Japanese retailer eHobby has posted new images of the upcoming Henkei releases, C-20 Red Alert and C-21 Smokescreen. Smokescreen receives some different paint decos than his Hasbro counterpart, while Red Alert deco on that mold is currently exclusive to only TakaraTomy (no Hasbro counterpart announced). Both figures are due out in April. Click on the thumbnail to the left to see all of the new images of these two figures.
Scourge_151
Hope Red Alert gets a release in Universe, never did have the original toy.
Weremole
Uh… I don't really see how one thing has anything to do with the other. Especially as we don't even know if there will be a toy of Ani!Red Alert.
In either case the two would be different enough. Kindof like Animated Prowl and Universe Prowl.
Miss Frost
Red Alert looks awesome but since we are getting a female Red Alert in Animated, I doubt Hasbro will give us the male Universe version. They wouldn't want to confuse the children with gender identity after all.
Zaraxion1021
I am in ♥ with the henkei Smokescreen. It looks so G1! Though the Red Alert seems sorta wrong to me meaning i won't bother trying to get it.
Soundwave84
I really like that Red Alert
artiepants
lolz, so true… Hasbro Smokescreen is such a WTF??? ~ even the crummy Cybertron Smokescreen was better (i like the Cyb Crosswise mold but the Smokescreen deco didn't really work on it IMHO…)
Rodr-Evil
Both looks extremely cool!!!
Red leader
Smokescreen is awesome! def going the henkei route from now on, the qaulity and paint apps are so much nicer.
Foster
…or a blue one topped with yellow paint.
artiepants
AT LEAST they did it in red which is significantly less of an eye sore then a lot of the Henkei random chrome…
Synical
Henkei Smokescreen does look much better than the Universe version, but I just can't justify spending import prices on such a crappy mold.
NGW
*ponders the point in chroming Smokescreen's spoiler*
Ah well, they look pretty good overall though.
flywheels
Pass on Red Alert, but Smokescreen is a must buy!
meetoblivion
wow why does red alert look so fake? the head seems weird and the gun too. i like the remolds (sirens for afterburner, new gun). smokescreen looks incredible compared to the hasbro version.
airfox
It's not about pleasing or not pleasing the fans, but about pleasing Wal*Mart's $8 price for deluxes.
P.S.: I think I'll be cancelling my Universe Smokescreen order and go Henkei. At first I thought I didn't mind, but I guess I do.
-airfox
Skywave
They look fantastic! Smpkescreen is just so much better than the Hasbro's one, I pre-ordered him with Red Alert!
That's something I don't understand from Hasbro. They go all the way to create G1 character homage in Universe, but yet they can't make them righ, with all sort of wrong plastic color all over the place. That can't be a "kid love bright colors" thing because they'll buy it with red or blue arms, so why not go for more 'acurate' colors to please the fan? Oh well, their lost cause I'm going for Henkei once more
PoweredConvoy
I'm willing to bet the Takara one as they went all out giving him white legs and arms like the cartoon instead of red.
I tend to think a Hasbro version would have red upper legs and mid & lower arms.
Nothing is announced yet.
Randy
Nemesis Liger
Yay, Red Alert! I had my fingers crossed for him. Now if a Sunticon Breakdown showed in the near future I'd be ecstatic. As for Smokescreen the Henkei coloring is gorgeous. Even the crome on his "knees" doesn't look out of place. (To me, anyway) I'll definitely pre-order these guys. They just look too good to pass up. =)
Hmm, three doesn't sound too bad, IMO. Others have gotten waaay more, no? Really though, aren't there some characters whose molds/designs are similar enough to pull that off a couple of good re-paints? Red Alert being one — who else could he be if he wasn't a Sideswipe re-paint?
Crimson Primus
SO….where is the cheapest place to preorder these things at…..my want to buy henkei list is getting longer….
dark69
i like that Red Alert are we getting one?