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Comment by DedicatedGhostArt
Feb 6, 2016
How come this uncolored prototype looks better to me than the colored version?
Maybe it's the cohesive color? Kinda reminds me of a Bay-verse transformer for some reason...

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I'm fairly certain that the rotor is one solid piece. The blades can move just like the original but that's it. Also the front of vortex is the same, there's no remolding
Comment by steals_your_goats
Feb 6, 2016
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Agamemnon wrote:Is it just me, or does it look like Vortex's chopper nose has been remolded?I may just keep my preorder...
It kinda does, and it looks like all his rotors still fold up nice and neat
I'm fairly certain that the rotor is one solid piece. The blades can move just like the original but that's it. Also the front of vortex is the same, there's no remolding
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Comment by Crosscheck
Feb 6, 2016
Things are not looking good for Orange Off not being orange. He looks more orange-brown now, but still not even remotely close to the correct color. It is a pity that they couldn't get the colors right, because the mold itself looks top shelf. I like the additional purple on Swindle. The quad-rotor on Vortex looks really nice. I think it is just the angle that is making people think that the nose section is remolded, but I could be wrong. The bright blue on Vortex is not very good. Should be more of a darker gray-blue.
The chest still looks awful on Bruticus. It will make Onslaught look bad as well, especially in vehicle mode. Onslaught looks pretty good otherwise. Brawl is about equal. The bright orange eyes are nice for show-accuracy.
The chest still looks awful on Bruticus. It will make Onslaught look bad as well, especially in vehicle mode. Onslaught looks pretty good otherwise. Brawl is about equal. The bright orange eyes are nice for show-accuracy.
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the rotors do still look like a solid piece, but the picture show the rotors still stow away nice and neat and don't obnoxiously stick out
Comment by D-Maximal_Primal
Feb 6, 2016
steals_your_goats wrote:D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Agamemnon wrote:Is it just me, or does it look like Vortex's chopper nose has been remolded?I may just keep my preorder...
It kinda does, and it looks like all his rotors still fold up nice and neat
I'm fairly certain that the rotor is one solid piece. The blades can move just like the original but that's it. Also the front of vortex is the same, there's no remolding
the rotors do still look like a solid piece, but the picture show the rotors still stow away nice and neat and don't obnoxiously stick out

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Comment by DeathReviews
Feb 6, 2016
Death is impressed... Though as I guessed, the addition of rotors to Vortex results in some.... awkwardness near his diodes...
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You can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs.
Comment by william-james88
Feb 6, 2016
DeathReviews wrote:Death is impressed... Though as I guessed, the addition of rotors to Vortex results in some.... awkwardness near his diodes...
You can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs.
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Yeah, with the close-up pics of the grey prototypes (which were not there when I initially commented) they chopper nose looks like the same as on Alpha Bravo. And now that I look at that color pic, it looks like it is smooshed vertically, making the nose look longer and sharper than I bet it really is.
Comment by Agamemnon
Feb 6, 2016
steals_your_goats wrote:D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Agamemnon wrote:Is it just me, or does it look like Vortex's chopper nose has been remolded?I may just keep my preorder...
It kinda does, and it looks like all his rotors still fold up nice and neat
I'm fairly certain that the rotor is one solid piece. The blades can move just like the original but that's it. Also the front of vortex is the same, there's no remolding
Yeah, with the close-up pics of the grey prototypes (which were not there when I initially commented) they chopper nose looks like the same as on Alpha Bravo. And now that I look at that color pic, it looks like it is smooshed vertically, making the nose look longer and sharper than I bet it really is.
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Comment by bvzxa
Feb 6, 2016
...and it's still better than Hasbro offering.
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Comment by Sabrblade
Feb 6, 2016
Wait a sec, guys. There's something very peculiar about what we see in these pics. Why are all of the Combaticons in these pics, instead of just the Blast Off figures, still in the gray prototype stage at this point? Four of them should all be done by this point since they're all just straight redecos of finished molds (though, Vorter's/Vortex's rotor is a retool, but you get the picture).
Back when we first saw pics of UW Guardian (Defensor), all four of his completed molds were fully colored, either in Hasbro colors as placeholders or hand-painted samples in the finalized Takara decos, while the Groove mold was still a gray prototype.
It doesn't really make sense for these UW versions of Onslaught, Brawl, Swindle, and Vorter/Vortex to all be gray prototypes like Blast Off since those four toys are all preexisting finished molds. They ought to be either the Hasbro versions as placeholders or Takara-deco-painted samples.
