Transformers for August (and early September)

As with past months, the end of August saw quite a few new Transformers releases in Japan - the continuation of Unite Warriors giftsets, Transformers Adventures, Transformers Legends and Masterpiece items.

Under the Unite Warriors line, comes another fantastic giftset featuring Computron. As has been the norm for all of these releases, the Japanese version comes with some significant re-tooling of existing Unite Warriors figures to give a very close to G1 accurate update as possible.

Transformers Adventure continues to release the odd new character and this month sees the release of another much needed Decepticon deluxe, Scorponok.

Transformers Legends continues with the Japanese releases of "Titan Masters"; Blurr and Scourge who have already had releases in previous "CHUG" lineups, but this time they have had alt modes that closely resemble the G1 versions and of course now feature headmasters. The scout sized Shockwave that Hasbro released under Combiner Wars also gets a Japanese release in his signature lighter purple, and comes with a bonus headmaster for use with compatible Transformers.

With the arrival of new Hasbro Transformers items in local stores, I decided to add some items to the collection that I do not think Takara Tomy will release in Japan due to their strange nature. If I am wrong, then I can always sell them again...