New Images of Transformers Studio Series Drift and Baby Dinobots #NYCC
Thursday, October 4th, 2018 2:35PM CDT
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Check out the images below, and look out for Dinobot 'Tops, Dinobot Pterry, and Dinobot Sharp-T - if you're already in the market for the set, take a look at the Entertainment Earth listing linked in the article above, and start patienting until February 2019!
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Posted by Etseterrestrial on October 4th, 2018 @ 2:46pm CDT
Posted by Rodimus Knight on October 4th, 2018 @ 3:03pm CDT
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on October 4th, 2018 @ 4:22pm CDT
Number 36. I've still a lot of catching up to do.
Posted by Sabrblade on October 4th, 2018 @ 5:12pm CDT
Posted by Munkky on October 4th, 2018 @ 5:21pm CDT
Carnivius_Prime wrote:I absolutely love his black and red colour scheme. Makes the figure look far better than it did in TLK toyline. And a nice wide backdrop to pose other figures with too. I like.
Number 36. I've still a lot of catching up to do.
From what I can tell, numbers 15, 19, 20, 24 and 25 are just Bumblebees. Numbers 31 to 35 don't seem to have been revealed yet, I'm guessing we'll see them at London Comic-Con later this month.
Posted by Nemesis Primal on October 4th, 2018 @ 6:04pm CDT
Munkky wrote:Carnivius_Prime wrote:I absolutely love his black and red colour scheme. Makes the figure look far better than it did in TLK toyline. And a nice wide backdrop to pose other figures with too. I like.
Number 36. I've still a lot of catching up to do.
From what I can tell, numbers 15, 19, 20, 24 and 25 are just Bumblebees. Numbers 31 to 35 don't seem to have been revealed yet, I'm guessing we'll see them at London Comic-Con later this month.
We know that 32 is the second Voyager Prime from leaked box promos/instructions, which means 31 is most likely Bonecrusher, so it's really just 33-35 up in the air now.
I was really expecting more Studio Series reveals than just this one Drift, I'm kinda surprised that's all we got on this front. I'm not really interested in this exclusive, I'm not intending to get a SS Drift regardless of exclusivity and the Mini Dinos aren't enough to justify that purchase, so I hope the promised SS reveals later in the month reveal who 33-35 are. I am curious about that Drift Amazon listing now though, are we going to get a retail Drift as well or is Amazon also going to offer SS 36 here?
Posted by william-james88 on October 4th, 2018 @ 6:27pm CDT
Posted by Dinobot-Snarl on October 4th, 2018 @ 6:36pm CDT
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on October 4th, 2018 @ 6:37pm CDT
I might just give up and pass on this, unless it comes in stock February and they don't sell out on Pre-orders
Posted by Wireless_Phantom on October 4th, 2018 @ 6:40pm CDT
Posted by Nemesis Primal on October 4th, 2018 @ 7:15pm CDT
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Ugh, the EE pre-order will not go through! It will not let me move past the address area. And it's gonna come to $35 after shipping and before tax. Damn.
I might just give up and pass on this, unless it comes in stock February and they don't sell out on Pre-orders
Psst, TFSource sent me an email saying they have preorders for it too, if your issue is the EE site. It is currently priced at $28.99 over EE's $26.99, though, so I can't tell you what it'll be after shipping.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on October 4th, 2018 @ 7:19pm CDT
Nemesis Primal wrote:D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Ugh, the EE pre-order will not go through! It will not let me move past the address area. And it's gonna come to $35 after shipping and before tax. Damn.
I might just give up and pass on this, unless it comes in stock February and they don't sell out on Pre-orders
Psst, TFSource sent me an email saying they have preorders for it too, if your issue is the EE site. It is currently priced at $28.99 over EE's $26.99, though, so I can't tell you what it'll be after shipping.
Pre-ordered. You rock
Posted by -Kanrabat- on October 4th, 2018 @ 9:08pm CDT
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on October 5th, 2018 @ 1:05pm CDT
-Kanrabat- wrote:Meanwhile, my local TrU went straight to the New Bee wave, never ever restocking Locknown nor Jazz, nor Megatron, nor Brawl.
Well that's lame cos those wave 2 figures are all pretty darn good. Well I don't have Brawl yet but I really bloody should at some point.
