Transformers 4.5" Series Possibly Confirmed as 'Transformers Authentics' Toyline
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Posted by LordTwann on September 30th, 2017 @ 2:33pm CDT
Posted by The Lonely Cracker on September 30th, 2017 @ 3:06pm CDT
LordTwann wrote:Another useless line of figures to clog up store pegs. Awesome.
Hey, lay off. It's an interesting idea, Basically Cyber Battalion for the U.S. Larger but simpler figures for the kids, because Hasbro can't satisfy everyone's fetish.
Posted by The Lonely Cracker on September 30th, 2017 @ 3:08pm CDT
Posted by DMSL on September 30th, 2017 @ 3:08pm CDT
This is kinda like the crappy 5 points of articulation figures we get for Star Wars. The big problem here is that, although no-one likes them, there are still people that will just buy it because it has the brand name on it.
Seriously stop that it's so silly. Stop buying the crappy things Hasbro puts out and they will stop producing them. Stop being sheep and think. I sometimes feel Hasbro thinks we are all mindless zombies that will just buy whatever they put out, prove them wrong.
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on September 30th, 2017 @ 4:03pm CDT
DMSL wrote:Yeah this doesn't excite me at all. This is just another line of gimmicky figures that no-one really wants and just fills up shelves.
More gimmicky than say... combiners? Head and guns that turn into little robots? Spring-loaded One-Step transformations?
Seriously though, don't expect them to appear at any big retailers like Walmart or Target. They're more like the Cyber series, and are likely meant for chains that carry a smaller selection of toys, like Walgreens, Family Dollar, and the like. In fact, they could even stay within Asia if the Chinese writing is any indication.
Posted by -Kanrabat- on September 30th, 2017 @ 5:25pm CDT
DMSL wrote:Yeah this doesn't excite me at all. This is just another line of gimmicky figures that no-one really wants and just fills up shelves.
This is kinda like the crappy 5 points of articulation figures we get for Star Wars. The big problem here is that, although no-one likes them, there are still people that will just buy it because it has the brand name on it.
Seriously stop that it's so silly. Stop buying the crappy things Hasbro puts out and they will stop producing them. Stop being sheep and think. I sometimes feel Hasbro thinks we are all mindless zombies that will just buy whatever they put out, prove them wrong.
Yeah, because YOU don't like it, NOBODY should buy.
Your attitude is very, very childish. Because you claim that "nobody like them" and under the same breath, you admit they DO sell. Who's buying them then? Fairies and leprechauns? If there's demand for a product and it sell, it will be produced and put on shelves. That's simple economics.
TlDr; no one care that you don't like brocoli. Many do love brocoli and you will not stop the groceries for offering it.
Posted by Microraptor on September 30th, 2017 @ 6:56pm CDT
Posted by -Kanrabat- on September 30th, 2017 @ 7:11pm CDT
Microraptor wrote:While these are a great bridge between the one-steps and rescue bots and the more complex stuff, I still wonder why they didn't just make the Cyber Battalions a wider release. They seem pretty popular.
It baffle the mind indeed. I would have liked that Jetfire at a decent normal, non-scalpy price. Bought locally.
But no... Sigh...
Posted by SG Roadbuster on September 30th, 2017 @ 7:41pm CDT
-Kanrabat- wrote:Microraptor wrote:While these are a great bridge between the one-steps and rescue bots and the more complex stuff, I still wonder why they didn't just make the Cyber Battalions a wider release. They seem pretty popular.
It baffle the mind indeed. I would have liked that Jetfire at a decent normal, non-scalpy price. Bought locally.
But no... Sigh...
start checking your local walgreens then. i just snagged battalion Prowl at the one close to my apartment earlier this week.
Posted by dragons on September 30th, 2017 @ 7:52pm CDT
LordTwann wrote:Another useless line of figures to clog up store pegs. Awesome.
I like these comments transformers made for little kids not adults adult transformers master piece everything else is for kids shows age rage on package amazing how adults buy toys forget that it's funny.,
I can name over hundred adults that do not buy transformers toys but like transformers movies
Posted by Microraptor on September 30th, 2017 @ 7:57pm CDT
-Kanrabat- wrote:Microraptor wrote:While these are a great bridge between the one-steps and rescue bots and the more complex stuff, I still wonder why they didn't just make the Cyber Battalions a wider release. They seem pretty popular.
It baffle the mind indeed. I would have liked that Jetfire at a decent normal, non-scalpy price. Bought locally.
But no... Sigh...
Yeah. As a lucky finder of one, Jetfire is well worth the normal price, but over twenty is just too much.
