Transformers: The Last Knight Lucky Draw Giveaway Announced For Taiwan With Exclusive Toys

Black Hat wrote:

Voyager Optimus has ROTF level of engineering and a decent amount of paint (just in the wrong places).

Oh? That's interesting to know. I look forward to your expanded thoughts on him.

Here are my thoughts (started a draft yesterday)

That Voyager Optimus is a very good mold but somehow I still feel a bit underwhelmed. He definitely has the complexity I search for and I wouldn’t want something more complex than this. My problem is that it all feels incremental at this point. Unlike say TR Kup or Topsin or even CW Blackjack who give us new transformations I wouldn’t have thought of, this voyager Optimus has a bit of everything we have seen before. He is like a mix of AOE Galvatron and Powerizer Optimus Prime and somehow combining them made him more complex. I don’t mind it, but there is a slight added frustration with panel lining that wasn’t there before (and reminds me of the ROTF one). And the robot mode doesn’t really peg together well especially the arms and the backpack. He’s better than the leader that came before, but I would rather just have had this guy first (leader sized) instead of the previous leader. And it cost quite a bit too. Plus, the deco is odd. There is paint where we don’t need it but some parts badly need paint, like his feet and the flames on his chest.
Also, there are 2 pieces that keep coming off when transforming and they freaken knew that, hence why they give them these really easy ball joints that can be clipped back on. Doesnt make it less annoying.

So this toy is fine, but feels like an incremental step towards a great optimus toy, with odd deco choices and a robot mode that doesn’t clip together all that well.

Interesting indeed. I've just watched Peaugh's review on it, and I'm getting the following from it:

The paint is definitely a shame. There is quite a lot of it but it's poorly applied in some bits (those eyes...) and he seriously needs more of it, especially the thighs. The actual transformation is cool and the overall silhouette is great- he's bulkier than the film model but he actually looks cool in his own right, and his backpack is well-integrated. The build quality looks...questionable. He looks kinda wibbly wobbly in places, which concerns me. The articulation looks OK- wrist swivels would definitely have been nice for a sword wielding character, and the knees are pretty poor.

On the plus side the actual sculptwork is nice, and with a good paintjob for the inevitable "Premium" release he should look much better.

Black Hat wrote:The build quality looks...questionable. He looks kinda wibbly wobbly in places, which concerns me.

I would say this is his biggest fault (you know, asie from the price )

Newsing some cool new TLK toy news soon

hey wj88.
do you like aoe galvatron.
since hes a shellformer

The only stock image we had of Legion Megatron from Transformers: The Last Knight was of him in his box so it is a real treat to get some new official images showing the finished toy in both robot and vehicle mode. We also see new images for his wave 2 wavemates Drift and Crosshairs which show us taht these Legion class toys have more articulation than usual thanks to some much needed knees. We also have new promotional images for Deluxe Drift and Steelbane in box as well as Voyager Hound and One Step Berserker. Its actually the very first image we ever had of One Step Berserker's robot mode. The listings, found on Toywiz and Forbidden Planet, also informs us that the release date of Transformers: The Last Knight wave 2, which includes most of these toys, is May 15 2017. So just one month away.

Bumblebee21 wrote:hey wj88.
do you like aoe galvatron.
since hes a shellformer

I like him for waht he is, yes. Given how he was shown in the film, I think they did their best effort and he`s a fun action figure. I like fiddling with him and his alt mode is gorgeous! Probably one of the best truck alt modes ever done. And his back pack is much tighter than msot shellformers, so kuddos to them.

Love these legends. Bought on sight! Not a fan of new hound though... A more screen accurate figure sure, but not a pretty one.

What are those things on the front of Legion Megatron's shins? They're hinged bot don't seem to do anything. There's nothing like them on the larger figures so I wonder what they could be?

Also Drift looks like he'll be impossible to stand on those tiny feet.

Emerje

That deluxe Drift looks really good to me so far. I love samurais, and the red with the awesomely-sculpted gold face just looks .

Hound looks pretty dope as well. I think it's really cool that his helmet actually removes!

So yeah, MPM barricade Confirmed. I will wait to see how it differs from the HA one before I spend $100 CDN on it.

