Video Review for Transformers Studio Series Rebekahs Garage Set

I still plan on getting these 3. Barricade is obviously gonna be in the movie one display, Sideswipe was a favorite of mine in the RotF line, so getting a figure that can stand is nice, and I think the new Bee might go to my Generations display to serve as Bulkhead

Ig89ninja wrote:

Spider5800 wrote:

Decepticon Stryker wrote:Just found out that Berserker and Crowbar's heads can't be swapped without modification. Crowbar's ball joint neck is too small for Berserker's head, so there goes the plan of doing a headswap when I get Crankcase.

Why would you bother? As far as I can tell, the only difference between Crankcase and Berserker's movie models is the later has a red X on his chest. If you already have a second Berserker for the head, couldn't you just paint over the X and be done with it? Cause Hasbro's SS Crankcase is a joke.

They also have different types of legs, also, Crankcase has longer dreads

They're literally the same character model, just a few minor pieces and color differences between them.



https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Crankcase_(DOTM)
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Berserker

Are you thinking of Crowbar, who has the longer dreads (and whose toy they are using to make Crankcase, for some reason)?



https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Crowbar

What really confuses me is, there IS a character who has the same character model as Crowbar, Dreadbot from TLK. That would require some remolding for the vehicle parts, but it would make a heck of a lot more sense than trying to make him Crankcase.

Spider5800 wrote:

Ig89ninja wrote:

Spider5800 wrote:

Decepticon Stryker wrote:Just found out that Berserker and Crowbar's heads can't be swapped without modification. Crowbar's ball joint neck is too small for Berserker's head, so there goes the plan of doing a headswap when I get Crankcase.

Why would you bother? As far as I can tell, the only difference between Crankcase and Berserker's movie models is the later has a red X on his chest. If you already have a second Berserker for the head, couldn't you just paint over the X and be done with it? Cause Hasbro's SS Crankcase is a joke.

They also have different types of legs, also, Crankcase has longer dreads

They're literally the same character model, just a few minor pieces and color differences between them.



https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Crankcase_(DOTM)
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Berserker

Are you thinking of Crowbar, who has the longer dreads (and whose toy they are using to make Crankcase, for some reason)?



https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Crowbar

What really confuses me is, there IS a character who has the same character model as Crowbar, Dreadbot from TLK. That would require some remolding for the vehicle parts, but it would make a heck of a lot more sense than trying to make him Crankcase.

Crap, I WAS thinking about Crowbar, stupid “C” names!

Double posted by mistake

Ig89ninja wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:You Canadians always get the best things!

Yeah! Why is that? I mean, I’m pretty sure Hasbro’s main headquarters is in Rhode Island, why aren’t they the first?

They were the first, Hasbro got them first and sold them to the US first. We wrote an article about it:

https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... hop/42294/

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

william-james88 wrote:What about non exclusive drift and hightower?

Is there a non-exclusive Drift?

Yes

https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07DJYJJML?tag=seibertron0c-22& ... rtron0c-22

https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Crankcase_(DOTM)
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Berserker
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Crowbar

Yeah.... I don't mean to be racist, but all those 'cons look alike to me.

Clearly some people in charge wanted to make a Predator (Yautja) / Transformer hybrid. And they were so pleased with themselves, that they repeated it twice more.

IIRC the final movie models of the Dreads had the same bodies (Hatchet aside obviously) but with different heads. The concept art gave them subtle differences in bodies.

I'll probably just get Berserker and Crowbar, the decos match on them well enough.

So, I was more into this toy of WWII Bee until I saw his chest plate just sorta chilling under the car... is that supposed to be something? Minesweeper or tranny armor?

I'll wait till toyworld releases their take on ww2 bee and bulldog

Dang boi he thicc

@Blitzwing hahahaha

I like the tank with the treads all over.

Flashwave wrote:So, I was more into this toy of WWII Bee until I saw his chest plate just sorta chilling under the car... is that supposed to be something? Minesweeper or tranny armor?

I don't know what that's supposed to be, but that's not his chest, it's the back of his feet




compare the ridges on the sides of it to the ridges on the sides of his feet and you can see the rounded corner on his heels.



Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Flashwave wrote:So, I was more into this toy of WWII Bee until I saw his chest plate just sorta chilling under the car... is that supposed to be something? Minesweeper or tranny armor?

