Transformation Video for Transformers Studio Series 22 Dropkick
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Posted by Stryker P28 on November 1st, 2018 @ 2:29pm CDT
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Posted by Ig89ninja on November 1st, 2018 @ 5:31pm CDT
Decepticon Stryker wrote:I got Shadow Raider yesterday and I love it. I'm definitely grabbing Lockdown next time I see him. Just wish deluxes weren't $20 each so I army building would be easier on my wallet.
Yeah, why the increase from $15-16 dollars?
Posted by Decepticon Stryker on November 1st, 2018 @ 5:35pm CDT
Ig89ninja wrote:Decepticon Stryker wrote:I got Shadow Raider yesterday and I love it. I'm definitely grabbing Lockdown next time I see him. Just wish deluxes weren't $20 each so I army building would be easier on my wallet.
Yeah, why the increase from $15-16 dollars?
Probably because most of the Studio Series figures are really really good. And also inflation and other economic stuff which I don't understand because I suck at math

Posted by TF-fan kev777 on November 1st, 2018 @ 6:40pm CDT
Decepticon Stryker wrote:Ig89ninja wrote:Decepticon Stryker wrote:I got Shadow Raider yesterday and I love it. I'm definitely grabbing Lockdown next time I see him. Just wish deluxes weren't $20 each so I army building would be easier on my wallet.
Yeah, why the increase from $15-16 dollars?
Probably because most of the Studio Series figures are really really good. And also inflation and other economic stuff which I don't understand because I suck at math
It isn't necessarily a price increase now, TLK deluxes were at $20 MSRP as well.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on November 1st, 2018 @ 7:25pm CDT
Posted by Ig89ninja on November 1st, 2018 @ 8:06pm CDT
Decepticon Stryker wrote:Ig89ninja wrote:Decepticon Stryker wrote:I got Shadow Raider yesterday and I love it. I'm definitely grabbing Lockdown next time I see him. Just wish deluxes weren't $20 each so I army building would be easier on my wallet.
Yeah, why the increase from $15-16 dollars?
Probably because most of the Studio Series figures are really really good. And also inflation and other economic stuff which I don't understand because I suck at math
But the prime wars trilogy figures are still that price!
Posted by Flashwave on November 1st, 2018 @ 9:51pm CDT
Ig89ninja wrote:Decepticon Stryker wrote:Ig89ninja wrote:Decepticon Stryker wrote:I got Shadow Raider yesterday and I love it. I'm definitely grabbing Lockdown next time I see him. Just wish deluxes weren't $20 each so I army building would be easier on my wallet.
Yeah, why the increase from $15-16 dollars?
Probably because most of the Studio Series figures are really really good. And also inflation and other economic stuff which I don't understand because I suck at math
But the prime wars trilogy figures are still that price!
Probably Licensing, Movie toys have to pay to look like real vehicles and if its anything like past lines, Paramount gets a slice of the pie too. Although my local Walmarts just rollback'd their Studio figures to 16.85
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on November 1st, 2018 @ 9:55pm CDT
Flashwave wrote:Ig89ninja wrote:Decepticon Stryker wrote:Ig89ninja wrote:Decepticon Stryker wrote:I got Shadow Raider yesterday and I love it. I'm definitely grabbing Lockdown next time I see him. Just wish deluxes weren't $20 each so I army building would be easier on my wallet.
Yeah, why the increase from $15-16 dollars?
Probably because most of the Studio Series figures are really really good. And also inflation and other economic stuff which I don't understand because I suck at math
But the prime wars trilogy figures are still that price!
Probably Licensing, Movie toys have to pay to look like real vehicles and if its anything like past lines, Paramount gets a slice of the pie too. Although my local Walmarts just rollback'd their Studio figures to 16.85
Movie, RotF, DotM were all level with other contemporary lines, licensed or not. Plus, the Bumblebee Movie toys actually has two licenses for vehicles: the Chevrolet Camaro and the Volkswagen Beetle, both for the titular character. While true that the Studio Series has the most licenses of any line, the price hike started with TLK.
