New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale

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We got a designer update from Evan Brooks for the upcoming Commander Class Ultra Magnus. In the images we can see the gimmick where he can be taken apart, but more importantly for fans we get to see how he scales with other figures, like SS 86 Grimlock. You'll let us know what you think.

Hi Transformer fans!

Hope everyone had fun at SDCC and enjoyed some of the new figures we have coming!

I have some catching up to do with a bunch of requested Insta posts but wanted to start with our SS86 Commander Ultra Magnus.

Bit of a short post but as I mentioned in our SDCC panel, this figures comes courtesy of the wonderful Tomo san at TT.

We crammed in a bunch of wonderful features and articulation that are standard to the scale and really make this a fun figure to play with.

Hopefully you all have been having fun collecting the Junkions so they can fully rebuild Ultra Magnus after his battle with Galvaron and his Sweeps.

Thanks for all the support and we’ll have more info and posts coming soon.

Thanks!

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Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166521)
Posted by Sowndwave76 on August 8th, 2023 @ 8:11pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:Snarl did make it into the final movie, appearing in three shots:

Sorry, my wording was not accurate to what I was thinking.
Bring my favorite Dinobot, I knew he was in the movie for really short blips of time…
I meant I wish he would’ve been in the movie more and had more of a substantial role.
It was so weird that he’s not there, then you do see him, but then he’s not there again.

I also find it odd that in the scene where the Autobots are getting attacked, Swoop is missing.
Then in that last shot, suddenly Sludge isn’t with them.

I’ve been meaning to post this sooner, but as we’ve talked about characters that could be included in SS86, I went back to the battle scene where you see Perceptor in the mid-ground and Grapple towards the background…
And strangely enough, it’s a Dinobot that runs past in the foreground,
Although overly stout and distorted-looking…

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166522)
Posted by Sabrblade on August 8th, 2023 @ 8:19pm CDT

Sowndwave76 wrote:I’ve been meaning to post this sooner, but as we’ve talked about characters that could be included in SS86, I went back to the battle scene where you see Perceptor in the mid-ground and Grapple towards the background…
And strangely enough, it’s a Dinobot that runs past in the foreground,
Although overly stout and distorted-looking…

Swoop, specifically.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166529)
Posted by Sowndwave76 on August 8th, 2023 @ 9:22pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:
Sowndwave76 wrote:I’ve been meaning to post this sooner, but as we’ve talked about characters that could be included in SS86, I went back to the battle scene where you see Perceptor in the mid-ground and Grapple towards the background…
And strangely enough, it’s a Dinobot that runs past in the foreground,
Although overly stout and distorted-looking…
Swoop, specifically.

You’re killin’ me…
Or maybe you haven’t quite figured out I’m moderately observant…
Yes.
Yes, that’s Swoop.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166532)
Posted by Emerje on August 8th, 2023 @ 9:27pm CDT

Well Ultra Magnus is just as bad as I feared he would be. So much for scale. No regrets not ordering him.

Sabrblade wrote:

I DEMAND a movie accurate bipedal Slug figure now. You really made my day with these screen shots, I somehow never noticed this after all these years. It's just hilarious that the animators somehow had never seen a triceratops before and decided Slag walked around on two legs now. :lol:

And then when they're all escaping even Sludge gets up and runs off on his back legs. :lol:

Emerje

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166533)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on August 8th, 2023 @ 9:28pm CDT

Emerje wrote:I DEMAND a movie accurate bipedal Slug figure now. You really made my day with these screen shots, I somehow never noticed this after all these years. It's just hilarious that the animators somehow had never seen a triceratops before and decided Slag walked around on two legs now. And then when they're all escaping even Sludge gets up and runs off on his back legs.

Emerje

Any Slug is better than the one we got, and bipedal would at least be funny like the corpse ironhide and prowl are

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166539)
Posted by Sabrblade on August 8th, 2023 @ 9:59pm CDT

Sowndwave76 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
Sowndwave76 wrote:I’ve been meaning to post this sooner, but as we’ve talked about characters that could be included in SS86, I went back to the battle scene where you see Perceptor in the mid-ground and Grapple towards the background…
And strangely enough, it’s a Dinobot that runs past in the foreground,
Although overly stout and distorted-looking…
Swoop, specifically.

