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News Credits: 90 · Sat Aug 08, 2026 9:38 pm

Is the paint job for MTME Studio Starscream supposed to be more accurate or match the animation model more? I did see some comparison photos between it and Coronation Starscream and was curious as they looked different no different in terms of the mold. Unless the differences are just too subtle for me.

News Credits: 462 · Sun Aug 09, 2026 12:32 am

Tyrannacon wrote:Is the paint job for MTME Studio Starscream supposed to be more accurate or match the animation model more? I did see some comparison photos between it and Coronation Starscream and was curious as they looked different no different in terms of the mold. Unless the differences are just too subtle for me.

It's a new mold, so, even if it uses the same colors as the Earthrise-molded Coronation version, it's still sculpted to look closer to the animation model.

News Credits: 90 · Sun Aug 09, 2026 10:57 am

Ah, now I understand the appeal. Thanks for explaining!

News Credits: 42 · Fri Sep 04, 2026 9:12 am

After Target screwed up the orders for Starscream I've spent weeks stalking Hasbro Pulse every morning to see if they would get some small quantities in. Today it finally paid off, whew. Hopefully I'll have him within a week or so.

News Credits: 332 · Fri Sep 04, 2026 12:11 pm

TF-fan kev777 wrote:After Target screwed up the orders for Starscream I've spent weeks stalking Hasbro Pulse every morning to see if they would get some small quantities in. Today it finally paid off, whew. Hopefully I'll have him within a week or so.

You were up at 3:30AM EST?

News Credits: 42 · Fri Sep 04, 2026 2:21 pm

chuckdawg1999 wrote:
TF-fan kev777 wrote:After Target screwed up the orders for Starscream I've spent weeks stalking Hasbro Pulse every morning to see if they would get some small quantities in. Today it finally paid off, whew. Hopefully I'll have him within a week or so.

You were up at 3:30AM EST?

Nope, 6:00AM CST
I may have gotten one of the last ones as it was sold out again shortly afterward.

News Credits: 22 · Mon Sep 07, 2026 10:32 am

I just found Skywarp on the shelf at Walmart. I'm still not a fan, to me the new seeker mold looks like it's 2 steps from a RED figure. The ER mold just seems to have more life to it.

News Credits: 42 · Mon Sep 21, 2026 3:04 pm

For anyone who missed out on SS85 Starscream from Target cancelling pre-orders, it looks like they may have gotten more in. I had Target notify me when they were back in stock and according to them I have one in my cart if I check out in the next 24 hours.

I found him back in stock on Pulse a few weeks ago with mine due to arrive Wednesday, so I won't be ordering from Target, but for anyone else who missed out you may want to check again.

News Credits: 332 · Mon Sep 21, 2026 3:40 pm

News Credits: 332 · Fri Sep 25, 2026 3:48 pm

News Credits: 3669 · Fri Oct 09, 2026 12:09 am

During the Hasbro Action Brands Toy Panel at New York Comic Con, the Transformers team revealed a fan-demanded Studio Series set that puts six of Blaster's tiny allies in one box.

The Transformers: The Movie-inspired Autobot Cassettes 6-Pack includes Bolts, Ramhorn, Stripes, Cubbie, Stinger, and Rewind, plus eight accessories. The set mixes two humanoid robot Cassettes with four beast-form bots - including cat, scorpion, and rhinoceros modes - and every one of them converts to cassette mode. Look for the six-pack to arrive in spring 2027. Check out the official product information and images below.

