The Energon Pub

[Stuartmaximus]

It's really only just Breakdown and Wildrider who looked underdetailed to me. I'm fine with Drag Stripe being yellow and orange instead of yellow and purple, but something about Breakdown's shade of off-white and Wildrider's light gray chest don't look right to me (which for the latter is also odd since Break-Neck had a light gray chest too and I think it looks fine on him).

That would've been cool if they went with that name with this colour version of him!

DRAG STRIPE

[Sabrblade]

It's really only just Breakdown and Wildrider who looked underdetailed to me. I'm fine with Drag Stripe being yellow and orange instead of yellow and purple, but something about Breakdown's shade of off-white and Wildrider's light gray chest don't look right to me (which for the latter is also odd since Break-Neck had a light gray chest too and I think it looks fine on him).

That would've been cool if they went with that name with this colour version of him!

DRAG STRIPE

Well, that is his Japanese name. The others all kept their Hasbro names for Japan.

[mooncake623]

Takara Tomy designer Hisashi Yuki just tweeted, via his infamous TFYUKI twitter account, a teaser image for Takara Tomy's version of Optimus Maximus! The Unite Warriors Optimus Maximus appears to feature the same 4 molds of Sunstreaker, Ironhide, Prowl, and Mirage that was featured in Hasbro's version with CW Optimus Prime. Check out the image we've mirrored below and remember keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates!

[fenrir72]

Takara Tomy designer Hisashi Yuki just tweeted, via his infamous TFYUKI twitter account, a teaser image for Takara Tomy's version of Optimus Maximus! The Unite Warriors Optimus Maximus appears to feature the same 4 molds of Sunstreaker, Ironhide, Prowl, and Mirage that was featured in Hasbro's version with CW Optimus Prime. Check out the image we've mirrored below and remember keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates!

ETA February 2016?

This had better be a homerun full differing paint deco with chrome for TT to convince me to get this.

[Sabrblade]

The cool thing about Takara's version of Ultra Prime/Optimus Maximus that we can tell from this teaser is that its limbs will not only be arranged in a different configuration from Hasbro's official configuration, but that Takara's configuration pays homage to Energon Optimus's Super Mode by placing each limb of a certain color where Energon Optimus's limbs of the same color were placed.

Right arm (orange/red) - Fire-1 - Ironhide
Left arm (white) - Copter-2 - Prowl
Right leg (yellow) - Digger-3 - Sunstreaker
Left leg (blue) - Submarine-4 - Ligier (Mirage)

This makes me real interested in what kind of deco the Optimus torso figure will have, and which standard robot mode headsculpt (regular or Battle Core) it will have.

[fenrir72]

The cool thing about Takara's version of Ultra Prime/Optimus Maximus that we can tell from this teaser is that its limbs will not only be arranged in a different configuration from Hasbro's official configuration, but that Takara's configuration pays homage to Energon Optimus's Super Mode by placing each limb of a certain color where Energon Optimus's limbs of the same color were placed.

Right arm (orange/red) - Fire-1 - Ironhide
Left arm (white) - Copter-2 - Prowl
Right leg (yellow) - Digger-3 - Sunstreaker
Left leg (blue) - Submarine-4 - Ligier (Mirage)

This makes me real interested in what kind of deco the Optimus torso figure will have, and which standard robot mode headsculpt (regular or Battle Core) it will have.

And Prime with the chest chrome?

[william-james88]

The cool thing about Takara's version of Ultra Prime/Optimus Maximus that we can tell from this teaser is that its limbs will not only be arranged in a different configuration from Hasbro's official configuration, but that Takara's configuration pays homage to Energon Optimus's Super Mode by placing each limb of a certain color where Energon Optimus's limbs of the same color were placed.

Right arm (orange/red) - Fire-1 - Ironhide
Left arm (white) - Copter-2 - Prowl
Right leg (yellow) - Digger-3 - Sunstreaker
Left leg (blue) - Submarine-4 - Ligier (Mirage)

This makes me real interested in what kind of deco the Optimus torso figure will have, and which standard robot mode headsculpt (regular or Battle Core) it will have.

And Prime with the chest chrome?

Yeah, thats what I was thinking. No more unpainted chest.

[o.supreme]

So is this officially UW-05? or will another combiner be released in Japan before this one?

[Hellscream9999]

The cool thing about Takara's version of Ultra Prime/Optimus Maximus that we can tell from this teaser is that its limbs will not only be arranged in a different configuration from Hasbro's official configuration, but that Takara's configuration pays homage to Energon Optimus's Super Mode by placing each limb of a certain color where Energon Optimus's limbs of the same color were placed.

Right arm (orange/red) - Fire-1 - Ironhide
Left arm (white) - Copter-2 - Prowl
Right leg (yellow) - Digger-3 - Sunstreaker
Left leg (blue) - Submarine-4 - Ligier (Mirage)

This makes me real interested in what kind of deco the Optimus torso figure will have, and which standard robot mode headsculpt (regular or Battle Core) it will have.

And Prime with the chest chrome?

Yeah, thats what I was thinking. No more unpainted chest.

I'm glad they (seem) to be doing something special with the prime set, if they are going to deco them up like the super link prime set; it would really give it a reason to exist, and nicely set it apart from the hasbro version.

