Video Review of Transformers Studio Series Blackout with Scorponok

Little let down for back of helicopter being hollow on underside good bot mode good copter mode but back could be better

I want to see some size comparisons how this scales with MPM Prime. Right now not sure if i want it. It looks good don't get me wrong, but the Studio series is a fail IMO. The scale Hasbro claims is correct is far from it.

I could not be anymore excited about this thing! That's what a blackout should look like!

DMSL wrote:I want to see some size comparisons how this scales with MPM Prime. Right now not sure if i want it. It looks good don't get me wrong, but the Studio series is a fail IMO. The scale Hasbro claims is correct is far from it.

You do realize the scale is to scale with the studio series, not with your “beloved “ Mpm figures. And so far they have kept the scale correct.

Great, now I have to scrounge $100 somewhere so I can pick up Grimlock AND Blackout.

Really liking how the transformation works on Blackout. Only real complaints are he looks a little small compared to the older leaders (so he'll be out of scale with stuff like RotF Leader OP) and they only included the spinning blade as a weapon (pop out guns on the arms like HftD Leader Starscream has would have been great) but overall a huge improvement over the old voyager. He'll look good in my movie Decepticon display.

Octobotimus wrote:

DMSL wrote:I want to see some size comparisons how this scales with MPM Prime. Right now not sure if i want it. It looks good don't get me wrong, but the Studio series is a fail IMO. The scale Hasbro claims is correct is far from it.

You do realize the scale is to scale with the studio series, not with your “beloved “ Mpm figures. And so far they have kept the scale correct.

Exactly. It's like complaining that Generations Leader Jetfire is not in scale with MP-10 Optimus.

So I got Thundercracker who for some reason is a Studio Series figure.

He even comes with a backdrop.

Ohhh that is harsh...funny, but harsh

In seriousness though, it just struck me as bizarre. Most of the TF shelf is pretty empty (except for those PotP Starscreams, grrr) But there's a whole bunch of Thundercrackers suddenly out, It's like they gotta get these guys out fast.

Is he officially TRU's last exclusive?

RiddlerJ wrote:In seriousness though, it just struck me as bizarre. Most of the TF shelf is pretty empty (except for those PotP Starscreams, grrr) But there's a whole bunch of Thundercrackers suddenly out, It's like they gotta get these guys out fast.

Is he officially TRU's last exclusive?

In the US yes.

RiddlerJ wrote:So I got Thundercracker who for some reason is a Studio Series figure.

He even comes with a backdrop.

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Did you seriously get one? I am laughing at this, bad as it may be, but I'm hoping you did find one. I really want to find one, and the local TRUs don't have him

Notrab has posted new images on Baidu featuring Transformers Studio Series Voyager Megatron. These shots show us how he looks from all angles and he defintiely appears to be a great rendition of the Revenge of the Fallen model. Far cleaner than the voyager and with the proper arms, the previous leader did not have. Of course, it does come with the visible head in alt mode, which is movie accurate (but not everyone's favourite design choice). We get a really good look at the feet which are made up of several splayed panels. Of course, as we can see, Megatron is not painted silver but the deco still looks similar enough to his look in the film. This toys is scheduled for a summer release and will retail for $29.99 USD in the US and $39.99 CAD in Canada (or more depending on the retailer).

Let us know what you think of this toy and the design.

Ah, as I hoped. His feet were mistransformed in the last few pictures I saw. This looks good! I'll allow it!

That Megatron will also be a Day One purchase from me. I don't care if I have to pay the full 40$. He will definitely replace my ROTF "green burger" in my voyager Movie Megs display.

Still, I'll keep my green burger and I'll either store him or display him with my "leftover" Megs.

Shame about the grey plastic because in every other respect that thing is superb. Like, the best Movie Megatron toy thus far.

That is one good looking Megatron! I’m not bothered with the gray plastic, but what DOES bother me is the sides look hollow... It’s still a great Megatron toy and would gladly be one of my favorite Bayverse Megatrons besides both TLK voyager and leader figures, and the DOTM voyager

It looks like the moviveverse line is finally on the recovery from AOE's dark times, Megs, Bee and Jazz are definitely in my targeting sights, and the leaders. They look Superb.

