New Product Codes Found for Transformers RED Line, Studio Series, Generations Blaster and More

Happy its Blaster, mixed feelings on him being a Soundwave repaint. The Red seems real overdone

Gah. Bun-Bun beat me to it!

Yeah. Just have faith. They've done mostly good on many of the figures. I'm confident Blaster will turn out just as good. I just hope he comes with Ramhorn and Steeljaw.

Oh, SDCC exclusive. Why couldn't the pandemic have killed the exclusives after so many retailers bumbled them so badly, especially over this last year?

Hahaha that's what I get trying to sneak tf news in between classes

Bun-Bun wrote:

Dark Megatron wrote:Happy its Blaster, mixed feelings on him being a Soundwave repaint. The Red seems real overdone

Please note that the blaster image is a digibash.

And thank heaven for that too because it looks like ass & I can still hold out hope that Hasbro will manage something better.

I switched the digibash image out for an image of Blaster from the cartoon due to the confusion. Threw me for a loop for a moment too!

The original Blaster was not a repaint/remold so collectors hope for a day that Blaster and SoundWave are 2 different molds again

jtanimator wrote: hasn’t he always been a repaint/remold of soundwave?

No, he hasn't.



They don't even transform into the same thing.

Seibertron wrote:

Bun-Bun wrote:

Dark Megatron wrote:Happy its Blaster, mixed feelings on him being a Soundwave repaint. The Red seems real overdone

Please note that the blaster image is a digibash.

And thank heaven for that too because it looks like ass & I can still hold out hope that Hasbro will manage something better.

I switched the digibash image out for an image of Blaster from the cartoon due to the confusion. Threw me for a loop for a moment too!

I'm still seeing the digibash in the post.

Mindmaster wrote:For all that is holy.... please don’t let Blaster be a Target exclusive. Sick and tired of stressing out over exclusives, between the GI Joe Cobra Island debacle and now the Star Wars: The Clone Wars set that now freaks me out.

I won't be surprised at all if he is... Which definitely sucks.
In my opinion and experiences with exclusives this past year, it would be better through Target or Amazon than through Walmart... Walmarts in my area have been pathetic.


I also hope Hastak has done the right thing and made him from a new mold...
The digibash doesn't look good, but what really turns me off is all of that stupid Seige greebling...
It's just so unnecessary... Especially for an "earth version".
They really need to stop over-designing these tiny details and put more money into more important aspects of the figure... Like any hollow parts that don't need to be hollow.
Last night I watched a video of a 3P combiner, and EVERY member had forearm panels...
Those are so simple yet help make the figure look so much better!!

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

Sowndwave76 wrote:They really need to stop over-designing these tiny details and put more money into more important aspects of the figure... Like any hollow parts that don't need to be hollow.

You do understand that isn't a 1 to 1 tradeoff, right? The fine details or "greebling" you bring up quite often is really just a simple portion of the computer design that is basically just the finishing touches of a mostly developed part. Adding or removing some of the fine lines and details is only going to add or save very little cost in total. Adding in panels and putting plastic resources in places where there isn't already a part mostly designed is a bit more complicated than just choosing the finished details. That would mean adding additional parts, which would require additional mold resources as well as more on the assembly process.

Hasbro can easily stop the "greebling" but that won't lead to more plastic elsewhere.

It's not just plastic, there is the connection that the panel is attached to and most flip panels have a pin so you gotta pay for the pin and the assembly of the pin into the panel's connection to the arm or whatever part is being covered. The plastic might actually be cheaper than the labor.