Best Look at Upcoming Studio Series Leader Optimus Primal with Comparisons

william-james88 wrote:People didn't seem to mind paying voyager price for voyager primal, and this primal looks like a leader compared to that one.

Sabrblade wrote:

william-james88 wrote:People didn't seem to mind paying voyager price for voyager primal, and this primal looks like a leader compared to that one.

And Voyager Primal is smaller than the average Voyager.

Razorbeast88 wrote:

Primal review is up! Loving both modes and weapons, especially that Gorilla face!!!
Legs kinda suck, paintjob could've been better

william-james88 wrote:

Razorbeast88 wrote:

Primal review is up! Loving both modes and weapons, especially that Gorilla face!!!
Legs kinda suck, paintjob could've been better

Just wanted to say thank you, you got a news credit

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:pew pew

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I really do think (ROTB Leader) Scourge may be my favorite SS figure of the year so far

-Kanrabat- wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I really do think (ROTB Leader) Scourge may be my favorite SS figure of the year so far

Not for me though. The transformation is fiddly, there's that weak point to be aware of, and he feels too hollow and flimsy to be worth full leader price. So far, no SS figures have blown me away. That also include SS86 and SSG. Maybe Leader ROTB Optimus Primal will be it? That remains to be seen.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Why is that "RotB leader" even necessary. There is no other Scourge in SS this year.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I really do think Scourge may be my favorite SS figure of the year so far

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I really do think Scourge may be my favorite SS figure of the year so far

Nice! That new head sculpt looks great on him!

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I really do think Scourge may be my favorite SS figure of the year so far

Nice! That new head sculpt looks great on him!

It REALLY helps complete his look!

-Kanrabat- wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I really do think Scourge may be my favorite SS figure of the year so far

Nice! That new head sculpt looks great on him!

It REALLY helps complete his look!

"New head sculp"?
Am I missing something?

Or is that a 3P upgrade?

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I also got an upgraded head for Scourge to make him movie accurate. I like how it turned out a lot.

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

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Man, that. . . really, really sucks. 10th anniversary of AOE and all we get is a single core class for the entire year and it’s not even that movie. We have so many Bayverse characters left to do and they’ve just abandoned it.

AcademyofDrX wrote:Weirdly most excited for Filch, I guess because it's so unexpected. Probably just a redeco of Airazor, but that's fine for me. Plenty of others that I'm excited for, but I was expecting most of those.

Rtron wrote:

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Man, that. . . really, really sucks. 10th anniversary of AOE and all we get is a single core class for the entire year and it’s not even that movie. We have so many Bayverse characters left to do and they’ve just abandoned it.

List of missing on-screen bots:
-Frenzy

Emerje wrote:Looks like they're trying to do a G1 Bumblebee yet again for SS86.

Emerje

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Have they done any Frenzy's yet? I assume he wouldn't be a multiformer and they would likely release the boombox and coffee machine as separate bots?

Sabrblade wrote:

Emerje wrote:Looks like they're trying to do a G1 Bumblebee yet again for SS86.

Emerje

Perhaps, but it's also listed under something called "A Level" assortment, rather than any traditional size class.

Emerje wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Emerje wrote:Looks like they're trying to do a G1 Bumblebee yet again for SS86.

Emerje

Perhaps, but it's also listed under something called "A Level" assortment, rather than any traditional size class.

Yeah, but it also specifically says 86 and people have been literally begging Hasbro to either make a new Deluxe G1 Bumblebee or get the Netflix back out there. Doing something else that doesn't scale with the rest of SS86 would probably not go over well. I'm guessing A Level is some sort of "ultimate" version of characters at a new price point.

Emerje

Sabrblade wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Emerje wrote:Looks like they're trying to do a G1 Bumblebee yet again for SS86.

Emerje

Perhaps, but it's also listed under something called "A Level" assortment, rather than any traditional size class.

