Transformers Kingdom Titan Class Ark, Leader Class Galvatron, Deluxe Class Scorponok Revealed

Just noticed the hollow shins on Ark, clearly visible in both modes. That's disappointing. He will look quite flimsy next to Omega Supreme and the City Bots.

The Ark could work frightenling well as a weird Tidal Wave. Those little guns and the two pontoon-esque details on his chest remind me of him.

The Ark still looks great. but I guess the inclusion of the Micro Figure can put to rest the idea that the Core Class smaller representations of Classic Characters were for The Ark. I know that a lot of people enjoy them despite their small size, but they just seem pointless to me now.

As for the holloness. I'm guess the fact that it is only 19 inches, and uses less plastic overall than more recent Titan's is the reason for the slight price reduction. ($149.99)

Also, Teletran-1 Looks almost like it could be a weaponizer, but not sure...

Scorponok looks good except for all of that red in his beast mode. Its just so unsightly and ruins any of the real-life accuracy that they were obviously going for with his scorpion mode, makes him look like a rescue bots toy imo

I said it in the other thread, and I'll say it here. I'm not all that impressed by the Ark's ship mode. The robot mode I can't judge because there's no precedent as far as I know, but the ship design leaves a bit to be desired. Most notably the open sides where the robot thighs can be seen. Those should be covered up with panels. And to a lesser extent the inaccurate design of the boosters. Unless in Kingdom it will only have 4 instead of 5 like usual.

Nuclearxpotato wrote:The Ark could work frightenling well as a weird Tidal Wave. Those little guns and the two pontoon-esque details on his chest remind me of him.

I was thinking the same thing, his whole robot mode has a very Tidal Wave-esque look to it.

...isn't Scorponok a Deluxe, not a Voyager?

getting all 3. but was this ark reveal worth the wait? nope.

Galvatron lloks good.I know its a reference to the G1 movie,but if I buy him,i would display him without the Matrix.

The Ark looks good too.Until they make Animated Omega Supreme,this guys is the best next thing.

Tuned Agent wrote:

Nuclearxpotato wrote:The Ark could work frightenling well as a weird Tidal Wave. Those little guns and the two pontoon-esque details on his chest remind me of him.

I was thinking the same thing, his whole robot mode has a very Tidal Wave-esque look to it.

Make it happen Hastak!

Scorponok robot mode looks good.I want to see a review to see more of the
beast mode,but the scorpion legs look decent.

Day 463 of waiting for Transformers Armada Masterpiece news.

I updated the article to use larger images after I figured out that I grabbed the smaller ones initially for ZeroWolf. I also included some cropped headshots to zoom in for a clearer look, now that I had larger images to work with. Enjoy and thanks for getting it posted so quickly ZeroWolf!

I love the Last Autobot head sculpt. Is the toy officially called "Autobot Ark"?

Seibertron wrote:I love the Last Autobot head sculpt. Is the toy officially called "Autobot Ark"?

Finally! The Last Autobot!!!! Yes!!

Ok, so Teletraan-1 is Mainframe. I guess we'll be getting that repaint soon. Cool!

Nemesis Primal wrote:...isn't Scorponok a Deluxe, not a Voyager?

Yes, you are correct. That was my mistake. I read it at $29.99 for the MSRP, and because Scorponok had previously been a larger Mega class, my brain just went with that made complete sense for Scorponok. I updated the news article accordingly. Thanks Nemesis Primal!

Some more great stuff there. Scorponok is decent, and the Ark Autobot looks great. I like how Galvatron's cannon mode has a place for the rest of his robot mode's arm cannon.

So Galvatron's guns are designed to look like the ship from the movie, which would go nicely with the Unicron stand, except, they are the wrong color and don't come with an additional peg for that stand.

The Arc is okay, although does that 17 inches make him the shorties of the titans then? Not including the combiners. Someone mentioned the his needing some panels on the sides for the ship mode and I have to agree wholeheartedly. The void looks awful in ship mode.

