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[Bucky]

Earlier today, we posted a Imagine this scene and use parts from this JETFIRE figure to convert the 32 Voyager OPTIMUS PRIME figure into JETWING OPTIMUS PRIME!

Yes! Jetwing prime will be a partsformer combination!

Which reminds me... where's Jolt?

Hm. I forgot all about Jolt. I remember being disappointed with his toy when it came out, but recently I’ve been going back and transforming some of my figures that I first found underwhelming. Turns out Jolt isn’t as bad as I remembered. And he does have some nice sculpting.

It's almost the RotF anniversary, we're getting Jetfire and at least 4 Constructicons, I'm still convinced Jolt is the mysterious leaked Deluxe Character B. I still love my RotF Jolt for what he is, especially since I just got to make up what he was like since he showed no personality in the movie, but I really do want a new retail version of him that isn't so easy to transform and is actually accurate to what he looked like. I really just want all the underused and wasted potential characters in the movies to get SS figures. That's part of why I was so glad Stinger was in Wave 1, now he finally gets to do stuff.

Agreed. There’s so many solid designs that got maybe 7 or 8 seconds of screen time, and then we’re blown up. Designs that took multiple artists and hundreds of hours of labor, from concept, through thumbnails, revision after revision, and then on to final renders. All to be introduced and executed in the same scene.



This thought just crossed my mind, since it seems like there’s potentially a real precedent for it, rather than just a one off; if DotM Megatron does come with an Igor (which I hope he does), that makes two bot mini figs we’ll have gotten so far. First Scorponok with Leader Blackout, and now Igor Leader Megatron. Do you guys think we may get more minibot figs? Even that new VW ‘Bee set comes with a Charlie minifig. I realize the scale would be way off, but I think it would be great if we got a tiny Insecticon with a Constructicon, or a Scalpel with someone. The scale would still be substantially off, but it would be the closest things we’ve ever gotten for those two, since the Insecticon was a Scout, and Scalpel was a Deluxe.

It really does open the door for the smaller characters like Wheelie, Brains, that horrifying Pretender, even Squeeks.

[ZeroWolf]

While I do think we'll see brains, squeeks and wheelie via extras (where appropriate) I think that Insecticon and Dr scalpel may be too small. An idea would be to have them moulded onto a Sam mini figure. This would replicate the scenes where he interacts with them. In Dr scalpels case, it would be the scene where Megatron is pinning him down and the little homicidal doctor is examining Sam's head. What would be better is a sub line for the smaller characters so they can be life scale... Or not so far off as Squeeks would still be bigger then Titan Class

[Bucky]

I wouldn’t be against that, but I just meant roughtly the same size as Scorponok or what is assumed to be Igor. Headmaster sized basically. Like I said, I know they’d still be way off in terms in scale, because Scalpel was smaller than a human head (I think), and the Insecticon Sam crushed was the size of a penny maybe. They wouldn’t necessarily have to have any moving parts at all.

I’d love to have an army of tiny insecticons. Two armies. One I would repaint to look like Tarantulas’ flashlight bugs.

A 1:1 scale series for smaller bots sounds cool, but Wheelie and Brains would still be big toys. Although not as large as Squeeks, as you said.

[Sabrblade]

This thought just crossed my mind, since it seems like there’s potentially a real precedent for it, rather than just a one off; if DotM Megatron does come with an Igor (which I hope he does), that makes two bot mini figs we’ll have gotten so far. First Scorponok with Leader Blackout, and now Igor Leader Megatron. Do you guys think we may get more minibot figs?

Yes. There's TLK Drift with the Mini-Dinobots coming.

[william-james88]

There are some international Transformers fans on location at the MCM London Comic-con, and new toys have been added to the display cases, which we newsed a little earlier. These new toy are all new reveals for the Transformers Studio Series. They include a lot of toys that were eluded to before and a welcome surprise. Below you will see images of deluxe Shatter, deluxe Cogman (who is simply a redeco of the previous release), deluxe Scrap-Metal, voyager Long Haul (in vehicle mode only) and voyager Rampage. There will be more info at the upcoming panel. These images were posted by Rotorstorm on he TFW2005 boards.

So, what are your thoughts on these? Which ones are you going to get? Let us know!

[ZeroWolf]

Oh these are very nice. I especially like the Shatter.

[-Kanrabat-]

All of the above look pretty boss and worth getting. Combining or not.

Plus that Cogman have a new SHINY vehicle mode. Pretty nice for those who missed out on the original.

[william-james88]

If Jetfire partsforms to make Jetwing Optimus...does that mean pieces like the nose of the plane and the engines are simply taken off to transform Jetfire to robot mode? Because I'm having a hard time seeing those parts in the robot mode pics.

