First Worldwide Sighting of Jada Transformers Studio Series Die Cast Cars

What? THAT was a news-worthy sighting? 2 days ago when I was disappointed that my Walmart had NOTHING, I found a box full of those diecast cars and thought "OF COURSE they have those..." It was TLK's Bee and Optimus and that's it. Oh well.

-Kanrabat- wrote:What? THAT was a news-worthy sighting? 2 days ago when I was disappointed that my Walmart had NOTHING, I found a box full of those diecast cars and thought "OF COURSE they have those..." It was TLK's Bee and Optimus and that's it. Oh well.

Anything's news if it's new! But are you sure it was these Hollywood Rides ones and not just the other, more common versions? Those are indeed around pretty much everywhere, IIRC.

Qwan wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:What? THAT was a news-worthy sighting? 2 days ago when I was disappointed that my Walmart had NOTHING, I found a box full of those diecast cars and thought "OF COURSE they have those..." It was TLK's Bee and Optimus and that's it. Oh well.

Anything's news if it's new! But are you sure it was these Hollywood Rides ones and not just the other, more common versions? Those are indeed around pretty much everywhere, IIRC.

I didn't really paid attention.

On a side note, my local TrU is FILLED TO THE BRIM with TLK deluxes. Preventing any new Studio series from being placed on the shelf. The even opened new cases of TLK deluxes recently. As if my local Laval TrU is the dumping ground for the old stuff. Sigh... Sooner or later, they will be on clearance at 15$CAN so I may take one or two at that time.

As often happens with the final waves of Transformers toylines, Wave 4 of the Last Knight toys (consisting of Cogman and repacks of previous Waves' figures) never showed up at U.S. retail. While he could be found online (usually for a significant markup over his $19.99 MSRP), we now have great news for those who couldn't bite the bullet on a $30 deluxe. Fellow Seibertronian Emerje found Cogman for a very agreeable $9.99 at a T.J. Maxx store in Augusta, Maine, and sent us photo proof below.




Are you going to be on the hunt for this elusive figure? Let us know in the comments below, and be sure to send us photo proof of any hard to find figures if you think you're the first to sight them. Good luck!

Bounti76 wrote:Ross

T.J.Maxx, but close enough. This and a Wave 3 Bee were the only Transformers I found there and it looks like they've done their holiday stocking already (toy section was packed) so that doesn't bode well for Transformers.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:Ross

T.J.Maxx, but close enough.

Fixed.

Bounti76 wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:Ross

T.J.Maxx, but close enough.

Fixed.

Double-fixed.

I really want to hunt this guy down but I really can't afford to waste the gas. I've been putting off paying $30 on ebay & this is perfect for me (poor) but the way the stores are I'd probably end up spending more than $30 in gas.

Does he transform into anything. I don't recall him having an alt mode in the movie...

NTESHFT wrote:Does he transform into anything. I don't recall him having an alt mode in the movie...

Nope. A HUGE missed opportunity here. In the movie, it's mentioned that he's a headmaster. And he was supposed to go all headmaster on Nitro. They even prepared the toy for that. But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, the scene was scrapped in favor of more human smelling each other's butts.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

NTESHFT wrote:Does he transform into anything. I don't recall him having an alt mode in the movie...

Nope. A HUGE missed opportunity here. In the movie, it's mentioned that he's a headmaster. And he was supposed to go all headmaster on Nitro. They even prepared the toy for that. But NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, the scene was scrapped in favor of more human smelling each other's butts.

So that must explain why my TRU Thundercracker's head came off to reveal a spot for a headmaster. I never got Nitro...in which I will eventually....but it's the same mold, so I suppose it does the same.....bummer indeed...

NTESHFT wrote:Does he transform into anything. I don't recall him having an alt mode in the movie...

He turns into a lovely looking licensed Aston Martin and can fit TWO Titan Masters in the seats (thereby outdoing most Titan Returns figures at their own gimmick and doing it with a realistic alt-mode too).


I've had mine since last year and he's very nice and got some great detailing and such. Worth way more than that 10 bucks price so go snap him up while you can.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

NTESHFT wrote:Does he transform into anything. I don't recall him having an alt mode in the movie...

He turns into a lovely looking licensed Aston Martin and can fit TWO Titan Masters in the seats (thereby outdoing most Titan Returns figures at their own gimmick and doing it with a realistic alt-mode too).


