SDCC 2016: Transformers Prime 1 Studios Optimus Prime Gallery AND Video #SDCC #HasbroSDCC

Seibertronians, we have some literal big news tonight. Just after we premiered the new gallery for Prime1 Studio's G1-inspired Optimus Prime statue, it appears Sideshow and Prime1 are at it again. They've unveiled two completely new statues, one of the Decepticon leader himself, G1 Megatron, and one of everyone's favorite Munky not Trukk, Beast Wars Optimus Primal (seems like a familiar insect tagged along as well-and met an unfortunate end). We've obtained some images of both, along with Optimus and Nemesis Prime, although unfortunately, Primal's still in his Gray-scale prototype phase, but fear not! Megatron's viewable in all his colored glory! Check 'em out below!


Megatron







Optimus Prime





Nemesis Prime




Opimus Primal and Waspinator

Bronzewolf wrote:Megatron

The TFW2005 images don't show up here. But I've seen him. And like with the Optimus Prime statue, this is what Megatron should have looked like in the Michael Bay movies. (And voiced by Frank Welker from the start.)



I would have never guessed that this creature was supposed to be him:

That Primal is a thing of beauty. Megatron looks great too.

It's a Megatron I love, but will never be able to afford in my lifetime! Definitely awesome though.

That Megatron looks wonderful; but very oddly rounded. It's certainly not something I dislike, but it is a bit weird to see.

Cyberpath wrote:this is what Megatron should have looked like in the Michael Bay movies. (And voiced by Frank Welker from the start.)

But the movies aren't G1. Why is every other non-G1 Megatron allowed by the fans to have their own unique and original designs but not Movie Megatron? Or any of the Movie characters?

Sabrblade wrote:

Cyberpath wrote:this is what Megatron should have looked like in the Michael Bay movies. (And voiced by Frank Welker from the start.)

But the movies aren't G1. Why is every other non-G1 Megatron allowed by the fans to have their own unique and original designs but not Movie Megatron? Or any of the Movie characters?

Well...

The movie was very obviously intentionally aimed at fans of G1 - notice that before the movies, every other iteration of Transformers featured entirely different settings and beyond Optimus, Megatron and Starscream a very different cast of characters. Only Energon broke this trend and even then it was mostly just references in the designs due to the anniversary. The movie went full-out G1 with it's Autobot cast - hence Ratchet, Jazz, Ironhide, Bumblebee - and was a blockbuster movie aimed at cashing in on 80s fans' nostalgia. So it's only natural that said fans would want the designs to be more reminiscent of G1 more than any other series, especially given there were a lot more viewers to this than the likes of RiD and Cybertron.

Kurona wrote:The movie was very obviously intentionally aimed at fans of G1

Seemed more to me like it was aimed at mainstream action popcorn movie audiences unfamiliar with Transformers than anyone else.

Kurona wrote:notice that before the movies, every other iteration of Transformers featured entirely different settings

"Present-day Earth" was the main setting from 2001 to 2005, with "out in space" as a secondary setting during that time, and both of which the movies all take place in as well.

Kurona wrote:The movie went full-out G1 with it's Autobot cast - hence Ratchet, Jazz, Ironhide, Bumblebee

With Jazz being the only one of those four who bore any physical resemblance to his G1 counterpart, and not even in his color scheme.

Not to mention how three of those four were barely even in the movie at all.

Kurona wrote:and was a blockbuster movie aimed at cashing in on 80s fans' nostalgia. So it's only natural that said fans would want the designs to be more reminiscent of G1 more than any other series, especially given there were a lot more viewers to this than the likes of RiD and Cybertron.

Let's not beat around the bush here. The real reason is cuz a lot of G1 fans wanted and still want live-action G1 movies instead of live-action non-G1 movies. They want what they grew up with to be done and be seen in a real life live-action format (nothing wrong with that) and won't accept anything new or different from that (therein lies the problem).

Sabrblade wrote:

Kurona wrote:The movie was very obviously intentionally aimed at fans of G1

Seemed more to me like it was aimed at mainstream action popcorn movie audiences unfamiliar with Transformers than anyone else.

Kurona wrote:notice that before the movies, every other iteration of Transformers featured entirely different settings

"Present-day Earth" was the main setting from 2001 to 2005, with "out in space" as a secondary setting during that time, and both of which the movies all take place in as well.

Kurona wrote:The movie went full-out G1 with it's Autobot cast - hence Ratchet, Jazz, Ironhide, Bumblebee

With Jazz being the only one of those four who bore any physical resemblance to his G1 counterpart, and not even in his color scheme.

