The Loyal Subjects Tease Transformers Vinyl Jetfire in Wave 4

Va'al wrote:The Loyal Subjects, producers of super-deformed mini vinyl Transformers figures, have posted a tease of their upcoming wave 4 selection, which appears to include Jetfire, Decepticon turned Autobot scientist. Check out the customer sketch and teaser they revealed on Twitter mirrored below!

This customer who sent us a drawing (on left) may be on to something

Don't tell Harmony Gold, it looks very G1.

The official Instagram account of The Loyal Subjects has been quite busy recently, showing off some GameStop exclusive vinyl minifigures - and it's time for Slag and Red Alert to shine, next to a special repaint of Optimus Prime. Check out the mirrored images below.

Since when was Sideswipe a Red Alert clone.....

No no the report is just misleading, TLS site has all the exclusives and Red alert and Sideswipe are both getting their own vinyls

Meantoy wrote:Since when was Sideswipe a Red Alert clone.....

Since the beginning of time!
actually its red alert that's the clone since sideswipe came first back in the G1 series

So are these for sale at Gamestop or are part of some kind of pre-order or something?

insanityzmaster wrote:So are these for sale at Gamestop or are part of some kind of pre-order or something?

They're set to ship out on Friday if ordered on their website. Not sure if they'll be in stores.

The Loyal Subjects have posted on their Facebook page, an official image of the entirety of wave 3 of their blind box Transformers Vinyl figures. Wave 3 includes Scrapper, Longhaul, Bonecrusher, Swoop, Sludge, Rumble, Frenzy, Lazerbeak, Buzzsaw, Trailbreaker, Sunstreaker, Wheeljack, Hound and Blitzwing. That's 14 more characters to fill out your Autobot and Decepticon ranks.

Those look nice. Especially the contructicons.

Besides FIRRIB, (repaint sometime?) these are really cool looking. Too bad I can never find them anywhere.

Besides FIRRIB, (repaint sometime?) these are really cool looking. Too bad I can never find them anywhere.

LOST Cybertronian wrote:The Loyal Subjects have posted on their Facebook page, an official image of the entirety of wave 3 of their blind box Transformers Vinyl figures. Wave 3 includes Scrapper, Longhaul, Bonecrusher, Swoop, Sludge, Rumble, Frenzy, Lazerbeak, Buzzsaw, Trailbreaker, Sunstreaker, Wheeljack, Hound and Blitzwing. That's 14 more characters to fill out your Autobot and Decepticon ranks.

These all look amazing, I just have no room anymore for a new collection.

yay, they got the colors right on frenzy and rumble

durroth wrote:yay, they got the colors right on frenzy and rumble

The toy colors, but not the cartoon ones

That rustled my jimmies

RIBFIR forevah!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

durroth wrote:yay, they got the colors right on frenzy and rumble

The toy colors, but not the cartoon ones

Exactly. The right way.

Mr O wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

durroth wrote:yay, they got the colors right on frenzy and rumble

The toy colors, but not the cartoon ones

Exactly. The right way.

Oh boy.... For gods sake, RIBFIR!

Either way, these guys are super cute, wish I could find them.

I picked up Red Alert, Optimus Prime (nighttime edition), and Sideswipe (nighttime edition) from my local Gamestop this week. They look awesome! Excited for Wave 3 and hoping they will make an 8" Devastator to go along with the Constructicons.

Madeus Prime wrote:

Mr O wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

durroth wrote:yay, they got the colors right on frenzy and rumble

The toy colors, but not the cartoon ones

Exactly. The right way.

Oh boy.... For gods sake, RIBFIR!

Either way, these guys are super cute, wish I could find them.

Well technically in the Japanese version of the cartoon, Frenzy was the blue guy and Rumble was the red guy (thus resulting in Rumble barely showing up and Frenzy being the main humanoid cassette).

Honestly although the overwhelming evidence in canon points towards FIBRIR I prefer FIRRIB, simply because that was how I remember them (I only ever saw the cartoon on videotape in the early 2000s, long after G1 was a thing- and because I never saw the RID cartoon nor did I know it existed, I always thought it was weird how the cartoon Transformers had absolutely no relation to the toys- thus beginning my history of assigning "home grown" personalities to my TFs). Also, it just seems to suit them better.

Now if only someone would make a Frenzy, Rumble and Ravage for Cybertron Soundwave so I can have a Soundwave with decent, non-floppy minions that doesn't turn into a goddamn tape deck...

On topic, these look kinda cool. I'm worried about how well they'll age though- isn't vinyl very squishy and prone to drying out (and also the paint flaking)?

At The Loyal Subjects booth at Toy Fair 2015 we get to see a wide variety of current and past products including previous waves and the boxed Game Stop exclusives. On display is the latest wave 3 featuring Scrapper, Longhaul, Bonecrusher, Swoop, Sludge, Rumble (red), Frenzy (blue), Buzzsaw, Laserbeak, Trailbreaker, Sunstreaker, Wheeljack, Hound and Blitzwing. ScottyP informs us that the chase figures are Sunstreaker 1/24, Hound 1/48, Frenzy (the blue one for them) 1/96. Wheeljack has light up blinking ears with a demonstration video coming later. The large black figures are customs.