Imaginarium Art Transformers Autobot City Diorama Options

Totally go for Magnus.

After being revealed here, it seems the final design for the Autobot City diorama been decided. Via Imaginarium Art's Facebook page we get a look at who was chosen to fight alongside Kup.

It looks like the fans have spoken and chosen Ultra Magnus to fight Devastator among the ruins of Autobot City, take a look at the picture below.

This is such a weird statue, at first it showed Maketoys green giant. Now it's more G1 Devastator but with IDW Magnus and cartoon Kup.

Looks cool thought!

So, by diorama, they do mean statue?

Cool?

Yes, This is a diorama Statue, Due to the size of Devastator, a standalone is too big going according to scale, Imaginarium Art (IA) decide to create a Diorama Scene for this product

HydraLancer wrote:They didn't just take cues from DX9 Carry, it looks like a direct rip off. As a Rodimus fan this disappoints me. A statue has so much potential by not being limited by engineering, and they rip off a 3rd party figure pretty much verbatim.

Hi I am Danny, Owner of Imaginarium Art (IA), you mentioned we had a direct rip off for this design from DX9? Being a new license for us, we are studying the best, relevant and most popular poses that we can make. As you all may know, our design is carefully picked with IDW's Comic Artist, within our team and our fans.

But mentioning ripping off like a copy and paste is a no no for me. our fan base is not big right now but however, i am sure our fans in IA's Facebook would have told us about this. so far, we have not heard it. I am shocked to see this comment

However, we welcome all feedbacks on our design, please send your feedback to us and let us know, feedback@imaginarium-art.com.

It has been a while since we last heard from Imaginarium Art and their licensed G1 Rodimus statue, but we now do have an update via their Facebook page, showing some more work in progress on the sculpt design. Check out the mirrored images below!

Some close-up shots of the second character from our Transformers G1 line. Rodimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots who gained the Matrix of Leadership after the death of Optimus Prime.

As earlier postings showed, we got some interesting poses lined up for him. Now, take a closer look at these work in progress images of the definitive Rodimus Prime.

Also from Cybertron Con 2016, and not from Hasbro this time, is some news in the form of statues from Imaginarium Art - which we knew of for Soundwave and Hot Rod, but not for the Ultra Magnus figure seen below! Check out both some more Soundwave with cassettes (..sigh, Ravage..), and the Enforcer himself, courtesy of usual Weibo suspect 52toys.

These statues look great.... but they don't look all that much better than the Masterpiece toys of the same characters, don't transform and will probably cost significantly more.

I just don't see the point unless they can make these statues really affordable.

I agree. Whats with the Megatron and Starscream in the last pic? those I like.

Soundwave and the cassettes make for a nice display. They look pretty neat

That Soundwave statue is very epic. I like it. Don't mind too much the neutral pose Megatron statue in the background though either.

We saw the unpainted version of the officially licensed Imaginarium Art Soundwave statue, over at CybertronCon, and we now also have a very good look at it with some lovely paint coats applied. Check it all out below, in both video and images, which also show how you can swap out some parts for two different poses!

This may be a dumb questio but I am curious. Why would one get this over the very detailed, hghly poseable and exremely accurate Masterpiece figure?

william-james88 wrote:This may be a dumb questio but I am curious. Why would one get this over the very detailed, hghly poseable and exremely accurate Masterpiece figure?

I was about to ask the same thing. Plus, Rumble is the wrong colour for me. Something else the Masterpiece does right by offering both options.

I've already got a much better, transforming version of this. It's called Masterpiece Soundwave. Aside from being transformable & more articulated, it has the added bonus of remaining unstained by the crappy Bayverse Decepticon symbol, as seen on this overpriced heap.

Even if the statue was lower priced than the MP version, I would have chosen the MP Soundwave over this one in a heartbeat, without any doubt.
Poseable and transformable

Torneira wrote:Even if the statue was lower priced than the MP version, I would have chosen the MP Soundwave over this one in a heartbeat, without any doubt.
Poseable and transformable

I don't think the proportions are even quite right on this thing. The paint app is all it really has going for it in my opinion.

MegaDump wrote:

Torneira wrote:Even if the statue was lower priced than the MP version, I would have chosen the MP Soundwave over this one in a heartbeat, without any doubt.
Poseable and transformable

I don't think the proportions are even quite right on this thing. The paint app is all it really has going for it in my opinion.

HA! Because that blue paint is what I like least about it. It looks like the wrong hue of blue.

william-james88 wrote:

MegaDump wrote:

Torneira wrote:Even if the statue was lower priced than the MP version, I would have chosen the MP Soundwave over this one in a heartbeat, without any doubt.
Poseable and transformable

I don't think the proportions are even quite right on this thing. The paint app is all it really has going for it in my opinion.