So, the new legions figures look really good! dang about wave 2 being only a month away. not much turnover time there.

legion Drift and Crosshairs are definite buys to go with Legion Megatron. Now I'm not sure about getting the deluxe Barricade, with a Masterpiece one coming. May depend on how he looks when revealed.

Lucky Draw voyager Prime is just regular release with a black wash? I can do that nicer.

Maybe if the Barricade figures looked even remotely like that artwork, it would be a figure worth owning.....

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:So, the new legions figures look really good! dang about wave 2 being only a month away. not much turnover time there.

legion Drift and Crosshairs are definite buys to go with Legion Megatron. Now I'm not sure about getting the deluxe Barricade, with a Masterpiece one coming. May depend on how he looks when revealed.

the mpm will look like the 07 version. it depends on if you like the look of the tlk too

Bumblebee21 wrote:

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:So, the new legions figures look really good! dang about wave 2 being only a month away. not much turnover time there.

legion Drift and Crosshairs are definite buys to go with Legion Megatron. Now I'm not sure about getting the deluxe Barricade, with a Masterpiece one coming. May depend on how he looks when revealed.

the mpm will look like the 07 version. it depends on if you like the look of the tlk too

It's more how the figure actually comes out. I like Barricade as a character in all of his designs, so if this one kills it, I'll go for it

Hey guys, I just noticed something. This new deluxe Drift shares robot mode parts from AoE Drift with the exception of the torso and AMAZING head, but vehicle mode is actually reversed. The back of the old one is the front of the new one. See the hinges for the shoulder armor?





Makes sense since that one was supposed to have the car front as the chest, whereas this one can't do that because of the design, so they decided to reverse the alt mode a la TR Scourge/Highbrow. Except this impresses me more because it's real world cars!

SillySpringer wrote:Hey guys, I just noticed something. This new deluxe Drift shares robot mode parts from AoE Drift with the exception of the torso and AMAZING head, but vehicle mode is actually reversed. The back of the old one is the front of the new one. See the hinges for the shoulder armor?

Quite the creative change, never got my hands on the AoE version so I would have never noticed.

SillySpringer wrote:Makes sense since that one was supposed to have the car front as the chest, whereas this one can't do that because of the design, so they decided to reverse the alt mode a la TR Scourge/Highbrow. Except this impresses me more because it's real world cars!

Wait, do you think space boats aren't real??!?

SillySpringer wrote:Hey guys, I just noticed something. This new deluxe Drift shares robot mode parts from AoE Drift with the exception of the torso and AMAZING head, but vehicle mode is actually reversed. The back of the old one is the front of the new one. See the hinges for the shoulder armor?





Makes sense since that one was supposed to have the car front as the chest, whereas this one can't do that because of the design, so they decided to reverse the alt mode a la TR Scourge/Highbrow. Except this impresses me more because it's real world cars!

Everytime I see that bugatti I immediately think of blurr. Really wonder what the process was in choosing drift as it would've made more sense and probably added more character to such a misfit crew if it were blurr.

Speaking of characters in different scales apparently bee is getting a voyager. Bumblebee prime is looking very likely.

Prowl4 wrote:
Speaking of characters in different scales apparently bee is getting a voyager. Bumblebee prime is looking very likely.

How do you know that? Other than the voyager sized MPM Bee?

SillySpringer wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:
Speaking of characters in different scales apparently bee is getting a voyager. Bumblebee prime is looking very likely.

How do you know that?

Because it was newsed back in march

https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... ain/37495/

william-james88 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:
Speaking of characters in different scales apparently bee is getting a voyager. Bumblebee prime is looking very likely.

How do you know that?

Because it was newsed back in march

https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... ain/37495/

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Prowl4 wrote:Everytime I see that bugatti I immediately think of blurr. Really wonder what the process was in choosing drift as it would've made more sense and probably added more character to such a misfit crew if it were blurr.

That wouldn't have made any more sense since the car that was used in the movie was more black than it was blue.

Sabrblade wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:Everytime I see that bugatti I immediately think of blurr. Really wonder what the process was in choosing drift as it would've made more sense and probably added more character to such a misfit crew if it were blurr.

That wouldn't have made any more sense since the car that was used in the movie was more black than it was blue.

The car was not black period the car is a deep blue

Does the fact that it is dark blue make it look any more like Blurr?

william-james88 wrote:Does the fact that it is dark blue make it look any more like Blurr?