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:Ah, as I hoped. His feet were mistransformed in the last few pictures I saw. This looks good! I'll allow it!

mistransformation Nooo

not end of world if you plan buying him before these where posted what does it matter if he’s transformed properly or not paintings are not painted properly Picasso’s paintings worked up over toy you won’t like picasos paintings toy over work of art


Nice looking figure over original figure from first time he was released

Okay, in these new pics, the gray doesn't look so dull and bland, looking rather decent instead.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

RiddlerJ wrote:So I got Thundercracker who for some reason is a Studio Series figure.

He even comes with a backdrop.

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Did you seriously get one? I am laughing at this, bad as it may be, but I'm hoping you did find one. I really want to find one, and the local TRUs don't have him

Yeah I got one. I wasn't even planning to, but then I wondered how limited their release might be and figured I better get one now rather than skip it and regret it. I like the mold, even if he still has that issue with the legs not tabbing properly (plus he's still TR compatible)

I like to keep the wings untransformed on him on robot mode, for a more seekery look and to differentiate him from Nitro.

I am totally on board with that Megatron and adding him into my shrine.

oh. don't know now. the stock photo had me a t a definite 'no'. but now..

will I never learn..?

Not a fan of the little guns on his back (Did his tank mode even have those in the film? Don't remember them), but otherwise looks great. Probably still won't grab it, I have no need for ANOTHER voyager movie Megs, but if I didn't have 5 already, i'd totally grab this.

All things told, there are worse things than for Megatron to be grey. And he does look pretty good regardless.

Still, it is a shame they couldn’t spring for silver, considering the price jump and pomp and circumstance going into the Studio Series line.

Spider5800 wrote:Not a fan of the little guns on his back (Did his tank mode even have those in the film? Don't remember them), but otherwise looks great. Probably still won't grab it, I have no need for ANOTHER voyager movie Megs, but if I didn't have 5 already, i'd totally grab this.

All you need to do is sell 1 then buy this one in its place

He looks great! He will be a great Megatron to go alongside my other 5 voyagers, so I will have 1 of the same size class from all 5 movies and the alternate universe!!!

English video review or Grimlock in ENGLISH.

While we have had plenty of in-hand images and a chinese Transformation review of the upcoming Studio Series Grimlock, we have yet to see an English review of the highly anticipated figure. Well, thanks to a heads up from Kanrabat, we have a new English review, coming to you from Benscollectables on Youtube!

The new video reviews is about 13 minutes long and gives us a good in-depth look at the new figure. Now a few things to note: Benscollectables says it himself: he is not usually a Hasbro/Takara person, but the figure impressed him greatly with its looks and its paintwork, both of which have been noted to be quite impressive. Also important to note is that the Dino mode is the weaker of the 2 modes, and certain angles do show some gaps in the armor, but Benscollectables still says it is quite awesome. The transformation, as we've seen before, bears some resemblance to fellow movie Dinobot Scorn and Beast Wars Megatron, just with knight armor and shoulder mounted spiked T-Rex heads.

Check out the video below, and let us know what you think of one of the most highly anticipated Transformers figures of the year!

This guy is just so... incredible. I am in love with this figure

Grimlock is a bit smaler than I imagined from all the earlier photos comparing him to others in the line. He still ends up being average height for a leader and smaller than the previous ones from ROTF



Blackout is quite small by comparison.

Oh, poo. I was hoping Grim and Blackout (or at least just Grim) would be BIG.

william-james88 wrote:Grimlock is a bit smaler than I imagined from all the earlier photos comparing him to others in the line. He still ends up being average height for a leader and smaller than the previous ones from ROTF



Blackout is quite small by comparison.

Yeah, they're shrunk down just like all Transformers have shrunk since the DotM line onward. About what I was expecting, honestly, roughly same height as current Leader's and shorter than original movie and RotF/HftD leaders.