Not to mention how three of those four were barely even in the movie at all.

It was most certainly aimed at general action movie audiences, yes; but we're not tackling yet - we're tackling what the Transformers part was aimed at. Because if it was just a generic action movie, you could call it anything. You could make it anything. You could just make another Die Hard movie or Bay could just make another one of his terrible movies based on real life disasters. But why was it Transformers in particular? Who are they aiming at?
Well, considering the age rating, the events of the movie and the sexualization, I'm going to assume it's not Hasbro's usual target audience. That usual target audience being, of course, kids who do not need G1 references thrown at them to buy a product. All they need is something they find cool thrown at them to buy a product. I sure as heck didn't get Energon Ultra Magnus as a kid because I thought it was a great reference to G1 Ultra Magnus in name and colour scheme, I bought it because oh my god my Armada Optimus can have massive shoulder cannons.
And most G1 fans don't really care about those new Transformers franchises that happened since they were a kid, or don't even know they exist. Some did, obviously. We're on a website full of them, but that's a very small and niche amount of people. Transformers (2007) was made as a Transformers movie rather than a generic action movie to target and cash in on a large audience who as children 30 years ago were captivated by a world-wide phenomenon. I don't like to put arguments as objective fact, but there is no debating that. You can't possibly argue that it was targeted at any other facet of the Transformers fandom.
So, if it's aimed at those fans... it's pretty natural that a lot of them would come away thinking "you know I really wish that guy calling himself Megatron actually looked like the Megatron I saw as a kid".



Admittedly, my use of the term 'setting' was a bit too broad and inaccurate. When I said it I meant more the themes and subject of the show. Armada focused on collecting mini-cons, Cybertron focused on saving the entire galaxy from a black hole, etc. The point is that they all went for something a little different than being G1-based in story.



Yeah, Jazz is the only recognisable one of the bunch. I just said they were going for a G1 cast, not that they did it particularly well.





In any case, this discussion is likely best not to take place here as it's a completely different subject. Don't want a repeat of that whole Masterpiece Energon scenario...

Sabrblade wrote:

Cyberpath wrote:this is what Megatron should have looked like in the Michael Bay movies. (And voiced by Frank Welker from the start.)

But the movies aren't G1. Why is every other non-G1 Megatron allowed by the fans to have their own unique and original designs but not Movie Megatron? Or any of the Movie characters?

Because when you do movies you go back to the source, to what made the franchise popular in the first place, and go from there.

Spider-Man got to look like Spider-Man.

Batman like Batman.

Superman like Superman.

And Megatron looked like a blob of metal parts with zero resemblance to the iconic character. He didn't even have his arm cannon, it's the least the the designers could have done.


Kurona -- also, they paid millions to the original voice-actor of Optimus Prime. They could have tagged a famous movie-star instead.

IMO this Prime 1 Studio got the right mix of on-model details and new "realistic" details. (for a live-action movie.)

Cyberpath wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Cyberpath wrote:this is what Megatron should have looked like in the Michael Bay movies. (And voiced by Frank Welker from the start.)

But the movies aren't G1. Why is every other non-G1 Megatron allowed by the fans to have their own unique and original designs but not Movie Megatron? Or any of the Movie characters?

Because when you do movies you go back to the source, to what made the franchise popular in the first place, and go from there.

By 2007, there were lots of sources to choose from. All those other examples you listed didn't have to keep drastically reinventing the looks of those characters every year or two to keep things fresh over the years to sell more toys. But Transformers had to do that because what made Transformers popular in the first place also nearly killed Transformers too.

Sabrblade wrote:By 2007, there were lots of sources to choose from. All those other examples you listed didn't have to keep drastically reinventing the looks of those characters every year or two to keep things fresh over the years to sell more toys. But Transformers had to do that because what made Transformers popular in the first place also nearly killed Transformers too.

Yes, I'm sure all these other obscure TF cartoons and toys up to 2007 were just as well-known and iconic as the originals. And that it's totally a coincidence that Hasbro is still basing its toys on "G1."

And these other franchises did change in the comics...





.. but the movie makers knew how to pick the iconic looks for them.

Cyberpath wrote:Yes, I'm sure all the other obscure Transformers cartoons and toys up to 2007 were just as well-known and iconic as the originals.

They were to every kid who grew up with them as much as G1 was to every kid who grew up with it, yes.

Cyberpath wrote:And that it's totally a coincidence that Hasbro is still basing its toys on "G1."

