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That pic of Unicron kinda looks like he combines with Optimus? Or is that a size comparison?
Anyway he does look pretty cool, well from that tiny little pic we've got here.
Darkness Megatron looks like he has black upper arms and legs. His Mini-Con also looks a lot like the Deluxe version, is it the same or a larger version?

Dead Metal wrote:That pic of Unicron kinda looks like he combines with Optimus? Or is that a size comparison?

Good eye. Wasn't expecting that. I suppose in Jetfire's absence he has to combine with someone.

I thought if Megatron had a nice silver paint I'd be all over it, but the Microns replacing the basic weaponry has really put me off. Not to mention the Micron worts.

Sodan-1 wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:That pic of Unicron kinda looks like he combines with Optimus? Or is that a size comparison?

Good eye. Wasn't expecting that. I suppose in Jetfire's absence he has to combine with someone.

I thought if Megatron had a nice silver paint I'd be all over it, but the Microns replacing the basic weaponry has really put me off. Not to mention the Micron worts.

I just realised, he seems to come with two microns, one that turns from a bot into his blade and the one from the Deluxe. He might also only come with the bat one and you'll need to get the deluxe version.

Dead Metal wrote:

Sodan-1 wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:That pic of Unicron kinda looks like he combines with Optimus? Or is that a size comparison?

Good eye. Wasn't expecting that. I suppose in Jetfire's absence he has to combine with someone.

I thought if Megatron had a nice silver paint I'd be all over it, but the Microns replacing the basic weaponry has really put me off. Not to mention the Micron worts.

I just realised, he seems to come with two microns, one that turns from a bot into his blade and the one from the Deluxe. He might also only come with the bat one and you'll need to get the deluxe version.

Rather naff looking blade in my opinion. I'd assume that since Micron Lugnut has his own panel he'd be included, but not sure I'd put my money on anything these days.

Also, glad to see confirmation of the Prime Mode figures being PCCs. That's a great call from Jelze GoldRabbit the other day. The daftest names in the world and I'm pleased I won't be getting them. The United line has really taken a downwards turn from what it was when it began. Hell, Takara as a whole has in the past year.

Wheres Swerve, all I see is a Breakdown looking figure to the left of Airachnid

starscream2222 wrote:Wheres Swerve, all I see is a Breakdown looking figure to the left of Airachnid

Swerve is a repaint of Breakdown

LOST Cybertronian wrote:

starscream2222 wrote:Wheres Swerve, all I see is a Breakdown looking figure to the left of Airachnid

Swerve is a repaint of Breakdown

I thought swerve was the wheeljack repaint, who am I thinking of?

I was hoping that Japan would do something better with the PCC's
Bombshock - Bruticus/Onslaught
Crankcase - Menasor/Motormaster
Grimstone - Dinoking

ETC

i wonder if unicron will be a suit playset thing like that optimus maximus thing.

Sodan-1 wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:That pic of Unicron kinda looks like he combines with Optimus? Or is that a size comparison?

Good eye. Wasn't expecting that. I suppose in Jetfire's absence he has to combine with someone.

I thought if Megatron had a nice silver paint I'd be all over it, but the Microns replacing the basic weaponry has really put me off. Not to mention the Micron worts.

Maybe, just maybe this hints at Unicron deciding he does love his babies (humanity) and giving Optimus a midseason upgrade to help save humanity from something.
Because Unicron/Prime team up would be epic on levels unheard of.

Also Unicron might be a triple changer, I defiantly see two modes that helpful arrow is pointing to.

So...the jet vehicon is infact car vehicon with some slight rear-end remolding and wings? That is disappointing Takara.

I'd have liked to see the PCCs get a few more repaints, and maybe a bit of mixing and matching with the drones to give us a more traditional Menasor, for example. Not sure I'd spend Takara money on straight re-releases, but these might be placeholder images too, so I hold out a tiny bit of hope.

Other than that, not too bothered by these, will wait for the Hasbro releases, and/or more images.

It's difficult to see from the pictures, but is Megs just a repaint of the Hasbro voyager powerizer?

MightyMagnus78 wrote:It's difficult to see from the pictures, but is Megs just a repaint of the Hasbro voyager powerizer?

Yes, with a bat and cannon minicon.

gavinfuzzy wrote:

MightyMagnus78 wrote:It's difficult to see from the pictures, but is Megs just a repaint of the Hasbro voyager powerizer?

