New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon

Trypticon is an odd inclusion, given the heavy Beast Era focus of these manga stories. Gigastorm might have been more appropriate.

Sabrblade wrote:Trypticon is an odd inclusion, given the heavy Beast Era focus of these manga stories. Gigastorm might have been more appropriate.

Maybe they are preparing us for his Encore reissue

Of note is that Rattrap actually questions Swerve's cartoon appearance and his original name (two scenes through the whole run, "Wave" instead of "Swerve"), which he seems elude and amaze Rattle. Phaser joins in by explaining he transforms into My First Blaster... songs and all. Of course, Dinosaurer (Trypticon, you know the reason why he's included) is less than impressed.

:EDIT: ... or not. The yonkoma may feature BW caricatures, but it deals with every aspect of the line's history, so Trypticon is still justified: he "contributed" to Swerve's cartoon appreance by stepping on him.

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Trypticon is an odd inclusion, given the heavy Beast Era focus of these manga stories. Gigastorm might have been more appropriate.

Maybe they are preparing us for his Encore reissue

What Encore reissue?

The rumored Platinum Edition one is from Hasbro (Asia).

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote::EDIT: ... or not. The yonkoma may feature BW caricatures, but it deals with every aspect of the line's history, so Trypticon is still justified: he "contributed" to Swerve's cartoon appreance by stepping on him.

So that's why Trypticon's in this.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Trypticon is an odd inclusion, given the heavy Beast Era focus of these manga stories. Gigastorm might have been more appropriate.

Maybe they are preparing us for his Encore reissue

What Encore reissue?

The rumored Platinum Edition one is from Hasbro (Asia).

Yeah, but that was never confirmed. For all we know it couls come from Takara. I was just being a little jokey. We really know nothing at all at this point and a bunch o frumours have not panned out, so I am just having some fun with his appearance here.

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote::EDIT: ... or not. The yonkoma may feature BW caricatures, but it deals with every aspect of the line's history, so Trypticon is still justified: he "contributed" to Swerve's cartoon appreance by stepping on him.

So that's why Trypticon's in this.

I dont get it, what?

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote::EDIT: ... or not. The yonkoma may feature BW caricatures, but it deals with every aspect of the line's history, so Trypticon is still justified: he "contributed" to Swerve's cartoon appreance by stepping on him.

So that's why Trypticon's in this.

I dont get it, what?

Swerve's single major appearance was in the G1 episode "Five Faces of Darkness pt. 5", with a minor appearance in "Forever is long time coming". The first is special because he took part in the Ark's defense, only to get stepped on (rather hurmorously) by Trypticon:



The joke is, in the yonkoma he seems to be a show-off.

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote::EDIT: ... or not. The yonkoma may feature BW caricatures, but it deals with every aspect of the line's history, so Trypticon is still justified: he "contributed" to Swerve's cartoon appreance by stepping on him.

So that's why Trypticon's in this.

I dont get it, what?

Swerve was among the group of Autobots who fought Trypticon in "Five Face of Darkness" when Trypticon destroyed the Ark. Trypticon is included here to show off Phaser's My First Blaster form since Trypticon was the only Decepticon Swerve got to fight in the cartoon, as well as having stepped on Swerve in their fight.



EDIT: Ninja'd by JelZe.

Tee Hee

At any rate, anything pertaining to Transformers history, from:

- the UK comics (Roadbuster & Whirl as Englishmen)
- Beast Machines bodies (Jetstorm and Thrust, much to Silverbolt's and Waspinator's chagrin)
- G1 cartoon (Trypticon vs. Swerve)
- IDW comics (Swerve's singing My First Blaster, poor Phaser)

... to everything else is fair game to be made fun of in these yonkoma.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Tee Hee

At any rate, anything pertaining to Transformers history, from:

- the UK comics (Roadbuster & Whirl as Englishmen)
- Beast Machines bodies (Jetstorm and Thrust, much to Silverbolt's and Waspinator's chagrin)
- G1 cartoon (Trypticon vs. Swerve)
- IDW comics (Swerve's singing My First Blaster, poor Phaser)

... to everything else is fair game to be made fun of in these yonkoma.

I wish I could read Japanese (or that these were translated)

What the... I just looked at some in-hand images of Legends Swerve on Alfes2010's blog, and the bio of him and Tailgate show a name change for the one of the Micromasters: Groundbuster (aka Neutro) has been renamed Groundshaker (グランドシェイカー gurandosheikā). That still works, since "Groundshaker" was never used in Japan. The base was called "Landshaker", and the Micromaster Goundshaker was replaced with a Roadhandler redeco called "Gunrunner".

the pic most important to me....



i get what takara was going for with their version, but i like hasbros light red a lot better.

shajaki wrote:the pic most important to me....



i get what takara was going for with their version, but i like hasbros light red a lot better.

If you can swap the heads between the two, the Takara one would have an almost perfect G1 screen accurate deco. The reds still a little dark, but the brighter Hasbro one isn't a perfect match either.

Wolfman Jake wrote:

shajaki wrote:the pic most important to me....



i get what takara was going for with their version, but i like hasbros light red a lot better.

If you can swap the heads between the two, the Takara one would have an almost perfect G1 screen accurate deco. The reds still a little dark, but the brighter Hasbro one isn't a perfect match either.

Well, Hasbro's is meant to be MTMTE-accurate rather than cartoon-accurate.

Takara, however, opted for toy-accuracy with theirs.

shajaki wrote:the pic most important to me....



i get what takara was going for with their version, but i like hasbros light red a lot better.

I like it enough to get the 2-pack... For $15 on HLJ, why not?

Legends Swerve and Tailgate Galleries are up:


Transformers Legends Swerve Gallery


Transformers Legends Tailgate Gallery

And I'm leaning more and more towards the Legends, especially with Tailgate.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Legends Swerve and Tailgate Galleries are up:


Transformers Legends Swerve Gallery


Transformers Legends Tailgate Gallery

And I'm leaning more and more towards the Legends, especially with Tailgate.

Yea - the silver highlights on Tailgate (especially on the face) really help the figure.

megatronus wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Legends Swerve and Tailgate Galleries are up:


Transformers Legends Swerve Gallery


Transformers Legends Tailgate Gallery

And I'm leaning more and more towards the Legends, especially with Tailgate.

Yea - the silver highlights on Tailgate (especially on the face) really help the figure.

Indeed. Silver sharpie, here I come!

From TF Yuki: