Studio Series GE-08 Decepticon Soldier Found In-Store

Excited to get them. These guys will be the first time I’ve ever done army-building, I’ve wanted a figure of them since the game released.

Isn't the Decepticon Trooper based on the Barricade mold, that many have said doth suck?

And I thought the Decepticons in general were better known for being able to fly - wouldn't a deluxe jet-former have been more apropos?

DeathReviews wrote:Isn't the Decepticon Trooper based on the Barricade mold, that many have said doth suck?

He is. but somehow the Trooper retool improves the mold a ton.

DeathReviews wrote:And I thought the Decepticons in general were better known for being able to fly - wouldn't a deluxe jet-former have been more apropos?

This isn't the G1 cartoon. The WFC and FOC video games reserved jet modes strictly for Seekers and Aerialbots only. These troopers aren't Seekers.

I took primal camping with me this weekend, he has a nice spot in the new RV for traveling. He looks very judgmental in beast mode

We still have one more wave in the Studio Series line in 2024 that has yet to be revealed fully, which includes War for Cybertron Ratchet. While we do not have any listings for that 4th wave, Amazon.com somehow put up listings for the first wave of 2025. Now you can't order these and they have no images. BUT it makes us wonder if the toys listed will be available earlier than anticipated.

The listings are the following:

86 Galvatron (only labelled as Leader Galvatron on Amazon). This is a redeco of the previously released leader Galvatron figure but in a cartoon deco. We are not sure if there might be retooling as well.
https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-G04?tag=seibertron07-20& ... s_li_ss_tl

Apelinq, a redeco and retool of SS ROTB Optimus Primal
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0D94ZDM?tag=seibertron07-20& ... formers-20

WFC Skywarp, redeco of voyager GE Starscream
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0D952BQ?tag=seibertron07-20& ... formers-20

Double Punch, a red redeco of ROTB deluxe Scorponok calling back to the color scheme of Beast Wars Double Punch, with the name calling even further back to one of the rarest Transformers toy molds to find complete, which also turns into a scorpion.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0D94ZRV?tag=seibertron07-20& ... formers-20

G1 Double Punch



Beast Ware Double Punch

It's been a while since we've seen an intentionally rare Transformer released, and even less common for it to be from Hasbro. No Surprise it's an Optimus Prime figure, right? As part of the 40th Anniversary celebration and ahead of the release of Transformers: One, a special "Battle Damaged" version of Studio Series 112 Optimus Prime/Orion Pax has been revealed by Hasbro HK limited to only 230 individually numbered copies globally! For Hasbro HK's part they'll be giving away 40 of them (8 per day) at Hasbro Fans Expo to people spending $3,000HKD ($384USD) in the Hasbro booth.

This isn't the only exclusive being offered. For those spending $800HKD ($102USD) they have "Transformers 40th Anniversary Commemorative Poker Cards" limited to 280 at the Expo (global number wasn't given). For those spending $500HKD ($64USD) they're giving out 280 40th Anniversary collectable coins which appear to be limited 5,000 globally. And while it doesn't appear to be exclusive, 500 sets of BotBots are being given to those that spend $300HKD ($38USD).

No word on where else these will be made available around the world, but we do have San Diego Comic Con THIS WEEKEND (Hasbro Fans Expo will be offering SDCC exclusives) so who knows? When we do we'll be sure to let everyone know and you can talk about it in the Seibertron Energon Pub forums!

I expect that TF1 Optimus to be on the secondary market the same day for a zillion rupees.

-Kanrabat- wrote:I expect that TF1 Optimus to be on the secondary market the same day for a zillion rupees.

Not a doubt in my mind, especially since it isn't limited to just Transformers purchases. A person can spend a ton of money on Marvel and Star Wars with no interest in Transformers and get one.

Emerje

How could they possibly make a more screen accurate Galvatron after the Kingdom release.

cruizerdave wrote:How could they possibly make a more screen accurate Galvatron after the Kingdom release.

A bluer shade of purple?

Indeed, I think it's the gulf between the colors of his original toy and character model carrying over to Marvel and cartoon continuity respectively that makes us so often forget how his color would randomly shift from purple to a sort of pale indigo in the cartoon, since that was a comparatively subtle change. Even though light-indigo was used more throughout TF:TM, "purple" just rolls off the tongue easier, so we think of Galvy as such; therefore he's gotten way more purple toys over the years, making a light-indigo SS'86 Galvatron worthwhile, despite the sheer number of times the Kingdom mold's been repainted.

Sabrblade wrote:

cruizerdave wrote:How could they possibly make a more screen accurate Galvatron after the Kingdom release.

A bluer shade of purple?

... ... Looks like I'm buying that mold again.

I wonder if it'll still come with all the extras like the previous releases did.

Rodimus Prime wrote:I wonder if it'll still come with all the extras like the previous releases did.

Personally hoping they pass on the two smaller guns/ships in favor of a better matrix with chain.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:I wonder if it'll still come with all the extras like the previous releases did.

Personally hoping they pass on the two smaller guns/ships in favor of a better matrix with chain.

I think they'll give him the same one CC Prime comes with.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:I wonder if it'll still come with all the extras like the previous releases did.

Personally hoping they pass on the two smaller guns/ships in favor of a better matrix with chain.

I think they'll give him the same one CC Prime comes with.

It would be difficult for them to remove one single accessory from that mold, better to just rework it in to the existing sprues.

Emerje

From TakaraTomy's Transformers 40th Anniversary Exhibition website and PR Times:

Nemesis Prime (40th Anniversary Ver.)

ディセプティコンエンブレムを身に付けた悪の司令官「ネメシスプライム」が登場。ロボットモードからトレーラートラックへ変形します。

ブラスターと剣が付属し、ロボット、ビークルの両モードに装着装備できます。

商品名：ネメシスプライム(40thアニバーサリーVer.)

発売日：2024年9月13日(金)

希望小売価格：7,000円(税込)

対象年齢：８歳以上

商品サイズ：約W98×H175×D57mm

著作権表記：

© ＴＯＭＹ© 2024 Paramount Pictures Corporation.

All Rights Reserved. TM & ® denote Japan Trademarks.

Introducing Nemesis Prime, the evil commander wearing the Decepticon emblem. Transforms from robot mode to a trailer truck.

Comes with a blaster and sword, and can be equipped in both robot and vehicle modes.

Product name: Nemesis Prime (40th Anniversary Ver.)

Release date: Friday, September 13, 2024

Suggested retail price: 7,000 yen (tax included)

Target age: 8 years old and above

Product size: Approx. W98 x H175 x D57mm

Copyright:

© TOMY© 2024 Paramount Pictures Corporation.

All Rights Reserved. TM & ® denote Japan Trademarks.

TC-01 Throne Collection 01

ディセプティコンの玉座がコレクションし易い単品ニューカラーで登場。

お気に入りのキャラクターを座らせてディスプレイする事ができます。

（※関節可動やデザインの関係で着座に不向きなアイテムがあります。）

商品名：TC-01 スローンコレクション01

発売日：2024年9月13日(金)

希望小売価格：2,500円(税込)

対象年齢：15歳以上

商品サイズ：約W136×H167×D74mm

著作権表記： © ＴＯＭＹ

The Decepticon throne is now available in a new color that is easy to collect.

You can display your favorite characters sitting on it.

(*Some items are not suitable for sitting due to their movable joints or design.)

Product name: TC-01 Throne Collection 01

Release date: Friday, September 13, 2024

Suggested retail price: 2,500 yen (tax included)

Target age: 15 years old and over

Product size: Approx. W136 x H167 x D74 mm

Copyright: © TOMY

Both of these items are being sold exclusively at the Transformers Expo 2024 exhibition event in Tokyo, Japan.

Nemesis, always the TT exclusive.

ROTF Multipack revealed at SDCC, featuring SS-32 Optimus Prime, Jetfire, and (strangely) Arcee, Chromia, and Elita-1. Turns out there was only one deluxe instead of the rumored two. All figures appear to be unchanged except for SS-32, who has Energon swords instead of the blaster.

I am really surprised it's the Arcee sisters, but it's nice that Jetfire gets a second go at it.

Also, It's kinda funny, this pack has all the bots who died in RotF. So it is in a way a bit of a corpse pack itself.

BTW, a Sentinel pick for fun

The Studio Series September unofficial fan tournament is BACK for its third year!

This fan-run tournament was started in 2022 to take a look at our substantial roster of remaining live action characters in Studio Series and have fun talking about the ones we’d most like to see in the future! Our first tournament focused on our on-screen cast, while 2023’s season focused on concept art and characters from other screens, which ended up timing nicely with the recent additions of concept art and gamer edition in the Studio Series line! If this is your first time with the tournament, here's a look at how those first 2 years went:



This fan-run tournament was started in 2022 to take a look at our substantial roster of remaining live action characters in Studio Series and have fun talking about the ones we’d most like to see in the future! Our first tournament focused on our on-screen cast, while 2023’s season focused on concept art and characters from other screens, which ended up timing nicely with the recent additions of concept art and gamer edition in the Studio Series line!

This year we’ll be returning to a look at our on-screen characters, so only characters who appeared on screen in the live action films! To get our bracket together we need your lists of top 10 characters you’d like to see in Studio Series! To post your lists, here’s your ground rules:



RULES FOR TOP 10 LISTS

1. Live-action characters only for this list, including the 5 Michael Bay films plus Bumblebee and Rise of the Beasts

2. Only characters who appeared on screen in robot mode in the actual films count for this bracket (Characters like ROTF Breakaway, ROTB Transit, DOTM Warpath, etc. are out)

3. Leaked/listed future figures are fair game! As we’ve learned, listings don’t always pan out so we’d like to show support for these characters all the way up to release! If a character on the top 16 is pipelined or revealed during the tournament, they will be removed from the bracket.

4. Redos of existing characters/designs in Studio Series will not count EXCEPT for characters who received a rerelease of an older figure instead of a new one (E.g High Octane and TLK Bumblebees, TLK Drift)

5. Remember to please be courteous and respectful in your discussion. This is just for fun!

As an example to get things rolling, here's my top 10!

1. Que (DOTM)
2. Hound (AOE)
3. High Octane Bumblebee
4. Bumblebee (AOE, Concept Camaro)
5. Hatchet (DOTM)
6. Devcon (DOTM)
7. Optimus Prime (TLK)
8. Optimus Prime (Evasion Mode)
9. Decepticon Protoform
10. Junkheap (AOE)

My top 10:

1) Que
2) Hatchet
3) Infernocus
4) Onslaught
5) Dreadbot
6) Devcon
7) Frenzy
8.) Driller
9) High Octane Bumblebee
10) Stratosphere

1. Hatchet
2. Dreadbot
3. Onslaught
4. Stratosphere (RotB)
5. Dispensor
6. Nokiabot
7. That one guy's Xbox 360
8. Protoform Ironhide
9. That one lady's steering wheel
10. Daytrader


If deleted scenes count, throw Dishwasher bot at the top of my list.

1.Devcon
2.Canopy
3.Strafe
4.Dragonstorm
5.Stratosphere
6.Hound(Age of Extinction)
7.Megatron(The Last Knight)
8.Slug
9.Scorn
10.Drift(Age of Extinction car)

Thanks everyone, got your lists added!

Now that they are done with the 86 Dinobots, I hope we can get all the Movie Dinobots.



Day 1681 of waiting for Transformers Armada Masterpiece news

I integrated TF:One Sentinel and Alpha Trion into my SS display, and then immediately got TF:One SS Prime. So now I gotta redo this shelf to make him fit.

Speaking of SS TF:one Prime, he is pretty good. He is a nice sized deluxe, but I do not like the way the crotch works, and I wish he had some forwar/backwards play in his ankles. But otherwise, pretty solid and pretty fun.

Just finished up my custom Studio Series Grindor, Ravage, and Recon Ravage! This project took a very long time to complete, partially due to my first Grindor breaking but also due to the modding I wanted to do to give Grindor a more accurate CH-53 alt mode. I modified the front nose section, added a detachable third engine, and made a new tail rotor piece!

Since I ended up with 2 Grindors to make the final project that also means I had 2 Ravages, so I did one in movie colors and another in his ROTF Recon Ravage deco!

That's amazing work!

Maybe as a final touch, do like the KO oversized Weijiang did and make a copter underbelly that can "transform" into some landscape for Ravage to prowl in? That would be quite the challenge I guess.

-Kanrabat- wrote:That's amazing work!

Maybe as a final touch, do like the KO oversized Weijiang did and make a copter underbelly that can "transform" into some landscape for Ravage to prowl in? That would be quite the challenge I guess.

Thank you! That'd be really interesting, I wonder if there'd be a way to incorporate into robot mode or something too, give him some extra height.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:That's amazing work!

Maybe as a final touch, do like the KO oversized Weijiang did and make a copter underbelly that can "transform" into some landscape for Ravage to prowl in? That would be quite the challenge I guess.

Thank you! That'd be really interesting, I wonder if there'd be a way to incorporate into robot mode or something too, give him some extra height.

One thing is sure for an underbelly part for the SS leader Blackout or Grindor, it would partsform. But what the thing will do is up to you.

Still, I find the landscape idea to be genius.

Well done with Grindor! Looks super sharp

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Well done with Grindor! Looks super sharp

Thank you very much! I've been back and forth with that project for a long time now so I'm very happy to have it done xD

Was surprised to see this guy back on shelves at Target! Has its own dedicated shelf space and it’s 24.99 instead of 19.99 (kinda like the A-level deluxes)

He showed up on Target.com a few weeks ago too. I guess they pulled some strings to get another Bee in stores.

Emerje

Thanks to all your lists, we now have our Top 16, bracket, and calendar for this year's Studio Series September fan tournament! We had a huge influx of lists from multiple different sites this year, nearly doubling last year's number. And along with that, we have a different tournament roster this year - some carried over from our first bracket in 2022, along with some new faces!

A couple notes on our new roster:

- All 3 unreleased AOE Dinobots made the bracket this year! Scorn was our only Dinobot in 2022.
- AOE Hound made a massive leap from 15th seed in 2022 to our top ranked seed this year!
- ROTB Stratosphere is our first character from outside the Bayverse to make the on-screen tournament! There were a handful that were voted for (Cybertron Shatter/Dropkick, different versions of ROTB Mirage), but Stratosphere is the first to make the top 16!
- Our runner-ups for the top 16 were AOE Concept Camaro Bumblebee, Evasion Mode Optimus Prime, and ROTF/DOTM Decepticon Protoform, all of whom were on the bracket in 2022.

I'll be posting links to the voting pages here when they go up. See you soon!

Voting for rounds 1-4 is live! It'll continue for 48 hours.

Link: https://forms.gle/CyVFXi3Vu7wHxX7s7

My picks:
Frenzy - absolute must, should have been done in the first wave of SS Core figure.
Barricade - should have already happened, would have been easy to retool the previous AoE figure like they did the Dreads.
Devcon - Still feels like a wishlist figure that will never happen, but I'll vote for him every time.
Dispensor - Time for a Mountain Dew collaboration, stick him in a 2 pack with the Oreo machine guy (impossible, I know).

Emerje

I voted for both dinobots, Dispensor, and Frenzy. Frenzy not being in core yet is a crime, and not just because a make believe Bee movie Frenzy got made first

Emerje wrote:My picks:
Frenzy - absolute must, should have been done in the first wave of SS Core figure.
Barricade - should have already happened, would have been easy to retool the previous AoE figure like they did the Dreads.
Devcon - Still feels like a wishlist figure that will never happen, but I'll vote for him every time.
Dispensor - Time for a Mountain Dew collaboration, stick him in a 2 pack with the Oreo machine guy (impossible, I know).

Emerje

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I voted for both dinobots, Dispensor, and Frenzy. Frenzy not being in core yet is a crime, and not just because a make believe Bee movie Frenzy got made first

Thanks for the votes everyone! We still have another 24 hours or so of voting for anyone interested!

The results are in! We saw an upper seed sweep this year, but several matches were very close! AOE/TLK Prime beat Dispensor by only 2 votes.



See you on Friday for the next set of rounds!

Emgo gets the chance to give us special reveal from Hasbro .

Transformers One Studio Series Deluxe Elita-1

Voting has arrived for rounds 5-8!

Link: https://forms.gle/WZfpkE8pjV8oN9WZ9

Really hate some of these matchups, Megatron and Zeus don't need new figures in my mind, while Que and Stratosphere both do

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Really hate some of these matchups, Megatron and Zeus don't need new figures in my mind, while Que and Stratosphere both do

I've definitely struggled a lot on this round. Ended up going with Megatron, Scorn, Onsaught and Stratosphere.

Emerje

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Really hate some of these matchups, Megatron and Zeus don't need new figures in my mind, while Que and Stratosphere both do

Nitro Zeus, I agree. But TLK Megatron is in desperate need of an upgrade. The old leader is sub-part and too big, while the voyager is almost perfect but too small.

A SS TLK leader that would use the old voyager as a base while fixing the kinks and make it a smidge bigger would be awesome.

Thanks for the votes everyone!

To weigh in on Nitro Zeus, I actually do think he needs a new figure. The TLK Nitro mold is super fun but it's also not super accurate to the movie (particularly with the arms and head sculpt). It's also much too tall for SS scale, Nitro is actually the same height as Ironhide in the movie!

I finally got Bee Skywarp.

I would have preferred black instead of dark gray, but these colors work.

Also, the complete trio looks great.

(Thrust was sold months ago.)