Takara Tomy Transformers Adventure Updates, Including RID, Generations, QT

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Is "Adams" a case of Engrish or some obscure character I should be aware of?

A few curious names there.

Adams & Steel Joe, both at a legends-ish price point, but the RiD warriors have that price point also.
Steel Joe = Steeljaw?

Adams.... Could be a japanese name for Strongarm? Adamant?

Big Optimus prime? Ultra prime
ULTRA MAGNUS?

is it me or does the figures labeled TAV seem to be their equivanent to CW

but on the other hand it feels like a new line

so confused

adamusu

Atmos? Googled the Katakana and it came up with a picture of G1 Cosmos.

EDIT: From TF Wiki

It is presumed that Cosmos's Japanese name, Adams, is derived from that of George Adamski, who provided the famous flying saucer design after which Cosmos was modeled.

Adams = Cosmos

Autobot tap out wrote:is it me or does the figures labeled TAV seem to be their equivanent to CW

but on the other hand it feels like a new line

so confused

Then read the whole story. Transformers Adventures is a combination of Robots in Disguise, and Generations either previously unreleased or seemingly unsuitable for Transformers Legends (like standalone Legends Class figures). And it looks like "HA" has turned into "TED". How odd.

Let's see...

TAV13 Nemesis Prime - maybe a Warrior class Optimus Prime redeco
TAV14 Ultra Magnus - maybe the Beast Hunters Voyager
TAV15 Lockdown - maybe the Animated Deluxe or the ROTF Deluxe
TAV16 Bombshell - Generations Combiner Wars Legends Bombshell
TAV17 Shrapnel - Generations Thrilling 30 Legends Skrapnel
TAV18 Drift - Warrior class Drift
TAV19 Powerglide Generations Combiner Wars Legends Powerglide
TAV20 Adams - Generations Thrilling 30 Legends Cosmos

TAVVS03 VS Set - a new VS set

TED06 Big Optimus Prime - 3-step/Hyperchange Heroes Optimus Prime
TED07 Bumblebee - 1-step Bumblebee
TED08 Steeljaw - 1-step Steeljaw
TED09 Grimlock - 1-step Grimlock


New Q-Transformers:

QT19 Convoy
QT20 Megatron (Lamborghini Convention Neno)
QT21 Skids (Suzuki Hustler)
6/27 Transformers Choro Q QT22 drift (Mazda RX-7 FD3S)

Sabrblade wrote:TAV14 Ultra Magnus - maybe the Beast Hunters Voyager
TAV15 Lockdown - maybe the Animated Deluxe or the ROTF Deluxe.

Beast Hunters Ultra Magnus is more likely, given TAV11 Knock Out and TAV12 Dreadwing, both at Deluxe price point. For Lockdown, I say Animated, because of TAV09 Swoop and TAV10 Snarl.

I can see the RID15 Optimus mold to be repainted into the Nemesis colours. Also like some said here Magnus is likely the BH Magnus toy that didn't get released by Takara during it's TF Go line.

Lockdown though is interesting. Is it possible he could be just a repaint of the Animated Lockdown mold into the AOE colours or maybe even a repaint/retool of a possible Warrior Class Sideswipe or maybe even something out of left field by retooling and repainting the TFA Deluxe Rodimus figure into a AOE inspired Lockdown? Should be interesting to see.

Ok
From this line, depending on deco I may want:
Swoop, if the deco is G1 enough, and maybe yellow goggle eyes, then he'll be my IDW/G1 Swoop
Shrapnel, if the plastic colours are closer to Hasbro's Bombshell
Bombshell, if both he and Shrapnel above have a Cleary superior* deco to Hasbro's
Adams/Cosmos, if a superior* deco to reprolabeled Hasbro version
Roadblock - almost certainty, cool mould, and need more 'Cons

Lockdown could be interesting, most like an Animated re-do, based on other listings, BUT, if it is based on the ROTF mould, with a more IDW style head, he may just be added to my list.

*Superior Is subjective

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:TAV14 Ultra Magnus - maybe the Beast Hunters Voyager
TAV15 Lockdown - maybe the Animated Deluxe or the ROTF Deluxe.

Beast Hunters Ultra Magnus is more likely, given TAV11 Knock Out and TAV12 Dreadwing, both at Deluxe price point.

More likely than what?

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:TAV14 Ultra Magnus - maybe the Beast Hunters Voyager
TAV15 Lockdown - maybe the Animated Deluxe or the ROTF Deluxe.

Beast Hunters Ultra Magnus is more likely, given TAV11 Knock Out and TAV12 Dreadwing, both at Deluxe price point.

More likely than what?

Than anything else (like a new mold for instance)

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:TAV14 Ultra Magnus - maybe the Beast Hunters Voyager
TAV15 Lockdown - maybe the Animated Deluxe or the ROTF Deluxe.

Beast Hunters Ultra Magnus is more likely, given TAV11 Knock Out and TAV12 Dreadwing, both at Deluxe price point.

More likely than what?

Than anything else (like a new mold for instance)

But I didn't say "anything else", hence my confusion of JelZe saying that BH Voyager Magnus is more likely that BH Voyager Magnus.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:TAV14 Ultra Magnus - maybe the Beast Hunters Voyager
TAV15 Lockdown - maybe the Animated Deluxe or the ROTF Deluxe.

Beast Hunters Ultra Magnus is more likely, given TAV11 Knock Out and TAV12 Dreadwing, both at Deluxe price point.

More likely than what?

Than anything else (like a new mold for instance)

But I didn't say "anything else", hence my confusion of JelZe saying that BH Voyager Magnus is more likely that BH Voyager Magnus.

I didnt think he was referring to your post. I thought he was just stating his own opinion and meant he thought it would be that rather than anything else.

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:TAV14 Ultra Magnus - maybe the Beast Hunters Voyager
TAV15 Lockdown - maybe the Animated Deluxe or the ROTF Deluxe.

Beast Hunters Ultra Magnus is more likely, given TAV11 Knock Out and TAV12 Dreadwing, both at Deluxe price point.

More likely than what?

Than anything else (like a new mold for instance)

But I didn't say "anything else", hence my confusion of JelZe saying that BH Voyager Magnus is more likely that BH Voyager Magnus.

I didnt think he was referring to your post. I thought he was just stating his own opinion and meant he thought it would be that rather than anything else.

But she quoted me. That's usually a sign of someone responding to the post they're quoting.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:TAV14 Ultra Magnus - maybe the Beast Hunters Voyager
TAV15 Lockdown - maybe the Animated Deluxe or the ROTF Deluxe.

Beast Hunters Ultra Magnus is more likely, given TAV11 Knock Out and TAV12 Dreadwing, both at Deluxe price point.

More likely than what?

Than anything else (like a new mold for instance)

But I didn't say "anything else", hence my confusion of JelZe saying that BH Voyager Magnus is more likely that BH Voyager Magnus.

I didnt think he was referring to your post. I thought he was just stating his own opinion and meant he thought it would be that rather than anything else.

But she quoted me. That's usually a sign of someone responding to the post they're quoting.

Don't you just love it when one's thoughts don't match what one's typing? I know I don't. Move the "more likely" to Lockdown

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:TAV14 Ultra Magnus - maybe the Beast Hunters Voyager
TAV15 Lockdown - maybe the Animated Deluxe or the ROTF Deluxe.

Beast Hunters Ultra Magnus is more likely, given TAV11 Knock Out and TAV12 Dreadwing, both at Deluxe price point.

More likely than what?

Than anything else (like a new mold for instance)

But I didn't say "anything else", hence my confusion of JelZe saying that BH Voyager Magnus is more likely that BH Voyager Magnus.

I didnt think he was referring to your post. I thought he was just stating his own opinion and meant he thought it would be that rather than anything else.

But she quoted me. That's usually a sign of someone responding to the post they're quoting.

Woah woah woah woah.... Jelze's a woman?

And yeah, I see where you are coming from, using the word "more" is kinda confusing. But I still saw it more as she stating an opinion that was not in link with yours.