Posted by Hellscream9999 on October 5th, 2018 @ 5:43pm CDT
Carnivius_Prime wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:Meanwhile, my local TrU went straight to the New Bee wave, never ever restocking Locknown nor Jazz, nor Megatron, nor Brawl.
Well that's lame cos those wave 2 figures are all pretty darn good. Well I don't have Brawl yet but I really bloody should at some point.
He's fun and a trip to transform without being fiddly
Posted by Va'al on October 8th, 2018 @ 5:11am CDT
You can check out the full clip embedded below, created by Ditoni, and let us know what you think of this new approach to marketing that the international brand teams are doing for the toys!
or not, as I choose not to news this after all - still cool though!
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on October 8th, 2018 @ 5:19am CDT
Va'al wrote:Much like we've previously seen for the Transformers Movie Masterpiece MPM-7 Volkswagen Bumblebee here, the official Italian Facebook page for the Transformers brand has shared a stop motion video review for the Studio Series Blackout figure (Italy is a little behind on releases, we know, though the clip is from August).
You can check out the full clip embedded below, created by Ditoni, and let us know what you think of this new approach to marketing that the international brand teams are doing for the toys!
or not, as I choose not to news this after all - still cool though!
Nice. Still prefer this one though.
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on October 8th, 2018 @ 1:52pm CDT
https://www.kapowtoys.co.uk/transformer ... usive.html
Posted by ZeroWolf on October 8th, 2018 @ 2:32pm CDT
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on October 8th, 2018 @ 2:36pm CDT
ZeroWolf wrote:That's not a bad price for drift, while on holiday in Scarborough, I came across a toy shop selling tlk drift for £22.99...sp compared to that its not bad at all
Yeah, you can often come across the TLK figure for much cheaper in clearance and such but yeah that's what the usual price was for that figure and I much prefer the deco on this one plus obviously the dinos, extra sword, big backdrop and it being a numbered Studio release. So yeah I can see me getting this set especially since I didn't get TLK Drift anyways (I still have the blue AoE figure).
Posted by no-one on October 8th, 2018 @ 5:45pm CDT
Well someone's been watching Jobby the Hong (and others)Va'al wrote:...[vid]stop motion clip[/vid]...
I dug it (I think there was supposed to be a light-hearted sense of humor to the clip?). I wish Hasbro US wouldn't take themselves so damn seriously. Jeez, they are toys after all.
Also, who knew Scorponok was so full of love. Them Decepticons are so misunderstood
Posted by -Kanrabat- on October 8th, 2018 @ 6:53pm CDT
carytheone wrote:Well someone's been watching Jobby the Hong (and others)Va'al wrote:...[vid]stop motion clip[/vid]...
I dug it (I think there was supposed to be a light-hearted sense of humor to the clip?). I wish Hasbro US wouldn't take themselves so damn seriously. Jeez, they are toys after all.
Also, who knew Scorponok was so full of love. Them Decepticons are so misunderstood
Jobby, Italia edition!
I dig it.
I even understood like... 10% of it just because Italian is a language in the same family as French, like Spanish.
Posted by no-one on October 8th, 2018 @ 7:03pm CDT
Jobbi L'italiano-Kanrabat- wrote:Jobby, Italia edition!carytheone wrote:Well someone's been watching Jobby the Hong (and others)Va'al wrote:...[vid]stop motion clip[/vid]...
I dug it (I think there was supposed to be a light-hearted sense of humor to the clip?). I wish Hasbro US wouldn't take themselves so damn seriously. Jeez, they are toys after all.
Also, who knew Scorponok was so full of love. Them Decepticons are so misunderstood
I dig it.
I even understood like... 10% of it just because Italian is a language in the same family as French, like Spanish.
Posted by william-james88 on October 8th, 2018 @ 10:31pm CDT
Kapow Toys in the UK currently has Drift on preorder for £27.97.
As for Rebekah's Garage, this release was recently spotted at Toysrus in Canada, meaning this is the exclusive retailer for that set in that country. The price take there is $40 CAD.
We are still unaware of who will get Drift in Canada or that Bumblebee set in the UK but at least we know these exclusives are being found outside the US.
Posted by william-james88 on October 8th, 2018 @ 10:38pm CDT
-Kanrabat- wrote:Meanwhile, my local TrU went straight to the New Bee wave, never ever restocking Locknown nor Jazz, nor Megatron, nor Brawl.
