Online Availability and Official Images of all Toy Fair Reveals for Studio Series and Siege Including Springer's Car Mode

Deluxe Class Jetfire offers so much bang for the buck! What incredible value!

cloudballoon wrote:Deluxe Class Jetfire offers so much bang for the buck! What incredible value!

Hasbro made another mistake in their official promotional images. Smashdown and Caliburst are not Micro Masters. They are Battle Masters. It's interesting to note that we haven't seen anything new of the actual Micro Master price point aside from Countdown, who comes with Omega Supreme.

Beware, Hasbro Pulse will charge your card immediately if you preorder!

Just found out when I preordered two SS DOTM Optimus figures.

Am I the only one who thinks that Drift could be used as the base for Airachnid? It still won't be show accurate but it's pretty similar looking in alt mode. Swap the head, chest, shoulders, thighs and rotors. Hell, I'd probably just take a head and rotor swap at this point.

Heh. Funny. Deluxe Jetfire. Well, if they only want to charge deluxe class price for it...

It's amusing how really good Springer looks and how really godawful Impactor looks.

DotM Prime is my thing. I just finished having a go at painting up my SS32 Prime which is basically the same figure minus the trailer so will likely try painting that one up too when I get it.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:It's amusing how really good Springer looks and how really godawful Impactor looks.

I agree 100% and I think we should celebrate since we rarely agree on things. I am surprised though since Springer is very blocky. He wears it as well as anyone could of course but I thought you were against that kind of aesthetic.

william-james88 wrote:...Springer is very blocky. He wears it as well as anyone could of course...

SIEGE Springer is a thing of beauty! He makes the Thrilling 30/Generations/Legends version look like hot garbage, and that figure was fantastic!

These are very exciting!

I_AM... MEGATRON! wrote:Beware, Hasbro Pulse will charge your card immediately if you preorder!

Just found out when I preordered two SS DOTM Optimus figures.

Does that mean it gave you the Premium upgrade thing? I've been trying to find if you have to buy something currently in stock or not for it to apply.

Wolfman Jake wrote:

william-james88 wrote:...Springer is very blocky. He wears it as well as anyone could of course...

SIEGE Springer is a thing of beauty! He makes the Thrilling 30/Generations/Legends version look like hot garbage, and that figure was fantastic!

This statement is so full of wrong, its reset my brain....


To each their own. I actually kinda like Siege Springer, but I think his Thrilling 30 version is better. Hell, I just flat out miss the Thrilling 30 line.

Ironhidensh wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:

william-james88 wrote:...Springer is very blocky. He wears it as well as anyone could of course...

SIEGE Springer is a thing of beauty! He makes the Thrilling 30/Generations/Legends version look like hot garbage, and that figure was fantastic!

This statement is so full of wrong, its reset my brain....


To each their own. I actually kinda like Siege Springer, but I think his Thrilling 30 version is better. Hell, I just flat out miss the Thrilling 30 line.

As you said, to each their own. Thrilling 30 Springer was great for the time, but for people (like me) who want a better "G1 Upgrade" of the character, the SIEGE version is the one to get. He's got all the right sculpting, shapes, and colors. It's like he popped right out of the original cartoon and into our hearts display shelves. The T30 version is a nice stylized/reinterpreted version of G1 Springer, hindered partly because of the QC issues with everything tabbing together nice and tight in the alt modes.

I fail to see how Siege Springer looks like any kind of upgrade to the G1 cartoon design. Thrilling 30 Springer looked liked an upgrade, while Siege Springer just looks like his normal, unchanged, ordinary base form.

william-james88 wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote:It's amusing how really good Springer looks and how really godawful Impactor looks.

I agree 100% and I think we should celebrate since we rarely agree on things. I am surprised though since Springer is very blocky. He wears it as well as anyone could of course but I thought you were against that kind of aesthetic.

I still have fondness for the Marvel UK comics and Springer was often in that and despite the blockiness (which is more acceptable for a comic/toon character, not so much for a realistic one) he's one of the few characters from G1 I still think looks kinda neat for some reason. I still have the 30th thrilling figure but I'm done with. If there is even one Siege figure I may buy it'll probably be this Springer... but I want to see size with other figures cos I hoped it was a deluxe but it says voyager and being voyager was one of the few big issues I had with the 30th figure. He shouldn't be more than a lil taller than associated characters like Hot Rod and Arcee. Even odder than here he's a voyager and Impactor is a deluxe when Impactor is supposed to be the taller one whether IDW or Marvel.

