New Images of Studios Series Optimus, Ratchet and Crowbar

Optimus doesn't look to good sadly, very different looking transformation scheme it already looks like. Ratchet looks like does from his DoTM deluxe figure just modified which I guess I'm okay with. Starscream looks fantastic but I'll keep with the leader class figure of course. And Crowbar? I want him. Just wish he was a voyager.

william-james88 wrote:

Crowbar being retooled from Berserker makes me think the Toyhax stickers will mostly fit him too and make the alt-mode much more detailed.

I need that Starscream so bad, despite the trash talk he's been getting from other people lately he's one of my favorite movie designs.I have the leader RotF version and I love him but this guy looks like the deluxe upscaled and touched up on, plus he scales better with my movie collection. I can wait longer on the others (Optimus looks mostly good, but I have a lot of Optimus already) but I want Starscream asap.

Autobot Roadburn wrote:I need that Starscream so bad, despite the trash talk he's been getting from other people lately he's one of my favorite movie designs.

Didn't know of trash talk but he's my fave Starscream design and one of my fave TF designs ever (once I got used to him after a few months since the very first reveal of him over 10 years back) and this toy looks very promising from the photo.

I mean, ratchet doesnt look too bad just a bit paintless and his head to shoulder are is wigging me out. Crowbar looks alright but since he's berserker we all know he's gonna be a fiddly mess unless Hasbro got their shit together

Comparing Crowbar to Berserker, more parts have been switched out than initially thought:

- the head
- the lower legs? and feet
- the arms?

Is that the new standard now?

Called it, knew Crowbar was gonna be that specific remold. Which is fine, he SHOULD be similar to Berserker/Crankcase. Will definitely pick him up.

Gonna need some more images of that OP before I make a call on him, he looks a little...wide? could be the camera, the pose, or just a mistransformation, but he looks like he's been having a few too many energon donuts or something in that image.

Ratchet looks bad. Could be the angle, but he's appears really skinny with thick legs, and the big panel flipped down his back isn't fooling anyone.

That Starscream is tempting! I wasn't even thinking about grabbing him, I already have the voyager from the first movie and the leader version from HftD, but he looks really good, and that saw hand makes him pretty unique compared to the other figures we've gotten of him.

OK, I NEED that Crowbar. And a Berserker for that matter- what a pity he's sold out everywhere. I was hoping he'd bargain bin but apparently not.

Black Hat wrote:OK, I NEED that Crowbar. And a Berserker for that matter- what a pity he's sold out everywhere. I was hoping he'd bargain bin but apparently not.

Got mine when Tesco did a sale a few months ago and had Deluxes for £14 down from £23. Of course it was all Wave 1 cos most shops still haven't gotten to wave 2 but I hadn't got Berserker by that point so was quite happy to make the purchase. He's fun.

Someone on another forum pointed out that Prime seems to be a heavy retool of TF4 Evasion Mode Optimus.

To name a few similarities:

- The shoulders and upper arms being one solid piece
- The chest panels appear to fold in from the sides
- The front wheels of the truck are on the hips

This is purely conjecture, but it's an interesting theory nonetheless.

Also, to those worried about the proportions, most of the figures (particularly Crowbar) look pretty egregiously mistransformed. Crowbar's legs, for example, should be in a digitigrade stance like Berserker.

Caesium Salami wrote:Someone on another forum pointed out that Prime seems to be a heavy retool of TF4 Evasion Mode Optimus.

To name a few similarities:

- The shoulders and upper arms being one solid piece
- The chest panels appear to fold in from the sides
- The front wheels of the truck are on the hips

This is purely conjecture, but it's an interesting theory nonetheless.

Also, to those worried about the proportions, most of the figures (particularly Crowbar) look pretty egregiously mistransformed. Crowbar's legs, for example, should be in a digitigrade stance like Berserker.

People shout retool too quickly whenever they see design points in common. As far as we know, Crowbar is the only one, the rest are all new molds.

With the Transformers: Studio Series line just around the corner, with new teases every week that will hopefully soon lead up to the official reveal, we bring to you news that the line may be even closer than we think. Despite not being officially revealed yet, with only fuzzy images showing us boxes and some fuzzy display images, Walmart has listed 2 of the Studio Series figures on its website, though both are minus any images.

What's interesting about the listings is the use of Starscream's actual name for his listing, but the other listing is for a character named, or codenamed, Radar, suggesting some of the figures may be using codenames, just like in the recent The Last Knight toyline. Who "Radar" refers to is unknown at this time, but we are hoping the official reveals are just around the corner!

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

Caesium Salami wrote:Someone on another forum pointed out that Prime seems to be a heavy retool of TF4 Evasion Mode Optimus.

