Transformers Toy Rumours (must note a source)

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Originally Posted by Thurmus

I am concerned with the transforms without needing to be disassembled talk.

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If a bootleg Lego version of Optimus Prime can do it, why can't a professional company like LEGO do it?
https://static.seibertron.com/images...604_YM361X.JPG

If it's G1 Optimus Prime transformation is really quite basic (even a cake can do it*) but it's a Movie design?!

The Lego Voltron set need a bit of partforming (Well parts removal technically) on the black lion but otherwise converted and combined as you'd expect.


(*For some reason that cake was going around on Twitter a lot over the weekend, even though it's from 7 years ago - the birthday boy is a teenager now.)

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Originally Posted by Paulbot

If it's G1 Optimus Prime transformation is really quite basic (even a cake can do it*) but it's a Movie design?!

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My understanding is it's based on ROTB Prime, which from what we've seen so far is basically Geewun. So it could have a fairly simple transformation - flip the back of the truck/legs down, pull arms out of the back of the cab, flip up the head and you're good. I know SS BumblePrime made it more complicated than that but I don't expect a Lego to be on that level. It could work is what I'm saying.

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Originally Posted by Thurmus

I am concerned with the transforms without needing to be disassembled talk.

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Did you see the mechanisms they are doing now? The Popup book was amazing and smooth

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Originally Posted by Tha_Phantom

My understanding is it's based on ROTB Prime, which from what we've seen so far is basically Geewun. So it could have a fairly simple transformation - flip the back of the truck/legs down, pull arms out of the back of the cab, flip up the head and you're good. I know SS BumblePrime made it more complicated than that but I don't expect a Lego to be on that level. It could work is what I'm saying.

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It certainly could - I made a lego Optimus Prime any number of times as a kid way back when, and the technic stuff I had wasn't anywhere near as fancy as the bits you can get now :)

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Originally Posted by JJJ

It certainly could - I made a lego Optimus Prime any number of times as a kid way back when, and the technic stuff I had wasn't anywhere near as fancy as the bits you can get now :)

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*hi five* So did I. :D I used this part from a train set for the chest.
https://i.ibb.co/s6FRRn8/19186.jpg

Hasbro should have let Lego make Transformers based sets since all the way back in the days when Built to Rule was a thing.

I once made a G1 Prime out of cardboard, tape & those little gold pins you'd push through and split the pin down the middle to act as swivels.
I was bored at work.

Lego should do this with their eyes closed.

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Originally Posted by Tha_Phantom

My understanding is it's based on ROTB Prime, which from what we've seen so far is basically Geewun. So it could have a fairly simple transformation - flip the back of the truck/legs down, pull arms out of the back of the cab, flip up the head and you're good. I know SS BumblePrime made it more complicated than that but I don't expect a Lego to be on that level. It could work is what I'm saying.

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I recently watched a clip of Prime’s transformation when he arrives in the city at the end of the first movie. That’s what I had in my mind. The more recent design I can see is easier.

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Originally Posted by Handsprime

If a bootleg Lego version of Optimus Prime can do it, why can't a professional company like LEGO do it?

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https://i.imgur.com/orXeN1d.png