New Images of Upcoming Transformers Earthspark Toys and Packaging
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Thanks to In Demand toys and an e-bay listing we have in package images for more toys from the Transformers Earthspark Toyline. We have Transformers EarthSpark Spin Changer Optimus Prime With Robby Malto along with EarthSpark Deluxe Wave 1 Bumblebee, EarthSpark Deluxe Wave 1 Megatron,, EarthSpark Deluxe Wave 1 Terran Twitch and EarthSpark Deluxe Wave 2 Shockwave who is a redeco of Cyberverse Shockwave. These official images also show us the build a figure component and we now know that the extra arm that comes with Shockwave is Novastar's.
Another newsworthy feature of these images is that we now have an unobscured back showing the Grimlock and Nightshade image for the cross sale. However, these are CG designs rather than the toys themselves so it is unknown if Grimlock will be a rerelease like Shockwave.
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Posted by SpaceEagle on November 20th, 2022 @ 4:55pm CST
Posted by Till-all-R1 on November 20th, 2022 @ 6:59pm CST
Honorary mention is Nova Storm, the pic on wiki looks cool but I've not seen the character in action.
Shockwave always seems to look the same no matter what line he's in. lol
Posted by Brokebot on November 21st, 2022 @ 7:50am CST
Posted by Lucky Logician on November 21st, 2022 @ 8:22am CST
Posted by Glarryg on November 21st, 2022 @ 8:42am CST
Glarryg
Posted by william-james88 on November 21st, 2022 @ 9:24am CST
No, not in agreeance. Sunstreaker is proof that what your eyes see is completely different to how a camera lens sees light reflecting off different surfaces and this is just further proof of that. I'll be the judge of it when I see it in hand at a store.
Posted by cloudballoon on November 21st, 2022 @ 10:10am CST
william-james88 wrote:No, not in agreeance. Sunstreaker is proof that what your eyes see is completely different to how a camera lens sees light reflecting off different surfaces and this is just further proof of that. I'll be the judge of it when I see it in hand at a store.
Color matching on ER Sunstreaker isn't very good either, to me anyway. Seems like yellow is still Hasbro's worse enemy. When will Hasbro just give up on transparent plastic on Bumblebee & Sunstreaker?
I just had the rear windshield piece cracked on me with SS TLK Crosshairs.
Posted by bluecatcinema on November 21st, 2022 @ 2:11pm CST
Posted by DeathReviews on November 21st, 2022 @ 2:36pm CST
This'll mean more figures for those of you who like this line - but I don't see any that motivate me to buy, sadly not even Megatron.
Posted by william-james88 on November 22nd, 2022 @ 11:58am CST
DeathReviews wrote:I get strong "Cyberverse" vibes from these figures, and I skipped that line completely. That version of Shockwave in particular never appealed to me. It really does look like it's just the robot mode keeled over on it's back with all the limbs splayed out.
This'll mean more figures for those of you who like this line - but I don't see any that motivate me to buy, sadly not even Megatron.
That's fine, this line is clearly meant to be the main line on shelves to service kids and parents with no regards to us. And it's a testament that we are not the main group buying toys.
There is one bit I find really odd though, the lack of these toys in stores. Hasbro is the one behind the all of this so they have control over what goes out (as we've seen with the ROTB toyline). And yet there is no sighting of these toys anywhere even when the show is out and it's time to shop for christmas gifts. They are dropping the ball on this launch.
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on November 22nd, 2022 @ 1:38pm CST
william-james88 wrote:DeathReviews wrote:I get strong "Cyberverse" vibes from these figures, and I skipped that line completely. That version of Shockwave in particular never appealed to me. It really does look like it's just the robot mode keeled over on it's back with all the limbs splayed out.
This'll mean more figures for those of you who like this line - but I don't see any that motivate me to buy, sadly not even Megatron.
That's fine, this line is clearly meant to be the main line on shelves to service kids and parents with no regards to us. And it's a testament that we are not the main group buying toys.
There is one bit I find really odd though, the lack of these toys in stores. Hasbro is the one behind the all of this so they have control over what goes out (as we've seen with the ROTB toyline). And yet there is no sighting of these toys anywhere even when the show is out and it's time to shop for christmas gifts. They are dropping the ball on this launch.
