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Thanks to Japanese site seesaa blog, we get to see the Takara ROTF Swerve, exclusive to Amazon JP in Japan.
From images, seems like the Takara Swerve comes with brighter red, compare to its Hasbro counterpart.


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To view all images, click here: http://otakuhaiyuu.seesaa.net/article/125004589.html

I love those stands.

Otherwise, this is a big fat meh over US Swerve.

Can't really tell that it's a brighter red from these pictures , but I love those stands as well.

Where do people keep getting those nice posing stands?

Sabrblade wrote:Where do people keep getting those nice posing stands?

www.posingstandemporium.com? and if not,...I'd better get on buying that domain and making a posing stand emporium website that sells posing stands

but yea, dude shoulda been red in the movie cause it's way better than silver.

I love that stand but the figure sucks. I just can't get past that funky melon he's got. And vaporretarder the domain posingstandemporium.com is available and I can help you design the site if you know where to get these jewels of stands they keep coming up with. My fee 16 stands(4 deluxe, 8 voyager, 2 leader & 2 masterpeice sized). What do ya say?

vaporretarder wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Where do people keep getting those nice posing stands?

http://www.posingstandemporium.com? and if not,...I'd better get on buying that domain and making a posing stand emporium website that sells posing stands

but yea, dude shoulda been red in the movie cause it's way better than silver.

I agree on the red, but I sure like Sideswipe's head mold better than Swerve's.

shonenfan4 wrote:Can't really tell that it's a brighter red from these pictures

Agreed - I'm loathe to order this just on the off-chance that it might be different. I'd love to see some comparison pics.

Weren't there also reports that the Takara Voyager Megatron and Leader Jetfire were slightly different shades to their US counterparts? Again, comparison pics are a must.

Now if any mold would benefit from stand assistance for posing, it's Sideswipe/Swerve. Though, I have posed my brother's Sideswipe in dynamic action poses that were more stable than other traditional flat-footed TF figures.

Very nice. I'm really glad I found the Hasbro version of Swerve, this is one of my favorite molds.

I'm always so confused when people don't like molds that I really love

swerve kinda reminds me of:
http://www.shopncsx.com/images/products ... ppa_wx.jpg

I still say he was originally going to be passed off as a G1 colored Sideswipe but for some reason they named him swerve. Who really looked at this figure and thought Swerve?

Megatron Wolf wrote:I still say he was originally going to be passed off as a G1 colored Sideswipe but for some reason they named him swerve. Who really looked at this figure and thought Swerve?

One could make the case that he resembles or is an homage to Universe Swerve, but certainly not G1 Swerve.

The plastic looks so cheap.

Megatron Wolf wrote:I still say he was originally going to be passed off as a G1 colored Sideswipe but for some reason they named him swerve. Who really looked at this figure and thought Swerve?

Same guy who named this one:


Apparently, red car = Swerve.

The US version looks cooler.

Dead Metal wrote:The US version looks cooler.

Cheaper too, at least in the US.

Lighting aside, looks the same to me.

Agreed...I don't see much of a difference.

I don't know. I'd say this Corvette Stingray looks closer to a G1 era Trans-Am than a G1 era Lamborghini.

As for the color, I too want to see some comparison pics between the two versions of Swerve.

Anyhoo...

You know what? I'm starting to like this figure.

Elvaan wrote:You know what? I'm starting to like this figure.

same here, so i went out and bought the hasbro swerve today

Counterpunch wrote:

Megatron Wolf wrote:I still say he was originally going to be passed off as a G1 colored Sideswipe but for some reason they named him swerve. Who really looked at this figure and thought Swerve?

Same guy who named this one:


Apparently, red car = Swerve.

The Alternators version has a true homage to G1 Swerve's head. Still surprised that we got him and even more surprised at how valuable that figure is.

At least they're both red corvettes. That's a nice touch. And he's still a metallurgist.

^ that alternators swerve is amazing, yet he still escapes my grasp....

tom brokaw wrote:^ that alternators swerve is amazing, yet he still escapes my grasp....

That alternator swerve does look pretty sweet. I also have yet to obtain Hot Rodimus and GT-R Prime as well.