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Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked

Posted by william-james88 Aug 16, 2022 at 3:18pm CDT 39,603 views
Here are the official pics forStudio Series 2022 Wave 4. Cool to see pics of the actual toy rather than a render for Crosshairs. And we have our firs look at the packaging here too, which tells us that Ironhide will come with his death scene (such heroic nonsense). Here is a case breakdown as well:

This Transformers Studio Series Premier Leader Case contains 2 individually packaged figures:
1x The Fallen
1x Sludge


This Transformers Studio Series Premier Deluxe Case contains 8 individually packaged figures:
1x Bumblebee Movie Ratchet
3x The Last Knight Crosshairs
3x The Last Knight Hot Rod
1x 1986 Arcee


This Transformers Studio Series Premier Voyager Case contains 3 individually packaged figures:
2x 1986 Ironhide
1x Age of Extinction Galvatron












































Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked
Official Images of Studio Series 2022 Wave 4 and Case Breakdown Showing Who is Repacked

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Comment by blakeberrins Aug 16, 2022
The Fallen is a hard pass. I'm always surprised when they release a figure that has such a lazy transformation that is the equivalent to a robot doing a yoga pose and expecting us to just accept it as some Cybertronian vehicle.
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Comment by EvasionModeBumblebee Aug 16, 2022
Went back and watched the Bayverse portions of the livestream and wow, The Fallen looks even better in-hand from his brief appearance on the stream! Those arm appendages were done perfectly, it looks like he walked (er, teleported I guess!) right off the screen.
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Comment by First-Aid Aug 16, 2022
I know I'm going to be castigated for this but that Fallen figure looks fantastic! Yes, the alt mode is kind of lame, but I don't think he every transformed in the movie...he just teleported around so who cares about the alt mode. I don't plan on transforming him unless I get the bug to.

That Crosshairs fig looks pretty good to, and the facial detailing on Hot Rod just seems better this time around for some reason. All said, pretty good efforts all around.
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Comment by Sowndwave76 Aug 16, 2022
Cyber Bishop wrote:Rumble and Ironhide are all that interest me from this wave.

Same.

As good as the bot mode of the Fallen looks, it doesn't look almost $60 good.
IF I can get him on sale, and by "sale", I mean for $40-sh, I'll consider it.
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Comment by Cheetron Aug 16, 2022
Ironhide and Sludge are all I want from this wave. I did see a odd scout class guy on tiktok. Not sure where he came from.
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Comment by Starseeker Aug 16, 2022
I'm just here to say, "give me your face!"
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Comment by D-Maximal_Primal Aug 16, 2022
Words cannot describe how happy I am with the reveals from the stream today.

Finally, some more TLK love at last! This renews my hope that we might finally see some more TLK bots and get some that actually still don't have ANY toys!

As for the reveals:

Crosshairs is surprisingly good looking. I like that they tried something different, and that they seem to have gotten the trenchcoat pretty well done. I have always loved his design with the trenchcoat and the British paratrooper design, and this is a great new toy. I am excited for him!

Hot Rod looks GREAT!!! At last, an accurate Hot Rod, and he looks really good. They look to have gotten him done really well, gotten the proportions right, and his time gun and joints all look good. i am super excited, they have done him well!

As for the Fallen, wow, at last they have given him justice too! that robot mode looks so damn good, they really did well there. I like the alt mode, I don't mind it given his robot mode is the main attraction here. I love the face gimmick, and I am glad the staff is there.

Thank you for this, all 3 of these figures are very well done. I am super excited for this wave
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Comment by -Kanrabat- Aug 16, 2022
Unsurprisingly, The Fallen "transform" into a yoga pose. :roll:

Hot Rod have his own mold at long last and it look fine.

As for Crosshair, that character that I hated both his AoE and TlK toys.... He looks pretty damn awesome here! :APPLAUSE:
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Comment by Rtron Aug 17, 2022
Love the Fallen, the only thing he might be missing is some extra orange paint. I personally don't like AoE/TLK designs much, but the new Hot Rod and Crosshairs look like excellent toys regardless, glad for everyone who likes those designs. Crosshair's colors look way better on this one too.
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Comment by Emerje Aug 17, 2022
william-james88 wrote:
Emerje wrote:Unless he's more complex than the photos let on I think they could have gone "tall Voyager" with the Fallen since SS Jetfire Optimus Prime isn't that tall. Combining the two just gets Prime up to Megatron's size, he's only bigger if you really lean Megs forward like this.