HA! Because that blue paint is what I like least about it. It looks like the wrong hue of blue.

You're right. It has no redeeming features lol

Hello Friends, we are Imaginarium Art from Singapore. As some of you may know that we are currently working on SW and UM statues, here are some images for and videos for an update!

Also Some updates here paint work progress etc

https://www.facebook.com/imaginarium.hobby/

Enjoy

Videos here


https://youtu.be/-PkglXnTE_o

https://youtu.be/vhQj1URcQRc

The folks over at Imaginarium art, who are creating officially licensed Transformers statues of Soundwave and Ultra Magnus (and Rodimus), have popped by with an update in both video and image form for the latter! You can check them all out below for a nice look at the details on the Autobot City Commander, including the changeable pose, and let us know what you think in the Energon Pub.

Shame they didn't take a few minutes to figure out how the character transforms, would have kept them from sticking wheels on his arms for no reason. Could have been a nice statue, but now it just looks silly.

Emerje

From their official Facebook page, Imaginarium Art have shared some renders for their upcoming licensed project to bring some troopbuilders to the line of highly detailed statues: The Sharkticons are a-coming! Check out the images below, and join in the conversation in the Energon Pub!

Any army that goes into battle needs the perfect foot soldiers. Especially those who see an Autobot as food on the victory table.

Any army that goes into battle needs the perfect foot soldiers. Especially those who see an Autobot as food on the victory table.

This is great

That looks really great!! Can't wait to see the finished product!

its too bad the didnt do the alicons too

After the Sharkticon renders, Imaginarium art has shared on their Facebook page a look at their upcoming licensed statues of the little pests from Quintessa, and the Dinobot leader Grimlock - check out the image below, which also includes Wheelie, as they recreate the scene from the animated movie!

Dinos and sharks are the two best things, so this is automatically pretty sweet. It's nice to have dioramas as opposed to the same OP statue 12 different times.

very cool looking. how big will this be?

Yeah this is pretty slick. Lots of action and your eye moves all around the statue being that there's lots to take in.

So much more interesting than a cliche power pose.

Gorgeous hi poly render. Even that Wheelie is lookin' pretty heroic up there. Can't wait to see it from different angles.

What the.... Wheelie? Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Since when are those "little pests" from Junkion?

MegaDump wrote:Since when are those "little pests" from Junkion?

Since Va'al works on multiple timezones and articles at the same time - editing!

Really like that sculpt, but the snout on Grimlock is too pointy.

From the Imaginarium Art Facebook page, we have a look at one of their next officially licensed Transformers projects: the Constructicon combiner, Devastator himself! Check out the grey renders of the big green machine from the purple Decepticon faction, and let us know what you make of these new statue trends - all in the Energon Pub.

Nice! please make them legion class!

Imaginarium Art has posted a new picture of one of its upcoming projects that was announced over a year ago, this time as the form of Rodimus Prime! Rodimus Prime is seen in the new picture holding up the Matrix, as he did when he became a Prime. The figure is rumored to have 2 additional poses and is supposed to be as posable as the recent Ultra Magnus statue. You can check out the image below, and let us know what you think in the comments section below!

We have seen photos and a video of the Imaginarium Art licensed Ultra Magnus figure, but we now also have some further, glossier, stock images from a Taobao listing! Check them out below, and let us know what you think on these statues in the discussion in the Energon Pub.

Just out of curiosity does anyone on this forum buy these statues or any of the other expensive TF statues around? I'm wondering how profitable they actually are cos they do seem a very niche item.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Just out of curiosity does anyone on this forum buy these statues or any of the other expensive TF statues around? I'm wondering how profitable they actually are cos they do seem a very niche item.

Somebody is buying them because they keep making more and they ain't getting cheaper.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Just out of curiosity does anyone on this forum buy these statues or any of the other expensive TF statues around? I'm wondering how profitable they actually are cos they do seem a very niche item.

only someone rich enough to throw money at anything Transformers

Practically every one of these statues are gorgeous but definitely out of my price range. BBTS sold out of the Unicron statue pre-order and that thing was going for $799!

Courtesy of the official Facebook page for Imaginarium Art, we have a new image of their statue for Rodimus Prime - with some design reimaginings, almost from scratch! Check it the sculpt prototype out below.

That looks pretty awesome. Shame that Rodimus Prime never really got much of a character, even in the Marvel UK comics.

too bad it's just a statue. still hoping for a Voyager Class Rodimus Prime with a trailer.

Looks a bit weird to me. The chest for example. And I've never been fond of over-exagerrating his spoiler wings like that cos they'd look just silly in alt-mode.