Official Images of Premium Series Blackout and Ironhide

Um... I think I actually like the non-premium versions better, especially Blackout.

Megs is the only premium figure that I'm interested in. I held off buying the ugly non-premium one because I saw a recolor coming a mile away. These others aren't much of an improvement, me thinks.

They really should've hired Jin to design these!

Glad I passed on Blackout now, this one looks much better. I wonder if we’ll get premium game characters and protoforms?

mines better

Blackout is less impressive than I was expecting.
though I like the metallic Scorponok and I haven't bought a Blackout yet.
This Ironhide looks less movie accurate than the original. And I already got an Ironhide.

I'll pass on both of these. How could they make a crap figure like Blackout even worse. Ironhide is alright, but not twenty extra bucks alright.

Stormrider wrote:What' the difference between that Blackout and the exclusive Takara one that you could get if you purchased the Transformers Movie in Japan?

They appear very similar.

Looks like absolutely nothing. So those of you that spent the enormous amount of cash to get the Takara exclusive must be feelin like an ass now.

I still don't have Blackout so I'll probably get this one. I might get Ironhide just because the Allspark one is Blue and yellow colors of the Wolverines But I don't really need anpther Ironhide but most admit the smokestacks are doing it for me

just another cheap repaint that someone with extra cash would spend on.

LAME.

Do not want.

For all the time and effort that Hasbro put into these "more accurate" premium figures we probably could have gotten larger scale versions of the deluxes. For example, the voyager Bonecrusher that we asked for at Botcon, and Alternator size Bumblebee, Barricade and maybe Jazz. Prehaps even a leader Blackout

I know it is cheaper to just repaint the existing moulds but delaying new figures from universe and animated just to give us more of the same stuff with a few small differences from what we all bought 7 months ago in june just doesn't seem right.

That's what I think anyway, for what it's worth. I guess I just will be buying old G1 figures for the next 6 months.