To name a few similarities:

- The shoulders and upper arms being one solid piece
- The chest panels appear to fold in from the sides
- The front wheels of the truck are on the hips

This is purely conjecture, but it's an interesting theory nonetheless.

Also, to those worried about the proportions, most of the figures (particularly Crowbar) look pretty egregiously mistransformed. Crowbar's legs, for example, should be in a digitigrade stance like Berserker.

People shout retool too quickly whenever they see design points in common. As far as we know, Crowbar is the only one, the rest are all new molds.

I think Caesium might be onto something, since I just thought that the rear wheels might take some engineering cues from M-01 Commander, where the "middle" tires can be relocated to the hips, creating that double tire look that Movie Prime has.

Ratchet, Crowbar, and Starscream all look pretty good. I have the Desert Tracker Ratchet, and kinda want a new Ratchet, so we'll see with this guy. But so far so good!

Crowbar looks like a good retool. I loved the designs of the Dreads and Wreckers. Now we just need Leadfoot and Hatchet in deluxe scale!

"Radar" is almost certainly Optimus, it's listed as a voyager and he was the other wave 1 voyager in the original leak. Plus, I doubt they'd launch this line without an OP available right from the start like every other movie line.

Spider5800 wrote:"Radar" is almost certainly Optimus, it's listed as a voyager and he was the other wave 1 voyager in the original leak. Plus, I doubt they'd launch this line without an OP available right from the start like every other movie line.

Agreed, though I sure would like to think this is a secret figure for the Bumblebee movie.

Emerje

Found this on local whatsapp group.



while it is not exactly clear, i like what i see....i think.

bacem wrote:Found this on local whatsapp group.

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while it is not exactly clear, i like what i see....i think.

Looks like the chest should be on some hinges. I do wonder if the middle set of tires would go onto his hips.

bacem wrote:Found this on local whatsapp group.

IMG-20171219-WA0000.jpg

while it is not exactly clear, i like what i see....i think.

Thanks, going to the front page!

Wait, when did they become part of Generations?

For those who cannot wait to see more from the upcoming Studio Series line, which features new toys of characters from all across the Transformers Live Action films, you are in luck. While we had our first really good look at the upcoming voyager Optimus Prime a few days ago, we now have an image of him in his packaging which gives us our best look at him yet. We see from this that it is without a doubt a new mold. This is number 05 in the series and is part of the first wave of voyager figures along with Starscream. The image was found on the Snakas blog.

The packaging also gives us some new info. Firstly, we see the generations logo. This may not mean that they are part of the "Generations" line per se, but more of an indicator as to the type of toy it is. That was previously done for the Age of Extinction film, where the toys were labelled as being "Generations" as well. While it might be confusing, it seems Hasbro deems it less confusing than their latest try at differentiating these toys with one steps and the like with their "Premier Edition" branding, which did indeed infer a comparison. So now it's back to "Generations" to let you now you can expect the same type of complexity.

The other bit of interest comes from the Takara logo on the box. This further solidifies the idea that, as with The Last Knight toyline, the Takara and Hasbro products will be identical for the most part, including the packaging (which Takara would then add a sticker to). This was originally hinted at by the lower Japanese prices we saw for this line compared to other Takara Transformers products. The prices for this line in Japan was the same for the Transformers: The Last Knight Toyline.

So seeing this trend of Takara and Hasbro releasing the very same products in both their markets, how do you feel? Does this further contribute to the notion that both companies truly feel the extra sales from collectors importing (either Japanese fans importing Hasbro or westerners importing Takara) toys from outside their market are not substantial compared to the savings of standardized toys and packaging? Or do both companies simply focus on their own markets without giving a thought to any activity happening outside it, be it beneficial or not?

Let us know your thoughts in the discussion!

That packaging also labels Optimus as specifically ROTF Optimus.

From what I can see the mold looks really pretty darn cool but the colour layout is off. Still very interested in seeing more and hey Toyhax will probably do a stickers set for fixing any flames and such like with the terrible basic colour layout of Hasbro's AoE Evasion Prime and TLK Prime.

Prime looks ok so far, were going to need better in hand pics to know for sure but most movie Prime toys are decent sometimes not accurate like the Movie 1 leader but they were still decent toys.

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Ratchet, Crowbar, and Starscream all look pretty good. I have the Desert Tracker Ratchet, and kinda want a new Ratchet, so we'll see with this guy. But so far so good!

Crowbar looks like a good retool. I loved the designs of the Dreads and Wreckers. Now we just need Leadfoot and Hatchet in deluxe scale!

