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by **LevelRage** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 9:23 pm

Heh, those are actually meant to help keep him upright while the photographer takes the photo. Toy companies do this all the time (or at least their photographers do) and it's a pretty simple solution too. All they gotto do afterwards is edit it out and obviously they forgot to do so here. Makes me wonder if he doesn't have one of those pegholes somewhere in his back that allows a stand to be used with him.

News Credits: 42 · by **TF-fan kev777** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 9:29 pm

Um, is Megatron playing peek-a-boo from the front of the tank? On purpose? or is this another Hasbro mis-transformation.

by **Mechastrike** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 9:36 pm

although i don't like the movie line anymore, i wish they'd make a Leader Class Fallen. all i ever saw was a Voyager class but it just didn't feel right.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 9:49 pm

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Um, is Megatron playing peek-a-boo from the front of the tank? On purpose? or is this another Hasbro mis-transformation.

No, it's actually the genuine design. Proof that before DOTM, Megatron didn't give a fawk about hiding in disguise.

Original leader:

Original voyager:

Original CGI:

News Credits: 42 · by **TF-fan kev777** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 9:56 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:
TF-fan kev777 wrote:Um, is Megatron playing peek-a-boo from the front of the tank? On purpose? or is this another Hasbro mis-transformation.

No, it's actually the genuine design. Proof that before DOTM, Megatron didn't give a fawk about hiding in disguise.

I knew about the leader and had the voyager, but both of those at least had some other non-head parts partially blocking/hiding them. The new one is basically treads, head, treads. That's why I was wondering if they forgot something.

News Credits: 1 · by **Sodan-1** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 10:08 pm

They don't look like bad figures, but I still think they could be better.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 10:10 pm

TF-fan kev777 wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:
TF-fan kev777 wrote:Um, is Megatron playing peek-a-boo from the front of the tank? On purpose? or is this another Hasbro mis-transformation.

No, it's actually the genuine design. Proof that before DOTM, Megatron didn't give a fawk about hiding in disguise.

I knew about the leader and had the voyager, but both of those at least had some other non-head parts partially blocking/hiding them. The new one is basically treads, head, treads. That's why I was wondering if they forgot something.

If the Studio Series Megs have the "tank face-mask" thing, I'm pretty sure it may have been either forgoten, or the photographer never knew it was there.

News Credits: 27 · by **Albatross250** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 11:26 pm

>Sees Brawl
>Sees the Original G1

insignia

Alright, i'm so getting Brawl.

News Credits: 2 · by **Spider5800** » Thu Mar 22, 2018 11:30 pm

Yeesh, not digging Brawl at all. His head looks out of proportion with the rest of his body, there's panels covering half his hands, and all the weapons look too long and thin. The old leader, and even the old deluxe look better IMO.

Derp

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 1:29 am

-Kanrabat- wrote:Blackout look nice. Especially that head sculpt. However, the feet panels just kill the figure for me. Maybe on sale...

As for Megatron, maybe the gray plastics have a shine that stock photos can't pick up. Let's wait for in hand pictures shall we?

Warden confirmed it's just plain ol' gray plastic.

Not sure why people don't like Blackout's colors, it looks more realistic in that matte gray to me.

Emerje

News Credits: 54 · by **Deadput** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:09 am

Spider5800 wrote:Yeesh, not digging Brawl at all. His head looks out of proportion with the rest of his body, there's panels covering half his hands, and all the weapons look too long and thin. The old leader, and even the old deluxe look better IMO.
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Derp

He's just mistransformed horribly there as is standard with Hasbro photos.

Edit: Actually one of the worse mistransformed photos I've ever seen like wow.

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 7:18 am

The renders showed him properly transformed, so I'm not going to let Hasbro photography department's incompetence put me off. He looks pretty good, and quite accurate to the screen model. Plus, you know, he's a tank. We don't get enough tanks these days.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 7:37 am

This:

Not this, Hasbro:

News Credits: 3596 · by **Seibertron** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 1:07 pm

We have new in hand images of the highly anticipated Transformers Studio Series Leader Class Grimlock. This figure was first revealed earlier this year by Hasbro at Toy Fair 2018, which we reported on back in February. These images from 神回十六夜 and 模玩麦片周 on weibo definitely show him in a different light (literally) from the amazing images we previously saw from NOTRAB a while ago. We have also included those high resolution images at the bottom for you to compare how the same figure could look. Also we translated Notrab's thoughts on the figure below, which he posted on Chinese social media site Weibo along with a video review with various comparisons on Chinese video website Youku.com.

