First Details on Upcoming TF7 Movie Toyline + More Legacy / SS Listings like Leader Blitzwing

I'm guessing "George" is Optimus Primal given how many figures he has listed and George being the name of the gorilla from Rampage (not to mention Curious George and George of the Jungle).

Rodimus Prime wrote:I do wonder how that Blitzwing will be jacked up, he's a voyager at leader price, so I'm sure he will have some useless extra parts like Astrotrain did. Ironically, I believe Blitzwing should have been voyager without extra parts. Considering the advancements in engineering, it could be an amazing voyager triplechanger.

Personally I'd like him to be Voyager sized at Leader price with no added extras to pad the price. Put the entire price point into the figure itself, really do it justice with all the moving parts it takes to do him right.

Emerje

I complained about SS Hot Rod being voyager priced, but his engineering almost validated the price. So if that happens here with Blitzwing, it'll have to do. Whatever gets us an articulate, cleverly engineered figure, which I guess will adhere to his transformation on screen. I never cared for TR or T30 Blitzwing, I think we need a really good representation of the G1 character.

I don't care enough about G1 Blitzwing to replace the TR one with a more expensive one just based on him being "more accurate", so I'm only even considering that figure if it does something the TR one doesn't, be that some variety of Animated reference or some Astrotrain-like extras. Or an Overcharge repaint, maybe.

Only one Deluxe Stunticon listing left to appear.

Core Class Megatron is rumored to be G2-based somehow, not just a repack of the Kingdom one.

Interesting that Legacy sounds like it's gonna have way more Core Class figures than Kingdom did, especially since we still haven't seen the second rumored Pretender homage.

Overcracker wrote:Barcelona maybe Blackarachnia,

Is Blackarachnia in the movie?

Let's untangle this a bit:

George Transformers ($9.99, ROTB)
Alpha Transformers ($9.99, ROTB)

Safari Transformers ($10.99, ROTB)
Journey Transformers ($10.99, ROTB)
Orion Transformers ($10.99, ROTB)
Pluto Transformers ($10.99, ROTB)
Warrior Transformers ($10.99, ROTB)

Transformers Alpha ($15.99, ROTB)
Orion Transformers ($15.99, ROTB)
Transformers Barcelona ($15.99, ROTB)

George Transformers ($21.99, ROTB)
Cyclops Transformers ($21.99, ROTB)
Oscar Transformers ($21.99, ROTB)

Cyclops Transformers ($31.49, ROTB)
George Transformers ($31.49, ROTB)
Warrior ($31.49, ROTB)

Mv7 Deluxe Outlaw ($22.99, ROTB)
Mv7 Deluxe Pluto ($22.99, ROTB)
Mv7 Deluxe George ($22.99, ROTB)
Mv7 Deluxe Barcelona ($22.99, ROTB)
Mv7 Deluxe Titan ($22.99, ROTB)

Mv7 Role Play Blaster Alpha ($20.99, ROTB)
2pk Transformers Bb Mv7 Energon ($26.99, ROTB)

Can anyone look up the Price Points for the BB, TLK and Cyberverse lines?

MeGrimlock78 wrote:Forgive me if this has been discussed already, but do we know if the new Menasor will be compatible with Combiner Wars figures? It kinda irks me that Energon can't mix with Power Core can't mix with Combiner Wars...

Granted, the combiner ports on deluxes are somewhat in the way, but Hasbro got better at hiding them (Swoop and Jazz as examples).

We don't know yet, no.

Interesting, I'm surprised that they aren't putting the deluxes in Studio Series

william-james88 wrote:

Overcracker wrote:George is very clearly Primal, as he's in all size classes.

More likely Optimus Prime or Bumblebee since those two are more likely to be in all classes than Primal.

Also, the codenames truly mean nothing. They are picked so that you can't infer anything from them.

Why wouldn't Primal be in all the size classes? It's still likely he'll be leading his own BW movie one day.

Are Predacons even in this movie? Sounds like its all Autobots and Maximals vs. Scourge and his Terrorcons. I've only heard it talked about as an ancient battle between three factions.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Overcracker wrote:George is very clearly Primal, as he's in all size classes.

More likely Optimus Prime or Bumblebee since those two are more likely to be in all classes than Primal.

Also, the codenames truly mean nothing. They are picked so that you can't infer anything from them.

Why wouldn't Primal be in all the size classes? It's still likely he'll be leading his own BW movie one day.

He might be. But Optimus Prime was said to be the main robot character in this film and he has a proven track record for sales. Also, rumour is Optimus Primal will only appear in half the film since he won't be in the Brooklyn segment. But we'll see.

Since we're still reading about Voyager-sized Leaders, Deluxe-sized Voyagers, and small Deluxes, I'm starting to think we need new size terminology entirely. So-called size classes are actually price classes. Insofar as they are still size classes, it's box size rather than product size, and most people don't care about that.

AcademyofDrX wrote:Since we're still reading about Voyager-sized Leaders, Deluxe-sized Voyagers, and small Deluxes, I'm starting to think we need new size terminology entirely. So-called size classes are actually price classes. Insofar as they are still size classes, it's box size rather than product size, and most people don't care about that.

This. If they really want to go green then perhaps scale back the packaging size so that 90% of it isn't empty/wasted space making it look like you're getting a large item that "appears" to be worth $23. My most recent hit me hard realization was with Origins Bumblebee and at how tiny he looks(Legends/Core Class) compared to the box he was in for an actual Deluxe looking bot.

So to me it doesn't feel bot related but more about how big the box is that gives off the impression you're getting what you pay for. Frankly it appears to me that a lot of "Legends Class" bots are being released in "Deluxe" packaging for no other reason that to charge $23 for a $14 toy. And IMO it's gotten out of hand.

Either bring back Legends Class or at least its price point/SKU and resize the boxes accordingly to each bot scale. I assume Legends was canned so they could charge more for them at the same time not have to make smaller packaging, which would streamline that process to now focus on only 3 box sizes for mass retail.

Same could be said about pushing a Deluxe into Voyager or Voyager into Leader and throwing in something almost useless to justify the price. TBH at this point Hasbro should be making Money hand over fist with these practices.