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[Deathcry]

I'm still just waiting for orders to open up for the Deluxe ROTB version we first saw leaked. The SS is fine and certainly more screen accurate, but I want the other one more.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Finally got this team together over break, glad to complete this set and looking forward to Hatchet to finish the whole scene!

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You are making we wish that we would get actual SS Stealth Force retools. We need those!

[william-james88]

I'm still just waiting for orders to open up for the Deluxe ROTB version we first saw leaked. The SS is fine and certainly more screen accurate, but I want the other one more.

Well see regarding screen accuracy. The one shot we get of airazor in the trailer makes the bird mode look more like the previous one. But we'll see what the bot mode looks like

[ZeroWolf]

I'm still just waiting for orders to open up for the Deluxe ROTB version we first saw leaked. The SS is fine and certainly more screen accurate, but I want the other one more.

Well see regarding screen accuracy. The one shot we get of airazor in the trailer makes the bird mode look more like the previous one. But we'll see what the bot mode looks like

Watch the ss be bot mode accurate and the other be alt mode accurate

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Cheetor. Looks good, I like how it leans more Beast Machines here

[-Kanrabat-]

If I remember, SS Cheetor is a Voyager, right?
Well, no wonder. This swell looking guy looks chunky and beefy. He may be as big as Kingdom Tigatron.

Really, really nice.

[Dr. Caelus]

Marvel Crossovers are back!

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[Ig89ninja]

I wonder if Cheetor’s face looks like that by default, or if he has a battle mask deployed here.

[ZeroWolf]

Oh I love that. I really like where they went aesthetically with the beasts in this movie.

[william-james88]

As with Airazor, most characters in the upcoming Rise of the Beasts film will get toys in both the Rise of the Beasts toyline and the Studio Series toyline (for more info on that, click here). Now we have our first look at Studio Series voyager class Cheetor. As you can see below, it borrows nothing from his Kingdom counterpart and is a fully new mold with a design harkening back to Beast Machines. This toy will be up for preorder later today. These images come from Amazon Australia.

[william-james88]

I really don't like those obvious robot hands in beast mode. With all that voyager class budget, they could have found a way to hide them better.

[M. Spector]

DAMN Cheetor looks GOOD! And a Voyager you say? Not bad dawg. So far it's looking like SS for Cheetor and ROTB for Airrazor for me and my collection

[blackeyedprime]

Yowch on Generictor, maybe a repaint with that thing...erm...whatcha call it...colors, might help. Though it still has its square head.

Think I'm prefering the non studio series figures looks so far and definitley another tick to not see the film.

[Razorbeast88]

DAMN Cheetor looks GOOD! And a Voyager you say? Not bad dawg. So far it's looking like SS for Cheetor and ROTB for Airrazor for me and my collection

Same here!

[D-Maximal_Primal]

DAMN Cheetor looks GOOD! And a Voyager you say? Not bad dawg. So far it's looking like SS for Cheetor and ROTB for Airrazor for me and my collection

Same here!

I agree this figure looks GOOD. i plan to get all of the beasts, so I'm a bit different there!

[Immortal Starscream]

his robot head is very autobot symbol-ish. I think he looks good, but the drab mono colors really hurt.

[RodimusPrimeUkraine1]

Yay, the perfect leg tooling for trans metal Cheetor! We're almost there!

[RodimusPrimeUkraine1]

Doesn't really feel like Cheetor. I complain when Bumblebee gets more annoying than he was in G1 but Cheetor is SUPPOSED to be annoying. This character will probably be competent. And he has a very- mature- build. Personally I like the mainline version better, as with Airazor. I don't know why they keep ruining the design if the pre-concepts look fine, I don't know why they have to get a perfect design just to fix ruin it in the actual movie.

[william-james88]

his robot head is very autobot symbol-ish. I think he looks good, but the drab mono colors really hurt.

It's to match the look of the film which went for monochrome drab on the beasts

[Rtron]

I'm really not feeling the beast toys, specially the Studio Series ones. The ROTB ones at least seem to have more interesting transformations. What little I've seen in the trailer hasn't really won me over either, honestly. I hope the movie comes out and I get to eat my words and really enjoy the Maximal's look onscreen, but I'm not very optimistic at this point. A shame, Beastformers are usually my favourite type of transformers, but these are just not hitting it for me.

