Categories:Toy News, Reviews, Collectibles Posted by:Bounti76 | Credit(s): -Kanrabat- on Seibertron Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 138,184
Good news, Masterpiece fans! MP-51 Arcee is now shipping, and in some cases, has already shown up! I got a shipping notice Sunday, and a scant 36 hours later, she was at my door, thanks to Amazon Japan.
One Seibertronian, -Kanrabat-, got his even earlier, and was gracious enough to send us a fantastic and thorough pictorial review of the latest Masterpiece figure, the second fembot in the line (after Road Rage). Check out what he has to say and show us below!
GOT HER!
So here's my review and lots of linked pictures!
The box is your standard MP box. Small yet effective.
She come packed in vehicle mode with her accessories. Obligatory card and manual.
The vehicle is absolutely PERFECT. All the details are there.
Despite the arms hanging a bit low, the car roll flawlessly.
This beautiful BLURRY picture show that this Arcee manage to actually have the rear of the car.
The interior is perfectly detailled, down to even a painted dashboard!
You can see how everything tuck under the car.
Here's a comparison shot with all the previous G1 inspired Arcees (Except Animated whom I forgot.)
The "tire blow" weapon attach firmly and is pretty menacing looking.
Other guns can attach to the car as well but that look daff.
Transformation is long and hard, but surprisignly not frustrating. Also, everything felt SOLID in hand with nothing seeming fragile or about to break. The instructions have large pictures but sometime, some details are hard to make out. The magority of the transformation is to compress the panels festival that is the car shell in the most compact backpack scientifically manageable.
In the end, we end up with a pretty nice fembot with a backpack that is not too bad in person, considering that the car mode have NO sacrifices. Obviously, Arcee is back heavy and it limit some poses.
The visor is inside her helmet and it's easy enough to put in place. The faces are easy to change but you must mind the alignment of the face inside the head. It's easy to misplace it. But if you do well, the result is pretty nice!
The gun is very easy to place in her hand and it's SOLID. Also, her jointed hands are VERY appreciated. She have the thumb, the index, and the 3 other fingers as a single unit that can move.
Yeas, she have a high collac and "realistic" sagging "breasts". That's an odd design choice but it's not too bad. This Arcee is not the naive young girl, but an hardenned veteran. So it work.
Also....
"Haters gonna hate!"
Yup. She can ballance pretty well. I think her legs may have diecast so it help.
She can snipe.
Compared to the previous Arcees.
Arcee have blast effects compatible with her guns.
And a tiny gun that may reffer to a single episode. Complete with it's dedicated blast effect that can't go to any other gun.
Overall, was she worth the 180$CAN total, shipping and taxes included?
I have to admit, YES. Totally. Contrary to my previous purchase with MPM Starscream, I feel that here, I got the best deal and she's worth every single cents that I paid.
Could this Arcee be better? Maybe yes, but some choices had to be made. Here, it's the vehicle mode that got priority so the robot is a bit compromised with her backpack. As for the saggy chest, it may have been avoided, but still, I love that "older" Arcee.
I highly recommend the official MP. Especially for the Arcee lover who have all the official figures and even some Third Party.
Categories:Toy News, Reviews, Collectibles, Book News Posted by:ZeroWolf | Credit(s): Sabrblade from Seibertron Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 187,091
Greetings Seibertronians! Fellow Seibertron user, Sabrblade has written up an informative review of the recently released Beast Wars Beast Generation Mook! A mook is a cross between a magazine and a book, and is a popular publishing choice in Japan. The Mook was released earlier this month.
Check out his words below!
Sabrblade wrote:My copy arrived in the mail from HLJ last Friday, December 11, and only now have I had the chance to talk about it.
Before I get into the book itself, I gotta say that the preview pages seen earlier in this thread must have been very early production pages since none of them are in this book. The book's pages aren't even red, they're white. Some of the toys seen in those pages aren't even in the book either. Namely, of all those Blackarachnia toys, the Animated, Legends, Universe, and Binaltech ones are not in the book. In fact, that collection of Blackarachnia toys itself isn't present either. The ones from that group that are in the book are found in their respective sections instead of grouped together like that. Basically, none of the pages in this book look anything like those sample pages.
And now, onto the book.
The cover is as shown below, but printed in black-and-white. The colored version is included, but as a dust jacket over the book's actual cover.
