New Super7 Transformers ReAction Figures Revealed - Grimlock, Skyfire, Rumble, Shrapnel

Grimlock's sword is wrong, it should be silver. These are cartoon-based, and in the cartoon the Dinobots' swords are silver like they were supposed to be before the change to soft plastic.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote::-x Grimlock's sword is wrong, it should be silver. These are cartoon-based, and in the cartoon the Dinobots' swords are silver like they were supposed to be before the change to soft plastic.

I'm trying to remember when the Dinobots used their swords in the G1 cartoon. Which episode was it again?

Seibertron wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote::-x Grimlock's sword is wrong, it should be silver. These are cartoon-based, and in the cartoon the Dinobots' swords are silver like they were supposed to be before the change to soft plastic.

I'm trying to remember when the Dinobots used their swords in the G1 cartoon. Which episode was it again?

Well, only Grimlock and Snarl were shown to use theirs, but both were shown to be silver. Snarl used his in almost every episode he featured in, where he fired lasers from its tip. Grimlock used his in "Madman's Paradise" to swat away boulders.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:

Seibertron wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote::-x Grimlock's sword is wrong, it should be silver. These are cartoon-based, and in the cartoon the Dinobots' swords are silver like they were supposed to be before the change to soft plastic.

I'm trying to remember when the Dinobots used their swords in the G1 cartoon. Which episode was it again?

Well, only Grimlock and Snarl were shown to use theirs, but both were shown to be silver. Snarl used his in almost every episode he featured in, where he fired lasers from its tip. Grimlock used his in "Madman's Paradise" to swat away boulders.

Wow. I totally forgot about that (or didn't realize that). Thank you for letting me know.

Despite its usage, I would still think the red sword is far more well known than the minor usages of "silver" swords by Dinobots in the cartoon. Personally, I'm glad they used the red sword. I feel the red swords are far more iconic to the Dinobots than the silver swords like the packaging artwork.

Well, I think they're idiots for using red here because these are obviously supposed to reflect the cartoon.

I wish the red swords weren't so iconic... I've always felt it looked bland compared to the shining silver... And Hasbro obviously wanted the swords to be silver (as with the Diaclone toys), judging by the packaging artwork, the cartoon, and the commercials. The swords (and Swoop's missiles and jaw, and Slag's horns) were only red because toy safety laws forced them to be cast in soft plastic, which couldn't be vacuum-metallized. And the bloody Marvel colorists just had to go based off the toys, and everybody since copied them...

Stupid Marvel... Although to be fair, also stupid BS&P. The Dinobots would probably have all used their swords in the cartoon, and more often, if the BS&P had been more lenient about swords in the '80s. But no.

Surprised Grimlock's sword color in the thing being discussed here, instead of the usual character and his relation to what color he should be...........

AshelehsA wrote:Surprised Grimlock's sword color in the thing being discussed here, instead of the usual character and his relation to what color he should be...........

Ah, but see... 1. There is no question that in the cartoon, Rumble was the name attached to that color scheme and 2. so long as both color schemes are correctly portrayed it scarcely matters which scheme is packaged with which name I just hope that when they get to his twin, they use actually black rather than substituting dark blue.

I think these are what all the Masterpieces made after MP-10 look like...can we even call them "Masterpieces" anymore at this point? Right now the Studio Series is taking over & for a whole lot less $$$.

Judas_Warlord wrote:I think these are what all the Masterpieces made after MP-43 look like...can we even call them "Masterpieces" anymore at this point? Right now the Studio Series is taking over & for a whole lot less $$$.

Fixed that for you. Although even then, Blackarachnia and Tigatron haven't gotten the Roger Rabbit treatment.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:

Judas_Warlord wrote:I think these are what all the Masterpieces made after MP-43 look like...can we even call them "Masterpieces" anymore at this point? Right now the Studio Series is taking over & for a whole lot less $$$.

Fixed that for you. Although even then, Blackarachnia and Tigatron haven't gotten the Roger Rabbit treatment.

Toon-accuracy is what the majority want, & that's what Has/Tak is giving them. Not knocking anyone for loving it, but personally the style is not for me. I love Beast Wars, but as far as characters who turn into vehicles go, I lean more towards G1/G2, RID, & Binaltech/Alternators. Although I've had my eye on Armada Wheeljack for quite some time. ("Roger Rabbit treatment?" )

That's what I call it. Where previous G1 MPs were trying to be "The character as they would look IRL," MP-44 and on are trying to be "The character as if their animation model stepped off the screen", so I think of them as the Roger Rabbit MPs

Wow! Just like Action Masters, only somehow 10 times crappier.

