SDCC Transformers exclusives official images

[DELTAprime]

There's a spelling mistake in the title. "Transformere."

Talk about picky.

[Bidoofdude]

Talk about picky.

Just a heads up.

[griffin]

Title has been fixed...


For anyone buying the Dinobot set, Hasbro have put up a video on their facebook page to show the contents, and how easily it opens up as a diorama.

They also talk about the four toys, suggesting that the Movie trio were designed to be later used as Gen1 figures, by incorporating elements that homage the original 1985 toys. (things like, having certain body parts on the same mould tree, so that they could have transparent parts in odd places like the Gen1 toys had)

(For anyone who takes note of the different Hasbro people, Clint Chapman was the liaison at BotCon for 2012 and 2013, after Greg Lombardo left, but he too was supposed to have left this year... so maybe this was one of his last projects)

[griffin]

For those with a shipping forwarder or a friend in America, the Hasbro Shop has the two large SDCC sets on their site, which they didn't sell out (if you see someone on ebay claiming that they did).
No Kreo set yet, so that one looks to have indeed sold out (as some on ebay were claiming).

[serialmonkey]

Both the Dinobots and Kreo sets are now sold out on Hasbro Toy Store

Just too slow this year !

M

[griffin]

Both the Dinobots and Kreo sets are now sold out on Hasbro Toy Store

Just too slow this year !

M

Looks like they did have the Kreo set up and it didn't last long. (I should have put up this link for the SDCC search instead of the Transformers search)

Just the Rockband left now of the Transformers items (which I had expected would be the last to sell out). Plus the MLP, Rom, and Jem items.

[griffin]

Some galleries are out there now of the Kreo set, and this one compares figures with any previous Kreon releases of those characters.

[UltraMarginal]

Looks like they did have the Kreo set up and it didn't last long. (I should have put up this link for the SDCC search instead of the Transformers search)

Just the Rockband left now of the Transformers items (which I had expected would be the last to sell out). Plus the MLP, Rom, and Jem items.

I find the quickest way to see the sdcc stuff is to click the link to exclusives on the left hand column.

[griffin]

Received the remaining two Transformers sets today, and there is so much in them, I could spend days taking photos of them, and comparisons... but since there are extensive galleries on Seibertron and TFW2005 already, these are all I took, so that I can get straight into playing with them.

The three Transformers SDCC items (plus a MOTU Hordak).


The two bigger boxes I got today, which were packed inside one of the Hasbro bags that they've been giving out at SDCC in recent years (I see a fair few now being used by people at BotCon).


The Knights of Unicron set, with the lid open showing a card cover looking like an amp.


Taking that lid off, you have all the non-toy "tour memorabilia".


All of those items are in a tray that can also be lifted out. The memorabilia items include a concert ticket, a VIP pass, two stickers, an LP record slip (inside is a piece of paper which has instructions, and song lyrics to 5 unique TF-related songs), two posters, and a history booklet of the band with lyrics to another song. So much time and resources were spent on this set, that could have been spent on designing another Generations toy or two.


The toys in the foam slab.


All the hair and "clothing" is pre-attached, and needs to ALL be removed before transforming. The hair pieces are attached with an elastic strap under their heads. Each has their original weapons, which feels a bit odd with the theme of this set.


Onto the Dinobots set. Pulling out the inner box from the outer box. The instructions sheet is creative, but somewhat confusing with the steps laid out like a boardgame.


Pulling out the back tray was a bit difficult with mine as the brown cardboard stuffer kept catching. So much bling...


Folding open the diorama was a bit scary at first, as it requires a bit of care, but doesn't stay open on its own so I kept thinking mine was faulty... but then found the velcro spots that attach and hold it open.


And the other side. Very big. Aside from the Ark/Teletran set-up, the inclusion of Snarl before the regular version was released (or at least, available here), was the other highlight of this set.


And then there is the smallest set... the cheapest set... but the highest markup set, selling now for almost double what it cost at SDCC.
The case opened up, showing both back and front.


On the inside, and it was good to see that Sideswipe and Skrapnel/Shrapnel were fixed up since the pre-production sample images were released.


Each character has a notation similar to yearbooks that sometimes have character comments of the graduating students (written by those doing the yearbook).
A close-up of the novelty accessories that have an 80s theme to them.


I was originally planning to pull out the Kreons for display, but when I opened up the right hand side, I decided against it after seeing how much they have been heat "sealed"... which you can see with the accessories, how much they are almost encased in the plastic. I didn't want to cut up the plastic tray, so will now just leave them in the box as a display piece.

[Bidoofdude]

That's an expensive haul. The kreons look nice, but not worth the doubled price tag they're going for now. The diorama looks really good.