Takara-Tomy’s Hisashi Yuki has tweeted some new images showing the individual robots who make up the Japanese release of Combiner Wars Defensor. The Unite Warriors release of Defensor will come as a gift pack, and will be a Takara-Tomy Mall exclusive. The five toys all feature some altered paintwork on their decos – for example, Streetwise sports a grey deco compared to the Hasbro version’s off white, and Hot Spot also features a modified deco, with more white and blue. The set also features an all-new mold currently not being offered in the US – Groove, who features translucent plastic and twin pistols.
The set is on track for a release in November of 2015 in Japan. Watch this space for more news and information on this and all other Japanese Transformers releases.
Cal
^ You revived this thread just to say that?
nstanosheck
Well he is out in May in the USA now, so now everyone can be happy.
Cal
I think with a bit of remolding, Chromia could make an excellent Afterburner. A very sexy Afterburner.
Thundershot
I don't feel the need to have "g1 perfection". As long as I have a nice looking Groove, I'm fine. I like the Legends one. I like the deluxe one better, it not an extra $160 better. Plus, if Hasbro DOES do a deluxe Groove, I've already got TAV Override ready to take Groove's old spot.
Afterburner
A lot of remolding. Other than being motorcycles, they aren't remotely similar.
I don't think Technobots are coming, but maybe I'll be wrong. But they will have to fix more than a limb this time, as Hasbro's Scattershot is half-hearted garbage.
shadowfall1976
And? It's a toy, so what… Hot Spot is smaller than he should be, an SUV is supposed to be taller than a car, especially being he's supposed to be an Ambulance, and a Helicopter should be huge too…but guess what, none of those are correct either…but let's keep all focus on a Motorcycle. And not to mention on the Hasbro side Rook should be twice if not more the size he is.
vproject
To be honest, I am still hoping that Hasbro will release Groove in the future. =)
monish
^ The only other combiners I'm waiting for is takara devestator and bruticus. I got the UW superion and menasor. Only sucky part is waiting. I just spend a shit load on takara metroplex too but I'm happy.
SunSwipe5
That's yet another reason I'm probably still getting UW Defensor, is because I have UW Superion and UW Menasor.
I've been budgeting out my preorders and paying them off early. My next payoff will be MP TC in two weeks. I may just payoff UW Defensor now, leaving only Clampdown for December (though going by all the recent delays, I wouldn't be too shocked if he was delayed too, at some point).
I'm trying to wean myself off of these Combiners, but I'm failing miserably. I plan on getting the G2 versions,as well as Victorion. THEN, I'm done with Combiners…….really.
monish
Personally I'd stick to UW defensor, but if you already own the hasbro version no need to double dip.
SunSwipe5
I'm having second thoughts about UW Defensor. After comparing my Hasbro Defensor to the UW pics, I actually prefer the colors on the Hasbro version. The ONLY reason I'm still considering the UW Defensor is because I want Groove.
Metroplex[IH]
Yeah, but other deluxe figures can ride him, so that makes him extra awesome.
nstanosheck
In Alt Mode, the motorcycle is taller than all the other vehicles.
Raiju
Takara Tomy Mall apparently already charged my credit card for UW-03 Defensor. Paid for it in full. Nothing left to do but play the waiting game for them to send this to my dad-in-law's address in Japan. Christmas gonna be good.
Autoboty
Sorry, what?
nstanosheck
That Groove is taller than all the other Protectobots, even Hot Spot! Ridiculous!
Underwear
I really love MP Magnus & enjoy transforming it. The toy never irks me at all..
shadowfall1976
Now that i have options for bot mode scale (Masterpiece) im happy, but i never expected main line scale at all. But, Combiner wars it just makes sense that all the Limb bots are the same bot size, regardless of what size the alt modes become. I don't give a crap about a huge ass bike next to a smaller car, never bothered me, never will. But MP yeah, bot scale except when two alt modes should be similar like Prime and Magnus, but as i said there too, i always saw Magnus as a bigger bot than Prime, so, I'm perfectly happy with his size and heft.
Sunstorm9119
What????? How is that done?
I checked Radicons and I didn't see anything……..
Metroplex[IH]
I was being a little bit facetious. My point was this is hardly the worst example of Scale Corruption(TM), and that there's something to be said for st least ONE of the modes being in scale.
Beast Machines hurt so badly. So, so badly.