Official Takara Tomy Age of Extinction Products Catalog
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Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on April 12th, 2014 @ 12:29pm CDT
Movie Advanced (covers Movie Generations)
AD20 Black Knight Grimlock (Leader mold)
AD21 Hound
AD22 Galvatron
AD23 Drift
AD24 Strafe
AD25 Dinobot Slash
AD26 Lockdown
AD27 "New Bumblebee"
AD28 "Dinobot A"
AD29 "Dinobot B"
AD30 "Autobot A"
AD07 Slug
AD08 Battle Blade Bumblebee
AD09 Protoform Optimus Prime
AD10 Starscream
AD11 Dispensor
AD12 Revenge Optimus Prime
AD13 Devastator
AD14 Jolt
AD15 Ratchet
AD16 Autobot Dino
AD17 Darkside Soundwave
AD18 ???
AD19 ???
AD01 Optimus Prime (Leader mold)
AD02 Classic Optimus Prime (Evasion Mode)
AD03 Grimlock (Voyager)
AD04 Classic Bumblebee (High Octance)
AD05 Dinobot Scorn
AD06 Crosshairs
Lost Age (main line, covers simplified kid-friendly toys)
LA02 Big Grimlock (Supreme)
LA03 Bumblebee
LA04 Grimlock
LA05 Hound
LA06 Drift
LA07 Crosshairs
LA08 Dinobot Slash
LA09 Lockdown
LA10 Battle Attack Scorn
LA11 Battle Attack Strafe
LA01 Battle Command Optimus Prime
Only the Movie Advanced line will be of interest to us, right? Just saying.
Posted by SFXPrime on April 12th, 2014 @ 1:44pm CDT
Posted by craggy on April 12th, 2014 @ 2:44pm CDT
BERSEKAEL wrote:so definitely no cyberverse/legends/legion/3" tall toys... I am depressed now. I will pass on all the new crappy toys the have already shown, I am not interested.
I was kinda hoping for some TFP/BH Legion repaints (complete the WTF-coloured Bruticus redecos at least? Rot Gut needs friends!) and they could probably re-use the last movie's toys of the main characters.
Posted by LOST Cybertronian on April 12th, 2014 @ 3:47pm CDT
Posted by Razieon on April 12th, 2014 @ 3:55pm CDT
Posted by griftimus prime on April 12th, 2014 @ 4:07pm CDT
Posted by -Kanrabat- on April 12th, 2014 @ 4:08pm CDT
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on April 12th, 2014 @ 4:14pm CDT
Posted by Evil Eye on April 12th, 2014 @ 4:18pm CDT
Chrome forgives all sins.
(Well maybe not all sins, but most of them anyway...shiny...)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on April 12th, 2014 @ 4:19pm CDT
Whatever, I'll just wait for more pictures. If it's not perfect enough for 70+$, I do the same thing I did with the Supreme BH Optimus: wait for a sale before buying.
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on April 12th, 2014 @ 4:35pm CDT
Posted by kaijuguy19 on April 12th, 2014 @ 6:34pm CDT
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:About AD18 and AD19... The Movie Advanced line has two of the Movie Trilogy figures covered: white Ratchet and black Soundwave. What if one of these two slots is for the Wheeljack retool?
I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. After all with the exception of that Bumblebee repaint most of the unlreased figures from DOTM are finding some releases in Takara's Advanced line so it's lkely that the Wheeljack retool is among them.
I'm hoping that one of the two slots will include the Trax Rally fighter.
Posted by swagitron on April 12th, 2014 @ 8:55pm CDT
Posted by BERSEKAEL on April 13th, 2014 @ 1:43am CDT
Posted by El Duque on April 13th, 2014 @ 12:43pm CDT
Speaking of the Wave 1 Voyagers, we have full comprehensive galleries of each at the following links:
Transformers: Age of Extinction Voyager Evasion Mode Optimus Prime
Transformers: Age of Extinction Voyager Grimlock
We will have the Deluxe Wave 1 galleries up soon!
