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Looks like Ratchet may have a new Dark of the Moon repaint coming in the MPM line. Champion Toys on Facebook has posted a preview of what appears to be a repainted MPM-11 Ratchet in his DotM colors. There's little else to go on outside of the image so things like price, release date and retailers will have to wait until later, but not much later as the image says all will be revealed on September 7. More information as we get it!
Thanks to TakaraTomyMall, we have new listings for some of the harder to find Transformers Rise of the Beasts toyline figures available for those who are trying to hunt them down.
The new listings include the hard to find Battlemaster Airazor, Battle Changers Scourge, Beast Combiner Optimus Prime with Lionblade, Beast Weaponizers Arcee with Cheetor, and the solo release of deluxe class Mirage. The new listings also include the pretty ubiquitous voyager class Rhinox.
If you are after any of these figures, you can preorder at the Takara link above, or click any of the images below.
While Hasbro had revealed the last wave of this year's Studio Series line a little while ago, the preorders are now open. Below are links to Amazon, Amazon.ca and Hasbro Pulse for the figures available. The figures are set to release in November.
Any fan of Transformers The Last Knight ... Drift? Well he will have a toy coming out next year in the Studio Series line. JTPrime17 wrote all of next year's slate which you can see below. It also includes a figure from the upcoming ReActivate video game. And for those wondering what the Level A figures are, they are a sub-class made up up popular characters that stores can order to ensure that popular characters are on the shelves. It should be a different price point from the rest and there will be the same subclass in other Hasbro lines, like Marvel Legends which will have Iron Man and Captain America.
Another set of leaks from Jtprime17 posted to the Seibertron Pub forums by Munkky seems to run the widest spectrum of figures yet for the line. Some of these we can only speculate on and others are likely errors (like MV6 Frenzy which is probably the 86 repaint). But there are a few references that we haven't previously seen like "Deluxe HM Megatron" (another High Moon Megatron?), "Next Gen Bumblebee", and two figures marked as "A Level AST" without price classes, one of which is "MV8 OP". Feel free to speculate away in the forums what these could possibly mean!
Munkky wrote:More 2024 Studio Series listings have dropped, courtesy of JtPrime17:
Tra Gen Studio Series Core 86 Steeljaw
Product Number: F8752
Tra Gen Studio Series Core MV6 Frenzy
Product Number: F8753
Tra Gen Studio Series Deluxe MV7 Wheeljack
Product Number: F7233
Tra Gen Studio Series Deluxe 86 Gnaw PR
Product Number: F0786 (same as original release)
Tra Gen Studio Series Deluxe WFC Decepticon Infantry
Product Number: F8763
Tra Gen Studio Series Deluxe Next Gen Bumblebee
Product Number: F8764
Tra Gen Studio Series Deluxe HM Megatron
Product Number: F9849
Tra Gen Studio Series Voyager MV6 Skywarp
Product Number: F8769
Tra Gen Studio series Voyager WFC Ratchet
Product Number: F8770
Tra Gen A Level AST MV8 OP
Product Number: G0221
Tra Gen A Level AST 86 Bumblebee
Product Number: G0220
The Rise of the Beasts toyline isn't done yet. While all mainline toys have been made, distribution is all over the place and just now are Americans finding the big simple Scourge toy from the Titan Changer line at Walmart. While obviously not a toy aimed at collectors, there are Scourge completionists out there and of course this gives parents a big and affordable Scourge toy to buy for their kids. We have some video reviews for you below if you are curious, and where you can check out that very detailed front grill.
This toy is part of the second wave of Titan Changers where he is the only new figure.
Thanks to a new review, we have our best look yet at the upcoming Studio Series leader Optimus Primal. The review shows that the transformation is very involved for every limb, something which has not been the case with any Rise of the Beasts Optimus Primal toy. This gives us a good look at the scale of the figure compared to Optimus Prime. You'll let us know if it works well enough for you. With the Studio Series line, the focus was always on robot mode scale rather than alt mode scale but with the beast wars characters being more prominent in their beast forms in the film, that may yield conflicting results for some.
Beast Combiner Scourge has been found at both Target and Walmart in the US and Toysrus in Canada. Beast Mode Optimus Prime has been found for weeks now but we never posted a review. So we have one below in case you see the toy at your local store and want to know more about it. Speaking of reviews we didn't post, we also included one for the large simplified Optimus Primal that was released from Takara last month just in case you are curious and want to know as much as possible before getting him (in terms of scale and complexity for instance).
Who has had luck finding this toy in stores? While he has been out in the US, there is not enough stock at the moment to answer the demand which has lead to high prices on the secondary market. But is this toy worth it? We have a review below for anyone interested in knowing the most about Studio Series ROTB Optimus Prime from the Buzzworthy line.
chuckdawg1999 wrote:The Rise of the Beast figures released under the Studio Series line have been fantastic. Optimus Prime finally joins their ranks and the figure is great! Transformation is smooth and rather intuitive. My only complaint is that I feel his arm cannon seems a bit small. If you can find the figure at retail it's definitely worth the purchase.
With a lot of news to get through, we wanted to share this great interview from Variety with the CEO of Paramount, Brian Robbins. While this interview covers all the Paramount films, it does give us some incite on Transformers Rise of the Beasts. The CEO points out that the film did not do great and that the main reason they attribute is the big budget which blew up due to COVID along with reduced income from Russia (who used to be the 6th biggest market for these films) and a major underperformance in China (which only bought half the tickets expected by Paramount).
But the major part that all trades, and us, are taking away from this interview is the confirmation that Michael Bay still has a hold on the Transformers film franchise. All major decisions still have to go through him and he has the ability to veto them. We learn that for Paramount to include GI Joe in the film, they needed the ok from Michael Bay. And Bay was hesitant at first since he thought merging the two brands would cheapen the Transformers films, but he did eventually sign off on it.
Bay’s approval was tricky, because he was worried that merging the series would cheapen the other “Transformers” movies. “I called him 50 times,” Robbins says. “I would not let him off the hook. And when he finally stopped dodging my calls, we got him to sign off.”
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