New Stock Images of Transformers Studio Series Roadbuster and Scrapper

I freaking love that Roadbuster. Can't wait to get that Scrapper.

That Roadbuster would be mine, if I could venture out into the wild.

ive been having bad luck with new SS figures in my local target and Walmart. Still looking for a bunch.

Tuned Agent wrote:That Roadbuster would be mine, if I could venture out into the wild.

Same boat man, except I’m looking for Shatter.

wouldnt it be cool if all the studio series constructicons got released in G1 colors

Ultra Markus wrote:wouldnt it be cool if all the studio series constructicons got released in G1 colors

No, because then I'd have to spend another $260 getting them all because I wouldn't be able to resist

Ultra Markus wrote:wouldnt it be cool if all the studio series constructicons got released in G1 colors

Nah. Would eat a lot of slots and would probably look dodgy on a lot of 'em too.

Ultra Markus wrote:wouldnt it be cool if all the studio series constructicons got released in G1 colors

Don't really want it, but I do feel like by the time they exhaust all of the color variants (and maybe make a few new ones) for each Constructicon we could probably build a second Devastator. We're getting Skipjack at the end of the year, I wonder if we could end up with another year of repaints restarting where the first run started from (if we get a fourth year of SS)?

Emerje

Ultra Markus wrote:wouldnt it be cool if all the studio series constructicons got released in G1 colors

WE already got that (tiny version) and it was butt ugly. These are different than G1, they need to be allowed to be themselves.

FYI, picked up the Roadbuster (I'm allowed out since I'm an RN) and it is heads and tails better than the original version. It's not even close. Can't wait for the other two Wreckers if that's the quality we are getting...

Ummmmm...did anyone else notice on Hasbro Pulse that there is a pre-order up for Wrecker member Topspin?? Or did I miss that news? If it's new, how bout some credit here?!?!

https://hasbropulse.com/collections/stu ... on-topspin

First-Aid wrote:Ummmmm...did anyone else notice on Hasbro Pulse that there is a pre-order up for Wrecker member Topspin?? Or did I miss that news? If it's new, how bout some credit here?!?!

https://hasbropulse.com/collections/stu ... on-topspin

All of the Toy Fair reveals for Earthrise and Studio Series have had preorders since they were revealed, so not new.

Nemesis Primal wrote:

First-Aid wrote:Ummmmm...did anyone else notice on Hasbro Pulse that there is a pre-order up for Wrecker member Topspin?? Or did I miss that news? If it's new, how bout some credit here?!?!

https://hasbropulse.com/collections/stu ... on-topspin

All of the Toy Fair reveals for Earthrise and Studio Series have had preorders since they were revealed, so not new.

Ah. I guess I missed it. Or i saw it and it was lost in my layers of studies on pharmacology...lol

So I'm playing around with Shockwave for the first time. His bot mode is beautiful. Like Grimlock he doesn't really look like a transformer unless you can spot the pins, he just looks like a cool action figure, almost like a Doom demon of some sort. Didn't expect him to share parts with RotF Megatron, those vestigial tank tread joints were really throwing me off since I don't use directions. Anyway, I figured him out easily enough once I found all the peg points. I did end up breaking a piece off near his right shoulder because I didn't realize the shoulder has to be turned in a specific position before popping it out to transform otherwise this little gray piece sticking out rubs against it and snaps off.

Also wasn't expecting all the soft parts. And I don't mean flimsy soft plastic like some swords are made of, I'm talking soft like a wet paper bag. I don't think we've ever seen plastic like this used before. It's used to make his hose, left hand, that "thumb" on his canon, the canon barrel, his foot spikes, and his entire left arm gun among a few other parts. It's not all bad, it does have a memory to it so it can take a fair amount of bending without warping or showing stress marks. It does warp if left over time like some noticeable slight warping straight out of the box, but you can crumple up his gun in your hand and it'll just spring right back. Not sure why they had to use it on the gun, it isn't exactly sharp. I do like the use in other spots because it gave us some nice pointy parts. Hopefully it doesn't disintegrate over time.

Emerje

His gun probably shared a sprue with some of the pointy bits.

I have yet to open mine. I swore to myself it's the last SS figure I'll get until Galvatron comes out, and I've been waiting for a leader Shockwave since 2011 so I'm savoring that first contact. My only worry so far is that his cannon seems way too big and it might make him lean to that side. How are his shoulder and elbow joints? Can the ratchet support the extra weight from the cannon?

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:His gun probably shared a sprue with some of the pointy bits.