On the back is a list of all the series covered by this book: Beast Wars, Beast Wars II, Beast Wars Neo, Beast Wars Metals, Animorphs, Beast Machines "Transformers: Carrobot", Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Beast Wars Returns, "And… The Aftermath".
At the bottom is a row of eleven symbols, the same eleven seen on the front cover: Maximal, Predacon, Blentron, Animorph, Mutant, Technorganic Maximal, Vehicon, Dinobot, Autobot, Decepticon, and Combatron.
Like the front cover, the back is colorless in light gray while the back dust jacket is in green with a Beast Wars green eye surrounded by red scales.
The inside flaps of the dust jacket feature old advertisement text from the original Beast Wars toyline. On the front flap is the Japanese catalog text that translates as follows:
From beyond the end of the universe, in search of mysterious Power Energy, the super robot lifeform "Transformers" have arrived! The evil "Destron" Transformers who attempt to conquer the universe by abusing Power Energy, and the righteous "Cybertron" Transformers who fight to stop them. With special abilities, each transforms into a different creature! At last, a new battle has begun. Will it be the heroic Cybertrons or the evil Destrons that will win this battle!?
On the back flap is the classic English text from the 1996 Beast Wars packaging:
BIO-GENETIC ENGINEERING HAS ALLOWED THE TRANSFORMERS TO CREATE A PERFECT CYBERNETIC FUSION BETWEEN FEROCIOUS ANIMALS AND MECHANICAL TRANSFORMERS TECHNOLOGY. THE RESULT: HEROIC MAXIMALS VS. EVIL PREDACONS! ROBOT WARRIORS DISGUISED AS WILD ANIMALS IN AN EXPLOSIVE FIGHT TO THE FINISH! THE BEAST WARS HAVE BEGUN ...COLLECT THEM ALL!
The front flap also has a photo of all six deco releases of Transmetal Rattrap: Takara, Hasbro, Fox Kids, Walmart, 10th Anniversary, and the Japanese jigsaw puzzle one. Likewise, the back flap has a photo of seven versions of the Cheetor toy: Fox Kids, 10th Anniversary, Telemocha Series, Hasbro blue eyes, Hasbro red eyes, Hasbro green eyes, and Takara's second-run version with the green cheetah eyes and orange robot eyes.
Inside the front cover is a large photo of RID Air Attack Optimus Primal (not the Japanese Encore version, the Hasbro Toys'R'Us version). Behind this is an Introduction page written almost entirely in Japanese (as is every page in this book, which I'm saying now to avoid having to repeat it throughout). It appears to cover a brief overview of the Transformers brand's history, and contains a short timeline of events from 1984 to 2021, skipping over many years unrelated to the Beast Era.
The Table of Contents shows that the book is divided into three main parts:
Part 1: Chronicle (pages 4 to 98)
Part 2: Backstage (pages 99 to 129)
Part 3: Documents (pages 130 to 143)
Part 1: Chronicle is the largest part of the book, containing a near-complete coverage of almost every single Beast Era toy ever produced (I say "near-complete" and "almost every" for reasons to be given later). Toys that had variants get coverage for most of those as well. For instance, the original Cheetor toy gets coverage for its original green-eyed version, its blue-eyed version, its red-eyed version, and the Japanese rerelease with green cheetah eyes and orange robot eyes. But in cases like Transmetal Rhinox having had dark teal and pale teal Hasbro variants, only Rhinox's darker Hasbro variant is shown alongside his pale gold Takara version.
This section begins with the year 1997, the year Beast Wars came out in Japan. All of the toys covered in this year are those released in Japan, which were first released in the West in 1996, as well as the overseas releases that Japan didn't get. 1998 covers the toys of Beast Wars II, the non-show Fuzors, and the Video Pack redecos of Airazor, Razorclaw, Claw Jaw, and Spittor. 1999 covers Beast Wars Neo's released toys, the unreleased Unicron prototype, the Beast Wars Metals toys, the non-show Transmetals 2 toys, and the entire Animorphs toyline.
