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News Credits: 402 · Updated Oct 21, 2022

Site sponsoe BigBadToyStore has posted preorders for the first wave of the Japanese Transformers Animated figures, giving us the first images of these figures. These are promotional images, and thus may be enhanced with photoshop; however it seems that the figures may hav a metallic paint finish applied, and Ironhide (US Bulkhead) seems to be a different shade of green.

Check out all the images by clicking on the following links:
Ironhide
Bumblebee
Optimus Prime
Starscream
Megatron
Prowl
Ratchet

These preorders have an estimated release in April.

News Credits: 767 · Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:51 pm

I'm just too slow lately.... :cry:

And hell these are pretty, so much for the straight Hasbro repacks.

News Credits: 609 · Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:53 pm

Ironhide looks pretty nice, but I really dislike the Voyager Bulkhead mold. I'm not sure what ones I'll be getting yet, though. We'll have to see.

News Credits: 9 · Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:16 pm

Wow, anyone else looking at the Bumblebee get a G2 feel from it?

News Credits: 198 · Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:21 pm

Nice. Now give me a Takara ROTF Bludgeon paint job.

News Credits: 8 · Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:23 pm

I really like Starscream and I have yet to get an Animated incarnation of him, but 50 plus shipping. I think I might just have to get the US release and skip the shiny.

News Credits: 2 · Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:23 pm

And Starscream is still blue. =(

Oh well, so much for that idea.

News Credits: 1082 · Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:25 pm

Bulkhead is an odd looking color... Aquamarine or something? ( I don't know, I just went with that name-- turquoise-ish?)

News Credits: 609 · Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:33 pm

The more I look at them, the less I like them. The shiny doesn't fit at all. I really prefer the Hasbro versions' flat look. It matches the animation model much better. So far, I think I'm going to pass.

News Credits: 1082 · Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:34 pm

Razorclaw0000 wrote:The more I look at them, the less I like them. The shiny doesn't fit at all. I really prefer the Hasbro versions' flat look. It matches the animation model much better. So far, I think I'm going to pass.

Shiny is often a good way to get my attention, but the one it looks best on is BBee, and the mold is pretty junky, so no thanks. Maybe if Samurai Prowl ends up looking awesome or something.

News Credits: 609 · Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:42 pm

tigertracks 24 wrote:
Razorclaw0000 wrote:The more I look at them, the less I like them. The shiny doesn't fit at all. I really prefer the Hasbro versions' flat look. It matches the animation model much better. So far, I think I'm going to pass.

Shiny is often a good way to get my attention, but the one it looks best on is BBee, and the mold is pretty junky, so no thanks. Maybe if Samurai Prowl ends up looking awesome or something.

I'd like to see some really unique repaints, like Ramjet, and a full size Dirge, or a "One with the AllSpark" Samurai Prowl in transparent light blue.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:42 pm

Razorclaw0000 wrote:The more I look at them, the less I like them. The shiny doesn't fit at all. I really prefer the Hasbro versions' flat look. It matches the animation model much better. So far, I think I'm going to pass.

110% agree with you. They are trying to make them look more "real" when the whole point is for them to look more "cartoony" and excuse the pun "animated."

News Credits: 8 · Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:50 pm

Razorclaw0000 wrote:
tigertracks 24 wrote:
Razorclaw0000 wrote:The more I look at them, the less I like them. The shiny doesn't fit at all. I really prefer the Hasbro versions' flat look. It matches the animation model much better. So far, I think I'm going to pass.

Shiny is often a good way to get my attention, but the one it looks best on is BBee, and the mold is pretty junky, so no thanks. Maybe if Samurai Prowl ends up looking awesome or something.

I'd like to see some really unique repaints, like Ramjet, and a full size Dirge, or a "One with the AllSpark" Samurai Prowl in transparent light blue.

Now that I would buy the hell out of.

News Credits: 11 · Fri Jan 08, 2010 2:32 pm

*drools*

Fri Jan 08, 2010 2:36 pm

Editor wrote:Wow, anyone else looking at the Bumblebee get a G2 feel from it?

It's Animated Goldbug.

News Credits: 1014 · Fri Jan 08, 2010 3:09 pm

Oh God these look horrible.

Now to read the Takara fanboys go nuts over this crap.

News Credits: 11 · Fri Jan 08, 2010 3:11 pm

Hmm, I'm guessing it's the promo image shine and they won't look so metallic when they're actually released, but I think I prefer the Hasbro jobs. Megatron definitely benefits from the full metallic treatment though.

I hope they repaint at least one of the Prowls in G1 colors so I can add him to my collection.

Fri Jan 08, 2010 3:39 pm

Pretty.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Jan 08, 2010 3:53 pm

Razorclaw0000 wrote:Ironhide looks pretty nice, but I really dislike the Voyager Bulkhead mold. I'm not sure what ones I'll be getting yet, though. We'll have to see.

I always liked the mold, but he was just too $#%@ SMALL!

Then I got Legends BB & Prowl, and I realized he's not a small voyager, he's a LARGE Legends class :-)

Voyager Bulkhead + Activators Prime and Ratchet + Legends BB & Prowl = very pleased scale nazi.

I also like the idea of TFA Goldbug. That's a neat idea.

Fri Jan 08, 2010 4:02 pm

Animated is my favorite TF line to date. While I adore each of these molds, there's no way I'm going to dump that much more into figures I already own doubles and triples of, the prices are simply obscene.

I will, however, be completely boned when Takara does what Hasbro would not: Produce actual figures of Omega Supreme, Constructicons Mixmaster & Scrapper, Brawn, Strika, Cyclonus, etc.

Basically, any mold we never got.

News Credits: 609 · Fri Jan 08, 2010 4:04 pm

Rorschach wrote:I will, however, be completely boned when Takara does what Hasbro would not: Produce actual figures of Omega Supreme, Constructicons Mixmaster & Scrapper, Brawn, Strika, Cyclonus, etc.

Basically, any mold we never got.

They're not going to do it. Animated to them is just a filler line. They were afraid to bring it over at all due to the animation style, and I think they expect the line to not do as well.

News Credits: 32 · Fri Jan 08, 2010 4:11 pm

WOW! Shiney! I don't have the voyager Bulkhead mold, so I may pick up "Ironhide" if I see him at a con. That Bumblebee looks great too. Almost like a Goldbug. He just needs a blue head.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:08 pm

I must say that I like the shiny over the non-shiny every time.

News Credits: 9 · Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:10 pm

If the end products match these then I may need to get Bumble and if if a 3rd party (Fansproject hint hint) makes a goldbug upgrade then I'll be a happy camper.