All Initial Gimmick Toys from the Transformers Rise of the Beasts line have been found in the US

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Well, that packaging makes the Rhino-Vulcan look even more...BAD-ASS!

"Boy, lead gets hot inshide deshe rhinos...'

Definitely picking up at least one!

william-james88 wrote:Some images are being shared across social media of voyager Optimus Primal from the Transformers Rise of the Beasts line. While the images do show us the entire figure, most images show it mistransformed or in mid transformation. We do have an ok look at the bot mode but it's not the same with the alt mode. It does seem like the idea of the transformation is that there is a head swap, like the Kingdom toy, and there are different chest panels for the gorilla and bot mode.

This is meant to be in the first wave of voyagers from the main line while the Rhinox and Optimus Prime wave we saw would be wave 2. But we'll see if that's still the case since wave assortments can change.

Man, I don't wanna sound overly negative, but this is such a boring design. It really annoys me just how monotone Primal is. How do they expect audiences to follow the action when Optimus is just gonna be a blur of solid black?

Makes me wonder what will be "leader" about the Studio Series version of Primal.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Makes me wonder what will be "leader" about the Studio Series version of Primal.

The number of weapons probably...

Emerje

hard pass

LOL yeah I don't think I'll pay current Hasbro prices for a headflip bot that looks as plain as this. PASS!

Siger wrote:LOL yeah I don't think I'll pay current Hasbro prices for a headflip bot that looks as plain as this. PASS!

Honestly, I didn't expect more, the design from ape to humanoid robot has always been prone to being a headflip bot. The SS leader will be the same as to some extent. Though the legs have transformation too and we don't see that in these pics. I think only the MP went out of its way to give a fully new transformation for Primal.

As for looking plain, fully agree, though that's more of an issue towards the film's design team. It's basically just recreating this:



Not sure if I'll buy this.

Right now I'm looking at three Primals, two from the movie line and the Authentic. Each has a different deco that reminds me of a previously released toy. The Authentic reminds me of the OG Primal, the Beast Armor reminds me of the reddish-brown Universe repaint, and the Weaponizer is based on the movie look. It'll be interesting to see how many more looks we get for Primal in the main line.

This is par for the course for the live action movies. If you're not a sleek street vehicle, you get no snazzy paint job. Instead, you get variations of gray, tan, brown, and other muted color shades.

william-james88 wrote:

Siger wrote:LOL yeah I don't think I'll pay current Hasbro prices for a headflip bot that looks as plain as this. PASS!

Honestly, I didn't expect more, the design from ape to humanoid robot has always been prone to being a headflip bot. The SS leader will be the same as to some extent. Though the legs have transformation too and we don't see that in these pics. I think only the MP went out of its way to give a fully new transformation for Primal.

As for looking plain, fully agree, though that's more of an issue towards the film's design team. It's basically just recreating this:



Not sure if I'll buy this.

Yep, I love my Masterpiece Primal so I really have no reason to buy other versions that doesn't excite me. I'll wait and see if review videos could change my mind.

Did anybody notice the big differences in the deco on the packaging for the Beast Alliance figures and the actual toys? I just noticed today that Sawback was supposed to be a more "Real" brown rather than the turquoise and silver we got.

Looks like ROTB will be rereleasing some of the BB Energon Igniters in updated packaging!

I missed out on some of those legends class ones (Barricade and Evasion Prime), so I'm glad I'll get another shot at them

It honestly just makes me really happy to see those original movie renders still in use!





EDIT: Also a very strange repaint of Ironhide as Battletrap:

That repaint of Ironhide kinda works as Battletrap.

Sabrblade wrote:This is par for the course for the live action movies. If you're not a sleek street vehicle, you get no snazzy paint job. Instead, you get variations of gray, tan, brown, and other muted color shades.

While that was true for the Bay movies, I didn't think it was unreasonable to hope that a reboot would mean more visually distinctive designs, especially after the aesthetics in Bumblebee and the reuse of Optimus' Bumblebee design.