I don't know what that's supposed to be, but that's not his chest, it's the back of his feet

Emerje

For what they are, Bayformers MUST cheat. It's not a new thing and they have no choice.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Flashwave wrote:So, I was more into this toy of WWII Bee until I saw his chest plate just sorta chilling under the car... is that supposed to be something? Minesweeper or tranny armor?

I don't know what that's supposed to be, but that's not his chest, it's the back of his feet

Emerje

For what they are, Bayformers MUST cheat. It's not a new thing and they have no choice.

We don't usually see that level of cheating outside of jets. Most land vehicles tend to be a little cleaner underneath. It's like they needed to give him a bit of height so they made big feet that couldn't fit underneath properly.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:We don't usually see that level of cheating outside of jets. Most land vehicles tend to be a little cleaner underneath. It's like they needed to give him a bit of height so they made big feet that couldn't fit underneath properly.

Emerje

Oh. Now I see what you were talking about.
Ew.
They could have at least tried to hide it as a bumper.

Emerje wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Flashwave wrote:So, I was more into this toy of WWII Bee until I saw his chest plate just sorta chilling under the car... is that supposed to be something? Minesweeper or tranny armor?

I don't know what that's supposed to be, but that's not his chest, it's the back of his feet

Emerje

For what they are, Bayformers MUST cheat. It's not a new thing and they have no choice.

We don't usually see that level of cheating outside of jets. Most land vehicles tend to be a little cleaner underneath. It's like they needed to give him a bit of height so they made big feet that couldn't fit underneath properly.

Emerje

I've taken a look at some images of the vehicle he's based on, the Humber Light Reconnaissance Car, and at least one liberty is taken, with the chassis or suspension sticking out a bit too far underneath. All for the sake of heels I suppose.

I still dont see how thats the back of his feet. I dont doubt anyone, I just dont see what others are seeing as easily.

Taiwanese reviewer Kevin Liu got his hands on a Transfomers Studio Series 22 deluxe Dropkick. In the video, we can view the transformation of a helicopter into a robot. While Dropkick is a triple changer in the film, the toy only converts into a helicopter. And while there is a Studio Series Shatter coming out which only has a car mode, we are currently unaware of any further releases of either Dropkick with a car alt mode or Shatter with a jet alt mode. This toy comes from the final wave of the wave 4 of the Studio Series line and should be at retail soon. The fullw ave contents are below and as you can see, it will not be hard to find Dropkick.

DELUXE JAZZ x1
DELUXE BUMBLEBEE x2
DELUXE RATCHET x1
DELUXE DROPKICK x3
DELUXE KSI SENTRY x1

with that really light blue almost white he makes a good battleslash

Thought I'd share a few pictures of Shadow Raider and Lockdown with parts swapped so you end up with Blazing Lockdown and Night Ops Lockdown (or whatever names you want to call them).

Very nice! Still a shame about no gun face but they look very good.

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.

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?

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

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.

Dropkick needed to be much darker blue, but overall he looks pretty good! I'm hoping we get a muscle car version of him eventually though. and a Jet Shatter. And a Blitzwing

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!

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

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.

Huh, Dropkick looks like Battletrap. I kinda like it.

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.

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!

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.

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?

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?

Spider5800 wrote:didn't really worry about vehicle accuracy.

Hasbro in a nutshell, amiright?

Studio Series has been more bothered matching up bot modes then the vehicles, and I thought Whirl was a generic helicopter mode but I can see the resemblance.

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.

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!

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!

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 since

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.

https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... ick/42336/

This article should be corrected. Kevin Liu may speak Mandarin Chinese, but he is Taiwanese.

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!

Chefatron recently put up a review of Studio Series 21 Voyager Class Starscream (the 2nd, Revenge of the Fallen, version), on his YouTube channel. Chefatron clearly liked the figure, praising its paint apps especially the matt-textured tatoos. The main difference between this figure and the original, besides paint scheme, is the buzzsaw attachment, which he used in Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon. The original figure seemed to have meant to come with it, but was removed before released.

So, what are your thoughts on the figure now? Click the video below and be sure to tell your thoughts in the Pub forums!

Tis very much on my want list.

PrimeVsPrime reviews Dropkick (helicopter)

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

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.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

carytheone wrote:Picked up this pickle jar face yesterday!

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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.

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.

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.

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)

Oh wow, that is a big difference. I like it a lot better than the OG and better as Shadow Raider. That satin orange paint is tops and contrasts nicely in bot mode