaster just fine