Possible First Look at Next SS Bayverse Figure, Sideways

He honestly looks really good to me, at least for a to-scale SS figure to bulk up the movie 'Con ranks. It at least doesn't look as much as a string bean like the past deluxe (to me, that is.)
I'll definitely pick him up, always nice getting more car transformers.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Very nice! I do really enjoy that figure, I am glad I got a 2nd one when they were all so cheap thanks to deals

I'm glad I did too, my first one broke after being transformed/combined a few times, the joint that allows the arms to swing outwards from vehicle mode just completely snapped inside

What a weird choice. There was a 360/PS3 version of the ROTF game that I'm certain sold better than the Wii/PS2 version, and Sideways appears in that like he was in the movie (licensed Audi car mode even), WITHOUT a giant arm cannon (I think he had a smaller gun "transform" onto his wrist). Seems like an odd thing to include, given how few people would get the reference.

Rest of the figure looks nice, though. Two-tone and even appears to have the silver stripes down the middle. Hard to tell if that's an Audi logo on the chest, of COURSE there's a shine RIGHT THERE, so hopefully this is actually licensed and we get a fully accurate vehicle mode (the car mode got more screen time than the bot, in this case ).

I am getting really strong Barricade vibes off of him...

MeGrimlock78 wrote:I am getting really strong Barricade vibes off of him...

Glad I'm not the only one thinking that....

I will be cautiously optimistic of this actually being a Licensed 2008 Audi R8.

Even the original toy wasn't actually licensed, and we all know how restrictive VW and its associated brands (Porsche, Audi etc...i) have been with their licensing.

I think it will likely just be a somewhat R8 looking car without the Quattro rings.

First-Aid wrote:

MeGrimlock78 wrote:I am getting really strong Barricade vibes off of him...

Glad I'm not the only one thinking that....

Sideways’ CG model actually reuses several parts from Barricade, particularly in the legs.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

First-Aid wrote:

MeGrimlock78 wrote:I am getting really strong Barricade vibes off of him...

Glad I'm not the only one thinking that....

Sideways’ CG model actually reuses several parts from Barricade, particularly in the legs.

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Repaint. Especially Seeker molds.

First-Aid wrote:

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

First-Aid wrote:

MeGrimlock78 wrote:I am getting really strong Barricade vibes off of him...

Glad I'm not the only one thinking that....

Sideways’ CG model actually reuses several parts from Barricade, particularly in the legs.

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Repaint. Especially Seeker molds.

And yet, the original ROTF Sideways mold was a completely different one from Barricade's Movie 1 mold.

Sabrblade wrote:And yet, the original ROTF Sideways mold was a completely different one from Barricade's Movie 1 mold.

Yep, I'm pleasently surprised that this one is a totally new mold too! Rumors were that it would be a Dino retool actually, but I think this turned out much better than if it was a retool of Dino.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:And yet, the original ROTF Sideways mold was a completely different one from Barricade's Movie 1 mold.

Yep, I'm pleasently surprised that this one is a totally new mold too! Rumors were that it would be a Dino retool actually, but I think this turned out much better than if it was a retool of Dino.

I think it wouldn't have made much sense anyway for him to be a Dino retool, his CGI model has way more recognizable car parts than Dino, as it usually is with the designs from the first two movies. He doesn't require as much faking as Dino does.

Rtron wrote:
I think it wouldn't have made much sense anyway for him to be a Dino retool, his CGI model has way more recognizable car parts than Dino, as it usually is with the designs from the first two movies. He doesn't require as much faking as Dino does.

Exactly, yeah. Now we just have to hope they saved some of the new tooling budget for DOTM Bumblebee! xD

So if this Sideways is screen-accurate, does that mean in car mode he can split in half long ways? I mean, they did it with The Twins ice cream truck...

He may not be as complex or accurate to the movie, but I'm not really complaining cause I'm a massive sucker for those top heavy proportions. Seriously, it just looks so good to me.

Upon further review, I am still digging him. I love how the grill deforms to match his CG model. That might be my favorite part of the design.

I know this is more another topic, and I plan to post there, but I wanted to share these images of the Premium Series movie 1 Megatron from SS. The new wash and copper really did this thing justice. i love the retail release, but damn the premium series one brings it home!

Man, PF Megatron looks so good, I'd like to pick it up but $60 is pretty steep. We'll see!


One more note on Sideways, Sideways77 on TFW2005 found what appears to be molded faux tires on Sideways arm higher up than the ones directly attached to the hands - the faux and real tires can likely combine, not only achieving a CG accurate split tire look but also shortening the arms a little bit:

I managed to find ROTF Sideswipe for a reasonable price on Ebay recently, so I've bought one. I never disliked the DOTM Sideswipe as much as many others did, but the ROTF version does look a lot better so I'm looking forward to having him.
That recent Direct Line ad with Optimus Prime in it really makes me wish Studio Series does an Optimus in his Age of Extinction / The Last Knight design soon, preferably as a Leader instead of a Voyager, the original Voyager Optimus mould was always a bit too small and skinny for my liking. Of course I don't expect this to happen any time soon, it's just as likely that the next Studio Series Optimus will be the Rise of the Beasts design.

