New Images of Transformers Studio Series 52 Arcee, Elita 1, Chromia Three Pack

For a second I was hoping we'd be getting a new Skids and Mudflap Personally, I'm not going to be picking these girls up. Not a fan of the sizes, and the only way I would have grabbed them would have been if they combined

What's the blue thing on Arcee's shoulder?

Even with the innacurate chest,Megatron looks great.

Those Arcee sisters pack looks sweet.

Decepticon Stryker wrote:What's the blue thing on Arcee's shoulder?

either an alternate part/misassembly or, their is a combined mode and hasbro has been lying to us the entire time. Probably the former... still want them to combine though.

wow they are tiny. eesh

Full-Tilt wrote:

Decepticon Stryker wrote:What's the blue thing on Arcee's shoulder?

either an alternate part/misassembly or, their is a combined mode and hasbro has been lying to us the entire time. Probably the former... still want them to combine though.

Each of them (or at least Arcee and Chromia) come with a removable weapon/piece thing.

I think they look really good, I might just be getting them. I'm hoping Reprolabels makes some stickers for the symbols on the sides of the bikes.

EDIT: Chromia's accesory is the blue sword-looking piece, which you can see in the background of that picture, so I'm not sure what that is on Arcee's shoulder either

Cool set, but i am done collecting the movie figures, i just don't like the scale it is all over the place. I will keep my movie MP's but other than that i am selling them all.

Bit off topic, but how does everyone rate Stinger? I managed to pick one up cheap and I feel thoroughly whelmed.

I never did get Stinger, but it's a retroactive want for me.

the Arcee sisters look great! I love this as a little legion 3-pack. it's a fantastic way to do them in scale.

I'm excited for this wave, it is looking fantastic!

DMSL wrote:Cool set, but i am done collecting the movie figures, i just don't like the scale it is all over the place. I will keep my movie MP's but other than that i am selling them all.

Are you talking about vehicle scale? Robot mode scale has actually been set with the Studio Series (actually I'm hearing that AoE onwards has figures that work with the scale).

ZeroWolf wrote:

DMSL wrote:Cool set, but i am done collecting the movie figures, i just don't like the scale it is all over the place. I will keep my movie MP's but other than that i am selling them all.

Are you talking about vehicle scale? Robot mode scale has actually been set with the Studio Series (actually I'm hearing that AoE onwards has figures that work with the scale).

alt mode scale is a bit wonky, but the robot mode scales since AOE have pretty much been consistent. It's been pretty nice

Gemstonegemini wrote:Bit off topic, but how does everyone rate Stinger? I managed to pick one up cheap and I feel thoroughly whelmed.

He’s an average figure to me, nothing too special but nothing to hold him back either, and then there is the fact that he isn’t a major character, so he’s pretty much the equivalent of a glorified background character. But if you put him with a few of the KSI sentries, I get the feeling that he will pop out as a sort of vehicon general, so he has that going for him.

D-Max & Ninja wrote: *Stinger opinions*

I'm undecided on whether I like him. The alt mode is great, and his head sculpt is surprisingly detailed. But, and normally I'm not one to really care about backpacks; my love for the POTP Rodimus mold is testiment to that, but like, Stinger's back is literally like a concave c-shape. It's so bizarre.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:

DMSL wrote:Cool set, but i am done collecting the movie figures, i just don't like the scale it is all over the place. I will keep my movie MP's but other than that i am selling them all.

Are you talking about vehicle scale? Robot mode scale has actually been set with the Studio Series (actually I'm hearing that AoE onwards has figures that work with the scale).

alt mode scale is a bit wonky, but the robot mode scales since AOE have pretty much been consistent. It's been pretty nice

I agree, and vehicle scale has never been an issue for me with the toys.

Wow they are so tiny!

To be honest, I'd really want a voyager box with the two ice-cream twins. The 2009 deluxe that split into two scouts need to be updated badly. A very compressed "voyager" vehicle that would split into two normal sized "deluxes" using Animated Lockdown magic would be just perfect.

-Kanrabat- wrote:To be honest, I'd really want a voyager box with the two ice-cream twins. The 2009 deluxe that split into two scouts need to be updated badly. A very compressed "voyager" vehicle that would split into two normal sized "deluxes" using Animated Lockdown magic would be just perfect.

Except that's not in scale at all. A current deluxe that splits into 2 legends would work great and be in scale with the line to go with the 3 pack legion Arcees.

Even if they did the twins in their individual car modes, a deluxe 2 pack is probably the best way to go

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:To be honest, I'd really want a voyager box with the two ice-cream twins. The 2009 deluxe that split into two scouts need to be updated badly. A very compressed "voyager" vehicle that would split into two normal sized "deluxes" using Animated Lockdown magic would be just perfect.

Except that's not in scale at all. A current deluxe that splits into 2 legends would work great and be in scale with the line to go with the 3 pack legion Arcees.

