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News Credits: 13 · Sat Apr 02, 2016 10:23 pm

looks like Yuki is going to show off Nosecone next, at least according to the last tweet i saw from him

News Credits: 1646 · Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:06 pm

Fellow Seibertronians, to go along with our growing Technobot reveals, we now have a look at Takara's Nosecone! Nosecone is a retool of combiner wars Rook and the images were provided by our favorite twitter user TFYuki. The images have been mirrored below for your enjoyment. Check them out, and let us know what you think in the comments section. And as always stay tuned to Seibertron.com for all your latest news and galleries!

News Credits: 9 · Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:07 pm

I never liked the Rook mold, but this one looks fun.

:MAXIMAL:

News Credits: 174 · Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:07 pm

The Computron we need and deserve 8-)

(way to snipe me D-Max)

News Credits: 41 · Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:12 pm

Drill hand.... =P~

News Credits: 1646 · Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:14 pm

Cobotron wrote::shock: Drill hand....

Oh Hell yes!

Hellscream9999 wrote:The Computron we need and deserve

(way to snipe me D-Max)

As soon as I saw it, I knew I had to beat the rest of you to this. The Technodudes are my thing now! :MAXIMAL:

Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:16 pm

News Credits: 226 · Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:18 pm

"Hi my name's Nosecone, if my drill can't bust it, all my guns will!"
That is one damn fine retool. And pretty much convinces me to stick with UW

News Credits: 1646 · Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:20 pm

Burn wrote:"Hi my name's Nosecone, if my drill can't bust it, all my guns will!"
That is one damn fine retool. And pretty much convinces me to stick with UW

I'm honestly really starting to agree with you :MAXIMAL:

News Credits: 9 · Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:22 pm

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:
Burn wrote:"Hi my name's Nosecone, if my drill can't bust it, all my guns will!"
That is one damn fine retool. And pretty much convinces me to stick with UW

I'm honestly really starting to agree with you

Noe! Doent giv een to tha preds!
-
What's up with the giant hand?

:MAXIMAL:

News Credits: 174 · Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:25 pm

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:
Burn wrote:"Hi my name's Nosecone, if my drill can't bust it, all my guns will!"
That is one damn fine retool. And pretty much convinces me to stick with UW

I'm honestly really starting to agree with you

Whose drill will pierce the heavens?

:-P

Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:25 pm

[BW] Rainmaker wrote:
D-Maximus_Primal wrote:
Burn wrote:"Hi my name's Nosecone, if my drill can't bust it, all my guns will!"
That is one damn fine retool. And pretty much convinces me to stick with UW

I'm honestly really starting to agree with you

Noe! Doent giv een to tha preds!
-
What's up with the giant hand?

Have you seriously not seen the previous CW figs? Nose cone uses the Rook hands, which have legs facing forward instead of at a 90 degree angle to the forearm.

News Credits: 9 · Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:26 pm

Hellscream9999 wrote:
D-Maximus_Primal wrote:
Burn wrote:"Hi my name's Nosecone, if my drill can't bust it, all my guns will!"
That is one damn fine retool. And pretty much convinces me to stick with UW

I'm honestly really starting to agree with you

Whose drill will pierce the heavens?

"Nosecone must be that popular bot at school who woos fembots with his drill."

:MAXIMAL:

Have you seriously not seen the previous CW figs? Nose cone uses the Rook hands, which have legs facing forward instead of at a 90 degree angle to the forearm.

I meant the giant one

:MAXIMAL:

News Credits: 13 · Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:29 pm

Wow, it integrates Rook's fist pegs into the alt mode as well. And doing that mimics the weapons from the G1 toy. I'm impressed!

News Credits: 226 · Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:29 pm

Nemesis Maximo wrote:
[BW] Rainmaker wrote:
D-Maximus_Primal wrote:
Burn wrote:"Hi my name's Nosecone, if my drill can't bust it, all my guns will!"
That is one damn fine retool. And pretty much convinces me to stick with UW

I'm honestly really starting to agree with you

Noe! Doent giv een to tha preds!
-
What's up with the giant hand?

Have you seriously not seen the previous CW figs? Nose cone uses the Rook hands, which have legs facing forward instead of at a 90 degree angle to the forearm.

Seriously, someone needs to develop replaceable feet for the Rook mold (and remolds) so the combiner feet can be attached, plus the hands, and we shall call it, HULK MODE!

News Credits: 9 · Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:31 pm

Okay, I'm stupid. I SERIOUSLY did not realize that the giant hand was the combiner hand.

fml

:MAXIMAL:

News Credits: 4877 · Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:47 pm

kurthy wrote:Wow, it integrates Rook's fist pegs into the alt mode as well. And doing that mimics the weapons from the G1 toy. I'm impressed!

I feel the same way. Plus they integrate the drill to go with the playability of the toy by being able to remove it and attack it to the hands. It seems to be able to spin as well. This is a massive mic drop from takara.