So, I made a post on Twitter saying I wished I had army-built the Shadow Raider and KSI sentry guys, and I got a reply from John Warden with an interesting little factoid about them:

Glad to hear you like these guys. Fun fact: when I was doing the deco I actually ordered touch up paint for the actual vehicles these guys were based on to get that tone just right.

Tweet: https://twitter.com/wardenfive/status/1 ... 6359200769

Neat little thing that they actually were ordering the actual car paint to color match to in shop, I like that little detail

Sideways looks pretty good to me so far. The original RotF deluxe was never the strongest figure from that line IMO, so I look forward to seeing more of this guy.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:One more note on Sideways, Sideways77 on TFW2005 found what appears to be molded faux tires on Sideways arm higher up than the ones directly attached to the hands - the faux and real tires can likely combine, not only achieving a CG accurate split tire look but also shortening the arms a little bit:

Sideways faux tire.jpg

It looks like there is also a double hinge within his forearm to allow his hand to collapse in and align with the faux tire. There also seem to be hinges on the outside of his biceps, maybe to allow some car panels to swing to the front of his arms?

Rodimus Prime wrote:So if this Sideways is screen-accurate, does that mean in car mode he can split in half long ways? I mean, they did it with The Twins ice cream truck...

My thoughts exactly Funnily enough, that did get referenced in a canceled Multipack:

3 pretty dang good figures

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:3 pretty dang good figures

Megatron is looking sharp in that premium paintjob!
This makes me want the Studio Series Starscream and Blackout even more!

I didn't realize Megatron and Starscream were taller than the Blackout/Grindor mold, since everyone used to say that Blackout and Grindor were larger than Megatron and Starscream in the movies.

Sabrblade wrote:I didn't realize Megatron and Starscream were taller than the Blackout/Grindor mold, since everyone used to say that Blackout and Grindor were larger than Megatron and Starscream in the movies.

Megatron and Starscream are taller than Blackout at head height, but Blackout has the rotor assembly over his head that makes him (33’) taller than Starscream (31’) and a little shorter than Megatron (35’)

Grindor though is massive (50’)

While I don’t have 07 Megatron, both Starscream and Grindor are excellent. I’ve really enjoyed getting to revisit Starscream with the ROTF version!

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:I didn't realize Megatron and Starscream were taller than the Blackout/Grindor mold, since everyone used to say that Blackout and Grindor were larger than Megatron and Starscream in the movies.

Megatron and Starscream are taller than Blackout at head height, but Blackout has the rotor assembly over his head that makes him (33’) taller than Starscream (31’) and a little shorter than Megatron (35’)

Grindor though is massive (50’)

While I don’t have 07 Megatron, both Starscream and Grindor are excellent. I’ve really enjoyed getting to revisit Starscream with the ROTF version!

Starscream and Blackout/Grindor also all have the backwards-knee thing going on too, so you can make the figures taller by extending the legs if you want Blackout/Grindor to have more of a height difference to get somewhat closer than that.

Greetings Seibertronians!

Thanks to fellow Seibertron user, Omegatron, we've learned that UK toy seller, In Demand Toys has repealed the next two releases for Transformers Studio Series, Voyager Class Age of Extinction Galvatron and Voyager Class Bumblebee Thundercracker!

Thundercracker is a redeco of Voyager Class Bumblebee Thrust, and is the second of the Seeker Trio to be released in this style.









Galvatron is a completely new mold, and tries once more to bring the impossible transformation to the toy. In the film, the cgi model never transformed the traditional way, instead breaking into cubes and reforming into its robot mode.









Will you be picking these up?

Let us know in the Energon Pub and stay tuned to Seibertron for all the latest news and reviews!

Galvatron looking pretty good all things considered, the scrunched up truck cab forming the torso reminds me of unique toys' design style.

Sweet! Thundercracker! Let's go! I love that seeker mold. Hopefully Skywarp next!

I don't know why, but I like the original galvatron better than this one. He just looks wrong. Yes, the backpack seems better than having the cab just be the back piece but... somethings off to me

Wow, they did a very good job with Galvatron.

Hellscream9999 wrote:Galvatron looking pretty good all things considered, the scrunched up truck cab forming the torso reminds me of unique toys' design style.

Honestly, I'm not sure what else they could have done.

Galvatron is one of those toys where a leader class slot may have allowed him to have a closer looking robot mode with more parts of the truck hidden.

ZeroWolf wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Galvatron looking pretty good all things considered, the scrunched up truck cab forming the torso reminds me of unique toys' design style.

Honestly, I'm not sure what else they could have done.

Galvatron is one of those toys where a leader class slot may have allowed him to have a closer looking robot mode with more parts of the truck hidden.

Wasn't a criticism, I like they're design ideas, but I agree

Thundercracker is looking pretty good. LET'S ADD CHEAP LOOKING GRAY PLASTIC ON IT TOO!