Which only really started to take off in 2006.

Cyberpath wrote:And these other franchises did change in the comics...

Every 1 to 2 years, though?

Sabrblade wrote:

Cyberpath wrote:Yes, I'm sure all the other obscure Transformers cartoons and toys up to 2007 were just as well-known and iconic as the originals.

They were to every kid who grew up with them as much as G1 was to every kid who grew up with it, yes.

Less kids, I'm sure.

Sabrblade wrote:

Cyberpath wrote:And that it's totally a coincidence that Hasbro is still basing its toys on "G1."

Which only really started to take off in 2006.

Earlier than that, I think. But that's already ten years. Companies tend to go back to the original once the "flavour of the month" dries up. Even "G2" was the "G1" toys with weird decos and some new figures that could have been released in the original line.

Sabrblade wrote:

Cyberpath wrote:And these other franchises did change in the comics...
.. but the movie makers knew how to pick the iconic looks for them.

Every 1 to 2 years, though?

I don't know how many years apart. But they change enough to have a selection; and the movie-makers usually pick the iconic looks. Bay's Megatron wasn't close.

Even in the 2007 animated series they made sure to make Megatron instantly recognisable..

Cyberpath wrote:Batman like Batman

Nope, they didn't go with an iconic Batman costume for any of the movies. The iconic comic Batman costume is blue/black cowl, cape, gloves, trunks, and boots on a gray spandex body suit and yellow utility belt, but every movie from '89 to present have clad him in the drastically different all black body armor from head to toe. They've since become the expectation for the movies, but they have only the barest essentials like the ears in common with the original source. Remove the ears and the Batman logo from the chest and the '89 movie costume would not have been recognizable as Batman at the time.

Emerje

Was there ever a "Batman" film where Batman didn't look like Batman?

-- where someone looked at him and said.. wait, is that supposed to be... Batman...?

Never happened. Batman is instantly recognisable in all of them. They took his attributes and ran with it.

And Megatron?




If you go back, I didn't say that they should have used the original model for film; but something like the Prime 1 Studio sculptures. They stuck the perfect balance imo.

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That Primal is GORGEOUS. Too bad it'll probably cost a zillion dollars.

Sabrblade wrote:Let's not beat around the bush here. The real reason is cuz a lot of G1 fans wanted and still want live-action G1 movies instead of live-action non-G1 movies. They want what they grew up with to be done and be seen in a real life live-action format (nothing wrong with that) and won't accept anything new or different from that (therein lies the problem).

In other words, just another manifestation of the "TRUKK NOT MUNKY" mentality.

I will grant that the movie designs are ugly, but this has nothing to do with whether or not they resemble G1. The aesthetic is just horrible in and of itself.

Cyberpath wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Cyberpath wrote:And that it's totally a coincidence that Hasbro is still basing its toys on "G1."

Which only really started to take off in 2006.

Earlier than that, I think. But that's already ten years. Companies tend to go back to the original once the "flavour of the month" dries up. Even "G2" was the "G1" toys with weird decos and some new figures that could have been released in the original line.

And look how well that did. It lasted a whole TWO YEARS before Beast Wars had to "ruin" the franchise back to viability, and if that hadn't happened there would BE no Transformers today.

And then there was Machine Wars. How did that go over, exactly?

Cyberpath wrote:Was there ever a "Batman" film where Batman didn't look like Batman?

-- where someone looked at him and said.. wait, is that supposed to be... Batman...?

Never happened. Batman is instantly recognisable in all of them. They took his attributes and ran with it.

Of the three you listed, Spiderman, Batman, and Superman, it's Batman who had the most drastic costume change when it came to '89 and later movies. He still doesn't dress like that in the comics because he doesn't need to. I'm not saying he's unrecognizable, just that he had a radical redesign compared to the others you named.

And the reason why he still looks vaguely the same after getting the movie treatment is because in the end he's still the same millionaire playboy Bruce Wayne who's parents were murdered and fighting crime at night. Spiderman is still student Peter Parker that was bit by a radioactive spider. Superman is still Daily Planet writer Clark Kent who is secretly an alien from the planet Krypton. It's the same characters from the comics. Movie Megatron is not G1 Megatron in any way, shape, or form, they don't share origins, they don't share stories, and therefore has no need to look like him at all. Sure, many of us would like to see G1 done as the ideal movie and that statue might fit in nicely with that, but that's not the movies we got.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Cyberpath wrote:Was there ever a "Batman" film where Batman didn't look like Batman?

