Pack In Comics for Takara Legends LG56 Perceptor and LG57 Octane

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Thanks to fellow Seibertronians Cyberpath and Sabrblade, we have links to both the pack in comic/manga that comes with Transformers Legends LG56 Perceptor and LG57 Octane, as well as a plot summary for the Perceptor comic.

Below you will find links along with some highlighted panels. The Perceptor comic heavily connected to the G1 episode "The Face of the Nijika", and answers how Perceptor became just a head (since in Japanese continuity, the actual robot characters are just the small bots that Transform into heads). It also confirms that this is indeed G1 cassette Ramhorn and we get to see how Ramhorn went from being a cassette to a mini tank.

The Octane comic (yes, he is actually called Octane on the box), shows how Starscream takes over Octane's body in this bit of continuity. The toy comes with an extra clear plastic head representing Starscream's ghost.


LG56 Perceptor --

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LG57 Octane --

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And here's the summary for just Perceptor's comic (Octane's comic hasn't been summaried yet):

TFWiki wrote:Having heard that the Legends World was created by the Zamojin, Perceptor travels to the dimension in search of his old friend, Katsu Don, whom he's lost touch with and worries about. Highbrow looks forward to investigating the dimension's mysteries together with his fellow scientist, though Perceptor's first duty is to fix up Ramhorn, injured in battle to the point where his cassette mode is beyond repair. Perceptor replaces it with a new tank mode, and while Ramhorn hates it, the scientist insists that he made the right choice giving him a more mobile altmode is better. The group is then interrupted by none other than Katsu Don, who says he's here to "take back Nijika" before tearing Perceptor's head off and running off with it. Highbrow and Perceptor's colleague Minerva are ready to make chase, but Ramhorn warns them that the Zamojin are strong and that they should bring some extra firepower in the form of Perceptor's body.

Katsu Don brings Perceptor to the headless new body of Nijika, damaged in a previous battle, and, having recalled that Perceptor's parts are compatible with hers, attaches the panicking scientist's head to it. The process is interrupted by the other Autobots, who have reconfigured Perceptor's body into its rarely seen tank mode, and a combined barrage from both it and Ramhorn distracts Katsu Don long enough for Perceptor to remove his head from Nijika. He returns it to his original body and takes aim at Katsu Don using Ramhorn's third mode, a handheld weapon, and the Zamojin retreats, swearing he will fulfill his dream of creating a full-scale Nijika someday. Admitting that he wasn't actually going to open fire on his old friend, Perceptor hopes that Katsu Don will someday, on a night of falling stars, find the right path again.

After returning to Axalon, Perceptor figures that since his head was already separated, he might as well convert it into a small robot and live a comfortable, human-sized life. Unfortunately, this makes it less comfortable for him to use his microscope mode, as he now has to stand on Minerva's head just to look into the lens.

primalxconvoy wrote:Yes, why were people saying it was called "Octone" on the box? That was the Hasbro version, right?

1984forever wrote:Don’t know what’s being said in that Octane story, but it looks like somebody’s getting nostalgic for Kiss Players.

william-james88 wrote: (Octane's comic hasn't been summaried yet)

zodconvoy wrote:

william-james88 wrote: (Octane's comic hasn't been summaried yet)

Good!

primalxconvoy wrote:Indeed it is, but it's written "Octane" in English, so I'm not sure how others got confused about it. Takara's been quite good with the old English names for these toys in the last several years.

Albatross250 wrote:What's mysterious that how can he have a body on POTP? looks like i'll have to see that soon.

Sabrblade wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:Indeed it is, but it's written "Octane" in English, so I'm not sure how others got confused about it. Takara's been quite good with the old English names for these toys in the last several years.

Takara uses BOTH names on the Legends packaging. Japanese "Octone" in Katakana and English "Octane" in Latin Script. This is nothing new for the Legends packaging, but considering that these toys are meant to be sold and bought within the nation of Japan to Japanese-speaking consumers, especially with the Katakana name font being much larger and more prominent than the Latin Script name font, it stands to reason that the toy's intended name is the one written in the language native to the country it is being sold in. Ergo, the toy's name is supposed to be "Octone", with the foreign "Octane" name included below it for some secondary international marketing appeal.