I'm not sure if we'll be getting a TFA Lockdown or ROTF Lockdown in the line because unless they're in the AOE colours I don't see how they'll try to justify buying a figure from years ago that already has a show accurate colour scheme. Sort of like how I'm expecting the Swoop and Snarl toys from TFA to be in different colours since having them both in G1 colours wouldn't make sense seeing as how Grimlock in RID15 isn't in the G1 colours. Not to mention I'm not sure if having either Lockdown figures will fit into the general scale in the line since they're from an era that didn't get hit by the economy yet. Yeah we got the ROTF Sideways mold as Mirage/Dino in the Takara AOE Generations line from last year but even then the Sideways mold isn't anywhere near as big as both Lockdown molds.

So that does leave some possible ideas. One that it can be a brand new mold that confirms Lockdown to be in the show,a repaint of one of the characters like a Warrior Sideswipe figure for example or even something out of left field like take the TFA Rodimus figure and retool and repaint it into an AOE inspired Lockdown toy. I mean TFA Rodimus does evoke AOE Lockdown in a lot of ways design wise as well as RID15 Sideswipe.

MegaDump wrote:Is "Adams" a case of Engrish or some obscure character I should be aware of?

Did you wake up this morning and think "You know, it's been a long time since Takara revealed some really strange redecos. I wonder what I can do to get my fix of those?" Well, if you did, then you're going to enjoy this news!

Seibertron user Autobot Genocide has sent us a heads up regarding new images found on the Kapow Toys Facebook Page of seven upcoming figures to be released, we think, in the Takara Tomy Transformers Adventure line, which appears to be their analog, at least sort of, to the 2015 Robots in Disguise line from Hasbro. We've mirrored the images below.


A redeco of Animated Swoop in a style slightly reminiscent of the G1 toy? You'll have to tell us what you think of this one by replying to this post!


The Beast Hunters Knock Out mold looking a little bit like Bluestreak, but still with a Decepticon logo.


A more show-accurate version of Beast Hunters Ultra Magnus featuring a nice looking Forge of Solus Prime accessory.


Robots in Disguise's upcoming Warrior Class Optimus Prime in a slick black color scheme.


A redeco of Beast Hunters Dreadwing in a more subdued color scheme as compared to the Hasbro release.


Generations Scoop looks to be coming in a style to help him fit right in with the Constructicons. Or maybe this could be your Neo-Armada Scavenger?


Finally, the Robots in Disguise Strongarm mold looks to be getting used as a new Decepticon that's one part Movieverse Ratchet, and a little bit like the Movie redeco of Energon Strongarm.

Not much is known about these figures other than what's in these images, including potential names, release dates, and pricing, but as soon as we have more information, it'll be posted here at Seibertron.com.

Green Scoop! Want it!

ScottyP wrote:

Robots in Disguise's upcoming Warrior Class Optimus Prime in a slick black color scheme.

Generations Scoop looks to be coming in a style to help him fit right in with the Constructicons. Or maybe this could be your Neo-Armada Scavenger?

Those are Nemesis Prime and Roadblock. Roadblock I'm guessing is meant to be or meant to homage the G2 Auto Roller of the same name.




As for the other strange redecos, I have guesses, but not ones that make much sense. However, that Strongarm redeco could be the "R Strongarm" that was listed before.

I love that Swoop!

william-james88 wrote:I love that Swoop!

Ditto. Can't wait to see Slag.

That R Strongarm seems to be a Decepticon would explain the initially weird Grimlock vs. R Strongarm set.

Swoops's colors look familiar, hang on... *looks though TFU.info* O good grief, is he supposed to be Laserbeak?

Swoop and Knock-Out are must-buys (I want more redecoed Hunters!), Roadblock is maybe, I wanna see how they deal with Holepunch and CaliburstTracer.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Swoops's colors look familiar, hang on... *looks though TFU.info* O good grief, is he supposed to be Laserbeak?

First things that came to my mind with that deco were Flamewar and Windblade, which (as I said) make no sense.