Deluxe Leadfoot already exists. I paid up the ass to get the original, but it appears they now have a quality KO that does the deed. It has the Target paint apps of the unreleased Hasbro version and the head painted silver which looks way better than the original (unpainted) which goes for over $300 now.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?siteid=0&pub=5574891718&campid=5336631220&customid=&toolid=10001&mkevt=1&mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fm.ebay.com%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_from%3DR40%20...%20e%2Bleadfoot%3C%2Fa%3E%26

Im with you on Hatchet. Ive been using the small version as a stand in with berserker as Crowbar to have the trio.

I already give this Optimus toy props for trying a new transformation scheme.

william-james88 wrote:

Is that a thumb on the box? I am really hoping not, or it is a big thumb, because that makes Prime look pretty small

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Is that a thumb on the box? I am really hoping not, or it is a big thumb, because that makes Prime look pretty small

Lol it's a screenshot.

Quantum Surge wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Is that a thumb on the box? I am really hoping not, or it is a big thumb, because that makes Prime look pretty small

Lol it's a screenshot.

He means the flesh part seen on the right side of the screenshot.

Sabrblade wrote:

Quantum Surge wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Is that a thumb on the box? I am really hoping not, or it is a big thumb, because that makes Prime look pretty small

Lol it's a screenshot.

He means the flesh part seen on the right side of the screenshot.

That's what I'm referring to; the hand is just touching the phone (where the screenshot is placed in). Maybe D-Maximus is just joking around.

Quantum Surge wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Quantum Surge wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Is that a thumb on the box? I am really hoping not, or it is a big thumb, because that makes Prime look pretty small

Lol it's a screenshot.

He means the flesh part seen on the right side of the screenshot.

That's what I'm referring to; the hand is just touching the phone (where the screenshot is placed in). Maybe D-Maximus is just joking around.

Oh, I see now. It's a pic of a pic. We all thought it was a pic of just the packaged figure.

Sabrblade wrote:Oh, I see now. It's a pic of a pic. We all thought it was a pic of just the packaged figure.

Ok, that makes sense. I was serious when I thought it looked small

Sabrblade wrote:Oh, I see now. It's a pic of a pic. We all thought it was a pic of just the packaged figure.

I didn't. I noticed the thumb and the phone 'frame'.

Everything looks pretty good on this figure, but the chest is crap! The pecs are way too spread apart making it look like his chest his open. I'm already having doubts about this, so that's not great.

MegaX Master wrote:Everything looks pretty good on this figure, but the chest is crap! The pecs are way too spread apart making it look like his chest his open. I'm already having doubts about this, so that's not great.

The chest might not be transformed properly. That, or it's meant to show the Matrix of Leadership like Battle Blades did.

Another Optimus, another cheat. Granted MP Movie Prime and Powermaster were legit with the windshield chest, but so many designers are just cheating the chest piece, and that singlehandedly makes it a pass for me.

CobraKai wrote:Another Optimus, another cheat. Granted MP Movie Prime and Powermaster were legit with the windshield chest, but so many designers are just cheating the chest piece, and that singlehandedly makes it a pass for me.

How do you know it's a cheat chest?

It looks like actual windows and panels to me.

In truck mode, the window area is blue.

CobraKai wrote:In truck mode, the window area is blue.

How can you even tell? That photo has horrible lighting and is low quality overall and you can't even see what color the windows are.

The chest still does not look fake at all not compared to say this.



Edit: I thought you meant the actual windows I see you mean the window frames or whatever their called I can see what you mean but Optimus Prime always has the red chest in robot mode

Look at the robot cgi and then the actual truck






Anyways it could also be a prototype on the set and the actual in package figure is the actual figure color, or the red parts sit under the blue if that makes any sense.

Deadput wrote:

CobraKai wrote:In truck mode, the window area is blue.

How can you even tell? That photo has horrible lighting and is low quality overall and you can't even see what color the windows are.

The chest still does not look fake at all not compared to say this.



Edit: I thought you meant the actual windows I see you mean the window frames or whatever their called I can see what you mean but Optimus Prime always has the red chest in robot mode

Look at the robot cgi and then the actual truck







Anyways it could also be a prototype on the set and the actual in package figure is the actual figure color, or the red parts sit under the blue if that makes any sense.

To me, it looks like a cheat in the same way Evasion Prime had a cheat that looked like legit windows. It almost looks like there is middle hinge in his chest. Maybe the arms and windows fold into each other?

