Via Hisashi Yuki’s twitter account, we have a look at Transformers Adventure Runabout and Override in package. These two toys are redecos of Combiner Wars Blackjack and Groove respectively, and are due out very shortly in Japan. They are both homages to Generation 1 characters, with Runabout being one of the pair of Decepticon Battlechargers, while Override is a homage to the Generation 1 Triggerbot of the same name. Check out the in-package image attached to this post.
allew
I was originally using the head on Takara United Bumblebee to represent G2 Bumblebee in my classics collection but now that I got the Masterpiece G2 Bee, it is sort of redundant
Thanks! I think for the clearance price you can't go wrong, cheaper than getting a pair of guns from shapeways or something like that and you get a bonus gold Bumblebee head
Murasame
Looks good.
TacticalBacon
That looks nice. What're you going to do with the spare head, though?
allew
I gave Overide the Beelzeboss Growing Pains custom kit guns (right now on clearance from bbts).
allew
Also available at TFsource as well as Captured Prey.
EDIT: Just sold out at BBTS
Bob Schoonover
Override's in stock at BBTS right now
artiepants
so bummed i missed this guy from HLJ.
WishfulThinking
Fair warning. Override's fists are painted over, inside and out. I don't think I'll be putting anything in those fists or connecting him to any chests any time soon.
Type-R
CW Groove/TAV Override design sketches via TakaraTomy designer Yuya Onishi's Twitter.
Note the Triggerbot style weapons in one of the sketches.
https://twitter.com/YUYA0024_GT/status/643327104457773056/photo/1
https://twitter.com/YUYA0024_GT/status/641633959554629632/photo/1
Murasame
Thank you. Felt a bit sentimental last evening, when I remembered all that.
Autovolt 127
Wow that is such a cool story, sorry for your loss.
Murasame
While playing around with him, I noticed why Override is so special to me. When I was in primary school, we had speech day and before I went there with my mother, we went into a toy store and I bought Override. I liked him cos he was special as a Motorbike, had my favorite colors and his cool spring loaded guns. So my mother basically bought this for me, and I started playing with it in the car while on our way to school. And my mother passed away 2 years ago. So this is kind of special in 2 ways for me.
Autovolt 127
I never realized they could Powerlink.
Man I should have preordered these guys.
Type-R
Superlink!
Override looks good on Ultra Prime
Rakzo
Awesome! I was initially worried about how this was going to look in Defensor but it looks great!
Hope that it also combines nicely with the UW version.
If only this thing wasn't sold out everywhere…
Type-R
These little fellas look great. Amazing what a change in color scheme can do.
https://twitter.com/Alfes2010/status/637608501548716032
Robogeek28
Wow, that looks a lot cooler than I thought it would.
Murasame
My Override was shipped this night already. I wonder when he's here.
Now I only need PM Prime and Getaway remade. Then I can get rid of my G1 toys.
Thundershot
They were sold out hours after they put them up a few weeks ago.
Type-R
CW/UW Skydive's weapon.