New Transformers Movie toyline - Studio Series

[Magnus]

Im loving what I've seen of these, so this all welcome news.

Of the "major" "characters" that would fit at Deluxe scale, we've yet to get

- Sideswipe
- Drift
- Crosshairs
- Hot Rod
- Barricade
- Dino

Having a hard time bringing myself to count Roadbuster, Leadfoot, Top Spin, and Sideways with their combined 27 seconds of screen time, but they'd also fit for a deluxe release.

I have a feeling that because Drift, Crosshairs and Hot Rod are recent characters and toys, they may not get the Studio Series treatment; thus far, the Studio Series seems to be sticking with older characters and will later make Bumblebee movie toys.

TFWiki speculated that Dino never got a licensed Ferrari toy, despite Ferrari allowing Paramount and Michael Bay to have one for Dark of the Moon, because Mattel, Hasbro's biggest competitor, had exclusive rights to make Ferrari toys when DotM was made. Mattel's exclusive licence expired in 2014, with Ferrari replicas now being made by the May Cheong Group.

Since other model makers make licensed Ferrari models (in small numbers), it would be nice if Hasbro could get a Ferrari licence for Dino (I'd definitely buy a Dino if Hasbro made one), but there's no way to know if they can.

[griffin]

TakaraTomy have done up some promotional videos and images on their website of the first eight Studio Series toys (wave 1)... along with the Turbo Change toys (four Knight Armor, four 1-step, and the re-release of the Battle Command Optimus from 2014).

[griffin]

Some leaked images of the second wave Voyager Megatron, giving us a clearer look at this new mould of the TF2 Megatron.

[griffin]

More images of Megatron from China.

[Amalgamous]

He is a wee fella, but full of detailed sculpting. All joints on this one are tight, a few overly so, esp the shoulder hinge behind the cockpit but got a finger between the tab and hinge and it popped out.
For me the alt mode is the star, but that is probably influenced by having seen the jolly green giant in action when on deployment.

[FruitBuyer]

It seems the size of the figures in the Studio Series have been "averaged" out in the line. Blackout is a bit shorter than standard Leader figures while Grimlock is taller to make up for it (he's taller than TLK Leader Megatron). Same with the voyagers and deluxes.

[SharkyMcShark]

It seems the size of the figures in the Studio Series have been "averaged" out in the line. Blackout is a bit shorter than standard Leader figures while Grimlock is taller to make up for it (he's taller than TLK Leader Megatron). Same with the voyagers and deluxes.

I read somewhere recently that the budget assigned to the design team for figures is done so on a $X for the entire wave of that class basis. So, for example, instead of there being an individual budget for Blackout and then another one for Grimlock they draw from the same pool.

If this is correct, im really enjoying how Hasbro are using it to give us significantly differently sized figures in a single size class to try and maintain scale with the SS line.

[GoktimusPrime]

It seems the size of the figures in the Studio Series have been "averaged" out in the line. Blackout is a bit shorter than standard Leader figures while Grimlock is taller to make up for it (he's taller than TLK Leader Megatron). Same with the voyagers and deluxes.

Seeing these toys side by side IRL it's evident that these toys are meant to be approximately all to scale with each other. Last night I placed Bumblebee, Stinger, Blackout and Starscream next to each other and some other collectors and I noticed that the cockpits/windows were all roughly to scale with each other. When you look at each vehicle and imagine a person sitting inside, you can visualise that these people would be to scale with each other.

[griffin]

In-hand photos of the wave 2 Voyager Megatron (TF2) and Leader Voyager Brawl (TF1).

The person posting up the photos hasn't claimed them as their own, but also hasn't noted a source... so I don't know if these are from a leaked Chinese source, or these are coming out soon and someone just got their hands on them first.

[FruitBuyer]

Brawl is a Voyager