ToyFair 07 Officially Reveals New Transformers Products
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Posted by Nemesis_Apoc on February 10th, 2007 @ 10:22am CST
Posted by Archibald Witwicky on February 10th, 2007 @ 10:22am CST
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Posted by Senor Hugo on February 10th, 2007 @ 10:26am CST
I doubt it will ever happen, but hopefully the molds will be reused for another TF line and given different more accurate TF heads, then those would be alot more tempting to buy.
Posted by Archibald Witwicky on February 10th, 2007 @ 10:26am CST
Posted by Greed on February 10th, 2007 @ 10:30am CST
Yeah, I'll pass on this one big time. He is way to much for way to little.
Posted by Anonymous on February 10th, 2007 @ 10:36am CST
Posted by God Magnus on February 10th, 2007 @ 10:37am CST
ToyFare: A magazine about toys published by the Wizard Entertainment Group.
Toy Fair: An annual event held in New York where toy manufacturers can display/reveal their products for the upcomming year with retailers and the press.
Edit: [Mr. Burns voice]Excellent...[/Mr. Burns voice]
Posted by Cybertron Optimus on February 10th, 2007 @ 10:38am CST
Posted by Megatron Wolf on February 10th, 2007 @ 10:39am CST
Posted by TheMuffin on February 10th, 2007 @ 10:39am CST
Archibald Witwicky wrote:Ultimate Bumbles is slightly less impressive than I was expecting. The problem is how un-movie like his chest is. I may well still consider picking him up though.
They mistransformed his chest. You can see that it's meant to split up and fold in on itself. But that's Hasbro for you.
Also he's well worth the price in my mind. More detailed and intricate that MP Prime and he's two inches taller!
For shockwaveuk
Posted by Archibald Witwicky on February 10th, 2007 @ 10:43am CST
Zuko wrote:Archibald Witwicky wrote:Ultimate Bumbles is slightly less impressive than I was expecting. The problem is how un-movie like his chest is. I may well still consider picking him up though.
They mistransformed his chest. You can see that it's meant to split up and fold in on itself. But that's Hasbro for you.
Yeah. I noticed after making that post. I'll wait till I see some properly transformed pictures before I make my final decision. My favorite part of movie Bumblebee's design is his chest area. The way it splits up and forms pseudo pectorals is incredibly cool IMO. If they managed to get it right I'll definately buy this.
Posted by Windracer on February 10th, 2007 @ 10:44am CST
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Posted by Terrablast on February 10th, 2007 @ 10:51am CST
Posted by magnusupreme on February 10th, 2007 @ 10:57am CST
Posted by Dough-bot on February 10th, 2007 @ 11:08am CST
Prime is back on the donuts again al a E-Prime and don't get me started on 'Bumblebee'
Wrong plain and simple
Posted by Autobot032 on February 10th, 2007 @ 11:10am CST
He shall be mine, oh yes, he shall.
Posted by Quadrajet on February 10th, 2007 @ 11:14am CST
Posted by Heavy B on February 10th, 2007 @ 11:16am CST
Posted by Redimus on February 10th, 2007 @ 11:21am CST
Posted by Archibald Witwicky on February 10th, 2007 @ 11:22am CST
Redimus wrote:I really like what I see with Ultimate Bumbles. There's something that bugs me about prime.
Probably the fact that his upper body is one giant square.
Here's hoping that other Prime mold we saw gets released, cause it looked massively better than this one.
EDIT: I just noticed that on the toy version of Prime, in robot mode, the Flame designs arn't visible except down at the bottom of his legs.
And you know what? It looks like crap. Thank christ for the flame designs working like they do in the movie, because without it what you end up with is blocks of blue and red standing out in places where they don't belong, and it looks like *crap.*
Posted by Skullgrin140 on February 10th, 2007 @ 11:27am CST
Posted by jgilkinson on February 10th, 2007 @ 11:33am CST
Posted by shockblaster5 on February 10th, 2007 @ 11:38am CST
Posted by Wheeljack35 on February 10th, 2007 @ 11:40am CST
Nemesis_Apoc wrote:Gah! 1st post! Awsome!
Idiot
$90 that might not sell well until after Xmas when it goes on clearance
Posted by LT.Zerge on February 10th, 2007 @ 11:44am CST
though prime seems to be more or less an ugly fat cube with this mold
Posted by Sideshow Sideswipe on February 10th, 2007 @ 11:46am CST
Posted by sparkofchaos on February 10th, 2007 @ 11:50am CST
Senor Hugo wrote:I doubt it will ever happen, but hopefully the molds will be reused for another TF line and given different more accurate TF heads, then those would be alot more tempting to buy.
