New Transformers Studio Series Deluxes Revealed! Barricade, Sideswipe, WWII Bumblebee at Fan Expo Canada #FXC18

Man,these look good!

These robots modes looks like they wouldn't be able to fit inside their vehicle but they do.
Makes me excited to see how they transform.

YES PLEASE.

(also WWII Bee into DOTM Flak when)

WWII bee just pumped me up so hard!! And Sideswipe!! Yeah!!

Really didnt want to get sucked into these too much..but..Sideswipe looks so good though..argh!

DAMN IT NOW I HAVE TO BUY MOVIE TOYS AGAIN

WWII BUMBLEBEE!!!! And it looks so good! I’m really glad they didn’t have him turn into the car from the movie, since it never matched his Robot mode kibble. And it comes with his gun and the hammer! This also paves the way for more TLK releases, so that’s awesome!

Sideswipe looks freaking gorgeous. The paint. . . The paint! And he comes with both his guns and his swords. . . Man, SS Sideswipe could have been a skip since I like the DOTM one, but I will be getting this one for sure!

Barricade looks pretty good, he does have a better chest and arms than the DOTM deluxe. Not a priority, but he does look cool.

Anyone know what vehicle that is Bee turns into? I don’t recognize it immediately.

EDIT: You can also see a weathered version of 76 Camaro Bee in the reflection of a couple of the pictures, maybe that’ll be released too sometime?

With a WWII Bee, I am now really hoping we get a WWII Hot Rod to go with him at some point.

It's also super exciting to see a toy of a body Bee only had in a flashback. It's pretty awesome that they are willing to go to that depth for the toys

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:With a WWII Bee, I am now really hoping we get a WWII Hot Rod to go with him at some point.

It's also super exciting to see a toy of a body Bee only had in a flashback. It's pretty awesome that they are willing to go to that depth for the toys

Agreed, though I'm also just hoping we get an actual decent deluxe Hotrod.

As a HUGE movie Sideswipe fan, I am super super happy. All three of these look incredible.

WHERE THE PAINT ON THE FIRST ONE

Blitzwing is bae wrote:WHERE THE PAINT ON THE FIRST ONE

uh.. It doesn't.. need any more?

I require that Sideswipe and Barricade!

Well I was thinking about picking up a Sideswipe sooner or later. Never mind! Barricade looks a lot nicer than the DotM one I have too, so I guess I'll be getting rid of that. Bee is unnecessary for my collection but he looks fun and chunky enough I'm sure I'll buy him anyway.

Now all we need is Bonecrusher and that's the entire first movie cast completed (if you want to count RotF Megs as the same character, which I'll be fine with if they don't make his jet form from the first movie)!

Damnit...too much awesomeness. THat Bee is sick! And Sideswipe! THey stepped up their game.

Gah, WW2 Bee looks great. Wonder if his hammer can be held by TLK Bee.

Will have to get a better look at Sideswipe and Barricade before I decide anything on them, already have other versions of both. They look good, though, like that 'Swipe gets his swords AND guns this time (and not one of those stupid Mech Tech things, LOL) and a deluxe Barricade finally gets his flail.

DaXtraLargeRobot wrote:I'm hoping for Bonecrusher, maybe a tlk Onslaught, 2007 or dotm Megatron, , rotf Long Haul, dotm Mirage (that probably won't happen though), dotm Shockwave, or Dotm Sentinel Prime. Personally, these make the most sense to me make next for the studio series, and the ones that I'm hoping for the most, but I'm probably forgetting someone though (a Bumblebee movie Blitzwing would be pretty awesome too, it could confirm whether he's a triple changer or not, has that been confirmed?)

Man, crazy how what was revealed was nothing anyone guessed or hoped for, but its still cool reveals regardless. I like movie toy engineering and these are almost all new molds (except for what I am about to post). Very refreshing from last time.

Ironhidensh wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:With a WWII Bee, I am now really hoping we get a WWII Hot Rod to go with him at some point.

It's also super exciting to see a toy of a body Bee only had in a flashback. It's pretty awesome that they are willing to go to that depth for the toys

Agreed, though I'm also just hoping we get an actual decent deluxe Hotrod.

I thought the deluxe we got was more than decent. Fun transformation, and 2 great looking modes.

There's also a Studio Series Crankcase on display there, which is... a non-retooled straight redeco of Crowbar? What?

https://twitter.com/not_on_twitta/status/1034982552552067072



The Tweet claims it's a new head, but that's definitely the same non-retooled Crowbar head.

HOLY CRAP! THEY ALL LOOK AWESOME!!!

