The Energon Pub

[Agent 53]

Considering things I'd guess the new optimus is a remould of the SS one for the DOTM design (aka 2007/ROTF with new abs)

[EvasionModeBumblebee]

Please please please please let it be a DOTM Optimus.

[DedicatedGhostArt]

I hope this Optimus is either the AoE design, or a recolor of the first Optimus into his DotM color scheme with the yellow and dark blue.

Edit: Seems some others agree with DotM Optimus, lol. I hope he would have the trailer as well, but I think that would only make sense as an exclusive box set or something.

[ZeroWolf]

They could put the trailer in but price him as a leader but as it stands I think it's going to be a redco, now the question would be if its display could link with bonecrushers

[LordBludgeon]

Question... who is Sarscream?

[Spider5800]

Sweet! I hope Bonecrusher is a bigger (or at least wider) voyager like Starscream, OP was too small IMO.

Guessing the OP is the same mold with the abs from DotM, and possibly different accessories (his three-barreled gun would make sense).

[Ig89ninja]

BONECRUSHER!?!?



FINALLY!!!!!

[-Kanrabat-]

A VOYAGER BONECRUSHER!

[D-Maximal_Primal]

news blah blah voyager Bonecrusher blah blah news

blah voyager Bonecrusher blah

voyager Bonecrusher

voyager Bonecrusher

HELLS YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Also, totally calling it right now: that Prime is DotM Prime complete with axe and new abs, and that is what the new background was for, not Megs or Sentinel.

[transformers_va]

Since the SS series is quite young ad wont get a top 5 list for a while, I am thinking of doing an article showing their rank. Like Wave 1 from best to worst. But you know what, its kinda tricky. BB is at the end, Grimlock, Starscream and Barricade are in top 3 and the rest is all kind of muddied. Like not really sure who is better between Stinger, Ratchet, Crowbar and Optimus. They are all ok but not phenominal and all have really obvious flaws.

My best to worst vote would be for:
1. Blackout (wicked cool helicopter)
2. Grimlock (weak tail section)
3. Starscream
4. Ratchet (terrible color, but not the toys fault)
5. Stinger
6. Optimus Prime
7. Crowbar (the "hair" gimmick is awful)
8. Bumblebee

[Ironhidensh]

So here is my fix for Grimlock:






Wow, lots of hate for the bee.... here is how I would rate the figures.

1) Starscream
2) Blackout
3) Bumblebee
4) Optimus
5) Stinger
6) Ratchet
7) Grimlock
Crowbar
999) Thundercracker

[william-james88]

Woah Ironhidensh, I can't make heads or tails of that. How is Bb so much better thanGrimlock and why do you hate thundetcracker so much?

[shajaki]

The TFCN Facebook page had a listing for an upcoming Bonecrucher toy but since it was using a placeholder shadow image of the older deluxe toy, we waited until further proof before newsing. Well, it only took one day and now we have proof of an upcoming voyager Bonecrusher as part of the Transformers Studio Series line. Funny enough, he comes to us as one in a pair of new listings with the other new listing being none other than the bot who destroyed him, Optimus Prime. The code is different from the voyager Optimus Prime from wave 1 so it is most probably him in a new body (probably his Transformers The Last Knight body). Or it might just be a redeco of the wave 1 voyager, just as the upcoming Sarscream toy is simply a redeco of the wave 1 voyager.

The info comes to us from Mr Chaos who provided many early codes and listings in the past. This is what he shared on the TFW2005 boards:

TRA MV6 STUDIO SERIES BONECRUSH E3745
UPC 63050976995
PRICE: $29.99

He is listed with a new Optimus listing:

TRA MV6 STUDIO SERIES OPTIMUS E3747
UPC: 63050976996
PRICE $29.99

Wait... there's a Starscream redeco coming? I missed that apparently...
Probably just a tat'd up DOTM thing I guess. Saw to replace the missile thingy?

[Wolfman Jake]

The TFCN Facebook page had a listing for an upcoming Bonecrucher toy but since it was using a placeholder shadow image of the older deluxe toy, we waited until further proof before newsing. Well, it only took one day and now we have proof of an upcoming voyager Bonecrusher as part of the Transformers Studio Series line. Funny enough, he comes to us as one in a pair of new listings with the other new listing being none other than the bot who destroyed him, Optimus Prime. The code is different from the voyager Optimus Prime from wave 1 so it is most probably him in a new body (probably his Transformers The Last Knight body). Or it might just be a redeco of the wave 1 voyager, just as the upcoming Sarscream toy is simply a redeco of the wave 1 voyager.

The info comes to us from Mr Chaos who provided many early codes and listings in the past. This is what he shared on the TFW2005 boards:

TRA MV6 STUDIO SERIES BONECRUSH E3745
UPC 63050976995
PRICE: $29.99

He is listed with a new Optimus listing:

TRA MV6 STUDIO SERIES OPTIMUS E3747
UPC: 63050976996
PRICE $29.99

Wait... there's a Starscream redeco coming? I missed that apparently...
Probably just a tat'd up DOTM thing I guess. Saw to replace the missile thingy?

