EAN Codes for Upcoming Transformers Studio Series Figures

sol magnus wrote:I'll admit - I'm most curious about 86 Deluxe Arcee from the SS86 stuff.

Can anyone remind me if 86 Arcee is just Earthrise Arcee again?

william-james88 wrote:

sol magnus wrote:I'll admit - I'm most curious about 86 Deluxe Arcee from the SS86 stuff.

Can anyone remind me if 86 Arcee is just Earthrise Arcee again?

It has been strongly rumored to be ER Arcee with a new coat of paint, yes, which makes sense considering Coronation Screamer is also just his ER mold but with some extra bells & whistles.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

Nemesis Primal wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

sol magnus wrote:I'll admit - I'm most curious about 86 Deluxe Arcee from the SS86 stuff.

Can anyone remind me if 86 Arcee is just Earthrise Arcee again?

It has been strongly rumored to be ER Arcee with a new coat of paint, yes, which makes sense considering Coronation Screamer is also just his ER mold but with some extra bells & whistles.

What makes no sense is releasing that terrible mold in a main line for 3 consecutive years.

Also correct, yes.

Got some pics of DOTM Ratchet!

I was a little skeptical of this figure at first since I already had the original DOTM deluxe, but the shade of green and the gun drew me in. I’m glad I did! It’s a lot like SS Starscream, I thought the DOTM deluxe was just ok, but the updates to it make it one of my favorite figures!

I still longing for the other 3 live action dinobots. Those 3 are so long overdue in this line

Hasbro are really taking the mick at the moment in regards to reveals. Legacy gets a whole panel in a live event dedicated to it, has countless social media posts on multiple sites and pre-orders everywhere. Studio series? Nothing in the live event, and yesterday got a single Instagram story revealing Sideswipe (and Sweep but they already showed us that), nowhere else was this posted about, and no pre-orders. What is with this?

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

LeAwesome1 wrote:Hasbro are really taking the mick at the moment in regards to reveals. Legacy gets a whole panel in a live event dedicated to it, has countless social media posts on multiple sites and pre-orders everywhere. Studio series? Nothing in the live event, and yesterday got a single Instagram story revealing Sideswipe (and Sweep but they already showed us that), nowhere else was this posted about, and no pre-orders. What is with this?

Its simple, it is not G1 therefore it is not important to the current brand team. Whenever we get to the wave with all the Bumblebee movie bots from the first 5 minutes of the film, I'm guessing those will get a little attention because they are G1-ish enough to maybe catch the design teams interest.

It certainly feels like the current people in charge have just inherited this brand with little to no idea how to market it or communicate properly with consumers. They don't even announce entire waves at the same time any more, They keep splitting everything over the course of several months.
The Bumblebee Movie versions of Wheeljack, Ratchet, Brawn, Soundwave and Ravage are supposedly going to be in the same wave as 1986 Perceptor and Starscream, which were announced on their own two months ago. Outside of Studio Series, I don't understand why Blaster and the Cores weren't revealed alongside the rest of Legacy wave 1, and the "they were cut for time" excuse doesn't hold water when you consider a portion of that stream was taken up by a Vince Di Cola performance that didn't need to be there.
I sold my Dark of the Moon Sideswipe a while ago, and I wasn't going to buy the new Revenge of the Fallen version, but having thought about it a bit more, I still might. It is a big improvement over the original.

A small note from the recent Hasbro Q&A - Hasbro was asked about reissues of early SS figures that are really expensive now (Ironhide). They said it was possible, which is a very noncommittal answer, but it also wasn't a no. If they had that answer prepared it makes me think it's at least been discussed.

Ironhide definitely needs a reissue (or a DOTM version with the rifles), some of the Constructicons could use another run, and if they get around to the other Dinobots, I think Grimlock would be a good reissue as well.

Either SS-32 or SS-44 Prime would be a really good choice as well.

william-james88 wrote:

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:A small note from the recent Hasbro Q&A - Hasbro was asked about reissues of early SS figures that are really expensive now (Ironhide). They said it was possible, which is a very noncommittal answer, but it also wasn't a no. If they had that answer prepared it makes me think it's at least been discussed.

Ironhide definitely needs a reissue (or a DOTM version with the rifles), some of the Constructicons could use another run, and if they get around to the other Dinobots, I think Grimlock would be a good reissue as well.

Either SS-32 or SS-44 Prime would be a really good choice as well.

Its never a no. But "we'll see" or "possible" is as close to a no as they give.

Their code for "No" back in the TF: Prime days was "Stay tuned."

The Bumblebee Wheeljack looks pretty good, and I might grab him, but he'll 100% be an in store buy so I can see if I like the head instore, and if I do get him, he'll just be my representation of Wheeljack on my main shelf cause I haven't gotten ER/Kingdom's and I think it would be fitting for Wheeljack to be a character who kept his Cybertronian mode cause he'd modded it so much that he couldn't find an appropriate Earth mode