Yes, with a bat and cannon minicon.

Cheers bud.

starscream2222 wrote:

LOST Cybertronian wrote:

starscream2222 wrote:Wheres Swerve, all I see is a Breakdown looking figure to the left of Airachnid

Swerve is a repaint of Breakdown

I thought swerve was the wheeljack repaint, who am I thinking of?

Your thinking of Dead End, repaint of Jackie and homage to BW Quickstrike;

Linky

It's neat that every Japanese TFP figure comes with a Minicon. Though them being exclusive makes me sad. Though that's what the separate orders at BBTS is for, I guess. *shrug*

ausbot wrote:I was hoping that Japan would do something better with the PCC's
Bombshock - Bruticus/Onslaught
Crankcase - Menasor/Motormaster
Grimstone - Dinoking

ETC

Dinoking was a Decepticon(well, Destron) in G1 though. /nitpick

New deco's for the TT-PCC stuff is on Amazon Japan;

Linky.

From the pics at BBTS, Unicron looks like a similar set to the Optimus Prime base. I just sits down for it's transformation and it looks like a half assed power armor for Optimus Prime. It all looks incredibly lazy

Pretender Skywarp wrote:New deco's for the TT-PCC stuff is on Amazon Japan;

Linky.

All right, I so nailed it with my theory (with a little help from necr0blivion). The repaints will be mine!

Darkness Megatron actually looks kinda cool for a figure without paint.

Prime Unicron. He turns into a ROTF Fallen style Jet by the look of it.

BeastProwl wrote:Prime Unicron. He turns into a ROTF Fallen style Jet by the look of it.

I dunno my money's on it being a hovertank thing...again. Given that it has what appears to be a turret and a not-very-jet-like shape.

The Armor mode looks pretty wonky though. If the picture is any indication, it looks like the center of the robot becomes a third leg/stabling foot-panel while the rest of it splits in half to make room, the spine-kibble folds in and arms just kinda fold out of the way somewhere.

RAcast wrote:

BeastProwl wrote:Prime Unicron. He turns into a ROTF Fallen style Jet by the look of it.

I dunno my money's on it being a hovertank thing...again. Given that it has what appears to be a turret and a not-very-jet-like shape.

The Armor mode looks pretty wonky though. If the picture is any indication, it looks like the center of the robot becomes a third leg/stabling foot-panel while the rest of it splits in half to make room, the spine-kibble folds in and arms just kinda fold out of the way somewhere.

That's another thing. An armor mode? Maybe in later episodes, prime will were unicron armor? Spoiler?
In any case, that's cool, and explains why OP is so boxy and in-perfect.

Now that I can see the pics...

Definitely glad I preordered the aerial Vehicon.
Megatron's wings look redonkulous.
Unicron...not so sure. Robot mode? Maybe. Vehicle mode? Maybe. Armor mode? Hell no. I refuse to buy Voyager Optimus. I hate you Voyager Optimus, I hate you hard.
Knockout...I'll just stick with the US version. I really have no use for his Micron partner. (Or any of them, for that matter.)

Volrathicus Baenimus wrote:So...the jet vehicon is infact car vehicon with some slight rear-end remolding and wings? That is disappointing Takara.

Looks like it. How poor. There is a bigger picture here:

http://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/tfam-vehicon ... -5560.html

Mykltron wrote:

Volrathicus Baenimus wrote:So...the jet vehicon is infact car vehicon with some slight rear-end remolding and wings? That is disappointing Takara.

Looks like it. How poor. There is a bigger picture here:

http://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/tfam-vehicon ... -5560.html

If it is just a remold, it's a pretty extensive one. I like it. I really hope Hasbro is bringing it here...

kirbenvost wrote:

Mykltron wrote:

Volrathicus Baenimus wrote:So...the jet vehicon is infact car vehicon with some slight rear-end remolding and wings? That is disappointing Takara.

Looks like it. How poor. There is a bigger picture here:

http://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/tfam-vehicon ... -5560.html

If it is just a remold, it's a pretty extensive one. I like it. I really hope Hasbro is bringing it here...

Agreed. Extensive is the word. It's changed so much that I'm actually willing to buy the mold. The Vehicon, to me, sucks, compared to the FE. This guy, even though it's apparently using the base figure, is so modified, it's like having a new toy and any shortcomings can be excused due to the new design.

