Transformers Studio Series 86 Core Class Exo Suit Spike Revealed

Hell yes!

Awesome Buuuuuut. you couldn't make him comet of the suit and slightly poseable?

Where's the back wheels?

But will he be in scale with the other Studio Series toys?

Day 734 of waiting for Transformers Armada Masterpiece news.

TulioDude wrote:But will he be in scale with the other Studio Series toys?

Day 734 of waiting for Transformers Armada Masterpiece news.

I have a feeling he won't be

joeformer wrote:Awesome Buuuuuut. you couldn't make him comet of the suit and slightly poseable?

Think that would have upped the plastic and parts count considerably, putting him firmly into the Deluxe price point

RiddlerJ wrote:Where's the back wheels?

They're either mis-transformed or non existent

I had to google it to look at it properly. The only instance I remembered of the Exosuit was The Movie. Even then the "car" mode was brief and from the front...



Ohhh that looks rough. A separate Witwicky was not an announcement I would ever had expected for the SS line to be fair. Movie or Bayformers.

TulioDude wrote:But will he be in scale with the other Studio Series toys?

Day 734 of waiting for Transformers Armada Masterpiece news.

Doubtful...

ZeroWolf wrote:

TulioDude wrote:But will he be in scale with the other Studio Series toys?

Day 734 of waiting for Transformers Armada Masterpiece news.

I have a feeling he won't be

In the movie, Spike was just a little shorter than Bumblebee when wearing the exosuit.

Sabrblade wrote:In the movie, Spike was just a little shorter than Bumblebee when wearing the exosuit.

Which reminds me of this:


The mini vehicles scaling in the show was weird.

Whenever the G1 cartoon is involved, better forget anything about scale to preserve your sanity.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:In the movie, Spike was just a little shorter than Bumblebee when wearing the exosuit.

Which reminds me of this:


The mini vehicles scaling in the show was weird.

Clearly they've been sneaking into Wheeljack's lab closet.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Whenever the G1 cartoon is involved, better forget anything about scale to preserve your sanity.

True. But in all fairness, the cartoon was the only one to use the accurate city-sized scale of Fortress Maximus and Scorponok (carried over into the Takara series).

Sabrblade wrote:Clearly they've been sneaking into Wheeljack's lab closet.

It is easy to forget how goofy the cartoon was at times.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Whenever the G1 cartoon is involved, better forget anything about scale to preserve your sanity.

Or at the very least when it comes to SS Core Class. Shockwave comes to mind here.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

TulioDude wrote:But will he be in scale with the other Studio Series toys?

Day 734 of waiting for Transformers Armada Masterpiece news.

Doubtful...

That's roughly Titan Master scale, so if that's what you want, I hope you have the headmaster Arcee toy. I'll probably use the one from the Buzzworthy Bumblebee two-pack in any scenes with the full, larger cast, but it might depend on how I feel when I have the new one in-hand.

It's weird how we didn't have exosuit Daniel* for decades, now there's like a half dozen, including three in the last twelve months or so.

*Edit: I'm considering Spike and Daniel as effectively interchangeable in the case of the BB two-pack, I happen to have two of them, though I'll probably unload one.

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Whenever the G1 cartoon is involved, better forget anything about scale to preserve your sanity.

Or at the very least when it comes to SS Core Class. Shockwave comes to mind here.

Core is not a size scale, but (arguably) a size class. Even Kingdom had a mix of smaller figures and those at a nonstandard scale.

AcademyofDrX wrote:That's roughly Titan Master scale, so if that's what you want, I hope you have the headmaster Arcee toy. I'll probably use the one from the Buzzworthy Bumblebee two-pack in any scenes with the full, larger cast, but it might depend on how I feel when I have the new one in-hand.

We should be thankful in that case, the SS line won't carry over into the shows post-Movie seasons. Scaling for Headmaster Arcee would be problematic...

Can't say I'm too interested in this, maybe if it were a two pack with a non sited Spike figure or a Daniel figure. Then again this a Transformers line not human action figure line.

I didn't mention it in the article but someone was adamant on Twitter, that the picture on the back of the box looked like Daniel more then Spike.

ZeroWolf wrote:I didn't mention it in the article but someone was adamant on Twitter, that the picture on the back of the box looked like Daniel more then Spike.

I had the same thought, but I'm pretty sure the rumors say we'll get both, so it's an academic point until we start seeing the official reveals.

The big SS86 Core class question I have is about Rumble. Rumors and conventional wisdom say we're getting a Netflix Soundwave reissue or redeco and Legacy, with a reissued or updated Rumble to follow. I thought that was nuts, because Core class isn't a scale but a size, and Micromasters are less than half as big as a standard Core figure. Then we got BB SS Ravage who is very small for a Core but to scale with BB SS Soundwave. If the conventional wisdom is right, we could have a human character and a cassette on the same peg at the same time, and the human would be twice as tall. That's wild, but like I said, it's a class and not a scale.

