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[swagitron]

Great now where are those deluxes and voyagers

[BERSEKAEL]

$12.99 ... too much package for those items

[El Duque]

The Hasbro Australia Transformers website has been updated with many new official images from various upcoming Transformers: Age of Extinction lines. These include the wave 1 Voyagers and Deluxes, Construct-Bots Sets, Kre-O Sets, Custom Kreons, and 12 inch non-transforming figures. We mirrored the images below for easy browsing.

Speaking of the Wave 1 Voyagers, we have full comprehensive galleries of each at the following links:

Transformers: Age of Extinction Voyager Evasion Mode Optimus Prime
Transformers: Age of Extinction Voyager Grimlock

We will have the Deluxe Wave 1 galleries up soon!

[El Duque]

Hasbro Australia has updated their online product catalog with a couple of new official images of the Leader Class Transformers: Age of Extinction Grimlock figure. What's interesting about these images is they differ from the official images that we given earlier this year at Toy Fair. As you can see in the new images mirrored below Grimlock now has chrome on his chest, legs, and dino head. We've included the original official images below for comparison. Check 'em out below:





Previous Leader Class Grimlock Official Images:

[PrymeStriker]

At least those pictures make Scorn look good. Slug got the short end of the stick this time around.

[Evil Eye]

That Grimlock looks pretty sweet. His body seems a tad long and the fist heels are a bit distracting, but overall it looks great.

[Jelze Bunnycat]

Platinum Edition Leader Grimlock?

[Seibertron]

At least those pictures make Scorn look good. Slug got the short end of the stick this time around.

Scorn is pretty awesome. His dino mode with the head that tilts from side-to-side is really cool. You can get some really nice poses out of his dino mode. His robot mode is pretty cool as well, despite having a very simplistic head and a tail arm.

Scorn's gallery will be up later tonight or tomorrow.

[XDMan]

Could these chrome appps make Grimmy a little more accurate???

[welcometothedarksyde]

For all of his issues, Voyager Grimlock is pretty nice and scales well with the deluxe dinobots. Leader Grimlock IMO looks bad in both modes. I thought that his scale would allow for recreating Optimus riding Grimlock from the trailer. But I think I'll probably buy into the Construct-bots for that. All in all, from what I'm seeing Leader Grim looks like he'll be the Movie 1 Megatron from this trilogy. He looks like he'll be top heavy as well.
Anyway, it's too early to call it, but this one is probably a pass. I quite like the Voyager so I'll try that. I really hope this movie is good

[Jelze Bunnycat]

Could these chrome appps make Grimmy a little more accurate???

And that quote makes me think of another possibility: the chromed one may be TakaraTomy's Black Knight Grimlock.

[-Kanrabat-]

DAT GRIMLOCK DINO MODE:



I'll probably wait for a sale.

[Shockwave7]

As I suspected. Portrayed as lithe/flexible/dynamic in movie. Actual toy: nearly unposeable brick.

Pass.

[Evil Eye]

As I suspected. Portrayed as lithe/flexible/dynamic in movie. Actual toy: nearly unposeable brick.

Pass.

To be fair, the robot mode looks decently poseable, and it would be impossible to have the dinosaur mode highly articulated without heavily compromising the articulation/looks of the robot mode.

[JDD SEALAB]

Does anyone live in NC seen these toys?

[Sabrblade]

This figure is not looking good, as revealed in in this review - http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-feedback/981617-aoe-leader-grimlock.html

After getting Voyager Grimlock I had really high hopes that Leader Grimlock would make up for some of his shortcomings, this proved to be wrong. The figure while engineered to obviously be much bigger is in many ways more simplistic than the voyager mode and overall I was not particularly happy with him.



One huge call out to start us with… the chrome, my god the chrome! If you feel that Hasbro hasn’t been using chrome enough then this is the guy for you because he’s covered in it. And in a lovely turn of events it begins chipping pretty much right out of the box. I have several spots on mine (mostly on the T-Rex head) where chrome has already flecked away. Such a pain!

Box:



Bot Mode:

Fresh out of the case he is in his bot mode, his directions however have him in T-Rex mode and it can be a bit of a pain to follow them backwards, but that’s jumping ahead.



Leaders have apparently gotten smaller. Grimlock is dwarfed by every other movie leader I own and while height wise he looks just slightly shorter, you can tell when holding him that there is much less mass in the figure then there have been in the previous movie leader-size figures.



He has 17 points of articulation, depending on how you’re counting. His head turns, but cannot be moved in any other way. His arms… are a pain for posing! Here are his shoulders folded all the way down:



Here are his arms the very next click outwards:



Let me make this clear, there is no in-between on these two points! You’re left trying to pose his forearms as much as possible to make up for this. Speaking of his forearms, the kibble from his feet is much less than that of Voyager Grimlock , but it in turn leads to the legs of T-Rex mode looking much more simplistic.