You’re killin’ me…
Or maybe you haven’t quite figured out I’m moderately observant…
Yes.
Yes, that’s Swoop.

Which is also weird considering this scene happens the night before he and the other Dinobots even arrive at Autobot City.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166543)
Posted by Till-all-R1 on August 8th, 2023 @ 10:34pm CDT

Interesting, a Commander Class that only takes 6 steps to fully transform!
I know that it's just me, but UM does look a bit hokey in bot mode. Also after my recent debacle with a Kup repaint of Dion and how it falls apart so easily I'm not exactly thrilled about a $90 Commander Class having the same pull apart features.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166549)
Posted by Emerje on August 9th, 2023 @ 12:57am CDT

Till-all-R1 wrote:Interesting, a Commander Class that only takes 6 steps to fully transform!
I know that it's just me, but UM does look a bit hokey in bot mode. Also after my recent debacle with a Kup repaint of Dion and how it falls apart so easily I'm not exactly thrilled about a $90 Commander Class having the same pull apart features.

Same feature, different execution. Kup just used pegs while Magnus uses Combiner Wars style locking pegs like we've also seen on Legacy Menasor and Legends God Bomber.

Emerje

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166552)
Posted by SpaceEagle on August 9th, 2023 @ 2:04am CDT

UM looks pretty good. Still feel like picking him up, seems like a very nice and chunky lad.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166560)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on August 9th, 2023 @ 4:40am CDT

Emerje wrote:
Till-all-R1 wrote:Interesting, a Commander Class that only takes 6 steps to fully transform!
I know that it's just me, but UM does look a bit hokey in bot mode. Also after my recent debacle with a Kup repaint of Dion and how it falls apart so easily I'm not exactly thrilled about a $90 Commander Class having the same pull apart features.

Same feature, different execution. Kup just used pegs while Magnus uses Combiner Wars style locking pegs like we've also seen on Legacy Menasor and Legends God Bomber.

Emerje

At least the limbs will not pop off on their own, and we will be able to do some CW shenanigans.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166564)
Posted by AcademyofDrX on August 9th, 2023 @ 6:37am CDT

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Any Slug is better than the one we got, and bipedal would at least be funny like the corpse ironhide and prowl are

Funny? FUNNY?

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166566)
Posted by RotorstormNZ on August 9th, 2023 @ 7:16am CDT

After seeing Evan’s post about SS86 Magnus I feel I speak for many of us when I say I can, in fact, deal with that right now.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166571)
Posted by DeathReviews on August 9th, 2023 @ 9:24am CDT

"Ay, man! I can't SEE nothin'!"

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166589)
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on August 9th, 2023 @ 12:57pm CDT

The transformation comparison between Magnus and the storyboard sequence is actually really impressive. I didn't think they'd even try to replicate that. But they did. I admit, I find that charming.

Scale. I mean. Combiner Wars Magnus still exists and is likely to go down in price, right? And Kingdom Magnus looks okay in Robot Mode and is probably bang on in terms of height.

It's about a head off. Which is still off, sure. But so is Galvatron. Scale problems are better than they used to be.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166609)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on August 9th, 2023 @ 8:05pm CDT

AcademyofDrX wrote:
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Any Slug is better than the one we got, and bipedal would at least be funny like the corpse ironhide and prowl are

Funny? FUNNY?

Oh, I am laughing all the way to the G1 Autobot shelf! i can't wait to get corpse Ratchet and Brawn once they are hopefully made, so I can have all 4 dying! I can even have corpse Prime from ER around to complete the quintet of the dead!

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166620)
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on August 9th, 2023 @ 10:54pm CDT

Took a trip to Toys R Us today and actually found dead Ironhide and Prowl! :KREMZEEK:

I took them off my preorder at Hasbro Pulse because the preorders just stacked badly and, TBH, it wasn't worth the price after shipping and conversion (I live in Canada). I figured that if I missed it, I missed it and that's that. I've been taking trips all the time hoping to nab them to no avail, so I'm pretty happy to have them on my desk right now.