We have a long and detailed list of most (if not all) of the figures set to be released in the upcoming Transformers Movie Studio Series. This expansive list covers the UPC codes, the product codes, and names of the figures. Some of the characters listed are quite surprising, and some potentially are codenames for other characters, similar to the way the Last Knight toyline was run. This will really be an interesting line to follow, as it’s quite unprecedented for a Generations/Thrilling 30-style line based on movie figures. This is thanks to Mr. Chaos over at TFW2005.

Check out the full list below!

Deluxe

Stryker2:
Product ID #E0739
UPC #630509629008

Stryker:
Product ID #E0975
UPC #630509707577

Stinger:
Product ID #E0740
UPC #630509629015

TF3 Crowbar:
Product ID #E0741
UPC #630509629039

TF1 Ratchet:
Product ID #E0744
UPC #630509629022

Ratchet (separate listing):
Product ID #E0977
UPC #630509707584

TF1 Jazz:
Product ID #E0745
UPC #630509697700

Lockdown:
Product ID #E0747
UPC #630509697694

Bluelight:
Product ID #E0958
UPC #630509707591

Mercenary:
Product ID #E0976
UPC #630509707607

Sentry:
Product ID #E0750
UPC #630509715381

Voyager

TF1 Brawl:
Product ID #E0772
UPC #630509652235

Starscream:
Product ID #E0774,
UPC #630509628179

Starscream (Separate listing):
Product ID #E1680
UPC #630509715374

Megatron (code name "TF2 Fox"):
Product ID #E0775
UPC #630509652204

Optimus Prime (Codename "TF2 Radar"):
Product ID #E0738
UPC #630509628162

Ironhide:
Product ID #E0978
UPC #630509707560

Leader

Grimlock:
Product ID #E0773
UPC #630509627844

Blackout:
Product ID #E0980
UPC #630509627837

There better be a deluxe Hatchet among those code names. Reissue of tge deluxe Soundwave with silver paint would also be great.

Rated X wrote:There better be a deluxe Hatchet among those code names. Reissue of tge deluxe Soundwave with silver paint would also be great.

Would be nice to also get Leadfoot, a proper armored deluxe Roadbuster and a release of that DOTM Blaster which was cancelled along with a Hasbro release of DOTM Skywarp.



Oh and Dino as well but that's not happening any time soon thanks to Ferrari.

Deadput wrote:

Is that a real thing? I only recently saw the head but thought it was a custom. It looks neat though I do hate Blaster and Soundwave using the same darn body all the time.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

Deadput wrote:

Is that a real thing? I only recently saw the head but thought it was a custom. It looks neat though I do hate Blaster and Soundwave using the same darn body all the time.

Yeah it was on display at Hascon 2017 Prototype display (Which is probably why the colors are not perfect) I got the pic from TFwiki.

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blaster_(DOTM)

I agree with X, I really want Hatchet to be in that list. I also want the Leadfoot, armored Roadbuster, and Mirage to come from this line.

I was excited to see Ironhide's name there too

Update from this story:

TRA MV6 STUDIO SERIES AST 20 DELUXE
TRA MV6 STUDIO SERIES AST 30 VOYAGER
TRA MV6 STUDIO SERIES AST 50 LEADER

Voyager Megatron, from the upcoming 2018 Studio Series Transformers toyline, was one of the first toys we ever had solid proof of. We had a few images form Weibo but they were either small or blackened out in certain parts (as can be seen below). But now, we have the same image of the back of the box, also from Weibo, that shows the toy not obstructed by neither a black marker or a watermark, letting you get your best look yet at the figure.

For those unaware, this is a new voyager class figure of movie Meagtron in his Revenge of the Fallen body. It is part of the Studio Series line, a toyline that will feature Transformers from all across the different live action films, from the 2007 movie and even the newest Bumblebee movie. It also seems to be the way that Hasbro will be releasing the more traditional Transformers figures for the Bumblebee film instead of them appearing in a line just for that film. The 2018 Bumblebee movie line will instead feature the toys that are either simpler or gimmick based. Since Age of Extinction, Hasbro has tried to distinguish the toys that would interest collectors from the toys meant only for children and the Studio Series line will be used this time for this distinction. The figures should be at the same price points as the Transformers: The Last Knight Premier Edtion toys.

Enjoy the new image of Megatron below and let us know what you think!

william-james88 wrote:

I would do the Fry shut up and take my money image but i'm too tired to even find it but ya get the point. I am buying that figure. Looks suitably evil and cool in both modes.

Legit me right now with this new Megatron:



I can only hope that the 2007 design gets a redo of some kind too with some of the more modern engineering. This new one is awesome though and I can't wait to get my talons on it.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

I would do the Fry shut up and take my money image but i'm too tired to even find it but ya get the point. I am buying that figure. Looks suitably evil and cool in both modes.

Well, I did it for you. So there is that. XD