JazZeke wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:This is par for the course for the live action movies. If you're not a sleek street vehicle, you get no snazzy paint job. Instead, you get variations of gray, tan, brown, and other muted color shades.

While that was true for the Bay movies, I didn't think it was unreasonable to hope that a reboot would mean more visually distinctive designs, especially after the aesthetics in Bumblebee and the reuse of Optimus' Bumblebee design.

Bay's still around as a producer, and all of the other people who were in charge during his films are still in charge with this one.

I'm surprised we're not getting a Primal at every price point in the first wave.

JazZeke wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:This is par for the course for the live action movies. If you're not a sleek street vehicle, you get no snazzy paint job. Instead, you get variations of gray, tan, brown, and other muted color shades.

While that was true for the Bay movies, I didn't think it was unreasonable to hope that a reboot would mean more visually distinctive designs, especially after the aesthetics in Bumblebee and the reuse of Optimus' Bumblebee design.

That's the point. These designs not being visually distinctive is Paramount and Hasbro's way of tieing this film with the others, visually (we've known this since we saw the design for Bumblebee). They never explicitly said it was a reboot and are not ready to give up Bayverse. They still wish to operate within it but devoid of storytelling restrictions.

So basically, this film could be a fun stand alone film, but the timeline is a mess that should not be looked into too much. If you want a full new look and a definite divorce from Bayverse, this ain't it.


Case in point, check out the renders they are using for the toys

Lots of news for the Rise of the Beasts toyline. While the line is supposed to be released internationally on April 10th, many stores are stocking them earlier. And that gives us a look at toys we didn't even know were coming out.

So we have rereleases of toys from the Bumblebee line, which you can see below. One of the more interesting ones is an Energon Igniters Ironhide redeco which is labelled as Battletrap. It does have a render of Bayverse Ironhide though. We also see Bayverse Megatron on the rerelease of the ROTF Megatron toy from the Bumblebee line.

In similar news, we have our first look at the deluxes in individual packaging with Airazor. The box art is pretty cool since the image takes up two sides creating for a fun effect when stocking boxes, as you can see below.

And lastly, we have more shots of voyager Optimus Primal in bot mode. Two of the shots below are from a private event/exhibition in Australia and we thank Ozformers for the images.

Isn’t that the same one step Megatron that was oddly included in AOE’s line? That mold is really getting its moneys worth.

Stormshot_Prime wrote:Isn’t that the same one step Megatron that was oddly included in AOE’s line? That mold is really getting its moneys worth.

This mold is from the Bumblebee movie toyline

primal still looking like a brick. i would really like a nice looking toy for this movie version of him.

I wonder who these will be exclusive to? The price tag says "MV7 Capsule" and the line seems to be called "Autobots Unite" despite being all Decepticons and Terrocons shown. Those look like Walmart tags.

william-james88 wrote:

Stormshot_Prime wrote:Isn’t that the same one step Megatron that was oddly included in AOE’s line? That mold is really getting its moneys worth.

This mold is from the Bumblebee movie toyline

I kinda wish they had used in Blitzwing retool in the correct and gray and red colors rather than what looks like an unaltered rerelease of the original. At least they made Ironhide's art orange to match the figure.

Emerje

Emerje wrote: At least they made Ironhide's art orange to match the figure.

Emerje

Haha, I didn't even notice that, I just saw it as Ironhide being near an explosion

The Transformers Rise of the Beasts Transforming masks were some of the first products we saw for the line last year. They've been sitting in US warehouses for a year now practically, and they have finally come to American shelves. The Optimus Primal and Bumblebee masks were found in Meijer in Michigan for 34.99 USD, by ziltama who posted them on the TFW2005 boards. Let us know if you'll go for these at that price. The repackaged Smash and Change Optimus Prime was also found at the same location.

