Read the Transformers: Dark of the Moon Initial Toy List? Good! Want some Transformers: Prime toy news? Yeah, Didn’t see this one coming did you?
Enough teasing… We’ll deliver you the news!
Stryker over at ACToys is bringing us, a rather special news. Here’s the Translation…
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[Transformers: Prime Toys] To come earlier than expected.
No images. Details only. Reliable source. In development. Five small new Autobots.”
Must be the Main Cast (Optimus Prime, Ratchet, Bulkhead, Arcee and Bumblebee). What do you think?
Fort Max
The sad truth is that large playset type affairs just don't sell that well these days, the heyday of massive bases for your heroes (boulder hill, cat's lair, castle grayskull etc etc) has long since passed.
Hasbro are trying to bring the idea back with the cyberverse stuff in DotM it seems so perhaps if those do well then there's a chance we may see a new base bot of some sort in the near future.
Hosta
sorry about the spelling of apart above….oops!
Hosta
i'm actually a bit miffed(disappointed) with some of the transformers toy releases in recent years! because since Transformers Animated toy line, they never released Omega Supreme, Metroplex & Fortress Maximuss toys. Same with War For Cybertron Game toyline too! a few came out! but yet no Omega Supreme or Trypticon toy. appart from the Star Wars Crossovers Death Star Darth Vader we've not seen any Transformers Base/Battlestation type toys come out in ages & we need more of that. So…i'm hoping that Transformers Prime DOES in some future ep! feature either Metroplex, Trypticon, Omega Supreme or Scorponock(the headmaster one) & that they WILL bring those out in toy form.
Ravenxl7
Honestly, by the sounds of it, I don't think there will be a pre-release line. Especially considering that the designs are just at the CAD stage. Which means that Hasbro's estimated release for October might come true. There's also a somewhat decent chance that by then the second season will be starting up at around the same time.
Starscream NZ
I don't know if I like the idea of this being a pre-release line, if Prime's going to have limited amounts of cast, i'm unsure how it'll hold a ongoing toyline, but at the same time it'd suck to just have deluxe-only figures.
I think Animated hit it best with the main characters being Deluxe/Voyager size, with the odd leader-class figure. Too many size classes makes scouts look stupid compared to leaders.
Ravenxl7
Yep. WFC didn't get a line of it's own because it was just a video game. A show like TFP is going to get it's own, full, toyline.
SPLIT LIP
Of course it's not.
Prime is going to be a full fledged toyline. That's why TFs exist.
wm10k
so has there been any info as towards whether or not this would be the ONLY go at TF Prime toys? If so….I'm actually alright with a deluxe Optimus…but then i'd really need for Megatron to be a deluxe too…as well as Starscream…and Soundwave….
and breakdown….the hell? i'm gonna probably have to ignore this version of that bot….maybe. if he wins me over…he wins me over. but he's gonna have to really impress me.
Ravenxl7
Just out of curiosity, assuming you've seen him, what do you think of Bumblebee's toy? Out of all the TFP characters, I'm looking forward to him the most.
As do I. Though out of all the designs, I'm most anxious about his design being turned into toy-form. What with the alt-mode being similar to his TF1 incarnation, I hope his bot-mode turns out ok.
AMG
I want a TFP Megatron, badly.
Steevy Maximus
But…it doesn't. You found the recent Pursuit of Cobra Cobra Commander which only has a passing resemblance to the version featured on GI Joe Renegades. GI Joe fans are suffering through the same "kind of tied into the movie, but not quite while waiting for next fall to put out real cartoon toys" situation TF fans are in.
So yeah, GI Joe fans don't have a cartoon line at the moment either.
shroobmaster
Considering bulk characters always turn short, Voyager would be ideal for him, deluxe would just make him too small for a character that massive. Would make Lugnut look fair.
DrBifford
Here's my 2 cents worth. I found a new Cobra Commander action figure at Walmart and it looks like the cartoon so if they are getting new toys, why not us? I know nothing about GI Joes, but its not the movie line or original series and BBTS has a pre-order listing for them. Just saying
starscr
I prefer to wait for Takara Ver.
I like Archee design in this series
Paxtin
We haven't really seen much of his design, though. Aside from that iffy comic book illustration.
Given he looks like he's going to be the Decepticon brawler, I'd kind of want him on the same scale as Bulkhead.
Ravenxl7
Umm…because I like my car TF's as Deluxe's and my jet TF's as Voyagers? While Starscream and Soundwave are quite skinny and spindly, I can't see their designs creating such a dramatic height in bot-mode compared to their alt-modes like Lockdown has. Voyager's would just work much better for them, imho. It would also mean that they would most likely be packaged in bot-mode, something I'm becoming more a fan of than before. As for Breakdown, I think a Deluxe would work well enough for him. I just don't see the need to make him a Voyager. Out of all the TFP designs, he's one I wouldn't mind if they skipped over when making the toy line.
General Magnus
The self-entitlement feeling of this fandom never ceases to amaze me.
netkid
I think what we really need to determine their toy class sizes is a scale diagram of their vehicle modes. As others have said, some bots might be smaller in vehicle mode but bigger in robot mode because of how they use their parts (example: Lockdown).
Also, Arcee could be marketed as a deluxe if they include a figure of her holographic driver or of Jack (or heck, maybe even thrown in the other 2 kids as well).
wm10k
scout arcee! and some non show filler toys in scout class too!
and deluxe Eradicons….
Philip164
I can see what you are talking about with mass; but in order for it to work Optimus needs all his mass to make him a tall voyager. Bulkhead needs all his mass to make him a fat/hollow short Voyager. Ratchet needs to hide all his Voyager mass making him a solid short Voyager. Bumblebee would need to be a short Deluxe with Arcee being a short Scout. I think it would be easier with 1 Leader, 2 Voyager's, 1 Deluxe, and 1 Scout. Now if they could pull it all off with only Voyager's, Deluxe's, and Scouts that would be awesome, especially on my wallet.