Haslab Liokaiser Update Video and First Tier Unlocked

Sabrblade wrote:

Hero Alpha wrote:Hasbro Pulse youtube channel should be running a live stream of it 24hrs a day like Transformers and G.I. Joe it already does. That just might sell it to a few more people who never watched it.

If they did, however, you just know they would use the Shout! Factory subtitled version that changed a bunch of things in the subtitle translation to make them more inaccurate to what is actually said in the Japanese dialogue. Not just name changes but cramming in references to TFTM, the Bay movies, Aligned, and IDW1 that otherwise do not belong in any 1980s Japanese anime translation.

That sounds blasphemous, glad I didn't start with that. Or they use the Omni dub
Actually I do kinda enjoy the Headmasters Omni dub every now and again. Checking in on Billy, Sparkle, Soundwave 2 and the gang.

I was sure I saw photos or a video of the chest animal-less figures somewhere, but can't seem to find them now. Thought it was the greyscale ones.

...and it just unlocked the Electromagnetic Nunchaku tier.

Dawn, this Haslab's on track to blow so far past every bonus that they could make up some serious after-the-fact extras. Lyzack and the Rescue Force would probably be too much to hope for, but I never thought this would happen either.

Sabrblade wrote:

Bumblevivisector wrote:...and it just unlocked the Electromagnetic Nunchaku tier.

Dawn, this Haslab's on track to blow so far past every bonus that they could make up some serious after-the-fact extras. Lyzack and the Rescue Force would probably be too much to hope for, but I never thought this would happen either.

Lizack isn't happening because Hasbro and Takara don't own the rights to her.

Then they can do a toy of her newly-discovered identical triplet sister Lubuazack, who happens to look just like her, but somehow different from Leozack, and give her a bio card that encourages collectors to repurpose her, fudging the Botcon/Wings tradition just a tad.

As for Big Rescue Force's elusive arm bots, I keep picturing Deathcobra repainted into Rescue Bots Blades, somewhere in the future, in the strangest of places...

Sabrblade wrote:The display stands have just been unlocked!

Must have just happened, it was still under 17K a few hours ago after they sent the last email about G.I.Joe pre-orders.

Emerje

And it just broke 20,000!

Have they still not added Japan's backers?

Emily and Evan have posted a new video today announcing Haslab Transformers Victory LioKaiser reaching and surpassing its fully funded goal, currently at over 20,000 sets backed. That means all announced tiers have been reached with a little time left for project backing. The campaign ends at 11:59PM ET on March 24, 2025, this coming Monday.

The video also highlights changes that have been recently made to the figures still in their early stage.

Leozak - Panels added to hide his head in jet mode and the screws in LioKaisers chest.
Gaihawk and Ellbat - Their Chest Animals have been altered so the peg no longer sticks out in bot mode. Also the intakes have been changed on their shoulders to fold back instead of forward so they don't get in the way of the combined mode.
Jaruga - The combiner parts that connect to the top of him have been modified to look like missile pods.
Drillhorn and Killbison - They now have wheels hidden in their tracks so they can roll.
Deathcobra - Thigh rotation has been added and in canon mode all of the Chest Animals can be connected to him.



With just over 3 days remaining we're hitting that now or never point. Let us know in the Seibertron Energon Pub forums if any of the changes were enough to get you on board or not.

The late edits and additions really help put this over the top. I appreciate the care that's gone into making this the best it can be. You can tell the designers and team really care about the product and the fans. Thanks!

Emerje wrote:

Dino-Snarl wrote:We still don't think they have put all the overseas pre-order numbers in as yet. Once they're in, especially Japan, this will blow all other HasLabs away for backings. Hyped that all three tiers are unlocked. There was never any doubt they wouldn't be.

The Japanese ones have been added regularly already, the big jumps we've been seeing lately have come from the overseas pre-orders. There's always a big burst at the end, but I'm not expecting anything spectacular.

Incidentally, they've added nearly 500 just today.

Emerje

Darn.

StrykerTyger wrote:I'm with TJOmega concerning the shoulder joints on the tank guys, though, and wish that they had fixed that bit of engineering. Hopefully it looks and functions better than what it appears like.

They said in the video that they aren't done making modifications, nothing is out of the question, especially if the finally numbers are high enough to justify bigger changes.

Emerje

I've been waiting for this for a while, so within the first 3 days, I backed this. I love the Japanese G1 designs.