The Energon Pub

[Randomhero]

I must be the only one who likes the Hasbro version more

More or less, yeah. May I ask your reasoning?

Totally not true. There's a lot of people that like it. I love the hasbro one it looks great

[Sigma Magnus]

I must be the only one who likes the Hasbro version more

More or less, yeah. May I ask your reasoning?

Totally not true. There's a lot of people that like it. I love the hasbro one it looks great

Well, yeah. I never said I hated the Hasbro one, in fact there are probably few people who do. But the Takara version is just so much better, at least in my opinion...

[Randomhero]

I think hasbro did a fine job in theirs. They got the grove mold for afterburner, they didn't just make a new character. They retooled airraid for strafe and it looks good. They're using a far superior mold for lightspeed in my opinion, the drill for nosecone looks good and the new deco on scattershot is nice. With the new hands and feet it's a very well done representation for Computron.

Dial back a month ago when that photo of him was leaked and everyone was going crazy for it.

[Sigma Magnus]

I think hasbro did a fine job in theirs. They got the grove mold for afterburner, they didn't just make a new character. They retooled airraid for strafe and it looks good. They're using a far superior mold for lightspeed in my opinion, the drill for nosecone looks good and the new deco on scattershot is nice. With the new hands and feet it's a very well done representation for Computron.

Dial back a month ago when that photo of him was leaked and everyone was going crazy for it.

Fair enough...

[william-james88]

They retooled airraid for strafe and it looks good.

We only know what it looks like as an arm, and not even completely. I would wait till we see these individually to judge.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

After reading a lot and seeing all the warnings about hasbro Lightspeed, My decision will have to wait. If Lightspeed is as bad as Wills says, I will have to go Takara, though I do really want Scrounge and those hands and feet, but I don't want bad individuals. I can swallow one bad mold (Nosecone) but I can't take a second if Lightspeed is bad.

[Randomhero]

They retooled airraid for strafe and it looks good.

We only know what it looks like as an arm, and not even completely. I would wait till we see these individually to judge.

To be fair we only know what blast off and TT strafe look like by pictures. Remember how brawl looked in pictures and then reviews were coming out and people were getting him and complaining about his waist. My brawl is just fine. He waist clicks and I have no issues but that's not everyone's case. For all we know the blastoff mold could be pure crap.

[william-james88]

They retooled airraid for strafe and it looks good.

We only know what it looks like as an arm, and not even completely. I would wait till we see these individually to judge.

To be fair we only know what blast off and TT strafe look like by pictures. Remember how brawl looked in pictures and then reviews were coming out and people were getting him and complaining about his waist. My brawl is just fine. He waist clicks and I have no issues but that's not everyone's case. For all we know the blastoff mold could be pure crap.

Thats true 100% So all the power to those who still want the Hasbro version when there is a non brawl mold computron out there

After reading a lot and seeing all the warnings about hasbro Lightspeed, My decision will have to wait. If Lightspeed is as bad as Wills says, I will have to go Takara, though I do really want Scrounge and those hands and feet, but I don't want bad individuals. I can swallow one bad mold (Nosecone) but I can't take a second if Lightspeed is bad.

Now wait a sec, the following are the facts letting me to believe that Hasbro's lightspeed isnt great:

-Those who say it say that it is a straight redeco of streetwise,head and lightbar and all
-Apparently the lightbar is put in evidence (red on white or white on red, I forget, but the point is that its not hidden and very obvious).

But thats it. I actually preffer the feel of that mold over Breakdown. But I will of course favour a toy with a new headsculpt and that doesnt have a freaken police light bar at the top. My ideal would have been the dead end car mold with the takara lightspeed headsculpt.

I personally feel that Hasbro's will have some inferior molds but it wont be Lighspeed as much as it will be Strafe. Just a feelig I have, we will see the truth this week-end.

[King Kuuga]

After reading a lot and seeing all the warnings about hasbro Lightspeed, My decision will have to wait. If Lightspeed is as bad as Wills says, I will have to go Takara, though I do really want Scrounge and those hands and feet, but I don't want bad individuals. I can swallow one bad mold (Nosecone) but I can't take a second if Lightspeed is bad.

What warnings? It uses the Streetwise mold instead of the Dead End mold, but that's not inherently bad.


I'm glad I put in my preorder for UW Computron, though. This thing looks fantastic.

[Randomhero]

After reading a lot and seeing all the warnings about hasbro Lightspeed, My decision will have to wait. If Lightspeed is as bad as Wills says, I will have to go Takara, though I do really want Scrounge and those hands and feet, but I don't want bad individuals. I can swallow one bad mold (Nosecone) but I can't take a second if Lightspeed is bad.

What do you mean by their Lighspeed. I guess I missed Wills issues with it. It's the deadend mold and that thing is amazing. Even if they use the Streetwise version be down to the head I don't see the problem. His head can pass for Lighspeed.

