First Look at Second Set of Jada Transformers Minifigs Including G1 and Beast Wars Characters

Is that Armada Megs in the top right?

william-james88 wrote:Is that Armada Megs in the top right?

I got Scorponok vibes, it looks like it has his shoulder cannons!

Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, BW Megatron, G1 Scorponok
Mirage, Wheeljack, Nemesis Prime, Nova Storm,
Optimus Primal, Cheetor, Red Wing, Acid Storm,
Rhinox, Airazor, Soundblaster, Battletrap
Cliffjumper, Spin Out


edit:
yellow Cliffjumper...should've just painted the face Orange and sold it as Hubcap
red Bumblebee... then that's Volks in my eyes

Yellow Cliffjumper and red Bumblebee, repaints of the properly colored figures from the previous set.

Emerje

SpaceEagle wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Is that Armada Megs in the top right?

I got Scorponok vibes, it looks like it has his shoulder cannons!

Ah, right, yes it is

We got Prime in the 1st set, why include him again? Should have been Fort Max to go with Scorponok. And red Bee and yellow Cliffy? Why?

Rodimus Prime wrote:We got Prime in the 1st set, why include him again? Should have been Fort Max to go with Scorponok. And red Bee and yellow Cliffy? Why?

The OP's at least a different pose, but probably included to ensure sales maybe. Something something most iconic transformer something.
A Fort Max would've been very awesome, though. Makes the inclusion of Battletrap(?) even more baffling. Not that I'm complaining a character who wasn't in the cartoon is getting a die-cast figure, but...

Also I'm guessing the 'Bee & Cliff' are probably included to reuse molds call back to their MicroChange variants.

Well obviously the selections aren't entirely based on popularity or faction rivalries.

>Points to random outlier Airazor, who sticks out like a sore thumb<

I think that is pretty neat, if it was solely popular characters it'd have been pretty meh. Series 1 already covered the "essentials" so I am glad Series 2 is focusing on other characters.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Well obviously the selections aren't entirely based on popularity or faction rivalries.

>Points to random outlier Airazor, who sticks out like a sore thumb<

She doesn't when you realize that all those Maximals are the ones appearing in ROTB.

william-james88 wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Well obviously the selections aren't entirely based on popularity or faction rivalries.

>Points to random outlier Airazor, who sticks out like a sore thumb<

She doesn't when you realize that all those Maximals are the ones appearing in ROTB.

By that logic I guess that explains the random inclusion of Battletrap as well.

Now that we know there's a second set I ended up buying the first one. For under $12 for 18 figures they're a good buy, much better than the $1.25 each for similar Jada figures at Dollar Tree.

Emerje

Turs out there is more to this Metalfig pack than ... meets the eye. In the back we have 3 cutouts for backgrounds which include Teletraan 1. We see thatin the images below which give us a better look at the figures, in packaging. And the image of the back shows us all their names just in case people needed confirmation. The images were taken at a Walmart in Quebec where these figures along with 2 more sets are all found at the bottom of the Transformers section. The two other sets are Minecraft and Spider-man themed. They are all $29.97 CAD. This set has yet to appear in the US.

Poorly designed, pointless, and just more waste and polution. Who decided lets release some small figures that don’t offer anything that isn’t available already and in top of that done in away that is poorer than anything that came before it. I have something similar that i got when i was a kid in the 80s and it’s better made. If you buy this I’m selling I’m a C@?t tshirts for a couple hundred and I have mispelt it too, it’s an exclusive too so, and im sure its got some die cast as all tf fans love abit of die cast

DaveTheRave137 wrote:Poorly designed, pointless, and just more waste and polution. Who decided lets release some small figures that don’t offer anything that isn’t available already and in top of that done in away that is poorer than anything that came before it. I have something similar that i got when i was a kid in the 80s and it’s better made. If you buy this I’m selling I’m a C@?t tshirts for a couple hundred and I have mispelt it too, it’s an exclusive too so, and im sure its got some die cast as all tf fans love abit of die cast

I bought the first set and I'll be buying the second set too. They don't really hold up when viewed up close, but at a distance they look great populating city bots or just standing at their feet for a better sense of scale than regular figures can give them. They're also cheap (in the US anyway, though I suspect the second set will cost more) at only $12 for 18 figures.

Emerje

I thought Debbie Downer was a fictional character.

I can see these being super useful for tabletop purposes with the Renegade Games' Transformers RPG core book around the corner.

So I still like this line and just bought series 3 (last time this topic was posted to we were still on series 1), but I just wanted to point out the nonsense that is Jada's use of "series", a word that doesn't seem to really mean anything to Jada.

Series 1



Series 2



Series 3



Series 1 just gives a choice of vertical and horizontal, series 2 and 3 exclusives just swap a out two carryovers with two repaints, though series 2 at least gives you a new character unless you consider Red Bumblebee a different character.

Also the new molds decline rapidly at wave 3.

Series 1:
New molds 18/18
New characters 18/18

Series 2:
New molds 9/18 - Optimus Prime (axe), Optimus Primal, Beast Megatron, G1 Scorponok, Mirage, Cheetor, Rhinox, Airazor, Battletrap.
New repaints 6/18 (8/18 for exclusive set) - Bumblebee (yellow Cliffjumper), Nemesis Prime, Nova Storm, Acid Storm, Redwing, Soundblaster (plus exclusive set - Cliffjumper [red Bumblebee], Spin-Out)
Recycled figures - 3/18 (1/18 for exclusive set) Wheeljack (both sets), Arcee, Ironhide (retail set only)

Series 3:
New molds 4/18 - Alpha Trion, Galvatron, Tigatron, Waspinator
New repaints 2/18 (4/18 for exclusive set) - Bitstream, Starscream (plus exclusive set - gold Optimus Prime, gold Soundwave)
Recycled figures 12/18 (10/18 for exclusive set) - Optimus Prime (axe), Bumblebee, Megatron, Optimus Primal, Rhinox, Airazor Arcee, Ultra Magnus, Prowl, Soundwave (both sets), Beast Megatron, G1 Scorponok (retail set)

I'm going to guess series 3 is the last one unless this is the money saving series and they come back with lot of new molds in series 4. Series 3 really should have replaced Prowl with Hot Rod since they already added all the other previously made good and evil leaders to that set.

And yes, if you buy the right (or wrong) sets you can end up with three of the same Arcees.

Emerje