Box Art Revealed for Takara Transformers Unite Warriors UW-08 Computron

TT really knows how to package their wares! Just love those panoramic battle scene in the back of their boxes. In fact, during G1, they also used their own paintings besides those by Mangiat.

Cool we got the UW Computron diagonal box shot. But UW-06 comes out in 4 days, and we still don't have a full frontal (no pun intended) box shot of it, and the usual window box preview...

StarFireMk4 wrote:According to this post on the news sub-forum on TFW, it looks like Yuki may (or may not) be teasing a Renuation (?) repaint of Bruticus.

Linky: http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-news-rumors/1065791-tfyuki-teasing-unite-warriors-valdigus.html

Obviously I'm optimistic, but wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't happen.

The post just says happy birthday since this marks the 15th anniversary of car robots. Its not a tease like we saw before.

william-james88 wrote:

StarFireMk4 wrote:According to this post on the news sub-forum on TFW, it looks like Yuki may (or may not) be teasing a Renuation (?) repaint of Bruticus.

Linky: http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-news-rumors/1065791-tfyuki-teasing-unite-warriors-valdigus.html

Obviously I'm optimistic, but wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't happen.

The post just says happy birthday since this marks the 15th anniversary of car robots. Its not a tease like we saw before.

I'm not saying this post means anything but if they we're doing a ruination repaint why would they do a teaser like we saw before? With the standard silhouettes it's obvious which combiner they're doing but for a straight repaint it would be more vague.

Nah; do the Wreckers FOC Ruination.

Autobot N wrote:

Kurona wrote:Nah; do the Wreckers FOC Ruination.

I would upvote the heck out of this if there was an upvote button.

Coming from other forums like Smogon I really miss having a Like button :p

Seriously tho an RiD Ruination would be a nice repaint. It'd surprise me tho since Takara's Unite Warriors line so far has had an impressive streak of having no straight-up redecos - at the very least every figure has a unique head.

Omg the Nosecone leg on UW Computron even looks horrible in the box art. So sad. Hasbro's just is a better choice in my opinion.

Kurona wrote:

Autobot N wrote:

Kurona wrote:Nah; do the Wreckers FOC Ruination.

I would upvote the heck out of this if there was an upvote button.

Coming from other forums like Smogon I really miss having a Like button :p

Seriously tho an RiD Ruination would be a nice repaint. It'd surprise me tho since Takara's Unite Warriors line so far has had an impressive streak of having no straight-up redecos - at the very least every figure has a unique head.

So much YES.

SillySpringer wrote:Omg the Nosecone leg on UW Computron even looks horrible in the box art. So sad. Hasbro's just is a better choice in my opinion.

Well, you have to keep the drill attached to the knee, that's just storage, you can attache it to comps' wrist in lieu of a hand - it's what I would do

SillySpringer wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:Omg the Nosecone leg on UW Computron even looks horrible in the box art. So sad. Hasbro's just is a better choice in my opinion.

Well, you have to keep the drill attached to the knee, that's just storage, you can attache it to comps' wrist in lieu of a hand - it's what I would do

Hasbro's also comes with better combiner pieces, those couple extra little figures (forgot their names), AND a better color scheme in my opinion. A better use of money in my opinion. Why spend 150 USD on the Takara version, then spend 30 to 50 MORE dollars for an upgrade set, when I can get it all at once for only 100 USD in a box set with better colors AND more figures?

That't totally your opinion, though if your prices are a bit off as you can get him for $130 shipped, which is what I'm going to do. to me, despite Hasbro having those hands and feet and Scrounge, Takara went so much farther making this a true technobots set. Nosecone and Lightspeed are mere repaints without proper heads on Hasbro, and the Computron torso is just a miscolored Superion torso, which to me sticks out. I like that Takara did differentiate the torso, Scattershot in robot mode, and Nosecone and Lightspeed in both modes. To me, they did it better, and I don't pose my combiners doing some weird A-stances, and I like the HFG, so to me it isn't a deal breaker. Plus, Screamer has the right idea about a drill hand!

fenrir72 wrote:A Battle gear (?) ( Battle Gaia) version would be better. That's how I pronounce him in english, 'cause "Battle earth" sounds loopey and girly

I too always prefer using the term Gaia than "earth". Thats translating things a bit too far.