Possible First Look at Studio Series Bumblebee Movie Thrust

It’s not actually a straight Starscream repaint - it has Blitzwing’s head sculpt and a new conehead hood thing behind his head.

I’m interested in seeing more pictures of this one, but overall I’m kinda meh - I like the Blitzwing head sculpt, but the conehead hood just seems a little weird with where it sits.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:It’s not actually a straight Starscream repaint - it has Blitzwing’s head sculpt and a new conehead hood thing behind his head.

I’m interested in seeing more pictures of this one, but overall I’m kinda meh - I like the Blitzwing head sculpt, but the conehead hood just seems a little weird with where it sits.

Good to know. I had zero interest in Starscream, so I paid no attention to that figure.

Bounti76 wrote:Thanks to Seibertronian EvasionModeBumblebee, we were pointed in the direction of Twitter user @morgan_dfx, who posted pictures of a haul of new Kingdom Deluxes, along with Studio Series Wreck-Gar and what appears to be the rumored Bumblebee Movie Starscream repaint of Thrust! This figure appears to be a straight repaint of Starscream, with his color scheme of greens and white homaging Armada Thrust, rather than the maroon and black of G1 Thrust.

The green isn't as rich as it was in the movie.

I wish it was the Blitzwing mold, but the tetrajet might be fine. I'll need to see what the vehicle mode looks like before I decide whether or not to pick him up, but so far it looks promising

Sentinel_Primal wrote:I wish it was the Blitzwing mold, but the tetrajet might be fine. I'll need to see what the vehicle mode looks like before I decide whether or not to pick him up, but so far it looks promising

I'm glad it's not, that itzwing mold was deeply flawed. Still now, I never feel like handling it with how it does not hold together well.

william-james88 wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:I wish it was the Blitzwing mold, but the tetrajet might be fine. I'll need to see what the vehicle mode looks like before I decide whether or not to pick him up, but so far it looks promising

I'm glad it's not, that itzwing mold was deeply flawed. Still now, I never feel like handling it with how it does not hold together well.

SS Blitzwing made me ANGRY. I just can't understand the praise of that figure because as you say, the quality is horrendous.

The one I should have hated, that weird SS Bee Starscream, I was pleasantly surprised by. Also, solid overall.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:I wish it was the Blitzwing mold, but the tetrajet might be fine. I'll need to see what the vehicle mode looks like before I decide whether or not to pick him up, but so far it looks promising

I'm glad it's not, that itzwing mold was deeply flawed. Still now, I never feel like handling it with how it does not hold together well.

SS Blitzwing made me ANGRY. I just can't understand the praise of that figure because as you say, the quality is horrendous.

The one I should have hated, that weird SS Bee Starscream, I was pleasantly surprised by. Also, solid overall.

SS Blitzwang as I call him, was fun out of the box, but over timed I soured on him somewhat. It does have good qualities but for me it gets weighed down by the junk. The Bmovie Starscream is an absolute knock out and surprised me with how much I enjoyed it. So if anybody out there is in the fence about, I'd recommend giving the mold a try if you where unhappy with Blitzwang OR just want to check out a really cool transformation and figure

M. Spector wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Sentinel_Primal wrote:I wish it was the Blitzwing mold, but the tetrajet might be fine. I'll need to see what the vehicle mode looks like before I decide whether or not to pick him up, but so far it looks promising

I'm glad it's not, that itzwing mold was deeply flawed. Still now, I never feel like handling it with how it does not hold together well.

SS Blitzwing made me ANGRY. I just can't understand the praise of that figure because as you say, the quality is horrendous.

The one I should have hated, that weird SS Bee Starscream, I was pleasantly surprised by. Also, solid overall.