What may be a factor is the desire to make a clearer distinction between "collector-grade" and "regular toy" lines, with the former having a slightly higher price tag.
Posted by Spider5800 on November 1st, 2018 @ 10:32pm CDT
Speaking of the Bumblebee movie, have we heard anything else about that 2-pack with Volkswagen 'Bee and TLK 'Bee? Never got the TLK one, Volkswagen 'Bee has started popping up in stores in my area and I've been debating if I want to pick him up now or wait for the 2-pack, but I can't find anything about it.
Posted by Aimless Misfire on November 2nd, 2018 @ 10:09am CDT
Posted by william-james88 on November 2nd, 2018 @ 10:15am CDT
Aimless Misfire wrote:Dropkick being a deluxe is a damn shame. If it were a voyager or leader it would be an automatic buy. But deluxe is an automatic pass. It needs to be a voyager to go with Generations Whirl. Whatever!
It needs to be a deluxe to go with Studio Series Bee.
Posted by ZeroWolf on November 2nd, 2018 @ 12:16pm CDT
Aimless Misfire wrote:Dropkick being a deluxe is a damn shame. If it were a voyager or leader it would be an automatic buy. But deluxe is an automatic pass. It needs to be a voyager to go with Generations Whirl. Whatever!
Why would it need to be a voyager? Or even match up to Whirl... Is there a connection I'm missing?
Posted by Spider5800 on November 2nd, 2018 @ 12:37pm CDT
ZeroWolf wrote:Aimless Misfire wrote:Dropkick being a deluxe is a damn shame. If it were a voyager or leader it would be an automatic buy. But deluxe is an automatic pass. It needs to be a voyager to go with Generations Whirl. Whatever!
Why would it need to be a voyager? Or even match up to Whirl... Is there a connection I'm missing?
I mean, he's a SuperCobra, which isn't a huge helicopter, but its certainly a lot bigger than a VW Beetle.
Then again, he also turns into a muscle car, which would only be a LITTLE bigger, so maybe they just got the robot modes close enough and didn't really worry about vehicle accuracy.
No idea what the Whirl connection is though, does he also have a toy that turns into a SuperCobra, maybe?
Posted by no-one on November 2nd, 2018 @ 12:49pm CDT
Hasbro in a nutshell, amiright?Spider5800 wrote:didn't really worry about vehicle accuracy.
Posted by ZeroWolf on November 2nd, 2018 @ 12:51pm CDT
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on November 2nd, 2018 @ 12:53pm CDT
Spider5800 wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:Aimless Misfire wrote:Dropkick being a deluxe is a damn shame. If it were a voyager or leader it would be an automatic buy. But deluxe is an automatic pass. It needs to be a voyager to go with Generations Whirl. Whatever!
Why would it need to be a voyager? Or even match up to Whirl... Is there a connection I'm missing?
I mean, he's a SuperCobra, which isn't a huge helicopter, but its certainly a lot bigger than a VW Beetle.
Then again, he also turns into a muscle car, which would only be a LITTLE bigger, so maybe they just got the robot modes close enough and didn't really worry about vehicle accuracy.
No idea what the Whirl connection is though, does he also have a toy that turns into a SuperCobra, maybe?
The G1 toy, in fact. He's similar to the Bell AH-1 Cobra, of which the current SuperCobra is a variant.
Posted by Seibertron on November 2nd, 2018 @ 1:49pm CDT
Decepticon Stryker wrote:I got Shadow Raider yesterday and I love it. I'm definitely grabbing Lockdown next time I see him. Just wish deluxes weren't $20 each so I army building would be easier on my wallet.
They're $16.99 at Walmart!
Posted by no-one on November 2nd, 2018 @ 1:52pm CDT
Since the rollback, all the WMs I've gone to only have a bunch of Crowbars hanging on pegs. Been waiting on wave 3 to hit sinceSeibertron wrote:They're $16.99 at Walmart!Decepticon Stryker wrote:I got Shadow Raider yesterday and I love it. I'm definitely grabbing Lockdown next time I see him. Just wish deluxes weren't $20 each so I army building would be easier on my wallet.

Posted by Decepticon Stryker on November 2nd, 2018 @ 5:07pm CDT
Seibertron wrote:Decepticon Stryker wrote:I got Shadow Raider yesterday and I love it. I'm definitely grabbing Lockdown next time I see him. Just wish deluxes weren't $20 each so I army building would be easier on my wallet.
They're $16.99 at Walmart!
I.... I was just at Walmart.... And it was the one time I didn't look in the Transformers section......

