Transformers Studio Series 86 Ironhide Listing Found in Retail Database

If it's a re-released Ironhide, I can imagine them bringing in Ratchet and Prowl to both recreate their minuscule screentime and drive those who spent the same amount for a new car on the eBay bidding wars to insanity.

This will be interesting.

Oh yes, hope this is true. Totally missed out on the Amazon 2-Pack

I don't know...with those feet hanging off the back, I din't know if ER Ironhide is screen-accurate enough. Unless maybe they've added accessories to hide those too...

Being SS, he should come with considerable... battle damage. Hopefully SS Prowl will have the appropriate eye and mouth effects parts too.

I do hope it's an entirely new mold with better engineering.
Especially if we get a proper transformation with no partsforming at all.

AND IF BOTH RATCHET AND IRONHIDE ARE NON-EXCLUSIVE WIDE RELEASES FOR ONCE.

-Kanrabat- wrote:AND IF BOTH RATCHET AND IRONHIDE ARE NON-EXCLUSIVE WIDE RELEASES FOR ONCE.

Good one...

If it's identical to the Amazon one I'll pass, but if they took some notes from the eBay upgrade kits and fixed the feet I'll buy it. If it's an entirely new mold that solves all of the shortcomings of the original then even better. If it's just the Amazon figure in gray with effect parts I'd probably buy it, but it would definitely piss off a few fans.

Emerje

As a guy who bought both Ironhide and Ratchet I feel torn.

On the one hand I feel ripped off. On the other, as a fan, I kinda hope they fix all the problems those releases had. Even with new feet the figures are still pretty bad.

If it's just a re-release I guess I feel fine about it. I bought them when they came out, so little is lost for me.

I put off opening my Earthrise Ironhide & Prowl for a rainy day and then watched the price go up. I was badly torn about whether to keep them, and finally decided, 'this won't be the last generations versions of these characters we get'. Sold it for $150 and bought a 3p IDW Prowl with part of the money. I'd been feeling seller's remorse, but now I have some validation!

Too bad I also sold Bluestreak.

But, should they be regular or unique damaged molds. Characters such as Wheeljack, Windcharger and Prowl were only in The Movie to die and/or as corpses. So maybe they should be released as such.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:But, should they be regular or unique damaged molds. Characters such as Wheeljack, Windcharger and Prowl were only in The Movie to die and/or as corpses. So maybe they should be released as such.

Didn't we already get Jazz in the movie line though?

ZeroWolf wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:But, should they be regular or unique damaged molds. Characters such as Wheeljack, Windcharger and Prowl were only in The Movie to die and/or as corpses. So maybe they should be released as such.

Didn't we already get Jazz in the movie line though?

Yes, which is accurate. Jazz was fine and basically unharmed in The Movie...





Others, were not so lucky.

Dr. Caelus wrote:I put off opening my Earthrise Ironhide & Prowl for a rainy day and then watched the price go up. I was badly torn about whether to keep them, and finally decided, 'this won't be the last generations versions of these characters we get'. Sold it for $150 and bought a 3p IDW Prowl with part of the money. I'd been feeling seller's remorse, but now I have some validation!

Too bad I also sold Bluestreak.

I was always annoyed that Ironhide and Ratchet were sold in twin-packs with other figures I didn't really want, but I bought both anyway just for Ironhide and Ratchet. I've never had Lifeline on my main Autobot display, and I recently swapped out Prowl for Jazz (Prowl has never been my favourite Datsun, and I would've passed on him if he wasn't part of a twin-pack with Ironhide), but I more than likely will sell Ironhide and Prowl once we get more concrete information about this Studio Series Ironhide, if the listing is indeed real.
Bluestreak is still availabe on Ebay for reasonable prices (or at least my idea of reasonable), and Smokescreen for a bit more, but I want to avoid impulse buying figures I don't really need for my collection like I did for a good chunk of this year. Bluestreak, Trailbreaker, Sunstreaker, Huffer and Inferno have never been characters I've cared all that much about, but now I want them all as decoration more than anything else.

Or maybe it is a new mold?

