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

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Takara Tomy has just released the 18th comic in their Japanese Transformers Legends Comic Series.
This one features, as they put it, fun everyday drama with Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (?!).

The comic has been mirrored below for your enjoyment.

Transformers News: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon

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Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1643871)
Posted by Sabrblade on January 28th, 2015 @ 8:08am CST

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

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1643872)
Posted by william-james88 on January 28th, 2015 @ 8:12am CST

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 :DANCE:

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1643874)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on January 28th, 2015 @ 8:14am CST

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. :lol:

: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.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1643877)
Posted by Sabrblade on January 28th, 2015 @ 8:17am CST

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).

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1643878)
Posted by Sabrblade on January 28th, 2015 @ 8:19am CST

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.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1643879)
Posted by william-james88 on January 28th, 2015 @ 8:20am CST

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.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1643880)
Posted by william-james88 on January 28th, 2015 @ 8:21am CST

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?

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1643884)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on January 28th, 2015 @ 8:24am CST

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.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1643886)
Posted by Sabrblade on January 28th, 2015 @ 8:26am CST

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.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1643893)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on January 28th, 2015 @ 8:37am CST

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.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1643895)
Posted by william-james88 on January 28th, 2015 @ 8:43am CST

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)

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1643907)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on January 28th, 2015 @ 9:27am CST

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".

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1644162)
Posted by shajaki on January 28th, 2015 @ 8:13pm CST

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.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1644227)
Posted by Wolfman Jake on January 28th, 2015 @ 9:52pm CST

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.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1644228)
Posted by Sabrblade on January 28th, 2015 @ 9:54pm CST

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.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1644240)
Posted by megatronus on January 28th, 2015 @ 10:31pm CST

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?

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1644357)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on January 29th, 2015 @ 9:57am CST

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.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1644375)
Posted by megatronus on January 29th, 2015 @ 10:41am CST

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.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1644463)
Posted by Agamemnon on January 29th, 2015 @ 1:54pm CST

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!

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645067)
Posted by Cyberpath on January 31st, 2015 @ 7:13am CST

From TF Yuki:

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645068)
Posted by Sabrblade on January 31st, 2015 @ 7:15am CST

Boy, chicks really do dig well-built guys with sweet rides and small brains.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645072)
Posted by fenrir72 on January 31st, 2015 @ 7:50am CST

Sabrblade wrote:Boy, chicks really do dig guys with sweet rides and tiny brains.

You nailed it SB! :lol:

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645078)
Posted by Desslok2201 on January 31st, 2015 @ 8:27am CST

Cyberpath wrote:From TF Yuki:

Add Exhaust in that pic and they'll all be mine very soon... Mwahahaha!

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645270)
Posted by Sabrblade on January 31st, 2015 @ 8:03pm CST

Takara Arcee is open-fisted.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645307)
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on January 31st, 2015 @ 10:36pm CST

Sabrblade wrote:Takara Arcee is open-fisted.

I noticed that too. I guess that version is the permanent one. I wonder why they felt that design was better.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645320)
Posted by Wolfman Jake on January 31st, 2015 @ 10:57pm CST

chuckdawg1999 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Takara Arcee is open-fisted.

I noticed that too. I guess that version is the permanent one. I wonder why they felt that design was better.

They went with aesthetics over functionality, I assume.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645366)
Posted by Va'al on February 1st, 2015 @ 4:40am CST

It's a day of the week ending in Y, so Hisashi Yuki has taken to Twitter to show off some more of not only Takara Tomy Transformers Masterpiece MP-24 Star Saber (in his vehicle form and with Brain of Courage at the controls), but also the soon-to-arrive wave of Legends deluxes, Arcee, Chromia and Windblade - check out the mirrored image below!

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645380)
Posted by RhA on February 1st, 2015 @ 5:40am CST

Windblade looks like a mess, not matter what coat of paint they slap on it.

And to you, Star Saber, I say:' Let's say go!'.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645426)
Posted by Mindmaster on February 1st, 2015 @ 9:02am CST

Ugh, is it March, yet? I need that Star Saber in my life! :BOOM:

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645431)
Posted by fenrir72 on February 1st, 2015 @ 9:11am CST

RhA wrote:Windblade looks like a mess, not matter what coat of paint they slap on it.

And to you, Star Saber, I say:' Let's say go!'.

Let's not be to harsh on our Kabuki fembot. Sure the base mold is kind of iffy but once you get a hold of the real thing, you might change you mind. Same thing happened when it came to MP-BB. In pics, he kinda sucked but in real time.....amazing.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645432)
Posted by fenrir72 on February 1st, 2015 @ 9:12am CST

Mindmaster wrote:Ugh, is it March, yet? I need that Star Saber in my life!

More or less April unless BBTS and the gang get theirs early delivered.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645449)
Posted by DMSL on February 1st, 2015 @ 9:57am CST

Star Saber is a definate buy for me.

Arcee looks like she comes with the crappy open hands that can barely grip her blasters....that's a bummer. I hope they ship her with the closed hands or that might be a deal breaker for me.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645465)
Posted by Rated X on February 1st, 2015 @ 11:07am CST

Maybe some company can come up with a better gun that slides right into the arcee open fist. Something with an uzi clip aesthetic that pegs into the 5mm hole and slides into the smaller hole underneath. It shouldnt take a rocket scientist to design something like that.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645467)
Posted by Sabrblade on February 1st, 2015 @ 11:09am CST

Rated X wrote:Maybe some company can come up with a better gun that slides right into the arcee open fist. Something with an uzi clip aesthetic that pegs into the 5mm hole and slides into the smaller hole underneath. It shouldnt take a rocket scientist to design something like that.