Sabrblade wrote:

Albatross250 wrote:What's mysterious that how can he have a body on POTP? looks like i'll have to see that soon.

Seeing as how Takara's POTP line seems to just be a straight import of Hasbro's POTP line, I sincerely doubt it will have anything to do with Legends or its manga continuity, as it very well may not get any Japanese-original fiction of its own since almost none of the previous Hasbro-imported Takara lines of the past decade did (and any that did ended up having fictions that were co-productions between America and Japan, rather than strictly Japanese-original).

primalxconvoy wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:Indeed it is, but it's written "Octane" in English, so I'm not sure how others got confused about it. Takara's been quite good with the old English names for these toys in the last several years.

Takara uses BOTH names on the Legends packaging. Japanese "Octone" in Katakana and English "Octane" in Latin Script. This is nothing new for the Legends packaging, but considering that these toys are meant to be sold and bought within the nation of Japan to Japanese-speaking consumers, especially with the Katakana name font being much larger and more prominent than the Latin Script name font, it stands to reason that the toy's intended name is the one written in the language native to the country it is being sold in. Ergo, the toy's name is supposed to be "Octone", with the foreign "Octane" name included below it for some secondary international marketing appeal.

Yes, we know that, but the box art has been known for a while now, so why did ENGLISH speakers get confused?

primalxconvoy wrote:Yes, we know that, but the box art has been known for a while now, so why did ENGLISH speakers get confused?

primalxconvoy wrote:It's also the (first?) Legends toy to specifically babe the Headmaster figures on the box.

Albatross250 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Albatross250 wrote:What's mysterious that how can he have a body on POTP? looks like i'll have to see that soon.

Seeing as how Takara's POTP line seems to just be a straight import of Hasbro's POTP line, I sincerely doubt it will have anything to do with Legends or its manga continuity, as it very well may not get any Japanese-original fiction of its own since almost none of the previous Hasbro-imported Takara lines of the past decade did (and any that did ended up having fictions that were co-productions between America and Japan, rather than strictly Japanese-original).

I still remember last year about Prime and Roller (Unite Warriors), i think the Zodiac will be the power for the Matrix in version of POTP.

Sabrblade wrote:

Albatross250 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Albatross250 wrote:What's mysterious that how can he have a body on POTP? looks like i'll have to see that soon.

Seeing as how Takara's POTP line seems to just be a straight import of Hasbro's POTP line, I sincerely doubt it will have anything to do with Legends or its manga continuity, as it very well may not get any Japanese-original fiction of its own since almost none of the previous Hasbro-imported Takara lines of the past decade did (and any that did ended up having fictions that were co-productions between America and Japan, rather than strictly Japanese-original).

I still remember last year about Prime and Roller (Unite Warriors), i think the Zodiac will be the power for the Matrix in version of POTP.

That Zodiac bit in the UW comic was foreshadowing Optimus's eventual resurrection as Star Convoy that occurred in the Battlestars fiction back in 1991. The UW comic took place chronologically before that in the year 2021 (The Battlestars was set sometime after 2025).



At this point, it's not looking like Leader class Evolution Optimus Prime, Voyager class Starscream, or any of the POTP figures may be integrated into the Japanese G1 cartoon continuity.

william-james88 wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:Yes, we know that, but the box art has been known for a while now, so why did ENGLISH speakers get confused?

Does it really matter?

primalxconvoy wrote:It's also the (first?) Legends toy to specifically babe the Headmaster figures on the box.

What do you mean by babe?

primalxconvoy wrote:It's also the (first?) Legends toy to specifically babe the Headmaster figures on the box.