Once I have the space maybe I'll make a small corpse display with Sparkless Bot, Ghost Starscream, and Dead Prime facing Ectotron. Or maybe not, I dunno :lol:

.

Two more for the shuttle scene. I guess. I'm over any residual childhood trauma that scene caused me.

Last TF I'm actively looking for in stores is Toxitron, I guess. Not even sure he's been out in Canada.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166642)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on August 10th, 2023 @ 12:43pm CDT

Death of '84

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166646)
Posted by AcademyofDrX on August 10th, 2023 @ 12:50pm CDT

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Death of '84

Do your effects parts plug into Ironhide securely? Mine do not, though I can pull off some poses using gravity and a little friction.

I wish they'd used the Earthrise mold since that had 3mm posts, but I get why they did what they did.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166650)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on August 10th, 2023 @ 12:59pm CDT

AcademyofDrX wrote:
D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Death of '84

Do your effects parts plug into Ironhide securely? Mine do not, though I can pull off some poses using gravity and a little friction.

I wish they'd used the Earthrise mold since that had 3mm posts, but I get why they did what they did.

Mine hold fast yes. The middle piece on Prowl does not like to peg into 5mm ports, but otherwise it holds good

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166659)
Posted by GrangerPerry on August 10th, 2023 @ 4:20pm CDT

I know this phrase gets thrown around all the time but this really looks like a mini masterpiece with all the articulation and everything. The back has a similar mold same ankle rockers same matrix chamber, the rear skirt actually looks much better and I don’t think I could get my masterpiece to take a knee like that photo very impressive!

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166673)
Posted by sol magnus on August 10th, 2023 @ 7:33pm CDT

Emerje wrote:Well Ultra Magnus is just as bad as I feared he would be. So much for scale. No regrets not ordering him.

Sabrblade wrote:

I DEMAND a movie accurate bipedal Slug figure now. You really made my day with these screen shots, I somehow never noticed this after all these years. It's just hilarious that the animators somehow had never seen a triceratops before and decided Slag walked around on two legs now. And then when they're all escaping even Sludge gets up and runs off on his back legs.

Emerje

I hate the out of scale-ness of Ultra Magnus, but honestly, he's a bit too big even as MP-22. The thing is, people want too much from Ultra Magnus figures...pretty much always - either he has to have a white Prime interior, or has to be able to carry cars like the Powered Convoy toy, or he has to do both.

The way I see it, he has to be a bit bigger to accomodate the more than 40 year old gimmick to assuage all the people who supposed hate the WFC versions because it didn't carry cars. Then, don't even get me started on the ridiculous 3rd party leg extensions to make him taller.

I'm going to get this one (because, well, it's Ultra Magnus and I'm me), but I'll have to live with him being a bit out of scale. I do feel like with Mark and Evan we're slowly getting more and more incorrectly scaled figures, starting with Blaster and coming soon to a toy store near you, an incorrectly "up to Blaster" scaled Soundwave that Maher has mentioned TWICE. I'm aware there is a bit of flexibility in the sizes, but it's like centimeters, not inches.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166675)
Posted by Rtron on August 10th, 2023 @ 7:43pm CDT

Why are people so hung up on scale when the cartoon literally had bigger bots going into smaller bots' vehicle modes...

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166676)
Posted by SpaceEagle on August 10th, 2023 @ 7:44pm CDT

Personally I think they should've included a buggy based off of the original Diaclone release and made it an official Transformer here!

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166677)
Posted by SpaceEagle on August 10th, 2023 @ 7:46pm CDT

Rtron wrote:Why are people so hung up on scale when the cartoon literally had bigger bots going into smaller bots' vehicle modes...

Scale has normally been inconsistent, though I s'pose for a series touting "screen accuracy" I can see fans at least hoping he'd match the size shown in the good ol' 80's film.
(I'm not a scale nut myself, BUT this bigger UM with articulated fingers means he can happily grasp, say, the NewAge Constructicons to reference that classic scene where they're teeny tiny!)

