Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Strafe Prototype Revealed

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:To round out our Technobot team, we finally bring to you the last member of the mighty Computron: Strafe! Strafe is an extensive retool of the Unite Warriors Blastoff mold, as compared to the Hasbro version which is a retooled Air Raid. The images were provided to use as always by Twitter user TFyuki and have been mirrored below for your enjoyment. Check out the images, and let us know what you think in the comments section below. And as always stay tuned to Seibertron.com for all your latest Transformers News and Galleries!

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:Now this one has me very unsure about this. I need to see the Hasbro version, but this one is just not sticking to me like Nosecone did. But it is still not bad by a long shot.

Hey Will: Now you can finish your spreadsheet!

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I think some Australian dude is very happy

Sabrblade wrote:Cheese and whiskers, he's Blast Off backwards!

Burn wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I think some Australian dude is very happy

Seriously! That alt mode!

The only downside to this is I wish they'd done more with Lightspeed and Scattorshot.

Hellscream9999 wrote:Love it, just hope TT doesn't screw him over with a drab paint job

(anticipates cancelling pre-order...)

Sabrblade wrote:Cheese and whiskers, he's Blast Off backwards!

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Love it, just hope TT doesn't screw him over with a drab paint job

(anticipates cancelling pre-order...)

don't you dare anticipate cancelling that preorder. This is awesome! Computron has finally risen! I'm still unsure about this dude, but I feel confident that he will be awesome!

Now I really may need to get this one. Argh, this is making my wallet and my head hurt so much

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Love it, just hope TT doesn't screw him over with a drab paint job

(anticipates cancelling pre-order...)

don't you dare anticipate cancelling that preorder. This is awesome! Computron has finally risen! I'm still unsure about this dude, but I feel confident that he will be awesome!

Now I really may need to get this one. Argh, this is making my wallet and my head hurt so much

Why? My figures have to actually look nice, that includes a well laid out deco, something TT has not done well for their last 4/5 combiners

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Love it, just hope TT doesn't screw him over with a drab paint job

(anticipates cancelling pre-order...)

don't you dare anticipate cancelling that preorder. This is awesome! Computron has finally risen! I'm still unsure about this dude, but I feel confident that he will be awesome!

Now I really may need to get this one. Argh, this is making my wallet and my head hurt so much

Why? My figures have to actually look nice, that includes a well laid out deco, something TT has not done well for their last 4/5 combiners

My spidey sense is telling me that the deco on this one will be pretty awesome layout wise. I'm feeling some hard, good efforts to round out unite warriors here

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Love it, just hope TT doesn't screw him over with a drab paint job

(anticipates cancelling pre-order...)

don't you dare anticipate cancelling that preorder. This is awesome! Computron has finally risen! I'm still unsure about this dude, but I feel confident that he will be awesome!

Now I really may need to get this one. Argh, this is making my wallet and my head hurt so much

Why? My figures have to actually look nice, that includes a well laid out deco, something TT has not done well for their last 4/5 combiners

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Love it, just hope TT doesn't screw him over with a drab paint job

(anticipates cancelling pre-order...)

don't you dare anticipate cancelling that preorder. This is awesome! Computron has finally risen! I'm still unsure about this dude, but I feel confident that he will be awesome!

Now I really may need to get this one. Argh, this is making my wallet and my head hurt so much

Why? My figures have to actually look nice, that includes a well laid out deco, something TT has not done well for their last 4/5 combiners

My spidey sense is telling me that the deco on this one will be pretty awesome layout wise. I'm feeling some hard, good efforts to round out unite warriors here

I'll believe it when I see it, but based on his show appearance, my expectations are staggeringly low

Alpha Dominus wrote:This gives me hope. Just glad it's not another lazy Aeriolbot retool.

Alpha Dominus wrote:This gives me hope. Just glad it's not another lazy Aeriolbot retool.

Deadput wrote:

Alpha Dominus wrote:This gives me hope. Just glad it's not another lazy Aeriolbot retool.

Yeah this time it's a lazy Blast Off retool amazing right?

Alpha Dominus wrote:This gives me hope. Just glad it's not another lazy Aeriolbot retool.

megatronus wrote:What's lazy about it?

Wolfman Jake wrote:Will this be Takara's last hurrah for the Unite Warriors line, or do they still have some more left in the tank? Hasbro is allegedly attempting Leo Kaiser. I would hope Takara would be up to the challenge to do it RIGHT with six team members instead of Hasbro's awkward five component version.

megatronus wrote:Strafe looks better than Blast Off! I wonder who was (truly) the remold of whom...

Deadput wrote:

megatronus wrote:What's lazy about it?

I don't know how is an Aerialbot retool more lazy then a Space shuttle retool?

