Hasbro have updated their online catalog with new pages for the Transformers Authentics line. On show here is Grimlock – who we’ve seen from previous leaks – alongside different versions of Bumblebee and Optimus Prime. According to the Hasbro catalog pages, the trio are at 7 inch scale – which is borne out by the way that Optimus Prime and Bumblebee feature some additional articulation and detail to go with their bigger size. It has been suggested this will be like the previous Cyber Series – which offered different characters in an assortment of scales. These ones also come with “some assembly required” – Grimlock’s dino head and wings, and Optimus’ cab roof both need to be assembled after freeing the figures from their plastic prisons.
It’s also suggested that the Bumblebee and Optimus Prime are the previously hinted “Project Storm” figures, based on their product numbers on the Hasbro catalog matching up to the item numbers on the ACD Distribution online catalog.
Check out images of the three new figures attached to this post.
JomasterII
I kinda wish the dino mode head on Grimmy just wasn't so…
Y'know. Fugly.
G1Prowl
Anybody else notice that those package images with the pink blobs are renders? The crease closest to the viewer is a drawn white line, and looking at where the shell attaches to the cardstock in the carded figure you can definitely see that it's a render. Do they normally do renders for packaging?
NemiMonkey
Oh dare I dream of that Grimlock design in either deluxe or voyager scale(and better plastic hopefully).
Haywired
Ok, I might want this Grimlock. It has suprisingly large amount of paint for this line. Also, is sufficiently larger than Megs and Prime.
Dachande
Oh my, that Grimlock looks pretty damn sweet!
Really looking forward to some of these.
Oniconvoy
Nice. That confirms that I’ll be getting one just to practice some customization and painting techniques.
payres
More pics of the loose larger figures
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payres
How many Authentics sizes are there?
We've got the Legion sized ones and the larger carded ones, which were found today in the Philippines
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So if the larger figures are carded then what are the boxed figures then seen in the purple ink pics?
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And looking at he carded photos with them, they don't match either of the carded styles above!
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Nevermore
That's your problem, not ours. Those existed.
The 2007 movie line had:
Cyber Stompin' Robots
Cyber Slammers
Fast Action Battlers
A role-play helmet
Role-play converting arm blasters
Role-play Allspark Blasters
T.E.C.H. (Transformers Electronic Combat Hardware)
Robot Heroes
Robot Replicas
Titanium Series versions of movie characters
Tranformers Animated had:
Activators
Bumper Battlers
Power Bots
Revenge of the Fallen had:
Gravity Bots
Fast Action Battlers
RPMs – Robot Powered Machines as a dedicated sub-line with multiple price points
Role-play helmets and blasters
Power Bots
Robot Heroes
Robot Replicas
Dark of the Moon had:
Cyberverse as a dedicated subline with multiple price points
Activators
Bash Bots
Go-Bots
Revving Robots
Robo Fighters
Gimmick price points and sub-lines have been a thing ever since the 2007 movie line.
weevil
Bumblebee\'s Legs are terrible.
lordmegatron64
oh. THOSE are not what I was thinking of. I was thinking of the non-transforming pull-back rollers.
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lordmegatron64
fast action battlers were only for AoE. Robot heroes where only for 2007 and RotF same goes for Robot Replicas.
Shin Densetsu
You're forgetting that the movie lines had a subline called "Fast Action Battlers" which were aimed at kids, plus Robot Replicas, Robot Heroes(movie with G1), et al. Also Legends figures prior to Cyberverse. Then a few of those Unleashed statue things.
The main collectors lines were far from the only things out there. Hasbro's going to make some toylines for kids, that will never change. You want to blame someone for this influx of new toys, blame retailers and their corporate buyers who get impressed at trade shows. Blame the kids who play tested with some of these toys and gave Hasbro the impression that they were on the right track.
Bumblethumper
There might be some merit to that argument, had Transformers been a consistently reliable bastion of quality over many years. If we're going to make the case that these low-cost, low-ambition figures are hurting the brand, we're going to have to ignore so much other merchandise that Hasbro endorsed and packaged in TF branding going all the way back to late-era G1.
I think these are reasonably decent efforts, given the design mandate and the limitations that were obviously imposed on them. Unlike some of the absolute junk we've all seen clogging TF aisles over the past decade or so. Some of that stuff was destined straight for the landfill, perhaps diverting a kid's attention for the very briefest interval inbetween.
Sol Fury
Oh I know, through Titans Return I was all about "do I buy Deluxe Hardhead, or do I buy Legends Hardhead"
Haywired
Prime masters and titan masters aren't sublines within the Generations. They're accessories/price points.
Next time in this thread we'll have a claim that Deluxe and Legends are two competing sublines as well.
Dachande
When we don't like something we tend to give a reasoning for it in our own minds to 'prove' our opinion is valid or true.
Arguing that these simple figures are in any way hurting the brand as a whole is just unproven speculation.
Adding additional lines is what businesses WANT to do, as it improves the amount if face time various income levels and ages get with the product.
If they only had the collector line, maybe with added production value in the absence of the extra lines, the figures would cost more and be more of a niche market than a general release.
That Guy
I think you're again making the mistake of thinking that the sublines and toys aren't silo'd away from each other. I'm speaking from experience in a different industry, so it may not translate 1 to 1, but there are different teams with different resources for these sublines than on the main line. Nothing is being taken away from deluxe+ toys to design/make the cheaper toys, those cheaper lines have dedicated (smaller) teams and resources because Hasbro sees that they are selling and making money.
Reduction in parts count and paint apps is just a consequence of inflation. Think about this, in 1984 G1 Optimus Prime cost $11.49 (according to Seibertron.com) think about the complexity of that toy. Now take inflation into account. From $1984 to now, that $11.49 would be $29.20. You would be paying almost $30 for what is essentially one of these Authentics figures at retail. Now you can get Titans Return Optimus Prime for that $30, but he's way more articulated, and is a triple changer and fits into the larger titanmaster play pattern. Or looking at movie toys, people complain that the price of deluxes has gone up since 2007 when the movie toys came out, but again look at inflation. $15.99 in 2007 is $19.53
now. We are paying with essentially the same buying power, and we're getting combining dinobots.
Probe
You're including a lot of things alongside the categories they fall in…