I never thought we'd actually get a WWII Bumblebee (I actually thought it was some kind of Hound when I first glanced at it) but damn they listened to those of us who wished for such a thing and it looks fantastic.

Sideswipe and Barricade. Man... They look superb. I love Sidearms Sideswipe but he's way too big for Studio scale and I was worried how a smaller one might turn out, well this one looks fantastic and fresh and new and well-armed so bought! Barricade, I thought I'd be content with his fine DotM deluxe but this one looks somehow better! Like his MPM scaled down with magic. On the DotM figure he doesn't have proper rear windows, they're just solid black and end up o nback of his thighs, here they're definitely transparent and end up inside his forearms. Bigger hands too.

Crankcase yeah I may get him too. I get they're doingt he Dread squad and I'm cool with that. I still haven't yet got Crowbar (and confused this looks just like him?) but I have and love TLK Berserker (should I move him up to my Studio shelf?) But yeah Bee, Swipe and Barry are definitely the priorities and super damn exciting!

I too would love another got at Hot Rod. His stylish robot mode just wasn't done very well on the AoE Lockdown retool. It's fine as a figure but Hot Rod looks way cooler than that figure.

*flings money at screen*

I feel most of the TLK toyline could go on a studio series shelf.

william-james88 wrote:I feel most of the TLK toyline could go on a studio series shelf.

Shhhh, don't put ideas into Hasbro's head about re-releasing all the TLK figures into the Studio line (though would be nice to have backdrops for all). They've just been super amazing with these new nolds here, let's not spoil it.

william-james88 wrote:I feel most of the TLK toyline could go on a studio series shelf.

Except for (remold-i-pants) Hot Rod...

-WW2 Bee: On one hand, aNOTHER Bumblebee, uuuuugh , but on the other, I'm buying that on sight to repurpose as IDW Centurion, because his general aesthetic and his accessories are perfect for it.
-Sideswipe: Eh, maybe? Movie Sideswipe has always had a more appealing design to me than I think every other Sideswipe I've seen just because he isn't a basic blocky generic robot man, but his face always throws me off. I'll have to see more/better pictures of him. Also, I can't really tell, where are his blades attached? Are they attached to the wheels/arms like older Sideswipes, or do they plug in like SS Prime's swords, or are the swords and the guns each one connected piece?
-Barricade: Agh, his alt mode is perfect, and I like his big claw hands, but his Movie 1-3 face is just so bad-looking to me...if this doesn't look better in-person/in better pictures, I'll just get a TLK Barricade instead, I guess. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he exists, but the issue I have with him is one I've always had with his design, not just with this figure.
-Yet-Unnamed Dread: ....sorry, no. I have Crowbar, and he's alright, but you can't just slap some faux gold paint on his dreads and hands and say it's a different guy, nice try.

@Nemesis_Primal: weird, I always thought movie Sideswipe and Barricade had two of the coolest head designs in any TF franchise. Swipe looking very sleek and badass, and Barry looking like pure evil. As they should.

I wanna play with these toys right now so I can see how they transform and pose and everything.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:@Nemesis_Primal: weird, I always thought movie Sideswipe and Barricade had two of the coolest head designs in any TF franchise. Swipe looking very sleek and badass, and Barry looking like pure evil. As they should.

I'll agree with you on the sleekness, but I have issues with determining where the mouths are on some of the movie head designs, just because they have so many little details/moving parts. That's really the only issue I have with Sideswipe's. As for Barricade, I find his face to be just really unnecessarily busy/detailed, if that makes any sense? His mouth is a whole different color that isn't present anywhere else on the design, for...reasons, I guess, and it's kinda overly jagged.

That's just me though, to each their own. You rock out with your SS Barricade, I'm glad you like him for what he is, I just need a bit more convincing before I make a concrete decision on him.

If someone could maybe mention a release date for these guys though at this event, that would be amazing.

Nemesis Primal wrote:
That's just me though, to each their own. You rock out with your SS Barricade, I'm glad you like him for what he is, I just need a bit more convincing before I make a concrete decision on him.

Yeah I'm no longer looking for the door panels for my DotM Barricade (that i got at car boot sale) that's missing his. He's now just a placeholder for Studio Barry.

I noticing Sideswipe is using his DotM car form. I hope this time he has floorboards even if they happen to be what makes his swords. Heck if it turns out there's a way to make his RotF roof so the car is a convertible than even better

Not that I’m complaining, but why do studio series barricade when there’s masterpiece version of the same toy? ESP when they’re almost identical. And please don’t argue with me that they’re not. I know they’re not. I’m just saying, I was considering gettinasterpiece barricade but now a similar barricade is coming out for $19 instead $79. They’re competing against themselves

President-prime wrote:Not that I’m complaining, but why do studio series barricade when there’s masterpiece version of the same toy? ESP when they’re almost identical. And please don’t argue with me that they’re not. I know they’re not. I’m just saying, I was considering gettinasterpiece barricade but now a similar barricade is coming out for $19 instead $79. They’re competing against themselves

Because their two different toy sizes?