Posted by -Kanrabat- on September 30th, 2017 @ 8:07pm CDT
SG Roadbuster wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:Microraptor wrote:While these are a great bridge between the one-steps and rescue bots and the more complex stuff, I still wonder why they didn't just make the Cyber Battalions a wider release. They seem pretty popular.
It baffle the mind indeed. I would have liked that Jetfire at a decent normal, non-scalpy price. Bought locally.
But no... Sigh...
start checking your local walgreens then. i just snagged battalion Prowl at the one close to my apartment earlier this week.
No Walgreens in Québec.
Maybe with incredible luck at Winner's? The boxes are trilingual so they CAN appear over here. The only thing needed is for Hasbro to give a damn.
Posted by william-james88 on September 30th, 2017 @ 8:11pm CDT
Microraptor wrote:While these are a great bridge between the one-steps and rescue bots and the more complex stuff, I still wonder why they didn't just make the Cyber Battalions a wider release. They seem pretty popular.
They are only popular because we saw them for so long before having any indication they would be made available in the US. And when we did finally see them, the were Universal Studios Exclusives. So that made them more desirable. But were they to be in stores readily available for everyone from the begining, I am sure we would have gotten the very same comments about them being useless. If these Authentics TFs end up being exclusive to Russia, watch everyone start crying foul at them not being available here.
SG Roadbuster wrote:start checking your local walgreens then. i just snagged battalion Prowl at the one close to my apartment earlier this week.
Walgreens only exists in the US and if you check the location of the person you replied to, it is written he lives in Canada. So no figures for him
Also, to anyone complaning, the leaks these toys were part of stated these were meant for value stores, so they wouldnt be clogging up anywhere you<d be looking for toys anyway.
Posted by -Kanrabat- on September 30th, 2017 @ 8:44pm CDT
william-james88 wrote:Also, to anyone complaning, the leaks these toys were part of stated these were meant for value stores, so they wouldnt be clogging up anywhere you<d be looking for toys anyway.
Lo and behold, scalpers drooling at the prospect of raiding all the value stores...
Posted by william-james88 on September 30th, 2017 @ 8:46pm CDT
-Kanrabat- wrote:william-james88 wrote:Also, to anyone complaning, the leaks these toys were part of stated these were meant for value stores, so they wouldnt be clogging up anywhere you<d be looking for toys anyway.
Lo and behold, scalpers drooling at the prospect of raiding all the value stores...
They didn't raid the Walgreens for the cyber battalion toys so maybe they don't care.
Posted by -Kanrabat- on September 30th, 2017 @ 9:13pm CDT
william-james88 wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:william-james88 wrote:Also, to anyone complaning, the leaks these toys were part of stated these were meant for value stores, so they wouldnt be clogging up anywhere you<d be looking for toys anyway.
Lo and behold, scalpers drooling at the prospect of raiding all the value stores...
They didn't raid the Walgreens for the cyber battalion toys so maybe they don't care.
It still amount to around 45$US to 70$US for a single Cyber Battalion figure shipped to Canada.
So, like that previous line, this new one will be a huge bucket of "nope" for us canucks.
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on October 1st, 2017 @ 1:04am CDT
Posted by DMSL on October 1st, 2017 @ 4:46am CDT
-Kanrabat- wrote:DMSL wrote:Yeah this doesn't excite me at all. This is just another line of gimmicky figures that no-one really wants and just fills up shelves.
This is kinda like the crappy 5 points of articulation figures we get for Star Wars. The big problem here is that, although no-one likes them, there are still people that will just buy it because it has the brand name on it.
Seriously stop that it's so silly. Stop buying the crappy things Hasbro puts out and they will stop producing them. Stop being sheep and think. I sometimes feel Hasbro thinks we are all mindless zombies that will just buy whatever they put out, prove them wrong.
Yeah, because YOU don't like it, NOBODY should buy.
Your attitude is very, very childish. Because you claim that "nobody like them" and under the same breath, you admit they DO sell. Who's buying them then? Fairies and leprechauns? If there's demand for a product and it sell, it will be produced and put on shelves. That's simple economics.
TlDr; no one care that you don't like brocoli. Many do love brocoli and you will not stop the groceries for offering it.
You completely missed the point i was making. There is no need to get personal either.
Just like with Star Wars 5POA figures no-one likes them, but they do sell, which is my point. Why do people buy something if they don't like it? Yes that's right because some people are sheep they buy it because it has the brand name.
I hope people will stop buying stuff they don't actually like, that's the only thing that companies seem to understand nowadays.
