Transformers Rise of the Beasts Toyline Still Expected to Come out in April 2022

Hyped to see this toys.The may not 100% like the final models,but also happened to previous toylines and we still got some fun toys.

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Hmm, not sure how I feel about this. Early movie toys are often EXTREMELY inaccurate compared to the film characters they're based on, so the film being released later and having a significant chance of changing how they look makes me want to skip these entirely. On the other hand, there's always the chance they're just really, really good toys (I love my helicopter Dropkick, and he barely resembles the character in the Bumblebee movie), so it may not matter how accurate they are to the films.

I guess I'll wait until we see the toys before I make a decision. The only things I'm looking forward to this year was the handful of Beast Wars characters that are allegedly going to release in the current Generations line, so it's not like I won't have the funds free (although GI Joe Classified series has been eating into my pockets a lot this past year, haha).

william-james88 wrote:

Spider5800 wrote:Hmm, not sure how I feel about this. Early movie toys are often EXTREMELY inaccurate compared to the film characters they're based on, so the film being released later and having a significant chance of changing how they look makes me want to skip these entirely.

You were still going to get them even though they are gimmick toys like the BB movie line?

I doubt I'd get the gimmicky subline stuff, but there could very well be more traditional style toys and Studio Series stuff for the movie releasing at the same time, just like they did with Bumblebee. That was what I was specifically referring to.

Spider5800 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Spider5800 wrote:Hmm, not sure how I feel about this. Early movie toys are often EXTREMELY inaccurate compared to the film characters they're based on, so the film being released later and having a significant chance of changing how they look makes me want to skip these entirely.

You were still going to get them even though they are gimmick toys like the BB movie line?

I doubt I'd get the gimmicky subline stuff, but there could very well be more traditional style toys and Studio Series stuff for the movie releasing at the same time, just like they did with Bumblebee. That was what I was specifically referring to.

We've known for months now that there were going to be 0 studio series toys coinciding with ROTB in 2023. Just the movie's own subline. Hence my question.

Very interesting article. While Hasbro will be shipping the toys it'll be interesting to see if retailers order them. I've seen first hand that SOME, not all of the Black Widow and Shang Chi toys sat for months before being clearanced out well before the movie hit. The worst part, especially in the case of Shang Chi was that those figures were never restocked, even if there was demand. The Role Play toys seemed to do well regardless. My gut tells me that Hasbro wants the line out to be the "Kid-friendly" line for 2022 since Cyberverse is over. I'm down for these since the kid stuff is my bread and butter.

DeathReviews wrote:Pun incidental, but these Bayverse movie beast figures will have to come roaring out of the gate if they want me to have any interest at all....

I'm curious to see if they will looks transmetalish, of will they looks like undeads like the AoE Dinobots?

We may be surprised.

One of the cool parts of buying the toys before the movie,is wondering "How is this gonna playout in the film?".

william-james88 wrote:Man, I don't know if I am the only one but I check facebook every couple of hours to see if anyone in the various TF groups I am part of has posted images of the upcoming ROTB toys. Unlike many others, I do not think these will get the fan friday treatment. The BB toys were announced with no buzz since they were not targetting collectors, same as these. And with them just being 2 months away (as far as we know), they must be out there somewhere, not on the factory floor but in packaging and with stock photos available for retail sites. It feels like there is a bunch of stuff out there just waiting to burst out. And in this case it ends up being our first look at any character. So it's very exciting even though the toys themselves are not for me.

I agree, especially since Hasbro doesn't even have anything to promote this year and any kind of big fanfare will just highlight how disappointing the delay is. This will get the Cyberverse treatment, our first look will be from a store showing them off and it feels like Hasbro is trying to wait as long as possible before that happens. Like Cyberverse there's still a Deluxe offering that will appeal more to collectors, but didn't get a big reveal from Hasbro. Maybe they were planning to display them at Toy Fair, but with that not happening probably wont be anything.

Emerje

They truly are about to bungle everything around this movie, and it's going to be a real bummer when they do

One of the things I'm looking foward to,is knowing if the beast characters are going to have realistic animal skin or if they are going to have an metalic exterior like the Dinobots.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:They truly are about to bungle everything around this movie, and it's going to be a real bummer when they do

I don't think they are that level yet.When the movie comes out they can restock the toys or repackage them,maybe even do something in the same style of the Buzzworthy line,with some minor paint updates.


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