So is the final product going to have a face?

AcademyofDrX wrote:The big SS86 Core class question I have is about Rumble. Rumors and conventional wisdom say we're getting a Netflix Soundwave reissue or redeco and Legacy, with a reissued or updated Rumble to follow. I thought that was nuts, because Core class isn't a scale but a size, and Micromasters are less than half as big as a standard Core figure. Then we got BB SS Ravage who is very small for a Core but to scale with BB SS Soundwave. If the conventional wisdom is right, we could have a human character and a cassette on the same peg at the same time, and the human would be twice as tall. That's wild, but like I said, it's a class and not a scale.

So in a nutshell, outside of figures that are meant to interact with larger ones, Core Class should not be used for scale purposes.

I got BB Movie Soundwave and it is a very nice figure in bot mode with nice articulation, however, that alt mode is just butt.

The transformation is frustrating at best, but at least bot mode looks really good, and all the joints are nice and stiff.

And the Wave 2 leaks begin! Bayverse stuff doesn’t show up till wave 3, but we’re getting closer to seeing those guys!

Seriously can’t wait for DOTM Bee and ROTF Sideways.

I seen the news article about SS86 Spike, but then couldnt find it in the SS 86 thread and had to come here. Just curious, but why wasnt this news posted there?

looks like they can release all the ss86 guys in their BB colors as SS with transformers the movie on the box. Crazy. Happy with the (dabiel) one with MP Bee and have the titan masters so a pass on this for me.

Looks great. I just hope we can remove Spike, scale be damned. He could bend at the knees and waist and "scrunch up" inside the suit to fit or just stand up straight maybe.

I'm surprised that they didn't use the "exo suit" titanmaster with an "exo suit vehicle mode" vehicle/weapon doo-dad that came with the basic titanmaster figures (or even a semi-transforming "Pretender shell" for the "power-core" figures). They could have included it with that headmaster version of Arcee.

First thoughts about the Spike Core figure? He looks a lot like "The Question" from DC comics, with no facial features to speak of, like he's wearing a stocking over his head.



And that alt mode took 11 steps? I suspect they had to count some of the limb swivels as 2 steps each to pad it out.

Moonshot wrote:I seen the news article about SS86 Spike, but then couldnt find it in the SS 86 thread and had to come here. Just curious, but why wasnt this news posted there?

I'm not going to lie, I was in a rush to get the news up that I didn't search very far for the 86 thread. Act in haste, repent in leisure and all that.

ZeroWolf wrote:

Moonshot wrote:I seen the news article about SS86 Spike, but then couldnt find it in the SS 86 thread and had to come here. Just curious, but why wasnt this news posted there?

I'm not going to lie, I was in a rush to get the news up that I didn't search very far for the 86 thread. Act in haste, repent in leisure and all that.

Also the SS86 thread us mainly for discussion purposes. This is the main SS thread so any kind of SS news can appear here, including SS86 news.

DeathReviews wrote:First thoughts about the Spike Core figure? He looks a lot like "The Question" from DC comics, with no facial features to speak of, like he's wearing a stocking over his head.



And that alt mode took 11 steps? I suspect they had to count some of the limb swivels as 2 steps each to pad it out.

Yeah and The Question got me thinking of The Blank, either one is better than the flaw chosen by / ...'nuff said.

I noticed that Spike comes with some blast effects, does that mean the figure is being bumped up to a deluxe price point now?

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I noticed that Spike comes with some blast effects, does that mean the figure is being bumped up to a deluxe price point now?

He isn't in a Deluxe box so no.

I like the suit mode, but the car mode is not great. I don't like the way the "guns" on the arms and the arms themselves have switched places now and how the rear wheels are just molded in and don't spin since it doesn't look like he has any ankle joints, they really should have painted the wheels to make them more visible.

He doesn't have a sculpted face, it's just hard to see and probably doesn't have painted details. Also his blast effects don't seem to have 5mm pegs on them.

Emerje

I want that Spike figure SO badly it almost hurts.

Scale even in animation is questionable at best. Remember They were both able to fit in Rodimus Prime's cab in the movie and later Daniel in the exo-suit became Arcee's head (even if I'm not fond of the American version of headmasters, since the Japanese version makes more sense).
You would think they would put both Spike and Daniel's heads in the same package though so people could display either or buy two to showcase both. Then again they might be planning for the in box collectors and release Daniel separately.

william-james88 wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:

Moonshot wrote:I seen the news article about SS86 Spike, but then couldnt find it in the SS 86 thread and had to come here. Just curious, but why wasnt this news posted there?

I'm not going to lie, I was in a rush to get the news up that I didn't search very far for the 86 thread. Act in haste, repent in leisure and all that.

