Fan-backed Hasbro project: Unicron

[griffin]

I dunno... it looks like a pregnant Unicron in stirrups giving birth.
(Or more seriously, I think it looks more like a fan mode that I don't think looks much different to the robot mode)

[Sinnertwin]

Every robot has a city mode if you pull it apart, point an arm this way, a leg that way and lay it flat.

[Paulbot]

every bot has a city mode!

I feel like the final Unicron will be able to do something like this

[Lint]

Yeah a butterflied alt mode does not a city make.

[Bidoofdude]

I actually really like that “city” mode, it shows some cool movie bits with a cool setting for some scenes. I’d be disappointed a little if none of those bits at all made it somehow into the body of the final toy. Probably a structural thing.

Also, it may just be the photo lighting of the paper, but that diagram has a lot more orange with a dark grey, versus the yellow and blue we’ve seen thus far (which hopefully changes).

[BigTransformerTrev]

Every robot has a city mode if you pull it apart, point an arm this way, a leg that way and lay it flat.

Yup, like the Scramble City Combiner commanders. Some of those ‘base-modes’ they were sporting were pretty suss - especially Motormasters

[Raider]

Yup, like the Scramble City Combiner commanders. Some of those ‘base-modes’ they were sporting were pretty suss - especially Motormasters

That one always confused the shit out of me as a kid. I'd look at it and just go "why did I bother" and quickly put it back into one of its proper modes.

Unicron for me will only be in bot or planet mode. Why be a city when you can be a freaking planet!

[Tha_Phantom]

Lucky that Hasbro anticipated a lot of the feedback here and didn't include that "city" mode in the final version.

[Paulbot]

I really liked Motormaster’s base mode - but would mistransform it so the legs were spread out making it more city like. And of course without the launcher gimmick or a Trypticon to connect it to, it was never living up to its full potential.

[Tha_Phantom]

I really liked Motormaster’s base mode - but would mistransform it so the legs were spread out making it more city like. And of course without the launcher gimmick or a Trypticon to connect it to, it was never living up to its full potential.

Heh, the spring-loaded launcher on the Takara version is quite cool.