It'll probably have his awful Cybertronian "tribal tattoos" from RotF and DotM. Yuck. I'm so tempted to grab Wave 1 Studio Series Starscream. He's the Starscream I always wanted when I was collecting movie figures. Voyager sized, good mold, and in the first movie colors. I sold off my movie collection a few years ago...and I don't really want to start collecting them again...but then again, I kinda do >.<

[Sabrblade]

Since the SS series is quite young ad wont get a top 5 list for a while, I am thinking of doing an article showing their rank. Like Wave 1 from best to worst. But you know what, its kinda tricky. BB is at the end, Grimlock, Starscream and Barricade are in top 3 and the rest is all kind of muddied. Like not really sure who is better between Stinger, Ratchet, Crowbar and Optimus. They are all ok but not phenominal and all have really obvious flaws.

There's a Studio Series Barricade?

[Emerje]

Why hasn't anyone noticed this yet?

TRA MV6 STUDIO SERIES BONECRUSH E3745
UPC 63050976995
PRICE: $29.99

He is listed with a new Optimus listing:

TRA MV6 STUDIO SERIES OPTIMUS E3747
UPC: 63050976996
PRICE $29.99

TRA MV6 as in Transformers Movie 6, AKA the Bumblebee Movie. Don't get too excited until you see them, they'll likely be based on '80s alt modes.

Emerje

[Wolfman Jake]

Why hasn't anyone noticed this yet?

TRA MV6 STUDIO SERIES BONECRUSH E3745
UPC 63050976995
PRICE: $29.99

He is listed with a new Optimus listing:

TRA MV6 STUDIO SERIES OPTIMUS E3747
UPC: 63050976996
PRICE $29.99

TRA MV6 as in Transformers Movie 6, AKA the Bumblebee Movie. Don't get too excited until you see them, they'll likely be based on '80s alt modes.

Emerje

Oh, damn! It was right there the whole time. I have a bad feeling you're right, Emerje, and these two will turn out to be versions from the upcoming Bumblebee movie. There's a chance, though, that they're just being grouped with "MV6" if they're coming out in the same wave or waves as the new Bumblebee toys that are going to be based on the new spin-off movie. We can only hope, I suppose, because I really want a much better "Studio Series" option for a voyager sized Optimus Prime resembling his appearance from the first three movies. Oh, and a voyager sized Movie 1 Bonecrusher too.

Do we have any idea how far Hasbro and Takara intend to support the Studio Series line? Dare we hope for releases for at the very least all of the (major) on-screen characters for movies 1 through 5?

[Jelze Bunnycat]

Why hasn't anyone noticed this yet?

TRA MV6 STUDIO SERIES BONECRUSH E3745
UPC 63050976995
PRICE: $29.99

He is listed with a new Optimus listing:

TRA MV6 STUDIO SERIES OPTIMUS E3747
UPC: 63050976996
PRICE $29.99

TRA MV6 as in Transformers Movie 6, AKA the Bumblebee Movie. Don't get too excited until you see them, they'll likely be based on '80s alt modes.

Emerje

Oh, damn! It was right there the whole time. I have a bad feeling you're right, Emerje, and these two will turn out to be versions from the upcoming Bumblebee movie. There's a chance, though, that they're just being grouped with "MV6" if they're coming out in the same wave or waves as the new Bumblebee toys that are going to be based on the new spin-off movie. We can only hope, I suppose, because I really want a much better "Studio Series" option for a voyager sized Optimus Prime resembling his appearance from the first three movies. Oh, and a voyager sized Movie 1 Bonecrusher too.

Do we have any idea how far Hasbro and Takara intend to support the Studio Series line? Dare we hope for releases for at the very least all of the (major) on-screen characters for movies 1 through 5?

The Bumblebee Movie aka MV6 toys will all be released under the Studio Series, there will be no dedicated line as far as we know. The fact "MV6" comes before "Studio Series" indicates that officially the latter is part of the former, not the other way around.

[Emerje]

There will be a dedicated BB Movie toy line, but it's going to be kid stuff. The collector stuff will be in SS, replacing the Premier Edition line.

Emerje

[Jelze Bunnycat]

There will be a dedicated BB Movie toy line, but it's going to be kid stuff. The collector stuff will be in SS, replacing the Premier Edition line.

Emerje

So in a sense right now the MV6 toys are already a thing

[Emerje]

I'm sure there's a warehouse full of MV6 stuff sitting around somewhere waiting for the fall.

I'll be surprised if MV6 Optimus Prime doesn't look like AOE Evasion Mode Optimus Prime, but cleaner. The original was a pretty nice figure so I'd like to see how they pull of a presumed smaller version.

Emerje

[Wolfman Jake]

Why hasn't anyone noticed this yet?

TRA MV6 STUDIO SERIES BONECRUSH E3745
UPC 63050976995
PRICE: $29.99

He is listed with a new Optimus listing:

TRA MV6 STUDIO SERIES OPTIMUS E3747
UPC: 63050976996
PRICE $29.99

TRA MV6 as in Transformers Movie 6, AKA the Bumblebee Movie. Don't get too excited until you see them, they'll likely be based on '80s alt modes.

