New Stock Images of Studio Series 65 Blitzwing

Given how this stage of promo pics has still been wrong before about paint apps, there is still a chance the final figure's head will be painted correctly, a la Studio Series Leader Optimus' ab piece and Earthrise Optimus' hands, head, and pelvis.

You know what accessory HasTak overlooked that I hoped someone makes? Rampage's cannons.

Kinda lame with the white head, but aside from that, I’m really liking him a lot. I’m sure some black paint or a Sharpie will fix the white head fairly easily.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:You know what accessory HasTak overlooked that I hoped someone makes? Rampage's cannons.

Rampage already has his cannons. They're not impressive, but they gave you the option for them.

...I'm just gonna hope that that sample of Blitzwing is just incorrect, otherwise that's unfortunate. I'm still really glad he comes with both his weapons though.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:You know what accessory HasTak overlooked that I hoped someone makes? Rampage's cannons.

They didn't overlook them, you're supposed to remove the bulldozer mode pistons and plug them into his hands. They aren't the most screen-accurate guns in the line, but they also definitely didn't forget them.

If that head is the Final Deco and it's not Black like it should be I'm not buying. It'd go against the Modus Operandi of the line of Screen accuracy and Scale and Jeep Bumblebee is both.

My attempt at "fixing" Blitzwing, I just added the needed black and grey to his head and crotch, while giving him the extra detail of painted wheels. Really excited for Blitzwing, in any case. He looks fabulous.

Remember y'all:

SS-44 "final" promo pic with unpainted red abs:



SS-44 actual figure with painted silver abs:



ER OP "final" promo pic with unpainted grey hands and silver painted codpiece and yellow painted eyes:



ER OP actual figure with painted blue hands and codpiece and light blue painted eyes:



Now, does this mean the final Blitzwing will definitely have the correctly painted head? No, but it does mean this is by no means definitely representative of the final figure.

That head definitely looks weird. Hopefully this is a DotM Prime case.

Nemesis Primal wrote:...I'm just gonna hope that that sample of Blitzwing is just incorrect, otherwise that's unfortunate. I'm still really glad he comes with both his weapons though.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:You know what accessory HasTak overlooked that I hoped someone makes? Rampage's cannons.

They didn't overlook them, you're supposed to remove the bulldozer mode pistons and plug them into his hands. They aren't the most screen-accurate guns in the line, but they also definitely didn't forget them.

Ah, I see. I don't think I saw that in the instructions. Thank you for pointing it out.

I really hope you can mount the missiles under the wing using the slot in the top because they do not look good upside-down in the jet mode photo. They look to be removable, so fingers crossed. Worst case, I just leave them out for jet mode.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Ah, I see. I don't think I saw that in the instructions. Thank you for pointing it out.

And you're right that you didn't see them in the instructions, they aren't there, I checked while posting, but it is an official feature because Hasbro shows it in the stock photo on the figure's packaging (and I want to say they displayed it that way before it came out, but I don't recall for certain).

I'm worried this will be yet another solid SS mold ruined by terrible cheap paint. I know it's not final but SS track record in the paint department is not great imo.

Prime Target wrote:If that head is the Final Deco and it's not Black like it should be I'm not buying. It'd go against the Modus Operandi of the line of Screen accuracy and Scale and Jeep Bumblebee is both.

Despite being a completionist, I passed on Crankcase and KSI Boss. I'm not usually hung up on screen accuracy, but when that's the point of the entire toyline, these two should just not exist as is.

This mold looks great!

KSI Boss was still a great army builder with solid paint.

Crankcase on the other hand...

Nathaniel Prime wrote:KSI Boss was still a great army builder with solid paint.

Crankcase on the other hand...

I’m still confused as to why they didn’t just repaint the Berserker mold for Crankcase. I know Berserker wasn’t great, but I still think it’s better figure than Crowbar, especially after gluing the arm panels on, which wouldn’t be difficult for Hasbro to do.

I’m sure Blitzwing’s head will be painted on the final version, like everyone’s said. The robot mode looks pretty well done, I’m just so bummed we didn’t get a licensed F-4 mode, or something that looks pretty close to an F-4. I’ll pass on Blitzwing and probably pick up Skipjack instead, since I didn’t get Rampage.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:That head definitely looks weird.

It looks like a literal skull, I'm kinda down for that

I'm not sure screen accuracy has ever been the main goal of studio series going by all the ss figures that aren't. Not going to get my hopes up for a more accurate springer over the slightly flawed siege springer going forward.

