Takara Tomy Transformers Legends LG 19 Springer in Package Photo with Alt Modes

Make me hungry for lime jello and key lime pie looking at this new paint job of takara figure

reminds me of an elf he just needs an energon bow

Yeah, that's Takara's fatal flaw: applying super cartoon-accurate decos to figures that are not molded to be super cartoon accurate. Putting aside that the animation models were badly colored to begin with, applying those decos to toys that aren't molded similarly often just looks wrong.

Sabrblade wrote:In this case, though, it's another case like UW Blast Off in which they got the color shades of the deco so wrong. It's like someone over at Takara needs their monitor adjusted or something.

Not to mention that colours as they appear to one person can be different to another.

Congenital colour blindness comes in a variety of flavours. I myself suffer from issues with Green/Brown and Red/Orange recognition.

I'll never be allowed to be a Fighter pilot, Demolitions expert, or Electrician.

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Immediate get! But gone are the days when those ugly exposed panels were that...EXPOSED!

The original Hardhead, despite being a thin brick/panel had very solid arms and shins.

Wait, what's this about alternate heads? That a Takara or Hasbro thing? Cos if I can get Hardhead's mouth head seperate, then it's gonna be a Hasbro jobbie for me.

Sorry, I should have specified. I saw those scans, it's this head stuff is what I was questioning.

Hellscream9999 wrote:Just gonna leave this, as food for thought, but I wonder if these are part of the 'additional head series', rumors were that many figures would get 2 versions of their heads for fans to choose from, TT might be choosing the more accurate of the 2 and eschewing the rest

What additional head series?

Aaahhh, ok. Thanks for that. I knew there were a load of individual heads being sold, but didn't realise there were going to be variations of the main headmaster heads sold amongst them. Hopefully we get a mouth Hardhead in that then. And that does look like a robot mode Hardhead head at the far left of that picture.

william-james88 wrote:

Insurgent wrote:Aaahhh, ok. Thanks for that. I knew there were a load of individual heads being sold, but didn't realise there were going to be variations of the main headmaster heads sold amongst them. Hopefully we get a mouth Hardhead in that then. And that does look like a robot mode Hardhead head at the far left of that picture.

Were not sure, its all conjecture. But it makes sense, especially since Hasbro did that with combiner wars and released the stuff Takara made different individually.

No, they released the stuff that they thought about making but that Takara got to first. Lest you forget, Quickslinger and Brake-Neck's heads were conceived by Hasbro and tooled into the molds before Takara's run.

william-james88 wrote:

That Bot wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Insurgent wrote:Aaahhh, ok. Thanks for that. I knew there were a load of individual heads being sold, but didn't realise there were going to be variations of the main headmaster heads sold amongst them. Hopefully we get a mouth Hardhead in that then. And that does look like a robot mode Hardhead head at the far left of that picture.

We're not sure, it's all conjecture. But it makes sense, especially since Hasbro did that with combiner wars and released the stuff Takara made different individually.

No, they released the stuff that they thought about making but that Takara got to first. Lest you forget, Quickslinger and Brake-Neck's heads were conceived by Hasbro and tooled into the molds before Takara's run.

I dont see how this is any different. You are saying that these new heads were not designed by hasbro. DO YOU KNOW THAT?! Because for a fact we know that the "takara exclusive" starscream head in unite warriors (for ghost starscream) was designed by Hasbro, just like 99% of all toys.

So no. We dont know it either one way or another. For all we know, this can be the same scenario where Hasbro made a design and Takara is carrying it out first and Hasbro will release it later. Or never, like was the case with Prime Breakdown who was designed by hasbro too.

Quite the contrary. I said that Hasbro designed the Quickslinger and Brake-Neck heads, but Takara revealed them first, although Hasbro ultimately released QS and BN before Unite Warriors Superion came out. I was countering your assertion that Hasbro released Takara's products. It is conceivable that Hasbro had a hand in Deluxe Groove, especially since he's coming out as Afterburner in Hasbro's Computron set, but I'm all but certain that Blast Off is pure Takara. Last we heard there are no plans to bring Bigroove and Shuttle Blast Off over here, which is the main point I challenge. I'm also skeptical that these Titan Master heads are variations that will see the light of day over here, but I'm willing to be proven wrong on that.