Courtesy of Tets’ Toys and Shenanigans blog, we can share for you the English translation of Takara Tomy Generations Selects Abominus Web Comic/Manga.
The story takes places immediately after the end of the previous Abominus manga chapter (you can find an English translation here). Story goes more complex, more great battles and some unexpected events and combinations:
Rung tries to help an agonizing Spike who asks for a last favor. Computron and Abominus fight and combine with other combiner members to form Comperian and Abomenaticus respectively (combinations seen in some old G1 Japapenese TV Magazines).
The Quintesson victory was stopped by the return of Spike in a new body as Neo Seibertron X (Neo Autobot X, formed by several Weaponizer and Modulators). Transformers and Selectors (Battle Masters) are working together again, but Megatron Omega comes back and shoots Optimus to death. Then defeats Abominus and takes control of the Angomois energy. Volcanicus saves Abominus from being destroyed, and now the Terrorcon combiner fights against Megatron Omega.
While in Planet Z, the mysterious Zodiac transforms into the Silver Matrix. A sudden attack takes Dai Atlas and his partners by surprise. In the end, it’s revealed that the mysterious attacker was Primus and several Golden Lagoon characters. “Primus” is about to reveal his true intentions.
You can read Abominus manga translation via Tets’ Toys and Shenanigans Blog, or alternatively you can read the mirrored images after the jump. Let us know your impressions on the 2005 Board.
Pcsolyar
No, just price
Tahtorak
Is there a difference between the TT-GS05 Abominus on Hasbropulse and the one on TFSource?
PoweredConvoy
You could use the hands and feet on the PotP one but not the chest plate. I think the GS version excels in combined mode significantly more than the PotP one. So if I were you I would have the GS one combined and the PotP one in their individual components.
DubV
Picked one of these up for $220 (inc shipping) on Ebay today, US seller. Fingers crossed it’s not a QC nightmare. May have spoiled myself by going with the Takara Volcanicus first. Wish me luck!
PS – For those who have both the GS and POTP versions, is there any merit in using the GS parts on the POTP combined mode and then having the GS bots displayed as a team? I like to display my teams with their combined mode standing behind them and really don’t want to buy two sets of these Takaras if I can just “purdy up” the POTP version in combined mode using the GS parts.’
flux convoy
So… my set is fine. Maybe even better than the POTP version. Sorry to hear others haven't been as lucky.
::Edit:: I did forget that the combiner fingers are pretty loose. For me, that doesn't matter since I'm using PE hands and feet. I can understand how that's an issue though.
WreckerImpactor
I was surprised but they actually sent a replacement (after I sent back the first one).
The replacement was WORSE! Haha! Wow! The left hip on Abominus doesn't even Ratchet!! The joint was put together so poorly that it doesn't even ratchet! The metal pin just swivels in the plastic!
I'm absolutely livid. I sent another email just now and I will be calling them first thing Monday Morning.
The QC with these fucking toys is getting ridiculous.
Thundershot
I’m nervous as to how mine will turn out….
analogue
I've had mine since Friday now, so far, so good. The only real issue has been a loose finger on one of the hands, and a loose wing on Cutthroat. The thumbs are tight on this one, whereas they were loose on my God Neptune. Hip ratchets and joints seem fine, and actually are much tighter than on my PoTP version. He can pull the straight-legged stance without leaning and falling forward, unlike the old version. Everything else seems fairly tight. I've transformed him a few times into individual modes and back and moved him around in different poses a few times to see if anything loosens up over time, so far, so good.
Pcsolyar
Let me know how that claim with Hasbro goes, I might have to be Karen Jr and piggyback off it.
WreckerImpactor
After a few days my initial butthurt wore off and I pulled the set out of their box again and fixed all the issues I was having. I like it a lot more now.
Cutthroat had a loose wing because the pic/rivet wasn't pushed in all the way so I brushed some future in the joint until it was tighter. Hunngurr was a lot harder to fix, again, the issue was that the pin for the internal ratchet assembly for the arm wasn't pushed in all the way. They was no way to disassemble the joint so I got a little block of sheet styrene jammed it under the ratchet from inside the torso and very carefully super glued it with a toothpick. That fixed the floppiness.
Still upset I had to do any of this for a $200 set and I'm still waiting for my claim with Hasbro to be addressed so I can politely be a Karen because this isn't acceptable.
80sforged
Well, playing it a little dangerous. Grabbed one at TCP. While 219.99, I can knock 5 bucks off from the points I'm getting, so the late tax was only 5 bucks. I lucked out (kind of), and picked up some overtime at work which covered most of the cost.
Edit: also, did anyone cancel their order. I checked the inventory and its still showing 2. Would they place a cap on purchases and not put a notice for that?
C16
Going to have to fix the gun post as it's too loose in this hands but here's my preferred setup.
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TheSledgeHammer
My Abominus arrived today, and while he feels solid for the most part, it refuses to stand if I try to pose him standing straight up. However, if I pose him dynamically he stands just fine like he has no problems what-so-ever, so long as the feet themselves are flat on the display surface (currently – my desk). My combiner hands also have the loose fingers issue, although on mine its the two middle fingers on both hands. The outer fingers are fairly tight.
IgnikaMarcus
Mine came today. No issues with the hip ratchets.
Biggest (aka most annoying) QC issue I have is a couple loose fingers on one hand.
These 2, specifically. The ones hanging down.
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They do not want to stay in place.
Toker
Only one way to find out…
I'm not familiar with how Hun-Grrr is put together, but Silverbolt had some glue holding together his leg to get to the ratchet. I've taken apart Motormaster to replace the ratchets and it was really easy.
PoweredConvoy
I've considered swapping the ratchets in GS Hun-Grrr for the PotP version.
I have an extra PotP version because I got so desperate for a UW style Abominus, I actually bought an extra Hun-Grrr to customize. And I haven't customized a Transformer since 2000.
I'm not sure if such a thing is possible?
Jarrod
I got mine a few days ago, and, at least when it comes to Hun-Grr, this one is significantly less floppy than my PotP version. Sinnertwin's combiner joint was definitely weaker on the GS than PotP, but a new spring helped that. The new Cutthroat's bird head is also excellent on mine, no issues at all. Unlike my PotP, which constantly falls apart. Rippersnapper and Blot also had tighter leg joints, resulting in tighter elbows for Abominus.
It sounds like there's a lot of variation here between copies. Besides Sinnertwin's combiner joint, everything on mine was a noticeable improvement. That said, I still had to do some mods to get the stability closer to my liking, which I've, sadly, had to do with pretty much every CW/UW style combiner. But I was expecting this to be a disaster, somehow worse than the previous release, based on what I read here. Only to be pleasantly surprised to find that not to be the case.
Robogeek28
TCP sent me notification that their shipment will arrive in 3 days.
To keep my order or not…hmmmmm…..
WreckerImpactor
Floppiness in the legs, I can get him to stand up straight but it takes some work. Don't have any issues with cutthroats head but his wings weren't pinned in well so they're floppy.
ziltama
I would assume the horrendous floppiness of combiner mode followed by warps affecting Cutthroat's bird head. The floppiness is easily the worst of the GS Combiners so far, which is further accentuated by how good GS Volcanicus turned out.