I think most of these toys would have been much more appealing with better head sculpts. They should seriously consider doing that for the Hero line that's coming up. The remolds I would be most interested to see would be Voyager Prime, Leader Meg, Voyager Ironhide, and Deluxe Brawl. Maybe Blackout too even though the head sculpt as of now is actually surprisingly fitting with the rest of the body.
As for Bumblebee, I just can't imagine a toy with the original head sculpt priced at $89.99. Maybe i'm weird but I just feel that because his original face does not look serious enough, it should only be used on the deluxe scale. The high price range actually somehow justifies using a more technical/complicated look for a face, even if it's an ugly face of an insect/alien.
Posted by Rijie on February 10th, 2007 @ 11:57am CST
Bubmeblee looks like a must-have. Prime I'm still unsure of, but I'll end up with him I'm sure.
Posted by Midnightplatypus on February 10th, 2007 @ 12:00pm CST
Megatron_Wolf wrote:Bumblebee isnt the "Ultimate" Tf Toy. most altinators are more detailed than that. He's cool and all but i think hasbro should re think there words sometimes. And the arm cannon should become a normal are too. That would have been cool. The figure's great, hasbro still sucks.
I think you're only disparaging the "ultimate" tag based on the photos and what you assume is a really expensive masterpiece quality figure. If you read the p/r, you'd see all these features crammed into it as well:
A News Release wrote:In car mode, BUMBLEBEE is an approximately 1/14 scale CAMARO concept with realistic car features. By rolling the vehicle you activate headlights and revving engine sounds. Stopping activates taillights and screeching brakes or crashing sounds
After you manually convert the car to robot mode, BUMBLEBEE stands an impressive 14” tall. With the touch of a button, robotic BUMBLEBEE comes to “life” with speech, music – featuring DEVO’s “Whip It”, battle and conversion sounds and fully animated head, arms and wings. BUMBLEBEE’s sound detection capabilities enable him to respond to noise, and he can also automatically aim and fire a missile.
Personally, I don't really dig all the electronics loaded into the toy. They just seem to me to more often than not "get in the way" of the toy. What if I don't want the lights on or a revving noise? After a little novelty of the "special effects" sounds on an action figure always get a little dull. Lastly, when I read about features like these, I can't help but think of the dancing santa or the singing fish. However, I'm older than the main demographic Hasbro's going for (kids with parents willing to shell out $90, not collectors), and, at least according to the toy industry, kids love their playthings loaded with electronic features. Anyway, by "ultimate", I don't think they mean "masterpiece" quality detail, though it is fairly detailed for a hasbro product. They do mean ultimate in that it's stacked with deluxe add-ons to the figures, literal bells and whistles.
I am kind of curious about the inclusion of Devo's "Whip It" in the figure. Perhaps this is a clue to something on the movie's soundtrack during a key Bumblebee sequence?. Also, does this Bumblebee really shoot a missile? Recall a' coming.
Posted by City Commander on February 10th, 2007 @ 12:04pm CST
And although the Leader class Prime is pretty nice, the smaller version we've seen appeals to me more. The gun thing and helmet are wicked cool.
Posted by Skowl on February 10th, 2007 @ 12:24pm CST
I'll wait until I see the movie before spending over 100$ Canadian on this guy. No matter how cool he looks, if the movie is crap I'm not buying any of this stuff.
Posted by AbsumZer0 on February 10th, 2007 @ 12:28pm CST
Midnightplatypus wrote:I am kind of curious about the inclusion of Devo's "Whip It" in the figure. Perhaps this is a clue to something on the movie's soundtrack during a key Bumblebee sequence?.
My guess is that there's going to be some sort of "I'm ghost ridin' the whip y'all!" gag they expect everyone to find completely hilarious and memorable. Poor Devo.
As much as I dislike movie Bumblebee's design I admit I think the toy looks quite impressive based on the amount of detail alone. I don't know if the animatronic features will really make it any more fun in the long-term or if they'll become a frustration but it does sound interesting.
Posted by XeroSyphon on February 10th, 2007 @ 12:34pm CST
I'll reserve final judgment until I have the figure in my hands, and see how posable it is.
Posted by Archibald Witwicky on February 10th, 2007 @ 12:35pm CST
AbsumZer0 wrote:My guess is that there's going to be some sort of "I'm ghost ridin' the whip y'all!" gag they expect everyone to find completely hilarious and memorable. Poor Devo.
Err, no, probably not. Ghost Riding is very far from being widely known yet(and in all probability never will be). It's not really spread out of So.Cal(or is it Northern California? I can't remember). The only other people who really make a big deal out of it are cynical white guys on the internet(like me). Any such joke would be lost on a vast majority of the movie viewing populace and even more so on kids who buy this toy. Also, if they were going to do a Ghost Riding joke they'd use the actual Ghost Riding theme song.