For Knock Out, though he looks like Bluestreak in altmode, his robot mode deco reminds me of Crosscut. More nonsense.

And R Strongarm's deco looks to me like, get ready for it, TransTech Megatron!

Or Brawn. Or Roadbuster. Or Movie 1 Srongarm.

Just like that, more images surface of toys from the Takara Tomy Transformers Adventure line, this time coming from the Toy Dojo Facebook Page. These images include a look at Takara's versions of many of the Robots in Disguise Warrior Class figures, as well as a mostly purple redeco of Animated Snarl.

There are also some shadowy images that suggest versions of Animated Lockdown, Generations Skrapnel, Combiner Wars Bombshell, and Robots in Disguise Drift are on the way as well.

We've mirrored the images below.























Information seems to be coming in fast and furious, so keep it right here at Seibertron.com for all the latest news.

Sabrblade wrote: his robot mode deco reminds me of Crosscut.

Thats the first thing that came to mind for me.

Kickback is the grasshopper, you probably mean Skrapnel.

Snarl's colors ring a bell somewhere... Then again,. I may be seeing things, as the dinos seem to follow "main color is black, secondary depends on dino" rule (Green for Grimlock, Red for Swoop, Purple for Snarl).

And I called Animated Lockdown and Beast Hunters Ultra Magnus

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Kickback is the grasshopper, you probably mean Skrapnel.

Crud, yes. Yes I did, was in too much of a hurry. Well, maybe one of our more experienced noble news crew that knows how to update the front page content will know how to fix it

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Snarl's colors ring a bell somewhere... Then again,. I may be seeing seeing, as the dinos seem to follow "main color is black, secondary depends on dino" rule (Green for Grimlock, Red for Swoop, Purple for Snarl).

AOE retail Slug.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Kickback is the grasshopper, you probably mean Skrapnel.

Snarl's colors ring a bell somewhere... Then again,. I may be seeing things, as the dinos seem to follow "main color is black, secondary depends on dino" rule (Green for Grimlock, Red for Swoop, Purple for Snarl).

And I called Animated Lockdown and Beast Hunters Ultra Magnus

Snarl reminds me of the recent Dinobot Slug toy deco.

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Snarl's colors ring a bell somewhere... Then again,. I may be seeing seeing, as the dinos seem to follow "main color is black, secondary depends on dino" rule (Green for Grimlock, Red for Swoop, Purple for Snarl).

AOE retail Slug.

Dammit, you beat me to it

So I'm a bit out of the loop is this line where takara will be releasing the RiD stuff (as how they used Go! For beast hunters)? Plus will they be putting together any fiction for this? As for the figures I'm digging the swoop and snarl redecos, I'm quite partial to those molds, same with lock down. ..whenever they reveals what the scheme is

I'm all about anything TFA or insecticons ... bring them on!!

ZeroWolf wrote:So I'm a bit out of the loop is this line where takara will be releasing the RiD stuff (as how they used Go! For beast hunters)? Plus will they be putting together any fiction for this? As for the figures I'm digging the swoop and snarl redecos, I'm quite partial to those molds, same with lock down. ..whenever they reveals what the scheme is

This is the Japanese RID line, yes, but with additional molds from Animated, Beast Hunters (those that weren't part of the Go! line, it seems), and Generations.

The RID cartoon will be airing in Japan under the new name of "Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Adventure". It is unknown how the dub will handle the show's relation to TF: Prime since Japan never got the third season of Prime (it got Go!'s cartoon instead).

Sabrblade wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:So I'm a bit out of the loop is this line where takara will be releasing the RiD stuff (as how they used Go! For beast hunters)? Plus will they be putting together any fiction for this? As for the figures I'm digging the swoop and snarl redecos, I'm quite partial to those molds, same with lock down. ..whenever they reveals what the scheme is

This is the Japanese RID line, yes, but with additional molds from Animated, Beast Hunters (those that weren't part of the Go! line, it seems), and Generations.

The RID cartoon will be airing in Japan under the new name of "Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Adventure". It is unknown how the dub will handle the show's relation to TF: Prime since Japan never got the third season of Prime (it got Go!'s cartoon instead).

