New Galleries: Platinum Unicron and Encore Unicron of Light

Green Unicron is really cool, but it suffers from some severe mold degradation. 'Tis what happens when its the latest release of a most that's been used so much. Still, it's really cool to have what is essentially a "Good Guy Unicron toy", what with this not actually being Unicron himself but an energy doppelganger made up of Mini-Cons.

Platinum Edition Unicron, on the other hand, I was more than happy to skip. Lazy reuse of the Amazon deco, but made worse with that baby blue. Say what one will about what shade of blue/gray Unicron is, we can all agree that he isn't that shade. So glad they did not use it for the HasLab figure.

Still, it is cool that you got his eyes changed from red to green. Nice work.

Seibertron wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Platinum Edition Unicron, on the other hand, I was more than happy to skip. Lazy reuse of the Amazon deco, but made worse with that baby blue. Say what one will about what shade of blue/gray Unicron is, we can all agree that he isn't that shade. So glad they did not use it for the HasLab figure.

I absolutely agree. It's a really bad blue. The Amazon one is a weird blue also. I don't know what color I think Unicron's planet mode should be, but it's not any of those for sure. I still am not a big fan of the shade used for HasLab Unicron either. I wish they had done something unique with it that had a bluish gray swirly sheen to it or something. Just something unique so that it looked grayer in some lights and bluer in other lights.

My ideal shade would be a nice halfway between the blue of the Amazon and HasLab Unicrons and the gray of Welcome to Transformers 2010 Unicron.

could you image the haslab unicron coming in the armada, unicron of light and the dark unicron colors

Ultra Markus wrote:could you image the haslab unicron coming in the armada, unicron of light and the dark unicron colors

I can definitely imagine it! I'd really like to get Haslab Unicron in the Energon black color scheme. It's my favorite and it is different enough that I think its fair to people who thought this was a one and done thing.

love the overhead view of the 5 planets...

they look like synchronized swimmers...

And yet, still no Power of the Primes

Anyway, gonna go look at that Laser Magnus gallery

Pretty cool to see how the original mold for this version of G2 Optimus Prime still holds up.

Seibertron wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:And yet, still no Power of the Primes

Anyway, gonna go look at that Laser Magnus gallery

Hopefully I can circle back to Power of the Primes soon. I was working on those galleries a little over 4 years ago right up until the day my Mom died. It de-railed my gallery process for quite some time unfortunately. Hopefully I can get back in the swing of things soon. I might put more of a focus on finishing up older galleries over new ones, but we'll see. I have hundreds of half finished galleries from the past 12 years on my laptop that I really need to get finished up at long last and posted. These 3 Laser Optimus related galleries were ones that I started back in 2015 when Year of the Goat Optimus came out, but I never finished the galleries until this past weekend. I figured if I didn't do them now with motivation from Legacy Laser Optimus, I never would get them done.

Anyone in particular from Power of the Primes that you're hoping to see?

Damn... Now I feel like a smeghead for treating post-PotP stuff and assorted others getting galleries before PotP as if it were a running gag...

I'd like to see Roddy and the Dinobots. Also Elita if you got her.

I'm really hoping we get Ultra Magnus, Nemesis Prime, and Toxitron as repaints in legacy, from the new Laser Prime mold.

Inspiration hit me recently after watching some of my favorite YouTubers while packaging up customer orders at the Seibertron Store. In addition, it recently dawned on my that I started this journey posting Transformers galleries almost 20 years ago. Time goes by way too fast and there are some notable omissions from our Transformers toy galleries. So here we are today at the beginning of a new wave of Transformers Generation One galleries after almost 7 years since the last batch.

Late last night, I finally posted galleries of Transformers Encore Metroplex. Released in 2008 by Takara Tomy, this toy was a reissue of the original version of G1 1986 Metroplex (including rubber wheels and chrome legs).

It's been a long journey from start to finish for this set of galleries. I began work on Encore Metroplex's gallery 10 years ago in the summer of 2013 when Generations Titan Class Metroplex was released. In 2017, I started it up again when I did comparison shots of Platinum Trypticon when Titans Return Titan Class Trypticon was released. Long story short: life got in the way and I was unable to finish the Metroplex related galleries until now.

Included with Metroplex are his friends (and accessories) Scamper, Six-Gun and Slammer. Metroplex transforms from battle station to city mode to giant robot and back! Six-Gun is formed from various Metroplex blasters and accessories. Slammer is a tank that transforms into a tower (and didn't get a robot mode until 35 years later in the War for Cybertron Kingdom toy line). Scamper is a small black car that transforms into a robot mode.

Since this was the Encore version, I only did comparisons with other versions of Metroplex as well as Hasbro's Platinum Edition Trypticon. The full G1 Metroplex gallery and several others will be posted over the next few weeks. So stay tuned!

You can check out the galleries of Encore Metroplex, Six-Gun, Scamper and Slammer by clicking on the links and images below.


Transformers Encore Metroplex (163 images) - Supreme Class














Transformers Encore Scamper (81 images) - Miscellaneous






Transformers Encore Six-Gun (52 images) - Miscellaneous




Transformers Encore Slammer (30 images) - Miscellaneous