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166678)
Posted by sol magnus on August 10th, 2023 @ 7:52pm CDT

Hey, Hastak said they're doing scale, I expect scale. They only gave me what I always wanted, but they did it not me.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166715)
Posted by Till-all-R1 on August 11th, 2023 @ 10:54am CDT

Curious, as it's been a long time, but did Magnus ever actually carry any cars in his trailer?
if so then I can understand some people's want for this to be translated into toy form. Since I wouldn't even be utilizing this feature it IMO would be a waste to pay extra to have it. Which is why I'm perfectly content with Kingdom UM and see no reason to "upgrade" if you will. I'm happy for anyone who needs this Ultimate Ultra Magnus though! It's nice to have options to suit various collecting needs/wants.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166718)
Posted by Sabrblade on August 11th, 2023 @ 11:28am CDT

Till-all-R1 wrote:Curious, as it's been a long time, but did Magnus ever actually carry any cars in his trailer?

Off the top of my head, he did in this commercial bumper:

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166722)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on August 11th, 2023 @ 12:19pm CDT

If SS86 Commander Ultra Magnus do have all 4 libs attached by Combiner Wars connectors, and if he can carry 4 deluxe CW cars in his trailer, we could make a "Combiner Wars" Ultra Magnus "combiner." :-?

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166738)
Posted by Sowndwave76 on August 11th, 2023 @ 4:58pm CDT

I don’t love that this new Magnus will be taller and even out-bulk the Dinobots.
But in the grand scheme, with what I consider such a substantial imrovement, it’s by no means a deal-breaker, and I would assume this would be the case for many.
If someone isn’t completely content with either of the previous versions, and the cost isn’t going to be an issue, why not?
Outside of scale, this is hands-down the best version in terms of appearance. Of both modes.

Here’s a thought I’ve had.
There’s rumor of a new leader class Springer, right?
Say he ends up being slightly taller than the most recent Prime figures…
Well it seems likely that a new Prime is bound to happen in the next couple years.
So if UM, Springer (who is supposed to be as big as Prime), and Optimus all get slightly larger figures, I still see that working fine with all of the other figures of characters that are supposed to be smaller than those 3. Compared to them, the minibots will appear smaller and probably more in scale.
The same can be said if Soundwave gets a slightly larger figure.
Then to follow suit of these larger figures, the next Megatron would also be slightly increased in size.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166739)
Posted by sol magnus on August 11th, 2023 @ 5:03pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:
Till-all-R1 wrote:Curious, as it's been a long time, but did Magnus ever actually carry any cars in his trailer?
Off the top of my head, he did in this commercial bumper:

And in the toy commercial. Never on the the cartoon proper.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166740)
Posted by sol magnus on August 11th, 2023 @ 5:08pm CDT

Sowndwave76 wrote:Compared to them, the minibots will appear smaller and probably more in scale.
The same can be said if Soundwave gets a slightly larger figure.
Then to follow suit of these larger figures, the next Megatron would also be slightly increased in size.

Except the mini-bots are in cartoon scale now. They won't look "more right" if Soundwave, Optimus and Megatron get bigger, they just may not look "wrong."

Also -

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166741)
Posted by Sowndwave76 on August 11th, 2023 @ 5:25pm CDT

sol magnus wrote:
Sowndwave76 wrote:Compared to them, the minibots will appear smaller and probably more in scale.
The same can be said if Soundwave gets a slightly larger figure.
Then to follow suit of these larger figures, the next Megatron would also be slightly increased in size.

Except the mini-bots are in cartoon scale now. They won't look "more right" if Soundwave, Optimus and Megatron get bigger, they just may not look "wrong."

The current scales don’t bother me, but if you look at scale charts, the minibots are bigger than they should be in figure form. At least most of them, and it is a substantial difference from what we have with these toys.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166748)
Posted by Emerje on August 11th, 2023 @ 8:58pm CDT

-Kanrabat- wrote:If SS86 Commander Ultra Magnus do have all 4 libs attached by Combiner Wars connectors, and if he can carry 4 deluxe CW cars in his trailer, we could make a "Combiner Wars" Ultra Magnus "combiner."

Unfortunately that's impossible, Magnus has the limb pegs on the torso rather than the ports.