Posted by bacem on October 1st, 2017 @ 4:51am CDT
Posted by Burn on October 1st, 2017 @ 4:58am CDT
DMSL wrote:There is no need to get personal either.
Indeed.
Don't make me get the warning paddle -Kanrabat-...
Posted by fenrir72 on October 1st, 2017 @ 5:52am CDT
-Kanrabat- wrote:DMSL wrote:Yeah this doesn't excite me at all. This is just another line of gimmicky figures that no-one really wants and just fills up shelves.
This is kinda like the crappy 5 points of articulation figures we get for Star Wars. The big problem here is that, although no-one likes them, there are still people that will just buy it because it has the brand name on it.
Seriously stop that it's so silly. Stop buying the crappy things Hasbro puts out and they will stop producing them. Stop being sheep and think. I sometimes feel Hasbro thinks we are all mindless zombies that will just buy whatever they put out, prove them wrong.
Yeah, because YOU don't like it, NOBODY should buy.
Your attitude is very, very childish. Because you claim that "nobody like them" and under the same breath, you admit they DO sell. Who's buying them then? Fairies and leprechauns? If there's demand for a product and it sell, it will be produced and put on shelves. That's simple economics.
TlDr; no one care that you don't like brocoli. Many do love brocoli and you will not stop the groceries for offering it.
Posters speaking as if their word is the vox of deus Kanrabat? Who would have guessed? You should by now pretty much expect that a lot of people who have too much of a free time in their lives are doing this here. I count infinity the number just here seibertron
Posted by Burn on October 1st, 2017 @ 6:06am CDT
fenrir72 wrote:
Posters speaking as if their word is the vox of deus Kanrabat? Who would have guessed? You should by now pretty much expect that a lot of people who have too much of a free time in their lives are doing this here. I count infinity the number just here seibertron
Any time you'd actually like to contribute on-topic in this thread, please do. Otherwise, please don't derail threads.
Posted by Agamemnon on October 1st, 2017 @ 10:43am CDT
I do hope this "Authenticate" line doesn't follow the same pattern. Of course, if they do show up at Family Dollar, they should be very reasonably priced. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
Posted by gothsaurus on October 1st, 2017 @ 11:55am CDT
Posted by bacem on October 1st, 2017 @ 11:56am CDT
gothsaurus wrote:I get it. Not everyone can afford the price tag on transformers toys. Hasbro offering a simplified version of the character for a budget purchase is a nice thought. My only hope is that they can find the budget and engineering to give these guys knees. The Cyber Battalion toys had some nice sculpts, but the missing knee joints really took them down a notch.
all the 4 revealed so far has knees tho.
Posted by -Kanrabat- on October 1st, 2017 @ 12:41pm CDT
gothsaurus wrote:I get it. Not everyone can afford the price tag on transformers toys. Hasbro offering a simplified version of the character for a budget purchase is a nice thought. My only hope is that they can find the budget and engineering to give these guys knees. The Cyber Battalion toys had some nice sculpts, but the missing knee joints really took them down a notch.
Having knees doesn't necessarily mean that the figure will be posable. Case in point, I have plenty of G1 Transformers and Gobots that do have genuine knees but they can't pose at all.
Posted by william-james88 on October 1st, 2017 @ 12:50pm CDT
bacem wrote:gothsaurus wrote:I get it. Not everyone can afford the price tag on transformers toys. Hasbro offering a simplified version of the character for a budget purchase is a nice thought. My only hope is that they can find the budget and engineering to give these guys knees. The Cyber Battalion toys had some nice sculpts, but the missing knee joints really took them down a notch.
all the 4 revealed so far has knees tho.
Yup, but only 2 have elbows
Agamemnon wrote:Heh, nearly $20 after tax for a Cyber Battalion at Walgreen feels like scalper prices to me...
I do hope this "Authenticate" line doesn't follow the same pattern. Of course, if they do show up at Family Dollar, they should be very reasonably priced. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
I really want to talk about Family Dollar. I went to the states to visit family this summer and went to all the stores you guys usually discuss that we dont have like Walgreens, Burlington Coat Factory (which is basically TJ MAxx) and Family Dollar. I fucken hated that place. It was like a shitty unkempt Walgreens without the pharmacy part. I dont know where the dollar store idea comes in since everything I saw cost less at Walmart and Food Lion. I finally saw those generations legion toys they had (like Legion Ultra Magnus) but they were like 9$, which is nuts. Since these are bigger, they would totally sell them for 15$ which I would not see as reasonably priced.
