New Combiner Wars Possible Liokaiser Images Leaked
Friday, January 8th, 2016 8:28AM CST
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UPDATE: Thanks to Hobby Drifter on Twitter, we also have some additional combiner artwork - check it out mirrored below!
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Posted by steals_your_goats on January 8th, 2016 @ 8:38am CST
Posted by Roadbuster on January 8th, 2016 @ 8:42am CST
steals_your_goats wrote:I think this is either an early production image of Computron where they just slapped a drill on brawl, or the first look at the rumored Liokaiser. The rumors about Computron said that he'd get new hand and foot pieces but nothing was said regarding Liokaisers extremities. I'm leaning more towards Liokaiser though, mostly because I want to believe it's really happening.
Agreed on the figure. it's most likely just the Brawl figure with an uncolored drill piece instead of the cannon pipe. The Autobot logo will most likely replace the Decepticon one in the actual release. I do have to wonder what is in store for Afterburner since Hasbro has not used Takara's Groove mold and doing so is likely to ruffle the feathers of the fandom.
Posted by steals_your_goats on January 8th, 2016 @ 8:45am CST
Roadbuster wrote:steals_your_goats wrote:I think this is either an early production image of Computron where they just slapped a drill on brawl, or the first look at the rumored Liokaiser. The rumors about Computron said that he'd get new hand and foot pieces but nothing was said regarding Liokaisers extremities. I'm leaning more towards Liokaiser though, mostly because I want to believe it's really happening.
Agreed on the figure. it's most likely just the Brawl figure with an uncolored drill piece instead of the cannon pipe. The Autobot logo will most likely replace the Decepticon one in the actual release. I do have to wonder what is in store for Afterburner since Hasbro has not used Takara's Groove mold and doing so is likely to ruffle the feathers of the fandom.
Word on the street is they're using Takara's groove for afterburner and they'll also be using it in the eventual g2 Defensor set. But I personally believe that they'll release the standard groove mold as an online exclusive ala slingshot and wildrider.
Posted by Shuttershock on January 8th, 2016 @ 8:50am CST
Posted by Noideaforaname on January 8th, 2016 @ 8:56am CST
Posted by william-james88 on January 8th, 2016 @ 8:58am CST
Roadbuster wrote:
Agreed on the figure. it's most likely just the Brawl figure with an uncolored drill piece instead of the cannon pipe. The Autobot logo will most likely replace the Decepticon one in the actual release. I do have to wonder what is in store for Afterburner since Hasbro has not used Takara's Groove mold and doing so is likely to ruffle the feathers of the fandom.
Why would it ruffle feathers, I thought people would be happy to finally get that mold and it would give people a (more) proper computron.
steals_your_goats wrote:
Word on the street is they're using Takara's groove for afterburner and they'll also be using it in the eventual g2 Defensor set. But I personally believe that they'll release the standard groove mold as an online exclusive ala slingshot and wildrider.
I never bought rook due to my heardheadedness that it would happen one day, and i still hope it does.
Shuttershock wrote:This lends credence to Computron being a boxed set, given the dedicated foot seen here.
From experience, the computer listing is pretty much a confirmation for me, so I was already certain Computron was happening then and I am now wondering when we will get him and what it looks like, rather than still wondering if it will happen.
Noideaforaname wrote:That sure is a useless drill.
I've been sad about it ever since it showed up on Ramhorn.
Posted by no-one on January 8th, 2016 @ 9:00am CST
Someone may find a use for it.Noideaforaname wrote:That sure is a useless drill.
Posted by steals_your_goats on January 8th, 2016 @ 9:02am CST
william-james88 wrote:steals_your_goats wrote:
Word on the street is they're using Takara's groove for afterburner and they'll also be using it in the eventual g2 Defensor set. But I personally believe that they'll release the standard groove mold as an online exclusive ala slingshot and wildrider.
I never bought rook due to my heardheadedness that it would happen one day, and i still hope it does.