I've had mine since last year and he's very nice and got some great detailing and such. Worth way more than that 10 bucks price so go snap him up while you can.

I gotta get this one too. I love the Aston Martin and he looks good....thanks for the info

was Cogman in the same wave as Nitro Zeus? I never saw either of them at retail, and they were the only ones I was interested in. If they both show up at discount stores it might be worth driving around for them...

MrMunkeepants wrote:was Cogman in the same wave as Nitro Zeus? I never saw either of them at retail, and they were the only ones I was interested in. If they both show up at discount stores it might be worth driving around for them...

No, Cogman was either a stand alone, or a "tail end". I bought mine from China for 55$CAN shipped. Then the damn bastard is everywhere. For cheap to boot. Still, very worth owning.

I have Cogman but I've never seen Nitro Zeus or Studio Thundercracker in stores here. That mold is thus far eluding me.

Really wanted Cogman and hunted for him locally.After reading this article
I hit a TJ Maxx yesterday hoping to score one but all they had were 2 Drifts.

I hope Cogman comes to New Zealand. I'd love me a robo-butler Headmaster!!

RotorstormNZ wrote:I hope Cogman comes to New Zealand. I'd love me a robo-butler Headmaster!!

If push come to shove, you could always import it. He's worth paying extra money for. And if you do import Cogman, this will make him magically appear en masse at your local retailer for cheap. That's what happened here in Canada. I did the summoning ceremony. So, think of your fellows and bite the bullet!

After the sighting of The Last Knight Cogman for the first time at US retail last week, it appears as though the final wave of legion figures has also finally made it to the states.

Thanks to Seibertronian Bounti76, we have confirmation that Legion Hound at least has finally been found in the US at Ross, and just like Cogman, he has been found at a store not normally known to carry new or unseen product. What this appears to mean is that the final waves of The Last Knight toys appear to be making their way from storage areas to the shelves of stores finally, only not quite the stores we expected.

Ross and TJ Maxx have proven to be stores this past year that have gotten some fairly good product, seeing as how several figures that have evaded toy hunters of all ages keep showing up at these stores. So if you have one of these stores or one like it, or even like Ollies, you should go check them out!

I can reinforce that sighting at my McKinney Ross, along with several One-Step Changers and Mega One-Step Dragonstorm!

Exactly six months ago, we posted an article on the price and release on the TC-09 Battle Command Optimus Prime. Well now, it's being reissued on Takara Tomy Mall!

Well, it isn't just a reissue, it includes two redecos of the the High Octane Bumblebee and the helicopter Drift. Drift is in his The Last Knight while Bumblebee is just in Bumblebee colors.

They both are redecos of Age of Extinction One-Steps, so they should be able to interact with the trailer and Optimus using the pin.

The only place to buy this currently is on Takara Tomy Mall, for ¥ 8,640 (roughly 77.78 USD). This will be released on October 27, 2018.

















So will you be picking this up? Let us know in the Pub forums below!

Red copter Drift neat!

Lots of Transformers related Die Cast news coming out recently as, in addition to the G1-inspired figures we reported on yesterday, Japanese die cast company Tomica announced a couple new movie-based car models!
The two models take from Bumblebee's The Last Knight Camaro mode, and from Optimus Prime's Western Star mode from the same film. If you collect diecast, you might know of Tomica from their popular line of model Japanese cars, such as Nissan GTR's and Acura NSX's. The two transformers models are presumed to be 1:64 scale, (aka, the same scale as Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars) and are currently listed on Amazon Japan and Takara Tomy Mall for around $5.40! Check them out below, and tell us in the Energon Forums if you'll be picking these up instead of the similar Jada brand diecast!

Seibertron.com friend and concept artist Ken Christiansen has dropped us a line to let us know he's posted on his social media accounts some more toy concept art for the Transformers: The Last Knight toyline - specifically, the Infernocus set that was made exclusive to Toys R Us, which reused the Terrorcons molds with the addition of new torso bot Skulk, and a see through Quintessa non transforming character.

You can check both out below, including variants of the latter, and let us know what you think in the Energon Pub discussion boards!

Concept art for the Skulk figure for the Toys R Us Infernocus Exclusive set, for the Transformers the Last Knight toyline. He's a mean looking one, nice change of pace from my regular Transformers work.

Commissioned in partnership with Hasbro, Inc. Copyright 2018

Concept art for the Quintessa pack in figure for the Toys R Us Infernocus Exclusive set, for the Transformers the Last Knight toyline. Swipe to see a few different versions.

