Is that another bad guy in the series? It's similar to Hell Envoy, but definitely a completely different model. The auto-translation of the original post uses the name "Yusi"

 

Yeah, I feel really weird about wanting both of the World War II Axis bots, but I've always been sort of fascinated at the engineering behind the real life weapons.

 

I already liked Gustav's sculpt but the colors really bring him to life. Love the matte finish they went with.

The new ship bot is the USS Missouri; and American (if wearing the crown from the statue of liberty didn't give that away) ship from WWII.

The modern battleships are cool in their own way but I find myself more drawn to these WW11 era bots; just the idea of these megastructures turning into big robots and punching each other. Now that they've introduced Americans I wonder if they'll do more Allies or more Axis bots.

 

I'm thinking this ship is the other leg, just by looking at its knees.
The tank, I liked the first drawings of it. In real life, it just looks too skinny and frail to me. IMO of course...

 

Nothing is clear anymore with this series, or is it multiple series now. What with the Yamato figure moving to another company even though it was in the comic with the modern Chinese ships combiner, and now presumably yet another company picking up the railway gun figure which has (so far at least) never been in the comic, and now a US ship that is maybe a retool of the Yamato??

But there is one thing I'm certain of - neither this ship, nor the Yamato, are part of the combiner. That is entirely made up of modern Chinese ships.  

 

Toyseasy was at a toyshow in Shanghai over the weekend and if the placards are any indication it look like Hobby Terepa is going to be handling the WWII figures; including Gustav and the USS Missouri. Plus it looks like there's going to be a subline of transforming WWII tanks under them as well; not sure what the connection to the mainline is though if any:









Plus a look at the prototype for one of the upcoming modern Chinese ship combiners:



Aside from how expensive the Hobby Terepa releases are looking to be; I am looking forward to the WWII stuff. The Toyworld designs looked great but apparently the quality wasn't always there. In hand reactions I've seen from the first two Toyseasy releases look to be more solid.

 

Oooooh... I am very excited at the idea of a bunch of nice WWII tank transformers!


Thank you

 

Crap... Here I was thinking I'd just buy Hell Envoy and I'd be done with Zeta Toys (which this is a branch-off from), but those tanks and the Missouri look too damn good... They found that niche in the market that's got zero competition, and it looks like they're about to milk it for all it's worth...

 

Now this has my attention  

 

WW2 TANK TRANSFORMERS!?!?! AND ONE IS A TIGER!?!?

So far I have both of the Toyeasy releases and they are very sturdy figures. My Destroyers knees got loose but the Joints are on screws so a quarter turn tightened them right up. No issue with the heli deck at all.

 

Yeah, I want those tanks.

 

Anybody else think the railway gun might be the design Toyworld revealed for their FS series a while back, given the Toyworld > Zeta > Toyseasy connection chain?

 

Not just the railgun...

 

Hmm, might have to look into these to flesh out my TW shelf, then.

 

Now the Riddle starts all over again.
I am Collecting the Combiner only.

I know this one is the Left Arm:



But what about this one?
He has the Combiner Display Plate under his Feet.
So is he the other Leg? Or Torso Bot?

 

That is a battleship bot based on the USS Missouri. It will not be a part of the Chinese ship combiner, but my guess is that it'll be one of the combiner's enemies, given the presentation of the CG render.

 

It is a misleading Information then.
Why Place the Bot in the Background
on the Black / Red Display Base.

The Black / Red Display Bases are used a Shields
for the combiner Members and can also be combined
together to Form a Huge Star like Display Base for the combined Form

Is it very Misleading to place an Enemy Bot on
those combiner Display Bases.

 

Not necessarily. The ship mode is on an "enemy" base, while the robot mode is on the combiner one. Might've just been a case of them not packing enough of the proper bases for display at the toy show, or the base itself broke in transit.

Really, it's more about perception here. As we've seen previously, all of the parts of the combiner are modern Chinese ships, so anything that is from WWII, like the previous two large bots, would likely be either an "enemy" to the combiner team or part of a different line at this point.

 

I recently got the first guy and I love it!!
I’m collecting him because I love TransFormers, love combiners, and love the battleship display!!

Based on what is stated in the thread, he’ll be a desperately needed Autobot combiner in my house, since he’s a good guy in the original comic.
Piranacon will finally meet his match!!!

Already have the 2nd guy ordered and arriving by the end of the month, hopefully!
It’s going to be a little hard waiting for the 3rd release.

 

I knew a bad guy based on America was coming because the source media is made in China, but holy shit they made him a badass. Mecha-Statue of Liberty with Tomy Guns!

The British villain mecha better have a top hat and weaponized teacups.