More ROTF Deluxe Twins Ice Cream Truck Robot-mode Images

That ice cream truck form is overflowing with soft-serve WIN!!!!! I can honestly say that that has to be the one set of this whole line I want the most.. I remember seeing pictures of that ice cream truck on the set of ROTF and I thought it was a joke. Bay kept alot of vehicles on the set just to mess with people so I thought this was a no brainer. then I saw some of the early pics of the twins and I knew I has to have demZ!!!

I shall be passing on this kibblefest. I bet they're really fiddly to get into van mode.

The Alt mode is fun and sort of cute but people havent commented on the fact the the robot modes are quite dire.

When are they to be released they look cool

This reminds me of a scene from Family Guy, where Peter and Chris tried to sneak into a fair while wearing a horse costume.

While I think the alt mode is neat, and definetly different...I want to see how this came about in the movie. They change their alt modes later, right? This is also the same SKidz and Mudflap twins that look like compact cars, right?

Yeah, I'm gonna pick these two up in this form. Might get two sets of them. I'm thinking a Sweet Tooth version from Twisted Metal...

Kibble and bits. Kibble and bits. Bay has given us more kibble and bits.

The alt mode looked full of promise... but the bot modes suck so badly, there's no point in getting this at all. These kibblebots manage to make the twins look even worse than their updated movie bot modes which seemed impossible to do. What a shame.

too bad i hear thows two act like ghetto people.. i guess thats to replace jazz.

Geez who CARES what they look like in bot mode?? These guys will never leave Ice Cream Truck mode for me!

Zeds wrote:Kibble and bits. Kibble and bits. Bay has given us more kibble and bits.

A) Kibble has been part of the TF line since G1.
B) Michael Bay doesn't design the toys himself.

I reeeeeeally don't get this one. I mean you have to figure the ice cream truck is for a gag to last all of a couple of minutes onscreen before they get their own alt modes, and they decide to take up a production spot by making a toy for it? No, wait, let me rephrase; They decided to take up a production spot by making THAT toy for it? There's only so much kibble one can handle, which stinks since Hasbro seems to think as the years go by they can get away with more and more of it on some figures. It looks just a step above a kid's meal toy really.


*sigh*

I'm never going to get a red movie Ironhide, am I.

Not bad at all for a deluxe, value pack.

Covenant wrote:I reeeeeeally don't get this one. I mean you have to figure the ice cream truck is for a gag to last all of a couple of minutes onscreen before they get their own alt modes, and they decide to take up a production spot by making a toy for it? No, wait, let me rephrase; They decided to take up a production spot by making THAT toy for it? There's only so much kibble one can handle, which stinks since Hasbro seems to think as the years go by they can get away with more and more of it on some figures. It looks just a step above a kid's meal toy really.


*sigh*

I'm never going to get a red movie Ironhide, am I.

They want to get out as many different toys as possible, just because the more they get out, the more money they make!
Personally, i think these are great, amusing and funny little toys!

I'm always prepared to embrace the sillier side of Transformers, but I'm on the borderline about these guys.

I'll be getting this, it shall be my only pink TF toy.
And if they make a Decepticon repaint, I'll take that too!

Why's there an extra-uber-shiny Sideswipe with them? Is that a kitbash of something else?

Dead Metal wrote:I'll be getting this, it shall be my only pink TF toy.
And if they make a Decepticon repaint, I'll take that too!

Oh goodness, I don't even WANT to know what THAT truck would be selling...


And are you saying you do not have, nor will ever have, a G1-ish Arcee figure?

Sabrblade wrote::shock: Why's there an extra-uber-shiny Sideswipe with them? Is that a kitbash of something else?

Could it be.. a PREMIUM Sideswipe?

Sabrblade wrote::shock: Why's there an extra-uber-shiny Sideswipe with them? Is that a kitbash of something else?

extra-uber-shiny? The retail version is shinier than that. It looks like it was repainted with a darker metallic finish.

God thats horrible. This is a major pass for me. Every thing about the figure just sucks. I do like the micromaster concept they used but this figure is just to ugly to buy.

It would be cool if Hasbro made them combine in robot mode, just like energon powerlink.

GuyIncognito wrote:

Zeds wrote:Kibble and bits. Kibble and bits. Bay has given us more kibble and bits.

A) Kibble has been part of the TF line since G1.
B) Michael Bay doesn't design the toys himself.