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No such thing as a tall voyager in this day and age. If it's taller than a standard voyager, it becomes a leader. It's what happened to Leader DOTM Shockwave and DOTM Megatron, who both are tall voyagers.

And the Fallen will be just that. He is 2 heads taller than voyager prime, that's a leader in today's world.

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And to anyone asking, yes that is a real promotional image for the ROTF ad campaign.

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This is what I mean by "tall Voyager" though maybe the right description is "not short". Starscream is the right height for the Fallen (especially if you stretch the legs out more) and seemingly more complex since he has two screen accurate modes and didn't have to make one up. I look at that Fallen figure and I don't see anything about it that screams LEADER! to me, though I'm sure they made the transformation into it's entirely made up for the toy alt mode as complex as possible to justify the price! As far as I can tell they made him into a Leader just for the heck of it, not out of necessity, which kinda stings when you have another figure, Galvatron, that by all accounts should have been a leader.

Incidentally I just put my Optimus Prime M&M dispenser away in a box while I clear off my shelves.

Emerje
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Comment by william-james88 Aug 17, 2022
Emerje wrote: though I'm sure they made the transformation into it's entirely made up for the toy alt mode as complex as possible to justify the price!


The complexity was spoken of during the stream and it turns out he is simpler than most of today's deluxes.

On another note, I checked out the 360 video for Crosshairs and looks like they just gave up on that trenchcoat. It's the worst take yet since they just split it, so you have half in the front, then a gap at the sides, and then the rest of the coat in the back. Ends up looking more like a green version of that pope outfit on the top left.

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The top half of crosshairs looks better though, as does the alt mode. But the main thing about him is botched.

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Comment by First-Aid Aug 17, 2022
william-james88 wrote:
Emerje wrote: though I'm sure they made the transformation into it's entirely made up for the toy alt mode as complex as possible to justify the price!


The complexity was spoken of during the stream and it turns out he is simpler than most of today's deluxes.

On another note, I checked out the 360 video for Crosshairs and looks like they just gave up on that trenchcoat. It's the worst take yet since they just split it, so you have half in the front, then a gap at the sides, and then the rest of the coat in the back. Ends up looking more like a green version of that pope outfit on the top left.

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The top half of crosshairs looks better though, as does the alt mode. But the main thing about him is botched.

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Let's face it....how do you accurately portray something in plastic that was cloth-like on the big screen? The only thing I can think of would be to include a soft rubber fold that could connect the two pieces making up the front and rear of the "trench coat" together. But that would likely be too stiff or tear too easily. For what they had to work with, it's a pretty good representation. It was another of the things that made the Bayverse bots so unique in TF history...they did things no one even considered before because everyone was locked into a traditional humanoid look. Hasbro and Dreamworks gave MB a basic set of guidelines, but basically said "Here's a blank check...let's see what you can come up with". We got bots without bodies, wheels for feet, cloth trench coats, built in weapon systems, the ability to rapidly alter alt modes (which I never understood why, if they were in disguise, they stuck with the SAME disguise for years to the point where EVERYONE recognized the disguise), and more organic looks instead of the traditional Robby-the-Robot blocky builds. Say what you want about the movies (popcorn fun, that's it though), they made more changes to the way Transformers were thought of and created than at ANY other point. And THAT is why they are so hard to replicate accurately in toy form.
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Comment by william-james88 Aug 17, 2022
First-Aid wrote:
Let's face it....how do you accurately portray something in plastic that was cloth-like on the big screen? The only thing I can think of would be to include a soft rubber fold that could connect the two pieces making up the front and rear of the "trench coat" together. But that would likely be too stiff or tear too easily. For what they had to work with, it's a pretty good representation. It was another of the things that made the Bayverse bots so unique in TF history...they did things no one even considered before because everyone was locked into a traditional humanoid look. Hasbro and Dreamworks gave MB a basic set of guidelines, but basically said "Here's a blank check...let's see what you can come up with". We got bots without bodies, wheels for feet, cloth trench coats, built in weapon systems, the ability to rapidly alter alt modes (which I never understood why, if they were in disguise, they stuck with the SAME disguise for years to the point where EVERYONE recognized the disguise), and more organic looks instead of the traditional Robby-the-Robot blocky builds. Say what you want about the movies (popcorn fun, that's it though), they made more changes to the way Transformers were thought of and created than at ANY other point. And THAT is why they are so hard to replicate accurately in toy form.