I want a better look at that cyberbee on Scorpinok. Does it launch like a missile? Will it's butt have a large missile sticking out it?

Seibertron wrote:I updated the article to use larger images after I figured out that I grabbed the smaller ones initially for ZeroWolf. I also included some cropped headshots to zoom in for a clearer look, now that I had larger images to work with. Enjoy and thanks for getting it posted so quickly ZeroWolf!

Anytime boss

My thoughts:

I do like Galvatron, though I want to see the Selects redeco before I make my buying choice.

Scorponok, I want to like him, but he's just not doing it for me, there seems to be a disconnect between his torso and legs. I'll reserve judgment till we get in hand shots in.

Ark. I love him already just for Mainframe love the Last Autobot headsculpt. He's got a good look to him. He's also got the privilege of being the only Titan so far to not being based on any toy before (besides Mainframe of course)

The Ark looks really nice (even if you can see the robot legs...), but I'll need to think long and hard about whether or not I should actually get one. I rent an apartment now, and the Ark will probably cost just over a third of a month's rent, so I need to decide if I can really justify the price. I like Teletraan-1/Mainframe, but I'm getting a bit of deja vu with Mainframe's robot mode, the shoulders, arms and torso remind me of Combiner Wars Silverbolt, but not to the point where I'd say it's an extensive retool or anything.
As I've said in the other thread, I'm not really digging Scorponok. The robot legs look too small for the rest of his body, I wouldn't be surprised if this figure has issues standing up. While I get that the scorpion's colours are supposed to be cartoon accurate, I still don't think it looks very nice. The purple doesn't go very well with the red and grey, and looking back at some images from the cartoon, while Scorponok's claws are purple they're more of a blue-ish purple, which I think would've looked better than the violet we have here.

Seibertron wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:...isn't Scorponok a Deluxe, not a Voyager?

Yes, you are correct. That was my mistake. I read it at $29.99 for the MSRP, and because Scorponok had previously been a larger Mega class, my brain just went with that made complete sense for Scorponok. I updated the news article accordingly. Thanks Nemesis Primal!

Your brain and mine, could have sworn he was a Voyager according to the leaked listings a while back! That's a whoops on my part as well.

R_Puffs wrote:Scorponok looks good except for all of that red in his beast mode. Its just so unsightly and ruins any of the real-life accuracy that they were obviously going for with his scorpion mode, makes him look like a rescue bots toy imo

Unfortunately, in spite of the more life-like Beast Mode head, the character accurate colour scheme was always going to make any notion of realism redundant.

Teletraan 1 as Mainframe is very cool.

Hasbro's photography has come a long way. Galvatron looks like he just emerged from the plasma pools of Thrull.

Whoever is behind this line is clearly a fan.

To be fair, this is the same background as they used when Kingdom was revealed and is supposed to be prehistoric earth, homaging Beast Wars and celebrating it.

Oh my aching wallet...need transfusion of money...please stop...

o.supreme wrote:The Ark still looks great. but I guess the inclusion of the Micro Figure can put to rest the idea that the Core Class smaller representations of Classic Characters were for The Ark. I know that a lot of people enjoy them despite their small size, but they just seem pointless to me now.

As for the holloness. I'm guess the fact that it is only 19 inches, and uses less plastic overall than more recent Titan's is the reason for the slight price reduction. ($149.99)

Also, Teletran-1 Looks almost like it could be a weaponizer, but not sure...

Now I really wonder what the core class versions scale with. Apparently Unicron and the Ark both include micro figures and, if anything, the regular size characters are slightly too small. Will there be some future play factor?

I've only seen the Beast Wars series once, so I don't remember much about Scorponok's scorpion mode, but did his claws always look like that? They almost look like Venus fly traps rather than scorpion claws.

Scorponok's alt mode actually looks really good with the realistic alt mode head and I like that he comes with the missiles and the Cyberbee, but Scorponok is the least interesting BW Predacon character-wise and his proportions are a bit off to me. If they do a Sandstorm or Double Punch repaint, I'd probably jump on it, but I think I'll pass this version.