Of note about these years is some selective coverage between certain toys that were unchanged between the Hasbro and Takara releases. For instance, B'Boom, Snarl, Claw Jaw, and Powerpinch are omitted from the book because of Apache, Tasmania Kid, Scuba, and Scissor Boy having identical toys, and yet, both Video Pack Razorclaw and Injector are individually covered in addition to the identical Rockbuster and Latolata. Also of note are the facts that the Japanese names of Razorbeast, Transquito, and Scarem are given in this part as ??????? ("Razorback"), ???????? ("Transcute"), and ????? ("Scream"), respectively. Iguanus is even given two Japanese names written as ?????????? ("Igunar / Iguanus").
2000 covers Mutant Beast Wars, a number of the Lucky Draw figures for Beast Wars II, Neo and Metals, and the entire line of Car Robots (including Lucky Draw Black Super Fire Convoy and the complete version of Brave Maximus). The book then jumps ahead a few years to 2004 to cover the Japanese Beast Machines line, Beast Wars Returns. It then jumps backward to 1999-2000 to cover the Fox Kids Beast Wars redecos released in those years. It then progresses forward again to 2000 proper to cover the Hasbro Beast Machines and Dinobots lines. 2001 covers the Battle for the Spark subline of Beast Machines toys, and 2002 covers the Air Attack Optimus Primal and Megatron Megabolt toys from Robots in Disguise. A separate "2001-2003" section then covers the entire Robots in Disguise toyline from Hasbro, and I do mean the entire line: All of the same molds released in Car Robots plus all of the Hasbro-exclusive non-beast toys and redecos.
Following this is what the book refers to as "The Aftermath", Beast Era toys released after the era's end. Beast Wars Reborn, Beast Wars 10th Anniversary, Beast Wars Telemocha Series (including the super rare Mini-Con Dragoyell), the Beast Wars Masterpieces from MP-32 Convoy (Beast Wars) to MP-50 Tigatron (Beast Wars), and the five Wave 1 Beast Wars toys from the (as of this typing) forthcoming Kingdom line (though, sadly, Megatron uses the TakaraTomy stock photography with the orange face and other wrong colors).
Also in this Aftermath part are some things labeled as "Extra", which are additional Beast Era-related toys released in other lines. These include:
RobotMasters Beast Convoy Black Version
Universe (2003) Optimus Primal
Microverse Orcanoch and Arachnid
Titanium Series 6" Optimal Optimus, RID Optimus Prime, and BM Cheetor
There is also a short essay column about the Transmetal toys pictured with a purple-blue variant of Optimus Primal.
Now, of all of the toys covered in this part of the book, there are a few missing. In particular, none of the following are in this book:
Any toys from BotCon or the Collectors Club; not even the BotCon Japan Grizzly-1 and Double Punch
Any of the 2003 Universe toys (aside from the aforementioned Optimus Primal)
RobotMasters Burning Beast Convoy and Beast Megatron Black Version (the normal RobotMasters Beast Convoy and Beast Magtron are included with their Telemocha Series redecos, but these two are not)
RobotMasters Lio Convoy (either version), Bound Rogue, and Psycho-Orb
Legend Commander Collection Convoy (Beast Wars) and Lio Convoy
Any of the Lucky Draws from Beast Wars season 1
About half of the Lucky Draws from Beast Wars II, Neo, and Metals
Any of the Car Robots Lucky Draws (except for Black Super Fire Convoy and the complete version of Brave Maximus)
Any of the 2009 Universe, 2014 Generations Thrilling 30, or 2014-2019 Legends toys of Beast Era characters
Power of the Primes Optimal Optimus and Throne of the Primes
Encore God Fire Convoy, Returns Convoy, and the two Big Convoys
Masterpiece Burning Convoy and Shadow Panther
And, as mentioned above, any secondary Hasbro variants of the Transmetal toys (aside from the aforementioned purplish Primal that's given its own essay column).
And yet, despite all of these omissions, this section does feature a ton of obscure Japanese merchandise, such as:
Collection Figure and Metal Monument Convoy and Megatron
Cybertron Buster role play gun
Cybertron Mobile Base playset
Laser Light Yo-Yo
Lots and lots of mini-figure series for Beast Wars season 1 and Beast Wars II
Matrix Cannon role play gun
Spy Shot & Claw Gun (or Crow Gun) role play gun
PVC figurines for Beast Wars Neo
The Spark driver figures that were originally going to be included in the cockpits of Optimal Optimus, Tigerhawk, and Dragon Megatron
A Japanese cover for the first Animorphs novel "The Invasion"
Part 2: Backstage contains concept sketches for toys both released and unreleased, as well as interviews with seven people involved with the Japanese Beast Era.