Hellscream9999 wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Galvatron looking pretty good all things considered, the scrunched up truck cab forming the torso reminds me of unique toys' design style.

Honestly, I'm not sure what else they could have done.

Galvatron is one of those toys where a leader class slot may have allowed him to have a closer looking robot mode with more parts of the truck hidden.

Wasn't a criticism, I like they're design ideas, but I agree

Oh I know, I apologise if it came off sounding that way.

Galvatron doesn't look perfect, but he looks okay, besides, the AOE Decepticons were clearly nor designed with vehicle mode accuracy in mind, honestly some of the Autobots weren't much better, but the Decepticons in AOE dissolved into little fragments and reformed for their robot modes. unless Hasbro did a massive LEGO set for each one, they'd never be fully accurate.
At least the ruck cab is better integrated this time.

So if Thundercracker and Galvatron are 89and 90, I wonder what 87 and 88 are? One may be the leaked Sideways? Not sure about the other

Galvatron does have some noodle arms, but I think he looks better on the back of the box render than the stock photo. Either way, I think he looks pretty good! Looks like they did a good job with the transformation, and the sculpted detail is on point!

We have to be seeing DOTM Bee really soon!

Thundercracker paint looks good!

Galvatron feels like he is very cool figure,he just need more high res/definition pictures to show that.

Day 854 of waiting for Transformers Armada Masterpiece news.

Now that almost all the Bumblebee movie bots are out of the way, I hope we get Core Class Dispensor one day. I know it's probably not going to happen, but the existence of the core class makes it a bit less implausible now. Also hoping for a tiny Frenzy to come packaged with someone, that one I think is way more likely.

Rtron wrote:Now that almost all the Bumblebee movie bots are out of the way, I hope we get Core Class Dispensor one day. I know it's probably not going to happen, but the existence of the core class makes it a bit less implausible now. Also hoping for a tiny Frenzy to come packaged with someone, that one I think is way more likely.

That would rock. But i wonder if marketing costs (paying Mountain Dew) would make that figure cost-prohibitive...

Cheetron wrote:I don't know why, but I like the original galvatron better than this one. He just looks wrong. Yes, the backpack seems better than having the cab just be the back piece but... somethings off to me

I do too, as a toy. But the deco here is much better and the kibble is more integrated, rather than just being a flat backpack behind the figure. I think what I dislike here is how obvious all the pins are, he doesn't look like a cohesive robot.

The Galvatron looks good, all things considered. They obviously couldn't recreate the CGI mess of Transformium and at least he's a lot less of a shellformer than the previous AoE toy (without the super long legs, too.) plus the more silvery look is a lot better than the bare grey plastic we got previously.
I think they did a solid gold star's worth for the toy.

ZeroWolf wrote:(itself a retool of Bumblebee Blitzwing).

Not this again.

Yeah, Galvatron should have been leader sized.

Sabrblade wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:(itself a retool of Bumblebee Blitzwing).

Not this again.

Oh FFS...you're right.

Quick! To the edit button!

Chefatron posted a review on Sideways:
[youtube]https://youtu.be/gC3Z4iUrIy0[/youtube]

I’m still not convinced that he isn’t mistransformed - based on where his arms are relative to his head I still think the headlight portions can rotate upwards, bringing his shoulders below his head.

Based on the first picture we got, I’m pretty sure the kibble from the back of the car can rotate up to sit on his back, which is screen accurate and gets rid of the kibble hanging down in bot mode (which we didn’t see in the first picture.

It also appears that the window wings can not slide closer together.

Good to see confirmation that the real and faux tires on the hands combine, and there’s even the saw blades on them!

Galvatron looks blocky and weird in bot mode, plus that truck have a cancer growth as a trailer hitch. Regardless, the effort is clear and the engineering seems to some clever tricks up it's sleeves.

I'll pick him up for sure! Especially to compare with the original AoE voyager.

A Premium Finish redeco might go a long way to help that Galvatron.

ZeroWolf wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Galvatron looking pretty good all things considered, the scrunched up truck cab forming the torso reminds me of unique toys' design style.

Honestly, I'm not sure what else they could have done.

Galvatron is one of those toys where a leader class slot may have allowed him to have a closer looking robot mode with more parts of the truck hidden.

Wasn't a criticism, I like they're design ideas, but I agree

Oh I know, I apologise if it came off sounding that way.

It's cool; can't imagine the uproar if this tiny voyager were to come out at the leader price point though, might be a good thing that they switch to a closed box for them

-Kanrabat- wrote:Galvatron looks blocky and weird in bot mode, plus that truck have a cancer growth as a trailer hitch. Regardless, the effort is clear and the engineering seems to some clever tricks up it's sleeves.

I'll pick him up for sure! Especially to compare with the original AoE voyager.

I think the bed might be mis-transformed, if it transforms the way I think it does, the feet split in half, the inner halves fold into the calves and the outer halves are stuck on top, but might fold the other way to be closer to the cab. If they don't, well, it's not like the one screen model counted as a transformer anyway