Masterpiece Barricade wouldn't go with Studio Series.

Why have Seige Optimus and Sideswipe when there is mps of them?

President-prime wrote:Not that I’m complaining, but why do studio series barricade when there’s masterpiece version of the same toy? ESP when they’re almost identical. And please don’t argue with me that they’re not. I know they’re not. I’m just saying, I was considering gettinasterpiece barricade but now a similar barricade is coming out for $19 instead $79. They’re competing against themselves

MPM-Barry still likely a larger more complex and accurate representation of the character for collectors with Studio being the smaller more affordable simpler figure for general play or display.

Well colour me surprised

These reveals are very surprising and awesome. Sideswipe is the stand out to me as he just looks so good.

In case anyone was wondering, VW Bee has succeeded Jazz as the new smallest Studio Series figure. Which makes scale sense from the footage shown of the new film. Bit of a chunky backpack on him but overall he looks cool (no I don't have mine yet, just pics I seen on instagram).

oh here's the pics. I took them from the stories bit of https://www.instagram.com/primevsprime/ Don't know where he got them from.

That's quite the backpack he's got there

ZeroWolf wrote:That's quite the backpack he's got there

Eh yeah but it's fine. One of those things that won't look so bad in person anyways and rarely view him from directly side on or behind and movie Bees do tend to be rather backpacky especially at Deluxe size where there's only so many joints you can put into the figure.

LOL - The WWII backdrop has the swastikas covered.

Caelus wrote:LOL - The WWII backdrop has the swastikas covered.

I'm thankful for that. I don't particularly want swastikas in my home if i can avoid it.

I think VW Bee is slightly mistransformed there, based on other pictures I’m seeing it looks like the backpack can fold up a little more than what we see there.

I keep trying and trying to not give a crap about live-action-verse toys, I just want to find Cogman and be done with TLK, but first Hot Rod shows up at Ollie's, and now WWII BEE!?! Dammit, he's bought on sight...

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

Caelus wrote:LOL - The WWII backdrop has the swastikas covered.

I'm thankful for that. I don't particularly want swastikas in my home if i can avoid it.

And they covered it up with explosion effects instead just blurring them out, like that Animaniacs where Adam and Eve's naughty bits were always obscured by something in the foreground. Classy.

Let that backdrop be the symbol of Michael Bay's legacy: An example of explosions as the best possible solution to our problems.

Yesterday, we got a sneak peak at the studio series figures that Hasbro was revealing at Fan Expo Canada. Today marks the first day that the doors open to the public, and we are getting more images. These come from Ryan Sheehey on Twitter (same as yesterday). We see these toys at different angles and in close ups. We can see without a doubt that the head on the revealed Dread figure is the same as Crowbar with the oly change being the grey plastic turn 'gold'. It is not announced if this is indeed Crankcase.

Aside from more shots of WW2 Bumblebee, Barricade and Sideswipe, we also get shots of a 5th deluxe being revealed at this event: rusty deco Bumblebee. This toy is very similar to the Chinese exclusive previously revealed to be limited to 300 figures.

Enjoy all the images below and let us kow what you think. The Hasbro panel for Fan Expo will be tomorrow so it is unsure if we will be getting any other reveals before then.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:I feel most of the TLK toyline could go on a studio series shelf.

Shhhh, don't put ideas into Hasbro's head about re-releasing all the TLK figures into the Studio line (though would be nice to have backdrops for all). They've just been super amazing with these new nolds here, let's not spoil it.

lol, they've already been doing it with Bumblebee, Crowbar and Thundercracker which take from previously existing TLK molds to varying extents. Glad to see 3 new molds here though.

I like the symmetry of the rusted (or custom faded) 77 camaro and barricade as their backdrops do follow on from each other in the plot (OK not perfectly as it goes from Sam getting bee to the lake bit then bee running away to Sam and the police etc) but barricade's backdrop is where we see our first transformers fight of the movie

william-james88 wrote:lol, they've already been doing it with Bumblebee, Crowbar and Thundercracker which take from previously existing TLK molds to varying extents. Glad to see 3 new molds here though.

Yes, three. I know that. Don't be giving them ideas to release 'most' as you said.