The released toys whose concept sketches are featured are:
Bat Optimus Primal
Alligator Megatron
Razorbeast
Iguanus
Terrorsaur
Dinobot
Waspinator
Tarantulas
Gorilla Optimus Primal
Rhinox
Airazor
T-Rex Megatron (with an actual left hand inside his tail weapon)
Scorponok
Transmetal Optimus Primal
Transmetal Rattrap
Transmetal Cheetor
Transmetal Megatron
Transmetal Tarantulas
Transmetal Ravage
Animorphs Jake/Tiger
Mutant Soundwave (originally meant to be Animorphs Marco)
Mutant Icebird (originally meant to be Animorphs Jake)
Mutant Poison Bite (originally meant to be Animorphs Rachel)
Beast Machines Supreme class Cheetor
Beast Machines Megatron
Microverse Orcanoch, Arachnid, and their mini-figures
Among the unreleased concepts included are:
Early designs of Cheetor as a cougar (often mistaken for a wolf) and a lion
Several early designs for Depth Charge that look drastically different from the final version, some of which are even completely organic, non-Transmetal versions
A triple-changer Optimus Primal that changes into a gorilla and an eagle
A triple-changer Cheetor that changes into either a cheetah and a shark
A triple-changer Dinobot that changes into either a raptor and a cobra; all three of these were proposed "power up" forms for the three
An early design for Lio Convoy that more greatly resembles Optimus Primal, has a big axe weapon, and a small bat companion
An early concept for the Animorphs toyline that involved not transforming toys but instead articulated endoskeleton figures that could be covered with human and animal skins to change them between each form
Early concepts for Animorphs Tri-Rex that, while functionally similar to the final version, somehow look even more freakishly disturbing than the final version
"Mutant Beast Wars"-style Animorphs animal-to-animal concepts for a "Bee Frog" (either Ax or Visser Three) a "Piranha Condor" (one of the boys), and a "Ram Dragon" (a Komodo dragon, that is, also one of the boys)
There are also concepts for some gimmicks that never happened.
Bat Optimus Primal with flapping wings
Insecticon with a pullback motor in beast mode
Tarantulas with a spring-loaded autotransformation that bounces up with the push of a button
Gator Megatron with a button-activated chomping gator mouth
T-Rex Megatron with a projectile-launching T-Rex head that fires like a missile from its neck with a pull of its beast mode tail
Gorilla Optimus Primal with two flails and a set of two spiked clubs that he holds and spins around in beast mode
Scorponok's Cyberbee drone originally being a little scorpion drone
T-Rex Megatron with an extending T-Rex head much like the extending tail arm that his final toy had
A sort of "Pretender"/Super Mode" version of T-Rex Megatron where a small kibble-less robot figure compacts into a torso mode while a large T-Rex toy turns into a humanoid suit of armor for the torso figure to slot into, and armed with a large trident weapon; think Powermaster Optimus Prime or Star Saber for this gimmick
A G1 Optimus Prime figure that turns into an Army truck and combines with an organic lion figure that forms armor for Optimus to wear
One of Depth Charge's early concepts has little shark minions that shoot out of his beast mode mouth and transform into their own robot modes, making Depth Charge a sort of Beast Wars version of Soundwave/Blaster. One of these concepts even has the little shark minion as a dolphin instead
A triple-changer "Buffalo Crab" Fuzor with two beast modes: a water buffalo and a fiddler crab
A triple-changer "Shark Mantis" Fuzor with two beast modes:a hammerhead shark and praying mantis
A Fuzor combiner formed by an eagle and an ostrich fusing to make a "Bigbird" (kind of a large bird with arms; funnily enough, this is the same descriptor for G1 Deathsaurus's altmode)
A Fuzor combiner formed by a frilled lizard and a rhinoceros fusing to make a Triceratops
A Fuzor combiner formed by a spider and an ant fusing to make a scorpion
Early concepts for triple-changer "Beast Machines" that have an organic beast mode and a mechanical vehicle mode: One that turns into a helicopter and a dragonfly, one that turns into a racecar and a crab, and one (that looks a lot like Optimus Primal) that turns into a four-legged cannon tank and a gorilla
A "Battle for the Spark" bird with a wind-up wing-flapping gimmick in its Spark
A "Battle for the Spark" figure of Obsidian with a wind-up propeller-spinning gimmick in its Spark