The Transformers Rise of the Beasts line is being found across the world. We had sightings in the UK, the US, and now Mexico. This Mexico sighting is doubly interesting because it is our first sighting of the first wave of voyagers, and so we get our first look at this Optimus Primal toy in beast mode. While we had seen a wave that has his wavemate Optimus Prime and Rhinox, that is actually wave 2. So that means both wave 1 and wave 2 have been produced and distributed internationally, it's just a matter of time when they'll be found on your local shelves.

This sighting, by Seth Sunthay, also includes the Titan Changers. We see Cheetor, Optimus Prime and Megatron. Megatron is probably the same we've had before, but I'd be curious to see the box art, so expect an update once we get better pictures of this set of figures.

Got another weird one, this looks to be a repack of an evergreen Megatron with a render of a new Megatron design on the box, maybe based on the rumored BB model that wasn't in the final movie?



While I don't like the helmet, I think the face and body design (at least what we can see) is actually pretty cool looking. He has some Bayverse Megatron vibes with those cheekbone pieces!

That Megatron face looks like he just had trouble sleeping and had yet to put on his dentures.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Got another weird one, this looks to be a repack of an evergreen Megatron with a render of a new Megatron design on the box, maybe based on the rumored BB model that wasn't in the final movie?

ROTB Megatron.JPG

While I don't like the helmet, I think the face and body design (at least what we can see) is actually pretty cool looking. He has some Bayverse Megatron vibes with those cheekbone pieces!

Yep, it's the Authentics Titan Changer.



Emerje

honestly, I can tell that Primal is a remold of the Kingdom figure. and while that mold is excellent, this version I think needs more paint. and in my opinion, he might end up as a shelf warmer because of the lack of colors.

mech_dh wrote:honestly, I can tell that Primal is a remold of the Kingdom figure.

Err, no, they share zero parts. It's a new mold. This line doesn't reuse Kingdom molds.

mech_dh wrote:honestly, I can tell that Primal is a remold of the Kingdom figure.

While they are both robots that turn into gorillas, they don't share the mold. So far every mold has been new from Kingdom with SS Airazor sharing a transformation with the Kingdom toy.

This is pretty cool. We've known for a long time that Travis Knight had planned a scene in the beginning of Bumblebee where Megatron would show up, but that was scrapped since Hasbro still wanted to hold onto the Bayverse continuity. And we knew a design for Megatron within this more G1 setting existed, since we had a Tiny Turbo changer toy released of that design. Yet we never actually saw a render or concept art for that Megatron. Well, we have one now. The Rise of the Beasts Titan Changers were found in Mexico yesterday and while the figures are all figures we saw before released under Generations/Authentics, their box art shows their latest renders. For Megatron, we finally get to see that render of the form he would have had in the Bumblebee movie.

So just to reitrate, this is a design Hasbro has had for the past 4 years and this is our very first time seeing it properly. We have had listings for a Movie 6 Megatron figure in the Studio Series line, and that refers to the Bumblebee film. That upcoming figure could be based on this design. We'll see.

william-james88 wrote:So just to reitrate, this is a design Hasbro has had for the past 4 years and this is our very first time seeing it properly. We have had listings for a Movie 6 Megatron figure in the Studio Series line, and that refers to the Bumblebee film. That upcoming figure could be based on this design. We'll see.

The 3P MegaTank is one of the most amazing "transformers" I ever handled. It's a "fan-art" of what a Bee Movie Megatron could have been.





So I really wonder how the official Studio Series Bee Megs would look, if it's ever made?

This is the thing about corporate stubbornness that continually baffles me. According to this, they 'scrapped' an appearance of this CGI Megatron, which is obviously superior, because they wanted to 'hold on to the Bayverse continuity'?

Why? The Bayverse 'continuity' was a jumbled, incomprehensible mish-mash that started out with promise but very quickly derailed and lurched aimlessly from film to film, with each one seeming like it wanted to 'start over' and forget what happened before. Their treatment of Megatron was just one example.

