Release Date and Official Images for Takara The Last Knight Toyline TLK 01-08

GalvatronG1 wrote:Wait...the hasbro bee has....less yellow surfaces?

Which difference are you referring to? I cant tell the differences on em.

The new Takara website section that is promoting The Last Knight toys has updated with some new images of packaging art for Hound, Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, and Barricade! These new images show the character's new looks, with Bee getting an updated alt mode and reverting back to a more Dark of the Moon styled body, while Barricade takes up his new look as the bad boy Decepticon cop that looks a little more human than his previous appearance. Looking close, it is also interesting to note that Barricade has replaced his "To Punish and Enslave" with "To Protect and Serve" in his robot mode as well, and we get a good close-up of his new brass knuckles.

Check out the packaging art below, and let us know what you think in the comments section below!

Still amusing that Bumblebee turned into a stinger knock-off then changed back to his normal look.

Am I the only one who wishes that they had made Barricade as a new character? He only superficially resembles his previous robot mode. Even when Optimus changed bodies between DOTM and AOE, he was still instantly recognizable in robot mode.

Glad to see Bee's design getting closer to the original, I wasn't crazy about the AOE look. Too bad Optimus hasn't done the same.

I always wonder how Hasbro got away with those pentagrams on Bumblebee. I know they are stars but I remember people always accusing cartoons of having pentagrams or other symbols in them for no reason other than to stir the pot.

Deadput wrote:The only reason he has Protect and Serve on his knuckles is so it can be ironic that he is beating up Autobots with the words Protect and Serve and ever since 2007 Barricade's whole Police thing is supposed to be ironic since Barricade is an evil and vile Decepticon who enjoys hurting others.

we were also referring to the packaging art, which has "to protect and serve" on it several times, both in knuckles and in alt mode kibble

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:we were also referring to the packaging art, which has "to protect and serve" on it several times, both in knuckles and in alt mode kibble

Yes but I was talking about the knuckle dusters although I did not notice the protect and serve stuff being on his armor on first viewing I see it now though during the filming the only logos on him that we were able to see on him were "Punish and Enslave" and the "Keep calm and hail Megatron" motto that was spotted later in filming.

So if Barricade make a heel face turn it wont be till the end of the movie but I doubt he will since this is just package art, Cade has his con logos anyways and I can and will point out that the Optimus in the packaging art is inaccurate to how he appears in the trailers for this film and the end of AOE Optimus is missing the Knight upgrades that he gets from pulling the sword in AOE for example his knight gauntlet arms are gone in this promotional image yet he has them in the TLK trailers.

So there's the new Bumblebee mold, and then there's the repaint of AoE 'Bee. What's up with that? The new mold looks great, but the repaint feels unnecessary.

Sigmus Prime wrote:So there's the new Bumblebee mold, and then there's the repaint of AoE 'Bee. What's up with that? The new mold looks great, but the repaint feels unnecessary.

It's the classic "Sell as many Bee's as we can" marketing strategy.

Only realistic reason I can think of.