[RodimusPrimeUkraine1]

I'm really not feeling the beast toys, specially the Studio Series ones. The ROTB ones at least seem to have more interesting transformations. What little I've seen in the trailer hasn't really won me over either, honestly. I hope the movie comes out and I get to eat my words and really enjoy the Maximal's look onscreen, but I'm not very optimistic at this point. A shame, Beastformers are usually my favourite type of transformers, but these are just not hitting it for me.

I personally prefer the ROTB versions over the studio series, I really like that Airazor design but the studio series one-

[Sabrblade]

That design is certainly a choice for this new Cheetor.

Though, I definitely wouldn't call it Beast Machines-inspired, not in shape or color:






If it's the blend of organic and mechanical that evokes a technorganic look, that kind of visual blending goes all the way back to the Transmetals, both 1 and 2. Or even further back to some of the Pretenders of 1988/1989.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

I do love how Cheetor takes some cues from multiple bodies of his. That head has some Transtech in it; the transformation looks to use BM, TMI, and TMII in it, while he sticks somewhat close to his original body cheetah mode.

I just think the blend of so many styles into him to make him feel so fresh and new while looking great are neat.

I'm really not feeling the beast toys, specially the Studio Series ones. The ROTB ones at least seem to have more interesting transformations. What little I've seen in the trailer hasn't really won me over either, honestly. I hope the movie comes out and I get to eat my words and really enjoy the Maximal's look onscreen, but I'm not very optimistic at this point. A shame, Beastformers are usually my favourite type of transformers, but these are just not hitting it for me.

I personally prefer the ROTB versions over the studio series, I really like that Airazor design but the studio series one-

I have adored the SS figures so far, they have a lot more of that technical detail that I always love and wish we would see more of.

The RotB toyline ones look great too, and I appreciate how both lines are sort of similar but also very different, almost like AOE Dinobots and SS Grimlock style. I appreciate it.

[ZeroWolf]

I do love how Cheetor takes some cues from multiple bodies of his. That head has some Transtech in it; the transformation looks to use BM, TMI, and TMII in it, while he sticks somewhat close to his original body cheetah mode.

I just think the blend of so many styles into him to make him feel so fresh and new while looking great are neat.

I'm really not feeling the beast toys, specially the Studio Series ones. The ROTB ones at least seem to have more interesting transformations. What little I've seen in the trailer hasn't really won me over either, honestly. I hope the movie comes out and I get to eat my words and really enjoy the Maximal's look onscreen, but I'm not very optimistic at this point. A shame, Beastformers are usually my favourite type of transformers, but these are just not hitting it for me.

I personally prefer the ROTB versions over the studio series, I really like that Airazor design but the studio series one-

I have adored the SS figures so far, they have a lot more of that technical detail that I always love and wish we would see more of.

The RotB toyline ones look great too, and I appreciate how both lines are sort of similar but also very different, almost like AOE Dinobots and SS Grimlock style. I appreciate it.

Personally, I'm thinking of getting both lines, all comes down to pricing.

[Jelze Bunnycat]

That design is certainly a choice for this new Cheetor.

Though, I definitely wouldn't call it Beast Machines-inspired, not in shape or color:






If it's the blend of organic and mechanical that evokes a technorganic look, that kind of visual blending goes all the way back to the Transmetals, both 1 and 2. Or even further back to some of the Pretenders of 1988/1989.

I'd argue that the Pretenders were more like "suited up" monsters or even Cyborgs, with a separation if you will between the angular mechanical and the curvy organic parts. The Transmetals has a clear separation between the two: mechanical Beast Mode, (semi-)organic Robot Mode (except figures like Terrorsaur). The Transmetals II I'll give you, but they also had the monstrous asymmetry as a form of being "unbalanced", and balanced blending was a key point in Beast Machines designs.

Mind you, the original Movie-verse designs already had that organic thing going, though the pieces of their alternate modes largely hide that.