Takara Tomy Transformers Adventure TAV-01 Bumblebee Designer Yuya Onishi Interview

primalxconvoy wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:I think the Vehicons should have been repainted into the Autobot clones, rather than the Decepticon versions.

Except that the Vehicon molds are very very evil-looking as they are. No amount of repainting can change their hunched over, sickly, wicked creature look.

Besides, it's not like they were made into the actual Pounce and Wingspan themselves.

I don't know about yours, but my Vehicons stand straight and tall. I'm sure that a new head and paint scheme would easily create them.

The head juts out forward at an angle. Removing it reveals the next piece to be diagonally positioned, so no matter how much one straightens out the body, the head will always be hunched over in an ogre-like fashion without having to completely re-engineer the torso.

Sure, one could just tilt the neck piece upward, but then that messes up the look of the chest by opening up the gap between the neck piece and the main body.

Aside from the issues with the head, though, the entire figure has many evil-looking design aspects all over its body. Jagged lines covering the torso, pointy vampiric fingers, spiked knees, sharp-looking razor wings on the Jet version, etc. etc.

The Vehicon design is very much meant to be an inherently creepy and wicked appearance.

primalxconvoy wrote:Oh, I don't know...

- https://www.figurerealm.com/viewcustomf ... ?FID=48112

That is freaky-looking and way beyond the extent of any retoolings Fun Pub is allotted to do.

primalxconvoy wrote:Just a different head, hands and extra arm pipes, is all.

Again, that's all well beyond what the Club can do. They are only allotted to remold one part per mold.

Via the YouTube channel for Takara Tomy, we get a promotional clip for three of their Transformers Adventure line figures: TED-06 Big Optimus Prime, the Japanese counterpart to Hyperchange Optimus; TAV-14 Ultra Magnus, of which you can see the Seibertron.com gallery here; TAV-13 Nemesis Prime, of which we also have a gallery. Check the clips out below!

Thanks for sharing I didn't bother watching I saw video of original figures before they where repainted don't need same
Video again

dragons wrote:Thanks for sharing I didn't bother watching I saw video of original figures before they where repainted don't need same
Video again

But you might have missed out on dancing girls at the end

william-james88 wrote:

Va'al wrote:

dragons wrote:Thanks for sharing

You are more than welcome.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

dragons wrote:Thanks for sharing I didn't bother watching I saw video of original figures before they where repainted don't need same
Video again

But you might have missed out on dancing girls at the end

I especially liked when they took their tops off. Oh my!

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Looks like you missed out guy. YouTube took it down and now only the edited version is available.

So scandalous

Cobotron wrote:

william-james88 wrote:(o)(o)

Haha, glad you liked it, here are a few more:

National geographic:

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Jenny McCarthy:

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The Rock:

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Well this thread just got interesting nice and quick.

"And yes, you have to say it like that. GREH-GHEE-VOR."

No you don't. "Gregevor" is a bad Engrish transliteration of グリジバー, which Romanizes out to being "Gurijibaa", with the two I's both sounding like "ee". It is a portmanteau of "Green" and "Jeep" with a modified end, hence the longstanding transliteration of "Greejeeber" being the more accepted name since the Car Robots character of the same name was established back in the year 2000.

The two E's in "Gregevor" are long "ee" sounds, and the second G is a hard G (or J) sound. The V came from B and V being essentially the same sound in Japanese. So whoever transliterated グリジバー ("Gurijibaa") into "Gregevor" apparently didn't recognize the "Green Jeep" reference and gave us a more wonky name than the more likely intended "Greejeeber".