Wind-up Spark boxes that could be inserted into Vehicon figures to unlock pop-out weapon gimmicks (sort of like what Mini-Cons and Cyber Keys would later do in Armada and Cybertron) or inserted into Cheetor for a beast mode head-turning gimmick
Spark Crystals that resemble little Matrix cores and could be pushed to activate either a pop-out weapon on an early Optimus Primal design or a spinning rotor and lights and sounds cannon on an early Vehicon design
A removal Matrix core-looking Spark Crystal that could be inserted into the hips of a very early Maximal design that would later become Cheetor, with the Spark Crystal activating pop-out cannons on its thighs
A removal Matrix LED battery that could be inserted into an early Vehicon design's chest or arm to activate lights and deploy an arm blade
The rest of this section contains lengthy Q&A interviews with the following people:
Hideaki Yoke (????) – toy development
Kozo Itagaki (?? ??) – toy marketing / producer
Takio Ejima (?????) – toy development
Hisashi Yuki (? ???) – toy development
K?jin ?no (?? ??) – toy development
Ry?ka Yuzuki (?? ??) – Voice actor for Blackwidow (Blackarachnia)
Yoshikazu Iwanami (???? ) – Japanese version director / story editor
Part 3: Documents features the Beast Wars Data Box with lists of all the toys, episodes and movies. In particular, the specific Japanese toys that were sold in the U.S. through HasbroCollectors.com and Target are given their names written in English: Lio Convoy, Galvatron, Shadow Panther/Tripredacus Agent (both names, yes), Magmatron, Stampy, Saberback, Longrack, Archadis, Mach Kick, and… Colada! Yep, "Colada" finally has an official source for his name spelled as such, rather than the longstanding Engrishy "Cohrada" spelling.
Likewise, Razorbeast, Transquito, Iguanus and Scarem have their name written in Japanese as ??????? ("Razorback"), ???????? ("Transcute"), ????? (????) ("Iguanus (Igunar)"), and ????? ("Scream"), just like in Part 1. Though, of further note is that Wolfang's name is spelled correctly in English, when in Part 1 his English name was misspelled as "Wolfgang". A similar typo appears in Part 3's list of the Beast Machines toys where the word "Heroic" in "Heroic Maximals" misspelled as "Hiroic". Other small typos like this appear throughout the book, but nothing too major and only noticeable if one is actively looking for them.
Finally, the episode guides for each series/movie arrange them in accordance to their Japanese airdates, so they are given in the following order:
Beast Wars season 1
Beast Wars II
Beast Wars Special
Beast Wars Neo
Beast Wars Metals: Convoy's Great Transformation (the Japanese theatrical release of "Cutting Edge")
Beast Wars Metals/Beast Wars seasons 2 & 3
Car Robots/Robots in Disguise
Beast Wars Returns/Beast Machines
All in all, the most interesting stuff in this book for me is all of the unreleased concepts for figures and gimmicks, but as a fan of the entire Beast Era, this book is a fine overview for much of the era's toy history.
Have you recieved this publication? Are you interested in learning more about the unreleased designs? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!
Categories:Cartoon News, Toy News, Collectibles Posted by:ZeroWolf | Credit(s): Hasbro Pulse Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 92,473
Greetings Seibertronians! Thanks to fellow Seibertron user, TF-fan Kev777, we've learned that several new entries in Super7s officially licensed Transformers ReAction line! The new figures are available to preorder on Hasbro Pulse and are the following:
The ReAction line are Super7s way of homaging the action figure lines of the 80s with their lines logo looking like the old Kenner toys logo and the cards the figures coming in drawing the mind back to Kenners first Star Wars toy lines
Do you collect these figures? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!
Categories:Movie News, Collectibles Posted by:william-james88 | Credit(s): Prime 1 Studios Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 83,367
With the lack of conventions this year, Prime 1 Studios made a really cool video to showcase all their upcoming statues. They make high end Transformers statues, usually movie themed, and were sure to include them as part of the presentation. They showed Age of Extinction Grimlock, Movie 1 Blackout and his companion Scorponok. These statues are MASSIVE. Just look at that screenshot of Blackout below. Most of these will be up for preorder very soon. We also have the video for you below, the Transformers begin at the 35 minute mark.