Emerje

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166749)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on August 11th, 2023 @ 9:19pm CDT

Emerje wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:If SS86 Commander Ultra Magnus do have all 4 libs attached by Combiner Wars connectors, and if he can carry 4 deluxe CW cars in his trailer, we could make a "Combiner Wars" Ultra Magnus "combiner."

Unfortunately that's impossible, Magnus has the limb pegs on the torso rather than the ports.

Emerje

Damn.

Still, I do have a scrap CW torso on hand so I can create 4 adapters and make my Magnus "Combiner" regardless. [-(

Compared to what I often show in my sig, making combiner adapters will be an easy task.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166750)
Posted by Sowndwave76 on August 11th, 2023 @ 9:23pm CDT

Interesting to me that this new Magnus doesn’t look to have a complicated transformation.
And that’s the opposite of a complaint.
If the conversion is quick and easy, imo that’s a pro x 100.
To think that could mean fewer joints that end up floppy, less chances of stress marks, and at least somewhat of an increased chance he’ll be fun to transform, in turn meaning he’ll be transformed more often.
Usually that wouldn’t matter to me…. But when paying $85+, that factors in more.
All this to say, I never loved this character, but this figure seems to be very, very on point.

I do think it’s fair to say, especially as a Commander Class figure, this is going to legitimately earn the label of being a mini masterpiece.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166761)
Posted by Till-all-R1 on August 12th, 2023 @ 10:45am CDT

I wouldn't be opposed to a new Soundwave that's on par with Blaster. I'm not really interested in a new taller Prime or Springer even if it might scale better with the minibots, since in reality Prime should be another 2-3" taller to scale better with BB. Problem is once you do that pretty much all the Bots need to be resized/rescaled and I'm not interested in replacing everything I just spent the last three years acquiring.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166762)
Posted by Sowndwave76 on August 12th, 2023 @ 11:26am CDT

Till-all-R1 wrote:I wouldn't be opposed to a new Soundwave that's on par with Blaster. I'm not really interested in a new taller Prime or Springer even if it might scale better with the minibots, since in reality Prime should be another 2-3" taller to scale better with BB. Problem is once you do that pretty much all the Bots need to be resized/rescaled and I'm not interested in replacing everything I just spent the last three years acquiring.

That was part of my point—

Taller, bigger characters could stand to be so, and it wouldn’t then require that every smaller bot is redone at a slightly larger size.
Again, I really appreciate every newer minibot being a deluxe, because it helps make each of those figures better, probably in multiple regards.
But if the largest bots are just slightly bigger, it actually aids in the overall scheme of scale amongst these figures.
I initially thought increasing the larger characters would make some of the voyagers too small, but I really don’t think that’s the case.
From what I’ve seen, Blaster, Inferno, Grapple, Trailbreaker, and even Astrotrain and Blitzwing are all shorter than OP and Megatron.

In fact, in terms of scale, I think a new OP is necessary; he’s too small compared to the Dinobots.
Which is why I was so against Swoop being a voyager.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166763)
Posted by Till-all-R1 on August 12th, 2023 @ 11:37am CDT

Maybe not "all" of them would, but certainly Ironhide/Ratchet would need to be. And once you do tat you also need to adjust some of the midsize cars because currently they are the ones that are no longer in scale with the new minibots nor are they to scale with the current larger bots.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166766)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on August 12th, 2023 @ 12:05pm CDT

This corner of my collection is now dedicated to the slaughter of 86, and it's still funny to me

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166775)
Posted by Emerje on August 12th, 2023 @ 2:31pm CDT

-Kanrabat- wrote:
Emerje wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:If SS86 Commander Ultra Magnus do have all 4 libs attached by Combiner Wars connectors, and if he can carry 4 deluxe CW cars in his trailer, we could make a "Combiner Wars" Ultra Magnus "combiner."

Unfortunately that's impossible, Magnus has the limb pegs on the torso rather than the ports.

Emerje

Damn.

Still, I do have a scrap CW torso on hand so I can create 4 adapters and make my Magnus "Combiner" regardless.

Compared to what I often show in my sig, making combiner adapters will be an easy task.

Assuming they're all compatible. But if they are, alternatively, you can make a massive combiner with Magnus at the center and Voyager limbs. Heck you could have entire combiners with just one arm missing attached to Magnus and really have a combiner made out of combiners like was talked about in the "figures that wont be made" topic recently.