It's entirely possible they're going to use the takaras heads for some of Hasbros technobots. We're getting the exact same afterburner as Takaras and they are just ball joint heads that have the same ball size so it's entirely possible some are getting the same head except nosecone since I think the brawls head is a swivel but I imagine we'll find out this weekend.

[Randomhero]

Never mind will just chimed in! Lol

[alex1986lunatic]

I must be the only one who likes the Hasbro version more

More or less, yeah. May I ask your reasoning?

I prefer the Hasbro torso more because of the blue. I find the Takara one a bit boring. Dead-end mold vs Breakdown mold for Lightspeed. Great new hands and feet vs meh HFGs. That huge drill dangling off Takara's Nosecone is awful. Afterburner is pretty much the same. I guess we still have to see photos of Hasbro's Strafe but he looks great in combined form, on par with Takara's. Both combiners have a new head -both equally good. Not to mention we get a sixth member with hasbro's version. The only thing I prefer in Takara's computron is the combined gun.

[william-james88]

Never mind will just chimed in! Lol

Yeah I dont remember giving warnings of lightspeed. In the takara UW set, thats actually the toy I like the least.

[Randomhero]

Never mind will just chimed in! Lol

Yeah I dont remember giving warnings of lightspeed. In the takara UW set, thats actually the toy I like the least.

It's f&$@ing atrocious. It's the one mold I literally gave a sigh out loud to.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Yep, Will is worrying me. I am just hoping Botcon shows me a good Computron.

[william-james88]

Yep, Will is worrying me. I am just hoping Botcon shows me a good Computron.

now you see the world though my eyes

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Yep, Will is worrying me. I am just hoping Botcon shows me a good Computron.

now you see the world though my eyes

And I'm pretty sure I'm better off blind now

[Crosscheck]

I don't mind the Breakdown mold, and if I don't have to have a fifth use of the Dead End mold, great. The only issues I have with the Takara set is that it is composed of two characters I already have three of, and two I have none of. The Hasbro version is one I have four of, one I have two of, one I have one of, and one I have none of. So it is fairly even. But Takara went ahead and made the combiner mode so visually different, that it is hard to justify the Hasbro one to me. Scrounge is nice, but not worth the sameness of the Hasbro. And I don't care for the new feet since none of my other combiners have them and I hate parts that don't integrate with the vehicle mode.

[SureShot18]

I know it wouldn't fit Takara's whole idea for the set but if it had the blue Hasbro paint apps for torso mode and if afterburner was orange Computron would be perfect.

[Robogeek1973]

Those colors on UW Computron turned out much better than I dared to hope for.

[steals_your_goats]

I'm really glad the colors turned out to be this good. Got my pre-order in for $120 shipped can't wait for him to come in.

[grimdragon2001]

its kinda nice that two different designers get to make their own take on Computron and get results this different from eachother

[william-james88]

I'm really glad the colors turned out to be this good. Got my pre-order in for $120 shipped can't wait for him to come in.

Nice, care to say from where and what shipping option you picked?

[steals_your_goats]

I'm really glad the colors turned out to be this good. Got my pre-order in for $120 shipped can't wait for him to come in.

Nice, care to say from where and what shipping option you picked?

There's a site I've been using for a little while called woozymoo.com . dumb name but pretty reasonable prices, they're American based and had the set for $135 and I had a 10% coupon and anything over $100 is free shipping.

[Sowndwave76]

I'm really happy with the UW colors...
I have a feeling Afterburner's color will slightly lighter than what it appears in that photo--
at first glance it's almost identical to Lightyear.
I wish it were a little more orange and less red-orange, but it does match the animated colors that people have posted.
And no, I don't like the hands and feet, but the PE set is already on preorder.

I personally think this is so far beyond Hasbro's;
The new head and chest of the UW version alone make a huge difference.
Hasbro's barely modified Brawl as Nosecone-- for me this is a true definition of a re-used mold screaming "LAZY". I've read that phrase many times on the forums, but this is the first time I personally really felt that could legitimately be applied.
I understand people wanting some of the G1 figures' original colors being broken-up a bit.
But when the "break-up" colors are relatively random, I really don't view that as any better.
For me, it's quite a bit worse. Like the awful raspberry color of Hasbro's Drag Strip.
An example of this here is the dark pink on the chest and faceplate. And gun.
Also, Hasbro Comp's torso has dark pink, a darker red, a somewhat normal red, and a little white and light blue. Yeah, definitely "broken-up".
If you're cool with that, cool.
I give Takara even more credit because as someone already mentioned, the silver-ish paint apps on the chest do break-up the red, and imo, is a really really nice touch.

I think I'm more excited for UW Computron than I am for UW Bruticus... Which is a very unexpected surprise.
And I'll be returning my Hasbro Scattershot to Target and cancelling my PE Head/Chest set.
No need for those now!