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[EmirateXaaron]

My Skruncher had tight arms and floppy leg joints.

takara-tomy-transformers-legends-thread-t101179s5075.php#p1813218

Oh? That's worrisome. Maybe the loose hips were less pronounced in the TT release?

That is the Takara release though. A little Pledge polish fixed it. Now he can pull off some poses that he couldn't before.

Glad to hear it, I'll definitely have to snag him this weekend.

[fenrir72]

Meanwhile, toys r us is littered with Black Arachnias, Night Birds, Skids, and even the Ikebukero branch has Unite Menasors, masterpiece Tracks and Shockwaves warming the regular shelves

And yeah, I momentarily forgot about the exclusive heads, I can see how people would scalp them to sell to an iternational audience.

Menasor isn't exactly a gem of a mold what with his center of gravity issues. But Nightbird? shelfwarming? Must be the repaint curse. Tracks and Shockwave though, I find it surprising that the latter is also shelfwarming.

[fenrir72]

My Skruncher had tight arms and floppy leg joints.

takara-tomy-transformers-legends-thread-t101179s5075.php#p1813218

Oh? That's worrisome. Maybe the loose hips were less pronounced in the TT release?

That is the Takara release though. A little Pledge polish fixed it. Now he can pull off some poses that he couldn't before.

Glad to hear it, I'll definitely have to snag him this weekend.

Left thigh that twists and the socket connectors are loose in my copy. Seems like a universal issue and yes, Wipe and Shine is godsend.

[william-james88]

MP Tracks & Shockwave are always in-stock on HLJ, they even gone through several worthwhile sales.

My assumption with Shockwave is that he is an expensive figure and that just goes with the curve of a higher price means less folks can afford him. But with Tracks, he and Roadrage really proved unpopular in Japan. And people's initial fears with the mold and its look were validated too (unlike Ironhide for instance who proved much better in hand).
I dont know what the general concensus on Track is now though. I know I am not a fan (I own roadrage, who has an extra problem of no locking head) but now that he has been out for a while and the hype has gone I am wondering if I am not the only one to see him as a missfire among all the recent MP releases. I remember whe Windblade was being hyped and now no one really claims she is a good toy. Wondering if its the same with Tracks

[Cyberpath]

LG24 package image from Yuki:



And the new head with the original transtector:

[primalxconvoy]

MP Tracks & Shockwave are always in-stock on HLJ, they even gone through several worthwhile sales.

My assumption with Shockwave is that he is an expensive figure and that just goes with the curve of a higher price means less folks can afford him. But with Tracks, he and Roadrage really proved unpopular in Japan. And people's initial fears with the mold and its look were validated too (unlike Ironhide for instance who proved much better in hand).
I dont know what the general concensus on Track is now though. I know I am not a fan (I own roadrage, who has an extra problem of no locking head) but now that he has been out for a while and the hype has gone I am wondering if I am not the only one to see him as a missfire among all the recent MP releases. I remember whe Windblade was being hyped and now no one really claims she is a good toy. Wondering if its the same with Tracks

I saw Windblade being sold for about 200 dollars in one used/collectors/developer shop in Akiba, but that type of crazy pricing can happen for any figure in such shops.

roadrage suffered from all of Tracks' problems and then from the lack of anything for the toy to fix the head to. In the end, I used a fan mode, which used an alternative transformation of the backpack to give the head/neck support.

I even think that the black limited edition Tracks can be bought at a reasonable price on the secondary market in Japan. Such was the apathy to it after two mediocre versions prior.

[Cyberpath]

MP Tracks & Shockwave are always in-stock on HLJ, they even gone through several worthwhile sales.

My assumption with Shockwave is that he is an expensive figure and that just goes with the curve of a higher price means less folks can afford him. But with Tracks, he and Roadrage really proved unpopular in Japan. And people's initial fears with the mold and its look were validated too (unlike Ironhide for instance who proved much better in hand).
I dont know what the general concensus on Track is now though. I know I am not a fan (I own roadrage, who has an extra problem of no locking head) but now that he has been out for a while and the hype has gone I am wondering if I am not the only one to see him as a missfire among all the recent MP releases. I remember whe Windblade was being hyped and now no one really claims she is a good toy. Wondering if its the same with Tracks

I think part of it is that the internet makes some characters seem more popular than they actually are. But it's Takara's problem to figure out.

It's weird that they pack a headmaster without a body or something it can combine with. I kind of want it for Skullcruncher's drone partner and a few other things. (That's probably the reason why the drones are packed with the deluxe-figures, and the heads with the legends-figures.)


I do like to fiddle with Hardhead's drone while watching TV..

Kind of reminds me of Blitzwing.

[Sabrblade]

Yay, they're calling him "Cancer" on the box!

[Cyberpath]

And "Shockwave" instead of "Destron Laserwave." It makes no difference to me. But does it have any meaning?

[Agamemnon]

I do like to fiddle with Hardhead's drone while watching TV..

Kind of reminds me of Blitzwing.

I, too, like this drone. I don't have the one with Legends Hardhead, but the two TR (Crashbash and Terri-bull?) sit on my desk and I fiddle with them all the time. The other one I really like is Apeface. For such a weird drone/ape/plane thing, he's just...fun.

[Sabrblade]

And "Shockwave" instead of "Destron Laserwave." It makes no difference to me. But does it have any meaning?