Categories:Toy News, Collectibles Posted by:ZeroWolf | Credit(s): Flame Toys Social Media Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 48,117
Greetings Seibertronians! Fellow Seibertron user, Powered Convoy, has let us know that Flame Toys have unveiled theiratest addition to their Kuro Kara Kuri range, the dreaded Fallen!
Based on the original Dreamwave version of the character, as seen in the War Within series. The only other time the character recieved a figure was in the Transformers Titanium line.
Here is the details that Flame Toys provided:
Flame Toys wrote:[Kuro Kara Kuri] The Fallen
pre-order start !
***Product information ?***
Retail Price : US$400
Size : ~21cm height
5 LED units : Eye, chest, shoulder and foot side weapon case
Sale : ~June, 2021
You have to order through d4toys to get the bonus weapon.
What do you think of this version of the Fallen? Will you be adding him to your collection? Do you have any of the other Kuro Kara Kuri figures? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!
Categories:Toy News, Sightings, Collectibles, Retailer News Posted by:Bounti76 | Credit(s): Ross Stores Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 79,751
Thanks to Seibertronian Casey280, we have news of a deal that's very much worth hunting for! He found Movie Masterpiece MPM-9 Megatron at a bargain price of only $39.99, down from his original retail price of $159.99, a savings of 75%! This was found at a Ross store in Novato,California. Not to be content with just one MPM at a fraction of their original price, he also let us know there were a few of MPM-6 Ironhide at only $24.99! Photo proof is included below.
Are you going to head out to (safely) hunt for these figures at your local Ross? Going to start (or re-start) your Movie Masterpiece collection? Let us know below, and be sure to send in your sightings of heavily discounted, hard to find, big-ticket Transformers to us. Happy hunting!
Liumeiwang wrote:The
Japanese version of " Beast Generations" "Monthly Hobby Japan" is a column serialized between January and August of 2020. It describes all aspects of the Beast Wars series from 8 topics.
The first round: the initiation of the Beast War; the
second round: the Convoy; the
third round: the poisonous spider; the
fourth round: the difficult metamorphosis; the
fifth round: the Japanese beast; the
sixth round : The Return of the Beast War; Chapter
Seven: Questionnaire for TF Group Staff of TT;
Final Chapter : Mecha Sergeant.
In the final time, it was announced that there was a plan to release an increased volume of "Beast Generation" (refer to "Transformers Generation" (commonly known as Transformers Encyclopedia) series).
From the images it looks like it'll be covering Car Robots as well as the various Beast Wars series.
What do you think of these? Will you be preordering? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!
Here is a machine translation of the product description:
Amazon wrote:Transformer Beast Wars Beast Generation (Hobby Japan MOOK1043)
The world's first mook that summarizes the "Beast Wars" series, which recorded a big hit with a novel gimmick that animals "transform" into robots instead of cars and airplanes from the deformed toy series "Transformers" which is still popular worldwide Appeared.
Introducing successive domestic and foreign items developed from "Beast Wars: Transformers of Super Life" in 1997 to "Beast Wars: Transformers of Super Life" in 2004 with new shooting.
In addition, we will also record valuable existing materials and developer interviews.
The title is due to be released on December 3rd, 2020.
Will you be getting this? Do you think there may be further Kingdom teases within it? Or even a glimpse at the rumored MP Rattrap? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!
Categories:Movie News, Toy News, Sightings, Collectibles Posted by:Bounti76 | Credit(s): Target Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 69,270
The last of the original live-action movie Autobot cast is finally out in Masterpiece form! Yours truly spotted the Autobot medic Ratchet at a Target in Centerville, Utah this morning.
While browsing the Transformers aisle at my local Target, I noticed a Target associate putting away toys from a cart. I glanced at the cart and noticed the familiar red script on the box and on getting a closer look, I found this:
I didn't see a shelf tag for him, so I asked the associate, and on scanning the box, he told me it was street-dated for October 1st, so I was unable to purchase him. Still, he's starting to show up to stores, and can be purchased next week!
Do you plan on adding this figure to your collection? Let us know below, and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest Transformers news!