You can see the nose of the plain behind his calves in robot mode.

Carnivus, I fail to understand how PotP Grimlock "suffers" from the combiner gimmick aside from the lack of included weapons.

The combiner ports end up making the back of the dino mode look pretty crap

You know, they should have tried to make the new Movie Jetfire like a Siege Weaponizer meant to interact with a new Voyager Optimus Prime, or at least with a retool with 5mm ports all over. Yes it would mean 'sacrificing' some elements for either figure but it is the only way to make that feature work. Also, bonus point, we'd have a movie guy who can interact with a Generations gimmick once again.

This was the best thing Hasbro could have done to piss off the least people. They got a god looking jetfire who can be used alone and there is the option to combine for those that do. More sacrifices like you suggest would have just added more rage.

Anything would be an improvement over the mess that was the RotF movie Leader Jetfire. Somehow they made it simple, and yet fiddly to the point of uselessness. .

Amazing review, completely agree!

Yeah, what about Scarecrow's brain

[Evil Eye]

I hope Rampage is just mistransformed and he still does the tread-whip thing because that aside he looks great.

Scrapmetal looks fun, slightly awkward proportions but the transformation is interesting.

Shatter looks sublime and I want her yesterday.

Cogman with a full paintjob? Yes please!

Long Haul has a nice vehicle mode, hope the robot mode is equally good.

But you know what I really like? Look at Rampage's dozer blade. Look at those ports that don't seem to be for transformation. I think we might have a Devastator on our hands.

[ZeroWolf]

I hope Rampage is just mistransformed and he still does the tread-whip thing because that aside he looks great.

Scrapmetal looks fun, slightly awkward proportions but the transformation is interesting.

Shatter looks sublime and I want her yesterday.

Cogman with a full paintjob? Yes please!

Long Haul has a nice vehicle mode, hope the robot mode is equally good.

But you know what I really like? Look at Rampage's dozer blade. Look at those ports that don't seem to be for transformation. I think we might have a Devastator on our hands.

Ports? I can't see what you mean. I see the black circles which are covering the rivets for a hinge but no ports. Also devastator would be the only thing in the line hilariously out of scale.

[Evil Eye]

I hope Rampage is just mistransformed and he still does the tread-whip thing because that aside he looks great.

Scrapmetal looks fun, slightly awkward proportions but the transformation is interesting.

Shatter looks sublime and I want her yesterday.

Cogman with a full paintjob? Yes please!

Long Haul has a nice vehicle mode, hope the robot mode is equally good.

But you know what I really like? Look at Rampage's dozer blade. Look at those ports that don't seem to be for transformation. I think we might have a Devastator on our hands.

Ports? I can't see what you mean. I see the black circles which are covering the rivets for a hinge but no ports. Also devastator would be the only thing in the line hilariously out of scale.

Look at the little grey square in the centre of the shovel/blade. It's got a tiny peg in it. It's also surrounded by big slots in the black blade itself, which again don't correspond to the transformation.

[dragons]

Pretty nice looking constructicons if they did add combine mode as nice bonus others need be made as well combine or not look better from first versions we got of them

[ZeroWolf]

Right now I see, I was getting confused with the wrong picture. I still hope they don't combine and instead do a separate release for one in a line where there's not an emphasis on scale.

[Deadput]

So the rumors were indeed true, I suspected as much with the reveal of Jetfire and Megatron. (And Sideswipe's wave before that)

I guess we really are getting Dino (DOTM Mirage to those who don't remember) hope the figure does my absolute fave robot design in the entire franchise justice.


Also interesting to see it actually is Scrap-Metal and not just Scrapper with his name. (I presume that Scrapper could be a voyager if there is going to be one)


One quick note that face of Shatter's is her battle mask and is indeed in the movie since you can see her with it on the Cybertron scene in one of the trailers. (On the left in the pic)

[Deadput]

By Primus we have Long haul as the thick chunky bot he should be! (This also sort of helps make that Payload repaint of the original mold more distinct I guess)

[Evil Eye]

This looks to be badly mistransformed (Pretty sure that mess of kibble folds up much better) but if not, yikes!

[Carnivius_Prime]

I need all the toys, I need money to buy all the toys

[Bucky]

I hope Rampage is just mistransformed and he still does the tread-whip thing because that aside he looks great.

Scrapmetal looks fun, slightly awkward proportions but the transformation is interesting.

Shatter looks sublime and I want her yesterday.

Cogman with a full paintjob? Yes please!

Long Haul has a nice vehicle mode, hope the robot mode is equally good.

