Takara Transformers Unite Warriors UN-03 Defensor

Burn wrote:

Cyberpath wrote:

Scale? We don't need no stinking scale!

Way to go on being huge Groove.

Spanbauer wrote:

Burn wrote:

Cyberpath wrote:

Scale? We don't need no stinking scale!

Way to go on being huge Groove.

Am I the only one that sees the hypocrisy in Hasbro ditching Groove "because scale", while simultaneously including a baby helicopter for ants?

shajaki wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Oh I know. But all along from the very first combiner announced (superion), the reason for me to choose between Takara and Hasbro was based on how good the team looks together. This is beyond any nostalgia or need for likeness to the show. I preferred all jets for Superion because it worked better for the theme. I liked all different molds for Menasor because that team seemed to look better the more eclectic it was. And in the case of Defensor, I really like the rescue theme it has with the red white and blue. I would have preffered having that Groove instead of Rook but at least Rook fits the colour theme beautifully. Not sure if all the white is the same from figure to figure on the Hasbro version but I hope it is. That grey on Streetwise clashes too much for me.

Could always toss Hasbro's SS on there instead

Nemesis Maximo wrote:I hope Hasbro finds a reason to use that Groove mold. Because the robot mode is badass.

Seibertron wrote:i love seeing adults trying to argue whether or not kids want things in scale or not. My 2 cents? Kids don't give a damn. That's what imagination is for. I don't ever recall thinking about scale when I was a kid except bigger Transformers were stronger or were the leaders. Perceptor and Soundwave were my respective leaders until Ultra Magnus with dead Optimus Prime and Galvatron came along. And Devastator was strongest because he was biggest in my childhood collection. Scale be damned.

Seibertron wrote:i love seeing adults trying to argue whether or not kids want things in scale or not. My 2 cents? Kids don't give a damn. That's what imagination is for. I don't ever recall thinking about scale when I was a kid except bigger Transformers were stronger or were the leaders. Perceptor and Soundwave were my respective leaders until Ultra Magnus with dead Optimus Prime and Galvatron came along. And Devastator was strongest because he was biggest in my childhood collection. Scale be damned.

Seibertron wrote:i love seeing adults trying to argue whether or not kids want things in scale or not. My 2 cents? Kids don't give a damn. That's what imagination is for. I don't ever recall thinking about scale when I was a kid except bigger Transformers were stronger or were the leaders. Perceptor and Soundwave were my respective leaders until Ultra Magnus with dead Optimus Prime and Galvatron came along. And Devastator was strongest because he was biggest in my childhood collection. Scale be damned.

munkimus prime wrote:Screw scale I like toys.

Gearslide wrote:Seeing Takara's Groove in detail, I feel like if the next two Scramble City Combiners are Abominus and Computron, that Abominus will be all new molds (excluding retools among members, like with the Aerialbots), and Computron will be all retools/repaint of older molds.

For instance:

-Scattershot could be retooled from the Silverbolt or Cyclonus molds.
-Afterburner could be retooled/repainted from the Groove mold.
-Lightspeed could be retooled/repainted from the Breakdown or Dead End molds.
-Nosecone could be retooled/repainted from the Brawl mold.
-Strafe could be retooled from an Aerialbot (OR if Takara actually makes their own Space Shuttle Blast Off) mold.

The reason I'm thinking this is because when HasTak make a new mold, they usually plan it to have multiple repaints/retools in order to maximize efficiency from the mold. And with the new reveals, there's a couple molds that don't have second uses planned/shown yet (Brawl and Groove being the main culprits, and again, if Takara has a different mold for Blast Off).

The Terrorcons, on the other hand, don't really work with any of the current Combiner Wars molds, being monsters. I imagine they'll be all new molds, with POSSIBLY Rippernapper and Blot (Blight? Bloght? Blut?) being retools of each other (being they are kind of similar in design in monster mode). And then, Piranacon and/or Monstructor could have retools of the Terrorcons in their teams, since they also feature beastial/monster modes.