If you don’t like Hasbro’s Hailstorm deco, Mindset’s blue and slight retool, or just don’t know who is homaging what, we now bring you some more delicious confusion to the table. Higekukmatoytoy gives us a complete gallery of Takara-Tomy’s Autobot Alliance Hailstorm. Darkness surrounds him as the shades of olive green and now dark grey plastic joints give him a slightly more menacing look. Follow the jump and gaze at his uncoordinated poses. Is he better than Hasbro’s releases or worse?
Not sporting enough deco differences with their previous Hasbro releases, Alfes 2010 also shows us what to expect if shelling out additional money for Autobot Alliance Terradive, Tomahawk, and Highbrow. Hailstorm’s new grey has seeped into Tomahawk’s color palllette, Highbrow sports darker baby blue camo under his plane fuselage, while Terradive is a brighter orange with detailed red tipped wings and blue tipped trident.
We made it easy, so just follow the jump and see the best pics mirrored on our site. Will the deco changes make you pull out your wallet? Let us know on our boards.
Runamuck
I bought the Takara Hailstorm and got him in the mail a few days ago. Much better than Takara, imo. Now I want that Takara Terradive after seeing the pics here!
mx-01 archon
TakaraTomy's Highbrow has a darker, greyish blue, rather than the straight-up pale blue of the Hasbro version.
I prefer Hasbro Highbrow for the aforementioned reason. Hailstorm is an improvement, but the original wasn't bad by any means (and I do miss the gold joints from the Hasbro version), so I have no desire to import this version.
Terradive looks much better with the white vehicle markings, IMO, and the change in orange shade is rather lateral (and actually, if anything, they'd look better with the jet markings swapped. Not enough contrast between the orange and red).
Tomahawk's differences are so minor as to be completely negligible.
Zer0Prime
oMFG i just bought hailstorm like 3 days ago. oh wells. how much would the takara version be anyways? like $20? i dont think i would buy it if it was lol
general saberwi
arrgh, this makes me question my recent purchase of hftd terradive and hailstorm
Fort Max
Hailstorm blends better, the eye isn't drawn straight to the shoulder joints but I already bought him a while ago. Terradive is loads better then the Hasbro one, lots of little tweaks to improve the overall look and again make it blend better overall. Highbrow and Tomahawk are both only marginally different so Hasbro it is.
Very tempted to spend the extra for Terradive.
An Army of Bees
Galleries of Autobot Alliance Highbrow, Tomahawk and Terradive
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Mattw38
The Takara-Tomy version of Hailstorm IS better, color-wise, then the Hasbro version.
einis
this!
Ra88
Oh hell yes, now that looks fucking awesome. Really makes the mold look fantastic.
PoweredConvoy
All the movie related figures are, including this line. The cards are the same but the bubble insert is different (has Japanese text on the underside), they're taped on instead of glued on, the bubbles have different flaps than the American versions, and the twisties are the old plastic kind not the paper ones Hasbro now uses.
Randy
Opticron Primal
Really?….Because from where I'm sitting they look exactly alike.
Am I missing something….
ORIO
Those are some badass pictures!
PlanckEpoch
Hasbro Highbrow is definitely superior. It invokes the look of WWII aircraft, many of which had very light colored undersides to try to blend in with the skies against infantry. Not every aircraft was like that all the time…but I like the look of that for Highbrow.
Ktulu
It's nice but I like that Hasbro's has more contrast.
Dark Magnus
Hailstorm looks great compared to his HTFD version. Interesting that AA Terradive has orange accents instead of the white found on the HTFD version. Any clue why they went with orange?
PoweredConvoy
Autobot Alliance Terradive, Tomahawk & Highbrow Image Galleries
Hailstorm
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Highbrow
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Tomahawk
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Terradive
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hrothgars
The Takara version looks way better than Hasbro's. Should this come as any surprise?
Wollstone
A purple head on Lugnut isn't worth the price hike. Especially since I preferred the Atomic TFA repaint.
And the Cybertron stuff looks pretty much the same except for Megatron, who looks terrible.
Jlogano20
any reason why its in an american hasbro box?
TedimusPrime
Wow that's sexy. Seriously, the paint scheme they gave him is totally super japanese robot like. I dig.