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[Rainmaker]

They might as well have made Barricade into a new character, Barricade seems nothing like Barricade.

[Deadput]

FYI the tank & yellow eyed bot is supposed to be Warpath and i believe the sub maybe an Autobot coz Cade + whoever else travels in the sub to the underwater structure shown in the trailer

No it is not supposed to be Warpath I know Bay has been using that name on set but the name was a common code name for characters for example two of the Wreckers had Warpath as a working name.

The Yellow bot has Long Haul's body or at least the exact same torso as people have pointed out on other websites so it probably is not a tank.

We don't know who it is yet all we have is guesses but until we find out there is no way to know it's Warpath.

There are two submarines in that shot in the trailer and I doubt that either of them are the Submarine character that was talked about.

[Deadput]

They might as well have made Barricade into a new character, Barricade seems nothing like Barricade.

Besides the head he looks a lot like him but I'm pretty sure that he was rebuilt after being blown up and shot at in DOTM and there are two confirmed plot points known so far that will probably explain why he looks different now.

1: There is a junkyard where dead Transformers are trashed away but some of them are not quite dead this is what I think Barricade comes from.

2: There is also a prison type place where Transformers are imprisoned in and if there is a jail type place in a movie expect a Jailbreak by at least one character because Imprisoning Transformers is never a good idea.

It's not like Barricade really got a lot of development in the two movies he was in heck in DOTM he had voice lines that were meant for Soundwave but recycled for Barricade.

[chuckdawg1999]

Those One-Step changers look really good, I hope I can find them soon.

[Jelze Bunnycat]

"UV Light Reveal Paint"? UV?!

[Sabrblade]

Besides the head

And the torso, and the arms, and the legs, and pretty much everything other than the look of the altmode kibble. This design basically looks like a whole new guy who just scanned a very similar altmode to Barricade's.

We know it's still Barricade. We know that there could very well be an in-story explanation for his new look (or not). But the bottom line is that the base design, when viewed independently from the altmode and its kibble in robot mode, looks so radically different enough from Barricade's old look that his new look could easily pass for a completely different character. It looks about as much like Barricade's old look as Sunstreaker and Tigertrack look like each other. Or for another comparison, about as much as any of the Technorganic Maximals in the Beast Machines cartoon looked like any of their Beast Wars cartoon designs.

[Deadput]

Besides the head

And the torso, and the arms, and the legs, and pretty much everything other than the look of the altmode kibble. This design basically looks like a whole new guy who just scanned a very similar altmode to Barricade's.

We know it's still Barricade. We know that there could very well be an in-story explanation for his new look (or not). But the bottom line is that the base design, when viewed independently from the altmode and its kibble in robot mode, looks so radically different enough from Barricade's old look that his new look could easily pass for a completely different character. It looks about as much like Barricade's old look as Sunstreaker and Tigertrack look like each other. Or for another comparison, about as much as any of the Technorganic Maximals in the Beast Machines cartoon looked like any of their Beast Wars cartoon designs.

Never meant that they look exactly alike but the rest of the body has the brutal police look of Barricade the biggest differences are the not claw hands without wheels and his head design although him having 4 eyes helps make it closer too him.

Obviously irl reason for the change is to make him look more like Bee to make him look more obvious as his rival and having a more humanoid body could be easier to market to children then a monstrous looking bot in theory at least that's what I think.

Just like how Clone Troopers armor looks a lot like Stromtrooper armor to market them to kids as good guys while also establishing a connection to their future self's which was later retconed later that the Stromies were mostly not clones anyways probably to make the clones look more like good guys.

[Bronzewolf]

Ooh, Last Knight toy news seems to just be boiling over by now, doesn't it? Well, we've got another piece to add to the pile, but this time it's from the other side of the transformers spectrum, TakaraTomy. And while we've all been oogling the newly-leaked Hasbro Barricade, Bumblebee, and Beserker, this is actually one of the first times we've heard anything regarding TLK from Taktom.

Coming from the Asian hobby store Loopaza, we have a near-complete rundown of the first Last Knight wave we'll be getting, as well as when we'll be getting it. They also reference a "Speed Changer" subline, which is expected to be Takara's version of the "Turbo Change" Hasbro line (Part of which was also leaked recently) Check out their full statement and the image they provided from one of their wholesale contacts.

[PlasmaShot360]

I wish I could read Japanese/Chinese.

[PlasmaShot360]

Berserker:50/50 chance of being bought
Bumblebee:NO WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Barricade:90% chance of me buying him.

[-Kanrabat-]

I want to kmow why DLK-005DX is priced at 4500Y instead of 2800Y?

It's "DX" for "deluxe", right?

[Deadput]

I wish I could read Japanese/Chinese.

I'm pretty sure there are no names on that list because most of the time until official photos are released they don't list character names just product and a number afterwards like #17

[Sabrblade]

The Katakana says "Speed Change" ("Supīdo Chenji") rather than the Loopaza's claim of "Speed Changer" (which also claims Hasbro's Turbo Change is "Turbo Changer").