Categories:Movie News, Toy News, Collectibles Posted by:Bounti76 | Credit(s): Hellscream1999; Sowndwave76 Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 70,668
Well only about a month has passed since Movie Masterpiece Starscream went on sale at Target, the exclusive distributor in the U.S. Even so, we have word from Seibertronians Hellscream9999 and Sowndwave76 that he's already on clearance pricing, for $74.99, or half off his MSRP of $149.99. Photo proof is provided below.
What do you think this represents? A quick clear out to make room for MPM-11 Ratchet, who's due out next week? A different conclusion altogether? Feel free to speculate away below!
Categories:Toy News, Collectibles Posted by:william-james88 Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 46,888
Hershey brought a new product to stores in September. It is a small treasure chest type box that has 4 Hershey Kisses and 1 Transformers toy. These are out now and you can get them at Walmart or Menards, which is where xRotorstormx found hers. The toys inside are about an inch tall and you can get Optimus, Bumblebee, Grimlock, Starscream or Megatron. Below you can see the three autobots.
This mission is taking Transformers where they've never gone before! Every HERSHEY’S KISSES Transformers Milk Chocolate Treasure Surprise comes with a collectible toy. Play time just got even sweeter with a brand-new buddy for exploring your imagination. Unbox delicious, creamy milk chocolate, unbox fun.
Categories:Toy News, Reviews, Collectibles Posted by:Bounti76 | Credit(s): TonTon Reviews Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 58,962
Thanks to Seibertronian Tuned Agent, we have a great new review to bring to you! Regular YouTube reviewer TonTon brings us an excellent look at the upcoming Movie Masterpiece MP-11 Ratchet! We get some very good look at the details on Ratchet in both robot and especially his Hummer altmode. There are some good size comparisons with his Studio Series figure, as well as a great shot of Ratchet with the other '07 movie Autobots.
And without further ado, the review!
Ratchet is due out October 1st in the U.S., where he's a Target store exclusive, and is still available for preorder on Target's website. Are you looking forward to this figure? Let us know what you think below!
Category:Collectibles Posted by:ZeroWolf | Credit(s): -WonkoTheSane- from Seibertron, AzureSea Studios social media accounts Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 36,441
Greetings Seibertronians! Fellow Seibertron user, -WonkoTheSane- has let us know that AzureSea Studios have revealed their next statue in their range of officially licensed Transformers products. The statue is of Tarn! Leader of the Decepticon Justice Division from the first IDW Transformers continuity. There is also an exclusive statue of the "pet" included. There is no price or release date at this time.
As you can see, the statue has a light up gimmick and is only the second officially licensed Tarn representation. Flame Toys produced the very first Tarn statue.
This statue is 75 cm (27.5") tall and appears to have the remains of Kaon scattered around, referencing the "Dying of the Light" Arc in the Transformers More Than Meets The Eye Comic series by IDW.
The news was also shsred on Chinese Social Media site, Weibo.
What do you think of this statue? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!
Category:Collectibles Posted by:william-james88 | Credit(s): Mighty Jaxx Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 43,617
Mighty Jaxx had given us a Soundwave bust featuring him all blinged out and being a DJ. And now we get a new bust from them for Optimus Prime, which they recently revealed on Facebook. Unlike Soundwave, Optimus here looks very different from his G1 self. This is because it comes from designer Clogtwo who lends it his iconic Mechasoul style. This is where the innards of a famous character are revealed to be machine. But in Optimus's case, this is already the case. It is available for preorder now at www.mightyjaxx.com for the price of $359 (shipping included).
Categories:Toy News, Collectibles Posted by:ZeroWolf | Credit(s): Thundertron from Seibertron, Hasbro Pulse Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 50,538
Greetings Seibertronians! Fellow Seibertron user, Thundertron, has let us know that a new preorder has appeared on Hasbro Pulse. The preorder is for ThreeZero's DLX Siege Megatron!
This premium action figure is the companion piece to the companys already revealed DLX Siege Optimus Prime figure. Megatron comes with a plethora of accessories, including the pieces to make his sword and multiple different hands.
Megatron is due for release on the 31st March, 2021
Check out the link to place your order, and have a look at the gallery of images mirrored below:
What do you think of this high end action figure? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!
Categories:Toy News, Media Vault, Collectibles Posted by:Bounti76 | Credit(s): Hasbro Pulse Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 59,312
Thanks to transformers_va, one of our own fellow Seibertronians, we've been directed to Hasbro Pulse, and their latest update on War for Cybertron Unicron!