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TRANSFORMERS STUDIO SERIES TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE AUTOBOT CASSETTES 6-PACK
(HASBRO | Ages 8 & up | Available Spring 2027)

Demanded by fans, the Transformers Studio Series Transformers: The Movie Autobot Cassettes pack includes 6 Autobot cassette converting action figures. The pack includes Autobot Bolts, Autobot Ramhorn, Autobot Stripes, Autobot Cubbie, Autobot Stinger, and Autobot Rewind figures that convert between cassette and alt mode. Autobot Bolts and Autobot Rewind are 2.2 inches tall in humanoid robot mode. Autobot Stripes, Autobot Cubbie, Autobot Stinger, and Autobot Ramhorn are 1.5 inches tall in beast mode. Autobot Bolts and Autobot Rewind convert to robot mode, Autobot Stripes and Autobot Cubbie convert to cat mode, Autobot Stinger converts to scorpion mode, and Autobot Ramhorn converts to rhinoceros mode. This set of 6 figures makes an awesome addition to any collection. Also includes 8 accessories. Look for more Transformers collectible toys (sold separately, subject to availability) featuring favorite characters to create a lineup that is -- More Than Meets the Eye.

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Are you ready to add all six Autobots to your Studio Series 86 shelf, or are you still waiting on other members of Blaster's cassette crew? Join the discussion in our Energon Pub forums and let us know.

News Credits: 462 · Fri Oct 09, 2026 12:16 am

Shattered Glass Ramhorn, for some reason.

News Credits: 1 · Fri Oct 09, 2026 12:50 am

Sabrblade wrote:Shattered Glass Ramhorn, for some reason.

A reason? Ummm...

Rewind caused a minor temporal paradox in Forever Is A Long Time Coming that randomly pulled cassettes from 2 parallel universes into Sunbow's timeline?

Awesome as this is, seeing Ramhorn that blue just makes me need updated Cobalt Sentries even more!

News Credits: 9 · Fri Oct 09, 2026 12:52 am

I am all in for these. Finally some legit versions of things i have had from third parties for quite a while.

News Credits: 149 · Fri Oct 09, 2026 5:59 am

As a sucker for cassette bots, I kinda love these!

~ Grim

News Credits: 332 · Fri Oct 09, 2026 7:03 am

Big Grim wrote:As a sucker for cassette bots, I kinda love these!

~ Grim

Is the green guy using the SS86 Rumble mold?

News Credits: 17 · Fri Oct 09, 2026 10:00 am

Are these tapes retail release? Or exclusive to somewhere?

Also, does this mean we're getting a re-issue Blaster to go with them?

I might just try to score a cheap Twincast somwhere.

News Credits: 241 · Sat Oct 10, 2026 4:51 pm

chuckdawg1999 wrote:
Big Grim wrote:As a sucker for cassette bots, I kinda love these!

~ Grim

Is the green guy using the SS86 Rumble mold?

After comparing the images of both, if anything just the internals, all the visible parts are new.

News Credits: 22 · Sat Oct 10, 2026 9:21 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Shattered Glass Ramhorn, for some reason.

We already got regular Ramhorn with Perceptor and Ratbat.

News Credits: 462 · Sun Oct 11, 2026 12:08 am

Rodimus Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Shattered Glass Ramhorn, for some reason.
We already got regular Ramhorn with Perceptor and Ratbat.

Yeah, but, now it's one villain in a set of heroes.

And the set is meant to be a reference to an early script draft of Transformers The Movie, in which Cubbie, Stripes, Stinger, and Bolts all feature, but not Ramhorn (or Rewind). Shattered Glass didn't exist back in 1984 when the script was first drafted.

They could have used some other cassette besides the Ramhorn mold, or done a silver-weapons variant since the one in the set with Perceptor and Ratbst had the gold weapons, as Ramhorn's original toy came in gold and silver weapon variants.

News Credits: 332 · Sun Oct 11, 2026 1:09 am

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:
chuckdawg1999 wrote:
Big Grim wrote:As a sucker for cassette bots, I kinda love these!

~ Grim

Is the green guy using the SS86 Rumble mold?

After comparing the images of both, if anything just the internals, all the visible parts are new.

I was wondering since it looks like it's able to hold the weapons normally, by pegging them into the fists.

News Credits: 22 · Sun Oct 11, 2026 12:30 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Rodimus Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Shattered Glass Ramhorn, for some reason.
We already got regular Ramhorn with Perceptor and Ratbat.
Yeah, but, now it's one villain in a set of heroes.

