Transformers One Sentinel Prime and Bumblebee Prime Changer (Deluxe) Toys Revealed

I like that you can reveal Bumblebee's transformation cog, but I'll wait to see what his Studio Series version will look like and hope that one has is battle mask.

Bumblebee looks surpassingly good. Hopefully the SS version is better than this.

Sentinel Prime is just a tetra jet then. Looks too much like Dirge for my tastes.

Prime still as bad, and Alpha Trion is just meh.

These look nice. I can see the Sentinel Prime SS figure being a BBM Seeker retool.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:These look nice. I can see the Sentinel Prime SS figure being a BBM Seeker retool.

If not a Siege Seeker retool.

Sabrblade wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:These look nice. I can see the Sentinel Prime SS figure being a BBM Seeker retool.

If not a Siege Seeker retool.

Maybe, but he's got that extra dangling bit that the Siege mold doesn't have.

All 4 look good in my opinion.
Bumblebee looks simpel yet good proportions, solid and the right articulation. The Studio Series deluxe Optimus looks a little better but I'll wait for the reviews. I hate flimsy studio series stuff.

Good line so far has been revealed.

FYI yesterday was the day that Deluxe One Prime was supposed to be in stock and ship from Amazon. The figure is out of stock and the orders are all "We'll let you know." This happens somewhat regularly with Amazon so while I'm disappointed I'm not surprised.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:FYI yesterday was the day that Deluxe One Prime was supposed to be in stock and ship from Amazon. The figure is out of stock and the orders are all "We'll let you know." This happens somewhat regularly with Amazon so while I'm disappointed I'm not surprised.

We'll see that a lot with this figure (and G1 Bumblebee) since it's made to be constantly replenished and available throughout the year as an "A Level" figure.

Emerje

That Bee looks fantastic. Especially because (so far) there's no panels-kibble on the bot mode.

Emerje wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:FYI yesterday was the day that Deluxe One Prime was supposed to be in stock and ship from Amazon. The figure is out of stock and the orders are all "We'll let you know." This happens somewhat regularly with Amazon so while I'm disappointed I'm not surprised.

We'll see that a lot with this figure (and G1 Bumblebee) since it's made to be constantly replenished and available throughout the year as an "A Level" figure.

Emerje

How many people do you think are going to wait for those A level figures to go on sale/clearance?

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Emerje wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:FYI yesterday was the day that Deluxe One Prime was supposed to be in stock and ship from Amazon. The figure is out of stock and the orders are all "We'll let you know." This happens somewhat regularly with Amazon so while I'm disappointed I'm not surprised.

We'll see that a lot with this figure (and G1 Bumblebee) since it's made to be constantly replenished and available throughout the year as an "A Level" figure.

Emerje

How many people do you think are going to wait for those A level figures to go on sale/clearance?

At least one, me. They'll be stocked at Studio Series prices so anytime there's a Studio Series sale or discount (like there is right now at Walmart and Target) they'll be part of it. If these go as Hasbro plans they wont see actual clearance at all this year.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

Emerje wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:FYI yesterday was the day that Deluxe One Prime was supposed to be in stock and ship from Amazon. The figure is out of stock and the orders are all "We'll let you know." This happens somewhat regularly with Amazon so while I'm disappointed I'm not surprised.

We'll see that a lot with this figure (and G1 Bumblebee) since it's made to be constantly replenished and available throughout the year as an "A Level" figure.

Emerje

How many people do you think are going to wait for those A level figures to go on sale/clearance?

At least one, me. They'll be stocked at Studio Series prices so anytime there's a Studio Series sale or discount (like there is right now at Walmart and Target) they'll be part of it. If these go as Hasbro plans they wont see actual clearance at all this year.

Emerje

Oh Hasbro, you keep dreaming!

While there is no deluxe class in the upcoming Transformers One movie line, there is the Prime Changer class which is pretty close to what we'd call a deluxe, though still solely targeting kids like warrior class toys. We had seen a few images of Bumblebee and Sentinel Prime, but now we can see their alt modes. Sentinel’s looks nothing like what they show on the box so that box image may have been repurposed artwork. We have yet to see his alt mode clearly in the film.

These images were found the on the Otto Simon website https://www.ottosimon.nl/nl-nl/transfor ... -439--8645

Is anyone else getting Energon Megatron vibes from that Sentinel Prime?