Sorry for the rant, I jut really hated my experience at Family Dollar.
If Kanrabat is reading, the store is baically the US Rossy. Looks like a dollar store with prices of a pharmacy store.
Posted by -Kanrabat- on October 1st, 2017 @ 2:48pm CDT
william-james88 wrote:
If Kanrabat is reading, the store is baically the US Rossy. Looks like a dollar store with prices of a pharmacy store.
Jesus. Rossy don't suck balls. Rossy instead bite the balls off, chew them, and spit them out.
There IS a silver lining for them to price their merchs so expensively. Namely to keep OLD stuff unsold for so long, it become like a vault. So have you missed a toy from a line that is one, two, or even 5 years old but don't want to pay 10$ in shipping?
No kidding, I found Universe Dropshot for 20$CAN on clearance. That was 5 years ago, but Universe was a very dead line by then. Another find was for my friend. We found a HFTD Hubcap at the amazingly regular price of 10$CAN! And that was last year! And I think you can still find the generations Skrapnel with Reflector for 20$CAN. A rapy price, sure, but it's long gone from the regular stores and it's still better than Ebay.
Yeah, I can diss Rossy all I want, but it IS a great place to toy hunt. Ironic, isn't it?
Posted by AlexisSkrull on October 1st, 2017 @ 11:32pm CDT
DMSL wrote:Yeah this doesn't excite me at all. This is just another line of gimmicky figures that no-one really wants and just fills up shelves.
This is kinda like the crappy 5 points of articulation figures we get for Star Wars. The big problem here is that, although no-one likes them, there are still people that will just buy it because it has the brand name on it.
Seriously stop that it's so silly. Stop buying the crappy things Hasbro puts out and they will stop producing them. Stop being sheep and think. I sometimes feel Hasbro thinks we are all mindless zombies that will just buy whatever they put out, prove them wrong.
Thanks for calling me a sheep! I don;t buy the 5 POA SW figs or these budget TF because I am a sheep. I buy them because I cant afford the other kinds. I actually like the 5 POA SW figs gives me a vintage feeling. Do I wish I Could buy the bettwr articulated figures? Yes but I can't afford them.
I still don't have a Prime, MEgatron, or Starscream yet. So I am looking forward to these! My Bumblebee is the small one that is currently at Family Dollar. Do I buy the more expensive figures? Sure when I can but that is rare the most expensive I Can usually get is the scale that Hot Rod, Kup, and Blurr were.
And I'm sure i'm not the only one. I am glad these kind of figures are out there. If you don't like them don't get them but realize some of us are grateful that they exist!
William James: my Family Dollar sells the TF legion figures like Magnus for like 5 or 6 bucks.
Posted by Agamemnon on October 2nd, 2017 @ 8:50am CDT
Posted by TreyTable on November 30th, 2017 @ 6:08pm CST
Posted by TreyTable on November 30th, 2017 @ 6:28pm CST
-Kanrabat- wrote:
This line will be AMAZING. For the little kids, of course. Because introducing young children to the classic designs of transformers can only be beneficial for the franchise's future.
I feel sorry for any little kid that gets these junkers. No to get on a soapbox, but you know what was a great line for little kids? G1 1984 toys. Sure not nowadays, but in 1984 I was a little... well, a young kid in fourth grade and we had no problems with G1 and kids as young as first graders also had no problems with G1. Don't underestimate young kids.
Besides, aside from the rare occasion of a super complex toy, the BayFormers, and RiD are great for kids 4 and up. Not the one-step crap either, unless they do something cool like Jumpstarters and Battlechargers, kids these days have no use for one step toys.
Posted by william-james88 on November 30th, 2017 @ 8:01pm CST
TreyTable wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:
This line will be AMAZING. For the little kids, of course. Because introducing young children to the classic designs of transformers can only be beneficial for the franchise's future.
I feel sorry for any little kid that gets these junkers. No to get on a soapbox, but you know what was a great line for little kids? G1 1984 toys. Sure not nowadays, but in 1984 I was a little... well, a young kid in fourth grade and we had no problems with G1 and kids as young as first graders also had no problems with G1. Don't underestimate young kids.
The problem with G1 and young kids was never the complexity but having no storage integration. So when speaking of Starscream for instance, it was easy for young kids to lose the arms, wings, weapons and front wheel. Hence why you can go to any small toy convention and see tons of incomplete G1 seekers for dirt cheap.