In the year 2022 of the G1 World, crazed stalker Lunaclub catches up to her beloved Starscream and cuts his head off, and while she's surprised that he survives thanks to his half-ghost form, she doesn't mind since it means she can kiss him all she wants. Starscream cares little for her affection and more about going to the Legends World so he can become a Headmaster and regain his mobility, a plan that catches the interest of Moonheart, who harbors her own feelings for Soundwave and wants to go see him.

Meanwhile in the Legends World, known pervert Tigatron has a found a kindred spirit in the Headmaster Octane, and the two make plans to seek out pretty ladies, hire them to appear in sexy videos, and get rich. The mention of profit attracts Trickdiamond, who offers to be the manager of their budding business, but instead she gets dragged into modeling for their first video. It becomes is a huge success and the three make enough money for Octane to buy a transtector, only for a ride on its jet mode to be interrupted by an attack from Lunaclub and Moonheart, followed by Starscream materializing inside the plane in a ghostly Headmaster form. Intending to destroy Mayor Megatron and become ruler of the Legends World, he takes control of the transtector and crushes Megatron's Tankor Drone guards with its truck mode before transforming into robot mode and grabbing his old leader.

However, Octane has installed a safety device to prevent his body from being stolen and presses a switch on its stomach that causes it to stun and eject Starscream. He reclaims the body, and when Lunaclub and Moonheart take him on, he defeats them both with a flamethrower blast, announcing that he won't let conflict disturb this peaceful world where he can make videos of pretty girls. Moonheart flees to go search for Soundwave while Starscream, true to form, crawls up to Megatron and begs for forgiveness, and is punished with having to appear in one of Octane's videos together with Lunaclub. Trickdiamond is relieved she doesn't have to do it anymore, but the new video doesn't sell at all and they end up using her as a model a second time.

Sabrblade wrote:Octane's comic has finally been summarized. Oh... goody.

In the year 2022 of the G1 World, crazed stalker Lunaclub catches up to her beloved Starscream and cuts his head off, and while she's surprised that he survives thanks to his half-ghost form, she doesn't mind since it means she can kiss him all she wants. Starscream cares little for her affection and more about going to the Legends World so he can become a Headmaster and regain his mobility, a plan that catches the interest of Moonheart, who harbors her own feelings for Soundwave and wants to go see him.

Meanwhile in the Legends World, known pervert Tigatron has a found a kindred spirit in the Headmaster Octane, and the two make plans to seek out pretty ladies, hire them to appear in sexy videos, and get rich. The mention of profit attracts Trickdiamond, who offers to be the manager of their budding business, but instead she gets dragged into modeling for their first video. It becomes is a huge success and the three make enough money for Octane to buy a transtector, only for a ride on its jet mode to be interrupted by an attack from Lunaclub and Moonheart, followed by Starscream materializing inside the plane in a ghostly Headmaster form. Intending to destroy Mayor Megatron and become ruler of the Legends World, he takes control of the transtector and crushes Megatron's Tankor Drone guards with its truck mode before transforming into robot mode and grabbing his old leader.

However, Octane has installed a safety device to prevent his body from being stolen and presses a switch on its stomach that causes it to stun and eject Starscream. He reclaims the body, and when Lunaclub and Moonheart take him on, he defeats them both with a flamethrower blast, announcing that he won't let conflict disturb this peaceful world where he can make videos of pretty girls. Moonheart flees to go search for Soundwave while Starscream, true to form, crawls up to Megatron and begs for forgiveness, and is punished with having to appear in one of Octane's videos together with Lunaclub. Trickdiamond is relieved she doesn't have to do it anymore, but the new video doesn't sell at all and they end up using her as a model a second time.

Yeesh.

ausbot wrote:So is the new headmaster windblade going to be Nijika?

Sabrblade wrote:

ausbot wrote:So is the new headmaster windblade going to be Nijika?

As much as I wish the whole figure was going to be Nijika, nope, it's just gonna be Windblade herself. The headless Nijika body in Perceptor's comic was colored like the Hasbro TR Windblade, which could mean that the Legends Headmaster Windblade body might be a separate Transtector from that of her sister.

