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First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures

Transformers News: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures

Thursday, November 18th, 2010 8:41PM CST

Categories: Movie News, Toy News
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A few works from Andrew Scribner have been posted to After Midnight Studios.com. Included in these are a handful of unreleased Transformers sculpts. Click on the links below to view a page with images of the sculpts, or click here if you want to dig around on your own.

Robot Heroes Skullcruncher

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Robot/Super Hero Squad Circuit Breaker

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1:18 scale Sam Witwicky

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Legends Frenzy and Ratbat

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Titanium Scourge

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Do know that although some of these were official, others were done by the sculptor as a test of his skill.
Credit(s): After Midnight Studios

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Re: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures (1148114)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on November 18th, 2010 @ 8:44pm CST
"Legends Ratbat" and "Legends Frenzy" don't look official to me, more like customs or first prototypes.
Re: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures (1148128)
Posted by Bumblevivisector on November 18th, 2010 @ 9:17pm CST
Dammit, they always cancel THE coolest sculpts. Grax riding Skullcruncher has to be the cutest thing in the whole Heroes line, and an official toy of Circuit-Breaker?!? That is freakin'...highly suspect since Marvel still owns the rights to her, not Hasbro. Put her in a vs. pack with Robot Master and kids would still buy it, despite having no idea who they were.

I agree that Ratbat looks more like something from Jizai toys, but I'd still consider him and Frenzy possibly legit.

Well if they're canceled, you know the drill: properly dispose of the molds by handing them over to a trusted friend who lives near a Hobby Lobby and has over $60.00 to spare...
Re: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures (1148140)
Posted by MGrotusque on November 18th, 2010 @ 9:32pm CST
OMG! I absolutely LOVE that Skullcruncher and Grax! What a shame. That is an excellent pose.

Hopefully now that this has been brought to light somebody will make that.

I just got me a G1 Skullcruncher around a month ago and he's one of my fave's.

What makes me like that photo is it looks like a M.U.S.C.L.E figure. Which i have a couple few of and really liked as a kid.
Re: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures (1148142)
Posted by It Is Him on November 18th, 2010 @ 9:44pm CST
Yeah, that Skullcruncher is amazing! Very cute!
Re: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures (1148149)
Posted by MGrotusque on November 18th, 2010 @ 10:09pm CST
It Is Him wrote:Yeah, that Skullcruncher is amazing! Very cute!


HA! Skullcruncher is "cute".

Those two words together makes me laugh :wink:
Re: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures (1148156)
Posted by Blackstreak on November 18th, 2010 @ 11:00pm CST
Movie Frenzy and Ratbat look horrible. Skullcruncher was cute.
Re: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures (1148157)
Posted by MGrotusque on November 18th, 2010 @ 11:04pm CST
Blackstreak wrote: Skullcruncher was cute.


HA!
Re: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures (1148158)
Posted by Deathy-tigermegatron on November 18th, 2010 @ 11:07pm CST
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:"Legends Ratbat" and "Legends Frenzy" don't look official to me, more like customs or first prototypes.


I agree they look like 3rd party TF toys.
Re: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures (1148166)
Posted by zenosaurus_x on November 18th, 2010 @ 11:39pm CST
NOOO, FRENZY AND RATBAT WERE SO COOL!
If they were real, not sure, if they are, they look pretty early stage.
Re: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures (1148173)
Posted by Oilspill on November 19th, 2010 @ 12:27am CST
For everyone who says Frenzy/Ratbat aren't official - isn't it just likely that these are the very early stages of prototyping? When the designer is working out the basic shapes and transformation using chunks of polystyrene or something - but way before any detail or real sculpting is applied.

I like the idea of Ratbat with both a robot and bat mode.

And damn, Skullcruncher is brilliant :x . The detail on Sam is quite impressive too.

Glad we got a chance to see these. 8)
Re: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures (1148183)
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on November 19th, 2010 @ 2:02am CST
Darn, I would have liked that Sam figure (and wanted a Mikaela) to go with my TFs as a display piece.

I don't like Robot Heroes at all but Circuit Breaker has me interested even just for my love of the old Marvel TF comics and how it even got to that stage with the license issues.
Re: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures (1148186)
Posted by Megatron Wolf on November 19th, 2010 @ 2:10am CST
To bad Ratbat looks like it could have been awesome & Scourge is already awesome. They should bring back the small titaniums i thought they were pretty cool.
Re: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures (1148189)
Posted by gigazarak on November 19th, 2010 @ 2:54am CST
Andrew Scribner was kind enough to post pictures of a turnaround of the unreleased Robot Heroes Skullcruncher and Grax, I made an animated gif very quickly, makes me wish they released the toy even more! :-(