Galvatron still looks good (and he looked better with the shoulders reversed), but I'm not attached enough to G1 Galvatron to spend Leader class money on him. If they repaint/retool him into Energon Megatron like we've mentioned/speculated before, I'll be all over it.

I've not bought any Titans and still have no intention of doing so, but that Ark is VERY tempting. The fact that he comes with Mainframe and the alt mode scanner drone is great, and he REALLY reminds me of Tidal Wave, which is a strong selling point for a UT kid like me. If they do another version of Mainframe without the Ark in his original colors like was suggested on the Selects thread, I'd grab that.

Seibertron wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:...isn't Scorponok a Deluxe, not a Voyager?

Yes, you are correct. That was my mistake. I read it at $29.99 for the MSRP, and because Scorponok had previously been a larger Mega class, my brain just went with that made complete sense for Scorponok. I updated the news article accordingly. Thanks Nemesis Primal!

No problem Boss Bot

I'm curious about the unicron galvatron listing
I wonder if it's leader galvatron with a leader sized unicron figure or a reference to the idea from the Headmasters cartoon that some of y'all had mentioned. But without it just being a beer belly galvatron lol I'd imagine he'd be CC galvatron with a planet alternate mode and some unicron design elements

Bounti76 wrote:I've only seen the Beast Wars series once, so I don't remember much about Scorponok's scorpion mode, but did his claws always look like that? They almost look like Venus fly traps rather than scorpion claws.

I think they are basing the design on a combination of the original toy and cartoon.

Scorponok's claws out here looking like they want Seymour to feed them.

I wanted the ark for the spaceship mode. Only. It doesn't even really have a robot mode that anyone identifies with. So considering they only had one mode to get right, how could they leave gaping holes in the sides?! They seriously couldn't engineer a panel that flips down to cover it?!

They only needed one mode and failed spectacularly. I honestly can't think of a bigger design failure in Transformers history.

Keelan wrote:Scorponok's claws out here looking like they want Seymour to feed them.

WiseMan wrote:I wanted the ark for the spaceship mode. Only. It doesn't even really have a robot mode that anyone identifies with. So considering they only had one mode to get right, how could they leave gaping holes in the sides?! They seriously couldn't engineer a panel that flips down to cover it?!

They only needed one mode and failed spectacularly. I honestly can't think of a bigger design failure in Transformers history.

You're making Prime Airachnid sad. It could also be argued that Earthrise Arcee was a failure in design

The arks designer probably wanted people to buy his upgrade set on the side as per the norm. It should be easy enough to 3d print some coverings.

Scorponoks chest is too square and his crotch looks off (aomething a fair few WFC figures have against them) but I think that it might be the size class that goes against him for me as I'll mainly be going for MP beast wars figures. Still nice to see we are getting nearly the full Beast wars crew so Inferno can't be far behind

blackeyedprime wrote:The arks designer probably wanted people to buy his upgrade set on the side as per the norm. It should be easy enough to 3d print some coverings.

Scorponoks chest is too square and his crotch looks off (aomething a fair few WFC figures have against them) but I think that it might be the size class that goes against him for me as I'll mainly be going for MP beast wars figures. Still nice to see we are getting nearly the full Beast wars crew so Inferno can't be far behind

Inferno won't be happening in a line with another inferno in it next year is a better bet

Or they will use the "Scavenger" name again. As we discussed elsewhere, I think?

Scorponok looks really good, I like it.

Galvatron, I'll wait to see repaints of. But I'm just not feeling $50 for him.

The Ark / Iaconus (I'm calling him that, frag it) looks pretty dang nice. I like the aesthetic they went with for him, looks great! and I love that Mainframe. I hope we get a proper colored Mainframe repaint of him in selects, the Lost Light shelf deserves it!