No doubt, I just wonder why they felt they had to put it on that sprue since it isn't particularly pointy.

Rodimus Prime wrote:I have yet to open mine. I swore to myself it's the last SS figure I'll get until Galvatron comes out, and I've been waiting for a leader Shockwave since 2011 so I'm savoring that first contact. My only worry so far is that his cannon seems way too big and it might make him lean to that side. How are his shoulder and elbow joints? Can the ratchet support the extra weight from the cannon?

In his case it really isn't so much a gravity problem, but his joints have to fight a bit with the pressure of the hose. It's not a huge hindrance or anything, you just have to be mindful of it. For the most part his joints can hold the canon level just fine. On mine the shoulder is a little loose, but the elbow is tight, which is fine because I don't think it would look natural holding such a big canon out straight from the shoulder.

Emerje

Rodimus Prime wrote:I have yet to open mine. I swore to myself it's the last SS figure I'll get until Galvatron comes out, and I've been waiting for a leader Shockwave since 2011 so I'm savoring that first contact. My only worry so far is that his cannon seems way too big and it might make him lean to that side. How are his shoulder and elbow joints? Can the ratchet support the extra weight from the cannon?

You shouldn't have to worry about his arm and balance, my shockwave is really solid and has no problems holding any pose regardless of the size of his cannon.

Also, please no G1 styled movie Devastator, they did that once, it was hideous, that color scheme should be for G1 cartoon-esque stuff, not this style

To be fair, part of what made it hideous was the limits of Legends-class paintwork; the G1-colored Voyager Mixmaster didn't look so bad. But doing everybody in the G1 Constructicons' Hulk-homage colors would still look off.

Emerje wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:His gun probably shared a sprue with some of the pointy bits.

No doubt, I just wonder why they felt they had to put it on that sprue since it isn't particularly pointy.

Probably because there was room on that sprue. It's just how molding works out sometimes.

Okay, thanks guys. That eases my mind a bit. Though I still think the cannon is a bit too big.

Anyway, if we're talking Devy redecos, how about a Rainbow Devastator? Each member in a different color of the rainbow, with the 2 smallest guys colored the same, since the rainbow has 7 colors. He's almost already there.

I think a Diaclone homage would work well with these Structies.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:I think a Diaclone homage would work well with these Structies.

Honestly, given how multicolored these Constructicons already are, I don't think a Diaclone homage would be all that different. Just some blue instead of green.

I’ve been using my quarantine time to make some upgrades to some of my Studio Series bots!

The first thing I worked on was a magazine for Ironhide’s one rifle from the DNA design upgrade kit, which was strangely absent. I took a spare plastic piece that once held the tires to some 1/160 scale APCs and cut it to the right size, sanded it, drilled a hole in the rifle to plug it into, and added a little bit of paint.

I think it turned out pretty well!



I also cut the vehicle mode headlight pieces off Sideswipe’s feet and glued them to the hood section. It does make the feet more movie-accurate, but I’m not sure if I’d recommend it yet. If you do try it I would be really careful.


Next I painted up the robot mode for WWII Bee. I added a bunch of gunmetal over the gray (and some of the green) parts, went over some of the green parts with a slightly different shade of olive drab (probably most visible on the shoulder pads), added gold and silver accents, then added dark gray model wash and silver dry brushing for weathering. I’m usually not into weathering Transformers, but I think it fits for WWII Bee.



And last, I found a small wooden post that was the exact size to replace the missing pin on my SS Soundwave. Thanks for the toothpick idea, Zelda!

You're welcome! Glad to be of help!

Did I just discover a new turret mode for mixmaster, or has this been done before? I personally haven't seen it, and I have watched a lot of videos about mixmaster. I know it's not much of a mode, but his turret mode wasn't really.

It's something of a turret mode, although nothing like the one from the movie (where he's a tetrapod turret guarded by the drum barrel sections from the front, and with a semi-long thin muzzle).

Yeah no turret mode is a downside for this SS figure.

You can sorta see some molded gun barrel detail on the black piece behind his head, but it seems that was sacrificed to have the other side of it be the underside of Devys jaw. It be how it is (sigh)

Well, the 2009 mold can do the turret mode.

Of course, the eBay prices on that thing last time I looked.. Urgh.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Well, the 2009 mold can do the turret mode.

Of course, the eBay prices on that thing last time I looked.. Urgh.

Not to mention that the Hasbro instructions are inaccurate, and the Takara instructions fell off the face of the Internet.

Ig89ninja wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Well, the 2009 mold can do the turret mode.

