Takara Transformers Unite Warriors Nosecone Prototype revealed

Burn wrote:"Hi my name's Nosecone, if my drill can't bust it, all my guns will!"
That is one damn fine retool. And pretty much convinces me to stick with UW

I'm honestly really starting to agree with you

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Burn wrote:"Hi my name's Nosecone, if my drill can't bust it, all my guns will!"
That is one damn fine retool. And pretty much convinces me to stick with UW

I'm honestly really starting to agree with you

Whose drill will pierce the heavens?

Hellscream9999 wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Burn wrote:"Hi my name's Nosecone, if my drill can't bust it, all my guns will!"
That is one damn fine retool. And pretty much convinces me to stick with UW

I'm honestly really starting to agree with you

Whose drill will pierce the heavens?

"Nosecone must be that popular bot at school who woos fembots with his drill."

Have you seriously not seen the previous CW figs? Nose cone uses the Rook hands, which have legs facing forward instead of at a 90 degree angle to the forearm.

I meant the giant one

Nemesis Maximo wrote:

[BW] Rainmaker wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Burn wrote:"Hi my name's Nosecone, if my drill can't bust it, all my guns will!"
That is one damn fine retool. And pretty much convinces me to stick with UW

I'm honestly really starting to agree with you

Noe! Doent giv een to tha preds!
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What's up with the giant hand?

Have you seriously not seen the previous CW figs? Nose cone uses the Rook hands, which have legs facing forward instead of at a 90 degree angle to the forearm.

Seriously, someone needs to develop replaceable feet for the Rook mold (and remolds) so the combiner feet can be attached, plus the hands, and we shall call it, HULK MODE!

kurthy wrote:Wow, it integrates Rook's fist pegs into the alt mode as well. And doing that mimics the weapons from the G1 toy. I'm impressed!

I feel the same way. Plus they integrate the drill to go with the playability of the toy by being able to remove it and attack it to the hands. It seems to be able to spin as well. This is a massive mic drop from takara.

Burn wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

kurthy wrote:Wow, it integrates Rook's fist pegs into the alt mode as well. And doing that mimics the weapons from the G1 toy. I'm impressed!

I feel the same way. Plus they integrate the drill to go with the playability of the toy by being able to remove it and attack it to the hands. It seems to be able to spin as well. This is a massive mic drop from takara.

"Unite Warriors? Yeah, we're done" *drops mic, walks out*

And what a fitting ending it would be

Deadput wrote:It's stupid and makes most of the fandom to think that Hasbro is cheap and money hungry.

Because they are, it's why the molds got so over-used in cw, it's the mindset of American corporations, and it is not okay

Different corporate and national ideologies. In America, the bottom line is all that matters. Profit at all costs. In Japan, they're okay with taking a smaller profit margin for putting out a quality product.

For most of CW and UW I'd honestly say it was a toss-up. Takara was committed to giving the classic rosters, going so far as to engineer two new molds, but the cartoon decos hurt them. Meanwhile Hasbro's combiners have no duplicate molds within each team (excluding Quickslinger and Brake-Neck) and we got the awesomeness of Rook, legends class integration, and IMO superior decos.
Devastator and Computron, however, cannot in good faith be cited as anything but letdowns from Hasbro compared to the Takara product.

Hellscream9999 wrote:Whose drill will pierce the heavens?

Damn you, I was going to make that joke.

Cobotron wrote:Hey Chuck, where do you have him? Up on a shelf, or just down and around? I have a spot reserved for him up on a high shelf. I haven't noticed any looseness yet, but he has also been broken down into indy bots for the last week or so.
Do you have him up high, and is the heat cranked?
It's always hotter up high, so I'm wondering if the temp could effect these joints.

It was and still is standing on a box in my living room. I was able to tighten a few things and it's ok. I'm not that upset since I don't leave figures on permanent display.

Normally I'd be all over Hasbro for their version of Computron but I look at it as we're getting the same team done two different ways. Hasbro is using the retooled Groove and Air Raid molds so that's a plus. I like the Dead End mold better and hopefully they've corrected the Brawl mold. Probably not, but we still have options.

People need to remember Japan LOVES drill tanks, there was at least one in every Brave series. I'm not surprised they went all out for Nosecone.