Takara Tomy Transformers Legends Manga Chapter 53 Now Online

Va'al wrote:(for those wondering, the three captions for Matere, Roberts and Perez are 'South America' in kanji, and England and America in katakana.)

william-james88 wrote:Just curious, but how prominent is Marcelo in the TF comics community? I know him much more for his TF toy artwork from Armada to today.

ScottyP wrote:

Va'al wrote:(for those wondering, the three captions for Matere, Roberts and Perez are 'South America' in kanji, and England and America in katakana.)

What about the one for the other great TF creative force that got a panel, Dirge?

Sabrblade wrote:What's neat about all three Autobot Targetmasters is that they each not only use preexisting molds for both their bodies and their heads, but each uses some tooling that was never released in Japan:

Pointblank - Hasbro TR Hod Rod w/ Siege on Cybertron Metalhawk's head

Sureshot - Full-Tilt w/ Quake's head

Crosshairs - Hasbro TR Kup w/ Skytread's head

Sabrblade wrote:Crosshairs - Hasbro TR Kup w/ Skytread's head

Emerje wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Crosshairs - Hasbro TR Kup w/ Skytread's head

Japan got the Hasbro TR Kup mold in the same Amazon exclusive Transformers Tribute set we all got, just with some stickers on the box and a TLK designation. It's also still in stock and dirt cheap at only 2,330JPY. And of course Skytread was in the Headmaster box set as Flywheels.



Emerje

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Crosshairs - Hasbro TR Kup w/ Skytread's head

Japan got the Hasbro TR Kup mold in the same Amazon exclusive Transformers Tribute set we all got, just with some stickers on the box and a TLK designation. It's also still in stock and dirt cheap at only 2,330JPY. And of course Skytread was in the Headmaster box set as Flywheels.



Emerje

That "Orion Pax" is currently sporting TR Perceptor's head and representing Crosshairs on my Classics shelf.

ExciKaiser wrote:

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Takara, you're not allowed to show this without a proper toy in preparation.

Rattrap and his friends watch as Majin Zarak continues its unstoppable rampage across Neo Akihabara City and are almost destroyed themselves before suddenly being encased within protective barriers by Big Convoy. The Maximal introduces himself as one of Rattrap's toys, revealing that all Transformers toys in the Legends World are living beings as toys across the world become real Transformers to protect their owners from the Zamojin army. Katsu Don attempts to destroy the newcomers with his telepathic power but is defeated by Overlord Tera, who has mastered that same power—now identified as Shinchōkon—and informs him that it is no longer monopolized by the Zamojin as it exists within all living beings.

With Majin Zarak held back by the army of toys, Scorponok hurries Mindwipe to place the Targetmasters-turned-bombs near the proton energy reservoir deep underground, getting Metroplex out of the way of the cave entrance by deploying Kickback clones to swarm him. By now Weirdwolf and the Decepticon Targetmasters have had enough and turn on their leader, and while Weirdwolf is defeated taking on Scorponok, the Targetmasters depart to try to reach the bombs in time, an act that is mirrored by their Autobot counterparts. Meanwhile, Alpha Trion and the Jumpstarters have made a plan of their own: by using Twin Twist's Drill Base to amplify Trion's repaired ultra-drill, they can banish Majin Zarak to another dimension without killing him and undoing his fated showdown with Lio Convoy. Scorponok is confident that his creation won't be pushed through the portal so easily, only for its engine room to be damaged by a team of Beastformers who snuck into Majin Zarak following its construction, allowing all Transformers in Akihabara the opportunity to pour their combined firepower at the beast. Majin Zarak is forced through to some unknown place and time and while the Beastformers, Skullcruncher and the Sweeps make their escape in time, Scorponok goes down with the ship, furiously screaming vengeance at Fortress.

The threat isn't over yet, however, as Mindwipe is still activating the Targetmaster explosives... but not out of his own free will, as Devil Z has revived in control of his body and intends to finish what Scorponok started! He is blasted out of Mindwipe by Slugslinger, but warns him that any attempt to meddle with the Targetmasters will cause them to detonate and, after a failed attempt at inviting Slugslinger to join him, retreats to a safe location to absorb the energy emitted from the Legends World's destruction. Slugslinger informs Megatron that there is only one way to prevent the Targetmasters from exploding: by killing them. He explains that while remodeled into bombs, they remain living beings, so if they die they won't detonate, but Megatron vetoes this suggestion and instead tells Alpha Trion to evacuate the entire population to the G1 World, leaving the Legends World to be destroyed rather than having to sacrifice any lives. Thanks to the Drill Base, portals are opened up across the world and everyone makes the journey thanks to their floating barriers or Transformers who turn into transports, and the employees of Axalon Trading Company go recover Optimus Primal before departing on a ship given to them by the Dimensional Patrol.