But rook is awesome man! Even if you don't use him for Defensor I still think he's worth picking up.
My Defensor is peg legging it right now to give Galvatronus a full team so I'm with you though in the hope of a groove release.
Posted by Autobot N on January 8th, 2016 @ 9:04am CST
Posted by jamesbenjamin on January 8th, 2016 @ 9:05am CST
prjkt wrote:jamesbenjamin wrote:You know, saying "G2 Superion was found at North American retail" is just going to confuse people and send people living in the US that don't know better out to waste gas and bug their local TRU employees. We know that Canadian and US TRUs have different warehouses and sometimes even don't stock the same stuff, so you should really put "Canadian retail" instead of "North American" retail in the news story. I've also seen stuff turn up in Mexico and you don't call those news stories "North American retail."
Mexico is Central America....
I'm looking forward to this release, had ummed and ahhed for a while, but decided to get this and Menasor for my NeoG2 collection.
WTF? No, Mexico is part of North America. Always has been:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America
Posted by william-james88 on January 8th, 2016 @ 9:20am CST
Decepticon Sunstorm wrote:It can't be Liokaiser, as you can tell that the upper leg is an arm of the Silverbolt mold, and the rumored Liokaiser is supposed to have Sky Lynx retooled into Deathsaurus as the torso. As such, the most likely explaination is that this is a picture with the new pieces put on old figures just to see how they look or something.
Care to eat some crow
Posted by Insurgent on January 8th, 2016 @ 9:28am CST
My brain! My lovely beautiful brain!!! But is it a proper 6 man team, or will they exclude Jaruga in favour of making Leozak a voyager torso?
Yeah, I thought it was Silverbolt as well, but look closely at the connection port. There is a hook claw thing on a hinge at either side of the cconnection port. That's not on Silverbolt.
Posted by Autobot N on January 8th, 2016 @ 9:28am CST
william-james88 wrote:Decepticon Sunstorm wrote:It can't be Liokaiser, as you can tell that the upper leg is an arm of the Silverbolt mold, and the rumored Liokaiser is supposed to have Sky Lynx retooled into Deathsaurus as the torso. As such, the most likely explaination is that this is a picture with the new pieces put on old figures just to see how they look or something.
Care to eat some crow
That image does look pretty cool. Regardless, I stand by my previous points. While I suppose that the TP people got the torso wrong, you can clearly see in the image that the Killbison (I think that's what his name is) leg has the stock hand/foot thing.
Posted by Starsaber468 on January 8th, 2016 @ 9:33am CST
Anyway looks like hasbro and takara WANT OUR MONEY!
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY ALREADY HASBRO OR TAKARA
Posted by ScottyP on January 8th, 2016 @ 9:39am CST
Posted by steals_your_goats on January 8th, 2016 @ 9:41am CST
Posted by william-james88 on January 8th, 2016 @ 9:42am CST
Insurgent wrote:
My brain! My lovely beautiful brain!!! But is it a proper 6 man team, or will they exclude Jaruga in favour of making Leozak a voyager torso?
Yeah, I thought it was Silverbolt as well, but look closely at the connection port. There is a hook claw thing on a hinge at either side of the cconnection port. That's not on Silverbolt.
In retrospect the images are not immediately related. They both feautre the same molds, but different torsos, which have just been revealed in another image:
Which means that Liokaiser will be a 5 man team plus a legends figure, with no combining Jagular and Leozak as a voyager torso.
All I have to say is this, in less than 24 hours, the amount of uses of the Brawl mold went from 2 to 5
Repaint wars cotinues!!!!!
Posted by steals_your_goats on January 8th, 2016 @ 9:45am CST
Posted by mtma on January 8th, 2016 @ 9:46am CST
I have no attachment to Liokaiser whatsoever and even then he looks AWESOME. It's always good to have more 'Con Combiners and add to their numbers. as for the B&W image, maybe it's really a very early pic of how Computron would look like, using Brawl as a placeholder. I can see enough remolding being done to the Silverbolt mold in order for the arm do look like that.