Deadput wrote:And with my luck this is going to be one of the ones I actually have in my house because I went Takara with Octane...Don't tell my mother guys.

Sabrblade wrote:

Deadput wrote:And with my luck this is going to be one of the ones I actually have in my house because I went Takara with Octane...Don't tell my mother guys.

You could just throw away the instructions after you master the transformation.

Quantum Surge wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Deadput wrote:And with my luck this is going to be one of the ones I actually have in my house because I went Takara with Octane...Don't tell my mother guys.

You could just throw away the instructions after you master the transformation.

But what if the wing transformation gets confusing?

Sabrblade wrote:

Quantum Surge wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Deadput wrote:And with my luck this is going to be one of the ones I actually have in my house because I went Takara with Octane...Don't tell my mother guys.

You could just throw away the instructions after you master the transformation.

But what if the wing transformation gets confusing?

That's why I said for him to master the transformation first.

Otherwise, I'm sure scans of the Hasbro instructions or video reviews featuring the transformation won't be too hard to find online.

Zeedust wrote:You know what's funny? In order to look nearly naked, she has to wear more clothing that anyone else with a speaking role in the comic does.

Sabrblade wrote:

Quantum Surge wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Deadput wrote:And with my luck this is going to be one of the ones I actually have in my house because I went Takara with Octane...Don't tell my mother guys.

You could just throw away the instructions after you master the transformation.

But what if the wing transformation gets confusing?

That's why I said for him to master the transformation first.

Otherwise, I'm sure scans of the Hasbro instructions or video reviews featuring the transformation won't be too hard to find online.

primalxconvoy wrote:In this context, I wish Takara had done the opposite and released family-friendly comics with the toys and released the more adult versions online (possibly behind an access or download code). That would at least keep my conflicting feelings about the toys and packaging at bay.

william-james88 wrote:

primalxconvoy wrote:In this context, I wish Takara had done the opposite and released family-friendly comics with the toys and released the more adult versions online (possibly behind an access or download code). That would at least keep my conflicting feelings about the toys and packaging at bay.

I feel they should have just left it to their website, like their other legends comics and their Unite Warriors comics.

Hot Sprang Kup Blurr wrote:So Windblade is going to be Minerva?

RiddlerJ wrote:Incidentally, how is Octane with the cab section tabbing together correctly? I have a Hasbro version and the cab doesn't like to close and from what I read, this was a common problem on many Octanes. I was actually thinking of buying a second one out of the hopes I have better luck the second time.

Sabrblade wrote:

Hot Sprang Kup Blurr wrote:So Windblade is going to be Minerva?

What makes you say that?

Hot Sprang Kup Blurr wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Hot Sprang Kup Blurr wrote:So Windblade is going to be Minerva?

What makes you say that?

I meant Nijika.

Sabrblade wrote:As much as I wish the whole figure was going to be Nijika, nope, it's just gonna be Windblade herself. The headless Nijika body in Perceptor's comic was colored like the Hasbro TR Windblade, which could mean that the Legends Headmaster Windblade body might be a separate Transtector from that of her sister.

Sabrblade wrote:

Hot Sprang Kup Blurr wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Hot Sprang Kup Blurr wrote:So Windblade is going to be Minerva?

What makes you say that?

I meant Nijika.

Ah, I see.

I answered same question before:

Sabrblade wrote:As much as I wish the whole figure was going to be Nijika, nope, it's just gonna be Windblade herself. The headless Nijika body in Perceptor's comic was colored like the Hasbro TR Windblade, which could mean that the Legends Headmaster Windblade body might be a separate Transtector from that of her sister.

Sabrblade wrote:I mean, if it was just a story about the three of them banding together for an inoffensive get-rich-quick scheme, instead of the disgraceful/disgusting/despicable get-rich-quick scheme that the story opts to have to them go with...



It really didn't need to be about the three of them starting up, of all things, a porno service.