Hasbro China, via the official Transformers Weibo Account, have uploaded a very nice set of promotional pictures of the upcoming Studio Series figures for 2020: Camaro 2007 Bumblebee, Dark Of The Moon Soundwave & Transformers 2007 Megatron.
We have great shots of Deluxe class SS-49 Bumblebee, SS-51 DOTM Soundwave and Voyager class SS-54 Megatron. Bumblebee’s pics have been taken outside which natural lighting (with Studio Series Scavenger as special guest), giving us a good sense of how the finished figure will look in our collections. Soundwave and Megatron shots let us see all the detail and finishing in both modes. We are sure your optics will be really pleased with these gallery.
Not much left to say, so click on the bar to see all the mirrored images and then sound off your impressions on the 2005 Boards!
mx-01 archon
Eh, give a little, take a little.
This toy is "cleaner", but takes a good number of liberties. Lower leg shape is entirely wrong, as a result of folding the wings up into the boots. Jet mode is inaccurate, by not leaving his head exposed. And of course the issue of reusing RotF Megatron's torso piece.
The MPM is more proportionately accurate, with true-to-film detail and a reasonably accurate transformation scheme. The toy just doesn't have the liberties of "cheating" in the way that the movie model does, so it can't shrink and deform the wings enough that they can fully sink into his torso, so he winds up with larger, protruding shoulder blades instead of fully condensed ones.
Hadlen_Weltall
Wow.. this Megatron does a better job of folding into a movie accurate robot mode than the Masterpiece figure.
Runamuck86
Soundwave must be acquired
Shin Densetsu
I'm surprised to see Shockwave look this good, well done. I thought the 2011 was decent but this one does look better in my eyes.
Renidragon
I really hope they step it up on the SS car deluxes. I have two VW Bumblebees – the solo release and the dirty one that came in the 2-pack, classic camaro BB, and the TLK Bee repaint that came with the dirty VW Bee, Sideswipe, Jazz, Barricade, Stinger, Drift, Lockdown and Dropkick. I love the way that all of them transform, but most of them do NOT want to line up and tab together right. Jazz, Stinger and Lockdown are fine. Barricade is sometimes fine. The Bumblebees, Drift, Lockdown and Dropkick all have tabs that I can\'t get to line up or that just don\'t hold together. I like those figures, but I would like them so much more if they just transformed properly. I\'ve heard Shatter was a nightmare, so I avoided her. Dropkick DID feel like a step in the right direction at least. I like this new 07 Bee, and I\'d love to experience a DotM Soundwave figure, so I\'m looking forward to these… but my hopes are definitely tempered.
That said, every SS Voyager I\'ve touched has been fantastic, so high hopes for Shockwave and Megs.
mx-01 archon
As a counterpoint, BBBB has fat forearms, has the dreaded "curling arms", and looks gangly and skeletal, an his chest looks disproportionately wide by contrast. This toy better captures his "roundness".
Ravage101
With movable visor, transforming right hand to weapon and incredible articulation, Battle Blades Bumble Bee, still beats this new one.
analogue
Glorious!
Black Convoy
These are Notrab's not Hasbro China. Unless they are not released on their official Weibo we can't consider them as news. Cool pics anyway.
AutobotAvalanche
It's never worth it.
iuJacob
I actually quite like that Bumblebee, even though I have the MPM-03. However, I think I will wait for an inevitable re-release without the battle mask.
Though I do think it was a bit of a missed opportunity to have the battle mask as a separate piece, like they did with the Bumblebee movie version.
Great pictures, too. Hasbro/Takara should be doing this. It’s not like they don’t have the money or resources to do so.
Dann86
Im not keen on the movieverse at all but those pics are really selling them too me. This is how promo pics should be.
Shizuka
The cankles are a letdown, but Megatron still looks amazing.
Seth Sunthay
Pretty sure Notrab is hasbro's employee.
User_124141
Voyager looked amazing for the time, no need to be ashamed
Lazerwave
I remember long time ago, I made foolish mistake buying an advance dotm voyager shockwave for high price from Asia. But now this is probably worth getting advance for high price.
User_124141
Sina Visitor System
New images of Shockwave
bearytrek
i\'m loving that Soundwave…looks like the best interpretation ever
DocSeth81
I didn't think I would like that Bee, but it looks really good. I'm sure they will retool it with a non masked head at some point in the next 12-18 months. I really don't want to get the figure twice just for a different head, but I don't have any masked Bee's (aside for Bee movie Bee) so maybe I'll pick it up.
I LIKE PIE!