Even if they did the twins in their individual car modes, a deluxe 2 pack is probably the best way to go

However the ice-cream twins would be way too small as scouts. Unless they do some engineering magic to make the bot twins the same size as jazz.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:To be honest, I'd really want a voyager box with the two ice-cream twins. The 2009 deluxe that split into two scouts need to be updated badly. A very compressed "voyager" vehicle that would split into two normal sized "deluxes" using Animated Lockdown magic would be just perfect.

Except that's not in scale at all. A current deluxe that splits into 2 legends would work great and be in scale with the line to go with the 3 pack legion Arcees.

Even if they did the twins in their individual car modes, a deluxe 2 pack is probably the best way to go

However the ice-cream twins would be way too small as scouts. Unless they do some engineering magic to make the bot twins the same size as jazz.

They wouldn't be no. The Twins were half the height of Bumblebee, Jazz was still bigger than them by a fair margin. they were short and squat, they could be OK using legends engineering and properly scaled

In that case, the individual normal twins would be freakishly small. Jazz himself is a "deluxe" that is basically a scout. With the engineering needed to pull off the twins, the part count per figures would make them deluxe priced even though they would be scout sized. Plus they would be extremely annoying to transform due to the tiny parts.

Anyway, the twins will come one way or another. We just have to wait and see.

They're so tiny! I love them!

-Kanrabat- wrote:In that case, the individual normal twins would be freakishly small. Jazz himself is a "deluxe" that is basically a scout. With the engineering needed to pull off the twins, the part count per figures would make them deluxe priced even though they would be scout sized. Plus they would be extremely annoying to transform due to the tiny parts.

Anyway, the twins will come one way or another. We just have to wait and see.

The engineering for the twins does not need to be very complex, they are pretty dang straight forward transformers

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:In that case, the individual normal twins would be freakishly small. Jazz himself is a "deluxe" that is basically a scout. With the engineering needed to pull off the twins, the part count per figures would make them deluxe priced even though they would be scout sized. Plus they would be extremely annoying to transform due to the tiny parts.

Anyway, the twins will come one way or another. We just have to wait and see.

The engineering for the twins does not need to be very complex, they are pretty dang straight forward transformers

You obviously haven't handled either RotF toy.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
You obviously haven't handled either RotF toy.

I did owned all the deluxes at some point. I can confirm that all the ROTF deluxes are quite fiddly and even the simpler DOTM ones were not "straightforward".

I still own both Human Alliance toys and they are very complicated to transform. Still fun though. Also, ROTF HA Mudflap is still worth a fortune on the secondary market.

I do wonder how Studio Series will handle the Twins?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:In that case, the individual normal twins would be freakishly small. Jazz himself is a "deluxe" that is basically a scout. With the engineering needed to pull off the twins, the part count per figures would make them deluxe priced even though they would be scout sized. Plus they would be extremely annoying to transform due to the tiny parts.

Anyway, the twins will come one way or another. We just have to wait and see.

The engineering for the twins does not need to be very complex, they are pretty dang straight forward transformers

You obviously haven't handled either RotF toy.

Hopefully there's a way to simplify them, because I HAVE handled the RotF toys, and I never want to again.

Zeedust wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:In that case, the individual normal twins would be freakishly small. Jazz himself is a "deluxe" that is basically a scout. With the engineering needed to pull off the twins, the part count per figures would make them deluxe priced even though they would be scout sized. Plus they would be extremely annoying to transform due to the tiny parts.

Anyway, the twins will come one way or another. We just have to wait and see.

The engineering for the twins does not need to be very complex, they are pretty dang straight forward transformers

You obviously haven't handled either RotF toy.

Hopefully there's a way to simplify them, because I HAVE handled the RotF toys, and I never want to again.

Personally, I'd rather handle the ROTF Deluxes any day over the DOTM Deluxes.

Sabrblade wrote:

Zeedust wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:In that case, the individual normal twins would be freakishly small. Jazz himself is a "deluxe" that is basically a scout. With the engineering needed to pull off the twins, the part count per figures would make them deluxe priced even though they would be scout sized. Plus they would be extremely annoying to transform due to the tiny parts.

Anyway, the twins will come one way or another. We just have to wait and see.

The engineering for the twins does not need to be very complex, they are pretty dang straight forward transformers

You obviously haven't handled either RotF toy.

Hopefully there's a way to simplify them, because I HAVE handled the RotF toys, and I never want to again.

Personally, I'd rather handle the ROTF Deluxes any day over the DOTM Deluxes.

I own Tuner Skids and regular Mudflap and while I appreciate what the designers were aiming for, the car bits turned out troublesome on both. The arms on Mudflap are especially irritating with the clearances.

Should they attempt SS versions, the scale will hopefully make the designers rethink their strategies.

However they represented the twins in the ROTF line has no bearing in how they are going to handle them now. If they make them "half deluxe size", they will be simpler just by virtue of having less budget for each figure. The figures are based on character models, not other figures (well, except when they borrow tricks appropriate for the size class) so they'll just do the same thing they did with the Arcee bikes. The ROTF figures are complex because of the design philosophy and technology they used to arrive to accurate robot modes. The Studio Series design philosophy for delivering model accuracy is different and has technology a decade more advanced. I suspect that whatever we see when we get the Arcee sisters, is also what we can expect from a Skids & Mudflap figure set (because I'm on the "deluxe priced two-pack" camp, as that would be the most size accurate option and something this line seems pretty observant of).