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When animated like this, it really gives the impression that Grax is like a rodeo clown or something, riding on the uncontrollable Skullcruncher! :D :lol: :D :lol:
Re: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures (1148191)
Posted by Oilspill on November 19th, 2010 @ 3:04am CST
gigazarak wrote:Andrew Scribner was kind enough to post pictures of a turnaround of the unreleased Robot Heroes Skullcruncher and Grax, I made an animated gif very quickly, makes me wish they released the toy even more! :-(

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When animated like this, it really gives the impression that Grax is like a rodeo clown or something, riding on the uncontrollable Skullcruncher! :D :lol: :D :lol:


Haha, nice quick work on the animation there. What do you use to do that stuff? I've always been interested but never got around to trying it.
Re: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures (1148192)
Posted by gigazarak on November 19th, 2010 @ 3:08am CST
Oilspill wrote:
gigazarak wrote:Andrew Scribner was kind enough to post pictures of a turnaround of the unreleased Robot Heroes Skullcruncher and Grax, I made an animated gif very quickly, makes me wish they released the toy even more! :-(

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When animated like this, it really gives the impression that Grax is like a rodeo clown or something, riding on the uncontrollable Skullcruncher! :D :lol: :D :lol:


Haha, nice quick work on the animation there. What do you use to do that stuff? I've always been interested but never got around to trying it.


I have Photoshop CS4, if you have it, go to Window > Animation, and you can turn layers into frames, and then bash it out as an animated gif with Save for Web, pretty simple when you know what you are doing, although, I hadn't done an animated gif in quite some years, CS4 is a bit different than ImageReady was back in the day (that's where I first came into contact with creating animated gifs), it looks like most of ImageReadys functionality has made its way into Photoshop nowadays!

I can send you the PSD if you want, PM me if you're curious!
Re: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures (1148193)
Posted by Oilspill on November 19th, 2010 @ 3:13am CST
gigazarak wrote:
Oilspill wrote:
gigazarak wrote:Andrew Scribner was kind enough to post pictures of a turnaround of the unreleased Robot Heroes Skullcruncher and Grax, I made an animated gif very quickly, makes me wish they released the toy even more! :-(

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When animated like this, it really gives the impression that Grax is like a rodeo clown or something, riding on the uncontrollable Skullcruncher! :D :lol: :D :lol:


Haha, nice quick work on the animation there. What do you use to do that stuff? I've always been interested but never got around to trying it.


I have Photoshop CS4, if you have it, go to Window > Animation, and you can turn layers into frames, and then bash it out as an animated gif with Save for Web, pretty simple when you know what you are doing, although, I hadn't done an aimated gif in quite some years, CS4 is a bit different than ImageReady was back in the day, it looks like most of that functionality has made its way into Photoshop nowadays!

I can send you the PSD if you want, PM me if you're curious!


Ahhh cool. I think I have CS3 at home, I'll check if that can do something similar after work. Cheers!
Re: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures (1148303)
Posted by adamassc on November 19th, 2010 @ 12:11pm CST
Carnivius_Prime wrote:Darn, I would have liked that Sam figure (and wanted a Mikaela) to go with my TFs as a display piece.

I don't like Robot Heroes at all but Circuit Breaker has me interested even just for my love of the old Marvel TF comics and how it even got to that stage with the license issues.


More than likely any real issue would be moot since Hasbro produces the Marvel figure line. All they would have to do is stick her in a Marvel package instead of a TF one and bang.
Re: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures (1148361)
Posted by RK_Striker_JK_5 on November 19th, 2010 @ 3:49pm CST
Skullcruncher and Grax... so adorable. *Sigh*
Re: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures (1148373)
Posted by Swiftpaw on November 19th, 2010 @ 4:34pm CST
Damn! Figurines of the headmaster beasts in animal mode with their partner riding on them would of been helluva awesome. I remember how the commercials touted them as 'the trainer of the beast becomes the head of the robot!' so it fits.
Re: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures (1148385)
Posted by Noideaforaname on November 19th, 2010 @ 5:13pm CST
I'm disappointed that Frenzy was never produced. I had assumed he was too difficult/expensive for them to even bother, but not only have they attempted it, they did a rather nice job at it.
He would've made a kick-ass partner with HA Barricade.
Re: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures (1148400)
Posted by mattyc1007 on November 19th, 2010 @ 5:59pm CST
:-( Wished the sam that came with HA BB looked like that, then it would have been a serious buy :-(
Re: First Look at Canceled Robot Heroes, Titanium and Movie Figures (1149572)
Posted by craggy on November 22nd, 2010 @ 4:07pm CST
Skullcruncher is brilliant, and the rest look pretty decent. Scourge seems like he should be saying "Please, Galvatron, let me pet this kitty, it looks so soft."

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