SS Blitzwang as I call him, was fun out of the box, but over timed I soured on him somewhat. It does have good qualities but for me it gets weighed down by the junk. The Bmovie Starscream is an absolute knock out and surprised me with how much I enjoyed it. So if anybody out there is in the fence about, I'd recommend giving the mold a try if you where unhappy with Blitzwang OR just want to check out a really cool transformation and figure

Both molds were pretty solid to me, but I’d only want the other seekers in the BB Starscream mold, mainly for that tetrajet alt mode. I actually adore everything about it and would love an army of seekers with that flight form. Whereas I’d die inside to see virtually any other repaint of Blitzwing’s awful jet mode. I’m mainly just impressed that hasbro gave us two nearly identical looking robot modes with completely different transformations, molds and al modes. For the first time in a while im Looking forward to some seeker repaints.

I don't see how this is Thrust, but whatever. In a soft reboot which is supposed to have characters closer in appearance to the Original Transformers, one would think this would be Acid Storm. Just another name slap unfortunately.

o.supreme wrote:I don't see how this is Thrust, but whatever. In a soft reboot which is supposed to have characters closer in appearance to the Original Transformers, one would think this would be Acid Storm. Just another name slap unfortunately.

As it has been stated countless times above, This is supposed to be a callback to Armada Thrust who was green and grey. Not everything has to reference back to G1. If you want him to be called Acid Storm in your collection, go right ahead.

LinaNui wrote:As it has been stated countless times above, This is supposed to be a callback to Armada Thrust who was green and grey. Not everything has to reference back to G1.

Why would they homage Armada Thrust in a film that homages the original Transformers? TRUE not everything has to be about The Transformers, but it was obvious where the BB movie was taking its designs from, and it wasn't Armada.

I'm really not upset, just pointing out a lack of logic/consistency. They can call him Sunstorm for all I care, it's just odd is all. Also good to know how high you can count since ONE person stated it was based on Armada Thrust, and one other person quoted it.

o.supreme wrote:

LinaNui wrote:As it has been stated countless times above, This is supposed to be a callback to Armada Thrust who was green and grey. Not everything has to reference back to G1.

Why would they homage Armada Thrust in a film that homages the original Transformers? TRUE not everything has to be about The Transformers, but it was obvious where the BB movie was taking its designs from, and it wasn't Armada.

I'm really not upset, just pointing out a lack of logic/consistency. They can call him Sunstorm for all I care, it's just odd is all. Also good to know how high you can count since ONE person stated it was based on Armada Thrust, and one other person quoted it.

Probably because they didn't want to have three red Seeker jets in the movie (the other two being Starscream and Blitzwing), and Armada Thrust is the better Thrust.

Sabrblade wrote:Armada Thrust is the better Thrust.

Now your just being silly

o.supreme wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Armada Thrust is the better Thrust.

Now your just being silly

G1 Thrust is a nobody. The main reason people ever want his toys is because he's part of a Seeker trio that they want to see complete. I couldn't tell you a thing about his personality if you paid me, and I'm me!

Armada Thrust, meanwhile, is a crafty tactician who starts off cool and collected but becomes more deranged and loony over time as he further descends into madness before finally swearing allegiance to Unicron after weighing the inevitability of Unicron being the winning side of the war (which proves to be a mistake on his part as no one on Unicron's side ever saw the power of love and friendship overcoming the power of an eldritch dark god, but such is the nature of a children's anime series).

Also, the English dub is not the end-all be-all version of Armada.

o.supreme wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Armada Thrust is the better Thrust.

Now your just being silly

Nothing but FACTS!

Armada Thrust is very memorable in own series.

Twitter user @morgan_dfx has posted more images of the upcoming Studio Series Thrust. This figure is accurate to how Thrust appeared in the Bumblebee movie thanks to some remolding from the Starscream mold. The colours appear to be an homage to Armada thrust, rather than the maroon and black of G1 Thrust. The images below show him in alt mode and also shows him with his wingtips pointed down in robot mode which is accurate to this cg model.
















It still hasn't been revealed what figure is coming in the wave with Wreck Gar, though this figure seems a good bet.

What do you think about this figure being potentially released? Let us know what you think below!

