More updates from the Studio Series line as we now have listings for a Revenge of the Fallen Sideswipe, a Leader Grindor with Ravage, and a Studio Series 86 Gnaw! In addition to all of these, the 86 Grimlock listing has also been updated with artwork featuring G1 Wheelie riding on the back of a G1 Grimlock. While these listings do answer some questions, they open many others regarding the potential addition of the 1986 film to the Studio Series line and how Hasbro plans to go about things. On the Michael Bay side of things however, we also have room to speculate how the new Sideswipe and Grindor will look compared to their respective DOTM and Blackout counterparts.
While we don’t have images of the other three, we have mirrored the Grimlock and Wheelie artwork to check out after the jump, and be sure to join the ongoing discussion over on the boards!
UPDATE: The artwork provided for Grimlock is NOT official despite being on the Walmart.com listing. It is in fact pulled from a t-shirt design by artist Ninjaink
MnemonicSyntax
Considering using Multi-Quote instead of multiposting in a row.
Zetca
@Barricade34 Here is the Grindor leak. I am unable to reply in Leak Thread 2.0 or I would have just sent you a link in there.
MrSoundwave64Z
It's a shame how bad they've gotten when it comes to doing weathering on figures because back then they used to be really good at that sort of thing. When we got figures like Armada Galvatron the weathering was extremely well done on that figure. Meanwhile with Grindor It just looks like a child just scribbled all over that figure with a brown paint marker.
Fafnir72
Orders at Amazon active now!! Oct 2021 ETA
ReadyParzivalOne
Damn it
I hope we get him eventually
ApocalypseThruster
I somehow have a complete Deep Dive (don't even remember how I got it… likely from a Ross), and even though he's a bit kibbly and lacks a waist swivel, he still stands up pretty well, and the fact that THIS is the Bayverse Seaspray makes me like it more.
…Now if only Bodyblock wasn't cancelled so we could have a double pairing with Deep Dive.
Diamondback
Problem is, Grindor needs a whole new backbone and tailgroup for his altmode, along with deleting the Pave Low radar \"chin\"–the three-engine S-80 Super Stallion and two-engine S-65 in Pave Low form only have commonality from the cockpit bulkhead to the front of the windshield.
Rakzo
Off-topic but that was a pretty damn good figure.
I'm not even into Movie toys but HftD Sea Spray has such an appealing design that I just had to get it.
TheSuperion
Wait, WHAT? We could have had Sea Spray on the big screen?
This movie was an even bigger disappointment than I thought.
96megatron
If a Studio Series HMS Alliance is made this is probably what he or she would look like.
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(From the Visual History of Transformers book.)
Similar to Studio Series Overload, Hightower, and Scrapmetal using concept art of their robot mode for their Studio Series figure.
TheSuperion
Even if Bulldog had a non-zero chance of being made, Hasbro will never be able to beat the Toyworld one. Like, literally, there is no way to sell a voyager or even leader class toy of that design that will have the paint job of Toyword's. It's absolutely sublime. The whole figure is, really. And you're paying for what you get.
(He's not gonna be made regardless, though, because there simply isn't a standard retail market for a transformer that turns into a British Mark IV from WWI. It's the definition of niche.)
MrSoundmeister
Oh man, now i've really want to see them handle Movie 1 Evac from that Leader Blackout mold. I know it's a freakin' Movie/Show accurate focused line, but damn it that the movie adaptations would bring in some interesting stuff for the line.
Revoticus
Ravage looks like he could be a battlemaster, maybe he can be a gun?
I was planning on getting Grindor anyway, having remolded parts is a nice bonus.
maloney4playz
according to the leak thread 2.0 the twins are "never happening", probably cause of the racial stereotypes bay decided to give them.
maloney4playz
sorry, just checked, it doesnt actually have a name. but screw it im calling nautica just because i can
SoundwaveSuperior
I'm pretty sure it wasn't.
maloney4playz
pretty sure it was named nautica somewhere
maloney4playz
they were fake leaks, nothing more than april fools pranks
Fallout
give me an MP or 3P with swappable chug style heads and i'm in. the ice cream truck twins are such a fun novelty
Megatron118
Nice, now I don’t need to track down a second pair of the DNA Design hands! Eager to get him and Ravage