Posted by ZeroWolf on January 8th, 2016 @ 9:56am CST
So far those black and white photos just seem to be computron work in progress pics.
Posted by steals_your_goats on January 8th, 2016 @ 9:57am CST
ZeroWolf wrote:I am saddened and happy about liokaiser, happy because liokaiser us finally getting recognition from hasbro (this is hasbro isn't it? ) but saddened by the fact that leozack has been reduced to sky lynx redeco (yes, the sky reign head is cool but I'd be happier if they stuck that head on a silver bolt redeco) leozack is not a robotic shuttle dinosaur. ..though trypticon would look cool in that mould (or to be precise, the sky lynx mould would look cool in tryp colours)
So far those black and white photos just seem to be computron work in progress pics.
The Liokaiser torso is actually rumored to be Deathsaurus
Posted by Lunatic Prime on January 8th, 2016 @ 9:57am CST
Insurgent wrote:
My brain! My lovely beautiful brain!!! But is it a proper 6 man team, or will they exclude Jaruga in favour of making Leozak a voyager torso?
Yeah, I thought it was Silverbolt as well, but look closely at the connection port. There is a hook claw thing on a hinge at either side of the cconnection port. That's not on Silverbolt.
Hopefully that won't be a boxset and we will see if he gets a sixth member when wave 6 is released (Sky Reign + Reck-Gar or not?).
Posted by Cobotron on January 8th, 2016 @ 9:58am CST
Hey, I know little to nothing about Liokiaser. Other than he rocks a dope animal theme, is a non-scramble combiner, and a toy I would like to have. Is he a Decepticon (Destron)?
HEY HELLSCREAM! There's your awesome evil-esque repaint of Skylynx! Give the man a prize and a pre-order!
Posted by william-james88 on January 8th, 2016 @ 9:59am CST
ZeroWolf wrote: leozack is not a robotic shuttle dinosaur
But Deatsaurus is a Dragon and bigger than the individual members...
Posted by Lunatic Prime on January 8th, 2016 @ 10:00am CST
william-james88 wrote:ZeroWolf wrote: leozack is not a robotic shuttle dinosaur
But Deatsaurus is a Dragon and bigger than the individual members...
So the Sky Lynx mold fits very well but since when does Hasbro care about size or scale?
Posted by william-james88 on January 8th, 2016 @ 10:02am CST
Cobotron wrote: Is he a Decepticon (Destron)?
Yes. Hellscream should be happy about that.
Posted by Doctor McGrath on January 8th, 2016 @ 10:05am CST
Posted by ZeroWolf on January 8th, 2016 @ 10:05am CST
Posted by william-james88 on January 8th, 2016 @ 10:14am CST
Lunatic Prime wrote:william-james88 wrote:ZeroWolf wrote: leozack is not a robotic shuttle dinosaur
But Deatsaurus is a Dragon and bigger than the individual members...
So the Sky Lynx mold fits very well but since when does Hasbro care about size or scale?
Sicne the time they denied us a deluxe groove due to him being out of scale with the other alt modes!
Posted by Mkall on January 8th, 2016 @ 10:19am CST
This may be that rare time where I'll take a 3rd Party over Hasbro.
Posted by shajaki on January 8th, 2016 @ 10:20am CST
Posted by Cobotron on January 8th, 2016 @ 10:21am CST
Look at the gun attached to Strafe Raid.
Now look at the gun in Lionking's hand.
It looks to me like that is the same gun, and in the Liokaiser art they are combined to make a bigger gun.
Two things:
A. COOL!
B. Finally some combining weapons!
...maybe?
Posted by ThunderThruster on January 8th, 2016 @ 10:24am CST
Posted by Cobotron on January 8th, 2016 @ 10:25am CST
It looks like that whole thing is one big flail nunchuck thingy-ma-ouoch!shajaki wrote:Does he have... NUNCHUcKS???
look at the spikey end.
