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Takara Tomy has updated with new official images of Transformers Prime Arms Micron AM-17 Swerve and AM-18 Airachnid with their respective Arms Microns. Images mirrored below.

Thank Goodness Swerve is terrible and his Micron is poorly designed.



Wait, what's that? Swerve is awesome and so is his Micron? Darn. There goes my money.

And can I just buy those gold stickers on Airachnid's knees? Like, I don't want any of that except the stickers.

Airachind looks good and Swerve is very intimidating looking.

Not feeling the love for Swerve. His head keeps reminding me of DOTM Leadfoot. Not crazy about his arms micron either; always preferred the 'Con ones with their animal forms than the humanoid Autobot microns. IMO, animal microns can still look decent even with the limited articulation of these basic model kits, but the humanoid ones look too stiff.

As for Airachnid, not even an arms micron and stickers can save this mold. That said, I do like her arms micron. Not putting down any cash on the main figure just to get the micron, though. These Takara versions aren't exactly cheap.

Someone wake me up when Breakdown's Silas version pops up.

I may be giving Swerve's Arms Micron to Knockout .

Airachnid definitely looks better through the power of stickers. I'm still hoping for a new mold though.

Swerve! Y U SO SUCK?!

He's an unfortunate redeco/remold. That mold will ALWAYS belong to Breakdown. You can tell it's Breakdown with a new head, whereas some redos have pwned the mold. Not so with this poor guy.

It's a shame, really, because the mold itself is awesome, just not in those colors and his Micron KICKS ASS.

All of it. Not just a little bit of it, but every danged inch of it.

Airachnid...eh...Hasbro did a better job, and her Micron is just unwieldy...

Still not a fan of the Airachnid mold but just those four little stickers help a lot especially on her face and i like the spider micron .

Swerve again another repaint that i just don't get but his micron is cool looking also more like the g1 target masters.

am i the only one who thinks his micron looks like the auto axe from fallout 3 the Pitt?
i think both look terrible.

Swerve looks just as I expected him to, so no really issues there.

Not even TakaraTomy can save the Airachnid mold.

Swerve.

He's like the granny-undies of the TF universe.

Hold the phone...does the Airachnid mold have 2 new 5mm ports on either side just under the rotor fixture? If you got the Arms Micron version and a Hasbro version, you could actually make a passable spider mode using both sets of rotors placed in those ports...

Sabrblade wrote:Swerve looks just as I expected him to, so no really issues there.

Not even TakaraTomy can save the Airachnid mold.

They tried though. It already LOOKS better than the Hasbro version, and the micron is nice...but I feel like they should have spent their budget re-engineering her hands. =_=;

Swerve's head is kind of interesting in a cool way, but there's just no ignoring the fact that it's on Breakdown's body. Both Microns I like, but Takara's Airachnid is no improvement over the RiD version. Will probably skip both.

It would be nice if they would take a break from the Prime stuff and show us how Takara plans to repaint the FOC Generations molds. Right now bruticus is hot, and people deserve to know what Takara has coming before wasting money on one of the other 3 versions that are available. It would also be nice to find out if the Shockwave I pre-ordered is going to be different from the newly released Hasbro version.

Rated X wrote:It would be nice if they would take a break from the Prime stuff and show us how Takara plans to repaint the FOC Generations molds. Right now bruticus is hot, and people deserve to know what Takara has coming before wasting money on one of the other 3 versions that are available. It would also be nice to find out if the Shockwave I pre-ordered is going to be different from the newly released Hasbro version.

That's IF Takara does decide to release the FOC generations figures, as they didn't get the WFC video game in Japan and likely aren't getting FOC either. Shockwave is the only 2012 Generations figure they've announced a release of and it's gonna be a Prime toy for them. Their United toyline is only just now getting the PCC molds, so they're pretty behind in their releasing Generations Hasbro molds. Prime must be doing well in Japan if that seems to be their biggest focus right now.

Hm.

No, and no. More for you guys!

Ugh, the stickers make the Takara Airachnid look better. Here's hoping Reprolabels puts out a similar sticker sheet so I don't have to fold for the Takara version -.-

Swerve looks decent, but I won't be buying him. I don't want everyone in my TFP collection to have a repaint of one-another in some form. -.-

Sabrblade wrote:

Rated X wrote:It would be nice if they would take a break from the Prime stuff and show us how Takara plans to repaint the FOC Generations molds. Right now bruticus is hot, and people deserve to know what Takara has coming before wasting money on one of the other 3 versions that are available. It would also be nice to find out if the Shockwave I pre-ordered is going to be different from the newly released Hasbro version.

That's IF Takara does decide to release the FOC generations figures, as they didn't get the WFC video game in Japan and likely aren't getting FOC either. Shockwave is the only 2012 Generations figure they've announced a release of and it's gonna be a Prime toy for them. Their United toyline is only just now getting the PCC molds, so they're pretty behind in their releasing Generations Hasbro molds. Prime must be doing well in Japan if that seems to be their biggest focus right now.

Yep, they didn't get the WfC game, but they still did the figures (and plenty of repaints of them as well) so I expect FoC to be no different.

Taking a closer look at the Microns, we now have another completed Super Combo Weapon, and a new Crystal color to deal with. But I can't find their names...

Sabrblade wrote:

Rated X wrote:It would be nice if they would take a break from the Prime stuff and show us how Takara plans to repaint the FOC Generations molds. Right now bruticus is hot, and people deserve to know what Takara has coming before wasting money on one of the other 3 versions that are available. It would also be nice to find out if the Shockwave I pre-ordered is going to be different from the newly released Hasbro version.

That's IF Takara does decide to release the FOC generations figures, as they didn't get the WFC video game in Japan and likely aren't getting FOC either. Shockwave is the only 2012 Generations figure they've announced a release of and it's gonna be a Prime toy for them. Their United toyline is only just now getting the PCC molds, so they're pretty behind in their releasing Generations Hasbro molds. Prime must be doing well in Japan if that seems to be their biggest focus right now.

They got all the WFC figures in the united line. I believe FOC Prime and Jazz were also getting a Takara release when I pre-ordered Shockwave. Im banking on them releasing the molds, because for the Japanese it's all about collecting figures, not playing video games.

I'm liking Swerve thus far, though it doesn't hurt that the Breakdown mold is my favorite mainline Transformer in a very long time. I'll probably buy it as many times as Takara Tomy will reprint it. How about a black and white version with police logos for a Prime-a-verse take on Movieverse Barricade?