But you know what I really like? Look at Rampage's dozer blade. Look at those ports that don't seem to be for transformation. I think we might have a Devastator on our hands.

Ports? I can't see what you mean. I see the black circles which are covering the rivets for a hinge but no ports. Also devastator would be the only thing in the line hilariously out of scale.

Look at the little grey square in the centre of the shovel/blade. It's got a tiny peg in it. It's also surrounded by big slots in the black blade itself, which again don't correspond to the transformation.

Oof. I didn’t see that at all at first. And when you look at how his arms fold up on the sides, and that there’s unfortunately no indication of him having tread whips (at least as far as I can see), it does look like he’s part of a Devastator combiner. He also looks a little simpler than I was expecting,

Well if the Constructicons do turn out to be combiners, I will be a little disappointed, but there isn’t anything that says I can’t display them individually anyway. And maybe a Devastator won’t look bad. I guess we’ll all find out eventually. I’m still in the minority here for not wanting a combiner, but all what that means is that Has/Tak are giving the majority of movie toy fans what they want. So it’s not a bad thing.

Scrap Metal’s bot mode isn’t quite what I was expecting, but he doesn’t look bad. I’m still looking forward to picking him up.

Shatter looks stunning.

I’m happy that Long Haul is so beefy. That chunky look of his is going to make him stand out from the other SS in the best way possible.

[JoeIsNotCool]

I hope Rampage is just mistransformed and he still does the tread-whip thing because that aside he looks great.

Scrapmetal looks fun, slightly awkward proportions but the transformation is interesting.

Shatter looks sublime and I want her yesterday.

Cogman with a full paintjob? Yes please!

Long Haul has a nice vehicle mode, hope the robot mode is equally good.

But you know what I really like? Look at Rampage's dozer blade. Look at those ports that don't seem to be for transformation. I think we might have a Devastator on our hands.

Ports? I can't see what you mean. I see the black circles which are covering the rivets for a hinge but no ports. Also devastator would be the only thing in the line hilariously out of scale.

Look at the little grey square in the centre of the shovel/blade. It's got a tiny peg in it. It's also surrounded by big slots in the black blade itself, which again don't correspond to the transformation.

Oof. I didn’t see that at all at first. And when you look at how his arms fold up on the sides, and that there’s unfortunately no indication of him having tread whips (at least as far as I can see), it does look like he’s part of a Devastator combiner. He also looks a little simpler than I was expecting,

Well if the Constructicons do turn out to be combiners, I will be a little disappointed, but there isn’t anything that says I can’t display them individually anyway. And maybe a Devastator won’t look bad. I guess we’ll all find out eventually. I’m still in the minority here for not wanting a combiner, but all what that means is that Has/Tak are giving the majority of movie toy fans what they want. So it’s not a bad thing.

Scrap Metal’s bot mode isn’t quite what I was expecting, but he doesn’t look bad. I’m still looking forward to picking him up.

Shatter looks stunning.

I’m happy that Long Haul is so beefy. That chunky look of his is going to make him stand out from the other SS in the best way possible.

I think Rampage is just badly mistransformed. I am pretty sure there are what looks like hinges right where the hands are for the treads. I don't think they will be very long, but I think they are there. We can only hope that they reveal official art for them later on in the day.

[jtanimator]

Hate to be that guy, but I seem to be the only one disappointed with their choice of Cogman for the Studio Series. I don't think people are realizing how much this throws off the "scale" value of the studio series. Cogman was the size of a human, maybe a little taller. If he's sold as a Studio Series figure, he should have simply been a small untransforming action figure sold exclusively with a larger Studio Series figure from the Last Knight. Similar to how we got scorponok with Blackout. Oh well, I'm still pretty happy since I missed the opportunity to get him last year.

Fingers crossed to getting a Devastator out of these great looking constructicons!

[Cprime18]

This looks like a combiner port folded up

[Carnivius_Prime]

Cogman is the titan master head figure. The body is the car he drives Burton about in the film

[Bucky]

Jtanimator - I believe that Cogman’s headmaster is supposed to be the Cogman that we saw in the film, and that we never got to actually see him combine with his transtector. So I think he is technically in scale with th rest of the line because of that.

I just know that I’m going to pass on him. I’m sure that the toy itself is good, but Cogman was easily one of the worst parts of TLK for me.

[Evil Eye]

HAPPENING

[Carnivius_Prime]

I already have TLK Cogman but I want this one cos its got the shiny paint I wanted on the first one. Still missing a lil Anthony Hopkins mini figure to sit in one of the two seats in car mode though. I may have to fashion one