Courtesy of 淘宝店变形金刚改造工厂 on Weibo, we have a look at Titans Return Overlord official pics. Included are shots of him in package and base mode. Hopefully this means he’s hitting soon, stay tuned for sightings and hit the boards to discuss!
by Tony_Bacala under Generations / Classics
Courtesy of 淘宝店变形金刚改造工厂 on Weibo, we have a look at Titans Return Overlord official pics. Included are shots of him in package and base mode. Hopefully this means he’s hitting soon, stay tuned for sightings and hit the boards to discuss!
GoLion
No offense, man. I was looking at some of my Takara figures from around 2005 and the quality has gone downhill a bit. There are more QC issues on the newer figures. That's pretty much the same with both companies. I don't think either has the edge in who has the better product right now.
AMG
Overlord looks good.
Feralstorm
Then we shall see who is right! – in the eight months or so it takes Takara to get around to their own release.
Bass X0
Only because he was originally a remold of Thunderwing and they needed to remold Deluxe Thunderwing into someone. Leader Sky Shadow has no connection to sharing a mold with Thunderwing which is why I find it amazing that they decided to do him of all characters as a pretool of Overlord.
knoted
Perhaps, but I don't think Takara nowadays would go that far – like eh, Sixshot only got a newly sculpted head – based upon that, I'm hoping for just the Titanmasters to turn into Powermasters and a new head for Overlord himself.
DoubleClouder
From what I can tell is you make the length of the tank longer, the shins would be longer and the thighs would be longer. This would also allow them to make the turret longer as well. The waist you could probably keep the same as long as it still lined up.
knoted
The tank is a bit stubby because of the revolving shins. Ergo ; they require a bit of clearance to hold the halves of the tank turret within his lower legs. So, extruding them length-wise is not going to alleviate the high position of the tank turret.
Anyway, I can not wait either to see if Takara will go full out for Overlord. Afteral, he's a major Masterforce character.
As someone else speculated here earlier ; hopefully the Titanmasters will be able to turn into proper engine blocks instead – then the body can feature an entirely new sculpted head without he need to take it off for transformation.
Foster
Remolding the legs is an intriguing idea!
DoubleClouder
I'm more curious is Takara is going to remold the legs on Overlord to make him the same height as God Ginrai. Especially since the tank is a little stubby (still a fantastic toy though)
SoundwaveSuperior
Yep, you can just leave his head inside the helmet and he'll transform just fine. Same for Sixshot.
giga-galvatron
Wait Sky shadow can transform without removing his head?
Starscream Gaga
I think it's a lot more likely Overlord will get a new mold Giga and Mega that's not a Titanmaster as well as an unrelated new Headmaster. They didn't settle on the Targetmasters being simple Headmasters so I doubt they will for these two.
Feralstorm
My own guess is Giga and Mega will be included with TomyKara's Overlord (knowing through Sky Shadow that both molds exist), offering a choice of head/face in robot mode while the other stores in a chest compartment.
It would be funny if dual Titanmasters meant one would have a IDW-esque pouty-face. I'm sure that would probably cheese someone off.
payres
Even back then it bothered me that Overlord's Energon figures were different to the ones with the Motorvators. Even then I thought they looked a bit Power Mastery.
Seeing the Japanese leaflets a year or so later suddenly made everything make a lot of sense!
Nevermore
Hasbro already did Sky Shadow six years ago!
Bass X0
What's more amazing is they did Black Shadow first.
ma70er
Masterforce didn't air in 'Murica though… so inaccuracies like that will just get brushed aside
deathzero23
^hmm so to put in Hasbro's TR line, Tak-Tom's Super Ginrai will tower over Overlord hahaha.
[Wing_Saber-X]
God Ginrai. Super Ginrai was a head shorter than Overlord, FYI.
Starscream Gaga
God Ginrai