In movie 1, Megatron's design was one of the things I liked the least, because it just wasn't Megatron. It was a cross between Lord of the Rings Sauron, a pile of used Brillo, and, I donno, some kind of vampire? It was like even the designers couldn't make up their minds.

They seemed to recognize this and totally revamped him for Movie 2, which was a quiet acknowledgement that they screwed up the Movie 1 design. But it obviously didn't work, because in Movie 3, they totally revamped him AGAIN. Then again in Movie4 as that goofy T-1000 Galvatron. Then yet again in Movie 5. There was no consistency.

Same with his portrayal as the villain. In each movie, he would show up, only to get clobbered by Optimus within 20 seconds. I never felt he was any kind of threat in Bayverse, because he was always so easily beaten. It was like he was merely a secondary villain in each plot, a nuisance to be batted quickly aside so Optimus could deal with the primary antagonist, whether it was the Fallen, Sentinel Prime, Lockdown, whatever. Megatron was never given proper tribute in Bayverse as Optimus Prime's arch enemy.

So when it's said that Hasbro wanted to 'hold onto the Bayverse continuity', that sounds like a pretty silly reason because there was nothing contiguous to hold on to. With Optimus Prime in Bayverse, they adjusted his appearance in each movie, but he had all the same basic elements, both in the alt modes and robot modes.

So - I'm all FOR brooming the Bayverse 'continuity' (such as it is) and rebooting Megatron into this more accurate CGI representation. Sure, we'd lose what the Bayverse has previously 'established' for him. But frankly? That's no big loss.

I agree with you that the Bayverse just don't know where they are going. It's also a bummer that appart from the 2007 movie, Megatron was always a side villain that has the same presence as an extra disguised as a tree for a school play.

One thing I do like though is the fact that from movie to movie, Megatron just don't give a fuk and always renew his looks. That's why I just have a single SS Optimus while I have every Megs with his MPM / 3P "MP" counterparts.

Too bad that there's 2 "Bay" movies without some new Megatrons.

-Kanrabat- wrote:I agree with you that the Bayverse just don't know where they are going. It's also a bummer that appart from the 2007 movie, Megatron was always a side villain that has the same presence as an extra disguised as a tree for a school play.

Yeah, I share the same gripes with the Bay films. The main villain of the franchise plays second fiddle every time. And even in the first film, he just appears for the third act. BOOOOO

One thing I do like though is the fact that from movie to movie, Megatron just don't give a fuk and always renew his looks. That's why I just have a single SS Optimus while I have every Megs with his MPM / 3P "MP" counterparts.

I want to point out one consistency with his looks from film 2 to film 3. Death Reviews wrote that his movie 2 mode was completely revamped and that's not the case. DOTM megatron is still the movie 2 megatron look but with alt mode bits of an earth mode. I always found that a really cool design choice. Like his movie 2 body is his defacto body. And it makes sense that he had an earth mode in this one since he did need to disguise himself for repairs unlike in movie 1 and 2 where he was going all brash on a world assault.

Of course, I am ticked off that he appears in TLK with a totally new body, as Megatron, with the same marking as Optimus on his head and none of that is explained.

Thanks to chuckdawg1999 we have two video reviews for gimmick toys in the Transformers Rise of the Beasts line. There's the Optimus Prime that turns into a functional Nerf gun and the one step Nightbird figure, which is labelled as a "flex changer". The review shows you the gimmick.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Well, this is something new. Hasbro continues to innovate, for better or worse, the simplified one-step conversion with the new Flex Changers. Transformation revolves around rubber bands that connect the panels that have to move for transformation. In the case of Nightbird, you end up almost turning the figure inside out. Unfortunately this new design results in no articulation whatsoever, but the tactile feel of transforming Nightbird back and forth more than makes up for it.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:With a new movie line, there's usually some role-play product that ties in. once again Hasbro uses their Nerf brand to bring us an Optimus Prime figure that transforms into a fun blaster. Transformation is actually surprisingly involved, especially in the arms which I appreciate, moving beyond a simple one-step or flip-change transformation. While not for most collectors, if you're looking for something fun for an office battle this fits the bill nicely.