Posted by El Duque on April 13th, 2014 @ 1:01pm CDT
Previous Leader Class Grimlock Official Images:
Posted by PrymeStriker on April 13th, 2014 @ 1:04pm CDT
Posted by Evil Eye on April 13th, 2014 @ 1:04pm CDT
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on April 13th, 2014 @ 1:07pm CDT
Posted by Seibertron on April 13th, 2014 @ 1:09pm CDT
PrymeStriker wrote:At least those pictures make Scorn look good. Slug got the short end of the stick this time around.
Scorn is pretty awesome. His dino mode with the head that tilts from side-to-side is really cool. You can get some really nice poses out of his dino mode. His robot mode is pretty cool as well, despite having a very simplistic head and a tail arm.
Scorn's gallery will be up later tonight or tomorrow.
Posted by XDMan on April 13th, 2014 @ 1:49pm CDT
Posted by welcometothedarksyde on April 13th, 2014 @ 2:59pm CDT
Anyway, it's too early to call it, but this one is probably a pass. I quite like the Voyager so I'll try that. I really hope this movie is good
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on April 13th, 2014 @ 3:08pm CDT
XDMan wrote:Could these chrome appps make Grimmy a little more accurate???
And that quote makes me think of another possibility: the chromed one may be TakaraTomy's Black Knight Grimlock.
Posted by -Kanrabat- on April 13th, 2014 @ 3:52pm CDT
I'll probably wait for a sale.
Posted by Shockwave7 on April 13th, 2014 @ 3:59pm CDT
Pass.
Posted by Evil Eye on April 13th, 2014 @ 4:03pm CDT
Shockwave7 wrote:As I suspected. Portrayed as lithe/flexible/dynamic in movie. Actual toy: nearly unposeable brick.
Pass.
To be fair, the robot mode looks decently poseable, and it would be impossible to have the dinosaur mode highly articulated without heavily compromising the articulation/looks of the robot mode.
Posted by JDD SEALAB on April 13th, 2014 @ 4:05pm CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on April 13th, 2014 @ 4:31pm CDT
After getting Voyager Grimlock I had really high hopes that Leader Grimlock would make up for some of his shortcomings, this proved to be wrong. The figure while engineered to obviously be much bigger is in many ways more simplistic than the voyager mode and overall I was not particularly happy with him.
One huge call out to start us with… the chrome, my god the chrome! If you feel that Hasbro hasn’t been using chrome enough then this is the guy for you because he’s covered in it. And in a lovely turn of events it begins chipping pretty much right out of the box. I have several spots on mine (mostly on the T-Rex head) where chrome has already flecked away. Such a pain!
Box:
Bot Mode:
Fresh out of the case he is in his bot mode, his directions however have him in T-Rex mode and it can be a bit of a pain to follow them backwards, but that’s jumping ahead.
Leaders have apparently gotten smaller. Grimlock is dwarfed by every other movie leader I own and while height wise he looks just slightly shorter, you can tell when holding him that there is much less mass in the figure then there have been in the previous movie leader-size figures.
He has 17 points of articulation, depending on how you’re counting. His head turns, but cannot be moved in any other way. His arms… are a pain for posing! Here are his shoulders folded all the way down:
Here are his arms the very next click outwards:
Let me make this clear, there is no in-between on these two points! You’re left trying to pose his forearms as much as possible to make up for this. Speaking of his forearms, the kibble from his feet is much less than that of Voyager Grimlock , but it in turn leads to the legs of T-Rex mode looking much more simplistic.
I have some good news for you if you’re not a fan of the whole elf shoe thing that Grimlocks have been sporting. Here is how the directions say his feet should be:
Here is how I believe 95% of the fandom will choose to keep theirs:
Weapons, he comes with his big mace thing and a shield that clips on to his forearm. The mace grips in very tight with his hands you shouldn’t have trouble posing it. Both combine to form the tail in his T-Rex form.
Some comparison shots:
T-Rex Mode:
I would not call this a T-Rex anymore. He is clearly an Asian themed dinosaur/dragon thing. Unlike the voyager, his horns/ears cannot be folded down or in any way covered up. They are out there permanently.