According to the script, Bumblebee uses various songs to respond to different events and to talk to Sam because he is mute. 'Whip It' is probably one of them and Hasbro probably went with it because it was the easiest/cheapest to obtain the rights too. It also may be the most kid friendly song.
Posted by Ninja Sixshot on February 10th, 2007 @ 12:49pm CST
Posted by Satanatron on February 10th, 2007 @ 12:52pm CST
as for Bumblebee I rather spend the money on MP Megatron.
Posted by --B-- on February 10th, 2007 @ 1:07pm CST
Wheeljack35 wrote:Nemesis_Apoc wrote:Gah! 1st post! Awsome!
Idiot
$90 that might not sell well until after Xmas when it goes on clearance
Nah, they will be on clearance after the Potter movie and book in July erase TF's from the buying publics mind.
Posted by Ninja Sixshot on February 10th, 2007 @ 1:09pm CST
wat book? potter 7 doesnt come out till at least 2008B wrote:Wheeljack35 wrote:Nemesis_Apoc wrote:Gah! 1st post! Awsome!
Idiot
$90 that might not sell well until after Xmas when it goes on clearance
Nah, they will be on clearance after the Potter movie and book in July erase TF's from the buying publics mind.
Posted by Bot Marley on February 10th, 2007 @ 1:16pm CST
B wrote:Wheeljack35 wrote:Nemesis_Apoc wrote:Gah! 1st post! Awsome!
Idiot
$90 that might not sell well until after Xmas when it goes on clearance
Nah, they will be on clearance after the Potter movie and book in July erase TF's from the buying publics mind.
I cant wait for Deathly Hallows! I love me some Harry Potter! Transformers isn't going to be blown away by HP. I'll buy my book on 07/21/07 and reading it while still buying my transformers. They're 2 totaly different fandoms.
Posted by Fireblast on February 10th, 2007 @ 1:26pm CST
Posted by AbsumZer0 on February 10th, 2007 @ 1:36pm CST
Archibald Witwicky wrote:AbsumZer0 wrote:My guess is that there's going to be some sort of "I'm ghost ridin' the whip y'all!" gag they expect everyone to find completely hilarious and memorable. Poor Devo.
Err, no, probably not. Ghost Riding is very far from being widely known yet(and in all probability never will be). It's not really spread out of So.Cal(or is it Northern California? I can't remember). The only other people who really make a big deal out of it are cynical white guys on the internet(like me). Any such joke would be lost on a vast majority of the movie viewing populace and even more so on kids who buy this toy. Also, if they were going to do a Ghost Riding joke they'd use the actual Ghost Riding theme song.
According to the script, Bumblebee uses various songs to respond to different events and to talk to Sam because he is mute. 'Whip It' is probably one of them and Hasbro probably went with it because it was the easiest/cheapest to obtain the rights too. It also may be the most kid friendly song.
I hope you're right. Not just about the use of the song but about 'Ghost Riding the Whip'. I haven't been out of the state in a couple years so it's good to know that particular strain of of stupid hasn't spread.
In that case, my second guess is that, being that this is essentially about 'a boy and his car', it'll be featured during a sadomasochistic love scene.
Posted by First-Aid on February 10th, 2007 @ 1:43pm CST
Optimus Prime is blocky, no doubt. Someone else mentioned the electronics interfering with the toy; it may be the case in our eyes yes. The sad thing is that eletronics and gadgets sell to today's kids: they WANT that stuff. If it happens to play Devo in addition to transforming to a neat robot they'll be more likely to want it.
Did anyone notice that they have listed the main movie charcters as both Voyager and Deluxe sized figures? Is that true?
Posted by Archibald Witwicky on February 10th, 2007 @ 1:47pm CST
AbsumZer0 wrote:I hope you're right. Not just about the use of the song but about 'Ghost Riding the Whip'. I haven't been out of the state in a couple years so it's good to know that particular strain of of stupid hasn't spread.
Yeah, thankfully it's not really taking off. It had a brief spike in popularity a few months ago thanks to some youtube videos, and it's made a few appearances in pop culture, but other than that it's not really going anywhere.
I, a prog-metalhead(to cram myself into a stereotype) white guy had to explain it to three rap loving black friends. That should tell you how well known it is.
First-Aid wrote:Did anyone notice that they have listed the main movie charcters as both Voyager and Deluxe sized figures? Is that true?
Yeah. A few days ago someone from Hasbro did an interview saying the larger figures would be released as smaller scale toys down the line to make it easier for younger people/those with less access to money to have the entire cast.