Exactly. It really pisses me off that people immediatley blame Bay for everything. Like the script. People blame Bay for it, but it was Orci and Kurtzman wrote it, not Bay. Bay also does not design the robots. That's Hasbro. Bay doesn't create the characters. That's Kurtzman and Orci with input from Hasbro. All Bay does is direct. I'm sick of people seeing something different about the movie and being all, "OHZ NOES MIKEL BAY RAPED MA CHALDHUD!!!!1! Get it straight people.

typh0id wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:I'll be getting this, it shall be my only pink TF toy.
And if they make a Decepticon repaint, I'll take that too!

Oh goodness, I don't even WANT to know what THAT truck would be selling...


And are you saying you do not have, nor will ever have, a G1-ish Arcee figure?

Nope I don't and I doupt there ever will be one, and the TFA Arcee looks like it'll be more redish then pink.

Hmmm, either I need to start doing drugs again or someone at Hasbro needs to stop.
Only picture I have in my head is Wheelie rolling on the ground, laughing and then pointing and saying
"Sucks to be you guys!"

I'm sure the kids will love it. I showed my youngest son the initial pictures of this figure and when he stopped laughing and caught his breath he said he just had to have it when it comes out. So I guess it works for the target group. My first thought when I saw the vehicle mode was that it looked like the cartoony toy cars you get at Chevron stations.
Now that Megatron Wolf has brought up the Micromaster concept, it does have a little bit of appeal. I had not originally thought of that aspect for these guys but I like looking at their combination more that way than I do thinking of them as Powerlinking.
Still have others I would rather get first but if they are still floating around later, and I'm sure they will be, may pick one up for myself just for laughs.

Probably won't get it.
Looks cool, though.

How big are they?
They're like scout size.

I must be the only one who thinks it is utterly hilarious that Mudflap is the back (a$$) end of the ice cream truck. That is a very subtle, and funny joke right there.

St. Even wrote:I must be the only one who thinks it is utterly hilarious that Mudflap is the back (a$$) end of the ice cream truck. That is a very subtle, and funny joke right there.

Couldn't tell in robot mode. Both their faces look like...you get the idea.

JesWal wrote:Bay also does not design the robots. That's Hasbro.

Now see, while I immediately agree (my feelings for the guy aside) that Bay does get blamed for a lot of little things that aren't his department so to speak, this is one item where you're wrong. Does he decide every single little detail about the final designs? Probably not, but his hand is heavy in the decision, don't think otherwise. The movie designs are his own, just ask. Others have, and he's said so in interviews and board messages. In some of his own word this is his superhero movie, the designs are of what he was trying to do, and he's always adamant to tell others he makes his own films & no one tells him what to do. Hasbro gave him uprecidented control over Transformer design in the first film, and now the second. Jared Wade, Transformer design director for Hasbro who's worked close with the Bay camp for the act of getting film designs to the toys (NOT the other way around), has given interviews talking of the challenges of finding creative ways to actually make the movie designs translate into toys, pushing the envelope of the craft. They work mostly on whatever designs the studio says they're going with, and while this time around they were knee deep from the get-go, the last time due to early designs and later/last minute additions, is - for one of Jared's personal examples - the reason the first film's Optimus looked the way he did. You can quote him as saying while he doesn't think there's anything wrong with the toy they didn't have finalized designs when they made him and didn't even know about the sword until production was done, which is why he came with a gun, then later a sword on the Premium item. It's also why this time around Optimus (among others) more accurately represent their screen counterparts. The first time around ILM could barely get their input across. In fact a Q & A done at a convention shortly before the first film premiered in theaters, done by one of the big names at DM.net though I don't recall which, reports the guys at ILM flipped out on the designs when first presented, simply HATED them, much like a good deal of traditional TF fans did when designs started to hit the web years ago. I mean fit throwing, walk outs, denouncing work on the film. So the designs? Not ILM's. It was Bay who had to convince them of what he was trying to do with his designs. It's solely because of Bay, for example, that Movie Optimus has a face. Don't get me wrong on this (any of this), I dig the face (and still wonder why Hasbro won't produce a removable faceplate already!), but it's all Michael Bay there. In that same prior mentioned ILM interview it was reported that everyone, from the writers to ILM, wanted to keep the faceplate on Prime. Yet even when the animators purposely kept it on during preliminary renders in hopes of swaying Bay's decision, it was reiterated by Mikey that this was his film and he had final say. And here we have the results. And when Michael was once asked if there was any concern that Bay was also serving Hasbro, in regards to ensuring that Mikey was true to things like the original toys and characters? Bay's answer? "Well, I said 'Listen, if I do this, I'm going to redesign these things. You might not like everything, but I'm going to do it my way or I'm not going to do it.'" He even reported that they had huge issues with LAM Starscream, yet his take came out on top. If that doesn't speak volumes over his control in that department, I sure as shit don't know what does.

