Transformers Unite Warriors UW-05 Convoy Grand Prime Stop Motion Video

carytheone wrote:Do you like Transformers stop motion videos? Good, because fellow Seibertronian Madeus Prime has alerted us to a video that YouTuber youheidx has posted of Transformers Unite Warriors UW-05 Convoy Grand Prime. Which you may already know is Takara's release of Transformers Combiner Wars Ultra Prime

Cool little video. Subscribed. Cant wait to watch a few more

o.supreme wrote:

carytheone wrote:Do you like Transformers stop motion videos? Good, because fellow Seibertronian Madeus Prime has alerted us to a video that YouTuber youheidx has posted of Transformers Unite Warriors UW-05 Convoy Grand Prime. Which you may already know is Takara's release of Transformers Combiner Wars Ultra Prime

Cool little video. Subscribed. Cant wait to watch a few more

He's got some really good ones, dig around a bit. When you get done with that channel, check out this one: https://www.youtube.com/user/harrisloureiro

william-james88 wrote:

Alpha Weltall wrote:I know for sure that the current single retail Scattershot will NOT be my Computron Scattershot. That doesn't mean that I don't still want it to complete Betatron though as I'll obviously have extra limbs around.

Why cant Betatron be made using Takara's Scatershot instead of the retail one? Judging from the trend of takara going for toon accuracy, he will probably look a lot like the chest deco on hasbro's.

Because Hasbro and TakaraTomy have gone independent at this point with the Combiner Wars/Unite Warriors lines? No communication between the two about their plans it seems.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Because Hasbro and TakaraTomy have gone independent at this point with the Combiner Wars/Unite Warriors lines? No communication between the two about their plans it seems.

Your new avatar is freaking me out Jelze. Its like the Navi decided to join Gem and the Holograms.

william-james88 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Because Hasbro and TakaraTomy have gone independent at this point with the Combiner Wars/Unite Warriors lines? No communication between the two about their plans it seems.

Your new avatar is freaking me out Jelze. Its like the Navi decided to join Gem and the Holograms.

Agreed.

So do we know if we will see a Takara Sky Lynx?

Nemesis Destron wrote:So do we know if we will see a Takara Sky Lynx?

At this time, we do not.

Nemesis Destron wrote:So do we know if we will see a Takara Sky Lynx?

Hopefully sometime, but so far negatory

Autobot N wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Because Hasbro and TakaraTomy have gone independent at this point with the Combiner Wars/Unite Warriors lines? No communication between the two about their plans it seems.

Your new avatar is freaking me out Jelze. Its like the Navi decided to join Gem and the Holograms.

Agreed.

It's one of my older pics from IMVU, somehow the board crash (which I completely missed thanks to a road trip) knocked out my previous pic and reverted it to this one. I don't have it on hand on this computer so I'll have to make a new one.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Nemesis Destron wrote:So do we know if we will see a Takara Sky Lynx?

Hopefully sometime, but so far negatory

Youheidx (from the stop motion video earlier in the thread) has already gone ahead and imported the Hasbro version for his next video, that should tell you how much faith he has in the prospect.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Alpha Weltall wrote:I know for sure that the current single retail Scattershot will NOT be my Computron Scattershot. That doesn't mean that I don't still want it to complete Betatron though as I'll obviously have extra limbs around.

Why cant Betatron be made using Takara's Scatershot instead of the retail one? Judging from the trend of takara going for toon accuracy, he will probably look a lot like the chest deco on hasbro's.

Because Hasbro and TakaraTomy have gone independent at this point with the Combiner Wars/Unite Warriors lines? No communication between the two about their plans it seems.

I think Will's suggesting that Alpha Weltall uses the Scattershot from UW-07 for Betatron, and mixes and matches the UW and CW technobots with Hasbro box set Scattershot to make the perfect Computron.

william-james88 wrote:

Alpha Weltall wrote:I know for sure that the current single retail Scattershot will NOT be my Computron Scattershot. That doesn't mean that I don't still want it to complete Betatron though as I'll obviously have extra limbs around.

Why cant Betatron be made using Takara's Scatershot instead of the retail one? Judging from the trend of takara going for toon accuracy, he will probably look a lot like the chest deco on hasbro's.

Gah! He's shaping up to be less painted than TT's defensor, dragstrip, and CW + UW devs combined - he looks to have absolutely no painted details at all - if the UW line is anything to go by so far

Hellscream9999 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Alpha Weltall wrote:I know for sure that the current single retail Scattershot will NOT be my Computron Scattershot. That doesn't mean that I don't still want it to complete Betatron though as I'll obviously have extra limbs around.

Why cant Betatron be made using Takara's Scatershot instead of the retail one? Judging from the trend of takara going for toon accuracy, he will probably look a lot like the chest deco on hasbro's.