I agree that's why I find it all the more impressive that the TLK toy achieved that impossible design better than the more recent toy.
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Comment by william-james88 Aug 17, 2022
For Bayverse fans, one of yesterday's biggest highlights was The Fallen while for G1 fans, it was Rumble. Well we now have in hand photos of both of those toys giving you a better look. Evan Brooks, the Hasbro designer, posted pictures of Rumble on Instagram. There we can see the comparison to the previous cassette bot mold from Siege and how it still fits within Soundwave and Blaster.

Donnay Wong, over on Facebook, posted some really beautiful and high quality images of the Fallen. We see both his faces as well as the complexity of his extra appendages and the various poses he can take. You can see all those images below.

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Comment by william-james88 Aug 17, 2022
Also super happy to see Sludge will get repacked for the holiday season, so I don't have to worry about hunting him or him not showing up yet.
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Comment by -Kanrabat- Aug 17, 2022
That Rumble is a MUST.

I said I would never buy The Fallen but man, how can I pass on that SEXY beast? :x
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Comment by Tuned Agent Aug 17, 2022
william-james88 wrote:On another note, I checked out the 360 video for Crosshairs and looks like they just gave up on that trenchcoat. It's the worst take yet since they just split it, so you have half in the front, then a gap at the sides, and then the rest of the coat in the back. Ends up looking more like a green version of that pope outfit on the top left.

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The top half of crosshairs looks better though, as does the alt mode. But the main thing about him is botched.

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Looking back at the livestream, it looks like those long car panels probably can fold out from the backpack and form the sides of the trenchcoat.
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Comment by RodimusPrimeUkraine1 Aug 17, 2022
always nice to hear from the toy designers. Also great to see the seibertron news staff on tops of things. I thought I'd have to notify them about this one! Great job guys :D
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Comment by Cheesinator Aug 17, 2022
First-Aid wrote: It was another of the things that made the Bayverse bots so unique in TF history...they did things no one even considered before because everyone was locked into a traditional humanoid look. Hasbro and Dreamworks gave MB a basic set of guidelines, but basically said "Here's a blank check...let's see what you can come up with". We got bots without bodies, wheels for feet, cloth trench coats, built in weapon systems, the ability to rapidly alter alt modes (which I never understood why, if they were in disguise, they stuck with the SAME disguise for years to the point where EVERYONE recognized the disguise), and more organic looks instead of the traditional Robby-the-Robot blocky builds. Say what you want about the movies (popcorn fun, that's it though), they made more changes to the way Transformers were thought of and created than at ANY other point. And THAT is why they are so hard to replicate accurately in toy form.


Hear hear!

I have zero qualms with the shortcuts taken with Crosshairs because - as you said - his design is very difficult to implement on a regular toy (I've not seen many mass-produced, non-premium action figures with good-looking, functional trenchcoats), let alone one that has to transform into a car. I understand the appeal of screen accuracy, but Crosshairs in particular (along with Galvatron, Stinger, Devastator, Grimlock, Lockdown) are *never* going to get perfect toy representations because the mass-shifting/transformations in their movie counterparts are simply impossible to do in reality (IMO).

I love that the movies really stretched the concepts for what Transformers can look like, but the trade-off is that we can't get faithful representations of some of those characters. Guys like Crosshairs looking good from at least one angle is a fair trade-off for me
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Comment by EvasionModeBumblebee Aug 17, 2022
Tuned Agent wrote:Looking back at the livestream, it looks like those long car panels probably can fold out from the backpack and form the sides of the trenchcoat.

The front of the trench coat can also rotate to the side, so there should be a lot of options for posing the trench coat to make it look more complete
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