New Gray Prototype Images of HasLab Unicron

really scared that i have to transform it. wish it came in bot mode.

skywarp408 wrote:I hope the artwork on the box he's in has the G1 look.

This is the packaging:



Anything prettier would have only added to the already-expensive $600 price.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:City Mode is interesting at least.

If I remember correctly, City mode only got as far as that image and the finished toy can't do it. I'm sure we reported on this aspect before.

Well that's disappointing. For the price tag, they should be adding as much extra value and functionality as possible. I wonder if someone will find it is still possible to actually achieve in the final product. Much like the alternate leg placement for Fort Max in City Mode.

Sabrblade wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Well that's disappointing. For the price tag, they should be adding as much extra value and functionality as possible.

The abundance of features and extras they're already poured into this thing isn't enough?

They tried to put in the city mode and couldn't make it work without further compromising the rest of the figure.

The sad thing about the lack of City mode in this case, It actually looks like the best city mode we've seen designed for a large scale transformer.

The feature I wish they would have included was a quintasan ship that could be placed in one of his eyes like it was flying out like in the animated movie.

The city mode was shown before. Still don't miss it. I'm not buying Unicron to be a city I'll never, ever use.

Rodimus Prime wrote:Why does Unicron need a city mode in the first place? Did he have one in any continuity? I would rather he be just a robot and a planet and cost $100 less.

At best, one could pretend that it represents some kind of hellish landscape found inside of his planet mode, but otherwise, yeah, he's not a citybot.

The idea was just to give his giant toy some more play value as a playset in addition to its already being a giant action figure (much like the case with all of the Titan class Citybots being both giant action figures and playsets).

If anything, I'm betting this mode was conceived as a way to further appeal to potential retailers so that they would be more inclined to carry this gigantic Transformers product since the figure on its own wouldn't have been enough in the eyes of the retailers since its planet mode alone wouldn't be marketable enough to most retailers due to its just being a giant ball on a stick that couldn't be played with like how a normal ball could be played with.

But, as we know, the city mode didn't happen and retailers didn't pick it up, so it instead went to HasLab as a crowdfunding product, where it wouldn't have to worry about the needs of mass market appeal to get made.

Sabrblade wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Why does Unicron need a city mode in the first place? Did he have one in any continuity? I would rather he be just a robot and a planet and cost $100 less.

At best, one could pretend that it represents some kind of hellish landscape found inside of his planet mode, but otherwise, yeah, he's not a citybot.

The idea was just to give his giant toy some more play value as a playset in addition to its already being a giant action figure (much like the case with all of the Titan class Citybots being both giant action figures and playsets).

If anything, I'm betting this mode was conceived as a way to further appeal to potential retailers so that they would be more inclined to carry this gigantic Transformers product since the figure on its own wouldn't have been enough in the eyes of the retailers since its planet mode alone wouldn't be marketable enough to most retailers due to its just being a giant ball on a stick that couldn't be played with like how a normal ball could be played with.

But, as we know, the city mode didn't happen and retailers didn't pick it up, so it instead went to HasLab as a crowdfunding product, where it wouldn't have to worry about the needs of mass market appeal to get made.

I have nothing against the concept of him having a city mode, and I understand the reasoning. My problem is that his featured modes (planet and robot) would suffer because if it. If they could have pulled it off without messing with those, then fine. By the looks of it, seems like they were trying to do the same thing they did to Cybertron Primus, except on a larger scale. Just because he's a large figure and has a big price tag, doesn't mean he has to have excessive and unnecessary features, especially ones that have no basis in his origins. If you want a city mode, buy a city bot. There are plenty. Unicron is Unicron.

Sabrblade wrote:At best, one could pretend that it represents some kind of hellish landscape found inside of his planet mode, but otherwise, yeah, he's not a citybot.

This was my interpretation as well, more of an inside Unicron play set than a city. The monitor cluster is even there in the back.

I really don't understand the articulated eyes that you can't actually see through the eye lenses.

Also...



Still can't unsee it.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:At best, one could pretend that it represents some kind of hellish landscape found inside of his planet mode, but otherwise, yeah, he's not a citybot.

This was my interpretation as well, more of an inside Unicron play set than a city. The monitor cluster is even there in the back.

The planet mode maw pointed upward in the center is also reminiscent of The Pit that was inside Unicron in the 3H Universe comics.