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[LevelRage]

Heh, those are actually meant to help keep him upright while the photographer takes the photo. Toy companies do this all the time (or at least their photographers do) and it's a pretty simple solution too. All they gotto do afterwards is edit it out and obviously they forgot to do so here. Makes me wonder if he doesn't have one of those pegholes somewhere in his back that allows a stand to be used with him.

[TF-fan kev777]

Um, is Megatron playing peek-a-boo from the front of the tank? On purpose? or is this another Hasbro mis-transformation.

[Mechastrike]

although i don't like the movie line anymore, i wish they'd make a Leader Class Fallen. all i ever saw was a Voyager class but it just didn't feel right.

[-Kanrabat-]

Um, is Megatron playing peek-a-boo from the front of the tank? On purpose? or is this another Hasbro mis-transformation.

No, it's actually the genuine design. Proof that before DOTM, Megatron didn't give a fawk about hiding in disguise.

Original leader:



Original voyager:



Original CGI:

[TF-fan kev777]

Um, is Megatron playing peek-a-boo from the front of the tank? On purpose? or is this another Hasbro mis-transformation.

No, it's actually the genuine design. Proof that before DOTM, Megatron didn't give a fawk about hiding in disguise.

I knew about the leader and had the voyager, but both of those at least had some other non-head parts partially blocking/hiding them. The new one is basically treads, head, treads. That's why I was wondering if they forgot something.

[Sodan-1]

They don't look like bad figures, but I still think they could be better.

[-Kanrabat-]

Um, is Megatron playing peek-a-boo from the front of the tank? On purpose? or is this another Hasbro mis-transformation.

No, it's actually the genuine design. Proof that before DOTM, Megatron didn't give a fawk about hiding in disguise.

I knew about the leader and had the voyager, but both of those at least had some other non-head parts partially blocking/hiding them. The new one is basically treads, head, treads. That's why I was wondering if they forgot something.

If the Studio Series Megs have the "tank face-mask" thing, I'm pretty sure it may have been either forgoten, or the photographer never knew it was there.

[Albatross250]

>Sees Brawl
>Sees the Original G1 insignia

Alright, i'm so getting Brawl.

[Spider5800]

Yeesh, not digging Brawl at all. His head looks out of proportion with the rest of his body, there's panels covering half his hands, and all the weapons look too long and thin. The old leader, and even the old deluxe look better IMO.



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[Emerje]

Blackout look nice. Especially that head sculpt. However, the feet panels just kill the figure for me. Maybe on sale...

As for Megatron, maybe the gray plastics have a shine that stock photos can't pick up. Let's wait for in hand pictures shall we?

Warden confirmed it's just plain ol' gray plastic.

Not sure why people don't like Blackout's colors, it looks more realistic in that matte gray to me.

Emerje

[Deadput]

Yeesh, not digging Brawl at all. His head looks out of proportion with the rest of his body, there's panels covering half his hands, and all the weapons look too long and thin. The old leader, and even the old deluxe look better IMO.
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Derp

He's just mistransformed horribly there as is standard with Hasbro photos.

Edit: Actually one of the worse mistransformed photos I've ever seen like wow.

[Evil Eye]

The renders showed him properly transformed, so I'm not going to let Hasbro photography department's incompetence put me off. He looks pretty good, and quite accurate to the screen model. Plus, you know, he's a tank. We don't get enough tanks these days.

[Sabrblade]

This:


Not this, Hasbro:

[Seibertron]

We have new in hand images of the highly anticipated Transformers Studio Series Leader Class Grimlock. This figure was first revealed earlier this year by Hasbro at Toy Fair 2018, which we reported on back in February. These images from 神回十六夜 and 模玩麦片周 on weibo definitely show him in a different light (literally) from the amazing images we previously saw from NOTRAB a while ago. We have also included those high resolution images at the bottom for you to compare how the same figure could look. Also we translated Notrab's thoughts on the figure below, which he posted on Chinese social media site Weibo along with a video review with various comparisons on Chinese video website Youku.com.