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:If defense here, the Aerialbots were used several times. The Firefly mold was used 3 times (Fire, sling, Blast) and this mold has only been used once. and this is a complete reshell, not just a change of head. That makes this very unique, like Nosecone being an extensive retool of Rook. Both pull it off and are using lesser used versions of molds (the jeep descendants of Rook are very different from him and now Nosecone)

Deadput wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:If defense here, the Aerialbots were used several times. The Firefly mold was used 3 times (Fire, sling, Blast) and this mold has only been used once. and this is a complete reshell, not just a change of head. That makes this very unique, like Nosecone being an extensive retool of Rook. Both pull it off and are using lesser used versions of molds (the jeep descendants of Rook are very different from him and now Nosecone)

It's a retool no matter how you spin it who cares how many times it has been used that is not the point.

I will never understand people's disdain over them nor the content boot licking Takara receives I don't hate Takara I hate the comparing between it and Hasbro and the poor reasoning of why Hasbro is always crap because it always is I mean when they try something new (Alpha Bravo) they get called a greedy uncaring company.

Yeah Takara has better paint or might get something done better but it does not mean that Hasbro is lazy.

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Cheese and whiskers, he's Blast Off backwards!

Off Blast?
Ffo Tsalb?
Muffle On?

Deadput wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:Will this be Takara's last hurrah for the Unite Warriors line, or do they still have some more left in the tank? Hasbro is allegedly attempting Leo Kaiser. I would hope Takara would be up to the challenge to do it RIGHT with six team members instead of Hasbro's awkward five component version.

Despite then fact that they have not done six members which can't be possible in the combiner wars format unless one of them is a legends figure which Takara does not pack with their combiners.

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Deadput wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:Will this be Takara's last hurrah for the Unite Warriors line, or do they still have some more left in the tank? Hasbro is allegedly attempting Leo Kaiser. I would hope Takara would be up to the challenge to do it RIGHT with six team members instead of Hasbro's awkward five component version.

Despite then fact that they have not done six members which can't be possible in the combiner wars format unless one of them is a legends figure which Takara does not pack with their combiners.

They could skip out on a voyager torso and make a way to do two deluxes that combine to make a voyager-sized CW/UW torso for the rest of the limbs, similar to how Devastator works, really. Takara has shown they're willing to get REALLY fancy with retooling and original engineering for their releases.

Wolfman Jake wrote:
They could skip out on a voyager torso and make a way to do two deluxes that combine to make a voyager-sized CW/UW torso for the rest of the limbs, similar to how Devastator works, really. Takara has shown they're willing to get REALLY fancy with retooling and original engineering for their releases.

Deadput wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:
They could skip out on a voyager torso and make a way to do two deluxes that combine to make a voyager-sized CW/UW torso for the rest of the limbs, similar to how Devastator works, really. Takara has shown they're willing to get REALLY fancy with retooling and original engineering for their releases.

And this will never happen thier not going to create a whole new gimmick for one box set.

Deadput wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:
They could skip out on a voyager torso and make a way to do two deluxes that combine to make a voyager-sized CW/UW torso for the rest of the limbs, similar to how Devastator works, really. Takara has shown they're willing to get REALLY fancy with retooling and original engineering for their releases.

And this will never happen thier not going to create a whole new gimmick for one box set.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Deadput wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:
They could skip out on a voyager torso and make a way to do two deluxes that combine to make a voyager-sized CW/UW torso for the rest of the limbs, similar to how Devastator works, really. Takara has shown they're willing to get REALLY fancy with retooling and original engineering for their releases.

And this will never happen thier not going to create a whole new gimmick for one box set.

Never say never. There is a 3rd part Liokaiser being made right now, and Takara takes great pride in Liokaiser. I would not put it past them to create a new modern version. They do make takara-exclusive molds and combiners

Bounti76 wrote:Genuine question......since G1 ended in Japan in the early 90s, has Takara made any exclusive molds and/or combiners? Aside from Blast Off/Strafe, I genuinely can't think of any.

william-james88 wrote:the latest exclusive combiners Takara came up with on their own:

Sabrblade wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:Genuine question......since G1 ended in Japan in the early 90s, has Takara made any exclusive molds and/or combiners? Aside from Blast Off/Strafe, I genuinely can't think of any.

william-james88 wrote:the latest exclusive combiners Takara came up with on their own:

Bounti76 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Deadput wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:
They could skip out on a voyager torso and make a way to do two deluxes that combine to make a voyager-sized CW/UW torso for the rest of the limbs, similar to how Devastator works, really. Takara has shown they're willing to get REALLY fancy with retooling and original engineering for their releases.

And this will never happen thier not going to create a whole new gimmick for one box set.

Never say never. There is a 3rd part Liokaiser being made right now, and Takara takes great pride in Liokaiser. I would not put it past them to create a new modern version. They do make takara-exclusive molds and combiners

Genuine question......since G1 ended in Japan in the early 90s, has Takara made any exclusive molds and/or combiners? Aside from Blast Off/Strafe, I genuinely can't think of any.