Seems every figure has to have some glaring uglyness (like blitzs missiles in jet mode) so some has/tak employee can make a killing on the side with their third party upgrade business

I highly doubt that's the case. It's mostly just corporate pennypinching budget limits to maximize HasTak's own profit margins on the toys themselves. Plus of course the general downsizing.

However, the Studio Series original molds are in fact meant to be more screen accurate within those limits, at least for important characters and first uses.

Oh dear, that's...very disappointing. Between the jet mode really looking just plain bad, the seriously lacking colourwork and the major downgrades between the original promos and the final(?) product...yeah, I'm not impressed.

On the bright side, I'll have few compunctions about modding him into a Starscream. There's potential there with some swapped parts and paintwork- but as BB Blitzwing he's pretty unsalvageable. Aside from possibly replacing the head (though I do rather like the "flight mask" sculpt) I'd mainly want to replace the feet. Painting them how they appeared in the movie would make them super egregious in alt mode, and leaving them as is looks awful, so I reckon some different shoes would be in order, both to improve the shape of the jet and also to make him more distinct from the original design.

As an interesting/unbearably nerdy side note, those tootsies he's sporting? They're actually based on the F-4 Phantom's nose wheel, which is a very cool detail even if he seems to have grown three extra wheels (he has four of those landing gear whereas the real jet has one, and only has three landing gear struts in total even accounting for the very different looking wing wheels).

Thanks to DorksideToys we got some new stock pic of Skipjack!

This is why I love studio series so much. I can finally create some of my favorite scenes! It's not the best picture, but I think most can tell what it is.

A side note. Anyone who order overload from Amazon preorder have the order update? Both of mine have not changed but was curious since the UK has been getting him in.

People from the UK have gotten theirs in from In Demand Toys, no idea where they've got their supply from.

LinaNui wrote:This is why I love studio series so much. I can finally create some of my favorite scenes! It's not the best picture, but I think most can tell what it is.

A side note. Anyone who order overload from Amazon preorder have the order update? Both of mine have not changed but was curious since the UK has been getting him in.

I didn't remember Grievous backing up Megatron in that scene XD

MadProject wrote:

LinaNui wrote:This is why I love studio series so much. I can finally create some of my favorite scenes! It's not the best picture, but I think most can tell what it is.

A side note. Anyone who order overload from Amazon preorder have the order update? Both of mine have not changed but was curious since the UK has been getting him in.

I didn't remember Grievous backing up Megatron in that scene XD

“Sentinel Prime! You are a bold one!”

MadProject wrote:

LinaNui wrote:This is why I love studio series so much. I can finally create some of my favorite scenes! It's not the best picture, but I think most can tell what it is.

A side note. Anyone who order overload from Amazon preorder have the order update? Both of mine have not changed but was curious since the UK has been getting him in.

I didn't remember Grievous backing up Megatron in that scene XD

You must've watched a very different cut from the one I watched

Looks sweet!

Ig89ninja wrote:

MadProject wrote:

LinaNui wrote:This is why I love studio series so much. I can finally create some of my favorite scenes! It's not the best picture, but I think most can tell what it is.

A side note. Anyone who order overload from Amazon preorder have the order update? Both of mine have not changed but was curious since the UK has been getting him in.

I didn't remember Grievous backing up Megatron in that scene XD

“Sentinel Prime! You are a bold one!”

“You fool! I’ve been trained in your Autobot arts by Count Dooku!”

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

Ig89ninja wrote:

MadProject wrote:

LinaNui wrote:This is why I love studio series so much. I can finally create some of my favorite scenes! It's not the best picture, but I think most can tell what it is.

A side note. Anyone who order overload from Amazon preorder have the order update? Both of mine have not changed but was curious since the UK has been getting him in.

I didn't remember Grievous backing up Megatron in that scene XD

“Sentinel Prime! You are a bold one!”

“You fool! I’ve been trained in your Autobot arts by Count Dooku!”

“Your sword will make a fine addition to my collection.”

Wait, that was earlier in the film, my bad.

Ig89ninja wrote:

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

Ig89ninja wrote:

MadProject wrote:

LinaNui wrote:This is why I love studio series so much. I can finally create some of my favorite scenes! It's not the best picture, but I think most can tell what it is.

A side note. Anyone who order overload from Amazon preorder have the order update? Both of mine have not changed but was curious since the UK has been getting him in.

I didn't remember Grievous backing up Megatron in that scene XD

“Sentinel Prime! You are a bold one!”

“You fool! I’ve been trained in your Autobot arts by Count Dooku!”

