Possible Liokaiser Art Revealed

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by wearelegion69, Jan 8, 2016.

  1. SgtLemon

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    I'm hoping Leozack is Silverbolt also, while I like how the SkyReign torso looks its just not accurate enough haha. I hope they do something with the SkyReign torso though at some point.
     
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    I wouldn't hold out too much. My guess is we'll get the same two jets w/ new heads, the recolored Brawl (maybe with the HFG as the Killbison dual cannon) and the UW Nosecone as Drillhorn.

    That would reduce the amount of work needed on the limbs to let them focus on the torso. But if they did that, I wouldn't be shocked if it ended up being $160 instead of the $130 we've seen for most of the sets.
     
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    two things i just realized....

    1. 4 aerialbot double cannons, so you could put the hfg on killbison, the plug those in the sides to homage the double turrets...

    2. new wings on the blue one (forgive me pleez) the tips go out at a further angle than the standard wings......
     
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    For me it's just hard to imagine any other character coming from the sky Lynx mold
     
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    (It's the role this mold was born to play)
     

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    magmatron is also doable, representing his combined beast mode....
     
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    I'd be up for "G1" Darksteel. Better him than Deathsarus.
     
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    When they announced Predacus for Botcon part of me was hoping:

    Sky Lynx -> Magmatron
    Breakdown -> Ravage
    Air Raid -> Onyx Primal
    Groove -> Flamewar
    Rook -> Tarantulas

    With Tripredacus itself being an Attendee pack. Then the Council has their own trio and a whole combiner team to boss around.
     
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    HFG will need some remoulding to do that: when it's flat the side holes are covered.

    That's not the wings, that's the swords from the end of Sky Lynx's tail.
     
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    I hope that takara does this, and that all the microns included would had new heads.

    Leozack: New deluxe mold, transforms into an F-14, Includes Jida (terrorcon cliff micron)
    Jallguar: New deluxe mold, transforms into a Dune Buggy, forms the lower part of the torso. Includes Jida
    Killbison: Brawl retool, with new head and turret, comes with Zamu (War Breakdown micron, but with a bison head)
    Drillhorn: UW Nosecone with a new head, it includes Zamu.
    Guyhawk: CW Air Raid mold with new F-15 wings, it includes gul (Voyager Starscream micron)
    Hellbat: Cw Skydive, new head and includes Hades (Darkness megatron bat micron)
     
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    A little disappointing in that Takara is hinting at Baldigus being their next set after Computron.

    Damn, Takara... you were doing so well with all unique combiners (with no repeating heads) in your line for eight sets! Now you opt to start with 1:1 straight repaints and a direct carbon copy of Bruticus :thumbdown 
     
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    for Leozack, i'd settle for a heavy retool of Silverbolt, shorter nosecone, longer wings.
    and Jallugar as a legends class, with his missile pods forming the basis of a third handheld weapon mode. (that can also be back mounted on Liokaiser)

    also, we have a Bison Micron, Balo, that came with Skywarp and Thundercracker. turned into a drill/throwing star.
     
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    i literally called that setup just before i saw the council teaser pic!!

    1. you can lean the hfg on the rotatable peg on brawl's turret so that the gun slots in arm mode are present....

    2.look at the part the sword is on slightly to the right, the vehicle mode wings.....
     
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    They don't. Yuki showing old toys on Twitter is not a tease for anything even if it would fit. He shows off old Beast Wars toys constantly and none of those have been a hint at anything so far, same with other toys from other parts of the franchise. He just likes to make photos of toys and to post them, just like we do.

    A silhouette of a Combiner is the official teaser for the next set they're doing, and until we've seen that no one knows what they'll tackle next. Could be Valdigus, could be Victorion, could be Liokaiser, could be something completely different.

    Same, I think having an actual 6 member combiner out of the current Scramble City-style combiners is not happening. Leozack as a Silverbolt retool would be good enough, even better if they include a small Legends car as Jallguar, even if it doesn't really combine with Liokaiser.
     
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    I hope so too.

    But Ruination is just a straight up repaint, there's no need to make more unnecessary retools in this case.
     
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    To add onto that, if Takara were planning on doing something more involved for a combiner after Computron (whether it be Liokaiser, something with BattleCore Prime, Sky Lynx and his limb, the Demolisher tooling on Bruticus, etc), it might make sense to toss in an easy repaint like Baldigus into the schedule so UW figures keep coming out at a decent clip and keep revenue flowing on the sub-line while new designs are created, tested, etc.
     
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    Even if UW went with Baldigus (or Ruination) next, that would likely be to get some mileage out of the remolding and buy time to work out the kinks with stuff like Sky Reign and Liokaiser.

    They'll likely also slip Victorion in the release cycle at some point. Could see a few "repaints" in that regard before we see the next big release.
     
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    I'm just hoping Takara brings out all the unreleased heads in their line before going straight to 1:1 repaints. This has always been one of those things I think most take for granted about the Unite Warriors line; unlike the rampant head sharing in Combiner Wars, each head in their sets has been single uses thus far (e-Hobby Grand Scourge aside).

    Victorion seems like the logical choice as nothing would need to be changed, followed by Sky Reign (would only need to change Smokescreen who is using the Prowl head). They can use those sets to further pad the budget for their Liokaiser and still keep the line free of Combiner Wars copy-paste-styled releases.
     
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    Just tried it with Botcon Ramhorn. Incredibly the fist will fit on the peg with it's thumb underneath and barrels pointing forward. However the clearance on the sides isn't enough to securely hold the dual cannons in place :-(

    Really it needs the HFG pegged into the turret with the sides of the HFG shaved away.

    This might be one of those occasions where it's necessary to dig out the old stand by, the Zoids Blox.

    Ah I think I see what you mean. The wing on the rear of the arm? No, that's not secured properly at shoulder joint that folds moves the arm and wing up from plane mode. Otherwise it looks identical to me.

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