Transformers Studio Series Core Class Spike Found in US

Dear God, that Lego head looks BETTER than the regular Spike head.

When I saw all that yellow through the dome in the thumbnail, for just a few seconds, I actually thought some error had made Spike blonde, giving us a Marvel-accurate Spike Witwicky head. Now that one potential easy repaint will probably get me to army-build even more with that exo-suit than I was already planning. Here's hoping it peg-warms as bad as Shockwave and Ravage have in most of my local WalMarts.

Hell of an improvement indeed with that Lego head!

Bumblevivisector wrote:When I saw all that yellow through the dome in the thumbnail, for just a few seconds, I actually thought some error had made Spike blonde, giving us a Marvel-accurate Spike Witwicky head.

Only thing about it is that Marvel Spike never had an exosuit. However, if they replaced the exosuit with a headmaster body, which in turn can actually turn into Cerebros's head, that would be neat. Even if that head can't actually attach to a body. Or if they want to take liberties, have the body turn straight into Fort Max's head. I think it would be small enough to fit a Commander Class Marvel version of Maximus. And of course Zarak and Scorponok wouldn't be far behind. A pipe dream, I know.

I'm surprised he is showing up already, all of my stores are well stocked with Cores, but they aren't moving yet surprisingly

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I'm surprised he is showing up already, all of my stores are well stocked with Cores, but they aren't moving yet surprisingly

That doesn't surprise me. The SS cores are of two characters that spent a total of 15 seconds on the screen and only those familiar with G1 would even be aware of.

First-Aid wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I'm surprised he is showing up already, all of my stores are well stocked with Cores, but they aren't moving yet surprisingly

That doesn't surprise me. The SS cores are of two characters that spent a total of 15 seconds on the screen and only those familiar with G1 would even be aware of.

Fair thought.

Thrust vs. Brawn:

Wrapped up my work on the SS Constructicons with Overload!

Very nice! I do really enjoy that figure, I am glad I got a 2nd one when they were all so cheap thanks to deals

https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/04/26/rum ... ays-454847

Possible Sideways leak. If this is real, I am very excited for him. He seems to be mistransformed, but glad it looks to be his own mold.

Also, that Overload repaint is awesome like usual with you.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Very nice! I do really enjoy that figure, I am glad I got a 2nd one when they were all so cheap thanks to deals

Thanks!

LinaNui wrote:https://news.tfw2005.com/2022/04/26/rumor-possible-first-look-at-studio-series-sideways-454847

Possible Sideways leak. If this is real, I am very excited for him. He seems to be mistransformed, but glad it looks to be his own mold.

Also, that Overload repaint is awesome like usual with you.

Thank you!

So I was in a discussion about Sideways earlier today, here’s some notes from that:

- He is slightly mistransformed, the chest portion with the headlights looks like it can rotate up to be more screen accurate.

- His window wings might be able to slide more centrally, it looks like they’re on sliders.

- His gun is actually based on his gun in the PS2/Wii game!


I think Sideways looks awesome, I can’t wait to get it!

Also, I asked Sam Smith on Instagram about what the reissue of AOE High Octane Bee in Buzzworthy meant for a potential future new mold:

A new image in Discord popped up showing what fans believe to be Transformers Studio Series Sideways. We knew the figure was coming but there was no clue on the robot mode, especially since we never get a good look at it in the film. It appears to be a fully new mold which is intriguing for a character with such short screen time. He did appear in the video games though and his weapon seems based on his PS2 appearance. Now it could be that this toy is to legit, especially since it seems to have rather simplistic engineering for some joints. We'll see. Here are some points brought up on our boards:

- He is slightly mistransformed, the chest portion with the headlights looks like it can rotate up to be more screen accurate.

- His window wings might be able to slide more centrally, it looks like they’re on sliders.

- His gun is actually based on his gun in the PS2/Wii game!

He honestly looks really good to me, at least for a to-scale SS figure to bulk up the movie 'Con ranks. It at least doesn't look as much as a string bean like the past deluxe (to me, that is.)
I'll definitely pick him up, always nice getting more car transformers.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Very nice! I do really enjoy that figure, I am glad I got a 2nd one when they were all so cheap thanks to deals

I'm glad I did too, my first one broke after being transformed/combined a few times, the joint that allows the arms to swing outwards from vehicle mode just completely snapped inside

What a weird choice. There was a 360/PS3 version of the ROTF game that I'm certain sold better than the Wii/PS2 version, and Sideways appears in that like he was in the movie (licensed Audi car mode even), WITHOUT a giant arm cannon (I think he had a smaller gun "transform" onto his wrist). Seems like an odd thing to include, given how few people would get the reference.

Rest of the figure looks nice, though. Two-tone and even appears to have the silver stripes down the middle. Hard to tell if that's an Audi logo on the chest, of COURSE there's a shine RIGHT THERE, so hopefully this is actually licensed and we get a fully accurate vehicle mode (the car mode got more screen time than the bot, in this case ).

I am getting really strong Barricade vibes off of him...