I wonder if what I've heard about retailers not having room in warehouses is true and that's why Earthspark hasn't hit yet.
Posted by william-james88 on November 22nd, 2022 @ 4:29pm CST
chuckdawg1999 wrote:william-james88 wrote:DeathReviews wrote:I get strong "Cyberverse" vibes from these figures, and I skipped that line completely. That version of Shockwave in particular never appealed to me. It really does look like it's just the robot mode keeled over on it's back with all the limbs splayed out.
This'll mean more figures for those of you who like this line - but I don't see any that motivate me to buy, sadly not even Megatron.
That's fine, this line is clearly meant to be the main line on shelves to service kids and parents with no regards to us. And it's a testament that we are not the main group buying toys.
There is one bit I find really odd though, the lack of these toys in stores. Hasbro is the one behind the all of this so they have control over what goes out (as we've seen with the ROTB toyline). And yet there is no sighting of these toys anywhere even when the show is out and it's time to shop for christmas gifts. They are dropping the ball on this launch.
I wonder if what I've heard about retailers not having room in warehouses is true and that's why Earthspark hasn't hit yet.
The christmas sopping season is now right? So why wouldnt retailers just stock their shelves full of toys? Unless there is no space there, which could be the case. Are your shelves more stocked than usual?
Posted by Sabrblade on November 22nd, 2022 @ 5:15pm CST
The shelves and pegs of my stores are fully stocked, but with stuff that's been available for months. Wave 1 of Legacy, the Legacy Beasts, Wave 1 of Velocitron, the last vestiges of Cyberverse, the occasional Studio Series figures (but none of the newest ones), the occasional RED figures (but also none of the newest ones), a small number of Vintage Beast Wars Terrorsaurs, and a ton of Buzzworthy Bumblebee exclusives that first came out back in the summer.william-james88 wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:william-james88 wrote:DeathReviews wrote:I get strong "Cyberverse" vibes from these figures, and I skipped that line completely. That version of Shockwave in particular never appealed to me. It really does look like it's just the robot mode keeled over on it's back with all the limbs splayed out.
This'll mean more figures for those of you who like this line - but I don't see any that motivate me to buy, sadly not even Megatron.
That's fine, this line is clearly meant to be the main line on shelves to service kids and parents with no regards to us. And it's a testament that we are not the main group buying toys.
There is one bit I find really odd though, the lack of these toys in stores. Hasbro is the one behind the all of this so they have control over what goes out (as we've seen with the ROTB toyline). And yet there is no sighting of these toys anywhere even when the show is out and it's time to shop for christmas gifts. They are dropping the ball on this launch.
I wonder if what I've heard about retailers not having room in warehouses is true and that's why Earthspark hasn't hit yet.
The christmas sopping season is now right? So why wouldnt retailers just stock their shelves full of toys? Unless there is no space there, which could be the case. Are your shelves more stocked than usual?
There's no room for anything new like Legacy Wave 2/3, Velocitron Wave 2, the newest Studio Series or RED figures, the newest Vintage Beast Wars, EarthSpark, etc.
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on November 22nd, 2022 @ 6:21pm CST
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on November 23rd, 2022 @ 9:53am CST
The other deluxes are looking good. I am excited to get them. BBTS shows next month for the first 3 deluxes, so hopefully they come.
My stores just restocked for the holidays, and unfortunately not much good stuff. The most recent SS86 cores are there, but Legacy is still only wave 2, RED just got Galvatron and Shockwave, and SS is still stuck with Kups and Blurrs. Unfortunately, i am almost expecting I won't see Earthspark in stores until next year, the TF sections here have shrunk considerably and they already seem to have the holiday stock already
Posted by william-james88 on November 23rd, 2022 @ 11:15pm CST
Posted by william-james88 on November 23rd, 2022 @ 11:22pm CST
Posted by cloudballoon on November 24th, 2022 @ 1:52pm CST
Posted by william-james88 on November 24th, 2022 @ 3:33pm CST
In other Earthspark news, there is a listing of Deluxe Starscream that was found thanks to JTPrime17 and Voltrace.
Posted by william-james88 on November 24th, 2022 @ 4:14pm CST
Posted by -Kanrabat- on November 24th, 2022 @ 4:47pm CST
.......and ironically, that will be the #1 reason for me to buy that Megatron.