News Credits: 226 · Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:50 pm

william-james88 wrote:
kurthy wrote:Wow, it integrates Rook's fist pegs into the alt mode as well. And doing that mimics the weapons from the G1 toy. I'm impressed!

I feel the same way. Plus they integrate the drill to go with the playability of the toy by being able to remove it and attack it to the hands. It seems to be able to spin as well. This is a massive mic drop from takara.

"Unite Warriors? Yeah, we're done" *drops mic, walks out*

News Credits: 174 · Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:52 pm

Burn wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
kurthy wrote:Wow, it integrates Rook's fist pegs into the alt mode as well. And doing that mimics the weapons from the G1 toy. I'm impressed!

I feel the same way. Plus they integrate the drill to go with the playability of the toy by being able to remove it and attack it to the hands. It seems to be able to spin as well. This is a massive mic drop from takara.

"Unite Warriors? Yeah, we're done" *drops mic, walks out*

And what a fitting ending it would be 8-)

News Credits: 54 · Sun Apr 03, 2016 1:21 am

Why does this exist?

No I don't mean the figure I mean country exclusives.

It's stupid and makes most of the fandom to think that Hasbro (or Hasblow as they call it these days) is stupid, cheap and money hungry.

Why can't Hasbro and Takara just use the same molds instead of Takara making all of these expensive and exclusive molds and figures that North america will never get?

And why does Takara somehow have the budget to paint their toys in fancy shiny decos yet Hasbro can't do the same?

It's crap like this that has made me stop collecting and have made me only concentrate on the media.

News Credits: 174 · Sun Apr 03, 2016 1:24 am

Deadput wrote:It's stupid and makes most of the fandom to think that Hasbro is cheap and money hungry.

Because they are, it's why the molds got so over-used in cw, it's the mindset of American corporations, and it is not okay >:oP

News Credits: 54 · Sun Apr 03, 2016 2:12 am

Hellscream9999 wrote:
Because they are, it's why the molds got so over-used in cw, it's the mindset of American corporations, and it is not okay

Yeah ok whatever maybe Hasbro should stop making Transformers since nobody likes anything they do these days

The movies suck they say

The Tv shows suck they say

The comics suck they say

The toys suck they say

It's a toy company making plastic toys for children so parents can buy it who gives a damn if Hasbro did not get the exact body shape, colors and accessories of some obscure character that only a few dozen people care about.

Everything is about money and making it so we can live in a house and eat food so I just roll my eyes when people are saying Hasbro is money hungry yet Takara is not since their the lords and saviors hallelujah.

I mean screw them for doing their job and restricting their budget so nothing goes wrong right?

News Credits: 4 · Sun Apr 03, 2016 2:28 am

Different corporate and national ideologies. In America, the bottom line is all that matters. Profit at all costs. In Japan, they're okay with taking a smaller profit margin for putting out a quality product.

For most of CW and UW I'd honestly say it was a toss-up. Takara was committed to giving the classic rosters, going so far as to engineer two new molds, but the cartoon decos hurt them. Meanwhile Hasbro's combiners have no duplicate molds within each team (excluding Quickslinger and Brake-Neck) and we got the awesomeness of Rook, legends class integration, and IMO superior decos.
Devastator and Computron, however, cannot in good faith be cited as anything but letdowns from Hasbro compared to the Takara product.

Hellscream9999 wrote:Whose drill will pierce the heavens?

Damn you, I was going to make that joke.

News Credits: 1350 · Sun Apr 03, 2016 2:56 am

Trust you deadput to turn this into hasbro v takara :-P

What more knowledgeable people above me has said is true though. Different cultures exist within hasbro and takara thanks to their countries of origin. In hasbro's case their problems stem from the upper levels with everyone below trying to do the best they can with what they've been allocated. I bet there was some within hasbro who were annoyed as well over devy.

Takara will have a dark side to them but like most Japanese companies they will deal with it themselves without drawing attention.. unless you're Konami and you think you can deal with hideo kojima without anyone noticing.

Now, nosecone. Drill hand is awesome and I await pictures of him performing giga drill breaker on some hapless decepticon

News Credits: 332 · Sun Apr 03, 2016 2:56 am

Cobotron wrote:Hey Chuck, where do you have him? Up on a shelf, or just down and around? I have a spot reserved for him up on a high shelf. I haven't noticed any looseness yet, but he has also been broken down into indy bots for the last week or so.
Do you have him up high, and is the heat cranked?
It's always hotter up high, so I'm wondering if the temp could effect these joints.

It was and still is standing on a box in my living room. I was able to tighten a few things and it's ok. I'm not that upset since I don't leave figures on permanent display.

Normally I'd be all over Hasbro for their version of Computron but I look at it as we're getting the same team done two different ways. Hasbro is using the retooled Groove and Air Raid molds so that's a plus. I like the Dead End mold better and hopefully they've corrected the Brawl mold. Probably not, but we still have options.

People need to remember Japan LOVES drill tanks, there was at least one in every Brave series. I'm not surprised they went all out for Nosecone.