First Images Of Upcoming Studio Series Jolt and ROTF Sideswipe

It's sad I keep forgetting Jolt exists. I feel like he didn't get much love in the toyline.

I'm going to be watching Pulse like a hawk for the next hour or so. There has only been ONE TF reveal in all of June, and I (randomly) predicted there would be *hopefully* one more, even in a GI Joe focused month of June. I believe we will be getting a LOT of reveals in July. Although I don't collect SS, I think it would be nice for Hasbro to throw it's fans a bone once in a while. ya'll have been more than patient.

Figures.... I gave up hope that they would ever release a ROTF remold of, Sideswipe, that I went bought the current one for 30 bucks extra. Way to go, Hasbro. Your timing is beautiful

Spider5800 wrote:

That_Guy wrote:It's sad I keep forgetting Jolt exists. I feel like he didn't get much love in the toyline.

He actually did pretty good toywise for such a minor character. Two different deluxe versions between RotF and DotM (a movie he didn't even appear in), a few repaints, and I believe a legends figure too.

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Edit: Takara had a really good repaint of the DotM mold with better accessories, too.

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I wanna say Hasbro had a really good one that was suppose to come out, but it got cancelled. I never really looked at the Takara ones, at least then I didnt. As I didnt think I could obtain those. I was always a brick and motar guy back then.

Jolt finally revealed! And... I'm so used to his RotF toy design that his hands are the only thing that looks familiar on this toy. I need to re-familiarize myself with Jolt.

I never really liked the original SS Sideswipe, mostly because of his deco. He used this cheap looking (IMO) light gray plastic for a lot of his parts that really clashed with his silver alt mode parts. This version fixes all of those deco issues, and just generally looks so much more visually consistent. Changing the plastic colors, painting the head, forearms, torso and wheel rims, and not having two-tone thighs makes a MASSIVE difference. Plus, I always preferred the RotF alt mode. This guy looks fantastic, I just hope he still has his guns.

I'll be honest, I kinda burnt out and lost interest in SS last year and ended up skipping a few figures I intended to get (Jet Shatter and Blitzwing, mainly), and so far this year only select SS86 figures had caught my eye, but I've been campaigning for a new Jolt in this line since it started, so of course he's the one to bring me back in. He looks good, I'm sure he'll look better with his kibble transformed properly (since it looks different in every shot), and hey, I was today years old when I learned that Jolt has had the wrong head for the past 12 years and was supposed to be Garrus Vakarian this whole time.

Sideswipe is a pass since I got the DotM one already.

hausjam wrote:2021. And Hasbro is still making shellformers. It was a fun gimmick 20 years ago. Now it's just lazy and ugly. (I mean, I am too, but I am not trying to get paid for lazy and ugly)

You do know that all that kibble is how Jolt's CG model from Paramount and ILM looks, right?

Yay, I love Jolt! Despite him barely existing. I think it's because he's basically the only normal car in the movies. Also, he is easily headcanoned into a sort of nurse robot because of his tiny role in combining Optimus and... Jetfire's corpse. I just love bots with civilian roles and everyday altmodes. They feel more like "robots in disguise" to me. Everyone else in the movies is some custom vehicle or ultra expensive car, they'd catch a lot of eyes. Not a very good disguise. I still remember the only Camaro I've seen in my life, and it turned out it belonged to a local drug lord. But I wouldn't look twice if I saw a car that looked like Jolt's alt mode on the street.

o.supreme wrote:I'm going to be watching Pulse like a hawk for the next hour or so. There has only been ONE TF reveal in all of June, and I (randomly) predicted there would be *hopefully* one more, even in a GI Joe focused month of June. I believe we will be getting a LOT of reveals in July. Although I don't collect SS, I think it would be nice for Hasbro to throw it's fans a bone once in a while. ya'll have been more than patient.

Such a nice comment! Very much appreciated. You were right about the reveal, although it turned out to be a Jurassic Park one.

I hope they officially reveal all these guys soon. I want to see some good stock photos to take a deeper look at the new guys, Jolt especially with his movie accurate head for the first time ever.

I will be very sad if they just reissue the original High Octane Bee. that mold really needed another go, it was probably bottom 3 weakest AOE toys to come out. Which is a shame because that design is really nice.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Quick edit to my post from earlier, JTPrime found that the production number on that High Octane Bee is actually new. Looks like it is getting reissued, likely as a part of Buzzworthy.

That's really disappointing for me, High Octane Bee is the only deluxe Bayverse Bumblebee I don't like.

Oh, I hope that's not really the case, it was a very disappointing figure. And a new, good one would be a pretty easy remold from SS-01/27.