New Images of Transformers Studio Series Deluxe Class Dark of the Moon Dino

ZeroWolf wrote:Greetings Seibertronians! Thanks to Takara Tomy's dedicated Transformers twitter account, we now have more pictures of the forthcoming Transformer Studio Series Dino, from Dark of the Moon, to share with you all!





The photographer shares in the accompanying tweet that they wanted to recreate a pose that Dino does in the movie (the machine translation says play instead). We also get a good close up look at his vehicle mode as well.

Will you be adding Dino to your movie collections?

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Overcracker wrote:so not a Licensed Ferrari it would seem. Interesting.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

Overcracker wrote:so not a Licensed Ferrari it would seem. Interesting.

Yep, the Ferrari license is held by another company right now IIRC.

SS Dino's vehicle mode does seem to draw some influence from his generic car mode from the DOTM video game, though.

Sabrblade wrote:At the time of DOTM's production, Hasbro created the character to be named Mirage, and had him referred to by that name in every piece of DOTM media contemporary to the movie except for the movie itself (e.g. - the comics, novels, video game, books, two toys, etc.). However, his name had to be changed for the movie itself because, at the time of the film's release, Mattel held exclusive toy rights to the Ferrari car and so Ferrari the company did not want their product placement bearing a Hasbro toy Trademark name in the film, so it was changed to "Dino" instead.

However, one of the props from very next movie, Age of Extinction, a playing card with Dino's picture that was in Attinger's possession (jump to page 97), is labeled with the name "Mirage" instead. With this in mind, one could say that "Mirage" is his original Cybertronian name and that he simply adopted the new nickname of "Dino" after scanning his Ferrari altmode.

Sabrblade wrote:The whole deal with "Dino vs. Mirage":

Sabrblade wrote:At the time of DOTM's production, Hasbro created the character to be named Mirage, and had him referred to by that name in every piece of DOTM media contemporary to the movie except for the movie itself (e.g. - the comics, novels, video game, books, two toys, etc.). However, his name had to be changed for the movie itself because, at the time of the film's release, Mattel held exclusive toy rights to the Ferrari car and so Ferrari the company did not want their product placement bearing a Hasbro toy Trademark name in the film, so it was changed to "Dino" instead.

However, one of the props from very next movie, Age of Extinction, a playing card with Dino's picture that was in Attinger's possession (jump to page 97), is labeled with the name "Mirage" instead. With this in mind, one could say that "Mirage" is his original Cybertronian name and that he simply adopted the new nickname of "Dino" after scanning his Ferrari altmode.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:The whole deal with "Dino vs. Mirage":

Sabrblade wrote:At the time of DOTM's production, Hasbro created the character to be named Mirage, and had him referred to by that name in every piece of DOTM media contemporary to the movie except for the movie itself (e.g. - the comics, novels, video game, books, two toys, etc.). However, his name had to be changed for the movie itself because, at the time of the film's release, Mattel held exclusive toy rights to the Ferrari car and so Ferrari the company did not want their product placement bearing a Hasbro toy Trademark name in the film, so it was changed to "Dino" instead.

However, one of the props from very next movie, Age of Extinction, a playing card with Dino's picture that was in Attinger's possession (jump to page 97), is labeled with the name "Mirage" instead. With this in mind, one could say that "Mirage" is his original Cybertronian name and that he simply adopted the new nickname of "Dino" after scanning his Ferrari altmode.

So then officially in the movie Dino is not a Ferrari? Or he is a Ferrari he just couldn't be called Mirage?

Ultra Markus wrote:anyway if true i would like to see a repaint in g1 mirage colors

TulioDude wrote:

Ultra Markus wrote:anyway if true i would like to see a repaint in g1 mirage colors

I want a G1 Mirage repainted as Dino.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Got my hands on the '86 Jazz.
What a MASTERPIECE! Seriously, the paint work is absolutely amazing, the bot is perfect with the tiniest backpack imaginable, and the vehicle is just sublime. On top of that, the transformation is easy and intuitive.

I don't know if he scale perfectly with his Bayverse counterpart, but I really love to see the two best deluxe Jazz ever (from their respective universes) side by side.





I think there's enough Jazz around to warrant a solid Top Five list.

Rtron wrote:They look very cool together. If you're intrigued about scale, G1 Jazz's alternate mode is 4,8 metres long, while Movie Jazz's is just a centimetre under 4 metres long. I have no idea if G1 Jazz has a precise height in robot mode, but the cartoon scale chart makes him look about 4 metres tall; while Movie Jazz is supposed to be 4,6 metres tall in robot mode.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Rtron wrote:They look very cool together. If you're intrigued about scale, G1 Jazz's alternate mode is 4,8 metres long, while Movie Jazz's is just a centimetre under 4 metres long. I have no idea if G1 Jazz has a precise height in robot mode, but the cartoon scale chart makes him look about 4 metres tall; while Movie Jazz is supposed to be 4,6 metres tall in robot mode.

So basically, they are not in scale with one another. Bay Jazz should be bigger or G1 Jazz should be smaller. I guess the '86 guys will be in scale with one another and maybe also the current Generations line at least.

Sabrblade wrote:Let's not forget that Studio Series is a Generations line, too.