Here's the awesome Google translation of what NOTRAB wrote on Weibo regarding Studio Series Leader Class Grimlock.

NOTRAB wrote:Studio Series leader-level steel locks, deformation steps and parts count without dizziness but the deformation process is very amazing, the human type made two complete faucets to restore the movie and one of them is the biggest highlight in the dragon type hiding, the painting style is also Very satisfied... finally got a right movie steel lock

Seibertron.com has translated Google's translation as "Studio Series leader-level Grimlock: transformation steps and parts count without confusion but the transformation process is very amazing. The robot mode has two complete dinosaur heads which movie Grimlock's character model had. Those heads are one of the biggest highlights in the dinosaur mode transformation process. In addition, the painting style is also very satisfying. We finally get a properly done movie style Grimlock!" If you have a better translation, just let us know what you would suggest NOTRAB meant.

Transformation video

New in hand images

Previous in hand images

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 1:17 pm

Damn that Grimlock is impressive! This is the figure we should have gotten at AoE.

Also, the real dino head is impossible to see in bot mode. Same for the fakes in dino mode. Amazing!

News Credits: 11 · by **Munkky** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 1:44 pm

I managed to get Ratchet and Bumblebee today, both are very nice figures, though I think Ratchet should have got a Voyager because the alt mode ends up teeny-tiny compared to other Deluxes, and Bumblebee's transformation is a bit fiddly and frustrating at times. I might just keep them both in robot mode, and I'm still looking forward to getting my hands on Optimus, Brawl (even though that recent stock image makes him look like a hot mess), Blackout and Grimlock.
Do we know if there'll be more waves of Deluxes past wave 2? That leak from last year showing waves 3 and 4 of the Voyagers to be Ironhide and another Starscream, and I remember hearing the leaked listing that mentioned a Deluxe Knockout turned out to be fake.

by **griftimus prime** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 4:40 pm

wow this thing is awesome.

News Credits: 7 · by **TulioDude** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 8:57 pm

I hope someone does an test with the Last Knight Voyager Optimus Prime,to see if he can ride the back of this Grimlock.

News Credits: 31 · by **bacem** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 10:07 pm

TulioDude wrote:I hope someone does an test with the Last Knight Voyager Optimus Prime,to see if he can ride the back of this Grimlock.

yes, he can. don't remember in what page, somewhere on this topic, there's a scan of japanese magazine for this product, that shows that.

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 10:25 pm

bacem wrote:
TulioDude wrote:I hope someone does an test with the Last Knight Voyager Optimus Prime,to see if he can ride the back of this Grimlock.

yes, he can. don't remember in what page, somewhere on this topic, there's a scan of japanese magazine for this product, that shows that.

They did it with this voyager prime, who is smaller, not with the TLK voyager prime. Which technically makes no sense since Prime never rode Grimlock in this ROTF body.

by **avarathriul** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 10:37 pm

woah, bad ass

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 10:46 pm

Amazing!!! Grimlock is looking to be so good!

News Credits: 31 · by **bacem** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 10:52 pm

william-james88 wrote:
bacem wrote:
TulioDude wrote:I hope someone does an test with the Last Knight Voyager Optimus Prime,to see if he can ride the back of this Grimlock.

yes, he can. don't remember in what page, somewhere on this topic, there's a scan of japanese magazine for this product, that shows that.

They did it with this voyager prime, who is smaller, not with the TLK voyager prime. Which technically makes no sense since Prime never rode Grimlock in this ROTF body.

apologize, somehow my brian skipped the TLK parts there. yeah nobody has tried that one, but if studio series's crotch gap fits on grimlock's back, then tlk voyager who has a bit larger crotch gap should fit as well. and while they have different size, it is not so much that the scale will look awkward. so technically, it should work.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 10:54 pm

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Amazing!!! Grimlock is looking to be so good!

I can forgive the gaps in dino mode.
Sigh, it's been a while since I planned to seriously buy a Leader at full price as it come out.

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Fri Mar 23, 2018 10:59 pm

-Kanrabat- wrote:
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Amazing!!! Grimlock is looking to be so good!

I can forgive the gaps in dino mode.
Sigh, it's been a while since I planned to seriously buy a Leader at full price as it come out.

No way in hell will I do that, not with our crazy price jump to 70$. Instead, come monday, I will go to TRU and try to see if I can get a raincheck