Did I say anything about it being Blurr? Perhaps I'm being confused with someone else.

If that's the case every blue Autobot ever is Blurr.

Buestreak, Smokescreen, Tracks who dat?

That black on blue though.

Kind of looks a little like the red and black paintjob Rodimus had.

Deadput wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Does the fact that it is dark blue make it look any more like Blurr?

Did I say anything about it being Blurr? Perhaps I'm being confused with someone else.

If that's the case every blue Autobot ever is Blurr.

Buestreak, Smokescreen, Tracks who dat?

Please go back and read what you quoted, it was an argument regarding Blurr. If your response had nothing to do with that, then what was your point?

SillySpringer wrote:Hey guys, I just noticed something. This new deluxe Drift shares robot mode parts from AoE Drift with the exception of the torso and AMAZING head, but vehicle mode is actually reversed. The back of the old one is the front of the new one. See the hinges for the shoulder armor?





Makes sense since that one was supposed to have the car front as the chest, whereas this one can't do that because of the design, so they decided to reverse the alt mode a la TR Scourge/Highbrow. Except this impresses me more because it's real world cars!

Is that a new headsculpt on TLK Drift? The chin area looks different. I didn't notice the big difference in the car modes til now and why it ends up changing the transformation slightly. I do wonder if the backpack can be raised on the new figure to match the old. If nothing else the backpack works great for holding the unused swords and looks cool doing it.

And who the heck put those little swords on AoE Drift in that last photo?

Carnivius_Prime wrote:
Is that a new headsculpt on TLK Drift? The chin area looks different.

The mouths are different so yes.

Courtesy of UK retailer Wind Designs, we have three more figures from Transformers: The Last Knight to add to our collection of stock toy photography. In this first post, below, you'll see Leader class Megatron and Optimus Prime, in-package and in their two modes each - check them out!

william-james88 wrote:

Deadput wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Does the fact that it is dark blue make it look any more like Blurr?

Did I say anything about it being Blurr? Perhaps I'm being confused with someone else.

If that's the case every blue Autobot ever is Blurr.

Buestreak, Smokescreen, Tracks who dat?

Please go back and read what you quoted, it was an argument regarding Blurr. If your response had nothing to do with that, then what was your point?

Sabr said he was black I was saying that he was not.

Like I never said anything about blurr so what are you going on about?

Can I not make a comment without getting into an argument I'm not looking for?

Deadput wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:Everytime I see that bugatti I immediately think of blurr. Really wonder what the process was in choosing drift as it would've made more sense and probably added more character to such a misfit crew if it were blurr.

That wouldn't have made any more sense since the car that was used in the movie was more black than it was blue.

The car was not black period the car is a deep blue

I think this be where the confusion was. Prowl4 talked about Blurr and got quoted inside a quote.

Huh, never noticed Megatron was Overlording it up by taking a huge section of his jet and plonking it on his arm. Cool.

That jet mode looks pretty sweet. Is TLK Optimus a straight repaint of AoE Leader Prime?

Haha first thing I see after pictures weird argument about blurr I will defiantly wait and see video review of leader and voyager megatron before deciding prime doesn't look different same figure from past movie?

Optimus has lost his design! What a bust Hasbro!

Va'al wrote:Courtesy of UK retailer Wind Designs,

Wind Designs??? :O That's actually in my frickin' town! Used to work in a factory right near it and pop in there at lunch times and bought a couple DotM Transformers. I don't think they have the public shop room at front anymore though but maybe they'll let me pick up some Transformers anyways cos it sure would save me a lot of time and busfare not having to get the 1 hour 20 mins bus to Cambridge everytime I want to look for TF toys in Toys R Us and such. Had forgotten about that place but if they're getting TLK toys I need to know if I can just cycle down and get some rather than have to order and pay silly postage!

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

Deadput wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:Everytime I see that bugatti I immediately think of blurr. Really wonder what the process was in choosing drift as it would've made more sense and probably added more character to such a misfit crew if it were blurr.

That wouldn't have made any more sense since the car that was used in the movie was more black than it was blue.

The car was not black period the car is a deep blue

I think this be where the confusion was. Prowl4 talked about Blurr and got quoted inside a quote.

Exactly, if Deadput doesnt want to get into arguments he's not looking for, he shouldnt be arguing about something unrelated.