On a different note, I love using Ractonite as a huge bone hammer

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

R_Puffs wrote:Scorponok looks good except for all of that red in his beast mode. Its just so unsightly and ruins any of the real-life accuracy that they were obviously going for with his scorpion mode, makes him look like a rescue bots toy imo

Unfortunately, in spite of the more life-like Beast Mode head, the character accurate colour scheme was always going to make any notion of realism redundant.

Idk, HasTak made that change with Blackarachnia, opting for the more anatomically accurate black legs for the black widow mode over the show-accurate gold legs. I don't think it would have been too much to ask for some grey legs for the sake of Scorp's beast mode.

That Galvatron ... looks like another "we just almost got it right" attempt. The head is out of proportion, and the shoulders sit too far down, while his torso is kind of a weird shape.

The Ark, eh. I could be alright, it's just not something worth spending $150 on. Although the Teletran as Mainframe idea would be worth doing as its own deluxe figure!

Scorponok looks like a great update, complete with cyberbee and everything.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Scorponok looks really good, I like it.

Galvatron, I'll wait to see repaints of. But I'm just not feeling $50 for him.

The Ark / Iaconus (I'm calling him that, frag it) looks pretty dang nice. I like the aesthetic they went with for him, looks great! and I love that Mainframe. I hope we get a proper colored Mainframe repaint of him in selects, the Lost Light shelf deserves it!

On a different note, I love using Ractonite as a huge bone hammer

It's hammer time

ZeroWolf wrote:

WiseMan wrote:It could also be argued that Earthrise Arcee was a failure in design

Well, it sure couldn't be argued that it was a success.

Yeah I wouldn't call it the biggest design failure in transformers history but to each their own haha can't argue with a wiseman amirite

I mean, it could be fixed with two panels. But it doesn't ruin the alt mode for me.

The biggest design failure in TF history ... TR Fort Max in my book. His legs go from inroads in Metroplex to literally nothing in Fort Max. I was hoping a 3rd party could do something with them, but it was not to be.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:The biggest design failure in TF history ... TR Fort Max in my book. His legs go from inroads in Metroplex to literally nothing in Fort Max. I was hoping a 3rd party could do something with them, but it was not to be.

I'm looking at TR Fort Max right now, and I agree that only the robot mode is any good.

My problem with the Ark is that though there are many different variations of it, I've never seen one that doesn't have, you know, sides.

My dinky little Titanium Ark that doesn't look like any other Ark is more Ark-like than the Kingdom Ark.

WiseMan wrote:My dinky little Titanium Ark that doesn't look like any other Ark is more Ark-like than the Kingdom Ark.

Well the Titanium Ark doesn't have to transform into an almost 2-foot tall robot

Scorponok’s ugly, but then again he’s not exactly supposed to be as hot as Scarlett Johansson or my girlfriend. Still gunna buy him to complete the cast.

Galvatron is... well, Galvatron. Already knew I was into him but it’s nice to see that his Revenge model kits can be stored on his back.

The Ark is.... underwhelming, frankly. Ship mode is nice but the robot mode leaves something to be desired for me. Teletraan-1 having a Mainframe-looking robot mode is also a neat twist, though it’s suspiciously Combiner Wars Silverbolt-shaped... I wonder how both the Ark and Teletraan-1 scale with the rest of Generations?

Autobot N wrote:

WiseMan wrote:My dinky little Titanium Ark that doesn't look like any other Ark is more Ark-like than the Kingdom Ark.

Well the Titanium Ark doesn't have to transform into an almost 2-foot tall robot

This. I completely see and agree with WiseMan's take but at the same time, I know it transforms so some things I can forgive.

I feel like we are in an opposite time from G1. Back then, the alt-mode was gorgeous while the robot was a non-articulated brick. They were wonderful-looking bricks! But, a brick nonetheless. These days we have decent-looking alt-modes with gorgeous robots that have amazing articulation. So some of the cost that would have gone into panels went into some joint, maybe some articulation instead. I prefer articulation so I'm cool with it but I can see why other collectors would be put off.

