More Toy Images & Information of ROTF Voyager Bludgeon

This is probably the first movie line figure I can honestly say doesn't need any extra colour/paint apps in bot mode. There's a great variety of colour variation in the parts in bot mode so the details actually come out and we don't get entire limbs dominated by a single colour. Very nice.

I just notice it's tiny feet, with Bludgeon kinda top-heavy, is it gonna be hard to pose him to stand w/o falling over?

Sweet. This figure looks better and better with each bit of new info. SO WANT. I wonder if Mindwipe will be as cool. Hmmm. I wonder if Mindwipe uses any headmaster gimmicks? From the SDCC pic I would say no, but there is always the possibility of being able to fold the head down and attach another I guess.

Never really knew about this guys since he was mainly in the comics after G1 cartoon. Is he really considered G1? I thought the G2 figures started after The Movie?? Still looks badass and I'll probably have to get if I can find him.

The tank is a bit of a let-down with it's short canon and drooping gun on top. Doesn't seem to fit together very well, maybe it's just not been transformed properly.

Savage wrote:Assuming that's a sloppy transformation job, this is a must have. If not, well, a bit disqppointing.

I agree. I get the sword storage thing, that's cool, actually.

The legs and arms feel mistransformed to me, plus his face looks...weird. It looks like a Super Paper Mario character cosplaying as Bludgeon.

I will have to actually have this sucker, in hand, before I make my final decision. I'm currently on the fence now, and I was 100% sure I'd buy him, before.

=\ Dangit.

The artwork on the box (from what I can tell, which to be honest isn't a great deal) it looked almost like a warped cartoon character you'd see on Cartoon Network or something.

Glad to see that the toy does not replicate that unfortunate feature.

Evil_the_Nub wrote:The scalpers are going to have a field day when this guy gets released, damn he's going to be hard to find.

I wouldn't be too sure about that.

My local Wallace World has buttloads of waves 1-3 in most size classes, and it's not moving worth a crap.

Then they get in a shipment of Wave 5, which includes repacks of Wave 3. More clogging.

Then they get in the revision Wave containing Arcee and crew, along with Jolt, the ICT Twins, Blazemaster, and Dead End. With more in the back.

They've learned that if it can fit on the shelf, peg, endcap, pallet, whatever...they'll just shove it out there and hope it sells down quickly.

And I've noticed quite a few stores in this region doing the same thing. My guess is we'll not only see Bludgeon, but he'll be piled atop a pile of God knows how many Ironhides and Starscreams.

One more thought: After all of the Christmas sales, holiday season push, etc. I have no idea what they're going to do with these figures. (Seriously, I can't even begin to give you folks an idea of what the shelves and pegs look like. The pegs especially, it's insane. I can imagine we're going to see huge discounts and clearance sales, left and right.

Poor Hasbro (I'm being sincere here, btw.) Last time, they were totally unprepared for the onslaught that the first movie would bring in terms of sales, so stock levels suffered.

This time, they overcompensated, but the economy just bitchslapped everyone, including parents and kids buying toys. And now they're everywhere, covering every inch of the pegs and shelves they're on. Some are even in special locations around the toy department in the hopes they'll sell.

Talk about getting screwed.

This figure is just looks, Fecking awesome. Finally a Bludgeon figure with Swords and based on his Pretender shell.