Urm Va'al you said the set was exclusive to Target when it was a Toys r Us exclusive

ZeroWolf wrote:Urm Va'al you said the set was exclusive to Target when it was a Toys r Us exclusive

Too many T shops. Fixed!

Va'al wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:Urm Va'al you said the set was exclusive to Target when it was a Toys r Us exclusive

Too many T shops. Fixed!

Dont worry. The world heard your frustration over that and removed one from the US

I love this set! I would have preferred the axe to the swords he came with, but it's still neat!

william-james88 wrote:

Va'al wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:Urm Va'al you said the set was exclusive to Target when it was a Toys r Us exclusive

Too many T shops. Fixed!

Dont worry. The world heard your frustration over that and removed one from the US

Toys R Not US

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

NTESHFT wrote:Does he transform into anything. I don't recall him having an alt mode in the movie...

He turns into a lovely looking licensed Aston Martin and can fit TWO Titan Masters in the seats (thereby outdoing most Titan Returns figures at their own gimmick and doing it with a realistic alt-mode too).


I've had mine since last year and he's very nice and got some great detailing and such. Worth way more than that 10 bucks price so go snap him up while you can.

They just opened an Ollie's back in Mid-November this year. Up until then, I remembered Ollie's for advertising TR Trypticon - cheap. However, this Black Friday Ollie's ad, I saw a new find. TLK Premiere Deluxe Figures, for $6, and the picture was of Cogman! In my corner of southwestern PA, I saw no Cogman figures. Tons of TLK Wave 1 regular, and gimmick, figures stocked, and later, languishing on the pegs, along with the better-selling Transformers lines. So, I made it a point to run in there. TLK Drifts, Bumblebees, and Crosshairs were all well-represented, and I found an enormous volume of TLK Hot Rods (seriously thought about buying another for G1-esque repaint/kitbash). I even think I saw a couple Optimus Prime's, too. But, no Cogmans... When another collector expressed the same frustration, on Black Friday, at Ollie's, I said maybe they liked Cogman's more dynamic pose on his box art? Very disappointing...

RedShifter88 wrote:They just opened an Ollie's back in Mid-November this year. Up until then, I remembered Ollie's for advertising TR Trypticon - cheap. However, this Black Friday Ollie's ad, I saw a new find. TLK Premiere Deluxe Figures, for $6, and the picture was of Cogman! In my corner of southwestern PA, I saw no Cogman figures. Tons of TLK Wave 1 regular, and gimmick, figures stocked, and later, languishing on the pegs, along with the better-selling Transformers lines. So, I made it a point to run in there. TLK Drifts, Bumblebees, and Crosshairs were all well-represented, and I found an enormous volume of TLK Hot Rods (seriously thought about buying another for G1-esque repaint/kitbash). I even think I saw a couple Optimus Prime's, too. But, no Cogmans... When another collector expressed the same frustration, on Black Friday, at Ollie's, I said maybe they liked Cogman's more dynamic pose on his box art? Very disappointing...

As someone else who lives in south west PA, I feel your pain. But if it helps, the new Studio Series line is re-releasing Cogman with a new paint job here next year!

I don't know if he's been spotted yet but I found legion dragonstorm at 5 below in Indiana along with some titan masters I didn't have

As someone who quite likes legion class figures, this (and even more so the line before) was real disappointing. The molds were mostly from TF Prime and thus looked nothing like the actual movie characters (like Stinger being a KnockOut repaint, Berserker being a Breakdown repaint, Barricade being a very bland Prowl repaint, Grimlock being rippersnapper, etc etc). I did hear the Megatron one from TLK was, I heard, a new mold along with some others.

Nacelle wrote:As someone who quite likes legion class figures, this (and even more so the line before) was real disappointing. The molds were mostly from TF Prime and thus looked nothing like the actual movie characters (like Stinger being a KnockOut repaint, Berserker being a Breakdown repaint, Barricade being a very bland Prowl repaint, Grimlock being rippersnapper, etc etc). I did hear the Megatron one from TLK was, I heard, a new mold along with some others.

Only Wave 1 and the exclusives (bar one) were redecos, the rest were all new. A list:

Wave 2
Megatron
Crosshairs
Autobot Drift

Wave 3
Autobot Hound
Dragonstorm

Originally Walmart Exclusive
Autobot Hot Rod

They can also be found at Ross if you look hard enough.