For the name "Shockwave", Takara always the Hasbro names in Latin script on the Legends packaging, while using the original Japanese Takara names in Katakana. But in this case, since the Katakana name is also written as "Shockwave" instead of "Laserwave" (along with several other Takara Shockwave toys of recent years using "Shockwave" instead "Laserwave"), that tells me that Takara must have lost the rights to the name "Laserwave" and are now using "Shockwave" as a substitute, with the MP being an exception to this since it seems Takara absolutely wanted to use "Laserwave" for that toy in some manner that they could (which make sense given how the MP line is their bread and butter celebrating the original cartoon with the authentic Japanese names), which resulted in their going with "Destron Laserwave" (essentially an equivalent of Hasbro using "Decepticon Shockwave") for the MP.

For the name "Cancer", however, with his name being written as such in both Katakana and Latin script, that further emphasizes how he's a completely separate character from Hasbro's original Squeezeplay/Crashbash character, and I'm all for their doing it since he very much is his own character (being an Earth human rather than a Cybertronian robot, for one).

[william-james88]

For the name "Cancer", however, with his name being written as such in both Katakana and Latin script, that further emphasizes how he's a completely separate character from Hasbro's original Squeezeplay/Crashbash character, and I'm all for their doing it since he very much is his own character (being an Earth human rather than a Cybertronian robot, for one).

But they are still using that G1 squeezeplay/crashbash toy in their pics. Its kind of hard to see him as completely different when they still show a connectio between the two, no?

[Sabrblade]

For the name "Cancer", however, with his name being written as such in both Katakana and Latin script, that further emphasizes how he's a completely separate character from Hasbro's original Squeezeplay/Crashbash character, and I'm all for their doing it since he very much is his own character (being an Earth human rather than a Cybertronian robot, for one).

But they are still using that G1 squeezeplay/crashbash toy in their pics. Its kind of hard to see him as completely different when they still show a connectio between the two, no?

They had the same G1 toy but were different characters overall. As different as Powermaster Optimus Prime and Ginrai were. As different as Cerebros and Fortress were.

[fenrir72]

LG24 package image from Yuki:



And the new head with the original transtector:

Ya'y! Bruticus will now have his gun!

Wait? Cancer new fits on cancer G1?

[william-james88]

I do like to fiddle with Hardhead's drone while watching TV..

Kind of reminds me of Blitzwing.

Hasbro released it as "Flywheels" which I find pretty cool.



Thats the version ofthe mold I chose to get.

[Sabrblade]

I do like to fiddle with Hardhead's drone while watching TV..

Kind of reminds me of Blitzwing.

Hasbro released it as "Flywheels" which I find pretty cool.

And as Terri-Bull first.

BTW, Hardhead's Partner Drone's name is "Tankette", and is believed to be female.

[Kurona]

LG24 package image from Yuki:



And the new head with the original transtector:

Ya'y! Bruticus will now have his gun!

Wait? Cancer new fits on cancer G1?

It balances there.

[william-james88]

It balances there.

I think it fits there. The pic made sure to show us the tech specs with the midle one being down meaning that the little head can actually be inserted into that slot.

[william-james88]

Seibertronian Cyberpath has shown us the pictures posted on TF Yuki's twitter page. These show LG24 Shockwave in his packaging along with Cancer, who is a redeco of Titan Master Crashbash.

There is also an image of the small head on the original Cancer Masterforce toy (whos gallery can be seen here). The pic makes sure to show us the tech specs with the middle one being down meaning that the little head can actually be inserted into that slot.







Other things to note are the names used for these toys. "Shockwave" is used for both the Latin writting and the Japanese writing, rather than Laserwave, while "Cancer" is used for both. Fellow Seibertronian Sabrblade broke it down for us:

For the name "Shockwave", Takara always the Hasbro names in Latin script on the Legends packaging, while using the original Japanese Takara names in Katakana. But in this case, since the Katakana name is also written as "Shockwave" instead of "Laserwave" (along with several other Takara Shockwave toys of recent years using "Shockwave" instead "Laserwave"), that tells me that Takara must have lost the rights to the name "Laserwave" and are now using "Shockwave" as a substitute, with the MP being an exception to this since it seems Takara absolutely wanted to use "Laserwave" for that toy in some manner that they could (which make sense given how the MP line is their bread and butter celebrating the original cartoon with the authentic Japanese names), which resulted in their going with "Destron Laserwave" (essentially an equivalent of Hasbro using "Decepticon Shockwave") for the MP.

For the name "Cancer", however, with his name being written as such in both Katakana and Latin script, that further emphasizes how he's a completely separate character from Hasbro's original Squeezeplay/Crashbash character, and I'm all for their doing it since he very much is his own character (being an Earth human rather than a Cybertronian robot, for one).

[Kyleor]

So LG24 Shockwave gives you Cancer?

[Randomhero]

TFC gives you Lupus

[Kurona]

Red Bull gives you Predawings.

[william-james88]

Red Bull gives you Predawings.

And you win the prize for best pun so far!

[Railbomb]

I do like to fiddle with Hardhead's drone while watching TV..

Kind of reminds me of Blitzwing.

I, too, like this drone. I don't have the one with Legends Hardhead, but the two TR (Crashbash and Terri-bull?) sit on my desk and I fiddle with them all the time. The other one I really like is Apeface. For such a weird drone/ape/plane thing, he's just...fun.

Apeface (and as named by my friends, his drone Harambecon) is definitely my favorite out of the ones I have so far. Hasbro definitely got something right with with the Titan Master class, I kind of feel bad for how awkwardly they're being released in Japan, being split up from a drone and all.

[william-james88]

Apeface (and as named by my friends, his drone Harambecon) is definitely my favorite out of the ones I have so far. Hasbro definitely got something right with with the Titan Master class, I kind of feel bad for how awkwardly they're being released in Japan, being split up from a drone and all.

As do I. Japanese collectors are no different than us (some are here among us too ) and I am sure they would like the option to just buy the drone seperately if all they want is the drone.