Argh... this's one of my specific transformer figure pet peeves... Bumblebee's little lower wings not being folded down. Bugged me in the early pics of the gold repaint and bugged me in that commercial for the TLK figure last year.

william-james88 wrote:

Trying to work out how Barricade's chest is formed here. Certainly different for a deluxe class Barry. Also kinda hoping the bumper parts can be tilted to be a bit more accurate but overall the figure looks a big improvement over the very fine DotM toy and certainly the 2007 figure.

These look great! I love how Barricade is basically a simplified deluxe scaled version of his masterpiece figure(just as I hoped/predicted ). Sideswipe looks awesome with how it's a redo of his DOTM figure, but with a ton more paint and better weapons. WW2 Bee was completely unexpected but welcome addition too. I dunno about Rusty Bee, but since I don't have any version of the mold, I might get it if he doesn't fall apart. But Hasbro, please, just show us Scatter and Blitzscream. The wait is agonizing! 6 They all look great though.

Good to see Barricade getting the SS treatment. The DOTM One was pretty good, so I’m interested to see what they might do to improve on it.

Now all we need is Voyager Bonecrusher.

WWII Bee is easily one of my favorite figures from this new wave! He looks so good and I love how the hammer works as a gun in vehicle mode!

SS Sideswipe, damn is he good. It destroys all previous Sideswipes. there is little to no kibble minus a bit of the backpack, but still It's beautiful. The fact that he comes with guns and swords is amazing.

Barricade I'll be buying for sure as he is easily my favorite movie decepticon and says one of my favorite lines in the film: "ARE YOU LADIES MAN 217!!!???" I'm glad he got his proper weapon this time and Barricade looks stunning overall. The proportions are perfect on this guy too which I love. It's a bit dissapointing that we didn't get frenzy to go with him, but I still love what we got.

The fourth guy is... who even is this? People are saying it's Crankcase but this looks nothing like him, and it sure as hell isn't Hatchet so who even is this, and why does he exist? I will almost 100% pass on this guy, as he just seems like a waste of a slot.

Still waiting to see that new Prime and Bonecrusher.

HOLD UP:

Does Sideswipe have L I G H T P I P I N G ?

Also Barricade will make a really nice sub for MPM Barry. Shame he doesn't come with his wheel flail but oh well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Aww yeah!! Classic 'Bee with the right paint and WWII 'Bee!! Woo!!

ZeroWolf wrote:That's quite the backpack he's got there

"Converts from Hatchback to Humpback in just 24 steps!"

fs_feedback wrote:

The section highlighted in red could be a hinge that allows the windows to fold down around the door (the part highlighted in green). If that is the case the wings are on the underside of the arm and actually missing then. It would be pretty unfortunate if this is correct.

It looks like the side door windows do fold away onto the insides of the forearms for robot mode, but the "collar wings" for robot mode are still present with fake kibble side mirrors. Take a look at the newer close-up pictures:

william-james88 wrote:

-Crossfire- wrote:Also Barricade will make a really nice sub for MPM Barry. Shame he doesn't come with his wheel flail but oh well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

He comes with it. You can see it clearly here:

fs_feedback wrote:

These are a very pleasant surprise. I was starting to worry that the Studio Series might have peaked, but now with Ironhide and these new figures here I feel much more secure about the longevity of this line. That WWII Bee reminds me of the HftD Breacher/GDO Brawl toy. Which has been a favorite mold of mine for a long time. Nice to see a deluxe Barricade, since I can’t afford to get into the movie MPs. I was hoping for a new Dreadbot mold, or at least a retool, but this is fine. The gold is an odd choice, but it doesn’t look bad. I’m really excited for this new Sideswipe. HftD Sidearm Sideswipe is still a great figure. However having a new mold with both his blades and his gun is awesome news.

Curious to find out what the next voyagers and leaders are going to be. I’m also holding out hope that we might get a Dino at some point now.

Bucky wrote:These are a very pleasant surprise. I was starting to worry that the Studio Series might have peaked, but now with Ironhide and these new figures here I feel much more secure about the longevity of this line.

Yeah. I mean, I actually quite like the KSI Sentry and Shadow Raider versions of the Stinger and Lockdown molds but it did feel like perhaps they were running out of steam. But coming back with much desired fan favourites like Barricade and Sideswipe is amazing and to produce a new WWII Bumblebee from basically scratch feels like an extra level of awesome that's very encouraging.

Wolfman Jake wrote:

-Crossfire- wrote:Also Barricade will make a really nice sub for MPM Barry. Shame he doesn't come with his wheel flail but oh well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

He comes with it. You can see it clearly here:

fs_feedback wrote:

Holy crap you are absolutely correct. That's an even bigger incentive then!