Official Images:Takara Tomy Transformers Go! Ninja Combiner Team

These are all.. just.. so terrible.

Craptacular!

Metrosuplex wrote:

RAcast wrote:

El Duque wrote:...

Yup, definitely prefer the beastie squad. They may sacrifice a lot on the alt-mode side, but the robot modes are spot on. Frankly, it's kind of amusing that the beast modes look so weird. I wonder if you can swing the legs around give the phoenix(?) rocket boosters.

Yeah, Beast squad looks better. I like the shark thing the most. Still, what's with the awkward beast modes?

Were these guys designed by interns working on weekends? They just seem like such a step backward, engineering-wise. Or, on the other hand, I tip my hand for making such bold design decisions.

Well, if you look back at the Super Link/Energon line's Autobot's, you can tell that these share a lot aesthetically with them, and that they combine in a similar fashion. It's not so much as a step backward in engineering as doing something they already know how to do. Kind of a shame they didn't improve on what they learned from the Super Link line. They definitely made the legs -too- long on the Samurai team. Ninja team looks fantastic and I can't wait to see more of them combined.

As for the weird altmode designs, I feel like the shark is definitely supposed to be a Shark-submarine...though I can't think of a good excuse for the other two. The lion is super deformed and the phoenix packed on the pounds for thanksgiving. Seriously though, I like them, and find their weird designs oddly endearing.

Metrosuplex wrote:

RAcast wrote:

El Duque wrote:...

Yup, definitely prefer the beastie squad. They may sacrifice a lot on the alt-mode side, but the robot modes are spot on. Frankly, it's kind of amusing that the beast modes look so weird. I wonder if you can swing the legs around give the phoenix(?) rocket boosters.

Yeah, Beast squad looks better. I like the shark thing the most. Still, what's with the awkward beast modes?

Were these guys designed by interns working on weekends? They just seem like such a step backward, engineering-wise. Or, on the other hand, I tip my hand for making such bold design decisions.

To be honest, it's hard to make a three-way combiner with individual modes.

These are so japanese. Very reminiscent of the old web diver/dai gander toys. I love that purple shark!

Looks like I'll be passing on this combiner as well. Shame really. They look so awkward and detached from the rest of the PRIME/Go! line.

Is it me, or does that bird-guy remind me of Doubledealer? Color him blue-purple and whammo, you got yourself a backstabbing powermaster.

Not sure how much I like the lion. Basically looks like you fold back the front paws, straighten the legs and fold down the lion head, revealing the robot head. Seems a bit simple. But then again, it is a combiner, after all...

I'm not sure what I think about these.

Autobot032 wrote:You know what grinds my gears? People call the movie toys TINO. (Transformers In Name Only)

Apparently, they haven't seen these yet.

I do find it odd they look more like something that would come from Bandai and not Takara.

But at least they are not 2-fingered terminators with bird legs (please everyone, that's a joke, there are a LOT of movie designs and toys I'm quite the fan of)

Lord Onixprime wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:To be honest, it's hard to make a three-way combiner with individual modes.

Magnaboss, Tripredacus and Rail Racer beg to differ

I'm talking about interchangeable positions. Those three only combined a certain way; these combine into three different configurations.

Courtesy of e-Hobby we have some updated official images of Takara Tomy's upcoming Transformers Go! Gekisomaru, Hisashimaru, and Sensuimaru otherwise known as the Swordbot Shinobi Team. These images give us our best looks to date of the trio including nice up close shots of the figure's faces. The team can combine in three different configurations to form a larger robot. Check out the new official images mirrored below: