Master teaser and super cool nice guy Hisashi Yuki, toy designer at Takara Tomy is teasing fans with a new sketch of Unite Warriors Victorion.
As always, TFYuki took to Twitter to show off the sketch.
We now await for more news.
Check out the image, after the jump.
shadowfall1976
IMO the Star Saber hands help make the other Combiner proportions better, BBTS is almost sold out of them, luckily I have all I need for Menasor and UW Computron in my POL, just need paint. My others already have theirs, just deciding if I like the darker Gray on Bruticus or if I want to paint them the darker Silver, I already painted Defensor's Black and Superion got the pair that were already White. The sword insert they come with I carve out so they can hold the 5mm pegs.
As for feet, other than on Superion which have my own scratch built feet with ball joints the HFGs actually look good enough to me. And with Superion the HFGs got lost amidst the Jet wings, they looked like they weren't there, plus they were Black and I didn't want to paint them. I don't see that issue occurring with Computron since he has molds I already know look OK wearing the feet.
And as for Victorion I think Her hands are too small and dainty for the size Combiner she is, and you could sand the Star Saber fingers down to a rounder and pointier more feminine style, they should look fine.
T-Hybrid
I'm buying CW Computron because I like their Strafe and overall colors better. (Plus Scrounge is kinda funny)
That said, I passed/missed out on Grand Galvatron…mostly because I couldn't decide if I wanted to buy him and sell my Cyclonus. But if their Victorion has five new characters it may make it easier to justify (in my mind).
Lord Dcast
Whatever I'm doing, I'm going with Nonnef feet and KFC Star Saber hands. They're slightly smaller than Perfect Effect's, so it might create the effect.
Robogeek28
Agreed, but to be honest, I do kind of hope they go with the Hasbro Victorian hands and feet just to make the combined form look SOMEWHAT feminine.
Lord Dcast
I say the same. Doesn't make much difference; I prefer the Perfect Effect offerings anyway.
It kinda makes the whole 'I'm going Hasbro for the feet' thing stupid. If you want it for the price or the toy aesthetic, just say so. Don't justify it on accessories.
ma70er
Probably standard HFGs, if only to keep the entire Scramble City line uniform. I don't buy the notion that the reason UW Computron didn't get the new set was because the budget was put towards retooling and the new heads.
shamanking282
Up until Computron, I would agree that the precedent has been that Takara uses every tooling variation from Combiner Wars.
Then UW Strafe happened. Skipping over the CW Strafe tooling entirely.
So it is entirely possible that Takara forgoes the Sky Lynx remold entirely to make a proper Breastforce team.
(Also, yes I know this is supposed to be the Deceptorion thread. Super excited to get more news on her. Interesting talking point: will this version have the unique hands and feet? Or HFGs?)
Bass X0
They'll probably remold Silverbolt into Leozack. Maybe remold Hound into Jarugar even though he wouldn't be able to combine with the others simultaneously.
PlanckEpoch
The colors on Vicky are a huge turn off for me. I'm normally tolerant or indifferent to weird colors but Vicky's just don't work at all. I said it before that if Takara does Vicky, they'd fix her colors. I'm pretty confident that whatever they do it'll certainly be better than Vicky right now.
As far as mold choices, I don't see them doing anything different as far as base molds go. Possibly one or two new heads? The latest Yuki teaser suggests that the combined mode will probably have a new head? Maybe.
shadowfall1976
Had the Hasbro Afterburner or whatever he is called now looked like this but in full on toy orange instead of Red and Lightspeed's bot mode been more red than White I would have bought that set just for those two and sold the other bots or gave them to my Son. But as they are Streetspeed looks OK, but Afterburner in the way they decided to not make him toy based as far as actual color locations…made it an easy pass. Those are the two I had as a kid and would have loved the modern version in actual full on toy colors…but nope. So, only one Computron for me.
As far as this goes here…I'm damn curious as to what the Takara one will look like as Victorion is not at all to my liking, I don't like the Choppers as legs and Brakedown's mold looks like crap IMO as an arm, so, for me there was no configuration of limbs I would have liked…plus the color scheme…eh…no. But Black and Purple or something like that and maybe used two Dead End molds…or slap two new molds in there instead of also having two Choppers, but that's not likely. I have no plans to really want a Victorion…but how they looked Combined and the color scheme may nudge me in the other direction.
Lord Dcast
Super4Ever
Can we keep the discussion to UW Victorion? Every time I see a post I think it's an update but instead it's discussion about another UW release.
Lord Dcast
That UW Afterburner looks dreamy. So glad I preordered.
Sy-Rein
UW Afterburner.
T-Hybrid
Is this UW Afterburner or is Yuki teasing someone new? I can't translate.
ca12nag3
It is a great solid mold, the rook/ swindle. Everything holds together well. Do yes I hope so too. More brawls and he possibly falls apart.
DrOblivian
yeah i plan on doing the same thing when i get my liokaiser. That little bit of height can make all the difference sometimes. Makes me a little bummed sometimes when i realize that swindle COULD have had the same thing, but they retooled his feet and removed the 5mm hole.
I think its a 100% chance that their Nosecone retool will get a new head and become Drillhorn. They are going to want to get the most out of their retool they possibly can.
ma70er
Thanks for confirming.
Hopefully, Takara does use their Nosecone mold for Drillhorn for their inevitable UW Liokaiser.
DrOblivian
owning both Brawl and Rook, i can confirm that they are indeed the same height with their feet extended
ma70er
I'm just hoping they at least use the Slingshot/Fireflight mold (despite not being a Mig-29) for Guyhawk if they indeed make Leozack part of the team again just to differentiate the three jets.
Are the Brawl and Rook molds still the same height/length if you don't fold down the feet for combined mode. Preferably, I would like to use that to give Liokaiser some added height over the other combiners in this line.
The anticipation for Not-Victorion's full reveal is killing me Get to leaking more stuff, TFYuki.