Here's the awesome Google translation of what NOTRAB wrote on Weibo regarding Studio Series Leader Class Grimlock.

Studio Series leader-level steel locks, deformation steps and parts count without dizziness but the deformation process is very amazing, the human type made two complete faucets to restore the movie and one of them is the biggest highlight in the dragon type hiding, the painting style is also Very satisfied... finally got a right movie steel lock

Seibertron.com has translated Google's translation as "Studio Series leader-level Grimlock: transformation steps and parts count without confusion but the transformation process is very amazing. The robot mode has two complete dinosaur heads which movie Grimlock's character model had. Those heads are one of the biggest highlights in the dinosaur mode transformation process. In addition, the painting style is also very satisfying. We finally get a properly done movie style Grimlock!" If you have a better translation, just let us know what you would suggest NOTRAB meant.

Transformation video



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Previous in hand images

[-Kanrabat-]

Damn that Grimlock is impressive! This is the figure we should have gotten at AoE.

Also, the real dino head is impossible to see in bot mode. Same for the fakes in dino mode. Amazing!

[Munkky]

I managed to get Ratchet and Bumblebee today, both are very nice figures, though I think Ratchet should have got a Voyager because the alt mode ends up teeny-tiny compared to other Deluxes, and Bumblebee's transformation is a bit fiddly and frustrating at times. I might just keep them both in robot mode, and I'm still looking forward to getting my hands on Optimus, Brawl (even though that recent stock image makes him look like a hot mess), Blackout and Grimlock.
Do we know if there'll be more waves of Deluxes past wave 2? That leak from last year showing waves 3 and 4 of the Voyagers to be Ironhide and another Starscream, and I remember hearing the leaked listing that mentioned a Deluxe Knockout turned out to be fake.

[griftimus prime]

wow this thing is awesome.

[TulioDude]

I hope someone does an test with the Last Knight Voyager Optimus Prime,to see if he can ride the back of this Grimlock.

[bacem]

I hope someone does an test with the Last Knight Voyager Optimus Prime,to see if he can ride the back of this Grimlock.

yes, he can. don't remember in what page, somewhere on this topic, there's a scan of japanese magazine for this product, that shows that.

[william-james88]

I hope someone does an test with the Last Knight Voyager Optimus Prime,to see if he can ride the back of this Grimlock.

yes, he can. don't remember in what page, somewhere on this topic, there's a scan of japanese magazine for this product, that shows that.

They did it with this voyager prime, who is smaller, not with the TLK voyager prime. Which technically makes no sense since Prime never rode Grimlock in this ROTF body.

[avarathriul]

woah, bad ass

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Amazing!!! Grimlock is looking to be so good!

[bacem]

I hope someone does an test with the Last Knight Voyager Optimus Prime,to see if he can ride the back of this Grimlock.

yes, he can. don't remember in what page, somewhere on this topic, there's a scan of japanese magazine for this product, that shows that.

They did it with this voyager prime, who is smaller, not with the TLK voyager prime. Which technically makes no sense since Prime never rode Grimlock in this ROTF body.

apologize, somehow my brian skipped the TLK parts there. yeah nobody has tried that one, but if studio series's crotch gap fits on grimlock's back, then tlk voyager who has a bit larger crotch gap should fit as well. and while they have different size, it is not so much that the scale will look awkward. so technically, it should work.

[-Kanrabat-]

Amazing!!! Grimlock is looking to be so good!

I can forgive the gaps in dino mode.
Sigh, it's been a while since I planned to seriously buy a Leader at full price as it come out.

[william-james88]

Amazing!!! Grimlock is looking to be so good!

I can forgive the gaps in dino mode.
Sigh, it's been a while since I planned to seriously buy a Leader at full price as it come out.

No way in hell will I do that, not with our crazy price jump to 70$. Instead, come monday, I will go to TRU and try to see if I can get a raincheck