Megatron asks the Jumpstarters if they can recreate the Legends World in the future, and while they believe it difficult without proton energy and Zamojin assistance, they have faith that they can do it with the help of their leader, Dai Atlas. Meanwhile, all six Targetmasters have gathered at the bombs' location to act on an idea of Megatron's: simultaneously expelling all the plasma energy contained within their partners into the proton energy reservoir, which will still destroy the world but allows the Targetmaster partners to live. The plan succeeds, and all twelve of them successfully escape through a portal as the Legends World explodes behind them, though the shockwave sends the Axalon and crew off course. Rattrap awakens to find their ship crashed in a rocky landscape where he discovers the crystallized figures of White Leo and Tigerburn, seemingly frozen in battle with each other. He is greeted by the Monsterbots, with Repugnus claiming not to have seen him for a long time, and realizes he and his friends have ended up on the planet Beast.

Wolfman Jake wrote:It's interesting that the Jumpstarters should mention Dai Atlas.

ZeroWolf wrote:I think we fans should lessen our hope for these figures, going from "Come on Takara!" To "it would be nice if they did but whatever will be, will be"

The more we get our hope up, the more it'll be dashed when it falls apart.

carytheone wrote:That comic makes me yern for a Battle Beast reboot!

I forget, does the Tak Repug come with the same Head Master as the Hasbro Repugnus. Basically, just Dastard? The comic makes it seem like a different character. Of course considering I can't read it and I kept going from left to right means I was a little lost.

Well to the Google mobile to search it out.

Sabrblade wrote:

carytheone wrote:That comic makes me yern for a Battle Beast reboot!

I forget, does the Tak Repug come with the same Head Master as the Hasbro Repugnus. Basically, just Dastard? The comic makes it seem like a different character. Of course considering I can't read it and I kept going from left to right means I was a little lost.

Well to the Google mobile to search it out.

Yes. The head is the same as the Hasbro Dastard version, but the one he uses in this comic is instead the Titan Master version instead of Dastard. Though, Takara is treating Dastard not as himself but instead as the hedgehog Beastformer named, uh, Hedgehog. Likewise, Grotusque's little headmaster Fengul is treated by Takara as the Beastformer named Platinum Tiger.

carytheone wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

carytheone wrote:That comic makes me yern for a Battle Beast reboot!

I forget, does the Tak Repug come with the same Head Master as the Hasbro Repugnus. Basically, just Dastard? The comic makes it seem like a different character. Of course considering I can't read it and I kept going from left to right means I was a little lost.

Well to the Google mobile to search it out.

Yes. The head is the same as the Hasbro Dastard version, but the one he uses in this comic is instead the Titan Master version instead of Dastard. Though, Takara is treating Dastard not as himself but instead as the hedgehog Beastformer named, uh, Hedgehog. Likewise, Grotusque's little headmaster Fengul is treated by Takara as the Beastformer named Platinum Tiger.

Ah, cool, thanks.the little purple robot riding in his chest was throwing me.

Sabrblade wrote:

carytheone wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

carytheone wrote:That comic makes me yern for a Battle Beast reboot!

I forget, does the Tak Repug come with the same Head Master as the Hasbro Repugnus. Basically, just Dastard? The comic makes it seem like a different character. Of course considering I can't read it and I kept going from left to right means I was a little lost.

Well to the Google mobile to search it out.

Yes. The head is the same as the Hasbro Dastard version, but the one he uses in this comic is instead the Titan Master version instead of Dastard. Though, Takara is treating Dastard not as himself but instead as the hedgehog Beastformer named, uh, Hedgehog. Likewise, Grotusque's little headmaster Fengul is treated by Takara as the Beastformer named Platinum Tiger.

Ah, cool, thanks.the little purple robot riding in his chest was throwing me.

Oh, no, that purple dude is Toraizer, a non-toy redeco of Lione/Sawback.

Skritz wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

carytheone wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

carytheone wrote:That comic makes me yern for a Battle Beast reboot!

I forget, does the Tak Repug come with the same Head Master as the Hasbro Repugnus. Basically, just Dastard? The comic makes it seem like a different character. Of course considering I can't read it and I kept going from left to right means I was a little lost.

Well to the Google mobile to search it out.

Yes. The head is the same as the Hasbro Dastard version, but the one he uses in this comic is instead the Titan Master version instead of Dastard. Though, Takara is treating Dastard not as himself but instead as the hedgehog Beastformer named, uh, Hedgehog. Likewise, Grotusque's little headmaster Fengul is treated by Takara as the Beastformer named Platinum Tiger.

Ah, cool, thanks.the little purple robot riding in his chest was throwing me.

Oh, no, that purple dude is Toraizer, a non-toy redeco of Lione/Sawback.

Wasn't he planned for Titans Return but scrapped?

Flashwave wrote:I so want to be excited about all the random cameos, (1)Marissa abd her daughter, (2)the random magic tranforming boat lady tagging along with SeaSpray, the Battle Beasts abd random HeadMasters, but I have no bloody clue whats happening here.

Flashwave wrote:And is Grotuaque arguing with his Titan Master dude at one point?