Transformers fans! We’re excited to bring you an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at packaging and instructions development for Unicron!
We're treated first to a closer look at the packaging and an unboxing video for the Chaos Bringer, showing us just how he'll look when he arrives at the doors of those who backed him via the crowdfunding effort late last year.
We then are taken through the process of designing the instruction booklet for Unicron, which is a whopping 32 pages long! Mark, a Senior Graphic Designer for the project, goes into the details of how instructions are made, and his process of working with the prototype at home to develop the instructions.
Q: Can you walk?us through the typical?Transformers?instructions?process???
A: Our development process actually begins a year before our toys hit in-store retail and “online” shelves. Since the early 1980s, Hasbro has partnered with Takara Tomy, located in Japan, for the development of the Transformers brand’s toys. This all starts with “TT,” as we call them, providing us with reference CADD images or videos, called photosteps, that show how to convert each Transformers figure. From there, I review each conversion assembly, step-by-step, marking-up TT’s photo steps with my own comments and recommendations for improvement that will make the most sense for our consumer.
If you needed further proof of the size of Unicron's box, the Brand Manager, Rachel, shows that a six foot tall human can easily fit inside.
And finally, the engineer's best assistant, Charlie, shows us that this box is definitely kitty-approved.
You can read the entire post with its informative Q&A, by clicking on any of the above pictures.
Thanks to Hasbro giving us another thorough update on the process of bringing the largest-ever Transformer to life. He's not due out until January 2021, but that's only 5 short months away! Share your thoughts about this latest update below!
Categories:Toy News, Collectibles Posted by:ZeroWolf | Credit(s): AcademyofDrX, -WonkoTheSane-, Rodimus Knight from Seibertron, Flame Toys Twitter Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 44,042
Greetings Seibertronians! Fellow Seibertron users, AcademyofDrX, -WonkoTheSane- and Rodimus Knight have let us knkw that Flame Toys have taken to Twitter to show off the updated Windblade design for their Furai model kit range.
Unlike the previous design, this one retains her wings as as seen on all her over appearances, since she first debuted.
What do you think of this update? Will you be getting her to add to your Transformers model collection? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews.
Categories:Toy News, Events, Collectibles Posted by:william-james88 | Credit(s): Funko Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 53,851
Well, for those who like G1 and Funko Pops, this could make you happy. These new Transformers Pops were revealed as part on Instagram along with others, like the Monopoly man and Furby. The ones shown are Optimus Prime and Bumblebee but the deal here is that they are a combo of different G1 aspects. The heads come from the cartoon (Bumblebee has a mouth for instance) while the bodies are based on the G1 toys.
Check them out below and let us know if this mishmash interests you or if you were going to buy them regardless or not buy them no matter how they looked.
Categories:Toy News, Collectibles Posted by:ZeroWolf | Credit(s): -WonkoTheSane- from Seibertron, Flame Toys Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 53,869
Greetings Seibertronians! Fellow Seibertron user, -WonkoTheSane-, has let us know that Flame Toys have unleashed a new of reveals following on from yesterday! These include new sketches of forthcoming products in their Kuro Kara Kuri line and a fulfilment of a promise made yesterday, full colour pictures of Kuro Kara Kuri Victory Saber!
This appears to be an add on set for their already available Kuro Kara Kuri Optimus Prime, giving him a jet pack upgrade like that enjoyed by his live action movie counterpart in the end fight of Revenge of the Fallen.
After first being teased almost two years ago, we finally get our proper look at the Victory Combination in all its glory.
What do you think of these first looks and Victory Saber? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews.
Categories:Toy News, Collectibles Posted by:ZeroWolf | Credit(s): Flame Toys Social Media Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 42,801
Greetings Seibertronians! With SDCC at home roaring into gear, Flame Toys have taken to Twitter to reveal several figures, including one fans of Star Saber have been waiting a while for!
Primal will be the first to represent Beast Wars in Flame Toys Furai Action range. According to their tweets, releases will feature die-cast, high articulation and be fully painted non-transforming figures.
According to a tweet by famed animation studio Trigger, Primal was designed by Satoshi
Amemiya, one of the staff at Trigger.
Leo Prime is to be the second release of the Furai Action line, and Studio Trigger have revealed he was designed by their staff member, Masaru
Sakamoto.
What do you think of these new releases? Want to see Victory Saber in all his glory? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews.
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