However, it seems to be rather show accurate. The aerial Vehicons seem to have a cockpit that large.

So Megatron's new Micron buddy (Who could easily pass for a Generations Ratbat) is called "Hades," and can turn into a bat, a set of wings, or a scythe...

I SWEAR IF HASBRO DOESN'T RELEASE THESE I MAY CRY.

Here's hoping we find out something in a week at Botcon.

so the jet vehicon is just the car vehicon with wings and some slight remolding? thats pretty lame. Wonder if they'll do a wingspan & pounce repaint or maybe cloudracker & fastlane

Unicron: looks pretty accurate, dunno what the hell he turns into
Knockout, swerve, & Airachnid: looks good enough but in not gonna get them
Jet Vehicon: I'll admit it still looks cool but I'm afraid I was right, the jet parts are only molded on micron ports with wings

Just a reminder guys, the Jet Vehicon on the show is also pretty much a car chassis with wings.
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:PrimeVehiconJets.jpg
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:WingedVehicons.jpg
And I'm pretty sure it's a new mold altogether, even if it bears a lot of similarities to the car design.

Gaia Unicron looks interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing more of him. I suspect that combination with Prime is toy-only though.

a car with wings?

The robot mode looks pretty slick, so maybe. Still I hope it's remolded a good amount to look different.

That Bot wrote:Just a reminder guys, the Jet Vehicon on the show is also pretty much a car chassis with wings.
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:PrimeVehiconJets.jpg
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:WingedVehicons.jpg
And I'm pretty sure it's a new mold altogether, even if it bears a lot of similarities to the car design.

No it's not.

Hypershock wrote:No it's not.
http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc4 ... hicle1.jpg

http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc4 ... ob-012.jpg

And the prototype looks enough like that that I'm not complaining.

Hypershock wrote:Unicron: looks pretty accurate, dunno what the hell he turns into

He turns into a rock.

rpetras wrote:

Hypershock wrote:Unicron: looks pretty accurate, dunno what the hell he turns into

He turns into a rock.

No, no no.

A pile of rocks.

Unicron transforms into.....?

No Ultra Magnus makes Mindmaster sad.

Jet Vehicon looks pretty cool.

Knockout looks like he's a knock out (no pun intended... okay, pun intended).

Swerve... don't know about him. Obviously a different paint job, but how about a new head?

Megatron's wing-thingers makes me go .

I don't see how Unicron looks like armor for Optimus. I see a cage or some type of prison. Not armor. Also, I'm starting to worry if we will ever get Breakdown. I'll freak if we only see the Swerve repaint.

argh that combined of unicron & prime looks horrible looking at combined mode picture looks he could be bigger than voyager prime still uncertain what he transfroms into if unircon has to hands be perfect but its still preorder for me.

jet vehicon ill wait to see if he gets us release only canceal my unircon preorder if he alos gets us release himself

ILL-Star wrote:I don't see how Unicron looks like armor for Optimus. I see a cage or some type of prison. Not armor. Also, I'm starting to worry if we will ever get Breakdown. I'll freak if we only see the Swerve repaint.

Seeing how we were getting a Skyquake first, but was then replaced by Dreadwing... things don't look good for ol' 'Downey. Perhaps what was left of Breakdown that was found by MECH could be used to make some sort of alter-ego, possibly Swerve in a future episode. I mean, that's kinda what they did for Skyquake; he was getting a toy, killed him off, replaced him with someone who looks exactly like him (albeit different colors/personality/voice), found more appeal for Dreadwing, and replaced him.

Mindmaster wrote:

ILL-Star wrote:I don't see how Unicron looks like armor for Optimus. I see a cage or some type of prison. Not armor. Also, I'm starting to worry if we will ever get Breakdown. I'll freak if we only see the Swerve repaint.

Seeing how we were getting a Skyquake first, but was then replaced by Dreadwing... things don't look good for ol' 'Downey. Perhaps what was left of Breakdown that was found by MECH could be used to make some sort of alter-ego, possibly Swerve in a future episode. I mean, that's kinda what they did for Skyquake; he was getting a toy, killed him off, replaced him with someone who looks exactly like him (albeit different colors/personality/voice), found more appeal for Dreadwing, and replaced him.