MeGrimlock78 wrote:I am getting really strong Barricade vibes off of him...

Glad I'm not the only one thinking that....

I will be cautiously optimistic of this actually being a Licensed 2008 Audi R8.

Even the original toy wasn't actually licensed, and we all know how restrictive VW and its associated brands (Porsche, Audi etc...i) have been with their licensing.

I think it will likely just be a somewhat R8 looking car without the Quattro rings.

First-Aid wrote:

MeGrimlock78 wrote:I am getting really strong Barricade vibes off of him...

Glad I'm not the only one thinking that....

Sideways’ CG model actually reuses several parts from Barricade, particularly in the legs.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

First-Aid wrote:

MeGrimlock78 wrote:I am getting really strong Barricade vibes off of him...

Glad I'm not the only one thinking that....

Sideways’ CG model actually reuses several parts from Barricade, particularly in the legs.

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Repaint. Especially Seeker molds.

First-Aid wrote:

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

First-Aid wrote:

MeGrimlock78 wrote:I am getting really strong Barricade vibes off of him...

Glad I'm not the only one thinking that....

Sideways’ CG model actually reuses several parts from Barricade, particularly in the legs.

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Repaint. Especially Seeker molds.

And yet, the original ROTF Sideways mold was a completely different one from Barricade's Movie 1 mold.

Sabrblade wrote:And yet, the original ROTF Sideways mold was a completely different one from Barricade's Movie 1 mold.

Yep, I'm pleasently surprised that this one is a totally new mold too! Rumors were that it would be a Dino retool actually, but I think this turned out much better than if it was a retool of Dino.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:And yet, the original ROTF Sideways mold was a completely different one from Barricade's Movie 1 mold.

Yep, I'm pleasently surprised that this one is a totally new mold too! Rumors were that it would be a Dino retool actually, but I think this turned out much better than if it was a retool of Dino.

I think it wouldn't have made much sense anyway for him to be a Dino retool, his CGI model has way more recognizable car parts than Dino, as it usually is with the designs from the first two movies. He doesn't require as much faking as Dino does.

Rtron wrote:
I think it wouldn't have made much sense anyway for him to be a Dino retool, his CGI model has way more recognizable car parts than Dino, as it usually is with the designs from the first two movies. He doesn't require as much faking as Dino does.

Exactly, yeah. Now we just have to hope they saved some of the new tooling budget for DOTM Bumblebee! xD

So if this Sideways is screen-accurate, does that mean in car mode he can split in half long ways? I mean, they did it with The Twins ice cream truck...

He may not be as complex or accurate to the movie, but I'm not really complaining cause I'm a massive sucker for those top heavy proportions. Seriously, it just looks so good to me.

Upon further review, I am still digging him. I love how the grill deforms to match his CG model. That might be my favorite part of the design.

I know this is more another topic, and I plan to post there, but I wanted to share these images of the Premium Series movie 1 Megatron from SS. The new wash and copper really did this thing justice. i love the retail release, but damn the premium series one brings it home!

Man, PF Megatron looks so good, I'd like to pick it up but $60 is pretty steep. We'll see!


One more note on Sideways, Sideways77 on TFW2005 found what appears to be molded faux tires on Sideways arm higher up than the ones directly attached to the hands - the faux and real tires can likely combine, not only achieving a CG accurate split tire look but also shortening the arms a little bit:

I managed to find ROTF Sideswipe for a reasonable price on Ebay recently, so I've bought one. I never disliked the DOTM Sideswipe as much as many others did, but the ROTF version does look a lot better so I'm looking forward to having him.
That recent Direct Line ad with Optimus Prime in it really makes me wish Studio Series does an Optimus in his Age of Extinction / The Last Knight design soon, preferably as a Leader instead of a Voyager, the original Voyager Optimus mould was always a bit too small and skinny for my liking. Of course I don't expect this to happen any time soon, it's just as likely that the next Studio Series Optimus will be the Rise of the Beasts design.

So, I made a post on Twitter saying I wished I had army-built the Shadow Raider and KSI sentry guys, and I got a reply from John Warden with an interesting little factoid about them:

Glad to hear you like these guys. Fun fact: when I was doing the deco I actually ordered touch up paint for the actual vehicles these guys were based on to get that tone just right.

Tweet: https://twitter.com/wardenfive/status/1 ... 6359200769

Neat little thing that they actually were ordering the actual car paint to color match to in shop, I like that little detail

Sideways looks pretty good to me so far. The original RotF deluxe was never the strongest figure from that line IMO, so I look forward to seeing more of this guy.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:One more note on Sideways, Sideways77 on TFW2005 found what appears to be molded faux tires on Sideways arm higher up than the ones directly attached to the hands - the faux and real tires can likely combine, not only achieving a CG accurate split tire look but also shortening the arms a little bit:

Sideways faux tire.jpg

It looks like there is also a double hinge within his forearm to allow his hand to collapse in and align with the faux tire. There also seem to be hinges on the outside of his biceps, maybe to allow some car panels to swing to the front of his arms?

