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[El Duque]

It's that time of the month again, the time when images from the latest issue of the various Japanese hobby magazines start popping up. Below we have images of the following Takara Tomy figuers:

Transformers Go!

• Swordbot Samurai Team in their combined forms: GoKenzan, GoJinbu, GoGanoh
• Swordbot Sinobi Team member G05 Gekisomaru
• Predacon G07 Bakudora - Great shot of the new head mold
• G06 Smokescreen
• Campaign GoKezan kabuto

Transformers Masterpiece

• MP-19 Smokescreen

Transformers Generations

• TG-25 Orion Pax vs. Megatronus

[PrymeStriker]

It's official: Transformers Go! Deluxe Smokescreen is ten times better than the Hasbro version. It would seem as though Beast Hunters Smokey has merely become a placeholder on my shelf.

[Doubledealer93]

that ripclaw repaint is awesome.

[Slashercon]

'Go Smokescreen looks miles better in vehicle mode compared to the Hasbro beast hunters version. Checkered doors FTW.

[Mindmaster]

That Ripclaw redeco... definitely getting a Deathsaurus vibe off it. The deco says it, and the head looks very similar to how Deathsaurus's head is.

[Superwheeljack]

That smokescreen looks decent. Not as good as hasbros though.

[Mindmaster]

That smokescreen looks decent. Not as good as hasbros though.

No, Takara's is better. They got the deco right, whereas Hasbro did the door wing decos and the head (and a few others that haven't come to the top of my head) differently.

[Superwheeljack]

That Ripclaw redeco... definitely getting a Deathsaurus vibe off it. The deco says it, and the head looks very similar to how Deathsaurus's head is.

Not really
http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/3/37/Deathsaurus1.jpg
Missing the beak and the alt isn't as gray as it should be

[Superwheeljack]

That smokescreen looks decent. Not as good as hasbros though.

No, Takara's is better. They got the deco right, whereas Hasbro did the door wing decos and the head (and a few others that haven't come to the top of my head) differently.

I prefer hasbros more. I don't care about if it's show accurate or not. It looks much better.

[grimdragon2001]

show accuaracy aside, Takara's Smokescreen looks pretty dull. they didn't even bother to paint in the chest headlights

[PrymeStriker]

show accuaracy aside, Takara's Smokescreen looks pretty dull. they didn't even bother to paint in the chest headlights

Checkered doors are dull but a red stripe is not? Explain that to me.

[grimdragon2001]

ill give it credit, the checkered door is a good touch and the vehicle mode looks good. the robot mode just dosn't do it for me. Hasbro's release may need a couple more touches to perfect it, but it's robot mode pops more to me.

[Sabrblade]

Those look like the best pics we've gotten of Gekisomaru we've seen thus far.

Aside from the checkered doors, Hunter Smokescreen looks like he has even less paint than Hasbro's Smokescreen. Why is it so impossible for this character to have any toys that are decently-painted?!

Judging from that new head, Bakudora looks to be a male instead of a female.

Really HATE how Takara is treating the obviously IDW Orion Pax and Megatron toys as something that they're obviously not.

That Ripclaw redeco... definitely getting a Deathsaurus vibe off it. The deco says it, and the head looks very similar to how Deathsaurus's head is.

Not really
http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/3/37/Deathsaurus1.jpg
Missing the beak and the alt isn't as gray as it should be

It's more of the BotCon 2005 Deathsaurus than the original:

[Mindmaster]

Really HATE how Takara is treating the obviously IDW Orion Pax and Megatron toys as something that they're obviously not.

Yeah, I'm not too big on it, either.

That Ripclaw redeco... definitely getting a Deathsaurus vibe off it. The deco says it, and the head looks very similar to how Deathsaurus's head is.

Not really
http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/3/37/Deathsaurus1.jpg
Missing the beak and the alt isn't as gray as it should be

It's more of the BotCon 2005 Deathsaurus than the original:

Yep, that about confirms it. Should they come up with a Thrilling 30 Star Saber toy (since we did see an IDW Star Saber design a month or two back, and this year's Classics theme is "IDW designs"), I might have to bite the bullet, import, and use this as a stand-in Classics Deathsaurus to go against said toy.

[craggy]

Deathsauras or no, that Ripclaw looks amazing. Transmetal 2 Megatron lives again in the best paintjob I've seen so far for the Grimwing mold. Getting a bit of a Quickstrike and Blackarchnia vibe off the Laserback and ... Other One too.

[Mindmaster]

Transmetal 2 Megatron lives again in the best paintjob I've seen so far for the Grimwing mold. Getting a bit of a Quickstrike and Blackarchnia vibe off the Laserback and ... Other One too.

I haven't seen much of any of those, other than very blurry images. Anyone mind bringing in images?

[PrymeStriker]

Aside from the checkered doors, Hunter Smokescreen looks like he has even less paint than Hasbro's Smokescreen. Why is it so impossible for this character to have any toys that are decently-painted?!