Thrust definitely looks better in the new pics, I gotta say it's growing on me.

Gotta say, that Thrust is damn sweet!

Sabrblade wrote:Thrust is a nobody. The main reason people ever want his toys is because he's part of a Seeker trio that they want to see complete. I couldn't tell you a thing about his personality if you paid me, and I'm me!

Your opinion, but ok. I'm the opposite, I can tell you way more about Thrust than Armada Thrust.

Sabrblade wrote:Also, the English dub is not the end-all be-all version of Armada.

Of all people, I appreciate, that you appreciate the Micron Legends version, because yes it does make the series a bit more tolerable. But let's be honest, most UT fans haven't bothered to seek it out. In fact, that entire series could benefit from a redub to fix dialogue errors, (and to present the animation corrections completed later for the Japanese version) and finally to recast at least some of the characters' voices, that might make it slightly better in english at least.

I was about to question why those colours, until I saw it paired to the Armada version of the character. Still, I'm pretty attached to the original Conehead so, should I ever buy something like that, I'll probably come up with an original name... something like "Mint Storm"?

This ended up being one of my favorite alt modes so I'm buying every one they release. The robot mode is really cool but it's the jet mode that really shines here.

I'll probably get 2 of these because adding more green & making Acid Storm is just too easy.

o.supreme wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Thrust is a nobody. The main reason people ever want his toys is because he's part of a Seeker trio that they want to see complete. I couldn't tell you a thing about his personality if you paid me, and I'm me!

Your opinion, but ok. I'm the opposite, I can tell you way more about Thrust than Armada Thrust.

For my meaningless two cents, the Armada version of Thrust is the only one of the two that I could tell someone anything about, and I've watched all of the G1 cartoon and none of Armada.

Here's my next custom: Hightower!




I will be taking a short hiatus from these projects because I got accepted to Medical school! I will be bringing my paint stuff and a couple bots with me, but it'll take a while to pack and get set up there. Projects will be slower going forwards, but I will definitely keep at it!

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Here's my next custom: Hightower!

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I will be taking a short hiatus from these projects because I got accepted to Medical school! I will be bringing my paint stuff and a couple bots with me, but it'll take a while to pack and get set up there. Projects will be slower going forwards, but I will definitely keep at it!

Excelent paintjob, as always. Love the little details you pick up in paint, that's the essence of the Movie designs for me.

And congratulations on getting accepted to medical school!

I purchased a Studio Series Cybertonian Bumblebee figure. I needed it to do a stop motion movie.

sol magnus wrote:I purchased a Studio Series Cybertonian Bumblebee figure. I needed it to do a stop motion movie.

Be careful with the chest plate. On Cliffjumper, it's all painted clear plastics and those are on a TIGHT joint. It may be the same thing for that Bee.

Rtron wrote:
Excelent paintjob, as always. Love the little details you pick up in paint, that's the essence of the Movie designs for me.

And congratulations on getting accepted to medical school!

Thank you very much!

-Kanrabat- wrote:

sol magnus wrote:I purchased a Studio Series Cybertonian Bumblebee figure. I needed it to do a stop motion movie.

Be careful with the chest plate. On Cliffjumper, it's all painted clear plastics and those are on a TIGHT joint. It may be the same thing for that Bee.

I'm going to change it to car mode and Netflix 'Bee is going to convert into it. (I'm serious, though.)

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Here's my next custom: Hightower!

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I will be taking a short hiatus from these projects because I got accepted to Medical school! I will be bringing my paint stuff and a couple bots with me, but it'll take a while to pack and get set up there. Projects will be slower going forwards, but I will definitely keep at it!

Fantastic work as always also congrats on getting into medical school!

ZeroWolf wrote:Fantastic work as always also congrats on getting into medical school!

Thank you!

Welp, since ROTF Soundwave was $10 yesterday ($8 today ) and I need more Cons for my Bayverse shelf, I decided to pick him up. He should be here Sunday and I'm kind of happy I'll have the figure. I know he's not exactly the best, but I like what I've seen of him so far.

