Haslab War For Cybertron Unicron Transformation Video

UtahRobotInDisguise

Unicron can’t maintain scale one frame to the next… so he could be house sized, wall sized and haslab sized and all would be correct.

He's all over the place, that's for sure.

FORT MAXie

Some convention Q and A they said Unicron is Jupiter-sized

That's nuts. Years and years back, I think the consensus was that Cybertron was Mars-sized. I don't think it's even that big using The Ultimate Doom as a reference point (closer to Moon-sized than Earth-sized) but let's just go with it. TFTM has him standing on Cybertron swatting at the coneheads. He's smaller than Mars and Mars is way smaller than Jupiter.

FORT MAXie

Some convention Q and A they said Unicron is Jupiter-sized so I then reverse scaled it based of MP-10 and came to roughly about the size of the moon a hair larger thou i kinda figured if your making a moon sized Unicron you would mine and plate over the surface bumping him upto scale and also allowing mining to happen. It was lockdown i had spare time, don't judge.

So the Q&A basically said Unicron is just one big gaseous space fart?

All making sense now.

mx-01 archon

He's designed to go together in a pretty systematic way.

You don't really have to do any supporting of the planet quadrants, you can just let them dangle while dealing with the rest of him.

Ball up the robot bits, then wrap the entire middle segment around it. Chain each of the quadrant segments together one by one, and they easily "zip" into place by first lining them up at the back, and then gently pressing them into place, leading up to the clips around the maw.

His enormous heft aside, he's one of the most painless shellformers HasTak has ever designed. That main act of wrapping that first ring of planet crust around him gives you a really solid base to work with, with well-defined locking points that don't create any margin for error. And then they designed the zipper-like tabs for the quadrants really well, with soft bevels to them that make them self-guiding. There's none of the usual need to carefully line up multiple parts at once, and precisely align tabs.

The main sections that give me trouble are the quarter sections that hang from the top half of the planet. Getting the arms into position while those are flopping up top gives me trouble. Because if I don’t support them they’ll be clashing into the arms.

ErikB

Usually, there are 10-20 test shots done and passed around to test quality, different plastics, paint samples, and more. The most I've heard of is that the Forms Robo test shots were produced in quantities of around 50-75 pieces; each one being made in sets of 20-25 in various colors. The ones I have are grey and green, but there was a third color as well I think?

I've had Aaron Archer confirm that the Tidal Wave testshot I had back in the day (wish i still had it) was in the 20 piece range.

Would love to see some of your collection

FORT MAXie

MP scaled one the size of the moon, hey a man can dream right.

Unicron can’t maintain scale one frame to the next… so he could be house sized, wall sized and haslab sized and all would be correct.

moon sized wouldn’t be mp scale.

How many Haslab Unicron & Victory Saber prototype/production samples are in existence?

Don't wanna end up like G2 Menasor clutterf**k eBay auction only to find out wait there's more!

tfwmongrel

LOL okay, by that logic the Siege Megatron is "playable" compared to MP Megatron which is also obviously true. But some of us want to display characters that look good too. HasLab is "playable" because he is built, and displays like, a child's toy. An $800 all-plastic child's toy with some places they forgot to even paint. I have both, HasLab is strictly for the gorgeous planet mode though, his shellforming is laughable. If I could buy just the shell & rings alone, I would gladly sell it.

Why DOESN'T someone manufacture that?? Bonus if it splits in two front vs back, letting you display it mounted on the wall in some imposing way over your display.

Sounds like you should just go to hobby lobby or Ross and buy the children's moon night-light, mod it (add some rings, paint it, hang it) and call it a day?

Oniconvoy

I mean, of course it does. It is designed to be a part of a WFC collection, which are all children’s toys.

Exactly! Kinda confused what else one would want? 200lb die cast robot with 30,000 panel forming pieces? Personally I think Hasbro did great. I have Cell and Hasbro, and anyone who visits and sees my collection is in wonder of Hasbro Unicron. No one blinks at Cell.

that being said, if BMB made a oversized Hasbro Unicron that reengineered the kibble to fold up better, I’d definitely consider adding it to my collection… but that’s just my gluttony showing. As is, Hasbro made a phenomenally good size-to-price ratio figure that is just damn fun. Period.

tfwmongrel

Why DOESN'T someone manufacture that?? Bonus if it splits in two front vs back, letting you display it mounted on the wall in some imposing way over your display.

I’ve been asking that for YEARS! Remember the 3D wall art fad with superheroes punching through walls? I’ve wanted something similar but 3D dioramas. Unicron, the Ark in the mountain, Grayskull, turtle lair, technodrone, USS Flagg, etc.