Gah! He's shaping up to be less painted than TT's defensor, dragstrip, and CW + UW devs combined - he looks to have absolutely no painted details at all - if the UW line is anything to go by so far

What the hell is it with you and paint apps? You understand that paint has very little to do with how good a figure will look right? It's all about execution, plus it's been talked about and proved before that more paint typically equals more qc issues

That Bot wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Alpha Weltall wrote:I know for sure that the current single retail Scattershot will NOT be my Computron Scattershot. That doesn't mean that I don't still want it to complete Betatron though as I'll obviously have extra limbs around.

Why cant Betatron be made using Takara's Scatershot instead of the retail one? Judging from the trend of takara going for toon accuracy, he will probably look a lot like the chest deco on hasbro's.

Because Hasbro and TakaraTomy have gone independent at this point with the Combiner Wars/Unite Warriors lines? No communication between the two about their plans it seems.

I think Will's suggesting that Alpha Weltall uses the Scattershot from UW-07 for Betatron, and mixes and matches the UW and CW technobots with Hasbro box set Scattershot to make the perfect Computron.

Thanks That Bot, thats exactly what I meant. The initial post felt like you'd end up with 3 scatershots and I suggested that 2 is enough. One can be your preferred computrona nd the other can be Betatron.

specially since I believe that the chest of Takara's Computron will likely look more like Betatron's chest.

steals_your_goats wrote:
What the hell is it with you and paint apps? You understand that paint has very little to do with how good a figure will look right? It's all about execution, plus it's been talked about and proved before that more paint typically equals more qc issues

I agree. Case in point, Combiner Wars Leader Megatron. He arguably has the most paint apps we have seen in years from hasbro and yet that hasnt swayed Hellscream in any way into buying the figure.

Plus, when we look back at the alternators line, everyone preferred Smokescreen over Silvestreak even though they were the same mold and Silverstreak was the only fully painted figure of the Hasbro line.

In the end, paint apps arent everything. They can make a good figure even better but they can't save a figure. And they arent needed inorder to appreciate a figure. They can also, as steal_your_goats said, make a figure even worse. He was talking about qc issues but it can be worse than that. Look at below and tell me which of the two you would rather own? Is it the one with more paint or less?


Transformers Animated Bulkhead (Ironhide) Gallery

william-james88 wrote:

steals_your_goats wrote:
What the hell is it with you and paint apps? You understand that paint has very little to do with how good a figure will look right? It's all about execution, plus it's been talked about and proved before that more paint typically equals more qc issues

I agree. Case in point, Combiner Wars Leader Megatron. He arguably has the most paint apps we have seen in years from hasbro and yet that hasnt swayed Hellscream in any way into buying the figure.

Plus, when we look back at the alternators line, everyone preferred Smokescreen over Silvestreak even though they were the same mold and Silverstreak was the only fully painted figure of the Hasbro line.

In the end, paint apps arent everything. They can make a good figure even better but they can't save a figure. And they arent needed inorder to appreciate a figure. They can also, as steal_your_goats said, make a figure even worse. He was talking about qc issues but it can be worse than that. Look at below and tell me which of the two you would rather own? Is it the one with more paint or less?


Transformers Animated Bulkhead (Ironhide) Gallery

Oh my, he's so SHINY...

Delta Magnus wrote:Oh my, he's so SHINY...

The shine is nice, but the colour is where the problem is, no?

The shiny paint worked wonders for Ironhide/Armourhide and Rodimus...


Transformers Animated Ironhide (Armorhide) Gallery


Transformers Animated Rodimus Minor (Rodimus) Gallery

... but kind of failed for Bumblebee and Bulkhead


Transformers Animated Bumblebee Gallery

Aye, it certainly isn't show accurate at all, though I do think it's a very attractive hue. Kinda reminds me of the G1 Hound toy.

Also, with a new head that Bumblebee would make a superb Goldbug.

steals_your_goats wrote:
What the hell is it with you and paint apps? You understand that paint has very little to do with how good a figure will look right? It's all about execution, plus it's been talked about and proved before that more paint typically equals more qc issues

At the same time though, the execution wasn't that good for some figures, which is the big gripe. Sunsteaker and Dragstrip just look so plain it hurts. Takara's Defensor also looked disappointing as it gave up some paint applications on the chest and thighs and just colored it plain to match the animation model, which really did not flatter the figure. As a result, the Hasbro version to us looked much better since the paint made the figures look less bland and did not ignore some molded in detail.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:Sunsteaker and Dragstrip just look so plain it hurts.

Hasbro was plain too, but on different ones. Did you know that Hasbro's Wheeljack was part of a band? They are called the Plain White Ts

william-james88 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:Sunsteaker and Dragstrip just look so plain it hurts.

Hasbro was plain too, but on different ones. Did you know that Hasbro's Wheeljack was part of a band? They are called the Plain White Ts

Yeah, no way I'm defending that hideously unpainted mess.