Emerje

Oh, damn! It was right there the whole time. I have a bad feeling you're right, Emerje, and these two will turn out to be versions from the upcoming Bumblebee movie. There's a chance, though, that they're just being grouped with "MV6" if they're coming out in the same wave or waves as the new Bumblebee toys that are going to be based on the new spin-off movie. We can only hope, I suppose, because I really want a much better "Studio Series" option for a voyager sized Optimus Prime resembling his appearance from the first three movies. Oh, and a voyager sized Movie 1 Bonecrusher too.

Do we have any idea how far Hasbro and Takara intend to support the Studio Series line? Dare we hope for releases for at the very least all of the (major) on-screen characters for movies 1 through 5?

The Bumblebee Movie aka MV6 toys will all be released under the Studio Series, there will be no dedicated line as far as we know. The fact "MV6" comes before "Studio Series" indicates that officially the latter is part of the former, not the other way around.

I don't think you understood what I was suggesting at all. I know that the Studio Series will have toys specifically for the new Bumblebee movie. That's been known for months. What I'm suggesting is that the "MV6" addition to the product code doesn't necessarily indicate that the product is a direct tie-in to the Bumblebee movie, though of course some are. For instance, a later wave that starts putting out Bumblebee Movie specific molds might not fill the entire wave with those molds, but include other characters from earlier movies too, for the sake of variety and collector appeal (which is what the Studio Series is allegedly all about). The assortment is just labeled "MV6" because it's easier that way, because someone screwed up, or perhaps because it's a way for Hasbro to fool retailers into thinking it's a new line by "refreshing" the name or subline imprint. It's kind of like how they stretched Robots in Disguise into three years by first rebranding it as "Mini-Con Weaponizers" and then "Combiner Force," despite not all toys in the line having anything to do with the titular gimmick of the year.

[Carnivius_Prime]

I caved and ordered Optimus Prime, and just hoping it ain't long before Toyhax finish his sticker sheets set and make it available for purchase. Figure was £24.99 plus £2.90 postage. I wasn't gonna get it yet but i been feeling crappy this past week since my lovely rat Cookie passed away and felt like i needed to treat myself. Can't afford those Leaders and wanted another voyager. And he looks pretty damn fun in some of the nice photos I've seen and those twin orangey swords always look awesome. Anyways he should be here in next day or two.

Out of the other three I own so far:

Bumblebee - I love it, especially since 'fixing' the roof. Fun to play and pose and glad they got the gun arm attaching better this time. Along with TLK Bee one of my fave ever deluxe figures. I never really cared for his 70's camaro parts in robot mode until this figure. The edges and chunkier lil bit are a nice contrast to his TLK figure's smooth curves. I just wish the TLK figure came with a nice backdrop piece too cos I'm loving the display I'm forming with all these Studio series figures and their backdrops.

Starscream - my almost perfect figure and size for Starscream. Transformation somehow even more enjoyable than the original deluxe perhaps due to the bigger chunkier size. Only thing I miss are the neat tattoos so will certainly buy the RotF version too.

Ratchet - my least fave so far but still a great toy, just really needing extra paint apps to bring out more of the sculpt details. Size is perfect being between deluxe and voyager. Painted windows rather than transparent cheapen the vehicle mode look a bit though.


Also, yay voyager Bonecrusher as I had so requested.

[Emerje]

I don't think you understood what I was suggesting at all. I know that the Studio Series will have toys specifically for the new Bumblebee movie. That's been known for months. What I'm suggesting is that the "MV6" addition to the product code doesn't necessarily indicate that the product is a direct tie-in to the Bumblebee movie, though of course some are. For instance, a later wave that starts putting out Bumblebee Movie specific molds might not fill the entire wave with those molds, but include other characters from earlier movies too, for the sake of variety and collector appeal (which is what the Studio Series is allegedly all about). The assortment is just labeled "MV6" because it's easier that way, because someone screwed up, or perhaps because it's a way for Hasbro to fool retailers into thinking it's a new line by "refreshing" the name or subline imprint. It's kind of like how they stretched Robots in Disguise into three years by first rebranding it as "Mini-Con Weaponizers" and then "Combiner Force," despite not all toys in the line having anything to do with the titular gimmick of the year.

Problem with that theory is twofold. None of the waves are based on specific movies, in fact wave one includes figures from the first four movies. Then there's the problem with how the VW Bee from movie 6 was supposed to be in wave 1 but was swapped out for the one we got at the last minute when the movie was pushed back to December. The plan of spreading out movie 6 figures rather than lumping them into a wave was there from the start. We know Optimus is in the movie and the Transformer count in the movie is very low so there really isn't enough to add a subtitle to the line. I'd be surprised if they did more than four figures total for the movie.

Emerje

[ZeroWolf]

Do we know prime is in the movie on earth though? I figured it would be at the beginning where he sends bee to earth.