“Your sword will make a fine addition to my collection.”

Wait, that was earlier in the film, my bad.

Just sayin', Overload will need lightsabers...

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Ig89ninja wrote:

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

Ig89ninja wrote:

MadProject wrote:

LinaNui wrote:This is why I love studio series so much. I can finally create some of my favorite scenes! It's not the best picture, but I think most can tell what it is.

A side note. Anyone who order overload from Amazon preorder have the order update? Both of mine have not changed but was curious since the UK has been getting him in.

I didn't remember Grievous backing up Megatron in that scene XD

“Sentinel Prime! You are a bold one!”

“You fool! I’ve been trained in your Autobot arts by Count Dooku!”

“Your sword will make a fine addition to my collection.”

Wait, that was earlier in the film, my bad.

Just sayin', Overload will need lightsabers...

Someone beat you to it! https://www.instagram.com/p/CBdjrRdFg_R ... hare_sheet

LinaNui wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Ig89ninja wrote:

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

Ig89ninja wrote:

MadProject wrote:

LinaNui wrote:This is why I love studio series so much. I can finally create some of my favorite scenes! It's not the best picture, but I think most can tell what it is.

A side note. Anyone who order overload from Amazon preorder have the order update? Both of mine have not changed but was curious since the UK has been getting him in.

I didn't remember Grievous backing up Megatron in that scene XD

“Sentinel Prime! You are a bold one!”

“You fool! I’ve been trained in your Autobot arts by Count Dooku!”

“Your sword will make a fine addition to my collection.”

Wait, that was earlier in the film, my bad.

Just sayin', Overload will need lightsabers...

Someone beat you to it! https://www.instagram.com/p/CBdjrRdFg_R ... hare_sheet

I love G.Grevious' design, so if that's whom they choose to reference in a potential redeco of overload (getting the skipjack treatment basically), I'd be down for that

LinaNui wrote:This is why I love studio series so much. I can finally create some of my favorite scenes! It's not the best picture, but I think most can tell what it is.

A side note. Anyone who order overload from Amazon preorder have the order update? Both of mine have not changed but was curious since the UK has been getting him in.

My Overload from Amazon still shows October 5th, and my Target order for him shows the same time frame.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

LinaNui wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Ig89ninja wrote:

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

Ig89ninja wrote:

MadProject wrote:

LinaNui wrote:This is why I love studio series so much. I can finally create some of my favorite scenes! It's not the best picture, but I think most can tell what it is.

A side note. Anyone who order overload from Amazon preorder have the order update? Both of mine have not changed but was curious since the UK has been getting him in.

I didn't remember Grievous backing up Megatron in that scene XD

“Sentinel Prime! You are a bold one!”

“You fool! I’ve been trained in your Autobot arts by Count Dooku!”

“Your sword will make a fine addition to my collection.”

Wait, that was earlier in the film, my bad.

Just sayin', Overload will need lightsabers...

Someone beat you to it! https://www.instagram.com/p/CBdjrRdFg_R ... hare_sheet

I love G.Grevious' design, so if that's whom they choose to reference in a potential redeco of overload (getting the skipjack treatment basically), I'd be down for that

This Grievous talk reminds me of something...

"Hello there!"

"General Cannoli!"

Hellscream9999 wrote:-Prior discussion snipped to save pagespace-
I love G.Grevious' design, so if that's whom they choose to reference in a potential redeco of overload (getting the skipjack treatment basically), I'd be down for that

While an Overlord redeco would be nice, and that in particular would be cool, I sadly don't think it's in the cards (although it has a better shot than a do-over ROTF Soundwave).

It's true that we got Skipjack, but
1. That was screen-supported and necessary for a more accurate Devastator; An Overload redeco has no screen support
and
2. The SS Rampage mold is a Voyager, while the Overload mold is a Leader; with as costly as the Studio Series Leaders are, they're less palatable for redeco-milking.

Between those two things, an Overload redeco seems unlikely. We might get Scavenger redecoed into Demolishor (since Demolishor has a significant screen presence to back him up and was the one to actually assume robot mode), but even that isn't guaranteed.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote: I’m still confused as to why they didn’t just repaint the Berserker mold for Crankcase. I know Berserker wasn’t great, but I still think it’s better figure than Crowbar, especially after gluing the arm panels on, which wouldn’t be difficult for Hasbro to do.

My personal theory is that it's because of how much Berserker shelfwarmed.