Size wise he is maybe 30%-40% larger than the voyager in this mode, but much less poseable. His arms fit so high on his body that when fully extended they barely clear his chest, let alone his head. His tail has no articulation at all. In fact his tail is so short it’s almost funny.
His jaw is poseable, unlike the voyager one, but that’s really one of the few areas where he is superior.
Are those his bot fists clearly sitting on the back of his feet? Why yes they are!
My original plan was to keep voyager in T-Rex and leader in bot mode. Then when I saw how weak the voyager T-Rex was I planned on doing the opposite. Now however I have switched back again and Leader will be remaining in his bot mode. So long as it is very far away from every other leader I own so that he doesn’t look tiny in comparison!
Overall:
I’d still get him, because I’m a hardcore Grimlock fan, but I see a lot of fans passing on him and/or being disappointed with him.
Posted by MightyMagnus78 on April 13th, 2014 @ 4:46pm CDT
Posted by Mindmaster on April 13th, 2014 @ 8:30pm CDT
MightyMagnus78 wrote:IMO he looks much, much better without the chrome.
This so much. At least have the chrome reflect the originally planned deco.
I appreciate what they're trying to do, I truly, honestly do, but do they have to fail so hard?
Posted by SentinelA on April 13th, 2014 @ 8:32pm CDT
Posted by Megatron Wolf on April 13th, 2014 @ 8:40pm CDT
Posted by Henry921 on April 13th, 2014 @ 9:28pm CDT
Also, I hope those Vehicon troopers get a deluxe scale figure I can army build. Buying 3 5 17 troop builders will make up for the lack of other Decepticon toys.
Posted by Madeus Prime on April 13th, 2014 @ 10:02pm CDT
Posted by BERSEKAEL on April 13th, 2014 @ 11:34pm CDT
Posted by RAcast on April 13th, 2014 @ 11:53pm CDT
Posted by El Duque on April 14th, 2014 @ 9:44am CDT
Movie Advanced AD-20 Black Night Grimlock.
(-Big different from Hasbro version
-Movie accurate color
-Metallic silver on head and back, and black body!)
Pre-order, available July 2014.
US$62.9
http://www.robotkingdom.com/ad20.html
Movie Advanced AD-21 Galvatron.
(-Small different from Hasbro version, additional blue line on robot mode and orange eye
-Same vehicle color mode)
Pre-order, available July 2014.
US$37.9
http://www.robotkingdom.com/ad21.html
Movie Advanced AD-22 Hound.
(-Different from Hasbro version
-Movie accurate color (camouflage) on his body)
Pre-order, available July 2014.
US$37.9
http://www.robotkingdom.com/ad22.html
Movie Advanced AD-23 Drift.
Pre-order, available July 2014.
US$23.9
http://www.robotkingdom.com/ad23.html
Movie Advanced AD-24 Strafe.
(-Different from Hasbro version
-Blue metallic body)
Pre-order, available July 2014.
US$23.9
http://www.robotkingdom.com/ad24.html
Movie Advanced AD-25 Dinobot Slash.
(-Different from Hasbro version
-Metallic green on body)
Pre-order, available July 2014.
US$23.9
http://www.robotkingdom.com/ad25.html
Movie Advanced AD-26 Lockdown.
(-Different from Hasbro verison, metallic dark brown body.
-Same vehicle color mode)
Pre-order, available July 2014.
US$23.9
http://www.robotkingdom.com/ad26.html
Movie Advanced AD-27 New Bumblebee.
Pre-order, available August 2014.
US$23.9
http://www.robotkingdom.com/ad27.html
Movie Advanced AD-28 Dinobot A.
Pre-order, available August 2014.
US$23.9
http://www.robotkingdom.com/ad28.html
Movie Advanced AD-29 Dinobot B.
Pre-order, available September 2014.
US$37.9
http://www.robotkingdom.com/ad29.html
Movie Advanced AD-30 Autobot B.
Pre-order, available September 2014.
US$37.9
http://www.robotkingdom.com/ad30.html
Posted by fenrir72 on April 14th, 2014 @ 9:45am CDT
Posted by Sabrblade on April 14th, 2014 @ 11:18am CDT
Peter Cullen is the only voice actor we know about.fenrir72 wrote:Will he use his original voice actor? Sorry on a somewhat unrelated question?