Arcee's hands aren't compatible with 5mm pegs. They're slot-shaped.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645482)
Posted by guarayakha on February 1st, 2015 @ 12:18pm CST

You guys can just do a simple mod on her hands if it bother you guys too much.

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/radicons- ... int-5.html

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645539)
Posted by Desslok2201 on February 1st, 2015 @ 5:05pm CST

I hope the girls sell well enough to get us Elita-1, Firestar and Moonracer. At least Elita-1.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645570)
Posted by megatronus on February 1st, 2015 @ 6:55pm CST

Desslok2201 wrote:I hope the girls sell well enough to get us Elita-1, Firestar and Moonracer. At least Elita-1.

Either way, well probably get Nautica down the line as a Windblade redeco. I'm relying on MMC for Elita-1 (and solis Prime, for that matter).

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645578)
Posted by Desslok2201 on February 1st, 2015 @ 7:34pm CST

megatronus wrote:
Desslok2201 wrote:I hope the girls sell well enough to get us Elita-1, Firestar and Moonracer. At least Elita-1.

Either way, well probably get Nautica down the line as a Windblade redeco. I'm relying on MMC for Elita-1 (and solis Prime, for that matter).

I have to agree, their Elita looks very nice, but I've seen too many quality issues on 3p products.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645587)
Posted by megatronus on February 1st, 2015 @ 8:09pm CST

Desslok2201 wrote:
megatronus wrote:
Desslok2201 wrote:I hope the girls sell well enough to get us Elita-1, Firestar and Moonracer. At least Elita-1.

Either way, well probably get Nautica down the line as a Windblade redeco. I'm relying on MMC for Elita-1 (and solis Prime, for that matter).

I have to agree, their Elita looks very nice, but I've seen too many quality issues on 3p products.

Mmm. Blanket generalizations really don't make sense in this context.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645611)
Posted by Desslok2201 on February 1st, 2015 @ 9:25pm CST

megatronus wrote:
Desslok2201 wrote:
megatronus wrote:
Desslok2201 wrote:I hope the girls sell well enough to get us Elita-1, Firestar and Moonracer. At least Elita-1.

Either way, well probably get Nautica down the line as a Windblade redeco. I'm relying on MMC for Elita-1 (and solis Prime, for that matter).

I have to agree, their Elita looks very nice, but I've seen too many quality issues on 3p products.

Mmm. Blanket generalizations really don't make sense in this context.

You're right. Mania king is fantastic, but there are others that I'm squeamish about spending the cash on, and I know nothing of MMC's quality

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645643)
Posted by megatronus on February 1st, 2015 @ 10:19pm CST

Desslok2201 wrote:
megatronus wrote:
Desslok2201 wrote:
megatronus wrote:
Desslok2201 wrote:I hope the girls sell well enough to get us Elita-1, Firestar and Moonracer. At least Elita-1.

Either way, well probably get Nautica down the line as a Windblade redeco. I'm relying on MMC for Elita-1 (and solis Prime, for that matter).

I have to agree, their Elita looks very nice, but I've seen too many quality issues on 3p products.

Mmm. Blanket generalizations really don't make sense in this context.

You're right. Mania king is fantastic, but there are others that I'm squeamish about spending the cash on, and I know nothing of MMC's quality

This is very OT for this thread, but MMC is considered one of the top, if not the top, 3rd Party company right now in terms of ingenuity and quality. I would recommend checking out the 3rd Party threads to learn more.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645649)
Posted by Sabrblade on February 1st, 2015 @ 10:32pm CST

Elita One, I could see, but not so much Firestar or Moonracer. But if we were to get those two, they most likely wouldn't be able to have those names since Hasbro can't use them.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645666)
Posted by fenrir72 on February 1st, 2015 @ 11:01pm CST

Though having a transforming official fembot like Elita and the other gals would be nice, might as well accept the official non transforming Artstorm fig of her in the meantime......and it's anime accurate too.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1645670)
Posted by Desslok2201 on February 1st, 2015 @ 11:04pm CST

fenrir72 wrote:Though having a transforming official fembot like Elita and the other gals would be nice, might as well accept the official non transforming Artstorm fig of her in the meantime......and it's anime accurate too.

I waited 29 yrs for Arcee.. I'll wait some more

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1646499)
Posted by william-james88 on February 4th, 2015 @ 7:44am CST

I bet Springer would have preffered Takara's Arcee to have closed hands.

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1646508)
Posted by Autobot032 on February 4th, 2015 @ 8:13am CST

TF Yuki has posted an in package image of Legends Arcee.

TakaraTomy's Arcee is colored a slight bit differently from the US version, as you can see in the image below, and you can compare the differences by checking out our gallery of the US version of the figure by clicking here.

You can visit Yuki's Twitter by clicking the image below:

Keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1646511)
Posted by william-james88 on February 4th, 2015 @ 8:33am CST

Ah you beat me to it!

Oh well, here are some extra stuff we learn about the tweet and figure:

Arcee features all new character art for her packaging. Hisashi Yuki reffers to the release date in his tweet by saying that the "three daughters will be released Valentine's Day".

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1646517)
Posted by megatronus on February 4th, 2015 @ 8:45am CST

william-james88 wrote:I bet Springer would have preffered Takara's Arcee to have closed hands.

Wait... Are you saying what I think you're saying??

Re: New Takara Legends Comic featuring Swerve, Phaser, Rattrap, and Trypticon (1646521)
Posted by william-james88 on February 4th, 2015 @ 8:53am CST

megatronus wrote:
william-james88 wrote:I bet Springer would have preffered Takara's Arcee to have closed hands.

Wait... Are you saying what I think you're saying??