Plus the savings of getting a Deluxe class for half price helped me justify spending $22 on TR Fangry to myself

Sentinel_Primal wrote:Welp, since ROTF Soundwave was $10 yesterday ($8 today ) and I need more Cons for my Bayverse shelf, I decided to pick him up. He should be here Sunday and I'm kind of happy I'll have the figure. I know he's not exactly the best, but I like what I've seen of him so far.

Plus the savings of getting a Deluxe class for half price helped me justify spending $22 on TR Fangry to myself

Just wondering, does Target go by the long product code on their receipt or a shorter one? Because if it's the shorter one shared by all studio series toys, there could be some fun to be had with this half priced deluxe.

Sentinel_Primal wrote:Welp, since ROTF Soundwave was $10 yesterday ($8 today ) and I need more Cons for my Bayverse shelf, I decided to pick him up. He should be here Sunday and I'm kind of happy I'll have the figure. I know he's not exactly the best, but I like what I've seen of him so far.

Plus the savings of getting a Deluxe class for half price helped me justify spending $22 on TR Fangry to myself

ROTF Soundwave is actually pretty good, the flight stand opens a lot of fun opportunities for poses.

With Grindor being found at toy stores in Australia, I wonder how much longer it will be until they show up in the states/rest of the world? Hopefully Jolt and the rest of the deluxes show up at retail soon too since Hasbro doesn't seem to care about revealing them.

LinaNui wrote:With Grindor being found at toy stores in Australia, I wonder how much longer it will be until they show up in the states/rest of the world? Hopefully Jolt and the rest of the deluxes show up at retail soon too since Hasbro doesn't seem to care about revealing them.

Jolt's gotta be leaked any day now.

Although, today is the 12th anniversary of ROTF. Since 3/4 live action figures in that wave are ROTF, maybe we'll see something today? It's a long shot, but that'd be cool.

To catch up on the last 2 weeks, The only SS figure that has stuck around around here was helicopter Dropkick, and it's hilarious because car dropkick was seen once and never again by me.

I'm excited for Grindor.

Jolt and the other deluxes have got to leak any day now. I am ready for Jolt.

I also really like thrust. He looks good! The green is sharp, and they did good with the conehead. I'll take him.

Just a heads up, JTPrime found a listing for SS ROTF Sideswipe that lists the figure as SS-78. That leaves SS-77 unaccounted for, so we could have another exclusive. We've heard that BB Thundercracker and Skywarp will be exclusives, so it could be one of them.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Just a heads up, JTPrime found a listing for SS ROTF Sideswipe that lists the figure as SS-78. That leaves SS-77 unaccounted for, so we could have another exclusive. We've heard that BB Thundercracker and Skywarp will be exclusives, so it could be one of them.

Remind me, what are the numbers for Grindor, Thrust, and Jolt? I know Bee is SS-74

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Remind me, what are the numbers for Grindor, Thrust, and Jolt? I know Bee is SS-74

Grindor is 73
Jolt is 75
Thrust is 76

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Remind me, what are the numbers for Grindor, Thrust, and Jolt? I know Bee is SS-74

Grindor is 73
Jolt is 75
Thrust is 76

Sideswipe being 78 doesn't make a lot of sense, the 3 deluxes should in theory be right next to each other in numbering, but instead they are 74, 75, and 78. I would think Sideswipe should be 76 and thrust 78. And that gap, hmm, exclusive, but what if it was another figure meant to be in the wave before SS86?

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Remind me, what are the numbers for Grindor, Thrust, and Jolt? I know Bee is SS-74

Grindor is 73
Jolt is 75
Thrust is 76

Sideswipe being 78 doesn't make a lot of sense, the 3 deluxes should in theory be right next to each other in numbering, but instead they are 74, 75, and 78. I would think Sideswipe should be 76 and thrust 78. And that gap, hmm, exclusive, but what if it was another figure meant to be in the wave before SS86?

