Transformers "Raiden" Project

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by chchchch, Oct 18, 2019.

  1. ThatGuyCalledBlaster

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    Oh of course, I just imagined since there may have been at least a couple reveals. But yeah they surely can make do without.

    I just wanna see the new stuff, man!
     
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    Tokyo Toy Show. Strange, I was ready to go to Wonderfest as well. Seems like with Tokyo Toy Show, I need to wait a few hours to get in if there is an attendance limit, possibly even stay overnight. That would be a pain to do if I wanted to provide coverage for the next event. I want to go to the events, so I hope nothing will hinder the next one so I can attend.
     
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    We all want to see the new stuff. (Where's my slagging Armada Optimus Prime, Takara?!)
     
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    This FAZZ has a modern kit, so it is held together with polycaps, soft plastic joint parts (mostly balljoints and hinges) of a less-fitting size (larger balls/smaller holes) to use the parts' own tension to increase friction.
     
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    I know about polycaps. I built a few Gundams myself. I couldn't think of the word at the time and just wrote ratchets :) 
    The guys I built are all from Build Divers though and I don't know the names. The dark-blue one with the tail-whip and the Shockwave-head looks coolest of the three I think. But I wish he had a BFG instead of a spear.
     
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    I mean who’s to say. They could just release it relatively close to whenever it was supposed to happen.
     
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    UW combiners were more accurate to the originals than CW versions. Takara either didn't have the budget or just didn't want to engineer a torso using two deluxe figures so they skipped Liokaiser altogether rather than have it not be correct.
     
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    But wouldn't the various vaccines already developed ease some of the sanitary restrictions?
     
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    All we know is they didn't do one. Anything else is speculation, especially as to their reasoning.
     
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    Dark blue? Shockwave head? It is NO ZAKU, BOY, NO ZAKU!

    I mean it is a variation of MS-07 Gouf type. The whip is the heat rod (electrically heated bendable "sword") while the mono-eye head is the common element of Zeon mobile suits.
     
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    I wish Gundam kits come with ratchets, I would have bought ALL OF THEM.
     
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    Well, ratchets are a bit of nuisance for smaller ones, because makng a tiny ratchet means little pawl leverage, making the pawl hard to bend (if this a plastic tolerance ratchet, with no spring), so it would be too tight.
     
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    Yeah that seems like a recipe for disaster. The smaller ones can’t move that much anyway. So they work pretty well with what they have.
     
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    It's no Zaku. It's not a Zeon Republic suit.
    It's from the Gundam Build whatever anime which is more aimed at kids.
    It's a sleek dark-blue suit with a small fin on it's head and two angular translucent blue winglets on its back. And the whip actually beccomes its tail. There's a red version of it too.
    Anyway. Even in the story it only has a minor part it seems, so I doubt many people would be familiar with it.

    It's called roarata or coarata or something.
     
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    Yes, it is no zaku. I mean that the original Gouf pilot, Ramba Ral, is famous for his line "IT IS NO ZAKU, BOY, NO ZAKU!"
     
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    Well, this thread turns into "will you be 3 times faster if you wear a weird helmet".
     
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    i want raiden takara.
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    So, apparently we have a new possibility. Wonder Festival Online has been announced for Sunday, February 7 on their website.

    Give up on Raiden if they say nothing? How much longer do we wait?
     
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    Wait until the show already.... stop bumping this thread please :oops: 
     
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