New images of Studio series devastator. Looks a lot better not standing upright.

Full-Tilt wrote:New images of Studio series devastator. Looks a lot better not standing upright.

Well, he certainly looks a lot better, but the obvious mistranformation on certain areas still leave much to be desired

I've handled every deluxe Twin that has ever come out.

The transformation scheme itself is very straight forward, the toys before were more complex because they could be. SS can make good legends scale ones to make a deluxe 2-pack so they are in scale. They are proving that with 3 good legion Arcee sisters in a deluxe case, so i wouldn't doubt they could make a good Twin 2-pack.

I have ROTF Deluxe Skids, he's actually (IMO) a pretty fun, cool toy. An SS would be better no doubt, but I don't hate him at all.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I've handled every deluxe Twin that has ever come out.

The transformation scheme itself is very straight forward, the toys before were more complex because they could be. SS can make good legends scale ones to make a deluxe 2-pack so they are in scale. They are proving that with 3 good legion Arcee sisters in a deluxe case, so i wouldn't doubt they could make a good Twin 2-pack.

The do have a 10 years of experience and tech advancement. So this may result in some interesting designs.

Easy pass on that Arcee/biker pack. Those one-legger hoppy things weren't much good when they first came out, and I don't see these are any better. The Bayverse fans can have this one...

DeathReviews wrote:Easy pass on that Arcee/biker pack. Those one-legger hoppy things weren't much good when they first came out, and I don't see these are any better. The Bayverse fans can have this one...

The Bayverse fans can have EVERYTHING because there is not a single Bay figure you'll ever like.

But eh, it's just your usual hit-and-run Bay-hate comment.

This past weekend in Utrecht, Netherlands, the Dutch Comic Con took place. As one might expect, there were Transformers on display, specifically, Studio Series Devastator. The following images come to us from Seibertronians Full-Tilt and D-Maximal Primal and show us a less upright Devastator, but still quite mistransformed- Scrapper and Scrapmetal/Hightower have still switched places. We do get a clearer look at the Mixmaster, Scrapper and Overload integration into the combiner as well, though they're still in their blue test colored plastic.




















The remaining components of Studio Series Devastator are due out in the first quarter of 2020, and hopefully, we'll see final product shots of Scrapper and Overload in the next few months. So what do you think? Any more or less excited for the combined figure? Let us know what you think below!

I can't make head or tail about what I'm supposed to see here for this Devastator. The prototype colors sure don't help. I can still guess the total engineering is crazy and those who would have been diligent enough to gather the parts will have one HELL of an awesome combiner in the end.

Good Lord, what a mess.

Not sure who oversees the placement of things like this, but dang. Definitely a hot mess.
I could be wrong but they could have at least transformed Longhaul, Rampage, Hightower, and Scrapmetal closer to what they are suppose to be and perhaps on the right side. It is nice to see what it may look like, size wise but doesn’t look appealing looking like this.
Don’t get me wrong, I am anxious to see the final product and look forward to getting the rest of them but holy cow.

Considering how long he has been known to exist and considering Overload and Scrapper are supposed to be in the next wave revealed, you would think they would know better by now.

I'm so excited and they keep teasing this, get it right and use the actual figures dammit!

Looks like a hot mess. Not interested at all.

I was pumped for this at the beginning but every time I see it I just don't like it. It's like it fell off the only ugly tree on Cybertron.

Ravage2031 wrote:I was pumped for this at the beginning but every time I see it I just don't like it. It's like it fell off the only ugly tree on Cybertron.

I am also disappointed with what I've seen so far, however I'm holding all judgement until I see a picture of the fully combined mode by someone who knows what they are doing.

Exactly!

LeAwesome1 wrote:

Ravage2031 wrote:I was pumped for this at the beginning but every time I see it I just don't like it. It's like it fell off the only ugly tree on Cybertron.

I am also disappointed with what I've seen so far, however I'm holding all judgement until I see a picture of the fully combined mode by someone who knows what they are doing.

Exactly this. this is just like when Superion and menasor were first revealed for CW with the wrong limbs and horribly posed and transformed, and those were much simpler components... and fewer

Devy’s looking way better! I’m sure once we get the prototypes properly colored (and transformed), Devastator’s going to look awesome.

I will say though I’m a little disappointed that he doesn’t appear to have the missile pods from the ROTF game like in the concept art. Still looks really cool though!

Alas - I thought Bayverse Devastator was trash when I first saw it, and I see little evidence that the Studio Series version is any better. The movie fans can have this one.

Does anyone know how big is this supposed to be when fully combined?

This will be my reaction when we see the finalized version of Devastator properly transformed, properly combined, and properly posed:

Sabrblade wrote:Personally, I'd rather handle the ROTF Deluxes any day over the DOTM Deluxes.

Personally, I havent ever handled a deluxe twin I liked. It's not a hard transformation, just super fiddly.

Cyber Bishop wrote:Looks like a hot mess.

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