All except for Megatron can be ordered at Walmart.ca
Posted by fruityrobo on October 8th, 2018 @ 10:54pm CDT
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on October 9th, 2018 @ 8:03am CDT
Of note here are Jazz and Lockdown are listed as available at £16.80 each which is a great price for people still trying to track these two down.
Yes there are Wave 3 figures being listed there with the sale prices too but are listed as 'out of stock' I'd be very surprised if they'd had even had those in stock during this aale and also if this price applies when they are in stock. Cos it seems silly to have new product instantly price reduced... although I did find it odd that my nearest Entertainer had that sale on as soon as they'd stocked their shelves with wave 1 and the sale is still going so who knows?
https://www.thetoyshop.com/brands/trans ... dio-series
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on October 9th, 2018 @ 8:26am CDT
william-james88 wrote:
We are still unaware of who will get Drift in Canada or that Bumblebee set in the UK but at least we know these exclusives are being found outside the US.
The Garage set has been listed on this UK site for a lil while but also said 'ship in September' and obviously we're well into October now so who knows?
https://www.indemandtoys.co.uk/product/ ... ie-figure/
Posted by Hip-Hoptimus Rime on October 9th, 2018 @ 12:56pm CDT
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on October 12th, 2018 @ 4:20am CDT
Posted by ZeroWolf on October 12th, 2018 @ 7:44am CDT
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on October 12th, 2018 @ 8:18am CDT
ZeroWolf wrote:What are you going to do? Try and resell the one that arrived by the slowest mailing service in history?
Gonna sell it... still hope to get my money back or at least a partial refund for just how misleading and slow the delivery was. Have to wait til my eBay dispute I opened last friday is closed. Can't sell it for full amount I paid obviously cos I ordered it before it was properly released and so I paid more but will see what happens.
Posted by EvasionModeBumblebee on October 13th, 2018 @ 11:49am CDT
I hope Studio Series continues for a long time, It's easily my favorite Transformers line ever
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on October 13th, 2018 @ 12:10pm CDT
EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:I've had SS VW Bee for a little while now, and I think he's really good! It's kinda finicky getting him into vehicle mode, but after a couple transformations it's not so bad. I don't think it dethrones SS Camaro Bee as my favorite deluxe Bumblebee, but I'm liking it even more than I thought I would!
I hope Studio Series continues for a long time, It's easily my favorite Transformers line ever
Glad you like it.
I agree with much of this. Studio has certainly been my fave TF line and the one I've bought most figures brand new from any TF line since G1.
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on October 14th, 2018 @ 2:02am CDT
Carnivius_Prime wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:What are you going to do? Try and resell the one that arrived by the slowest mailing service in history?
Gonna sell it... still hope to get my money back or at least a partial refund for just how misleading and slow the delivery was. Have to wait til my eBay dispute I opened last friday is closed. Can't sell it for full amount I paid obviously cos I ordered it before it was properly released and so I paid more but will see what happens.
Um. So. Ebay refunded my full amount because like me, they got no response from the seller at all. Which means I got the very late toy, and the money i originally paid for it. So I got a freebie (free-Bee)? I dunno how I feel about that. I just wanted my money back and the seller did do a lot of things wrong but I didn't want them out of pocket. I just wanted it to be like the sale never happened. Now I ended up with both and so if I sell the originally ordered Bee I would then have profited which makes me feel kinda bad I guess. I dunno.
Posted by ZeroWolf on October 14th, 2018 @ 7:02am CDT
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on October 14th, 2018 @ 11:08am CDT
Carnivius_Prime wrote:Carnivius_Prime wrote:ZeroWolf wrote:What are you going to do? Try and resell the one that arrived by the slowest mailing service in history?
Gonna sell it... still hope to get my money back or at least a partial refund for just how misleading and slow the delivery was. Have to wait til my eBay dispute I opened last friday is closed. Can't sell it for full amount I paid obviously cos I ordered it before it was properly released and so I paid more but will see what happens.
Um. So. Ebay refunded my full amount because like me, they got no response from the seller at all. Which means I got the very late toy, and the money i originally paid for it. So I got a freebie (free-Bee)? I dunno how I feel about that. I just wanted my money back and the seller did do a lot of things wrong but I didn't want them out of pocket. I just wanted it to be like the sale never happened. Now I ended up with both and so if I sell the originally ordered Bee I would then have profited which makes me feel kinda bad I guess. I dunno.