I can't think of any real reason for those four to still be incomplete... unless... unless Takara's doing some tooling changes to all of those molds for their UW release, rather than just simply redecoing them (I know it's not likely, yeah, but nor is it impossible).
Back when we first saw pics of UW Guardian (Defensor), all four of his completed molds were fully colored, either in Hasbro colors as placeholders or hand-painted samples in the finalized Takara decos, while the Groove mold was still a gray prototype.
It doesn't really make sense for these UW versions of Onslaught, Brawl, Swindle, and Vorter/Vortex to all be gray prototypes like Blast Off since those four toys are all preexisting finished molds. They ought to be either the Hasbro versions as placeholders or Takara-deco-painted samples.
I can't think of any real reason for those four to still be incomplete... unless... unless Takara's doing some tooling changes to all of those molds for their UW release, rather than just simply redecoing them (I know it's not likely, yeah, but nor is it impossible).

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Maybe for Blastoff but the rest are hardly different or have worse choices.
The blue and the rotor on Vortex look bad the rotor is cool on Bruticus but it's not going to look good in bot mode for Vortex and I think Vortex looks a lot like movie Incinerator more so then G1 Vortex.
Brawl and Swindle are probably the same as Hasbro outside of some arguably fancier paint.
Onslaught looks pretty bad with the really bright cartoon colors and that brown Bruticus colors on him in bot mode and truck mode in other words he is too blue and the brown is executed awfully.
The best choice would be a mix between Hasbro and Takara with Hasbro Onslaught and Vortex with the rest using Takara versions although Brawl and Swindle wont suffer from using Hasbro's colors.
Comment by Deadput
Feb 6, 2016
bvzxa wrote:...and it's still better than Hasbro offering.
Maybe for Blastoff but the rest are hardly different or have worse choices.
The blue and the rotor on Vortex look bad the rotor is cool on Bruticus but it's not going to look good in bot mode for Vortex and I think Vortex looks a lot like movie Incinerator more so then G1 Vortex.
Brawl and Swindle are probably the same as Hasbro outside of some arguably fancier paint.
Onslaught looks pretty bad with the really bright cartoon colors and that brown Bruticus colors on him in bot mode and truck mode in other words he is too blue and the brown is executed awfully.
The best choice would be a mix between Hasbro and Takara with Hasbro Onslaught and Vortex with the rest using Takara versions although Brawl and Swindle wont suffer from using Hasbro's colors.
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...and...all of this is YOUR opinion.
Comment by bvzxa
Feb 7, 2016
Deadput wrote:bvzxa wrote:...and it's still better than Hasbro offering.
Maybe for Blastoff but the rest are hardly different or have worse choices.
The blue and the rotor on Vortex look bad the rotor is cool on Bruticus but it's not going to look good in bot mode for Vortex and I think Vortex looks a lot like movie Incinerator more so then G1 Vortex.
Brawl and Swindle are probably the same as Hasbro outside of some arguably fancier paint.
Onslaught looks pretty bad with the really bright cartoon colors and that brown Bruticus colors on him in bot mode and truck mode in other words he is too blue and the brown is executed awfully.
The best choice would be a mix between Hasbro and Takara with Hasbro Onslaught and Vortex with the rest using Takara versions although Brawl and Swindle wont suffer from using Hasbro's colors.
...and...all of this is YOUR opinion.
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Maybe some retooling to be announced like the UW Devstar?
Comment by fenrir72
Feb 7, 2016
Sabrblade wrote:Wait a sec, guys. There's something very peculiar about what we see in these pics. Why are all of the Combaticons in these pics, instead of just the Blast Off figures, still in the gray prototype stage at this point? Four of them should all be done by this point since they're all just straight redecos of finished molds (though, Vorter's/Vortex's rotor is a retool, but you get the picture).
Back when we first saw pics of UW Guardian (Defensor), all four of his completed molds were fully colored, either in Hasbro colors as placeholders or hand-painted samples in the finalized Takara decos, while the Groove mold was still a gray prototype.
It doesn't really make sense for these UW versions of Onslaught, Brawl, Swindle, and Vorter/Vortex to all be gray prototypes like Blast Off since those four toys are all preexisting finished molds. They ought to be either the Hasbro versions as placeholders or Takara-deco-painted samples.
