It’s been reported a while back that Hasbro might be introducing a new Transformers Movie line – a “Movie Classics” series if you will – that will offer fans characters from the five live action Transformers Movies reimagined or updated with accurate designs and current standards of design. We know this line is tentatively known as “Movie Edition”.
And now we have a look at our first figure for the line. Say hello to your screen-accurate (or closest we’ve had so far in deluxe scale) Age of Extinction Stinger.
Revealed in an image via Facebook group Taiwan TFCC, Stinger was shown off at an event in Taiwan along with some other upcoming Movie toys. Featuring an accurate Pagani alternate mode – no red Camaro this time – he’s also got what looks to be reasonably accurate proportions to the movie’s design (not easy, given the movie design didn’t so much cheat with the transformation as throw its arms up in the air and have the guy full on morph between his modes). It looks like he’s got some kind of shield or weapon on the arm.
Be warned, the picture is small and not the best resolution, but it gives an idea of where the movie toys are heading from here.
Notice also in the background you can see the foot of another toy. A legend, wished for fervently for 10 years. He’s also coming in 2018. Leader class Blackout.
(You can also see a bit of green in the bottom left which is probably the rumored new Ratchet. But yay, Leader Blackout!)
eltonlin98
Oh, RIGHT I forgot that damn hitch in being an MPM completionist.
I'm prioritizing 1st trilogy.
Devastator21
Mpm vw bee for me at least
eltonlin98
It's gonna take a lot more than size to kill my interest in being an MPM completionist
Prime135
Hey, to each is own. My solution is just to stick with the rapidly expanding official line!
eltonlin98
Sorry man, I'm still trapped in the camp that feels MPM BB doesn't look all that right next to MPM Prime
I don't want to SCALE down a treachery slope mind you, but size aside, I'm kind of glad the designers opted for a me me big boy Bumblebee. Just feels much more righteous as a toy, especially when handling it
Prime135
Also, no one can seem to agree on what “MPM scale” actually is. Even the ones who claim to be sticking with either prime or bee’s scale respectively can’t seem to get it right (see that hot rod that’s a head taller than bumblebee)
eltonlin98
Gee I wish I could tell you, but there's just not enough information available on this figure. We know more about the holy grail Leader Blackout than this one which surprises me
CarRobot
Should I buy this one or wait for a 3rd party to make a MPM scaled one? I'm just not interested in CHUG anymore.
YellowCorvette
To be fair through, the reveal of Deluxe Crowbar kinda confirm that he'll be the same size class with Stinger, so that's something. My point of how we barely know anything about the Deluxe figures still stands however.
eltonlin98
Exactly. Where my Jazz boi
Though you could add Crowbar to the list, but really I won't care about him until there's news of them doing Hatchet (that way I can round out the entire Dreads team)
YellowCorvette
I wonder about the same thing as well. Even after leaked pictures and basic information about Leader Blackout and the voyager figures is been revealed, we barely knew anything else about the Deluxe class figures aside from a blurry image of Stinger.
eltonlin98
This thread has had more bumps than that damn road Lightning McQueen paved, and none have been for Stinger /:
Shin Densetsu
The chest panels for Prime might be able to compress in further
spikebuster
Not to mention the truck mode looks like it's missing the second axle in the back.
bumblebeej8
The thing that bugs me the most about this Prime is that the chest is messed up. HOW DO YOU MESS THE CHEST UP?
netkid
Ehh…putting all the leaked images side-by-side, Prime ain't looking too hot at them 1-wheeled hips. Like, how do you mess THAT up?!?
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lonewolf96
Is it me or does crowbar head give off a sideways and dotm Sideswipe vibe ?
Robogeek28
Still no new pic of this guy?!?
Damn…
VortexPrime
from Elita one packaging and more! Blastoff included
f-primusunicron
well, it was in that post where the leader blackout images surfaced first, even though it is indeed a mp barricade thread