Transformers questions by newbies, and not-so-newbies

[griffin]

In America the Netflix pricing matches the contents, but in Australia, Kmart appear to have the "Voyager" pack priced as a Voyager, possibly because it has Voyager in the product name.

[Tha_Phantom]

Does anyone recall which commemorative Hot Rod reissue we got here back in the day? Was it the English only box or multi-lingual box?

[Sinnertwin]

Multilingual

[DELTAprime]

I know the commemorative series was a real Hasbro thing, but I still think those boxes are KOs whenever someone brings them up. They just don't look right.

[Tha_Phantom]

Multilingual

Thanks. The multilingual does look more familiar to me, but wanted to be sure.

[DELTAprime]

Is anyone else thinking Hasbro might not make a SS numbered 84, 85 or 87 so that they can put more G1 figures in the SS line as they have with the SS 86 figures?

[JJJ]

Is anyone else thinking Hasbro might not make a SS numbered 84, 85 or 87 so that they can put more G1 figures in the SS line as they have with the SS 86 figures?

Interesting.

I don't think that was the original plan by any means (SS86 being a way of releasing toys that were meant for another line that got seriously re-jigged), but I'm sure it must have occurred to Hasbro by now.

But we appear to be coming to the end of G1 stuff for now (yes, there will be endless toys of the dozen or so big-name G1 characters), and the remaining toys don't seem to be enough to justify, for example, SS84. Although if that meant actually decent cassetticons for a change...

We'll just have to wait and see. Although hasn't Hasbro pretty much run out of 2007+ movie characters? I don't know, it isn't my thing, I just read this a few times when SS86 first cropped up; perhaps there just won't be enough toys to get the numbering that far. Shouldn't take long to know - TFWiki lists up to SS76 right now.

[Flukey]

We'll just have to wait and see. Although hasn't Hasbro pretty much run out of 2007+ movie characters? .

For the Movies Studio series there are still...

Sideways
Demolisher
Strafe
Scorn
Slug
Galvatron
Hot Rod
Nitro
Mohawk
Onslaught
Dreadbot
Hound
Crosshairs

To name a few, though to be honest I use Figures from TLK toyline to cover those from that movie, as they are basically early versions of the SS line imo (Hence Nitro figure is used for KSI boss and Thundercracker while Cogman is just a repaint of his TLK figure)

Then there are the BB movie figures from the Cybertron scene that they seem to have started on..

[Paulbot]

Mudflap and Skids could get two Studio Series toys each (DOTM cameos count!) plus a combined voyager Ice Cream truck toy!

I wonder if the next movie’s generations toys will come directly into Studio Series or not. Probably will with the kid focused lines being their own packaging.

[griffin]

Is anyone else thinking Hasbro might not make a SS numbered 84, 85 or 87 so that they can put more G1 figures in the SS line as they have with the SS 86 figures?

I hope they don't, as "Studio Series" is supposed to be only for Movie toys (characters who were in a Movie).
The SS86 labelling was probably necessary to differentiate a small number of Studio Series toys that were not from the current era of movies, but as noted, it might mean they might have to skip that number in the series of live action movie toys.
I don't think that they need to (because it wouldn't have the extra two digits after the 86), but it could be deemed necessary to avoid confusion/complaints about the actual SS86 toy not being a 1986 Movie toy.

It should be simple, when they get into the 80s...

SS83 - live action movie
SS84 - live action movie
SS85 - live action movie
SS86 - live action movie
SS86-01 - 1986 Jazz
SS86-02 - 1986 Kup
SS86-03 - 1986 Blurr
etc
etc
etc for the 1986 movie toys
SS87 - live action movie
SS88 - live action movie
etc
etc

Considering the Hasbro product number for the first batch of 1986 Movie SS toys puts them in just before SS70 (B-127), that would be the rough time frame of their development, so Studio Series was already getting close to number 86, and I imagine that the people working on the Studio Series toyline, would have already thought about the numbering of toys numbered in the 80s by that stage.