There's a difference between less paint when there's enough paint and less paint when there's too much. BH Smokescreen looks like a box of crayons with a head. Red, Yellow, and Blue when his color scheme only requires red and blue. Takara's Smokescreen has blue eyes, a sliver face, a red headcrest, an Autobot insignia, red shoulder stripes, checkered doors, utterly clear headlights in vehicle mode, blue stripes on the door, blue paint on the legs, and accurate knees; everything the Hasbro version lacks. It's clear which one is painted decently and which one was colored by a 7-year-old at a sit-in restaurant; the paint dial-back is for the better here.

[Manterax Prime]

I have to agree that Hasbro's Smokescreen looks better.

[Sabrblade]

Deathsauras or no, that Ripclaw looks amazing. Transmetal 2 Megatron lives again in the best paintjob I've seen so far for the Grimwing mold.

Wait till you see "Dragotron Final Form".

I haven't seen much of any of those, other than very blurry images. Anyone mind bringing in images?

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/mcdonalds-japan-dvd-screenshots-includes-transformers-go-predacons-and-black-abominus/27647/

There's a difference between less paint when there's enough paint and less paint when there's too much. BH Smokescreen looks like a box of crayons with a head. Red, Yellow, and Blue when his color scheme only requires red and blue. Takara's Smokescreen has blue eyes, a sliver face, a red headcrest, an Autobot insignia, red shoulder stripes, checkered doors, utterly clear headlights in vehicle mode, blue stripes on the door, blue paint on the legs, and accurate knees; everything the Hasbro version lacks. It's clear which one is painted decently and which one was colored by a 7-year-old at a sit-in restaurant; the paint dial-back is for the better here.

Yet, with Takara's reputation of doing typically gorgeous decos, this one falls flat by using stale color hues with dull, faded tinting. Both Hasbro and Takara especially fail to realize that Smokescreen is silver, not bone white.

I wasn't expecting something exact, but was at least hoping for something close enough to, well, this (but with checkered doors).

[craggy]

Deathsauras or no, that Ripclaw looks amazing. Transmetal 2 Megatron lives again in the best paintjob I've seen so far for the Grimwing mold.

Wait till you see "Dragotron Final Form".

a google image search for the term brings up a lot of Transformers pics. Many of them not dragons at all. Care to enlighten those of us who're not aware of every facet of your mind?

[Sabrblade]

Deathsauras or no, that Ripclaw looks amazing. Transmetal 2 Megatron lives again in the best paintjob I've seen so far for the Grimwing mold.

Wait till you see "Dragotron Final Form".

a google image search for the term brings up a lot of Transformers pics. Many of them not dragons at all. Care to enlighten those of us who're not aware of every facet of your mind?

[craggy]

oh, Redaking. I seen him before. Don't like him as much as Grimatron.

[PrymeStriker]

Yet, with Takara's reputation of doing typically gorgeous decos, this one falls flat by using stale color hues with dull, faded tinting. Both Hasbro and Takara especially fail to realize that Smokescreen is silver, not bone white.

Smokescreen seemed like a metallic white from episode 43(?)-56 for me, therefore do not care if he's a dull white. Regardless, I find Takara's paint job much better than Hasbro's bull. At least this time I don't have to paint anything on him because of his gross lack of show accuracy (aside from th crotchplate, which can be easily fixed with a silver sharpie)

[Manterax Prime]

Yet, with Takara's reputation of doing typically gorgeous decos, this one falls flat by using stale color hues with dull, faded tinting. Both Hasbro and Takara especially fail to realize that Smokescreen is silver, not bone white.

Smokescreen seemed like a metallic white from episode 43(?)-56 for me, therefore do not care if he's a dull white. Regardless, I find Takara's paint job much better than Hasbro's bull. At least this time I don't have to paint anything on him because of his gross lack of show accuracy (aside from th crotchplate, which can be easily fixed with a silver sharpie)

Show accuracy be damned.

[PrymeStriker]

Yet, with Takara's reputation of doing typically gorgeous decos, this one falls flat by using stale color hues with dull, faded tinting. Both Hasbro and Takara especially fail to realize that Smokescreen is silver, not bone white.

Smokescreen seemed like a metallic white from episode 43(?)-56 for me, therefore do not care if he's a dull white. Regardless, I find Takara's paint job much better than Hasbro's bull. At least this time I don't have to paint anything on him because of his gross lack of show accuracy (aside from th crotchplate, which can be easily fixed with a silver sharpie)

Show accuracy be damned.

Yes, let us "damn" show accuracy for a moment. Even then, Takara's is superior to me. Hasbro's colors were all over the place, like they didn't know where to put the colors so they picked a random part. Not to mention the fact that Smokecreen's face is the exact same color as the rest of his body while the faces of Prime designs are traditionally a different color. Also, Takara actually bothered to paint the rims, and the obvious decal change that I needn't repeat another time. Then, of course, there's the headlights.......you'd think a slick sports car wouldn't have dirty yellow headlights.

Takara's paint job for Smokescreen may not be "shiny," but it's ten times more appealing than Hasbro's Smokescreen and his lack of important details.