-- where someone looked at him and said.. wait, is that supposed to be... Batman...?

Never happened. Batman is instantly recognisable in all of them. They took his attributes and ran with it.

Of the three you listed, Spiderman, Batman, and Superman, it's Batman who had the most drastic costume change when it came to '89 and later movies. He still doesn't dress like that in the comics because he doesn't need to. I'm not saying he's unrecognizable, just that he had a radical redesign compared to the others you named.

Like I said, they went to the source and took it from there. Megatron looks nothing like anything.

Emerje wrote:And the reason why he still looks vaguely the same after getting the movie treatment is because in the end he's still the same millionaire playboy Bruce Wayne who's parents were murdered and fighting crime at night. Spiderman is still student Peter Parker that was bit by a radioactive spider. Superman is still Daily Planet writer Clark Kent who is secretly an alien from the planet Krypton. It's the same characters from the comics. Movie Megatron is not G1 Megatron in any way, shape, or form, they don't share origins, they don't share stories, and therefore has no need to look like him at all. Sure, many of us would like to see G1 done as the ideal movie and that statue might fit in nicely with that, but that's not the movies we got.

Emerje

Oh? An alien robot transformer, from the planet Cybertron, named Megatron. Leader of the the Decepticons. Enemy of Optimus Prime. Crash-landed on Earth. Tries to revive Cybertron and conquer the world. Surrounded by Starcsream, Soundwave and Shockwave. Changed into "Galvatron." Oh yeah, where did they get all that stuff from. Come on, Emerje.

He even sat in Lincoln's throne!


They could have designed them any way they wanted, G1, Beast War or whatever. To me, they went the wrong way.

At least they wised up in AoE, and got Frank to voice him again. They also had five Autobots with distinct looks and personalities. I actually managed to tell them apart this time, imagine that! Optimus Prime's head was also better in AoE, shame they had to ruin it with a mouth.

ok, All 3 of those things look absolutely wonderful!

We've seen close-up images of the figure from Wonderfest last month, here, but thanks to the official Prime 1 Studio Facebook page, we now the official photography of their Generation One line version of the Decepticon leader: PMTF-02 Megatron, including a render of the exclusive sword! Check out a selection of images below, and the full album here!

It's like a cross between the sword that came with the original Japanese toy and the TFP Dark Star Saber... I like it.

Though as with the rest of this line... really friggin' cool designs, way too expensive. It's the sort of thing to admire and gawk at from a distance sadly

Being a statue aside, this design doesn't look like it could even transform into anything at all.

It's, it's beautiful!

But even if I could afford the price tag for it, I doubt I could even justify doing it myself.

Way, way out of my price range. Although it looks super sweet and would be really great if the Bay movie bots looked more like this style.

Moonshot wrote:Way, way out of my price range. Although it looks super sweet and would be really great if the Bay movie bots looked more like this style.

stop buying toys for 9 months you to can afford this, this looks to cartoony/ comicbook style to fit into movies its what live action cartoon would look like not enough realistic look to it if bay movie bots look like this transfromer fans would go see movies and more littel kids not enough new fans would go see transfromers movies keep the bots look realistic looking as you would looking at car with moving tires it will make them more life like and less boring blocky cartton style from cartoon and comics adults dont want to watch cartoons adults want realistic looking thing,.

coworker i work with doesnt watch animated movies sausage party, dragonballz, transformers aniamted movie, finding dory if bay bots look like this in movies HE WOULD NOT go watch trasnfromers movies to this day

dragons wrote:

Moonshot wrote:Way, way out of my price range. Although it looks super sweet and would be really great if the Bay movie bots looked more like this style.

stop buying toys for 9 months you to can afford this, this looks to cartoony/ comicbook style to fit into movies its what live action cartoon would look like not enough realistic look to it if bay movie bots look like this transfromer fans would go see movies and more littel kids not enough new fans would go see transfromers movies keep the bots look realistic looking as you would looking at car with moving tires it will make them more life like and less boring blocky cartton style from cartoon and comics adults dont want to watch cartoons adults want realistic looking thing,.

coworker i work with doesnt watch animated movies sausage party, dragonballz, transformers aniamted movie, finding dory if bay bots look like this in movies HE WOULD NOT go watch trasnfromers movies to this day

Calm down. You respond to literally any post that suggests the aesthetic of the movies is not good or to the person's taste with the exact same thing over and over. Without challenging the content of the post itself - problems as I may find with it - you're simply going to tire yourself out if you keep doing this and it's not convincing anyone. I suggest your time would be better spent talking about what you do enjoy about the movies.