So was Ratbat. :-P

And the set is meant to be a reference to an early script draft of Transformers The Movie, in which Cubbie, Stripes, Stinger, and Bolts all feature, but not Ramhorn (or Rewind).

Is that official or just your speculation?

They could have used some other cassette besides the Ramhorn mold, or done a silver-weapons variant since the one in the set with Perceptor and Ratbst had the gold weapons, as Ramhorn's original toy came in gold and silver weapon variants.

What other cassettes does Blaster have? I didn't know he had Cubbie or Stinger.

News Credits: 462 · Sun Oct 11, 2026 1:32 pm

Rodimus Prime wrote:
And the set is meant to be a reference to an early script draft of Transformers The Movie, in which Cubbie, Stripes, Stinger, and Bolts all feature, but not Ramhorn (or Rewind).
Is that official or just your speculation?

Pages 18-19:

INSIDE CROWS NEST

as Blaster and Perceptor see Rumble and others and react. Blaster stops broadcasting

BLASTER
We got Cassette Critters knockin' on the window:

ON RUMBLE

as he CRACKS THROUGH GLASS and he and others swarm in and attack Perceptor who tries to beat them away

PERCEPTOR
Flee, Blaster! I'll hold them off!

BLASTER
No way. Two can play:

ON BLASTER

as he spews out CASSETTES which TRANSFORM into CUBBIE, a lion, STRIPES, a tiger, STINGER, a scorpion and BOLTS, a small, tough robot.

BLASTER
Sic 'em!

ON RUMBLE

as Cubbie takes him down by the foot, turning him over and over

ON STRIPES

as he SNAPS at Ratbat which screams and darts, trying to escape as we move to

STINGER AND BOLTS

as Bolts swats Frenzy into Stinger who JABS STINGER into Frenzy making him yowl and flee

ON BLASTER AND PERCEPTOR

as they start off amid cassette creature battle

BLASTER
Don't know if I got through, but we better hope I did

Rodimus Prime wrote:
They could have used some other cassette besides the Ramhorn mold, or done a silver-weapons variant since the one in the set with Perceptor and Ratbst had the gold weapons, as Ramhorn's original toy came in gold and silver weapon variants.
What other cassettes does Blaster have? I didn't know he had Cubbie or Stinger.

Eject, for one, giving those who missed out on the limited Target exclusive SS86 Blaster a second chance at an opaque Eject, since the Rewind in this set is meant to give people an opaque version of him.

News Credits: 51 · Sun Oct 11, 2026 3:28 pm

Rodimus Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:They could have used some other cassette besides the Ramhorn mold, or done a silver-weapons variant since the one in the set with Perceptor and Ratbst had the gold weapons, as Ramhorn's original toy came in gold and silver weapon variants.
What other cassettes does Blaster have? I didn't know he had Cubbie or Stinger.

-Nightstalker (black Steeljaw)
-Flip Sides (white and purple Rosanna, she's a Con sleeper agent though)
-Blackcat (green Ravage)
-actual cassette versions of the Slamdance combiner as opposed to the Siege Flywheels repaint
-2 originally-Japan-exclusive teams of dino cassettes that combine like Slamdance
-technically Playback (a unnamed G1 cartoon nobody that got retconned into a cassette and later referenced in Shattered Glass)
-While checking TFWiki for the Japanese combiners and Playback I also saw they count Blockrock from Blaster's Universe figure, but I highly doubt we'll get a new Blockrock anytime soon since he'd just be Laserbeak but red and black instead of black and red

Soundwave is currently missing:
-Garboil (blue Laserbeak)
-Howlback (blue Ravage)
-Enemy (red and blue Frumble)
-the Squawkbox combiner
-Overkill
-Slugfest
-a version of Wingthing with the backpack thrusters from the Studio Series Ratbat/Ramhorn/Perceptor set (I doubt we'll see this)
-that scooter thing Soundwave shot out randomly in like 1 G1 episode

...I really like cassette repaints.