Posted by deceptobot on January 8th, 2016 @ 10:38am CST
i was wrong it s skylinx
Posted by Stuartmaximus on January 8th, 2016 @ 10:41am CST
the upside is....i believe they're using Sky Lynx for the main body(dunno then if they're still going ahead with Sky Reign or not?)
Posted by ZeroWolf on January 8th, 2016 @ 10:43am CST
Posted by Noideaforaname on January 8th, 2016 @ 10:45am CST
So what is with this line's obsession with black helmets and silver faceplates? The original Liokaiser, Onslaught, and Computron all had their own distinct colors, but CW went and made them all the same.
william-james88 wrote:All I have to say is this, in less than 24 hours, the amount of uses of the Brawl mold went from 2 to 5
Repaint wars cotinues!!!!!
Posted by Insurgent on January 8th, 2016 @ 10:47am CST
That artwork is......
I don't care if I'm way too invested in my custom to stop it. I don't care if he's only 2/3 of the team plus Deazaras. If the actual toy is as awesome looking as that.....
Because words fail me right now.
Oh, yeah, Computron as well. Sorry dude, you just got compeltely pushed out the way. But do we know if we are legit getting Liokaiser, or is it just artwork?
Posted by william-james88 on January 8th, 2016 @ 10:48am CST
Two images are what appear to be black and white test shots of Scattershot combined with 2 limbs using the molds currently available; one being Brawl with the Ramhorn appendage and the other being Air Raid. The third image seems to be from the box art. It features both the Unite Warriors Groove mold and either the Dead End or Streetwise mold for the arm and leg. So now, we have a pretty good idea of the components that will make up Hasbro's Computron, but the amount of retooling is still unknown. Sadl though, the image does reveal that there will be no change to the sculpt of the combiner head.
Posted by deceptobot on January 8th, 2016 @ 10:50am CST
Cobotron wrote:Ok, bare with me here.
Look at the gun attached to Strafe Raid.
Now look at the gun in Lionking's hand.
It looks to me like that is the same gun, and in the Liokaiser art they are combined to make a bigger gun.
Two things:
A. COOL!
B. Finally some combining weapons!
...maybe?
torso scream remold of skylinx
Posted by william-james88 on January 8th, 2016 @ 10:52am CST
Posted by Cobotron on January 8th, 2016 @ 10:52am CST
deceptobot wrote:torso shoulders and chest plate scream heavy remold of onslaught
WELCOME!!!
Do you mean Liokaiser?
You nailed it! Looks like it to me. I would guess the re-tool is whatever Nosecone will be for Computron.Stuartmaximus wrote:so lemme get this straight! for Liokaiser they're using TWO brawls? one Combaticon.......& the other....a repaint/retool
ZeroWolf wrote:About the combining weapons, Victorion has a combining sword
Good point. I'll rephrase. Finally! More combining weapons!
I wish I could get Vicky's sword, minus the figures.
OH SNAP!!!
Posted by william-james88 on January 8th, 2016 @ 10:59am CST
Posted by Sabrblade on January 8th, 2016 @ 11:03am CST
No he's not. Deszaras is a bird kaiju.william-james88 wrote:ZeroWolf wrote: leozack is not a robotic shuttle dinosaur
But Deatsaurus is a Dragon
Or a "Bigbird" according to his bio card:
Posted by Stuartmaximus on January 8th, 2016 @ 11:08am CST
Posted by steals_your_goats on January 8th, 2016 @ 11:10am CST
Stuartmaximus wrote:What's the bet that it'll also end up as a United Warriors box set?
I imagine that Takara will release both these guys too, it's just going to take a while
Posted by leokearon on January 8th, 2016 @ 11:10am CST
Apart from Slingshot instead of Air Raid, looks like I wasn't far off
Posted by steals_your_goats on January 8th, 2016 @ 11:15am CST
leokearon wrote:
Apart from Slingshot instead of Air Raid, looks like I wasn't far off
What are you some kind of wizard?
Posted by Stuartmaximus on January 8th, 2016 @ 11:18am CST