Takara Tomy Transformers Legends Commander Collection LC01-LC04 Images and Listings

*GASP!*

A SECOND CHANCE FOR LIO CONVOY!!!!!

You know what, while this Brainstorm still isn't up to par with Fansproject's Smartrobin, the Takara version does look way better than the Hasbro version.

What bugs me the most is the lack of engineering that went into this.

The waistpieces and the weird wings look terrible IMHO.

All of the toys look like candy (except for Lio Convoy)!!! Transformers toys are starting to become inappropriate for little children.

BERSEKAEL wrote:how tall are this toys?

Deluxe-size or a tad smaller, like any new-mold Robot Masters toy

wondering: have they gotten rid of Lio Convoy's gun accessory, or are they just not bothering to display him with it.

Unfortunately, guys, all four of these things are sold out, with Primal and Lio having been sold out since long before this news was posted.

Welp, looks like it's back to watching eBay.

Yes. Super excited.
I know there are only a couple of Headmasters in IDW, but I've been hoping we would get a bunch of them for a long time.
Think they'll do Chromedome?

Cobotron wrote:Yes. Super excited.
I know there are only a couple of Headmasters in IDW, but I've been hoping we would get a bunch of them for a long time.
Think they'll do Chromedome?

Nope. That's why Fun Pub was able to do Chromedome: Because Hasbro wasn't planning one.

Though, none of the characters known to be Headmasters in other fiction are Headmasters in IDW (save for Scorponok, but that was short-lived). But it did give us Sunstreaker as one for a while (until he went back to being normal).

Cobotron wrote:Bummer. That Club one looks great but, he's not a headmaster. I guess the IDW situation explains why.
I feel like there are so many old gimmicks they could capitalize on. I miss the modularity of the old days.
But, that's just the old guy talking.

Well, IDW did previously try it's own take on the Headmaster concept, but only utilized Scorponok and Sunstreaker. Though, in this version, becoming a Headmaster was depicted as a ghoulish, torturous, and abominable process. After all, it is basically a form of decapitation anyway. It involved a TF having its head removed, stripped apart, and then hooked up to a computer system that would allow the head to remain in psychically linked to the body whilst said body would be operated by a human in a transformable exosuit that, after an intense ordeal of surgical implantation, becomes the new head, allowing the mind of the TF and the human to become one and enabling the body to be of both persons as one.

Though, it also gave us this nightmare fuel:



More recently, however, IDW has reintroduced the concept via ancient Headmasters from Cybertron's past, but these are all newly-made characters instead of any existing ones.

Sabrblade wrote:

Cobotron wrote:Yes. Super excited.
I know there are only a couple of Headmasters in IDW, but I've been hoping we would get a bunch of them for a long time.
Think they'll do Chromedome?

Nope. That's why Fun Pub was able to do Chromedome: Because Hasbro wasn't planning one.

On the other hand, Funpub is doing lio convoy for next year's freebie, so what takara happens to do just for takara clearly doesn't factor in, which says that while it's extremely unlikely, takara COULD do chromedome.

also, really hope these guys get stocked again at some point after the first run, because I really want that leo convoy. Also hope they get stocked by stores that aren't takaratomy mall, so I can actually order one to the US -_-