Rest of wave 2

Mirage
Alpha trion
Astrotrain

Kapows got them listed.

Thanks to our sponsor BigBadToyStore, we have some new images of Super 7's line of licensed Transformers ReAction figures. This is a line that takes its inspiration from G1 characters' animation models, and gives them Action Master-style (i.e. non-transforming) figures on retro themed packaging.

The latest figures to be shown in the line include G1 stalwarts Shockwave, Alpha Trion, Mirage, and Astrotrain.




























Click on any of the above pictures to be taken to the preorder page, where you can check out the rest of the figures. These four are set to be released sometime this month.

Man, I'm a huge fan of the 3 3/4" scale and would be hardcore into this line if it wasn't for the horrible $18 price point. I can't justify the cost of a Hasbro deluxe for each of these even though they look amazing.

Will these be over 100$ each like the absurd Yutani ones?

Also, click on WHAT pictures?

Bounti's post is broken

-Kanrabat- wrote:Will these be over 100$ each like the absurd Yotani ones?

Click on the pictures, and you can see the price on their preorder page. I believe they're $18.99.

Bounti76 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Will these be over 100$ each like the absurd Yotani ones?

Click on the pictures, and you can see the price on their preorder page. I believe they're $18.99.

Your post has a bunch of empty gray space where the pictures should be.

bovinefromspace wrote:Man, I'm a huge fan of the 3 3/4" scale and would be hardcore into this line if it wasn't for the horrible $18 price point. I can't justify the cost of a Hasbro deluxe for each of these even though they look amazing.

18$.

You find that Absurd?

AH! You naïve plebs.
FEAST YOUR EYES ON THIS:

https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/lis ... ni&lang=en

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Will these be over 100$ each like the absurd Yotani ones?

Click on the pictures, and you can see the price on their preorder page. I believe they're $18.99.

Your post has a bunch of empty gray space where the pictures should be.

It's possibly your end that's having a technical issue? I can see the pictures just fine. I haven't been made aware that no one else can't see them, in any case.

I think it has to be something specific about your post that's doing it, because I can still see other image embeds just fine and Kanrabat isn't seeing the pictures either.

Bounti76 wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Will these be over 100$ each like the absurd Yotani ones?

Click on the pictures, and you can see the price on their preorder page. I believe they're $18.99.

Your post has a bunch of empty gray space where the pictures should be.

It's possibly your end that's having a technical issue? I can see the pictures just fine. I haven't been made aware that no one else can't see them, in any case.

I can see them just fine too

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Will these be over 100$ each like the absurd Yotani ones?

Click on the pictures, and you can see the price on their preorder page. I believe they're $18.99.

Your post has a bunch of empty gray space where the pictures should be.

It's possibly your end that's having a technical issue? I can see the pictures just fine. I haven't been made aware that no one else can't see them, in any case.

I can see them just fine too

Maybe it's some sort of privilegewalling thing then, because neither I nor Kanrabat can see them.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Will these be over 100$ each like the absurd Yotani ones?

Click on the pictures, and you can see the price on their preorder page. I believe they're $18.99.

Your post has a bunch of empty gray space where the pictures should be.

It's possibly your end that's having a technical issue? I can see the pictures just fine. I haven't been made aware that no one else can't see them, in any case.

I can see them just fine too

Maybe it's some sort of privilegewalling thing then, because neither I nor Kanrabat can see them.

I can say for sure it's not. I can see the forums on my Twitter where I'm not logged in and I can see them too

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Will these be over 100$ each like the absurd Yotani ones?

Click on the pictures, and you can see the price on their preorder page. I believe they're $18.99.

Your post has a bunch of empty gray space where the pictures should be.

It's possibly your end that's having a technical issue? I can see the pictures just fine. I haven't been made aware that no one else can't see them, in any case.

I can see them just fine too

Maybe it's some sort of privilegewalling thing then, because neither I nor Kanrabat can see them.

Overquoting to point out that the pictures count as ADS.
So, you have to disable your adblock for Seibertron.

I always block ads on Seibertron because all those FLASHING GIFS are annoying as hell and I get to see some weird stuff for a TF site:



As for the toys themselves, it's a "meh". Look like Xmass tree decorations and those are the kind of things that MUST be kept sealed because the card itself is part of the whole display piece.
An easy pass for me.