Who’s the fourth siege deluxe going to be? Reflector or Brunt? Why aren’t there pre orders for them? Is someone from wave one getting repacked?

SpikeyTigertron wrote:Who’s the fourth siege deluxe going to be? Reflector or Brunt? Why aren’t there pre orders for them? Is someone from wave one getting repacked?

Leaks and promo art say Barricade, and we know they haven't shown all the retail figures yet anyway, so...probably Barricade.

Edit: To make it clearer:
Wave 3 Deluxes - Red Alert, Refraktor, Brunt, ??? (Barricade)
Wave 4 Deluxes: Impactor, Mirage

Nemesis Primal wrote:

SpikeyTigertron wrote:Who’s the fourth siege deluxe going to be? Reflector or Brunt? Why aren’t there pre orders for them? Is someone from wave one getting repacked?

Leaks and promo art say Barricade, and we know they haven't shown all the retail figures yet anyway, so...probably Barricade.

Edit: To make it clearer:
Wave 3 Deluxes - Red Alert, Refraktor, Brunt, ??? (Barricade)
Wave 4 Deluxes: Impactor, Mirage

Oh.... they’re mixing waves..... explains why I can’t put a finger on how many studio series constructicons are coming out this summer....

Sabrblade wrote:I fail to see how Siege Springer looks like any kind of upgrade to the G1 cartoon design. Thrilling 30 Springer looked liked an upgrade, while Siege Springer just looks like his normal, unchanged, ordinary base form.

That's the point, Sabr. It's not an upgrade to the G1 character model, it's an upgrade to the G1 toy. G1 with knees/elbows and such. T30 Springer isn't really an "upgrade" of the cartoon model so much as it is a reinterpretation/stylization of the original Springer archetype.

3, 2, 1. Okay here we go.

KSI Boss, looks okay. Already have that Nitro Zeus dude, good solid figure but this guy. Doesn't he need 2 heads? Don't think I'll get him, to much the same.

Drift, don't like the character. If the transformation is easy I might get him at reduced price.

DOTM Optimus, looks great and screen accurate (for once). Won't get him, I have my forrest battle Optimus from the studio series and happy with it.

High Tower, I love Constructicons, even the ROTF ones. This guy is just so pathetic it's almost cute. I'll get them all of course, need that real Devastator.

Dropkick = cool. Will get.

Optimus Prime Bumblebee movie = pure love, will need in my life.

Red Alert, I so love that Sideswipe mold, so slick, so perfect. Will get.

Mirage, also looks perfect, will get.

Siege Optimus Cybertron, again, lots of love, will get.

Omega Supreme, well, he is perfect, magnificent and majestic. Must get.

Springer looks great and bulky. I didn't like the Thrilling 30's version of him and was considering getting Energon Bulkhead.
But now, that's not neccesary, here is Springer.

Jetfire, wow he's a deluxe! I thought he was another big ass leader. Very refreshing. I hope they repaint him to death, looks like a really fun mold!

Thundercracker, I always wanted a voyager G1 seeker trio and felt very sorry for myself when Armada Skywarp had that silly head. Well the mold had a little shoulder articulation problems. But now we have this.
They may repaint this mold all colors of the rainbow, will get them all.


Hasbro is being awesome in my opinion the last years.

noctorro wrote:Jetfire, wow he's a deluxe! I thought he was another big ass leader. Very refreshing. I hope they repaint him to death, looks like a really fun mold!

Jetfire is NOT a Deluxe, that is an error, he's an $80 Commander Class figure (i.e. bigger than a Leader).

Also, no love for Impactor?

Nemesis Primal wrote:

SpikeyTigertron wrote:Who’s the fourth siege deluxe going to be? Reflector or Brunt? Why aren’t there pre orders for them? Is someone from wave one getting repacked?

Leaks and promo art say Barricade, and we know they haven't shown all the retail figures yet anyway, so...probably Barricade.

Edit: To make it clearer:
Wave 3 Deluxes - Red Alert, Refraktor, Brunt, ??? (Barricade)
Wave 4 Deluxes: Impactor, Mirage

Wave 3 is just Red Alert, Refraktor, and Brunt with no fourth figure.
Wave 4 is Impactor, Mirage, Sixgun (repack), and a mystery figure that's likely Barricade.

Emerje