[RAR]

Turbo Change sounds more likely to me.
But the did call that AOE line "Power Attackers" not 'Power Attack'
Though I also saw them listed online as "Power Battlers" too.
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I wonder if the UV reactant paint will change in sunlight or require you to buy a cheap Chinese Black light to get them to work...

I may go buy one of them anyway.

But shining UV on plastic isn't the greatest of ideas - but my Gi Joe Zartan/Zarana & Zandar seem fine and I had them sitting on window sills to change colour more than once.

I wonder why they don't tend to use Glow in the dark much ?

[william-james88]

I want to kmow why DLK-005DX is priced at 4500Y instead of 2800Y?

It's "DX" for "deluxe", right?

Maybe but not in the sense of Class. Its more like how its used to mean that it gives you the most, like DX kabaya kits or Deluxe Megazords that combine compared to the ones that dont. Like in French, c'est la version de luxe (thats how Japan uses that word)

Its the voyager prime, for sure.

I wish I could read Japanese/Chinese.

You will notice that they are all the same characters repeated for each toy, so it just tells you the assortment, not the character.

Also, for the UV reactive paint, the sun has UV light. I think this just means glow in the dark.

[Jelze Bunnycat]

About the "DX": it looks like that unlike with Lost Age and Adventure, TakaraTomy is going to lump all the toys in a single range, so no "LA vs. MA" or "TAV vs. TED". The "DX" figures are the Generations-like ones vs. the simplified ones. Like Will said, think about the early days of Chougokin with combining "DX" vs. the simpler "STD" toys. That said, don't expect them to keep the "DX" for the finalized names.

What's also remarkable is that TakaraTomy keeps the US title of the movie.

Also, the DX range is skipping letters, which leads me to believe that the same letters refer to the same characters. G is Optimus Prime, while A, C, E, and F we know are Bumblebee, Beserker, Barricade and an unknown character Dinobot Slash. A, B, C and D, appear in the Turbo/Speed Change line, two of them being Hound and Barricade. Characters A and C appear in both, so Barricade has to be one of those letters.

[The Thuggernaut]

It is definitley more expensive than any other Prime movie helmet that has recently been on the market, but since it's priced just as much as Hasbro's Star Wars Black Series helmets this must be made with collectors in mind.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Dude should totally use that pic on a dating site or tinder or something. It's rather handsome.

See, I would totally do this

[RAR]

All signs seem to be that Optimus is going to become "Silver Knight" Optimus at the end of this Movie - which is going to give the impression that the AOE toyline was Nostradamus for That and for Dinobot Slash.

[edit] P.s.

O hope the Slash Deluxe they make is coloured to fill in a gap in one of the existing boxed sets he's missing from that would be perfect.

[Stuartmaximus]

It is definitley more expensive than any other Prime movie helmet that has recently been on the market, but since it's priced just as much as Hasbro's Star Wars Black Series helmets this must be made with collectors in mind.

Speaking of expense & black series....here's an interesting thing

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i'm taking it that LK means Last Knight otherwise i've got this in the wrong thread

[william-james88]

Marvel and Star Wars are at that price point because they are licensed figures and therefore have an added cost. Hasbro pays no one for the TF license. And Deluxe TFs are already being sold for $20 before the movie ones are coming out so that podcast is just talking because they have nothing else to talk about.

[RAR]

Depends where you shop.

Hut yes I agree even with the different material costs involved that Transformers are globally better distributed than Marvel they should be able to keep the cost down.

I tend to feel they'd get away with $20.00 more when they look like they made an effort - so I was fine paying $20.00 for Brainstorm has he had nice tampographs.

If he'd had the same gosh awful stickers Voyager Megatron had then I'd not been very impressed.

I'm already disinclined to pay retail as it is and lowering product quality isn't going to persuade me otherwise.

Also You just know the One-step like toys will end up cheap somewhere pretty quickly so there would be a big discrepancy in cost then for a toy that would only be a wee bit bigger.

Also as much as Hasbro may not want to admit it they are also in competition with KO's now and for $20.00 there is a sea of top quality KO's available instead.

[Jelze Bunnycat]

Marvel and Star Wars are at that price point because they are licensed figures and therefore have an added cost. Hasbro pays no one for the TF license. And Deluxe TFs are already being sold for $20 before the movie ones are coming out so that podcast is just talking because they have nothing else to talk about.

TakaraTomy (and in the case of the movie Paramount as well). TakaraTomy and Hasbro may share the brand, but it's the former who's the de facto owner of the name as crazy as it sounds.

As for the price hikes (Deluxes are still $15 or so where I shop), either Hasbro is trying to streamline things so other lines don't suffer from Transformers' lower prices (why not lower the prices on the other lines?), or Paramount negotiated a bigger cut somehow.

Or it could be because the Premier Edition Deluxes are boxed now instead of carded.

[Va'al]

Or, you know, capitalism.

[PlasmaShot360]

It would be cool if Barricades(excuse my grammar)backpack could be detatchable to make a riot shield.