Breakdown was shown, in color, at a show in Asia. Skyquake was shown only as an uncolored proto, which is why it was easy for them to turn him into Dreadwing. They won't have it that easy with Breakdown, now that we've seen a nearly finished item on display.

They could change it, last minute, sure, but I think we have a better chance of seeing Breakdown, than we think. I have hope.

Autobot032 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

ILL-Star wrote:I don't see how Unicron looks like armor for Optimus. I see a cage or some type of prison. Not armor. Also, I'm starting to worry if we will ever get Breakdown. I'll freak if we only see the Swerve repaint.

Seeing how we were getting a Skyquake first, but was then replaced by Dreadwing... things don't look good for ol' 'Downey. Perhaps what was left of Breakdown that was found by MECH could be used to make some sort of alter-ego, possibly Swerve in a future episode. I mean, that's kinda what they did for Skyquake; he was getting a toy, killed him off, replaced him with someone who looks exactly like him (albeit different colors/personality/voice), found more appeal for Dreadwing, and replaced him.

Breakdown was shown, in color, at a show in Asia. Skyquake was shown only as an uncolored proto, which is why it was easy for them to turn him into Dreadwing. They won't have it that easy with Breakdown, now that we've seen a nearly finished item on display.

They could change it, last minute, sure, but I think we have a better chance of seeing Breakdown, than we think. I have hope.

no he wasn't

Hypershock wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

ILL-Star wrote:I don't see how Unicron looks like armor for Optimus. I see a cage or some type of prison. Not armor. Also, I'm starting to worry if we will ever get Breakdown. I'll freak if we only see the Swerve repaint.

Seeing how we were getting a Skyquake first, but was then replaced by Dreadwing... things don't look good for ol' 'Downey. Perhaps what was left of Breakdown that was found by MECH could be used to make some sort of alter-ego, possibly Swerve in a future episode. I mean, that's kinda what they did for Skyquake; he was getting a toy, killed him off, replaced him with someone who looks exactly like him (albeit different colors/personality/voice), found more appeal for Dreadwing, and replaced him.

Breakdown was shown, in color, at a show in Asia. Skyquake was shown only as an uncolored proto, which is why it was easy for them to turn him into Dreadwing. They won't have it that easy with Breakdown, now that we've seen a nearly finished item on display.

They could change it, last minute, sure, but I think we have a better chance of seeing Breakdown, than we think. I have hope.

no he wasn't

Oooh boy. My bad.

Autobot032 wrote:

Hypershock wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:

ILL-Star wrote:I don't see how Unicron looks like armor for Optimus. I see a cage or some type of prison. Not armor. Also, I'm starting to worry if we will ever get Breakdown. I'll freak if we only see the Swerve repaint.

Seeing how we were getting a Skyquake first, but was then replaced by Dreadwing... things don't look good for ol' 'Downey. Perhaps what was left of Breakdown that was found by MECH could be used to make some sort of alter-ego, possibly Swerve in a future episode. I mean, that's kinda what they did for Skyquake; he was getting a toy, killed him off, replaced him with someone who looks exactly like him (albeit different colors/personality/voice), found more appeal for Dreadwing, and replaced him.

Breakdown was shown, in color, at a show in Asia. Skyquake was shown only as an uncolored proto, which is why it was easy for them to turn him into Dreadwing. They won't have it that easy with Breakdown, now that we've seen a nearly finished item on display.

They could change it, last minute, sure, but I think we have a better chance of seeing Breakdown, than we think. I have hope.

no he wasn't

Oooh boy. My bad.

S'all good man, you were just trying to help Your point is still valid though, it's on the photo as Breakdown

Unicron becomes some sort of cage thing to trap transformers in it, since Unicron only became a rock kind of

Unicron appears to be a turret for Voyager Class figures.

Look at the two altmode images. The top sketch (below the Micron silhouette) is from the side and shows a cannon placed in the center. The bottom render is from the front view with Voyager Optimus at the manning helm.

Sabrblade wrote:Unicron appears to be a turret for Voyager Class figures.

Look at the two altmode images. The top sketch (below the Micron silhouette) is from the side and shows a cannon placed in the center. The bottom render is from the front view with Voyager Optimus at the manning helm.

Never would have noticed that...I think you might be on to something.