Of course, the eBay prices on that thing last time I looked.. Urgh.

Not to mention that the Hasbro instructions are inaccurate, and the Takara instructions fell off the face of the Internet.

Not inaccurate per se, more like not realising the misassembly in the cab.

I'm interested to see if any third party/shapeways Mixmaster guns show up. If it plugged into that barrel/Devastator tongue piece, I think it'd make an alright gun mode.

On a different note, I've talked about SS Prime's articulation before but I really like that it can pull off poses like this!

Wip of my SS44 prime. Finally taking the time to chrome it out. Still have to do some metallic blue and red work. Sadly he won't transform anymore, but that is why I have 2 of him. I really wish he came stock like this.

LinaNui wrote:Wip of my SS44 prime. Finally taking the time to chrome it out. Still have to do some metallic blue and red work. Sadly he won't transform anymore, but that is why I have 2 of him. I really wish he came stock like this.

Awesome work! I used one of those Molotow chrome markers on mine too, although I just did silver spray paint on the trailer. The chrome looks great!

LinaNui wrote:Wip of my SS44 prime. Finally taking the time to chrome it out. Still have to do some metallic blue and red work. Sadly he won't transform anymore, but that is why I have 2 of him. I really wish he came stock like this.

Nicely done! That chrome really pops. Just curious, but why can't he transform anymore?

Tuned Agent wrote:

LinaNui wrote:Wip of my SS44 prime. Finally taking the time to chrome it out. Still have to do some metallic blue and red work. Sadly he won't transform anymore, but that is why I have 2 of him. I really wish he came stock like this.

Nicely done! That chrome really pops. Just curious, but why can't he transform anymore?

I mean, it still can, but I just don't want to damage the chrome so it will stay in vehicle mode.

So now that MPM-10 is announced, it makes me wonder why we haven't gotten a leader SS Starscream figure. Not yet, anyway. Is it because of MPM-10? Or because they knew that the HFTD leader would be very hard to top? Even if the scale was slightly off.

I figured we didn't get a leader screamer as the scale was right where it needed to be in correlation to megs and the others.

Rodimus Prime wrote:So now that MPM-10 is announced, it makes me wonder why we haven't gotten a leader SS Starscream figure. Not yet, anyway. Is it because of MPM-10? Or because they knew that the HFTD leader would be very hard to top? Even if the scale was slightly off.

Probably because the Voyager is considered just right for the scaling they've set up.

Yeah, Studio Series doesn't do multiple size classes of the same character in the same unchanged body (Leader SS DOTM Optimus was the same Voyager SS Optimus mold with new big-sized accessories that required a higher size class pricepoint).

LinaNui wrote:

Tuned Agent wrote:

LinaNui wrote:Wip of my SS44 prime. Finally taking the time to chrome it out. Still have to do some metallic blue and red work. Sadly he won't transform anymore, but that is why I have 2 of him. I really wish he came stock like this.

Nicely done! That chrome really pops. Just curious, but why can't he transform anymore?

I mean, it still can, but I just don't want to damage the chrome so it will stay in vehicle mode.

Ah, makes sense.

Rodimus Prime wrote:So now that MPM-10 is announced, it makes me wonder why we haven't gotten a leader SS Starscream figure. Not yet, anyway. Is it because of MPM-10? Or because they knew that the HFTD leader would be very hard to top? Even if the scale was slightly off.

They aren't doing the multiple size class thing except for what was said already.

I did have a though this weekend though, related to Infernocus: What if they made 2 Infernocons, one voyager named "Infernocon Skulk" like the torso from the first toy, and then a deluxe one named after one of the other limbs from the first toy or even just "Infernocon" just like we got KSI Boss and KSI Sentry. Then, you buy the voyager and 4 of the deluxe to form Infernocus like a Prime War combiner, and give it monster feet with the voyager and the deluxes have hands and weapons that form the hands and arm mounted weapons.

I think that would be super cool, I want a large imposing Infernocus

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:So now that MPM-10 is announced, it makes me wonder why we haven't gotten a leader SS Starscream figure. Not yet, anyway. Is it because of MPM-10? Or because they knew that the HFTD leader would be very hard to top? Even if the scale was slightly off.

They aren't doing the multiple size class thing except for what was said already.

I did have a though this weekend though, related to Infernocus: What if they made 2 Infernocons, one voyager named "Infernocon Skulk" like the torso from the first toy, and then a deluxe one named after one of the other limbs from the first toy or even just "Infernocon" just like we got KSI Boss and KSI Sentry. Then, you buy the voyager and 4 of the deluxe to form Infernocus like a Prime War combiner, and give it monster feet with the voyager and the deluxes have hands and weapons that form the hands and arm mounted weapons.