Yeah, I have ads blocked on this site too. Mostly because of ads that autoplay sound and video (REALLY annoying) and slow everything the slag down.

I wonder what Bounti did in that post that got the pics flagged as ads. Other news posts with externally-linked pics haven't had that problem.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

bovinefromspace wrote:Man, I'm a huge fan of the 3 3/4" scale and would be hardcore into this line if it wasn't for the horrible $18 price point. I can't justify the cost of a Hasbro deluxe for each of these even though they look amazing.

18$.

You find that Absurd?

AH! You naïve plebs.
FEAST YOUR EYES ON THIS:

https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/lis ... ni&lang=en

Naive pleb? Hardly... In my younger, heavier collecting days I thought nothing of dropping money on collectibles (ex. $100+ for a single rare Kubrick, etc.), but, being older and having a home, kids, family, I find value is way more important. All of Super 7's products are awesome but their designer price tags just aren't.

bovinefromspace wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

bovinefromspace wrote:Man, I'm a huge fan of the 3 3/4" scale and would be hardcore into this line if it wasn't for the horrible $18 price point. I can't justify the cost of a Hasbro deluxe for each of these even though they look amazing.

18$.

You find that Absurd?

AH! You naïve plebs.
FEAST YOUR EYES ON THIS:

https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/lis ... ni&lang=en

Naive pleb? Hardly... In my younger, heavier collecting days I thought nothing of dropping money on collectibles (ex. $100+ for a single rare Kubrick, etc.), but, being older and having a home, kids, family, I find value is way more important. All of Super 7's products are awesome but their designer price tags just aren't.

18$ is NOTHING compared to a worst looking similarly sized figure packed in a freaking Ziplock bag that the base price is around 100$.

It have nothing to do with what you want to buy or why. I was simply pointing out that if you thought this was overpriced, something way worst existed. And even if I'd be rich like Scrooge Mc Duck, you'll never catch me buying a Yutani figure, ever.

There being even worse doesn't make $18 for a 3 3/4" action figure no better articulated than a '90s POTF toy any less of a hanging offense.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:There being even worse doesn't make $18 for a 3 3/4" action figure no better articulated than a '90s POTF toy any less of a hanging offense.

Well, these things can only be left sealed, displayed hanged in card on the wall so...

The Target exclusive Reaction figures are available in the US. The picture below comes from Rob on Facebook's Cybertron Cafe. These include a grey redeco of prime called Fallen Leader Optimus Prime, so this means we are getting two exclusive dead Prime figures in the same year. The other exclusive is a silver/chrome version of Megatron, to reflect his toy colours. These should be available at targets everywhere around the country by now.

I found Megatron, but the optimus shelf peg was empty. There were probably 4 megatrons at the hanes mall Target in winston-salem, nc.

Found both Friday in Massachusetts. Store had 8 Megatrons and 4 Primes

I just spotted the Fallen Leader OP at a local Target here in Missouri. Didn’t see Megatron.

SGM

Black Friday may be a day in the mirror, but you can still get your hands on Super7's Black Friday Exclusive Transformers ReAction Figures, exclusive to their web store. These surprise listings feature homages to both the Headmasters cartoon and the pre-Transformers Microman Microchange toyline, bringing collectors non-transforming 3¾" action figures of MC-20 Microscope, Stepper, Soundblaster, and MC-12 Gun Robo P-38. These are repaints of Super7's Megatron, Soundwave, Jazz and Perceptor figures.

Click on the images below to check out the listings at Super7's website.











It's unknown how limited these figures will be, so don't hesitate to grab them now from Super7's web shop if you're looking to add these exclusives to your ReAction collection.

I'm very excited about the 4 Black Friday Super7 Reaction Transformers that were revealed yesterday. I'm a bit confused as to why they used those names, though. There's a precedence for Magnificus so it's odd that they didn't make him a Decepticon and use that name (or at a minimum use the pre-Transformers product name but put a Decepticon symbol on him instead). Similar with Stepper. While it's great to see his Japanese name used for a Hasbro licensed product after all these years, I would have gone with his American-market name of Ricochet instead. I'm torn on the Black Megatron though. It's cool when used in conjunction with the Black Perceptor's name but I think I would have preferred something like Black Hole Megatron or Black Fusion Megatron or even Microchange Megatron. I have less of a preference for Megatron than I do for Decepticon Black Perceptor and Ricochet.

I think they don't know TFs too deeply. Although they knew enough that there was a black repaint of him, so ... what gives?

Maybe it's a weird license thing?