Same goes for Optimus and his fists. So in that sense, these toys are a bit better for kids since there is no pats forming involved (and nothing much to lose). Plus, these are more durable than the datsun cars who had that clear plastic top which constantly broke. That made lots of kids cry. G1 Bumblebee was great though and I think him being a nice little complete package that lasted more easily through time is the reason for him being so popular and for us big kids having such warm memories.
Posted by Va'al on December 5th, 2017 @ 7:52am CST
The images can be seen below, and are mirrored from the regular Weibo account which has proven a source of plentiful images in the past year, tf-factory. Also included below are some renders with Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, that appear to be the art used in banners starting to appear in stores around the US and beyond, as reported here. Check out what may or may not be the Authentics line, and let us know what you think!
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on December 5th, 2017 @ 8:47am CST
Posted by TFmonkeybiz on December 5th, 2017 @ 2:02pm CST
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on December 5th, 2017 @ 4:29pm CST
Carnivius_Prime wrote:So you have to assemble Grimlock a bit but he's not a 'partsformer'? I still kinda like it in that Pretender Grimlock mini-figure sort of appeal. I mean it does what it sets out to do better than the PotP Grimlock I suppose... Just shame it lacks of moving jaw. Would have preferred it fixed open for roar/bite/fire than sculpted shut...
It's no different than having to attach the alligator head to skullsmasher. Once the pieces are on you don't have to remove them again.
Posted by -Kanrabat- on December 5th, 2017 @ 5:04pm CST
If it's available locally, I'm buying for sure.
Posted by BERSEKAEL on December 5th, 2017 @ 5:17pm CST
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on December 5th, 2017 @ 9:02pm CST
BERSEKAEL wrote:Meh... I wonder when will we have a G1 legion class Grimlock and Dinobots
We sorta already do. There are universe dinosaur minicons done as Dinobots.
Posted by lakebot on December 5th, 2017 @ 11:28pm CST
And trying to say because some of the movie line toys were too complex it's a good reason for decreased transformation steps or difficulty is not a true/accurate statement in my opinion. A bunch of those are tough little buggers. If I can transform movie masterpiece bumblebee(truth be told, not the hardest transformation but still requires some effort) without even looking at the directions or online,yet can't do that with half the normal movie line toys I've purchased thus far, there's an issue. I think some of them were over complex, had too much kibble, and were not intuitive.
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on December 6th, 2017 @ 12:43am CST
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Carnivius_Prime wrote:So you have to assemble Grimlock a bit but he's not a 'partsformer'? I still kinda like it in that Pretender Grimlock mini-figure sort of appeal. I mean it does what it sets out to do better than the PotP Grimlock I suppose... Just shame it lacks of moving jaw. Would have preferred it fixed open for roar/bite/fire than sculpted shut...
It's no different than having to attach the alligator head to skullsmasher. Once the pieces are on you don't have to remove them again.
Ah right. I didn't buy that one cos i've never cared for the design or character but yeah I recall reading Metroplex and stomp n chomp grimlock have a limb removed just to fit into packaging.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on December 6th, 2017 @ 8:52am CST
chuckdawg1999 wrote:BERSEKAEL wrote:Meh... I wonder when will we have a G1 legion class Grimlock and Dinobots
We sorta already do. There are universe dinosaur minicons done as Dinobots.
He means proper ones that aren't a repaint of a figure that shares an alt mode. He loves his legion figures, and I can't blame him for wanting legion dinobots after the most recent Grimlock continues to be done from a rippersnapper
Posted by Va'al on December 7th, 2017 @ 5:18am CST
The sightings show all four basic figures, with Decepticons Starscream and Megatron being accompanied by Autobots Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, from a Toys'R'Us store and Alabang's Toy Kingdom inside the Festival Supermall in Muntinlupa City. The price is the same, at 299.75 Philippine pesos (approx 6 USD) each, and you can check them out mirrored below - and make sure to use our Sightings database in case these or any other figures turn up near you!
Posted by Rodimus Knight on December 7th, 2017 @ 7:15am CST
Posted by Aimless Misfire on December 7th, 2017 @ 8:22am CST
Posted by Emerje on December 7th, 2017 @ 12:16pm CST
Rodimus Knight wrote:So are these basically the same ones being sold in the US at Walgreens but in different packaging?
Same idea, but these are new figures. I'm sure we'll be seeing these at Walgreens, Dollar General, Big Lots and wherever else soon enough.
Emerje
Posted by Prime Target on December 7th, 2017 @ 4:18pm CST
Posted by Sabrblade on December 7th, 2017 @ 4:21pm CST
4.5 inches tall, like short Deluxes.Prime Target wrote:So are these Legion figures