This is quite true. Those who whined so heavily about Prime NOT being a flat nose...that was ALL Bay and he's damn proud of it.
He hovers over the CGI guys' shoulders like an anxious parent on a kids first prom night. So yeah, he's got his hands, nose AND both feet in the design aspects.
I just like to blame Hasbro for everything since I figure that Bay has enough "haters" out there that he doesn't need one more and most of the issues I have are dealt with on Hasbros end anyway, but I'm slowly starting to back off. Besides, I like most of the stuff Bay does and I like the approach he's taking with the Movie versions on a general level even if some of the individual designs appear to have been conjured during a drunken stupor.

i think they should have made the alt mode for this figure a voyager size. that way in robot mode the twins would fit the same size scale as their deluxe counterparts. also a slightly larger version would have possibly offered a better transformation and a better looking figure(with maybe less kibble). just my thoughts.

Ok.. I have been avoiding some spoilers so are the twins the ice cream trucks first then become 2 separate vehicles later?

Cyber Bishop wrote:Ok.. I have been avoiding some spoilers so are the twins the ice cream trucks first then become 2 separate vehicles later?

That's what we've been hearing.

The robot modes are ugly, but I can't help buy like this idea. A definate buy for me!

Covenant wrote:

JesWal wrote:Bay also does not design the robots. That's Hasbro.

Now see, while I immediately agree (my feelings for the guy aside) that Bay does get blamed for a lot of little things that aren't his department so to speak, this is one item where you're wrong. Does he decide every single little detail about the final designs? Probably not, but his hand is heavy in the decision, don't think otherwise. The movie designs are his own, just ask. Others have, and he's said so in interviews and board messages. In some of his own word this is his superhero movie, the designs are of what he was trying to do, and he's always adamant to tell others he makes his own films & no one tells him what to do. Hasbro gave him uprecidented control over Transformer design in the first film, and now the second. Jared Wade, Transformer design director for Hasbro who's worked close with the Bay camp for the act of getting film designs to the toys (NOT the other way around), has given interviews talking of the challenges of finding creative ways to actually make the movie designs translate into toys, pushing the envelope of the craft. They work mostly on whatever designs the studio says they're going with, and while this time around they were knee deep from the get-go, the last time due to early designs and later/last minute additions, is - for one of Jared's personal examples - the reason the first film's Optimus looked the way he did. You can quote him as saying while he doesn't think there's anything wrong with the toy they didn't have finalized designs when they made him and didn't even know about the sword until production was done, which is why he came with a gun, then later a sword on the Premium item. It's also why this time around Optimus (among others) more accurately represent their screen counterparts. The first time around ILM could barely get their input across. In fact a Q & A done at a convention shortly before the first film premiered in theaters, done by one of the big names at DM.net though I don't recall which, reports the guys at ILM flipped out on the designs when first presented, simply HATED them, much like a good deal of traditional TF fans did when designs started to hit the web years ago. I mean fit throwing, walk outs, denouncing work on the film. So the designs? Not ILM's. It was Bay who had to convince them of what he was trying to do with his designs. It's solely because of Bay, for example, that Movie Optimus has a face. Don't get me wrong on this (any of this), I dig the face (and still wonder why Hasbro won't produce a removable faceplate already!), but it's all Michael Bay there. In that same prior mentioned ILM interview it was reported that everyone, from the writers to ILM, wanted to keep the faceplate on Prime. Yet even when the animators purposely kept it on during preliminary renders in hopes of swaying Bay's decision, it was reiterated by Mikey that this was his film and he had final say. And here we have the results. And when Michael was once asked if there was any concern that Bay was also serving Hasbro, in regards to ensuring that Mikey was true to things like the original toys and characters? Bay's answer? "Well, I said 'Listen, if I do this, I'm going to redesign these things. You might not like everything, but I'm going to do it my way or I'm not going to do it.'" He even reported that they had huge issues with LAM Starscream, yet his take came out on top. If that doesn't speak volumes over his control in that department, I sure as shit don't know what does.

Ah, then I was misinformed. I always have thought the designs were Hasbro's. Thank you for clearing this up. And I do agree. I think he is a pretty shitty director. But I also think it's unfair that so much of the blame is pinned on him.