I'm fine with it, he'd still look fairly in scale with AoE and TLK voyagers, which are better than any of the leaders that came out those lines anyway IMO.

Blackout is still a massive improvement over the first movie voyager and he's still in scale with other stuff from this specific line, so i'll live with it. I'll still probably put him on my movie Decepticon shelf with leader's Megatron, Starscream and Brawl.

Now we just need a voyager or leader Bonecrusher to round out the 1st movie cast (I have the deluxe, but that's pathetically out of scale). Still kind of surprised they didn't do that instead of another Brawl figure.

Gotta admit, that Grimlock is seriously tempting!

That Grimlock is incredibly cool

I am amazed at the fact that this leader Grimlock looks amazing in both modes, has awesome paint apps, and a cool range of motion including a ball jointed head, full ankle movement, and WAIST ROTATION ON A HASBRO RETAIL LEADER FIGURE!!! I will definitely get this figure the moment I see it and gladly pay full price for this Grimlock. Thank you Has/Tak and continue to make amazing figures like this!

Spider5800 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Grimlock is a bit smaler than I imagined from all the earlier photos comparing him to others in the line. He still ends up being average height for a leader and smaller than the previous ones from ROTF



Blackout is quite small by comparison.

Yeah, they're shrunk down just like all Transformers have shrunk since the DotM line onward. About what I was expecting, honestly, roughly same height as current Leader's and shorter than original movie and RotF/HftD leaders.



I'm fine with it, he'd still look fairly in scale with AoE and TLK voyagers, which are better than any of the leaders that came out those lines anyway IMO.

Blackout is still a massive improvement over the first movie voyager and he's still in scale with other stuff from this specific line, so i'll live with it. I'll still probably put him on my movie Decepticon shelf with leader's Megatron, Starscream and Brawl.

Now we just need a voyager or leader Bonecrusher to round out the 1st movie cast (I have the deluxe, but that's pathetically out of scale). Still kind of surprised they didn't do that instead of another Brawl figure.

I have to think Bonecrusher is in the pipeline, assuming Studio Series does well enough for more waves. Much like a SS Ironhide, I assume he’d be either a big Deluxe or a small but bulky Voyager.

articluation is pretty much same waste of time to show it off for repaints, except for trasnfomartion i see no change in figure except its repaint small minor trasnfomration details not bad figure beter from original colors on original figures that was released

Just checked out a nearby Meijers and they had the entire wave 1 (even the leaders) except Optimus. I only picked up Bumblebee, but the others were there!

The picture's kinda crappy, but you can see Grimlock down at the bottom, Blackout's behind him.

i am going to need a cup

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Just checked out a nearby Meijers and they had the entire wave 1 (even the leaders) except Optimus. I only picked up Bumblebee, but the others were there!

The picture's kinda crappy, but you can see Grimlock down at the bottom, Blackout's behind him.

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If you can give us a location, like state and city wise, in a PM or a news email (see my sig), we can news this! it's the first North American leader sighting!

It's been a while since I was genuinely exited for a Movie leader!

Man, dat Grimlock! I'm not sure if I'll be able to afford it immediately, especially at full price. I have an online purchase to do so choices have to be made. Let's hope there will be plenty to go around like TLK voyager Grimlock was.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Just checked out a nearby Meijers and they had the entire wave 1 (even the leaders) except Optimus. I only picked up Bumblebee, but the others were there!

The picture's kinda crappy, but you can see Grimlock down at the bottom, Blackout's behind him.

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If you can give us a location, like state and city wise, in a PM or a news email (see my sig), we can news this! it's the first North American leader sighting!

Fuck. Looks like I'm headed to all 4 local Meijer stores tomorrow.

Ironhidensh wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Just checked out a nearby Meijers and they had the entire wave 1 (even the leaders) except Optimus. I only picked up Bumblebee, but the others were there!

The picture's kinda crappy, but you can see Grimlock down at the bottom, Blackout's behind him.