First-Aid wrote:Is anyone else getting Energon Megatron vibes from that Sentinel Prime?

G1 Dirge says hi.

First-Aid wrote:Is anyone else getting Energon Megatron vibes from that Sentinel Prime?

Totally. Was about to post just that.


He looks nothing like the artwork, though he does have all the guns.

Maybe the Studio Series version will look a bit nicer than this.

Sabrblade wrote:

First-Aid wrote:Is anyone else getting Energon Megatron vibes from that Sentinel Prime?

G1 Dirge says hi.

Color-wise I agree. The thing that gives me those vibes are the shape of the cockpit and the way the wings arch upwards. I feel like it would be a piece of cake to retool and repaint.

Not to mention the dual cannons pointing upwards.

Those wheels on Bee... Ugh.

Yep, take Energon Megs, remove 95% of the Galvatron and 80% of the Thunderwing, replace with Dirge, and give him a new head.

First-Aid wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

First-Aid wrote:Is anyone else getting Energon Megatron vibes from that Sentinel Prime?

G1 Dirge says hi.

Color-wise I agree. The thing that gives me those vibes are the shape of the cockpit and the way the wings arch upwards. I feel like it would be a piece of cake to retool and repaint.

This would mean that the east design team (the one we see in videos) would be using a design from the west team (the one that does toys for cartoons and movie mainlines).

Has that ever happened? Has any mold made within a line only for younger viewers ever been repurposed in the generations/ss line?

Rodimus Prime wrote:Not to mention the dual cannons pointing upwards.

Those wheels on Bee... Ugh.

at least they are all pinned. That's more than most current released can say

Bumblebee looks good!

The colors on Sentinel Prime vaguely reminds me of Transformers Animated Sentinel, and his head crest, of the movie version.

Day 1617 of waiting for Transformers Armada Masterpiece news.

Transformers Animated has forever welded into my mind the character of Sentinel Prime as the Autobot version of Starscream. A self-serving egotistical jerk, forever scheming to elevate himself at the expense of others.

I do like when Sentinel Prime gets to be in stuff. Probably will try to pick up this toy.

That Sentinel Prime looks way better than it needs to. I like the sorta modular play of the weapons.

I don’t get how the box art and the actually alt mode for Sentinel Prime are so different.
That seems really odd.

Sabrblade wrote:

First-Aid wrote:Is anyone else getting Energon Megatron vibes from that Sentinel Prime?

G1 Dirge says hi.

For me it's Cybertron/Universe Dirge more than anything.




Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

First-Aid wrote:Is anyone else getting Energon Megatron vibes from that Sentinel Prime?

G1 Dirge says hi.

For me it's Cybertron/Universe Dirge more than anything.

Still G1 Dirge in a pre-Earth body.

Sabrblade wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

First-Aid wrote:Is anyone else getting Energon Megatron vibes from that Sentinel Prime?

G1 Dirge says hi.

For me it's Cybertron/Universe Dirge more than anything.

Still G1 Dirge in a pre-Earth body.

Yes but I doubt many/any people think specifically of that figure when someone says "G1 Dirge".

Emerje

First-Aid wrote:Is anyone else getting Energon Megatron vibes from that Sentinel Prime?

Came in to say exactly that!

~ Grim

Sowndwave76 wrote:I don’t get how the box art and the actually alt mode for Sentinel Prime are so different.
That seems really odd.

Yeah, if it had actually matched the box art the alt mode would be pretty cool to have. Otherwise meh.
I do like his Bot mode though.

Bee is another oddity that his alt mode isn't as sleek or gold looking as depicted on the box art. Still not sure on his Bot mode, while "cute" which is probably due to being animated and aimed at kids, the legs look very cheap and choppy. I like the head sculpt the most, probably my favorite he's ever had aside from G1.

We've gotten new images from Club Jouet for upcoming figures in the Transformers One Toyline. Firstly we have the Robot Battlers which features a basic form of Rock Em Sock Em Robots gimmick. We can see it on the back of Alpha Trion's box where the two levers can be pinched together to have the bot rotate and attack. While we have had many toys from different line featuring a gimmick like this, all of these also transform, which is a new spin on the gimmick. While we do not see the alt modes yet for most, we do see Alpha Trion's beast mode.

We also have images of the upcoming Power Flip Optimus Prime, which has 4 modes: alt mode, Orion Pax, Optimus Prime and a Super robot mode.