... and, uh, don't use Sausage Party as an example. I know I can't speak for everyone here but it's really one of those things that's best looked over, shoved to the side and quickly forgotten.

The aesthetic of Pacific Rim's Jaegers looked realistic enough. This statue's design looks like the Pacific Rim Jaeger aesthetic. Therefore, this statue's design looks realistic enough.

(Even if it also looks like it has no ability to transform into an altmode of any kind, and I'm not talking about the fact that it's a non-transforming statue.)

Sabrblade wrote:Being a statue aside, this design doesn't look like it could even transform into anything at all.

neither does the some of the movieverse designs but hey at least its a pretty cool looking design

Ultra Markus wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Being a statue aside, this design doesn't look like it could even transform into anything at all.

neither does the some of the movieverse designs but hey at least its a pretty cool looking design

Yeah, it's cool, but do we really need more "doesn't look like it transforms" designs to seep over to non-Movieverse designs too?

At least give his some treads on the back of his legs or something.

If only Bay used these design concepts.............

dragons wrote:

Moonshot wrote:Way, way out of my price range. Although it looks super sweet and would be really great if the Bay movie bots looked more like this style.

stop buying toys for 9 months you to can afford this, this looks to cartoony/ comicbook style to fit into movies its what live action cartoon would look like not enough realistic look to it if bay movie bots look like this transfromer fans would go see movies and more littel kids not enough new fans would go see transfromers movies keep the bots look realistic looking as you would looking at car with moving tires it will make them more life like and less boring blocky cartton style from cartoon and comics adults dont want to watch cartoons adults want realistic looking thing,.

coworker i work with doesnt watch animated movies sausage party, dragonballz, transformers aniamted movie, finding dory if bay bots look like this in movies HE WOULD NOT go watch trasnfromers movies to this day

Just adding one of each, period and comma, at the end of a paragraph doesnt count. Makes it a little hard to read. But just wanted to say, I am 38 and those things you named are the very things I enjoy watching(except Sausage Party maybe lol), plus many of my "adult" friends do as well. We must be anomalies. This design seems like a perfect movie look to me, and it seems quite a few others. Have to agree with Saber on the jaeger thing as well.

fenrir72 wrote:If only Bay used these design concepts.............

I empathize with that a lot actually. That particular Megatron design shown here would look great if it was used for the film's itself. Though I mean I do agree with the idea of making him a jet or more specifically a tank as the gun mode is otherwise impractical now due to "safety reasons" and all that.

As we had previous reported, Prime 1 Studios is getting ready to release its latest statue, that of a new take on Generation 1 Optimus Prime. Well, now we have an update for you showing off his new axe. As the old images showed, the axe appeared bright orange, but the new axe, which they are dubbing a Fusion Axe, is mechanical in appearance, not unlike his Dark of the Moon axe. This axe is an exclusive and is limited to 750 pieces worldwide. Check out the Original source and the mirrored images below, and let us know what you think in the comments section!

The axe looks to be based the most off of the early design for WFC Optimus's axe:



Which in turn seems to have been the basis for the design of RID 2015 Warrior class Optimus Prime's axe:

I'm not a fan of the bay inspiration. Never liked the crushed midsections

Moonshot wrote:

dragons wrote:

Moonshot wrote:Way, way out of my price range. Although it looks super sweet and would be really great if the Bay movie bots looked more like this style.

stop buying toys for 9 months you to can afford this, this looks to cartoony/ comicbook style to fit into movies its what live action cartoon would look like not enough realistic look to it if bay movie bots look like this transfromer fans would go see movies and more littel kids not enough new fans would go see transfromers movies keep the bots look realistic looking as you would looking at car with moving tires it will make them more life like and less boring blocky cartton style from cartoon and comics adults dont want to watch cartoons adults want realistic looking thing,.

coworker i work with doesnt watch animated movies sausage party, dragonballz, transformers aniamted movie, finding dory if bay bots look like this in movies HE WOULD NOT go watch trasnfromers movies to this day

Just adding one of each, period and comma, at the end of a paragraph doesnt count. Makes it a little hard to read. But just wanted to say, I am 38 and those things you named are the very things I enjoy watching(except Sausage Party maybe lol), plus many of my "adult" friends do as well. We must be anomalies. This design seems like a perfect movie look to me, and it seems quite a few others. Have to agree with Saber on the jaeger thing as well.