Gauntlet101010 wrote:I think they don't know TFs too deeply. Although they knew enough that there was a black repaint of him, so ... what gives?

Maybe it's a weird license thing?

It's possible it's to emphasize they're not the same characters as their "parents", plus how many times have we gotten direct Microchange references, including names, like that?

Fwiw, their website lists the three that aren't Soundblaster as being versions of Megatron, Perceptor and Jazz. I just went with the product names from the cards for the news article.

Seibertron wrote:It's cool when used in conjunction with the Black Perceptor's name but I think I would have preferred something like Black Hole Megatron or Black Fusion Megatron or even Microchange Megatron.

Perhaps Megatron X a la Cyberverse?

They're getting a surprising amount of mileage out of that Megatron mold. Regular, toy, and black decos if I'm remembering right. So I wonder what they'll choose for Prime's next deco? Nemesis Prime? Ultra Magnus white? Powered Convoy blue? SG Purple? I suppose there's no shortage of choices that I'm sure they'll exploit.

Emerje

including the 4BF releases, i bought the rest of wave 2 that i was missing plus Devastator via the S7 site.
I am really looking forward to getting these in hand all at once; the ActionMaster feels on these are pretty crazy.
Neo retro, of sorts.
As much as i enjoy them doing the cast they have so far, to do some AMaster only characters in this line would tie it all together nicely.

Greetings Seibertronians! Thanks to fellow Seibertron user, TF-fan Kev777, we've learned that several new entries in Super7s officially licensed Transformers ReAction line! The new figures are available to preorder on Hasbro Pulse and are the following:

Blitzwing





Perceptor





Dirge





Blaster





The ReAction line are Super7s way of homaging the action figure lines of the 80s with their lines logo looking like the old Kenner toys logo and the cards the figures coming in drawing the mind back to Kenners first Star Wars toy lines

Do you collect these figures? Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!

I can't unsee these....I wish I could...

Just saw figures of Galvatron, dead Optimus, Hot Rod, & Coronation Starscream…
I actually like the look of Galvatron.

Who out there collects the Transformers ReAction figures from Super7? These are the non transforming retro figures meant to emulate the Star Wars figures of old. They seem to have a fanbase spread much beyond the Transformers fan base. We know this since while I have yet to hear about much excitement within the community, the newly revealed Target exclusives sold out their preorders within minutes. They will be in stores in February 2022 though, so you have another chance at getting them then. These are the Gold Lagoon versions of Optimus Prime and Megatron.

But wait, there's more!

We also have a Facebook post form Super7 themselves unveiling their new Christmas themed Optimus Prime! this toy is due out in November. All these toys are around the 18$ mark. You can preorder this Christmas Prime at BBTS: https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/ ... ils/181059

Okay so these are absolutely pointless and dumb to me.

But I really like that candy cane blaster. If it was 5mm, I might even buy Santa Prime just for it.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Okay so these are absolutely pointless and dumb to me.

I agree, as I wrote in the article, I feel the collectors of this line are not also transformers collectors. Which is interesting. While this line stars some of our hobby's main characters, it seems to exist outside of the hobby. Not sure if the Funko Pops line is similar.

william-james88 wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Okay so these are absolutely pointless and dumb to me.

I agree, as I wrote in the article, I feel the collectors of this line are not also transformers collectors. Which is interesting. While this line stars some of our hobby's main characters, it seems to exist outside of the hobby. Not sure if the Funko Pops line is similar.

I buy them, which usually counts for nothing at all, but I don't collect licensed TF products carte blanche. I keep them on the card and will have them take up a wall someday, which is what I already do with the old HoCs. They're stunning on the card. I wasn't into them until I bought Grimlock just because it was Grimlock, but I fell in love.

Now some of their other stuff like the Cyborgs? Full pass, not for me.

ScottyP wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Okay so these are absolutely pointless and dumb to me.

I agree, as I wrote in the article, I feel the collectors of this line are not also transformers collectors. Which is interesting. While this line stars some of our hobby's main characters, it seems to exist outside of the hobby. Not sure if the Funko Pops line is similar.

I buy them, which usually counts for nothing at all, but I don't collect licensed TF products carte blanche. I keep them on the card and will have them take up a wall someday, which is what I already do with the old HoCs. They're stunning on the card. I wasn't into them until I bought Grimlock just because it was Grimlock, but I fell in love.

Now some of their other stuff like the Cyborgs? Full pass, not for me.

I had a feeling you bought them. What about Funko pops, are yiu going for a complete collection of those too?