Emerje

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166780)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on August 12th, 2023 @ 3:36pm CDT

Emerje wrote:you can make a massive combiner with Magnus at the center and Voyager limbs.
Emerje

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166783)
Posted by Sowndwave76 on August 12th, 2023 @ 4:08pm CDT

Till-all-R1 wrote:Maybe not "all" of them would, but certainly Ironhide/Ratchet would need to be. And once you do tat you also need to adjust some of the midsize cars because currently they are the ones that are no longer in scale with the new minibots nor are they to scale with the current larger bots.

Check out the portion of the scale chart below.

Notice how Ironhide and Ratchet are at the height of the bottom of Prime’s windshield.
The mid-sized cars like Wheeljack, Sunstreaker, Prowl, etc. are maybe, maybe just above Prime’s waist.
In the lower right section, you can see Inferno and Grapple are over a head shorter than Prime…
The only non-Dinobot Autobot that’s close to OP is Blaster.
And he’s not on this specific chart image, but I believe Springer is one of the few who is as tall as Prime.
As far as I knew, the leaders of the combiners were the others, but I’m not exactly sure of that.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166790)
Posted by sol magnus on August 12th, 2023 @ 10:05pm CDT

Blaster is cut off - I wonder if that's how they decided to make him the same size?

Actually, I found the full chart and he's not even lined up right on the sheet they literally copy/pasted them on. He looks to be about the same size as Prime on the sheet, even though he definitely was shoulder height on the show. Soundwave, though is the correct size, even on the scale guide.

If this is what they used, though, then I guess I have to recant because that's what's on the paper.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166812)
Posted by Quantum Surge on August 13th, 2023 @ 4:48pm CDT

Is it me or do Grimlock and Slag look like they're clinging onto each other in fear?

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166817)
Posted by Sowndwave76 on August 13th, 2023 @ 6:50pm CDT

Okay, so I don’t think any of the Dinobots “ran off” on their hind legs.
Slag reared back on his hind legs as they were being attacked…
It’s no different than when you’d see an elephant do the same thing.
I don’t think it would be as realistic for a brontosaurus to do this just because of their overall body mass.
But in the grand scheme, who cares?

I also don’t think any of them ran off on their hind legs…
It’s called perspective;
their front legs are higher in the composition because they’re supposed to be further away.

In the still above, Slag is just close to Grimlock; I don’t believe they’re actually embracing each other;
They’re just really close in proximity.

All the movement in this scene is supposed to add to the tension and anxiousness of being attacked when the Decepticons aren’t anywhere in the frame.
I also think the running off was part of the plot and getting the Autobots to the shuttles;
otherwise, think about it—
The Dinobots are such badasses, I think they would’ve preferred to hold their ground and fight.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2166910)
Posted by TOO MUCH ENERGON! on August 16th, 2023 @ 6:15am CDT

Meh. My Siege Magnus does me just fine.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2167252)
Posted by sol magnus on August 21st, 2023 @ 8:19pm CDT

Don't post these much anymore, but I'm especially proud of the end of this one -

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2167282)
Posted by Nemesis Destron on August 22nd, 2023 @ 3:51pm CDT

sol magnus wrote:Blaster is cut off - I wonder if that's how they decided to make him the same size?

Actually, I found the full chart

sol magnus can you post this for us? Thanks in advance! :VEHI:

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2167392)
Posted by Munkky on August 24th, 2023 @ 12:21pm CDT

Now that pre-orders for the last few Studio Series toys of the year have gone up on Pulse UK, I've pre-ordered Ultra Magnus (which is shipping from 22nd September) and Ratchet (shipping from 27th October), and also bought Frenzy because he's available to ship now. I'm really looking forward to having these three, Ratchet in particular has been a long time coming because it's been more than a year since I sold my Earthrise Ratchet and Lifeline set on Ebay.

Re: New Images of Commander Class Ultra Magnus show Scale (2167399)
Posted by Till-all-R1 on August 24th, 2023 @ 2:18pm CDT

Jeez, talk about limited stock, Frenzy already sold out as well as Ratchet! lol

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