So, do you guys remember that Universal Studios Deluxe Snarl Exclusive? Well, it appears as though this figure is the latest in the lineup of The Last Knight based figures to end up at the $7.99 pricepoint at Ross!

Thanks to Seibertronian Reluctantyouth, we have word that Snarl has hit Ross, showing up in Illinois for the very reasonable price of $7.99, which is pretty cheap considering his BBTS self is $19.99 and he is around $35 to $40 at Universal itself. This figure joins the Wave 3 and 4 The Last Knight toys to have hit stores like Ross, following in the footsteps of Bumblebee, Strafe, Crosshairs, Cogman, and others.

For those who might not remember, Snarl is a repaint of his Age of Extinction toy, now done in the similar sort of smokey gray that can be found in the other The Last Knight dinobots, attempting to be more screen accurate like Studio Series Grimlock (despite not showing up in the movie proper).

Check out the photos below, and let us know if you plan to hunt down this figure in the comments section below! And if you do find, him, why not share it in our Toy Haul Thread!

For me, that's a good find. Unfortunately no Ross's near me.

I already have the green Snarl, but... No, don't think even of double dipping, you still have the AoE lineup to finish!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:I already have the green Snarl, but... No, don't think even of double dipping, you still have the AoE lineup to finish!

What figures from AoE do you still need?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:I already have the green Snarl, but... No, don't think even of double dipping, you still have the AoE lineup to finish!

I too have the green one, but for the others I got the Takara Black Knight redecos since (at the time) they were most movie-accurate versions.

Except for Grimlock. I missed out on his AOE Leader mold and instead got the Studio Series Leader when it came out later.

But since Snarl's all green while the others are black and gray, I just treat Snarl as a sort of permanent "Super Saiyan" kind of powered up dude.

Oh, and I did also get the normal blue version of Slash, but regretted that one enough to not care for the gray one released later. Blue Slash just stays in dino mode since its the less bad of the two modes and, well, Slash's odd colors are just written off as Slash simply being an odd one among the Dinobots.

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:I already have the green Snarl, but... No, don't think even of double dipping, you still have the AoE lineup to finish!

I too have the green one, but for the others I got the Takara Black Knight redecos since (at the time) they were most movie-accurate versions.

Except for Grimlock. I missed out on his AOE Leader mold and instead got the Studio Series Leader when it came out later.

But since Snarl's all green while the others are black and gray, I just treat Snarl as a sort of permanent "Super Saiyan" kind of powered up dude.

Oh, and I did also get the normal blue version of Slash, but regretted that one enough to not care for the gray one released later. Blue Slash just stays in dino mode since its the less bad of the two modes and, well, Slash's odd colors are just written off as Slash simply being an odd one among the Dinobots.

I saw the TLK Grimlock on clearance at Target, passed on it since I wanted to get a golden one (the Evolution one preferably first). Ugh, this Snarl is making me regret that

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:I already have the green Snarl, but... No, don't think even of double dipping, you still have the AoE lineup to finish!

I too have the green one, but for the others I got the Takara Black Knight redecos since (at the time) they were most movie-accurate versions.

Except for Grimlock. I missed out on his AOE Leader mold and instead got the Studio Series Leader when it came out later.

But since Snarl's all green while the others are black and gray, I just treat Snarl as a sort of permanent "Super Saiyan" kind of powered up dude.

Oh, and I did also get the normal blue version of Slash, but regretted that one enough to not care for the gray one released later. Blue Slash just stays in dino mode since its the less bad of the two modes and, well, Slash's odd colors are just written off as Slash simply being an odd one among the Dinobots.

I saw the TLK Grimlock on clearance at Target, passed on it since I wanted to get a golden one (the Evolution one preferably first). Ugh, this Snarl is making me regret that

I did get the Evolution 2-pack Voyager Grimlock too (which means I also got the sad Energon Grimlock redeco), but only because its deco looked the nicest at the time and there was no foreknowledge of the TLK Voyager redeco yet to come.

Thanks so much for the highlight on main page. I have two ROSS within 10 minutes of me. Each ROSS had just (1) Snarl. If anyone lives in the Peoria, Illinois area...I left the one at ROSS out by Five Guys.


~Reluctantyouth~

Wanted to poke this thread, seeing as how the voyager Megatron from TLK is still one of the best Megatron toys ever made