Super Impulse is adding Transformers to their World Smallest Catalog and with G1 characters for all classic old-time fans.
The “Wold Smallest” line consists of iconic retro brands in tiny toys or figurines. First, a listing about some new “World’s Coolest Transformers” caught our attention. Later, an imaged shared via Juegos Juguetes y coleccionables Facebook gave us a look at the early packaged samples of G1 Bumblebee and Starscream (non transformable).
We still have no concrete information on price or release date, but the figurines shown are identical to the ones sold last year in Peru via the Hasbro & Coney Park Peru G1 Transformers Figurines campaign. They were about 5 cm tall and more characters like Megatron, Soundwave, Grimlock and Optimus Prime were available too.
Click on the bar to see the mirrored images (including some classic G.I Joe figurines) after the jump and then sound off on the 2005 Boards.
StellarJet
…delayed till the end of September…
I hope to see a wider distribution of these figs than just the one store…:fingers crossed:
Music
It's not that strange when you consider Hasbro's stance in not allowing licensed 3rd party manufacturers to create transformable figures.
astrakhan
Hmm… I wonder if he could fit in Siege Jetfire's cockpits.
chuckcjc
lol, got a good chuckle from these two comments.
Oniconvoy
You know that this isn’t a Hasbro product, right?
Haywired
I'd be interested in Joes to go more in scale with actual TFs in my collection, but the price is too high for those tiny bits of plastic.
protostar8
Looks okay, but doesn't transform and is leeching off the name WST. Plus the price is just nuts.
Mega Prowl
$13.00?! And here I thought Hasbro would lower their prices, but nope, we\'re getting expensive prices for these things, I\'m fine with most of their products, but I know when enough\'s enough, they\'re just overpricing their best products to make us give them everything our wallets have.
Capperclawed
Yea i'm still not terribly impressed by these. The size is charming as far as small statuettes go, but its really strange that they are pushing these as worlds smallest transformers when they don't transform. I know there's plenty of figures that don't transform now a days in order to give us a better representation of the characters, but we already have the WST stuff. Its just strange to me that everything else in this line from super impulse seems to be such a straight laced small version of whatever its supposed to be, but they got weird with it just this one time for Transformers. Could they get the license but not the rights to use simple, or g1 molds? Is it a parts issue? This all just doesn't seem well thought.
Vector Oracle
Yeah, these are way too expensive for their size. These mini-statues are probably limited-run tchotchkes that appeal to a small handful of people, so I'll stick with the cheaper small things like Battlemasters and BotBots.
primalxconvoy
Way too expensive, and certainly NOT a proper\"WST\". I\'ll stick with my TT versions (that actually transform) thankyouverymuch.
Liege Prime
I thought I might be on board but like people have been saying, $13 is too high. Maybe they haven't noticed, but there is a lot of Transformer product available out there. It's pretty easy to assess what sort of prices you can or should be charging. If a 5 1/2" fully poseable, fully transformable figure can be had for $15-20 at any given retail store, what justifies $13 for a non transforming, smaller figure? At least Amiibo's have alternate functionality.
Though every time anyone complains about prices on these boards, the Justifier Squad bursts out to HasTak's rescue.
Johntimus Prime
Or start shit with Mighty Max and Polly Pocket.
Chaos Muffin
Love these , now they can go beat up some hatchimals.
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Nighthawkblack
But they don't transform!
Are these at least articulated?
Bumblebee looks like he could crush starscream with one foot.
Hellscream85
Red, those are my thoughts exactly
Venomus Rodimus
A tiny set of the original 8\" MMPR figures – how can I say no to that?
Rob
While I still like the prospect of using mini G.I. joes to scale with my Transformers, $13 seems a bit steep especially when I can buy Primemasters for $6. Oh well, will see how these hold up once reviews and more in hand images show up.
Hadlen_Weltall
and here I was JOKING about it being priced the same as a Legends scale figure…