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on November 24th, 2022 @ 5:04pm CST
Posted by william-james88 on November 25th, 2022 @ 9:06am CST
Posted by william-james88 on November 25th, 2022 @ 11:13am CST
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on November 25th, 2022 @ 8:00pm CST
william-james88 wrote:Working on reviews for the Warriors and they are all over the place. While Optimus is a very solid budget deluxe class toy, with good proporitons and articulation, that Elita 1 is ROUGH. Lacking lots of crucial articulation, no knees for instance.
Leave something for the rest of us.
Posted by william-james88 on November 25th, 2022 @ 9:06pm CST
chuckdawg1999 wrote:william-james88 wrote:Working on reviews for the Warriors and they are all over the place. While Optimus is a very solid budget deluxe class toy, with good proporitons and articulation, that Elita 1 is ROUGH. Lacking lots of crucial articulation, no knees for instance.
Leave something for the rest of us.
I'll leave Skywarp
Posted by william-james88 on November 25th, 2022 @ 11:31pm CST
Posted by Nemesis Reformatted on November 28th, 2022 @ 10:11am CST
-Kanrabat- wrote:I just can't get over that depressed face.
He saw the franchise go down the toilet in the past few years so that's why he's depressed. The entire Transformers franchise has been slowly going downhill ever since 2007. I never thought I would lose interest but Hasbro has been putting out nothing but garbage in the last couple years. Baby bumblebee crap & Legacy is all over the place, 1 lame/boring/bad repaint after the other.
Posted by ZeroWolf on November 28th, 2022 @ 12:19pm CST
Nemesis Reformatted wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:I just can't get over that depressed face.
He saw the franchise go down the toilet in the past few years so that's why he's depressed. The entire Transformers franchise has been slowly going downhill ever since 2007. I never thought I would lose interest but Hasbro has been putting out nothing but garbage in the last couple years. Baby bumblebee crap & Legacy is all over the place, 1 lame/boring/bad repaint after the other.
I think differently, I think the franchise is doing quite well for itself, the Generations lines keep going strength from strength and we're on the verge for another theatrical release. Earthspark also brings fresh ideas to the table. We're also getting toys like Victory Saber and Deathsaurus produced (not to mention Unicron, a toy the likes of which was just unfeasible back in 07). In my opinion, 2007 was a turning point, but in a good way, we had more new fans join the hobby and some old ones return (like myself).
Posted by -Kanrabat- on November 28th, 2022 @ 1:29pm CST
ZeroWolf wrote:Nemesis Reformatted wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:I just can't get over that depressed face.
He saw the franchise go down the toilet in the past few years so that's why he's depressed. The entire Transformers franchise has been slowly going downhill ever since 2007. I never thought I would lose interest but Hasbro has been putting out nothing but garbage in the last couple years. Baby bumblebee crap & Legacy is all over the place, 1 lame/boring/bad repaint after the other.
I think differently, I think the franchise is doing quite well for itself, the Generations lines keep going strength from strength and we're on the verge for another theatrical release. Earthspark also brings fresh ideas to the table. We're also getting toys like Victory Saber and Deathsaurus produced (not to mention Unicron, a toy the likes of which was just unfeasible back in 07). In my opinion, 2007 was a turning point, but in a good way, we had more new fans join the hobby and some old ones return (like myself).
I think you got trolled.
Because for how long that dead horse will be beaten?
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on November 28th, 2022 @ 7:01pm CST
william-james88 wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:william-james88 wrote:Working on reviews for the Warriors and they are all over the place. While Optimus is a very solid budget deluxe class toy, with good proporitons and articulation, that Elita 1 is ROUGH. Lacking lots of crucial articulation, no knees for instance.
Leave something for the rest of us.
I'll leave Skywarp
that's a true gift right there!
Posted by william-james88 on November 29th, 2022 @ 12:03pm CST
You can check it out below.
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on November 29th, 2022 @ 10:02pm CST
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:william-james88 wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:william-james88 wrote:Working on reviews for the Warriors and they are all over the place. While Optimus is a very solid budget deluxe class toy, with good proporitons and articulation, that Elita 1 is ROUGH. Lacking lots of crucial articulation, no knees for instance.
Leave something for the rest of us.
