Transformer RED Series Galvatron and Shockwave Revealed

Yeah, just saw these on Instagram...
Shockwave may join my other R.E.D. Decepticons.
But man, that Glavatron head/face sculpt just looks bad... Unfortunate, I probably would have bought him too. That ugly mug makes him an easy, easy pass.

They're still saying these are 6"? In hand they're more like 5.5" at best.

That is unfortunate for UK fans. On the flip side however, pre order links for these just went live on Pulse.com. I like how they say " supplies are limited" . While that may be factually true, one thing we have yet to see is a single RED figure sell out on Pulse. I just checked, and they are all still available.

Both Galvatron and Shockwave RED are now up on Hasbro Pulse:

https://hasbropulse.com/collections/new

Also listed are the Kingdom Beast Wars repaints Buzzsaw, Nightprowler and Sandstorm, along with the Beast War reissues of CyberShark and Wolfang.

I'll try and wait until he's on sale, but I'll get Shockwave...

I still say Megatron is the best R.E.D. figure of the G1 offerings.
His sculpt is incredibly well done and substantially better than the rest.

Does anybody know if Shockwave and Galvatron ended up on Walmart.com? Never saw them and missed them on Pulse.

Always fun to find toys at retail that fans didn't even see before. A fan and amateur glamour model in Taiwan posted images on their not safe for work Facebook page showing new RED toys in the new closed box packaging Hasbro has been doing in other lines. There is Prime Optimus Prime, Prime Megatron and G1 Thundercracker. We also have an image of Prime Megatron removed from packaging.

Will these be officially revealed later today? We'll see. Let us know what you think.

The Prime series Megatron figures were generally kind of awful, simply because the alt mode wasn't well engineered. So ditching the transformation/alt mode for the RED Prime Megatron may be a good thing overall.

But looking at that photo, you can tell they're using the same soft, rubbery plastic. That seems OK for most of the figure, but it made the head look bad, like a photo that's been taken out of focus. That softer plastic just cant' do hard, crisp edges very well. And Prime Megatron had a lot of sharp edges that need good definition. That photo makes him seem like a candle that's starting to melt. Hopefully it's just the lighting...

Man, Hasbro can't catch a break. No one had seen what they were going to announce for the RED line today, until just a few hours before their livestream even happened when they were found on shelves at a Toysrus in Taiwan.

Well, at least we do see shots of these toys none of us had seen, which you can all see below. These RED toys are Walmart exclusives in the US and Canada (and exclusives to different chains elsewhere, like Toysrus). It's funny, Hasbro was really proud of showcasing the back of these toys. And I mean, why wouldn't they be, this is exactly what this line is all about, looking exactly like the show model.

I've written about some really random subjects over the years on this site, like Gene Simmons promoting a betting app on TV by singing a version of Stan Bush's The Touch. Well, I'm not sure if this takes the cake but we got new photos of RED Prime Optimus Prime from a fan's Instagram account. Nothing odd about that per se, but while we will link off to it to show here these images come from, we warn you that her account is not safe for work. The TF fan who was first to find these new toys makes money by posing nude with Transformers toys and her instagram account has some preview images of her nude modelling. So fair warning out of the way, here are some great in hand images of the new RED Prime Optimus Prime. Let us know what you think.

EDIT: We also have in hand images of RED Prime Megatron from TFND's Facebook page.