In Demand Toys have uploaded may new images of the next batch of Transformers Studio figures to hit store shelves. Below you will find stock images showcasing the actual finished figures, as opposed to painted samples or CG renders. The images include SS 62 Soundwave (Revenge of the Fallen), SS 63 Topspin (Dark of the Moon), SS 64 Cliffjumper (Bumblebee) and SS 67 Constructicon Skipjack (Revenge of the Fallen). You will let us know which of these you intend on getting or if you already preordered them, since these have been up for preorder for a while now. These should be coming out in 2 month's time.

Just curious, but do we know for a fact that Soundwave had 2 modes in ROTF? Because as far as I know, he was only ever a Robot with no legs floating around in space.

william-james88 wrote:Just curious, but do we know for a fact that Soundwave had 2 modes in ROTF? Because as far as I know, he was only ever a Robot with no legs floating around in space.

He was only ever seen in satellite mode in the movie, but with his robot mode head always deployed as if it was part of his altmode.

Then what's the unshrouded head that others have been talking about?

ZeroWolf wrote:Then what's the unshrouded head that others have been talking about?

I dunno, I wasn't part of that conversation.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Just curious, but do we know for a fact that Soundwave had 2 modes in ROTF? Because as far as I know, he was only ever a Robot with no legs floating around in space.

He was only ever seen in satellite mode in the movie, but with his robot mode head always deployed as if it was part of his altmode.

But thats my question, how do we know that's an alt mode? As opposed to his robot mode, or that he even has 2 modes.

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Just curious, but do we know for a fact that Soundwave had 2 modes in ROTF? Because as far as I know, he was only ever a Robot with no legs floating around in space.

He was only ever seen in satellite mode in the movie, but with his robot mode head always deployed as if it was part of his altmode.

But thats my question, how do we know that's an alt mode? As opposed to his robot mode, or that he even has 2 modes.

Because, at the time, Hasbro and Paramount kept referring to the satellite mode as Soundwave's altmode.

The following is an early concept design for his robot mode, which Soundwave would have transformed into after scanning a black Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck in an early draft, and which Hasbro used as a basis for designing the ROTF satellite toy's robot mode after the plans for Chevy altmode were scrapped.

Holy snap, somehow I'm just noticing that Cliffjumper is a remold of BB Movie Jeep Bee. Which I have no problem with, since that figure was my absolute favorite Bumblebee mold from the SS line. I'm just surprised nobody's jumped on pointing this out.

ZeroWolf wrote:Then what's the unshrouded head that others have been talking about?

In the movie, while in “satellite mode” Soundwave’s head was much more sleek and longer with a faceplate and a sort of visor (this can be seen on the alt mode of the old deluxe) while presumably in robot mode his head was pretty much just DotM Soundwave’s head (also seen on the old toy in robot mode). This new SS opts for lazily just using the standard Soundwave Robot head rather than having it become screen accurate for the alt mode, which is no real surprise given the alt mode in general for this figure is pretty terrible in my opinion.

Pretty disappointed that Soundwave lost the lathered up silver paint he was covered in. With such a weak alt mode, while also missing Ravage, that was one of the main things going for him.

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Just curious, but do we know for a fact that Soundwave had 2 modes in ROTF? Because as far as I know, he was only ever a Robot with no legs floating around in space.

He was only ever seen in satellite mode in the movie, but with his robot mode head always deployed as if it was part of his altmode.

But thats my question, how do we know that's an alt mode? As opposed to his robot mode, or that he even has 2 modes.

There was concept art for Soundwave’s robot mode in ROTF, which the toys and video game model (ROTF era) are based on. In the movie itself, though, we only see the Satellite mode. It’s a case similar to DOTM Shockwave, where we don’t see another mode in the movie itself so Hasbro came up with something.

The shrouded vs unshrouded head thing is about the ROTF deluxe, which had 2 heads: one for satellite mode (which is meant to resemble the head we see Soundwave with on-screen in ROTF, though it is different from the final film version), and a separate one for robot mode that’s based on the concept art. Since the SS figure is just based on what we saw on-screen, with a new robot mode specifically for this figure, it uses the same head in both modes.

Honestly, the included stand with that orbit backdrop is really neat looking - I’m thinking I might pick this one up, I’ll have to look at some reference pics to see what I could do with paint.

"Hey you darn kids! Get off my lawn!"
Does anybody else hear that?

Soundwave looks quite terrible imo. The original is a more interesting design, at least looks closer to the movie in terms of how "busy" it is, and has FAR better pain. This looks like a random TLK Soundwave.

Cliffjumper on the other hand looks awesome and a lot of fun.