I'll leave Skywarp
that's a true gift right there!
All kidding aside, I'll take it. I liked that mold and most people missed the trick of using the landing gear to lock the torso so once you do that it's an ok figure.
News Staff making news kinda reminds me of this old, ooooold, before he was famous Bob Saget bit on some random sketch comedy show where he was a news reporter, reporting on an accident that he caused. The punchline was "Waxwhatever, where we don't just report the news, we ARE the news."
Posted by william-james88 on November 30th, 2022 @ 12:04am CST
chuckdawg1999 wrote:D-Maximal_Primal wrote:william-james88 wrote:chuckdawg1999 wrote:william-james88 wrote:Working on reviews for the Warriors and they are all over the place. While Optimus is a very solid budget deluxe class toy, with good proporitons and articulation, that Elita 1 is ROUGH. Lacking lots of crucial articulation, no knees for instance.
Leave something for the rest of us.
I'll leave Skywarp
that's a true gift right there!
All kidding aside, I'll take it. I liked that mold and most people missed the trick of using the landing gear to lock the torso so once you do that it's an ok figure.
News Staff making news kinda reminds me of this old, ooooold, before he was famous Bob Saget bit on some random sketch comedy show where he was a news reporter, reporting on an accident that he caused. The punchline was "Waxwhatever, where we don't just report the news, we ARE the news."
Hahaha.
You also have the other 2 one steps.
Posted by RotorstormNZ on November 30th, 2022 @ 9:52pm CST
Posted by william-james88 on November 30th, 2022 @ 10:01pm CST
RotorstormNZ wrote:Whomever makes the videos, I'm grateful to them! I never followed RiD toys until I binged the show, so it's great to have almost real-time (close to the toy's release) reviews.
Thanks and you are welcome.
Posted by william-james88 on December 11th, 2022 @ 11:20pm CST
Posted by Emerje on December 12th, 2022 @ 12:47am CST
william-james88 wrote:I am in utter disbelief that this first round of toys have not appeared in the US for the holiday season, a real missed opportunity.
It is, but it's also not the first time. Prime took a while to get into stores after the false start with First Edition, and I remember Animated toys not being in stores until well after season one aired.
Emerje
Posted by Sabrblade on December 12th, 2022 @ 12:58am CST
Yeah, Animated's toyline was slow to start because of all of the excess 2007 Movie toys taking up all the space on the shelves at the time.Emerje wrote:william-james88 wrote:I am in utter disbelief that this first round of toys have not appeared in the US for the holiday season, a real missed opportunity.
It is, but it's also not the first time. Prime took a while to get into stores after the false start with First Edition, and I remember Animated toys not being in stores until well after season one aired.
Emerje
Prime's toyline, however, was deliberately held back. While the shelves were still filled with DOTM toys at the time, Hasbro wanted to push the Prime cartoon as a TV show first, one that didn't necessarily need to be supported by toys. So they held back releasing the toys until after DOTM to let the cartoon stand on its own merits, but that just made the fans mad and want the Prime toys even more, instead of them initially learning to appreciate the show as a show first and foremost. That was back when Hasbro was trying to pass themselves off as a media company more than just a toy company, but that all came crashing down after the failure of the Battleship movie.
Posted by william-james88 on December 12th, 2022 @ 9:33am CST
Sabrblade wrote:Yeah, Animated's toyline was slow to start because of all of the excess 2007 Movie toys taking up all the space on the shelves at the time.Emerje wrote:william-james88 wrote:I am in utter disbelief that this first round of toys have not appeared in the US for the holiday season, a real missed opportunity.
It is, but it's also not the first time. Prime took a while to get into stores after the false start with First Edition, and I remember Animated toys not being in stores until well after season one aired.
Emerje
Prime's toyline, however, was deliberately held back. While the shelves were still filled with DOTM toys at the time, Hasbro wanted to push the Prime cartoon as a TV show first, one that didn't necessarily need to be supported by toys. So they held back releasing the toys until after DOTM to let the cartoon stand on its own merits, but that just made the fans mad and want the Prime toys even more, instead of them initially learning to appreciate the show as a show first and foremost. That was back when Hasbro was trying to pass themselves off as a media company more than just a toy company, but that all came crashing down after the failure of the Battleship movie.