IMG_4391.JPG

If you can give us a location, like state and city wise, in a PM or a news email (see my sig), we can news this! it's the first North American leader sighting!

****. Looks like I'm headed to all 4 local Meijer stores tomorrow.

Saw stinger tonight, figured I'd wait a bit since wave 1 is gonna be everywhere, you still liking yours?

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Ironhidensh wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Just checked out a nearby Meijers and they had the entire wave 1 (even the leaders) except Optimus. I only picked up Bumblebee, but the others were there!

The picture's kinda crappy, but you can see Grimlock down at the bottom, Blackout's behind him.

IMG_4391.JPG

If you can give us a location, like state and city wise, in a PM or a news email (see my sig), we can news this! it's the first North American leader sighting!

****. Looks like I'm headed to all 4 local Meijer stores tomorrow.

Saw stinger tonight, figured I'd wait a bit since wave 1 is gonna be everywhere, you still liking yours?

I am. Of the 5 Studio figures I have so have, I'm a huge fan.

Ironhidensh wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Ironhidensh wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Just checked out a nearby Meijers and they had the entire wave 1 (even the leaders) except Optimus. I only picked up Bumblebee, but the others were there!

The picture's kinda crappy, but you can see Grimlock down at the bottom, Blackout's behind him.

IMG_4391.JPG

If you can give us a location, like state and city wise, in a PM or a news email (see my sig), we can news this! it's the first North American leader sighting!

****. Looks like I'm headed to all 4 local Meijer stores tomorrow.

Saw stinger tonight, figured I'd wait a bit since wave 1 is gonna be everywhere, you still liking yours?

I am. Of the 5 Studio figures I have so have, I'm a huge fan.

That's enough for me, gonna try to get him to go with 'scream

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Just checked out a nearby Meijers and they had the entire wave 1 (even the leaders) except Optimus. I only picked up Bumblebee, but the others were there!

The picture's kinda crappy, but you can see Grimlock down at the bottom, Blackout's behind him.

IMG_4391.JPG

If you can give us a location, like state and city wise, in a PM or a news email (see my sig), we can news this! it's the first North American leader sighting!

Luckily Meijers is only in one small part of the US so it already narrows down the region. I will be newsing this now.

Good news to those looking for the Transformers Studio Series leaders. Both Blackout and Grimlock have been found at Meijer by fellow Seibertronian EvasionModeBumblebee.

Meijer is a regional US department store (similar to Walmart) and has been a place where several sought after Transformers toys have been found, such as last year's Titans Return Ramhorn. Sightings for these two Studio Series leaders have come from both the states of Michigan and Indiana.

These two were both $49.99 USD, which is the MSRP for movie leader class toys now. Since this is quite a bit of money for many fans, we do have a lot of material for you to check out if you are not sure about the purchase.

You can see a video review for Blackout here and one for Grimlock here.

We also added an image of these two leaders compared to previous movie leaders for you to get a sense of the scale.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Just checked out a nearby Meijers and they had the entire wave 1 (even the leaders) except Optimus. I only picked up Bumblebee, but the others were there!

The picture's kinda crappy, but you can see Grimlock down at the bottom, Blackout's behind him.

Man... 50 US dollars works out about 35 british pounds... but Leaders are often sold for between £50 and £65 here.

I need Grimlock. Blackout is a strong possibility too. But I really can't afford either in UK prices at present. I did get Ratchet and Bumblebee cheaper than expected (2nd hand ex-review ones still as new with packaging) so I'm happy there but that Grimlock...it's almost like a statuesque work of art in Hasbro/Takara standards with that level of sculpt detail and paint.

So I have today off for the Easter holiday. However, I completely forgot to turn my alarm off. So promptly at 5:30 a.m., I get woken up. I go to the bathroom, take a morning constitutional, then go out to make some coffee. Well s***, we're out of coffee. So I get dressed, hop in the car, and drive to Meijer to get some coffee. While there I remembered to look for something.

50$ for that Leader Grimlock is an excellent bargain IMO! I have yet to see a review on Blackout but he looks great too.