I am really happy with the look of Galvatron overall. Now, I wish the chain of the matrix looked better, but oh well. The "Revenge" cannons... Mehhh... Not saying they're bad, but don't much either way. I'm really excited to get him displayed with Cyclonus, Scourge, and eventually a couple Sweeps!
This is really going to be a display set-up that I've wanted for many years!!!

I am probably in for the Ark... I actually like that there's no illustrated model to compare his bot mode to. Which in the grand scheme isn't anything impressive, but good enough.
The ship mode is a little disappointing with the gaps, but I still like it. Who knows, I may even display him in alt mode. I really appreciate the Teletraan-1 and Mainframe... Very cool imo!!
I'm not trying to hype this up to myself too much, but I'm looking forward to getting just my second Titan Class figure!

Scorponok is a pass for me. like all the BW figures.

o.supreme wrote:The Ark still looks great. but I guess the inclusion of the Micro Figure can put to rest the idea that the Core Class smaller representations of Classic Characters were for The Ark. I know that a lot of people enjoy them despite their small size, but they just seem pointless to me now.

As for the holloness. I'm guess the fact that it is only 19 inches, and uses less plastic overall than more recent Titan's is the reason for the slight price reduction. ($149.99)

Also, Teletran-1 Looks almost like it could be a weaponizer, but not sure...

Yeah, I'm really disappointed by the Ark and as you said makes the Core class pointless, which is a shame since I feel they're the best figures in Kingdom.

Mindmaster wrote:Scorponok’s ugly, but then again he’s not exactly supposed to be as hot as Scarlett Johansson or my girlfriend. Still gunna buy him to complete the cast.

Galvatron is... well, Galvatron. Already knew I was into him but it’s nice to see that his Revenge model kits can be stored on his back.

The Ark is.... underwhelming, frankly. Ship mode is nice but the robot mode leaves something to be desired for me. Teletraan-1 having a Mainframe-looking robot mode is also a neat twist, though it’s suspiciously Combiner Wars Silverbolt-shaped... I wonder how both the Ark and Teletraan-1 scale with the rest of Generations?

And your Girlfriend? Nice save my friend, nice save.

aronjlove wrote:I feel like we are in an opposite time from G1. Back then, the alt-mode was gorgeous while the robot was a non-articulated brick.

And I hate Kingdom Galvatron because despite the robot mode looking fantastic, the back of his alt-mode of a cannon-tube-thingy-on-wheels in no way matches the original toy or animation model. And I hate it more because 3rd party knock-offs are getting it right.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

o.supreme wrote:The Ark still looks great. but I guess the inclusion of the Micro Figure can put to rest the idea that the Core Class smaller representations of Classic Characters were for The Ark. I know that a lot of people enjoy them despite their small size, but they just seem pointless to me now.

As for the holloness. I'm guess the fact that it is only 19 inches, and uses less plastic overall than more recent Titan's is the reason for the slight price reduction. ($149.99)

Also, Teletran-1 Looks almost like it could be a weaponizer, but not sure...

Yeah, I'm really disappointed by the Ark and as you said makes the Core class pointless, which is a shame since I feel they're the best figures in Kingdom.

Mindmaster wrote:Scorponok’s ugly, but then again he’s not exactly supposed to be as hot as Scarlett Johansson or my girlfriend. Still gunna buy him to complete the cast.

Galvatron is... well, Galvatron. Already knew I was into him but it’s nice to see that his Revenge model kits can be stored on his back.

The Ark is.... underwhelming, frankly. Ship mode is nice but the robot mode leaves something to be desired for me. Teletraan-1 having a Mainframe-looking robot mode is also a neat twist, though it’s suspiciously Combiner Wars Silverbolt-shaped... I wonder how both the Ark and Teletraan-1 scale with the rest of Generations?

And your Girlfriend? Nice save my friend, nice save.

I'm not too sure about Core-class. That little red Prime looking freaking tiny in the shot. That might be the right size for Unicron, but too small for the Ark to my eyes. I think the Core-class is actually going to scale just fine.