I'm for all for anyone there own opinion , get tired of reading about it when something new comes out that looks better than movie version from time to time, movies are making transformers more popular now than they where before movies where being made before all we got was toys,accessories , games, news now it's movie news to add to mix,. This is new time and age movie has no connection to anything same if people want to talk about bad designs energon and cybertron is another series look at for most characters iron hide , cyclonus for starters,.
People don't like movies I accept that buy how many years how many movies have we got over years and still getting same comments if bay bots look like this don't like how they look don't watch movies don't stay up to date with movies if you don't like how they look, with many humans in movies, transformers looking non human faces these bots are meant look realistic you same blocky mess with humans breathing out in space without space suits on cybertron, prime being brought back to life more than once watch generation one cartoons,.

I will admit statues look nice I'm no statue fan when it comes to transformers but for fans who do like them they can afford it stop buying and save and buy it in few months if you want it bad enough.

Prime 1 Studio has been up to a lot of statues recently, and they are ready to tease another one for us. They decided that, in honor of him showing up once again in Transformers: The Last Knight, that Barricade will be the next statue to be teased! With Prime 1 having nailed all previous attempts at movie accuracy, we are sure to be in for a treat with this upcoming statue. Check out the teaser below, and let us know what you think in the comments section below!

We have some images of another Prime 1 Studio project, in the form of live-action bounty hunter Lockdown, in his Age of Extinction appearance. The figure is in fact a bust, and not a full statue, and offered in collaboration with Sideshow at $259.99 with only 500 produced. Check it out below!

“Every galaxy I’ve traveled, all you species are the same. You all think you’re the center of the universe. You have no idea.”

Sideshow and Prime 1 Studio are proud to present the latest release in the Premium Bust Collection - Lockdown from Transformers: Age of Extinction. Like any bounty hunter, Lockdown will pay top dollar to get what he wants. Answering only to his enigmatic "Creators", Lockdown holds himself above the Autobot/Decepticon war and sees both sides as squabbling children that he has to rein in personally. He doesn't think much of other civilized species across the galaxy (particularly humans), though he isn't above working with them if it suits him.


Expected to Ship
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017

License
Transformers
Scale
Bust
Manufacturer
Prime 1 Studio

Product Size
8.18" H (207.77mm) x 5.35" W (135.89mm) x 7.12" L (180.85mm)*
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Alright, much as I don't like the movies or the fact that you're paying $260 and not even getting a full figure...
... that visor is really cool and impressive.

It's cool. I love Lockdown but I'm definitely not the customer for this being that I'm just a poor boy from a poor family.

I forgot how kissable Lockdown's lips were!

We have a new image from statue makers Prime 1 Studio, featuring another live-action movie Transformers character to join their line of hefty and detailed works: Jazz! You can check it out mirrored below from their Instagram account, and join in the discussion in the Energon Pub.

One of mine favorites designs

I wholeheartedly agree with the collector
on a side note looking at that figures detail really makes me appreciate what they pulled off with his human alliance figure.

That is a beautiful looking Jazz. that captures his look perfectly. He has been one of my favorites of the movie bots, even if he didn't last that long

Fun fact: If Darius McCrary's voice hadn't been so heavily modulated, his Jazz voice would have been a far closer match to Scatman Crothers's Jazz.

Prime1 Studios has fully revealed their latest marvel of a statue: Movie Ratchet! Ratchet is a faithful rendition of his movie-verse body minus the white additions that he appeared with in Dark of the Moon. He is being limited to 750 pieces that are selling for $1200 a piece. You can check out the new images below, along with a little blurb from Prime1 themselves.

“The boy's pheromone levels suggest he wants to mate with the female.”
Prime 1 Studio is proud to present MMTFM-13 RATCHET from Transformers film. The Autobot medic officer is probably the bravest of them all. He will risk his life to pull any wounded comrade from the battlefield. Ratchet’s who dislike violence, well-armed appearance is more due to being an improviser with surgical tools. When combat is unavoidable, he can employ these makeshift weapons with surprising agility for his size. Nonetheless, he remains one of the most genuinely kind members of the Autobots, valuing their friendship and camaraderie above all else, and would never betray their trust. He may not be the strongest Autobots, but damned if he’s not one of the most dependable.
Ratchet Statue features:
- Approximately 26 inches tall (H: 65cm, W: 50cm, D: 35cm)
- LED lights up function on head
- Limited quantity worldwide
Edition size: 750
Retail price: $1199 US
- Prototype samples shown.
- Product details could be subjected to change without further notice.

Holy crap...it's been so long since I saw Jazz's design...I like how this turned out!