New HasLab Unicron Video Highlights Planet Mode

Do not be fooled. The premium detail and deco are, indeed, inspired by classic 1986 movie, but it is not, in fact, The Lord of Chaos himself.

Huh?

Sabrblade wrote:

Do not be fooled. The premium detail and deco are, indeed, inspired by classic 1986 movie, but it is not, in fact, The Lord of Chaos himself.

Huh?

Yeah, it took me a moment to figure out that that they mean it's a super high detailed toy and not the real Unicron. Super awkward thing to put in there.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:the numbers likely do not reflect international and third party orders yet.

It's not "likely", it's a known fact that the number doesn't include all international orders.

Burn wrote:

Emerje wrote:the numbers likely do not reflect international and third party orders yet.

It's not "likely", it's a known fact that the number doesn't include all international orders.

Just the affiliated international orders, we don't know what the domestic and international third party shops are doing. They could be waiting until the end to submit their orders or they could be placing the 5 unit maximum as they reach them, we don't know hence the "likely".

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Burn wrote:

Emerje wrote:the numbers likely do not reflect international and third party orders yet.

It's not "likely", it's a known fact that the number doesn't include all international orders.

Just the affiliated international orders, we don't know what the domestic and international third party shops are doing. They could be waiting until the end to submit their orders or they could be placing the 5 unit maximum as they reach them, we don't know hence the "likely".

Emerje

Which is why I intentionally left out third party shops.

I will be very sad if this doesn't happen.

That chrome is really nice, but the way the spikes sit on the sides is really lame, you can tell it's on a long rubber piece and not firmly sitting in there. I would have liked to see a bit more paint as well. I'm still hoping this doesn't make it and we get an even better take on him one day.

YRQRM0 wrote:That chrome is really nice, but the way the spikes sit on the sides is really lame, you can tell it's on a long rubber piece and not firmly sitting in there. I would have liked to see a bit more paint as well. I'm still hoping this doesn't make it and we get an even better take on him one day.

Considering this is meant to be the best version anything after this is going to be a compromise of sorts. They don't have an easy task to turn a perfect sphere into a G1 accurate robot mode. Armada cheated with the planet shells while Primus got the benefit of being designed to take into account the planet pieces (if he happened in G1 toon, his planet pieces would have disappeared perfectly as well)

Emerje wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I know it was an accepted thing by Beast Wars, but teeth on Transformers really creep me out. It is just wrong

Don't spend a lot of time looking at your signature do you?

Emerje

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:I tend to go for option C, the context sensitive, situational faces of Beast Wars. Wherein your altmode doesn't just determine your outer shell, but is reflected throughout your entire aesthetic. Some characters have mouths, teeth, no mouths, no eyes etc But as long as it is consistent with their overall design

ZeroWolf wrote:

YRQRM0 wrote:That chrome is really nice, but the way the spikes sit on the sides is really lame, you can tell it's on a long rubber piece and not firmly sitting in there. I would have liked to see a bit more paint as well. I'm still hoping this doesn't make it and we get an even better take on him one day.

Considering this is meant to be the best version anything after this is going to be a compromise of sorts. They don't have an easy task to turn a perfect sphere into a G1 accurate robot mode. Armada cheated with the planet shells while Primus got the benefit of being designed to take into account the planet pieces (if he happened in G1 toon, his planet pieces would have disappeared perfectly as well)

I agree with this. This was essentially called our Masterpiece Unicron. We won't get any better than this

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:

YRQRM0 wrote:That chrome is really nice, but the way the spikes sit on the sides is really lame, you can tell it's on a long rubber piece and not firmly sitting in there. I would have liked to see a bit more paint as well. I'm still hoping this doesn't make it and we get an even better take on him one day.

Considering this is meant to be the best version anything after this is going to be a compromise of sorts. They don't have an easy task to turn a perfect sphere into a G1 accurate robot mode. Armada cheated with the planet shells while Primus got the benefit of being designed to take into account the planet pieces (if he happened in G1 toon, his planet pieces would have disappeared perfectly as well)

I agree with this. This was essentially called our Masterpiece Unicron. We won't get any better than this

I get it, but for me downsizing would actually be a big improvement, I really just don't care for him to be this big, the same way that I don't care that MP-10 is smaller than MP-1 was. Unicron won't scale with anything so it doesn't matter to me. Surely they can use what they've learned to make a solid similar robot mode and planet mode, maybe without the stand and some articulation/feature loss, but good-looking all the same. Just look how far we've come with some of the Masterpiece characters who have had multiple iterations, or the hundreds of movie prime iterations for example. This will be the best Unicron for some people, but for me there's room for improvement.

Well if it doesn’t work out who knows maybe we’ll get a smaller version or incarnation like at the end of Cybertron. He’ll just be a spiky tank or a spiky car instead of hellish horned death world.

I just backed Unicron, but I'm only 2803 out of 8000. I begged my wife for this so I do hope that it makes it.

Iamrook wrote:I just backed Unicron, but I'm only 2803 out of 8000. I begged my wife for this so I do hope that it makes it.

You and me both, brother.

Hasbro Pulse now has a complete transformation video for Unicron.

Man, this thing is way more involved in its transformation than the Armada Unicron mold. So many little pieces and parts moving to all sorts of places.

Just in from Hasbro we have a video showing the step by step transformation of Unicron from demonic planet to devilish robot! The video is staring Kunihiro, Senior Product Design with TakaraTomy, this time a tad dressed down from his more formal tuxedo. It's amazing to see how they've managed to compress and fold the shell of a sphere predominantly in his legs. It truly is the cutting edge of Transformer toy engineering. Just like in the cartoon this Unicron has no precedent. There never has been and may never be another Transformers toy on this scale or with this attention to detail. Unicron definitely marks an enormous signpost on the road of the life of this brand. 2019 will forevermore be known as the year of War for Cybertron, the year of Siege, (the year of Rung) and the year of Unicron!

The Chaos Bringer, the darkest of dark ones is just under 3,000 orders currently out of the minimum of 8,000 with only ten more days to go. Even Unicron needs help sometimes! You have the power to tame the malicious maw that seeks to devour the galaxy! Show your support for this project and put in your order by clicking this link!
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I have a feeling Hasbro might make this even if it doesnt reach the requirement. There seems to be a lot of background information surfacing on this as compared to the sail barge. Of course, I might be wrong since I didn't follow the development of that as closely as Unicron.

impressive. i like how it doesnt seem to be necessary to remove the stand

why that music? if they want to sell better use G1 music, such movie, or get rights to play cybertronic spree...

BERSEKAEL wrote:why that music? if they want to sell better use G1 music, such movie, or get rights to play cybertronic spree...

It’s just background music who cares and if I had to listen to the g1 theme which is 30 seconds long 6 times for over 5 minutes I’d slit my wrists