Also the SS86 thread us mainly for discussion purposes. This is the main SS thread so any kind of SS news can appear here, including SS86 news.

Thats cool, no big deal, I was just asking cause I dont follow the SS thread cause Im only into the SS86 stuff and couldnt find it. I thought the SS86 thread was made to keep it out of the main SS one cause people complained.

Scale in Transformers is more a vague suggestion than anything. :p

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Scale in Transformers is more a vague suggestion than anything. :p

It's not just scale.

Ask Omega Supreme about space travel...

Moonshot wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:

Moonshot wrote:I seen the news article about SS86 Spike, but then couldnt find it in the SS 86 thread and had to come here. Just curious, but why wasnt this news posted there?

I'm not going to lie, I was in a rush to get the news up that I didn't search very far for the 86 thread. Act in haste, repent in leisure and all that.

Also the SS86 thread us mainly for discussion purposes. This is the main SS thread so any kind of SS news can appear here, including SS86 news.

Thats cool, no big deal, I was just asking cause I dont follow the SS thread cause Im only into the SS86 stuff and couldnt find it. I thought the SS86 thread was made to keep it out of the main SS one cause people complained.

Yes, true, but Hasbro keeps lumping them all together in their waves, so a clean cut can't be done. This remains the main thread for all that is SS

-Kanrabat- wrote:

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Scale in Transformers is more a vague suggestion than anything. :p

It's not just scale.

Ask Omega Supreme about space travel...

As Broadside about physics...

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Scale in Transformers is more a vague suggestion than anything. :p

It's not just scale.

Ask Omega Supreme about space travel...

As Broadside about physics...

Emerje

Ask any size-changer about their whole schtick.

Honestly, if scale is already a mess in any random Transformers continuity, it's even worse in G1 cartoon/movie continuity. Remember, this is the movie where Cyclonus and Scourge go from standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Galvatron to being big enough for their boss to ride either of them, and Galvatron himself later is big enough to be visible when Unicron picks him up and gobbles him. Also, forming Devastator inside Astrotrain.

In other news, YES! FINALLY A GOOD TRANSFORMABLE EXOSUIT I CAN AFFORD! I don't even care if it has no eyes and the back wheels are unpainted, this is gorgeous!

Some appreciation for SS Sentinel Prime, because man, this figure is awesome! Definitely in the top 3 voyagers of the line for me.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Some appreciation for SS Sentinel Prime, because man, this figure is awesome! Definitely in the top 3 voyagers of the line for me.

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Agreed. And the new paint you gave it is very good too!

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Some appreciation for SS Sentinel Prime, because man, this figure is awesome! Definitely in the top 3 voyagers of the line for me.

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Agreed. That is a great figure. I said as much when it came out, and it's still true. Love him, even if I hate him

Rtron wrote:Agreed. And the new paint you gave it is very good too!

Thank you!

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Agreed. That is a great figure. I said as much when it came out, and it's still true. Love him, even if I hate him

I have this picture just for you xD

Almost looks like the masterpiece version

joevill wrote:Almost looks like the masterpiece version

Thank you! Parts of Sentinel were really difficult (like the 316 numbering and the stripes on the back), but I'm very happy with how it turned out!

Sentinel Prime is one of the best SS voyagers. His only true fault is its lack of paint.

Too bad I'm bad at painting.

The rumor mill stops for no one, including Hasbro's marketing teams, further evidenced by yet another leak of an upcoming toy before its official product reveal. Today brings a first look at the previously rumored Studio Series 86 Junkyard, brought to us by the Autobase Aichi blog and the Instagram account for Youtuber Chefatron. While it should still technically be cautioned that this is not an official Hasbro product reveal so you should prepare accordingly for possible future de-bunking, recent history makes this feel unlikely.

As seen below, Junkyard looks to be based on the previously released Wreck-Gar but features a multitude of new parts that set him apart, potentially signaling an end to the long era of "Junkion figures not named Wreck-Gar" just being repaints of Wreck-Gar with a new head.



For reference, here's Junkyard's G1 cartoon design:


Discuss this potential reveal or share your excitement (or lack thereof) for Junkyard and other potential future Junkions by replying to this post on our Energon Pub Forums.

Wow, I'm really impressed by the level of retooling, and for whatever reason I'm really digging the spring details on his forearms.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Some appreciation for SS Sentinel Prime, because man, this figure is awesome! Definitely in the top 3 voyagers of the line for me.

I really kick myself now because I had a couple opportunities to get him, my only hold up back then was I really wasn't a fan of the Bay designs nor of the prices, especially since I was only dabbling in the line. Though I've come around to the latter given more experience with the construction process, I still don't much care for the "busy" look. What made me want him was I liked the character and who voiced him, unfortunately I held out too long.