Weibo User 淘宝店变形金刚改造工厂 who leaked Transformers: The Last Knight toys (including the Mission To Cybertron Subline) seems to have started to leak images from the mysterious new toyline we saw yesterday.
His first leak is a better look at the Grimlock packaging art.
The packaging and the artwork is similar to Bumblebee and Starscream’s, and is very different from the Power Of The Primes packaging art we saw during San Diego Comic Con 2017. Though the packaging of Grimlock states “Some assembly required” it may not necessarily mean that it is a Model Kit. As 2005 Boards Member ssjkazer kindly pointed out, Robots In Disguise 3-Step Grimlock toy packaging also contains the same statement since his tail is to be attached separately. We believe this statement implies the same.
With this discovery, we may be able to vouch for the authenticity of the new toyline; as 淘宝店变形金刚改造工厂 proven himself again and again all throughout the post production days leading up to the release of Transformers: The Last Knight.
Additionally, the user has uploaded better pics of Optimus Prime Fidget Cube as well. You can check them all out, after the jump.
What more will we see? What is this mysterious toyline? Is it Cyberverse? So many questions… and now we wait. Hopefully, Hascon 2017 will provide us with answers. Tune in to TFW2005’s Coverage on September 8th.
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Isaac Hill
I saw a similarly packaged Prowl at Walgreens tonight on Valley St in Manchester, NH. The box was about Voyager sized, but opaque, so I don't know how big the figure is. It transformed in 6 steps. I don't know how much it was, since it wasn't actually on display yet. An employee mentioned it to me when I was buying Quake, and sent someone to get it for me. I didn't buy it. They said they only had the police car, so it looks like they ship in solid cases.
AzT
Added to Hasbro (U.S.) catalog
Fidget Its Transformers Optimus Prime Cube | Transformers
DeletedUser_119270
Interesting.
dCon
I own all the Cyber Battalion and Cyber Commander figurew and let's just HOPE that these are not of that quality. Even if you like the designs, and I do AND like the toys or I wouldn't have got more, they still don't have real ratchets and every bit of the joint quality is sub par at best. Best way to describe it is RiD'15 Grimlock's elbow ratchets, but worse because the same thing blown up. Not adjusted for it's size.
That said I been gone for 2 weeks plus, and it's cool to see news on the new cartoon and cartoon toylines!
Spontificus
So I am assuming that Grimlock is going to be in Cyberverse's replacement for RiD's Warrior class line based on the fact that Warrior class toys have their instructions printed on their packaging. Which is too bad, because that would have made an excellent Legends sized toy.
I don't mind that Cyberverse is sticking close to G1 designs. I do prefer the stylized looks that we have been getting with Animated, Prime, and RiD, but as long as the show and the toys are good, I'll be buying. And for people who are saying that there will only be G1 figures on the shelves are forgetting that the plan is still to have a new movie come out every year, so there will be toys other than G1 inspired ones out there, even if it is in a stylization that I do not like.
I do hope Generations will become a bit more diverse again though. Outside of a couple of Armada homages and a few brand new characters, Generations has been strictly G1 since the Prime Wars started. At least we will be getting some Beast era figures with PotP, but I would like to see more non-G1 toys show up in that line. The 10th anniversary of Animated has pretty much come and gone, and we did not even get a Tribute set. The US never got a Prime Breakdown and there is no good, sizable toy of Unicron possessed Megatron out there. There are plenty more examples of good non-G1 ideas that Generations could cover, and I hope that we will see them.
weevil
it's possibly new deluxe or cyber battalion?
W-P38
Spider-man is just one example of an iconic character whose same origin story is told over and over, who has looked essentially the same for 55 years, and whose related toys and collectibles will likely sell forever, at least in part by virtue of the history and repeated legend. I understand that a lot of people might not be too happy about this, but I think Hasbro is realizing that similar implications exist in relation to certain characters like Optimus Prime who are now 30 years old and earning a similar status.
In G1 resides the immensely valuable iconography, the essential story, and timeless, original aesthetic of Transformers. Safeguarding those qualities as present in their most recognizable and leading characters in order to ensure the success of the franchise in the future is perhaps, for them, and therefore the franchise, a better long term end. It is also what sells the most, by far.
I've always thought that both creative expansion and retention of essential features is possible. Write stories that change what we're used to, but keep the history. In fact, in a way, I'll take your sentiment a step further in that even new designs are insufficient. I want new characters altogether.
samisham
Keep the damn stock in for me. If only New Zealand got the second halves of lines. Seriously though, that's not what I'm talking about, I'm talking about people being actively angry about things like Armada or old RID stuff getting updates in generations, which is called generations instead of what Hasbro wants to call it 'G1 Redone'.
Chillyn
Maga!!!! Lol. Actually I'm all for the tfs I don't want like RID. Keeps the kids away from the good stuff
Louise Belcher
Considering how hollow he is..I actually think he IS the Pretender!
I don't mind that much the simple design (if he meant to be small), however I am sick of those ugly cheap thin hollow limbs!
Razzy
My brain mashed these words together and I imagined Barricade wearing a victorian dress, sipping tea.
Cya
Raziel-chan
LEGOprime
If only this line had just been a designed to be a bit less simple, that Grimlock toy could be a really solid G1 update with a little more money and effort put into the design. I don\'t think the designers are to blame, but Hasbro surely is, for knocking the simplicity level a bit too far down with certain toylines and figures. That\'s not to say that all the simple Transformers toys are bad, though, with figures like RID Bisk, Grimlock, Soundwave, etc.
This new Optimus design looks super solid, so I hope his toy is at least decent.
SilverOptimus
We don't have an Evergreen tag yet. That's why we are tagging them as both Cyberverse and Generations. We'll change later once we get an official confirmation. Other than Allspark, all other sites are tagging them under Cyberverse.
AzT
Emiliano Santalucia
…Yes, this one too
(re: New Transformers Toy Line Optimus Prime, Megatron And Grimlock Packaging Art – Transformers News – TFW2005 )
primalxconvoy
I REALLY hope that Grimlock is just a simplified subline, like Legends or something similar. I hope that the actual, decent, G1 version WITH ACTUAL, SEPERATE HANDS and some decent paint comes out as a Voyager class figure.
Otherwise I will simply wait for either the OSKO Wei Jiang version to come oput with fixes and/or buy the metallic repaint og the 3P FOC Grimlock coming out. Right now, the pictured version of Grimlock looks awful. What has Hasblo got against Grimlock? They manage to muck him up EVERY time they release him (Mp nonwithstanding, except for the size)
samisham
It's the entitlement of western tf fans "IF I DON'T WANT IT IT DOESN'T DESERVE TO EXIST!"
I've been waiting over ten years for that.
Enigma2K2
Just let me have my G1 MP figures. To hell with the rest.
AnonymousDwell
Lol I don't think any of us have to worry about HasTak *not* remaking characters from all of their rich history many, many more times to come, in addition to new characters.
The number of lines they draw from will also probably increase as the movieverse, old RiD, Armada, etc. fans get older and move into the ideal age bracket for exploi… er, I mean… treating as a viable market for nostalgia driven products.
(And that's a good thing imo. We all have a lot to look forward to, regardless of our individual line proclivities.)
weevil
it\'s deluxe figure?