Early Movie toy pics and reviews

[griffin]

We've had a few figures show up early here (Construct-Bots, Titans, Battle Masters), but now some of the mainline figures are showing up in the hands of fans in other countries... and they are showing them off with pics and reviews.

Voyager Grimlock

Voyager Optimus (Evasion Mode) (barely bigger than a Gen1 Optimus, who is almost the same size of pre-2011 Deluxes)

First Wave Deluxes


Plus, some have also been releasing official images (probably from a retail source).
Voyager Galvatron and Hound & DLX Slash

[Deonasis]

Add a good paint job on these figures and they would really look nice. Evasion Prime looks extremely bare.

griffin, did you get to "test" these figures at ToyFair?

[Paulbot]

Hmm. Classic Prime looks like an okay deluxe, not sure as a Voyager!

Grimlock on the other hand looks quite alright. Although this should have been the Then and Now pack!

[morg176]

I liked the figure when i saw the hasbro picture of it, but the in hand images make me hope its on special...

It should look all dusted up and rusty like prime in the movie

[griffin]

griffin, did you get to "test" these figures at ToyFair?

Not as much as Demonac did.
I thought they were okay... but they just felt small for their size classes.

[Deonasis]

Hmm. Classic Prime looks like an okay deluxe, not sure as a Voyager![/URL]!

I thought they were okay... but they just felt small for their size classes.

Further posts in the linked tfw thread show Evasion Prime to be bigger than DotM Megatron and possibly as big as Classics voyager Prime - maybe the lack of bulk gives it a small feel.

[DELTAprime]

No wonder people at NYCC last year said the Leader Generations Optimus is small. Looks like they are all small. I hope this is confined to the movie Generations line and not a sign of whats to come for the IDW Generations line.

[griffin]

Further posts in the linked tfw thread show Evasion Prime to be bigger than DotM Megatron and possibly as big as Classics voyager Prime - maybe the lack of bulk gives it a small feel.

That kinda proves it is smaller than average Voyagers.
The Classics Voyager Optimus was noted from the very beginning by Hasbro designers that it was too small for a Voyager, but too big for a Deluxe (to make a profit from that size-class price point), so they tried to bulk it up as much as possible with the two guns. (I guess the robot mode had to be in scale with Megatron and other Deluxes, which left the truck and total mass a bit small for Voyager)

And DOTM Megatron has a quarter of its bulk in the mechtech weapon, making the robot a lot smaller than previous movie Voyager Megatrons (which was likely to be a strategic gimmick to reduce the size of the actual figures from then on by including a large weapon in that year to give the total "product" the same size, but then following years the toy remains the same without a large weapon).
2007 TF1 VOY Megatron - 226gms
2009 TF2 VOY Megatron - 209gms
2011 TF3 VOY Megatron - 120gms (plus 45gms for the mechtech gun & rubber cloak)
Even including the accessories, the third movie toy was still smaller by 40-60gms (about 20%) on the first two.

[griffin]

Looks like some stores in Canada are also being sent stock too early, and they are not noting the embargo date on the toy boxes. Some first wave Voyagers and Deluxes appearing at Walmart in Canada... which is surprising to see Walmart let those slip through, as they would be a big enough chain to prevent that from happening (unlike Toyworlds here, Walmart are so integrated and have so many levels for the stock to go through before it walks out the door, so this should have been picked up before it even got to the store shelves).
And considering the amount of attention Hasbro Australia got from Hasbro HK and Hasbro America when our Movie toys appeared at Toyworlds, there should have been a tightening of procedures at Hasbro warehouses around the world.

[BigTransformerTrev]

We've had a few figures show up early here (Construct-Bots, Titans, Battle Masters), but now some of the mainline figures are showing up in the hands of fans in other countries... and they are showing them off with pics and reviews.

Voyager Grimlock

Do we know yet if we are going to get a Leader-Class Grimlock, or is Voyager the biggest? I vaguely remember seeing a massive Grimlock in some other post.