Yeah, but it also specifically says 86 and people have been literally begging Hasbro to either make a new Deluxe G1 Bumblebee or get the Netflix back out there. Doing something else that doesn't scale with the rest of SS86 would probably not go over well. I'm guessing A Level is some sort of "ultimate" version of characters at a new price point.

Emerje

Although, now that I look at the listings again, "A Level" is written where the line's name would be, suggesting it's the start of... a new separate line of its own?

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Have they done any Frenzy's yet? I assume he wouldn't be a multiformer and they would likely release the boombox and coffee machine as separate bots?

An 07 Frenzy in Studio Series scale would be a microfigure along the lines of Ravage/Igor/Scorponok which we've seen packed in with other figures, but core class would be cool to get as well since it doesn't necessarily need to scale. I imagine they would go with the Boombox alt mode, since that was his more prominent alt mode compared to the cell phone.

The only transforming Frenzy we've had before (excluding Human Alliance, which just folds up) is actually the 07 Fast Action Battler, which used the boombox alt mode. It's kind of a neat looking figure!

Rtron wrote:

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Man, that. . . really, really sucks. 10th anniversary of AOE and all we get is a single core class for the entire year and it’s not even that movie. We have so many Bayverse characters left to do and they’ve just abandoned it.

Seriously, what the **** is up with that? Only a core class this year? I got my hopes up when I read "Frenzy", but it's probably just a repack of the 86 guy.

List of missing on-screen bots:
-Frenzy
-Dispensor
-Autobot Protoform
-Decepticon Protoform
-Demolishor
-Scalpel
-Que/Wheeljack
-Hatchet, we've seen renders but he still hasn't shown up
-Devcon
-Sand themed Brawl
-Bumblebee (AOE old camaro)
-Bumblebee (2014 camaro, this absence is particularly puzzling because it'd just be Stinger with a new head, you'd think they would have made it ages ago)
-Drift (car)
-Hound
-Scorn
-Slug
-Strafe
-Junkheap
-Daytrader
-Lieutenant
-Bulldog
-Infernocus
-Onslaught
-Dragonstorm

And these are just the ones I could easily remember, plus I left out anyone who already had proper toys done in The Last Knight.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:As someone following the Beast Wars MP line, I feel for the fans of the SS Bayformers line. They never seem to have the attitude of following a line through to completion at HasTak. It's quite frustrating.

Sabrblade wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:As someone following the Beast Wars MP line, I feel for the fans of the SS Bayformers line. They never seem to have the attitude of following a line through to completion at HasTak. It's quite frustrating.

The Beast Wars MPs may have continued if Hasbro hadn't listened to the fans' criticism of Hasbro ignoring the 20th anniversary of Beast Wars back in 2016, and hadn't made the Kingdom line to co-celebrate both the 15th anniversary of TFTM and the 25th anniversary of Beast Wars.

'Course, no beasts in Kingdom also would have meant no beasts in Rise of the Beasts, and no Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers Again toys or rebroadcasted cartoon.

In other words, the Beast Wars MPs seemed to have relied on Hasbro maintaining a refusal to celebrate Beast Wars.

Sabrblade wrote:In other words, the Beast Wars MPs seemed to have relied on Hasbro maintaining a refusal to celebrate Beast Wars.

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 A Level AST MV8 OP
Product Number: G0221

Tra Gen A Level AST 86 Bumblebee
Product Number: G0220

Overcracker wrote:What is Next Gen?

HM Megatron?

What does ‘A Level AST’ mean?

Sabrblade wrote:

Overcracker wrote:What is Next Gen?

HM Megatron?

What does ‘A Level AST’ mean?

We don't know yet.

Overcracker wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Overcracker wrote:What is Next Gen?

HM Megatron?

What does ‘A Level AST’ mean?

We don't know yet.

Mysterious.

Specially because A Level AST is applied to the probable next movie Prime, and an 86 Bumblebee.
The game’s afoot.