Official Toy images

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Official images for Cyberverse 1-step Autobot Jazz, who has the same transformation as Prowl, and should be the only new toy in the next wave to come out (after Skybyte and Shockwave).

[Tha_Phantom]

Official images for Cyberverse 1-step Autobot Jazz, who has the same transformation as Prowl, and should be the only new toy in the next wave to come out (after Skybyte and Shockwave).

I shouldn't want this as much as what I do.

[griffin]

Some more official images of Earthrise Doubledealer, including some small images of the front and back of the box.

[griffin]

Not official images, but official retail prices in America (at Target)...

Movie MP Starscream - US$150
Movie MP (un-named) - US$120
WFC Clone 2-pack - US$25

[DaptoDog]

Not official images, but official retail prices in America (at Target)...

Movie MP Starscream - US$150
Movie MP (un-named) - US$120
WFC Clone 2-pack - US$25

Near certainty now the unnamed Movie MP is Ratchet given the price point indicates it's a Voyager (eg Ironhide) type size. There's not many I can think of that size other than Ratchet.

[Paulbot]

Probably most likely Ratchet but Bonecrusher would be a possibility- there’s been a few 3rd Party ones I think so there’s some sort of market.

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Official images of four of the upcoming Cyberverse Battle Call toys - Optimus, Bumblebee, Meteorfire, Wildwheel.

We finally get some new characters in Cyberverse, and one of them looks like a flying brick... although, Meteorfire does look like something you'd seen in the original Marvel comics when the issue is set on Cybertron.

[griffin]

From the current designers on instagram comes some background info on a toy released almost 2 years ago - the Origins Bumblebee.

OH Origin Bumblebee! I was lucky to be gifted this project after Warden moved off the team.
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First up is a glimpse of my deco layout for the pack. Doing deco, as I’ve mentioned, is an art in itself and for bigger more complicated projects, is quite challenging. The time consumption is definitely a labor of love! You will also see some inconsistencies in color for the blaster and the jetpack on deco and back of pack. Since those parts were made from PA plastic they wouldn’t take the painted silver ops. But some essential black peices were also in the mold so I couldnt make the mold silver.(Bummer)But I bumped up the color on the rods because it was really difficult to get the same glow as the golden rods that appeared on the episode. I went back and forth in production trying to add as much pearl fleck in the mold as possible to give them the cool looking shimmer.
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The next drawing was done by @ken_christiansen_art (🤔) but I’m not certain as Warden kicked it off before me. The image to the right of it is Kunihiro san’s block model CAD drawing. I made some adjustments as I usually do, and we went back and forth on a couple different things.
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I ended up cutting out the golden rod holder on the jetpack, it just compromised to much aesthetics for a nice looking jetpack. I also dipped back into episode 1 to really study this cybertronian BB here. The fun and somtimes difficult thing about old cell animated cartoons is the inconsistencies they contain. Im a stickler on head sculpts, so I really wanted to give BB the plump clean face he rocks in the episode, even if it is a lil on the thick side. Also got rid of the grid pattern he had on his cheeks which I think was a detail from the Siege series.
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The rest of the images are more for all of you to weigh in on. I used to love to see my painted models on back of pack, but the digital renders are cool too, do yall have a preference?

[JJJ]

Shame they put all that effort into the colour of the energon rods (which I consider a failure, as I still don't see what they were on about) instead of making the items, well, something that a toy can hold in its hand. I can see now why they didn't bother (designer A intended them to clip onto the back, designer B dropped this but didn't do anything else for them), but that hardly makes it better now does it?

Also, kinda interesting to see that they genuinely do use a paint that allegedly matches the plastic dye. I was sure that they would use a different shade in order to compensate for the way that paint and dyed plastics will never match. There is, after all, plenty of knowledge out there on how to match these things...

[Seraphim Prime]

Shame they put all that effort into the colour of the energon rods (which I consider a failure, as I still don't see what they were on about) instead of making the items, well, something that a toy can hold in its hand. I can see now why they didn't bother (designer A intended them to clip onto the back, designer B dropped this but didn't do anything else for them), but that hardly makes it better now does it?

Also, kinda interesting to see that they genuinely do use a paint that allegedly matches the plastic dye. I was sure that they would use a different shade in order to compensate for the way that paint and dyed plastics will never match. There is, after all, plenty of knowledge out there on how to match these things...

I would say it's potentially not always about paint matching the plastic than the plastic changing. My Origins Bumblebee has a couple of plastic panels that don't match the others and are a lighter shade of yellow that I can't explain - couldn't be sun exposure as other pieces beside it aren't faded - so a paint may have been matched to the design plastic colour, but then the mix gets slightly different

And the jetpack storage being lost is a bit of disappointment for me, as I don't like pieces just sitting around. But it fits with the ethos that their trying to meet at the moment of providing the best accessories that can be mixed and matched across your figures across the line rather than just focusing on each figure in singularity (positives and negatives to both approaches)