Posted by rpetras on April 14th, 2014 @ 11:22am CDT
Posted by Rated X on April 14th, 2014 @ 12:12pm CDT
Posted by Mindmaster on April 14th, 2014 @ 12:30pm CDT
Sabrblade wrote:Peter Cullen is the only voice actor we know about.fenrir72 wrote:Will he use his original voice actor? Sorry on a somewhat unrelated question?
We may also have Reno Wilson, who tweeted about voice-acting for Age of Extinction, but quickly took it down.
Posted by TheVenocWarlord on April 14th, 2014 @ 2:10pm CDT
Posted by craggy on April 14th, 2014 @ 2:16pm CDT
Rated X wrote:Im still undecided if I want to buy the dinobots and slap some con symbols on them. They might make a good faction of predacons to go with the BH preds. But I have no interest in using them for theyre intended purpose. Ive turned my back on the non classics lines unless its a figure that can be repurposed on a classics shelf. And for the record, im sick of grimlock always getting a larger figure than other dinobots in his last 3 toy incarnations. Theyre not a scramble city team and never were.
that's why I'm getting them. The chubby horny one (Slug? Purplesaurus) is far too purple for me to accept him as a (maybe that makes me robo-racist?) even before adding in the red accents to make him very Magneto-esque. The red one, well, he's just red and that's plenty universal as far as TFs go, but his (Vangelus-coined) "Made Of Knives" look feels a lot more to me. Grimlock would probably work as either, but I like how he reminds me of a cross between Knightmare and Astaroth from the Soul Calibur games. So he's a baddie too.
edit: has no one digibashed these guys into their G1 colour schemes yet? It'd be interesting to see how different the impression they'd give in more traditional colours, because right now, there's only the barest hint of them being related by the kind of similar alt modes.
Posted by Va'al on April 14th, 2014 @ 2:25pm CDT
craggy wrote:edit: has no one digibashed these guys into their G1 colour schemes yet? It'd be interesting to see how different the impression they'd give in more traditional colours, because right now, there's only the barest hint of them being related by the kind of similar alt modes.
Digibashed, no. Actual custom? Yes!
Posted by Sabrblade on April 14th, 2014 @ 2:30pm CDT
Not my pic:craggy wrote:edit: has no one digibashed these guys into their G1 colour schemes yet?
Posted by Evil Eye on April 14th, 2014 @ 3:01pm CDT
Myself, if I get them, I'll probably treat them as separate characters from the "original" Dinobots (who I plan on representing with FOC Grimlock and the Planet X not-Dinobots, when they're all released), either as an alternate universe/Shattered Glass Dinobot team, or simply as new characters in their own right. Of course, I take the Wayward/Insecticomics viewpoint with canon (ignoring it completely, giving each figure/character their own personality independent of any one series) so my approach won't work for more "hardcore" collectors.
I must admit though, I quite like the multicoloured Dinobots. Grimlock reminds me of Cybertron Scourge (who I've been meaning to get) and the others, especially Slug/Slag, remind me of a particularly spiky Super Sentai team. And to play devil's advocate, the kids are gonna love 'em. I mean, what 7-year-old wouldn't like a spiky purple triceratops that turns into a duel-wielding robot?
Posted by Manterax Prime on April 14th, 2014 @ 3:03pm CDT
I can only wonder what other crap colors they'll use to make them more "accurate" as they're saying.
Posted by Manterax Prime on April 14th, 2014 @ 3:07pm CDT
Delta Magnus wrote:Myself, if I get them, I'll probably treat them as separate characters from the "original" Dinobots
Well, you should, because they are. How come nobody knows this?
Since when was it dictated all incarnations of a certain character had to be the same as the original? Never.
Posted by Sabrblade on April 14th, 2014 @ 3:13pm CDT
Where the slag do you see Lockdown anywhere?Manterax Prime wrote:Takara you idiots! Lockdown doesn't have a brown robot mode.
I can only wonder what other crap colors they'll use to make them more "accurate" as they're saying.