Jk, I did look there, but didn't look at the SS price because all of them were Crowbar. I think he might be shelf-warming worse than Berserker.
Posted by SHIELD Agent 47 on November 2nd, 2018 @ 6:12pm CDT
This article should be corrected. Kevin Liu may speak Mandarin Chinese, but he is Taiwanese.
Posted by notsoalex on November 4th, 2018 @ 1:24pm CST
SHIELD Agent 47 wrote:https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/transformation-video-for-transformers-studio-series-22-dropkick/42336/
This article should be corrected. Kevin Liu may speak Mandarin Chinese, but he is Taiwanese.
Thanks, and good catch. And welcome to Seibertron!
Posted by notsoalex on November 4th, 2018 @ 1:42pm CST
So, what are your thoughts on the figure now? Click the video below and be sure to tell your thoughts in the Pub forums!
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on November 5th, 2018 @ 4:56am CST

Posted by Carnivius_Prime on November 6th, 2018 @ 11:33am CST
Posted by no-one on November 6th, 2018 @ 12:37pm CST

Cool mold, lovely deco and really good gun arm integration.
I'm probably late to the party but don't forget to push out the chest for bot mode and then back in for alt-mode. Thanks for the heads up Hasbro


Posted by Carnivius_Prime on November 6th, 2018 @ 12:49pm CST
carytheone wrote:Picked up this pickle jar face yesterday!
Cool mold, lovely deco and really good gun arm integration.
I'm probably late to the party but don't forget to push out the chest for bot mode and then back in for alt-mode. Thanks for the heads up Hasbro![]()
He does look awesome and yeah I didn't realise the chest thing when I got Lockdown until a couple days after I bought him.

Posted by no-one on November 6th, 2018 @ 12:56pm CST
I noticed a pin while transforming him a couldn't figure out why it was there so I thought maybe it was just to hold him together. Then I noticed how weird his chest looked when I TF'd him back into a bot. So I started poking at the inside of the chest and it popped right out. Not the easiest thing to do either way and spent feel good, but drags the ground if left out though and all the art shows the chest out.Carnivius_Prime wrote:He does look awesome and yeah I didn't realise the chest thing when I got Lockdown until a couple days after I bought him.carytheone wrote:Picked up this pickle jar face yesterday!
[img]repaintsarecooler.jpg[/img]
Cool mold, lovely deco and really good gun arm integration.
I'm probably late to the party but don't forget to push out the chest for bot mode and then back in for alt-mode. Thanks for the heads up Hasbro![]()
Alt-mode was larger than expected and seems bigger than the old mold. Won't be able to compare until I get home on Friday. Excepted to see SR next to LD and HR.
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on November 6th, 2018 @ 1:03pm CST
carytheone wrote:
Alt-mode was larger than expected and seems bigger than the old mold. Won't be able to compare until I get home on Friday. Excepted to see SR next to LD and HR.
PrimeVsPrime compared SS Lockdown with AoE Lockdown and yes the SS is a fair bit bigger.
Full video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v99XmUVvTcQ I didn't embed it in case anyone thought it a new video (the Dropkick video several posts above is the new review)
Posted by no-one on November 6th, 2018 @ 1:05pm CST

Posted by Nemesis Primal on November 6th, 2018 @ 1:45pm CST
carytheone wrote:I'm probably late to the party but don't forget to push out the chest for bot mode and then back in for alt-mode. Thanks for the heads up Hasbro![]()
...I've had this figure for a month now and didn't know that was a thing until just now, whoops.

Thanks for the heads-up, that looks better.
Posted by beastwarsbrah on November 6th, 2018 @ 4:42pm CST
carytheone wrote:Picked up this pickle jar face yesterday!
Cool mold, lovely deco and really good gun arm integration.
I'm probably late to the party but don't forget to push out the chest for bot mode and then back in for alt-mode. Thanks for the heads up Hasbro![]()
Not only that but don't forget to push the upper arms back. Unless you already know about that and you prefer this way
Posted by PrimeVsPrime on November 6th, 2018 @ 5:14pm CST
Posted by no-one on November 6th, 2018 @ 5:21pm CST
Talking about that little black flap? I prefer it the way it is, but according to the pics, art and instructions - it's forward and out for bot mode and back and in for alt-mode. Unless I'm mistaken?beastwarsbrah wrote:Not only that but don't forget to push the upper arms back. Unless you already know about that and you prefer this waycarytheone wrote:Picked up this pickle jar face yesterday!
[img]picklejarhead[/img]
Cool mold, lovely deco and really good gun arm integration.
I'm probably late to the party but don't forget to push out the chest for bot mode and then back in for alt-mode. Thanks for the heads up Hasbro![]()
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on November 6th, 2018 @ 6:32pm CST
Dropkick is set to star as one of the two main Decepticons in the Bumblebee film due out his December, transforming into both a helicopter and muscle car. This Studio Series figure decides to stick to just his helicopter mode instead of trying to do the triple changing deluxe class gimmick. The figure is done in a mostly light blue, which doesn't fully match up with the colors we have seen in the trailers, but is still nice nonetheless.
Dropkick will be available and hitting store shelves here sometime over the next few weeks, just in time for the holiday season. He will retail for $19.99, the regular deluxe class price point.
Check out the review below, and let us know what you think of this new upcoming Bumblebee movie character below!
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on November 6th, 2018 @ 6:58pm CST
Bumblebee, Barricade, and Sideswipe are all brand new molds. Bee is based on his flashback scene from WWII in The Last Knight, a design that sort of comes out of left field, but is still pretty cool to get. Maybe this will mean a WWII Hot Rod is on its way too! Sideswipe is based on his convertible Stingray mode from Dark of the Moon, complete with dual swords and dual blasters, just like those he wielded during the Mexican standoff scene. Barricade is a new mold using some Transformation tricks from his recent Masterpiece toy. Crankcase meanwhile is a simple repaint of the wave 1 Crowbar figure, confusingly enough.
All of these figures will be available some time early next year, so stay tuned for images as they come!