Right, gotcha thanks Sabrblade.

ZeroWolf wrote:So I'm a bit out of the loop is this line where takara will be releasing the RiD stuff (as how they used Go! For beast hunters)? Plus will they be putting together any fiction for this? As for the figures I'm digging the swoop and snarl redecos, I'm quite partial to those molds, same with lock down. ..whenever they reveals what the scheme is

Yup, this is TakaraTomy's counterpart of RID 2015, though right now it looks more like a waste-bin line:

- Generations Scoop, Beast Hunters Ultra Magnus, Dreadwing and Knock Out were never released in Japan before.
- Animated Swoop and Snarl are probably put in to compliment Grimlock
- The Combiner Wars Legends are probably considered too small to be released stand-alone in Transformers Legends. Had a Kickback been in the works, that would have a different story for Bombshell and Shrapnel.

DRAT! Missed opportunity for a gray Grimlock.

But wow, what an odd mix of lines. Looks like there was a traffic jam on Cybertron, and they just took whomever was on the off-ramp and made a toy line. Ha ha ha.

Some of these decos DO look considerably better... CrocOut sure got a classy re-deco. Any green construction vehicle is a must-buy, too.

As for the RID tv show figures, it doesn't seem like the molds are nice enough to warrant importing a snazzier Takara paint app.

Honestly, these don't look to shabby, I always liked the TFA Swoop mold, so if this doesn't sell much I'll be grabbing him. I'd also grab the Lockdown, I need one that isn't a midget. And that Scourge deco Prime looks amazing.

I've been holding out on getting the Hasbro RID toys to wait and see what Takara's Adventure ones would look like, but since they aren't that significantly different (Bee's got orange headlights, a darker yellow,and more black-painted stripes on the side of his car mode, but that's it), I guess I'm good to go for Hasbro's.

EDIT: On second glance, I might have to go for Takara's Strongarm. That striped chest deco is better Hasbro's solid blue.

Anyone know if that Grimlock is a voyager(-ish) size?

RhA wrote:Anyone know if that Grimlock is a voyager(-ish) size?

Warrior Class, there are no regular Voyagers in either line.

Ooooh, colorful Animated Dinobots look nice! Especially loving the gradient on Snarl's dino crest.
... but no weapons?

Kinda odd pairing Animated molds with RiD ones, if mostly because I love Animated's character designs while I find RiD's to be terribly dull, so it's like it shouldn't work but it sorta does.


Knock Out makes me think of Movie Sideways more than any of the mentioned Autobots.

Noideaforaname wrote:Knock Out makes me think of Movie Sideways more than any of the mentioned Autobots.

If he had a black head, I'd agree. But the red head and red highlights on a mostly silver body made me think of Crosscut.

More and better pics from TakaraTomy Mall - http://takaratomymall.jp/shop/c/cTFad/

Strongarm redeco is "Greejeeber" (named after RID 2001 Rollbar's Japanese Car Robots name)

Knock Out redeco is "Bloody Knock Out" (seriously!)

AOE Power Battlers Junkheap redeco is "Junkion" (but colored like Ultra Magnus for some reason)

Roadblock only comes with one Targetmaster

There has been a lot of reveals today regarding the Takara Transformers Adventure Line with two news posts filled with new photos. Well why not make it a hat trick.

While now both BBTS and Takaratomymall now have preorder listings, these listings also come with new photos not seen yet.

The new pictures include the following:

TED03 (one step) Sideswipe
TED01 (Hyperchange) Bumblebee
TED02 (Hyperchange) Grimlock
TED05 Junkheap
And a target master that comes with TAV07 Load Block (generations Scoop)

william-james88 wrote:BBTS has them as well. The one really wierd thing is lockdown being priced as a voyager instead of a deluxe.

Maybe the toys come in robot mode. Animated Lockdown was quite tall in robot mode. Taller even that most of that line's Voyagers.

Aw. Bummer with the Ultra Magnus deco. I'm pretty much a shoe-in to buy a Junkion in standard Junkion colors.