ThunderThruster wrote:1) Spotted Marissa, but her daughter? When was she introduced to the franchise?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Another cameo I just realized, not of a character, but of a concept: Platina Tiger's "glass shattering" thing is his new dimension warping ability, taken from the Blendtrons in the Beast Wars Neo anime.

carytheone wrote:That comic makes me yern for a Battle Beast reboot!

Seibertron wrote:

carytheone wrote:That comic makes me yern for a Battle Beast reboot!

But only if they do the wood/fire/water rubsigns and they're part of the Transformers line and are modern updates to the originals! I did not like the line that Takara did a few years back.

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Another cameo I just realized, not of a character, but of a concept: Platina Tiger's "glass shattering" thing is his new dimension warping ability, taken from the Blendtrons in the Beast Wars Neo anime.

You sure it's not related to his previously being trapped inside the Holography Mirror?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Another cameo I just realized, not of a character, but of a concept: Platina Tiger's "glass shattering" thing is his new dimension warping ability, taken from the Blendtrons in the Beast Wars Neo anime.

You sure it's not related to his previously being trapped inside the Holography Mirror?

Could be too. Fiction is your niche after all.

Sabrblade wrote:

ThunderThruster wrote:1) Spotted Marissa, but her daughter? When was she introduced to the franchise?

2016, with her first appearance being in the little pack-in comic page that came with Unite Warriors Convoy Grand Prime - https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sue_Faireborn

On the planet Beast in the year 2023, the war rages on between the Beastformers and Laser Beasts, the two armies now on equal footing after the Beastformers acquired Doublecross and followed White Leo's example in adopting mechanical bodies. Tigerburn remains confident, however, as his forces have recovered two of the Three Wise Ones' gemstones and are in control of the headless bodies of Repugnus and Grotusque. Suddenly a portal opens up above the battlefield and disgorges Repugnus himself and Hedgehog, immediately followed by the other Headmasters who escaped the destruction of the Legends World, and Autobots and Decepticons alike choose to assist their old Beastformer allies against the Laser Beasts.

The panicking Tigerburn has the Headmasters Scopecougar and Skullgrotes combine with the two Monsterbot bodies, though his efforts are in vain as they're faced with the arrival of Jetfire, Bumblebee, Seaspray, Alana, Spike, and Marissa, the latter finally being reunited with Sue in the process. Having used the Water Gem of Motion to restore Tlalak and its Well of Transformation, Seaspray sprays its water on Scopecougar and Skullgrotes, separating them from Toraizer and Shuffler as well as the Monsterbot bodies. Repugnus is quick to reclaim his, though White Leo reveals that Grotusque cannot be restored right now as his head is in another dimension with Platinum Tiger.

The reason for this is that Platinum Tiger has sequestered himself after becoming evil, having fallen victim to the curse of the Head Tiger when he used it to save Grotusque's head from the Laser Beasts. While Grotusque attempted to mitigate the curse by using the gemstones to merge with Platinum Tiger, it was not enough and the Beastformer chose to seal himself away so as to never harm anyone. Grotusque says he's happier this way, having never liked his ugly body to begin with, but Platinum Tiger can sense that the time has come for the Monsterbot to return and suddenly breaks out of his self-styled prison, combines with Grotusque's body and downloads the Monsterbot's consciousness into it. While Grotusque protests, Platinum Tiger insists that it's too dangerous for them share the same body and urges Grotusque to face his problems as himself.

Enraged by his loss of the Monsterbots, Tigerburn steals the Water Gem of Motion from Seaspray and uses the three gems in his possession to call upon the power of the legendary Red Phoenix, Wood Beetle, and Shocking Shark...

Enraged by his loss of the Monsterbots, Tigerburn steals the Water Gem of Motion from Seaspray and uses the three gems in his possession to take control of the Beastformers' legendary Red Phoenix, Wood Beetle, and Shocking Shark and pit them against the Transformers. Doublecross/White Leo and Grotusque/Platinum Tiger spring into action and use the combined power of machine and beast to battle the mobile bases, and when Repugnus envies their newfound strength, Hedgehog offers to form his head using Spike's Headmaster exosuit. In response, the Shocking Shark bites into Hedgehog and damages his head mode, though Repugnus, whose consciousness has moved into his body, automatically repairs the Beastformer into a form resembling his own head. With the addition of the smaller Repugnus armor's gun mode and White Lune's Targetmaster form, the three Monsterbots defeat the mobile bases, allowing White Leo to tackle Tigerburn and call upon the three gems himself. He explains to the Laser Beast Emperor that to melt his cold heart and prove that the residents of Beasts can live together, he will merge with Tigerburn himself into an example of unity—and in a flash of light the two are crystallized, becoming a monument of their final struggle.

Fifteen years later in 2038, the Monsterbots finish explaining what happened to the newly arrived Legends Rattrap, adding that Platinum Tiger has since locked himself within the Holography Mirror and that Rattrap's group has arrived during the G2 Era when the Decepticons are led by their new hero, Galvatron II. Elsewhere, Galvatron II punishes Hooligan for referring to him as "II" before announcing that he will rob Beast of all its energy.