@ Deadput, in light of this, your argument about black vs dark blue looks like arguing for the sake of it. Which is exactly what you wanted to avoid. Just go back and read what you quoted. If what you want to say has nothing to do with it, then dont quote it and you wont enter unecesarry arguments. Remember that for next time please.

I called Wind Designs and asked if I could order and pick up Transformers from there even though they're a retailer stockist kind of company rather than a shop themselves and the people I spoke to were very cool and said they can order in cases of Transformers since they'll be getting in a lot of TLK stuff to ship out to retailers obviously cos that's the big thing and for me to email them the SKU code (relating to the class of figure TLK voyager in this case) and character name (Optimus Prime rather than Grimlock whom I already have the AoE version of that mold) and they'll email me when they've got it for me and I can cycle down there and pick it up. That'll save me £6.40 of busfare (especially helpful since the price increase on these TF toys) and three hours of uncomfortable bus rides it would take me to get to Toys R Us or other toy shops and back again to even look if those shops had what I want in stock (I can't drive so have to use busses despite my anxiety issues which make that often a stressful experience).

Thanks Va'al for posting that bit (though it took me a while to recall why I should know the name 'Wind Designs')

yeah I'm happy now.

Via the Facebook page for Ozformers, we now have confirmation of the Transformers: The Last Knight toys also arriving in Australia! The two images below show the Titan Changers Bumblebee and Optimus Prime, and the whole of wave 1 Voyagers and Deluxes too - check it out, along with some commentary on the sighting!

As always, if you come across any new (or old) toys near you, make sure to flag them up in the Sightings Database and Forums, to help out fellow collectors and fans - with only four days left for the official street date for these, all we have left to say is: happy hunting!

The Movie toys are now officially here, and the first ones have just been found today at some Kmarts in Sydney... just 3 days before the official release date (expect most stores to hold onto them until Monday).
So far found are the Titan Changers Optimus and Bumblebee (which leaked to a Toyworld store in February by mistake), but expect the full onslaught of wave 1 Deluxe, Voyager, Legions, Knight Armor Turbo Changers, 1-step Turbo Changers, the Tiny Turbo Changers... and maybe some others.
(photo of Titan Changers posted to Ozformers by member Paulbot, photo of Deluxe and Voyager by member griffin)

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Thanks Va'al for posting that bit (though it took me a while to recall why I should know the name 'Wind Designs')

yeah I'm happy now.

just doin' mah job (and everyone else's on staff )

Glad they were happy to help out!

Once again via Weibo, we have a look at what may or may not be packaging art - but art nonetheless - featuring Optimus Prime and Megatron in battle, with the hive pattern behind them as a blue planet takes over the background. We don't want to speculate too much, but we are still waiting to find out more about a certain Cybertron Planet listing we saw a long while back.

Check it out and let us know what you think!

About time we had a movie Megatron pull the classic arm cannon pose!

That arm cannon kibble chunk is massive, hope it's removable in the very likely scenario that the figures qc is sh|t and the pins aren't tight enough to hold up the arm (like a certain black shadow figure I was so looking forward to)

Hellscream9999 wrote:That arm cannon kibble chunk is massive, hope it's removable in the very likely scenario that the figures qc is sh|t and the pins aren't tight enough to hold up the arm (like a certain black shadow figure I was so looking forward to)

Pretty sure its removeable. his arm is not attached to the nosecone in alt mode.

william-james88 wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:That arm cannon kibble chunk is massive, hope it's removable in the very likely scenario that the figures qc is sh|t and the pins aren't tight enough to hold up the arm (like a certain black shadow figure I was so looking forward to)

Pretty sure its removeable. his arm is not attached to the nosecone in alt mode.

They're close enough to the cockpit kibble to have me worried the best figure in the line is going to have problems I can't fix

Oh shoot, is that big Overlord Jet Nosecone thing his fusion cannon?! This toy keeps getting better.

Kurona wrote:Oh shoot, is that big Overlord Jet Nosecone thing his fusion cannon?! This toy keeps getting better.

Yeah, the nosecone splits in half and accordions backwards to reveal the fusion cannon.

Come to me my leader Megatron

Va'al wrote:

Is... is there some kind of perspective trickery going on with that Raptor mold or something? He looks gigantic.