Those robot battlers look fun. At least when I play with myself it won't be that hard to do, unlike say rock'm sock'm robots.

Holy crap I just noticed, 20 years on seibertron.

These figures definitely seem more geared towards the littler tykes. While I don't deny it's a completely viable demographic to target - I'm not inside that demographic. So it's doubtful I'll be collecting any of these. I'll reserve my attention for the more advanced stuff....

Interesting, if I read the back of the box correctly, the first transformations are manual, while the Power Flip is only used for the Ultimate mode.

DeathReviews wrote:These figures definitely seem more geared towards the littler tykes. While I don't deny it's a completely viable demographic to target - I'm not inside that demographic. So it's doubtful I'll be collecting any of these. I'll reserve my attention for the more advanced stuff....

What he said

Sentinel, Trion, and Bee look good, i will probably get those 3

USA! USA! While the US is rarely first to receive new figures, the Transformers One toys are being distributed there earlier. The street date is August 1st, to have these on the shelf in time for the film coming out a month later, but Meijer broke the street date and are selling both the COG changers (one steps) and Prime changers (deluxes). The case distributions are not standard with different assortments being shipped to different retailers. This particular assortment of Prime changers just included Optimus and Alpha Trion.
The other Prime changer toys are also being released from certain online outlets in different territories. So we now have a lot of in hand images of Sentinel, Optimus, Bee and Alpha Trion courtesy of Shaddowtoa, Devil Prime, ambitron and RATCHET 208.

































































As a fun extra, these toys are the same toys featured in Takara's "stop motion" music video for the theme song of the Japense version of Transformers One.

The scale makes no sense, but I'm glad Bee's a big boi, still I'll probably skip it though 'cause of the legs... yeesh.

The rest are pretty cool. I'll get Sentinel & Alpha Trion on sight, those looks like sweet desk toys. Orion Pax looks better and better than the "Studio Series" one (I put SS in quotes because I hate Hasbro putting out figures that just cash-in on the movie's simultaneous/synergy release but looks half-cooked in terms of movie accuracy, like they started with ROTB, using concept designs instead of the actual onscreen final).

Ah crap, guess I gotta get the Sightings section updated. Thought I had until August, dangit Meijer

cloudballoon wrote:The scale makes no sense, but I'm glad Bee's a big boi, still I'll probably skip it though 'cause of the legs... yeesh.

The rest are pretty cool. I'll get Sentinel & Alpha Trion on sight, those looks like sweet desk toys. Orion Pax looks better and better than the "Studio Series" one (I put SS in quotes because I hate Hasbro putting out figures that just cash-in on the movie's simultaneous/synergy release but looks half-cooked in terms of movie accuracy, like they started with ROTB, using concept designs instead of the actual onscreen final).

It can't be helped, the only way they can get figures out in time for the movies is to use the most current designs they have at the time. Sometimes it works out, other times they make major changes in the meantime.

Emerje

The Transformers One Mainline deluxe toys (called Prime Changers) have intrigued some fans and they will be the main toys for the film, while we wait until 2025 for the same cast of characters to come out in Studio Series. For those wanting to know as much as possible about these toys, we have a review for you below from Chuckdawg1999 showing Bumblebee. These toys have already been spotted at Meijer and are about to drop at other retailers like Target.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

The Transformers One toyline is here! More and more are appearing in the wild and shipping from online stores so we want to catch you up on some reviews.

Below you will see reviews of Transformers One Prime Changers Sentinel Prime and Optimus Prime as well as One Megatron/D-16 and Whirlwing, which is a retool of the deployer toy from the Robots in Disguise 2015 line.

The one Transformers One Prime Changer we had yet to post a review of was Alpha Trion. We have one now which you can see below. The toy has been released in the US at some stores while it is available to order on Amazon.ca for $29.99 CAD.

The review below shows that he is comparable in size to modern day deluxes, as well as deluxes from the beast era, 30 years ago, and shares a lot in common with that era. Enjoy!

I was waiting for that Snarl to crumble in his hands while Transforming it so haphazardly.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:I was waiting for that Snarl to crumble in his hands while Transforming it so haphazardly.

Emerje

I, too, was waiting for GPS to strike.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

I have a question, reviewer to reviewer, why do you choose to go from alt mode to robot when the figure is packaged in robot mode? Is it for nostalgia, like a call back to the time when toys would be packaged in alt mode?