This is going to tickle a few of you out there, remember that Blitzwing toy/charcter from the Bumblebee movie that looked more like Starscream than anything else? Well the voyager sized Nitro Series Energon Igniter Blitzwing toy we got from that line has actually been repainted in G1 Starscream colours and is being released as Starscream in the Rise of the Beasts toyline.
It was found in Mexico, along with Flex Changers Cheetor (one step Cheetor), which is also a new toy we never saw before. This Starscream does have a wavemate and it is a rerelease of the voyager sized Nitro Series Optimus Prime, which sports his Evasion Mode body. These Energon Igniter mold reuses are all part of a Autobots Unite subline which we are assuming is store exclusive, with good odds of that being Walmart.

Hasbro had stated that the voyager class velocitron Hot Rod was not picked up by Walmart which instead was prioritizing exclusives for the Rise of the Beasts film and this could be that exclusive line they are going all in on. Of course, that is yet to be confirmed.

The images of these new Mexican sightings were found here.

I'm digging some of these repaints!

Now that's what I call "going full circle!"

Regardless, I want it.

That Blitzwing and Dropkick were the best toys in the Bumblebee line. Although I was disappointed that the engine for Dropkick didn't spin the rotors even though it was designed to.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:That Blitzwing and Dropkick were the best toys in the Bumblebee line. Although I was disappointed that the engine for Dropkick didn't spin the rotors even though it was designed to.

Same. And yeah, that Blitzwing was good, even more complex than I'd imagine for a gimmicky toy aimed at younger kids.

I for one am happy that little legion sized camaro Bee is getting reissued, i regretted missing that one.

Starscream from Blitzwing is hilarious. I love that mold as Blitzwing, so I am content with not getting it again.

That Megatron render is frighteningly awful, wow. It's obviously not a great look, but i think he ranks with Soundwave, Shockwave, and Ravage as having really ugly "G1 but movie" designs. I am glad that he has not appeared looking like that.

that mainline voyager Primal looks a bit boring, but I want him, he looks fun.

As of this week, I have yet to see any RotB in stores. Nothing. Hoping to see stuff soon.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Now that's what I call "going full circle!"

Regardless, I want it.

But for five hundred and fifty-seven dollars? That almost as much as HasLab Unicron!

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I for one am happy that little legion sized camaro Bee is getting reissued, i regretted missing that one.

Starscream from Blitzwing is hilarious. I love that mold as Blitzwing, so I am content with not getting it again.

That Megatron render is frighteningly awful, wow. It's obviously not a great look, but i think he ranks with Soundwave, Shockwave, and Ravage as having really ugly "G1 but movie" designs. I am glad that he has not appeared looking like that.

that mainline voyager Primal looks a bit boring, but I want him, he looks fun.

As of this week, I have yet to see any RotB in stores. Nothing. Hoping to see stuff soon.

Nothing has appeared in my area/country either. The release date for the line is April 10th, so that's when I'm expecting a full blown release.

I wonder if Starscream will have the face changing gimmick, and will they do a new alternate face? Anything I've gotten thus far have been from an Amazon order I made a couple of months ago, ebay, and Bros with local Targets.

The first images we got for the Transformers Rise of the Beasts voyager class Optimus Primal were unflattering. He seemed barely painted and all monochrome. While that may still be the same opinion you draw after seeing the photos below, they at least show us that there is some colour variation. We also get to see the beast mode which has that prominent arched back like a silver back gorilla. The photos come from Negronicus who posted them on TFW2005. We also have a very quick transformation video to share which was posted on youtube. Let us know what you think!































We also have comparison images to the other gorilla modes from tf fan Jeff who posted them on Facebook.