[Easy Tiger]

From the gaps in the silhouette, it looks like Ironhide will have G1-style pale grey underpants.

This intrigues me, as it notches the still-extremely-unlikely possibility of a good G1 Ironhide a little closer to reality.

[Easy Tiger]

From the gaps in the silhouette, it looks like Ironhide will have G1-style pale grey underpants.

This intrigues me, as it notches the still-extremely-unlikely possibility of a good G1 Ironhide a little closer to reality.

[DedicatedGhostArt]

From the gaps in the silhouette, it looks like Ironhide will have G1-style pale grey underpants.

This intrigues me, as it notches the still-extremely-unlikely possibility of a good G1 Ironhide a little closer to reality.

Ha ha you mean like this?

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Cannot wait to see what they do with this. this is an exciting thing here!

[Burn]

The cool thing about Takara's version of Ultra Prime/Optimus Maximus that we can tell from this teaser is that its limbs will not only be arranged in a different configuration from Hasbro's official configuration, but that Takara's configuration pays homage to Energon Optimus's Super Mode by placing each limb of a certain color where Energon Optimus's limbs of the same color were placed.

Right arm (orange/red) - Fire-1 - Ironhide
Left arm (white) - Copter-2 - Prowl
Right leg (yellow) - Digger-3 - Sunstreaker
Left leg (blue) - Submarine-4 - Ligier (Mirage)

This makes me real interested in what kind of deco the Optimus torso figure will have, and which standard robot mode headsculpt (regular or Battle Core) it will have.

And Prime with the chest chrome?

Yeah, thats what I was thinking. No more unpainted chest.

Keep the wish list short, that way they'll have more time to develop proper Technobots.

[Wolfman Jake]

So is this officially UW-05? or will another combiner be released in Japan before this one?

It's hard to tell. Takara is almost certainly doing Bruticus at some point, as Yuki has teased on his twitter account, but I don't think there has been an official silhouette of Bruticus released yet. The silhouettes seem to closely precede the official announcements of each respective combiner so far, and in the order of announcement

[Rated X]

I cant believe Takara wants to release their versions of these stupid Hasbro repaints, but not of cool repaints/retools like Generations Jihauxus or Nightbeat.

[Hellscream9999]

I cant believe Takara wants to release their versions of these stupid Hasbro repaints, but not of cool repaints/retools like Generations Jihauxus or Nightbeat.

Maybe it has to do with popularity in their pop culture. Combiners have always been huge in Japan, so I can only imagine that superlink was really popular, so making a reference with this makes sense.

[Gunmetal]

Also, as far as I know, neither Nightbeat nor Jihauxus appear in Japanese fiction (as opposed to Black Shadow, who IS getting released.

[william-james88]

Also, as far as I know, neither Nightbeat nor Jihauxus appear in Japanese fiction (as opposed to Black Shadow, who IS getting released.

Welcome to Seibertron!!!!!!!!!!!

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Also, as far as I know, neither Nightbeat nor Jhiaxus appear in Japanese fiction (as opposed to Black Shadow, who IS getting released.

Welcome to Seibertron!!!!!!!!!!!

Quite the first post. jumped right in he did!

I like the fact that Takara is possibly doing a reference to superlink optimus. That is a pretty cool thing to do with it

[fenrir72]

Also, as far as I know, neither Nightbeat nor Jihauxus appear in Japanese fiction (as opposed to Black Shadow, who IS getting released.

But that won't stop them knowing TT

[fenrir72]

I cant believe Takara wants to release their versions of these stupid Hasbro repaints, but not of cool repaints/retools like Generations Jihauxus or Nightbeat.

Isn't Nightbeat just a lazy repaint? Seriously? Maybe expect them in the TAV line.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

I cant believe Takara wants to release their versions of these stupid Hasbro repaints, but not of cool repaints/retools like Generations Jihauxus or Nightbeat.

Isn't Nightbeat just a lazy repaint? Seriously? Maybe expect them in the TAV line.

there is a point. Nightbeat had a new head and paint job and that was it. i love the figure but it wasn't a big retool.

[Hellscream9999]

I cant believe Takara wants to release their versions of these stupid Hasbro repaints, but not of cool repaints/retools like Generations Jihauxus or Nightbeat.

Isn't Nightbeat just a lazy repaint? Seriously? Maybe expect them in the TAV line.

there is a point. Nightbeat had a new head and paint job and that was it. i love the figure but it wasn't a big retool.

No, X is saying TT should be ashamed of releasing these lazy remolds that serve a purpose, when they should be releasing lazy remolds that don't

[fenrir72]

I cant believe Takara wants to release their versions of these stupid Hasbro repaints, but not of cool repaints/retools like Generations Jihauxus or Nightbeat.

Isn't Nightbeat just a lazy repaint? Seriously? Maybe expect them in the TAV line.

there is a point. Nightbeat had a new head and paint job and that was it. i love the figure but it wasn't a big retool.

No, X is saying TT should be ashamed of releasing these lazy remolds that serve a purpose, when they should be releasing lazy remolds that don't

Naaaah. he "sees the world through smudge covered windshields......"* Transformers reference to the hard core.