This sort of happened with me and Cogman last year. He arrived 3 weeks after he was supposed to from a Chinese seller, but that seller said he would come and to be patient and he arrived.
I've learned with those Chinese sellers, time is extremely inconsistent. I got that MPM Barricade (which ended up being a KO and wasn't advertised as such) in about a week and a half, but Cogman took almost 2 full months.
So what will you do with the leftover Bee?
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on October 14th, 2018 @ 1:25pm CDT
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I've learned with those Chinese sellers, time is extremely inconsistent. I got that MPM Barricade (which ended up being a KO and wasn't advertised as such) in about a week and a half, but Cogman took almost 2 full months.
Did you get refund on Barricade? Were you able to prove to eBay it was a KO? I seem to remember reading something about this a while back if that was you.
So what will you do with the leftover Bee?
Probably resell, I guess. I haven't any need for a duplicate one as it's a very specific mold I can't really repaint into any necessary characters (no, not a fanon Cliffjumper) and I'm pretty happy with the one I already have.
Posted by ZeroWolf on October 14th, 2018 @ 1:26pm CDT
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on October 14th, 2018 @ 1:28pm CDT
Carnivius_Prime wrote:D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I've learned with those Chinese sellers, time is extremely inconsistent. I got that MPM Barricade (which ended up being a KO and wasn't advertised as such) in about a week and a half, but Cogman took almost 2 full months.
Did you get refund on Barricade? Were you able to prove to eBay it was a KO? I seem to remember reading something about this a while back if that was you.
I got a mostly refund on him, took me several days to find out he was a KO (and I had tossed the insert for the box by then) and then almost 2 weeks to get the seller to do a partial refund. Still PO-ed about how that all went down
Carnivius_Prime wrote:So what will you do with the leftover Bee?
Probably resell, I guess. I haven't any need for a duplicate one as it's a very specific mold I can't really repaint into any necessary characters (no, not a fanon Cliffjumper) and I'm pretty happy with the one I already have.
Depending where you want to go with him, I would be interested!
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on October 15th, 2018 @ 7:09pm CDT
But I'm disappointed in him so far. Transformed him twice, and the alt mode just will not tab together. And he already has stress marks in the clear plastic hinge where the hood and windshield connection are. I'm really concerned there are lots of Bees that are going to break, especially with how fiddly the alt mode is.
That roof piece is so close to not needing that stress either, but at the last moment, it needs a bit too much wiggling and push needed that I'm comfortable with. I love the sculpt, and the bot mode is really awesome, but that transformation is proving to be a nightmare that won't let you see the alt mode properly!
Posted by nycPrime on October 15th, 2018 @ 7:59pm CDT
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on October 16th, 2018 @ 12:42am CDT
My only real complaint is that I wish the face-mask thing had been done as a whole seperate head since I find the head much easier to remove than the mask. The very first time I tried it I had to basically remove the head then prise the face away from it with tweezers cos it was stuck firmly on there. The whole head comes off far easier than the face plate.
Posted by Bucky on October 16th, 2018 @ 3:37am CDT
https://www.hasbrotoyshop.com/en/htsusa/-e1608as00
Posted by Sabrblade on October 16th, 2018 @ 8:40am CDT
There's an image out there now of a Studio Series packaging box for Movie 1 Bonecrusher, but it's a fake. The artwork used is lifted directly from Forged to Fight, whose art none of the official Studio Series toys have used for any other character.
Here's the fake image:
And the Forged to Fight art for comparison:
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on October 16th, 2018 @ 9:09am CDT
Also this curiousness. Lockdown has appeared on shelf for the nice reduced Deluxe price... but also his previously Asda-exclusive (in the UK) former mold-mate Hot Rod has appeared too.
I got little Legion class VW Bee for £5.25 (usual price £7) to take with me to places.
Posted by ZeroWolf on October 16th, 2018 @ 9:35am CDT
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on October 16th, 2018 @ 9:41am CDT
ZeroWolf wrote:Was that legion bee that price in the Entertainer?
Yep
if interested, the huge Bee has a nice discount too
Posted by william-james88 on October 16th, 2018 @ 9:50am CDT
Posted by Va'al on October 18th, 2018 @ 3:34am CDT
The figures are currently listed at the 18.94 USD price point (or no price at all, in the case of Dropkick), but no further information is available on stock or release date, so stay tuned for more information as we gain access to it! You can check out the listings below.
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