I have some good news for you if you’re not a fan of the whole elf shoe thing that Grimlocks have been sporting. Here is how the directions say his feet should be:



Here is how I believe 95% of the fandom will choose to keep theirs:



Weapons, he comes with his big mace thing and a shield that clips on to his forearm. The mace grips in very tight with his hands you shouldn’t have trouble posing it. Both combine to form the tail in his T-Rex form.



Some comparison shots:





T-Rex Mode:



I would not call this a T-Rex anymore. He is clearly an Asian themed dinosaur/dragon thing. Unlike the voyager, his horns/ears cannot be folded down or in any way covered up. They are out there permanently.



Size wise he is maybe 30%-40% larger than the voyager in this mode, but much less poseable. His arms fit so high on his body that when fully extended they barely clear his chest, let alone his head. His tail has no articulation at all. In fact his tail is so short it’s almost funny.



His jaw is poseable, unlike the voyager one, but that’s really one of the few areas where he is superior.



Are those his bot fists clearly sitting on the back of his feet? Why yes they are!



My original plan was to keep voyager in T-Rex and leader in bot mode. Then when I saw how weak the voyager T-Rex was I planned on doing the opposite. Now however I have switched back again and Leader will be remaining in his bot mode. So long as it is very far away from every other leader I own so that he doesn’t look tiny in comparison!





Overall:

I’d still get him, because I’m a hardcore Grimlock fan, but I see a lot of fans passing on him and/or being disappointed with him.

[MightyMagnus78]

IMO he looks much, much better without the chrome.

[Mindmaster]

IMO he looks much, much better without the chrome.

This so much. At least have the chrome reflect the originally planned deco.

I appreciate what they're trying to do, I truly, honestly do, but do they have to fail so hard?

[SentinelA]

Aside from the Voyagers, Scorn is the only decent looking piece of plastic

[Megatron Wolf]

wow leader grimlock is the worst one yet, there is not one single thing good about it. Even if this line wasnt totally overpriced id still be passing on 97% of it.

[Henry921]

I don't usually go for the larger Kre-O sets, but I really like these ones...

Also, I hope those Vehicon troopers get a deluxe scale figure I can army build. Buying 3 5 17 troop builders will make up for the lack of other Decepticon toys.

[Madeus Prime]

Really depresses me to see a figure that sucks even more after the chrome surprise is revealed

[BERSEKAEL]

Lame ...

[RAcast]

I'm definitely digging on the deluxe Dinobots, and the Kreon combiners look interesting, too. Obsidian is rocking a Bat'leth on his noggin, I can respect that.

[El Duque]

Site sponsor Robotkingdom has listed new Takara Tomy Transformers: Lost Age Advanced pre-orders. As expected Takara Tomy will be releasing the previously revealed Hasbro Transformers: Age of Extinction main line figures with what they are calling more movie accurate decos and metallic paint applications. The new pre-order can be found below, as well as a few placeholder images.

Movie Advanced AD-20 Black Night Grimlock.
(-Big different from Hasbro version
-Movie accurate color
-Metallic silver on head and back, and black body!)
Pre-order, available July 2014.
US$62.9
http://www.robotkingdom.com/ad20.html

Movie Advanced AD-21 Galvatron.
(-Small different from Hasbro version, additional blue line on robot mode and orange eye
-Same vehicle color mode)
Pre-order, available July 2014.
US$37.9
http://www.robotkingdom.com/ad21.html

Movie Advanced AD-22 Hound.
(-Different from Hasbro version
-Movie accurate color (camouflage) on his body)
Pre-order, available July 2014.
US$37.9
http://www.robotkingdom.com/ad22.html

Movie Advanced AD-23 Drift.
Pre-order, available July 2014.
US$23.9
http://www.robotkingdom.com/ad23.html

Movie Advanced AD-24 Strafe.
(-Different from Hasbro version
-Blue metallic body)
Pre-order, available July 2014.
US$23.9
http://www.robotkingdom.com/ad24.html

Movie Advanced AD-25 Dinobot Slash.
(-Different from Hasbro version
-Metallic green on body)
Pre-order, available July 2014.
US$23.9
http://www.robotkingdom.com/ad25.html

Movie Advanced AD-26 Lockdown.
(-Different from Hasbro verison, metallic dark brown body.
-Same vehicle color mode)
Pre-order, available July 2014.
US$23.9
http://www.robotkingdom.com/ad26.html

Movie Advanced AD-27 New Bumblebee.
Pre-order, available August 2014.
US$23.9
http://www.robotkingdom.com/ad27.html

Movie Advanced AD-28 Dinobot A.
Pre-order, available August 2014.
US$23.9
http://www.robotkingdom.com/ad28.html

Movie Advanced AD-29 Dinobot B.
Pre-order, available September 2014.
US$37.9
http://www.robotkingdom.com/ad29.html

Movie Advanced AD-30 Autobot B.
Pre-order, available September 2014.
US$37.9
http://www.robotkingdom.com/ad30.html