Posted by Ig89ninja on November 6th, 2018 @ 7:21pm CST
Posted by Emerje on November 6th, 2018 @ 7:57pm CST
Emerje
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Posted by william-james88 on November 6th, 2018 @ 8:22pm CST
LeAwesome1 wrote:I think the only characters that I am desperately waiting for a release now are a 2007 Megatron and Shockwave. I need to complete my 2007 bots!
The DOTM shockwave toy w2as recently rereleased in an amazing deco under the Movie the Best line and ehich ever version you get, it scales really well with the SS line.
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on November 6th, 2018 @ 9:22pm CST
Emerje wrote:Man, that Sideswipe looks amazing! I don't actively buy SS, but I think I need that one in my hands.
Emerje
I feel the exact same way, but about WWII Bee. That will be bought on sight for the altmode alone.
Posted by -Kanrabat- on November 6th, 2018 @ 9:32pm CST
Ig89ninja wrote:I have the DOTM Sideswipe already, so the only what I will buy him is if he could actually stand and hold a pose at the same time
DOTM Sideswipe suck though. Mostly because he's an unpainted prototype. The ROTF version is way better. Especially the HFTD Sidearm Sideswipe. Too bad the secondary market prices are ridiculous.
The SS version look like he'll have solid footing. As for the paint, we will have to wait for in-hand images to judge.
Posted by EvasionModeBumblebee on November 6th, 2018 @ 9:34pm CST
Sideswipe’s looking great, needs some robot mode paint but I can fix that.
Barricade’s looking pretty good too, I wasn’t planning on getting him at first but he’s looking better and better.
Not interested much in Crankcase Fancy Crowbar.
So are SS Optimus v2 and Bonecrusher in this wave too?
Posted by william-james88 on November 6th, 2018 @ 9:43pm CST
-Kanrabat- wrote:Ig89ninja wrote:I have the DOTM Sideswipe already, so the only what I will buy him is if he could actually stand and hold a pose at the same time
DOTM Sideswipe suck though. Mostly because he's an unpainted prototype. The ROTF version is way better. Especially the HFTD Sidearm Sideswipe. Too bad the secondary market prices are ridiculous.
Unless I am mistaken I think I gave you the red version of that mold through one of our trades back in the day.
Posted by -Kanrabat- on November 6th, 2018 @ 9:54pm CST
william-james88 wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:Ig89ninja wrote:I have the DOTM Sideswipe already, so the only what I will buy him is if he could actually stand and hold a pose at the same time
DOTM Sideswipe suck though. Mostly because he's an unpainted prototype. The ROTF version is way better. Especially the HFTD Sidearm Sideswipe. Too bad the secondary market prices are ridiculous.
Unless I am mistaken I think I gave you the red version of that mold through one of our trades back in the day.
Oh yeah, I remember. It was a

I still have one version on display. The Walmart exclusive. That sonnova may not be screen accurate, but man, the PAINT!


Posted by Sabrblade on November 6th, 2018 @ 11:02pm CST
ROTF Swerve was an Autobot.-Kanrabat- wrote:william-james88 wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:Ig89ninja wrote:I have the DOTM Sideswipe already, so the only what I will buy him is if he could actually stand and hold a pose at the same time
DOTM Sideswipe suck though. Mostly because he's an unpainted prototype. The ROTF version is way better. Especially the HFTD Sidearm Sideswipe. Too bad the secondary market prices are ridiculous.
Unless I am mistaken I think I gave you the red version of that mold through one of our trades back in the day.
Oh yeah, I remember. It was awith an original head.

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