I think that would be super cool, I want a large imposing Infernocus

While I do like the idea, I think it would be really tough logistically to pull off if you have only 1 limb bot that would need to be used 4 times. Even if they went with 1/2 of the deluxe case as limb-bots, that would only support 1 Infernocus. If he is popular, the limbs are scarce, if he isn't popular they are the next heli-dropkick.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:So now that MPM-10 is announced, it makes me wonder why we haven't gotten a leader SS Starscream figure. Not yet, anyway. Is it because of MPM-10? Or because they knew that the HFTD leader would be very hard to top? Even if the scale was slightly off.

They aren't doing the multiple size class thing except for what was said already.

I did have a though this weekend though, related to Infernocus: What if they made 2 Infernocons, one voyager named "Infernocon Skulk" like the torso from the first toy, and then a deluxe one named after one of the other limbs from the first toy or even just "Infernocon" just like we got KSI Boss and KSI Sentry. Then, you buy the voyager and 4 of the deluxe to form Infernocus like a Prime War combiner, and give it monster feet with the voyager and the deluxes have hands and weapons that form the hands and arm mounted weapons.

I think that would be super cool, I want a large imposing Infernocus

While I do like the idea, I think it would be really tough logistically to pull off if you have only 1 limb bot that would need to be used 4 times. Even if they went with 1/2 of the deluxe case as limb-bots, that would only support 1 Infernocus. If he is popular, the limbs are scarce, if he isn't popular they are the next heli-dropkick.

I would personally set it up like Reflector: 2 to a case, so you have to find 2 cases to complete the full mode. I think it would help make sure he doesn't shelf warm.

also, I would imagine that each figure would have maybe like a beast or demon mode or something like that, something to make it cool, and also minimum transformation to allow for a larger size. Part of the bad thing for Helicopter Dropkick was that mold just didn't look cool, was small, and just didn't work at all.

Here's an afterthought on the upcoming Devastator figure. Will we see to-scale Skids and Mudflap figures? As I remember, those dudes were pretty tiny compared to Devy...

First-Aid wrote:Here's an afterthought on the upcoming Devastator figure. Will we see to-scale Skids and Mudflap figures? As I remember, those dudes were pretty tiny compared to Devy...

I'm still hoping for a deluxe class box with both of them inside as more legends sized bots

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:also, I would imagine that each figure would have maybe like a beast or demon mode or something like that,

"Demon" is a good description for what their robot forms already resemble.



Though, to be truly movie-accurate, Skulk and the other four would all have to be altmode-less, going from demon robot mode straight to body part mode.

Or, perhaps, since Infernocus had six components in the movie, two of them would have to form the torso together, allowing for all six to be Deluxes with four forming each limb while the remaining two merge into a Voyager-sized torso.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

First-Aid wrote:Here's an afterthought on the upcoming Devastator figure. Will we see to-scale Skids and Mudflap figures? As I remember, those dudes were pretty tiny compared to Devy...

I'm still hoping for a deluxe class box with both of them inside as more legends sized bots

If/when that happens, someone needs to post a photo of the Vortex-Grinder scene with them

Sabrblade wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:also, I would imagine that each figure would have maybe like a beast or demon mode or something like that,

"Demon" is a good description for what their robot forms already resemble.



Though, to be truly movie-accurate, Skulk and the other four would all have to be altmode-less, going from demon robot mode straight to body part mode.

Or, perhaps, since Infernocus had six components in the movie, two of them would have to form the torso together, allowing for all six to be Deluxes with four forming each limb while the remaining two merge into a Voyager-sized torso.

I've thought about this too. It would be cool to have a simple deluxe mold that can form a torso bit as well as a limb, but it just seemed better to do voyager and deluxe instead of different types of deluxes or try to engineer that.

I also think they would require alt modes if sold at this price point. If sold at a leader price point as the full combiner, he would not need individual alt modes for the smaller bots, but I would prefer him to be bigger

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I also think they would require alt modes if sold at this price point. If sold at a leader price point as the full combiner, he would not need individual alt modes for the smaller bots, but I would prefer him to be bigger

Simple solution: Commander class Infernocus sold as a complete set and packaged in Combiner mode to justify being marketed as one piece.

How big was he in the movie? That would be the way to best judge how they'd handle him. Shockwave has shown us that they'll be prepared to hodgepodge an alt if they weren't shown transforming at any point.