I can't think of any real reason for those four to still be incomplete... unless... unless Takara's doing some tooling changes to all of those molds for their UW release, rather than just simply redecoing them (I know it's not likely, yeah, but nor is it impossible).
Maybe some retooling to be announced like the UW Devstar?
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Comment by Hero Alpha
Feb 7, 2016
It does look like Swindle's rims/wheels are remolded and painted. That or the paint makes a huge difference.
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So?
Saying "It's your opinion" isn't saying anything new nor is it a good argument.
All I'm saying is that bright 80's cartoon colors is not always the best choice and can turn out bad sometimes.
Comment by Deadput
Feb 7, 2016
bvzxa wrote:
...and...all of this is YOUR opinion.
So?
Saying "It's your opinion" isn't saying anything new nor is it a good argument.
All I'm saying is that bright 80's cartoon colors is not always the best choice and can turn out bad sometimes.
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Maybe it's to uniformly go alongside Blast Off or something like that or it's a business thing.
Comment by Deadput
Feb 7, 2016
Sabrblade wrote:Wait a sec, guys. There's something very peculiar about what we see in these pics. Why are all of the Combaticons in these pics, instead of just the Blast Off figures, still in the gray prototype stage at this point? Four of them should all be done by this point since they're all just straight redecos of finished molds (though, Vorter's/Vortex's rotor is a retool, but you get the picture).
Back when we first saw pics of UW Guardian (Defensor), all four of his completed molds were fully colored, either in Hasbro colors as placeholders or hand-painted samples in the finalized Takara decos, while the Groove mold was still a gray prototype.
It doesn't really make sense for these UW versions of Onslaught, Brawl, Swindle, and Vorter/Vortex to all be gray prototypes like Blast Off since those four toys are all preexisting finished molds. They ought to be either the Hasbro versions as placeholders or Takara-deco-painted samples.
I can't think of any real reason for those four to still be incomplete... unless... unless Takara's doing some tooling changes to all of those molds for their UW release, rather than just simply redecoing them (I know it's not likely, yeah, but nor is it impossible).
Maybe it's to uniformly go alongside Blast Off or something like that or it's a business thing.
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Comment by ZeroWolf
Feb 7, 2016
Is It me or do vortex's rotor blades look longer now?
I agree that a mix of hasbro and takara would result in the best brutuicus (not the most accurate but most pleasing to the eye)
There's no reason to bash the hasbro one, I mean we all have a choice between two great toys, so no reason to be overly negative
I agree that a mix of hasbro and takara would result in the best brutuicus (not the most accurate but most pleasing to the eye)
There's no reason to bash the hasbro one, I mean we all have a choice between two great toys, so no reason to be overly negative

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Do you mean are the new 4 bladed rotors shorter or are you confusing it for Vortex having shorter 2 rotor blades?
Comment by Deadput
Feb 7, 2016
ZeroWolf wrote:Is It me or do vortex's rotor blades look longer now?
Do you mean are the new 4 bladed rotors shorter or are you confusing it for Vortex having shorter 2 rotor blades?
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There never will be the "perfect" version. Same with UW Guardian and Hb Defensor. TT seems to be going for the cartoon motiff. So if got deep pockets, get both and mix and match.
Comment by fenrir72
Feb 7, 2016
Deadput wrote:bvzxa wrote:
...and...all of this is YOUR opinion.
So?
Saying "It's your opinion" isn't saying anything new nor is it a good argument.
All I'm saying is that bright 80's cartoon colors is not always the best choice and can turn out bad sometimes.
There never will be the "perfect" version. Same with UW Guardian and Hb Defensor. TT seems to be going for the cartoon motiff. So if got deep pockets, get both and mix and match.
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Comment by Evil Eye
Feb 7, 2016
HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE
These all look fantastic. And if they ARE retooling all the figures...Brawl's turret might actually rotate!
These all look fantastic. And if they ARE retooling all the figures...Brawl's turret might actually rotate!
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I don't think the turret will rotate if it was something that could of been done normally it would of been in the Hasbro version it's not like different paint or completely new molding like the Vortex rotors and the new Groove and Blastoff molds.
Comment by Deadput
Feb 7, 2016
Delta Magnus wrote:HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE
These all look fantastic. And if they ARE retooling all the figures...Brawl's turret might actually rotate!
I don't think the turret will rotate if it was something that could of been done normally it would of been in the Hasbro version it's not like different paint or completely new molding like the Vortex rotors and the new Groove and Blastoff molds.