Thanks for the history lessons. That is still at odds with what may be happening here since 2022 got less kid focused transformers toys than originally planned due to the ROTB toyline delay. So there's a glut on the market and a bunch of Earthspark product that could fill it and while it is doing exactly that in Canada and elsewhere, it isn't being done in the US.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on December 13th, 2022 @ 6:48pm CST
william-james88 wrote:I am in utter disbelief that this first round of toys have not appeared in the US for the holiday season, a real missed opportunity.
My BBTS preorder is supposedly supposed to get fulfilled this month, we will see, especially since BBTS appears to be about a month ahead of stores for the earliest TF sightings lately
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on December 13th, 2022 @ 8:09pm CST
william-james88 wrote:I am in utter disbelief that this first round of toys have not appeared in the US for the holiday season, a real missed opportunity.
I don't know what's going on but the only way we'll find out is to ask and ask a lot. All I know is I want my butt finger transformers.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on December 13th, 2022 @ 8:44pm CST
chuckdawg1999 wrote:All I know is I want my butt finger transformers.
Even knowing the context, this is so frikkin wrong
Posted by Sabrblade on December 14th, 2022 @ 12:28am CST
Your butt has fingers?chuckdawg1999 wrote:william-james88 wrote:I am in utter disbelief that this first round of toys have not appeared in the US for the holiday season, a real missed opportunity.
I don't know what's going on but the only way we'll find out is to ask and ask a lot. All I know is I want my butt finger transformers.
Posted by AcademyofDrX on December 14th, 2022 @ 10:39am CST
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on December 14th, 2022 @ 5:49pm CST
AcademyofDrX wrote:Twitch just shipped from Pulse, I think I'm at least as excited about her as I am about Victory Saber, who is also on the way.
Really? Huh. Hopefully that is a sign BBTS is about to get them, theirs are $4 cheaper, otherwise I'd jump now
Posted by AcademyofDrX on December 16th, 2022 @ 7:43am CST
My biggest criticism is that some joints are a little loose and others are a little tight, and combined with the range of motion, it makes tabbing everything together for alt-mide very difficult. Some of the connections are a little unusual too. It's not perfect, but when I don't try to make it perfect, I'm very satisfied with the result.
Usual disclaimer applies: Cyberverse and Earthspark Deluxes are not the same as Generations Deluxes. It's a huge step over Warrior class though, and a great toy on balance.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on December 17th, 2022 @ 2:21pm CST
AcademyofDrX wrote:Twitch has great poseability and fantastic use of translucent parts. I'm not doing the light piping justice, it's incredibly exciting in-hand. Those big round eyes just pop. I think she'll be my desk bot for a while.
My biggest criticism is that some joints are a little loose and others are a little tight, and combined with the range of motion, it makes tabbing everything together for alt-mide very difficult. Some of the connections are a little unusual too. It's not perfect, but when I don't try to make it perfect, I'm very satisfied with the result.
Usual disclaimer applies: Cyberverse and Earthspark Deluxes are not the same as Generations Deluxes. It's a huge step over Warrior class though, and a great toy on balance.
She looks good, I am excited for her!
Posted by william-james88 on December 17th, 2022 @ 6:04pm CST
AcademyofDrX wrote:
Usual disclaimer applies: Cyberverse and Earthspark Deluxes are not the same as Generations Deluxes. It's a huge step over Warrior class though, and a great toy on balance.
It definitely feels different from a Generations deluxe especially from a design perspective, but for Twitch and BB, I don't feel I'm getting less from these than what I get from a generations deluxe. What do you think?
Posted by -Kanrabat- on December 17th, 2022 @ 6:38pm CST
william-james88 wrote:AcademyofDrX wrote:
Usual disclaimer applies: Cyberverse and Earthspark Deluxes are not the same as Generations Deluxes. It's a huge step over Warrior class though, and a great toy on balance.
It definitely feels different from a Generations deluxe especially from a design perspective, but for Twitch and BB, I don't feel I'm getting less from these than what I get from a generations deluxe. What do you think?
I never even saw any of these new deluxes in store but if they are like Cyberverse, they definitely feel cheaper and smaller in hand. They were less expensive too so it balance things out.
Are the Earthspark deluxes sell for the same price as SS or Gen deluxes?