I believe that Sideswipe is part a separate wave that comes out in November. That is why he is 78. This summer wave is jolt, BB, 86 Gnaw, and 86 jazz repack

LinaNui wrote:I believe that Sideswipe is part a separate wave that comes out in November. That is why he is 78. This summer wave is jolt, BB, 86 Gnaw, and 86 jazz repack

Yep, this ^

So I know I said Hightower was going to be my last custom for a while, but I had some extra time, and I don't have a box for Offroad Bee so it's not packed up like the others. Here's my actual last custom before I take a break for a little while! As always, there's more pics on my customs page.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:So I know I said Hightower was going to be my last custom for a while, but I had some extra time, and I don't have a box for Offroad Bee so it's not packed up like the others. Here's my actual last custom before I take a break for a little while! As always, there's more pics on my customs page.

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Great work! The weathering really makes the mold pop.

Tuned Agent wrote:Great work! The weathering really makes the mold pop.

Thank you! I wasn’t sure about the weathering at first, but I’m happy with it!

It might've been mentioned before, but it just hit me. SS86 Kup should have come with a busted Sharkticon tail accessory/weapon. I was just watching all the Sharkticon scenes on Youtube & got reminded of that scene where Kup rips off a Sharkticon's tail. Since Studio Series 86 has been including all kinds of movie-accurate accessories I'm surprised they didn't give Kup a Sharkticon tail. Of course if CHEAP-ASS Hasbro did include the tail they would have bumped Kup up to voyager class.

I've been working on some custom Sharkticons & made resin copies of one of their tails. But now I'm not going to use them because the new Studio Series Sharkticon tails are a lot better. I'm going to make copies of the new ones. But the ones I already made are perfect for Kup.

Just need to paint it blue.

Nemesis Reformatted wrote:It might've been mentioned before, but it just hit me. SS86 Kup should have come with a busted Sharkticon tail accessory/weapon. I was just watching all the Sharkticon scenes on Youtube & got reminded of that scene where Kup rips off a Sharkticon's tail. Since Studio Series 86 has been including all kinds of movie-accurate accessories I'm surprised they didn't give Kup a Sharkticon tail. Of course if CHEAP-ASS Hasbro did include the tail they would have bumped Kup up to voyager class.

Who is going to buy SS86 Kup, want to pose him with tail, and not buy (or even have) at least one Sharkticon? This is is making up a reason to be mad.

The one you made looks nice, and I'm happy for you, but it doesn't need to be framed as a fight with Hasbro.

Nemesis Reformatted wrote:It might've been mentioned before, but it just hit me. SS86 Kup should have come with a busted Sharkticon tail accessory/weapon. I was just watching all the Sharkticon scenes on Youtube & got reminded of that scene where Kup rips off a Sharkticon's tail. Since Studio Series 86 has been including all kinds of movie-accurate accessories I'm surprised they didn't give Kup a Sharkticon tail. Of course if CHEAP-ASS Hasbro did include the tail they would have bumped Kup up to voyager class.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't included because the Sharkticons themselves need them and are coming as well. More authentic (and more $$ for Hasbro) if you have Kup break it off a Sharkticon himself than just including one in the box.

AcademyofDrX wrote:Who is going to buy SS86 Kup, want to pose him with tail, and not buy (or even have) at least one Sharkticon? This is is making up a reason to be mad.

The one you made looks nice, and I'm happy for you, but it doesn't need to be framed as a fight with Hasbro.

I'm not mad at all. I was just mentioning it. If you don't want it that's fine. But it would have been cool of Hasbro to include it for anybody that does want it. They could have sculpted it like it's busted up & battle damaged.

AcademyofDrX wrote:Who is going to buy SS86 Kup, want to pose him with tail, and not buy (or even have) at least one Sharkticon?

Who is going to buy SS86 Kup, want to pose him with the Energon Goody Dispenser, and not buy (or even have) at least one Allicon?