Rodimus Prime wrote:So if this Sideways is screen-accurate, does that mean in car mode he can split in half long ways? I mean, they did it with The Twins ice cream truck...

My thoughts exactly Funnily enough, that did get referenced in a canceled Multipack:

3 pretty dang good figures

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:3 pretty dang good figures

Megatron is looking sharp in that premium paintjob!
This makes me want the Studio Series Starscream and Blackout even more!

I didn't realize Megatron and Starscream were taller than the Blackout/Grindor mold, since everyone used to say that Blackout and Grindor were larger than Megatron and Starscream in the movies.

Sabrblade wrote:I didn't realize Megatron and Starscream were taller than the Blackout/Grindor mold, since everyone used to say that Blackout and Grindor were larger than Megatron and Starscream in the movies.

Megatron and Starscream are taller than Blackout at head height, but Blackout has the rotor assembly over his head that makes him (33’) taller than Starscream (31’) and a little shorter than Megatron (35’)

Grindor though is massive (50’)

While I don’t have 07 Megatron, both Starscream and Grindor are excellent. I’ve really enjoyed getting to revisit Starscream with the ROTF version!

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:I didn't realize Megatron and Starscream were taller than the Blackout/Grindor mold, since everyone used to say that Blackout and Grindor were larger than Megatron and Starscream in the movies.

Megatron and Starscream are taller than Blackout at head height, but Blackout has the rotor assembly over his head that makes him (33’) taller than Starscream (31’) and a little shorter than Megatron (35’)

Grindor though is massive (50’)

While I don’t have 07 Megatron, both Starscream and Grindor are excellent. I’ve really enjoyed getting to revisit Starscream with the ROTF version!

Starscream and Blackout/Grindor also all have the backwards-knee thing going on too, so you can make the figures taller by extending the legs if you want Blackout/Grindor to have more of a height difference to get somewhat closer than that.

Greetings Seibertronians!

Thanks to fellow Seibertron user, Omegatron, we've learned that UK toy seller, In Demand Toys has repealed the next two releases for Transformers Studio Series, Voyager Class Age of Extinction Galvatron and Voyager Class Bumblebee Thundercracker!

Thundercracker is a redeco of Voyager Class Bumblebee Thrust, and is the second of the Seeker Trio to be released in this style.









Galvatron is a completely new mold, and tries once more to bring the impossible transformation to the toy. In the film, the cgi model never transformed the traditional way, instead breaking into cubes and reforming into its robot mode.









Will you be picking these up?

Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!

Galvatron looking pretty good all things considered, the scrunched up truck cab forming the torso reminds me of unique toys' design style.

Sweet! Thundercracker! Let's go! I love that seeker mold. Hopefully Skywarp next!

I don't know why, but I like the original galvatron better than this one. He just looks wrong. Yes, the backpack seems better than having the cab just be the back piece but... somethings off to me

Wow, they did a very good job with Galvatron.

Hellscream9999 wrote:Galvatron looking pretty good all things considered, the scrunched up truck cab forming the torso reminds me of unique toys' design style.

Honestly, I'm not sure what else they could have done.

Galvatron is one of those toys where a leader class slot may have allowed him to have a closer looking robot mode with more parts of the truck hidden.

ZeroWolf wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Galvatron looking pretty good all things considered, the scrunched up truck cab forming the torso reminds me of unique toys' design style.

Honestly, I'm not sure what else they could have done.

Galvatron is one of those toys where a leader class slot may have allowed him to have a closer looking robot mode with more parts of the truck hidden.

Wasn't a criticism, I like they're design ideas, but I agree

Thundercracker is looking pretty good. LET'S ADD CHEAP LOOKING GRAY PLASTIC ON IT TOO!

Hellscream9999 wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Galvatron looking pretty good all things considered, the scrunched up truck cab forming the torso reminds me of unique toys' design style.

Honestly, I'm not sure what else they could have done.

Galvatron is one of those toys where a leader class slot may have allowed him to have a closer looking robot mode with more parts of the truck hidden.

Wasn't a criticism, I like they're design ideas, but I agree

Oh I know, I apologise if it came off sounding that way.

Galvatron doesn't look perfect, but he looks okay, besides, the AOE Decepticons were clearly nor designed with vehicle mode accuracy in mind, honestly some of the Autobots weren't much better, but the Decepticons in AOE dissolved into little fragments and reformed for their robot modes. unless Hasbro did a massive LEGO set for each one, they'd never be fully accurate.
At least the ruck cab is better integrated this time.

So if Thundercracker and Galvatron are 89and 90, I wonder what 87 and 88 are? One may be the leaked Sideways? Not sure about the other

Galvatron does have some noodle arms, but I think he looks better on the back of the box render than the stock photo. Either way, I think he looks pretty good! Looks like they did a good job with the transformation, and the sculpted detail is on point!

We have to be seeing DOTM Bee really soon!

Thundercracker paint looks good!

Galvatron feels like he is very cool figure,he just need more high res/definition pictures to show that.

Day 854 of waiting for Transformers Armada Masterpiece news.