I can't think of any added accessories to come with Ironhide that would bump him up from Deluxe to Voyager status, unless this is an all new toy and not just a further WFC retool. I mean he was in literally 2 scenes. Could it be the moonbase 1 console or the chair on the shuttle he was sitting in?

Maybe she swappable parts to make him "dead", ala SS86 Kup, but I would think that would require an all new toy since the WFC version isn't really meant to come apart.

Munkky wrote:

Dr. Caelus wrote:I put off opening my Earthrise Ironhide & Prowl for a rainy day and then watched the price go up. I was badly torn about whether to keep them, and finally decided, 'this won't be the last generations versions of these characters we get'. Sold it for $150 and bought a 3p IDW Prowl with part of the money. I'd been feeling seller's remorse, but now I have some validation!

Too bad I also sold Bluestreak.

I was always annoyed that Ironhide and Ratchet were sold in twin-packs with other figures I didn't really want, but I bought both anyway just for Ironhide and Ratchet. I've never had Lifeline on my main Autobot display, and I recently swapped out Prowl for Jazz (Prowl has never been my favourite Datsun, and I would've passed on him if he wasn't part of a twin-pack with Ironhide), but I more than likely will sell Ironhide and Prowl once we get more concrete information about this Studio Series Ironhide, if the listing is indeed real.
Bluestreak is still availabe on Ebay for reasonable prices (or at least my idea of reasonable), and Smokescreen for a bit more, but I want to avoid impulse buying figures I don't really need for my collection like I did for a good chunk of this year. Bluestreak, Trailbreaker, Sunstreaker, Huffer and Inferno have never been characters I've cared all that much about, but now I want them all as decoration more than anything else.

I'm struggling to balance incompatible priorities with my 'G1' collection. My priority had been to get everything as IDW as possible, but then things started spilling over the lines.

So, I'd also like to have the best looking, most poseable version of every Sunbow/Marvel character, but I'd also like to avoid having more than one of each mold (exception for seekers, Refractor, etc.). So, if they do an 86 Ironhide as a new mold, that'll be great for me b/c I'm happy with the Earthrise Ratchet for G1 Ratchet.

Same logic went into the decision to sell Bluestreak. I kept Siege Bluestreak b/c, really, he doesn't look that alien (he looks like a near-future Mercedes) so I can have him, ER Smokescreen, and IDW Proql together in the same battle scene and feel like I have all the characters but in distinct forms. BUT, when I decided to do that I underestimated the allure of completing the season 1/season 2 Autobots in a cohesive aesthetic.

Edit: I skipped on Earthmode Red Alert too, I guess.

Emerje wrote:If it's identical to the Amazon one I'll pass, but if they took some notes from the eBay upgrade kits and fixed the feet I'll buy it. If it's an entirely new mold that solves all of the shortcomings of the original then even better. If it's just the Amazon figure in gray with effect parts I'd probably buy it, but it would definitely piss off a few fans.

Emerje

Sounds exactly like what Hasbro does in their Marvel and Star Wars lines. Fans complain, but there are always more happy than sad of the new avsilability. And it sells.

Munkky wrote:Bluestreak is still availabe on Ebay for reasonable prices (or at least my idea of reasonable), and Smokescreen for a bit more, but I want to avoid impulse buying figures I don't really need for my collection like I did for a good chunk of this year. Bluestreak, Trailbreaker, Sunstreaker, Huffer and Inferno have never been characters I've cared all that much about, but now I want them all as decoration more than anything else.

This is pretty much me, there were several characters I didn't care that much for thus didn't feel the need to buy the figure. Yet there were a few that turned out really nice looking and the display almost feels incomplete without those certain few. I probably never will get Trailbreaker as I was always a Hoist guy, as well as Sunstreaker, Huffer, Skids etc. they just aren't needed in my case.

Due to space issues I do try to keep it to the core Autobots only, but a few of the outliers do appeal to me for some reason. Such that I went and hunted down Legends Seaspray, and kind of want Beachcomber too. So I have to really pump the breaks at times.

Will we see a new Prowl mold when the inevitable SS86 Prowl comes out? Maybe reversible eye colors like the MP Grimlock?