Azure Sea Studio have revealed our first look at the gray prototype of their officially licensed Bludgeon Statue for your viewing pleasure.
Azure Sea Studio brings us a new and stylized Bludgeon rendition that we are sure it will please your optics. The design is highly stylized and bulky, showing a massive warrior. Bludgeon is standing over Trypticon’s head and ready to take out his sword. This mold, as well as their Optimus Prime statue, will enter to the the coloring stage soon.
This statue will stand 72 cm tall and, according the first 3D renders, an alternative exclusive sword effect and head will be available too. A very nice modern rendition of the Decepticon samurai.
We still have no concrete information on price or release date, but stay tuned with TFW2005 for more updates. See all the mirrored images on this news post after the jump and then sound off on the 2005 Boards!
Splendic
Awesome concept, like a samurai riding a flying dragon.
Chaos Muffin
Just want theTryp base to stick Meggles on.
StrangePlanet
Neat. I love Bludgeon, and this still looks kiiiiiinda based on his ROTF toy, which has pretty much become his de-facto look.
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And I LOVE that look.
I don't buy statues so this isn't for me, and if it was I'd really want some kind of skull face on it, but it's pretty cool that this guy is even getting this kind of product.
dragon
Small head big body look like beetle juice character
Autobot Burnout
Dark Souls or Bloodbourne, probably.
Greenspan
In what universe is that Bludgeon?
More power to those who like it.
Robbot
He has a very "Gears of war" vibe
Autobot Burnout
Honestly, I find that NEST Bludgeon pretty much hits all the bullet points I could want from a transforming Bludgeon for Generations/my "Neo-G1" lineups. I mean, he even turns into a Japanese tank. Mine just has the sword shoved into the tank barrel because it bends over time if left in the hip sheath and I'm not putting it back in his hands after they snapped when trying to get him to hold it…and then snapped again after the superglue failed…this time I used plastic cement but that sword is not going back in his hands.
PositivelyKen
You sent me to TFWiki with that Energon factoid — turns out the original design was by Don Figueroa, which explains a lot. I'd love to see a Generations-style take that isn't a Pretender.
My copy of Bludgeon's hands are still intact, but his sword has always been a little bent.
Autobot Burnout
Which is funny given that evolved from an Energon era design that wasn't put into production.
Regardless, NEST Bludgeon is a fantastic looking figure, his one flaw being the poorly designed hands that snap after one too many times of having him hold his sword.
PositivelyKen
HFTD Bludgeon is an awesome figure. One of the best examples of a Movieverse design enhancing a G1 character.
Rodimal Rodimus
This look would be ideal for a Knightverse incarnation.
primalxconvoy
I\'m supposed that the statue didn\'t bondage the original Pretender design, as there\'s not really ever been a detailed, official update to this form-factor, plus, as a Pretender it doesn\'t even need to transform.
In fact wouldn\'t it be great for a company to officially make fully articulated pretender shells, which merely open up, allowing us to pop and compatibly-sized official TF toy inside? Plus, just by \"coincidence\", Hasbro started to release figures of the inside bots that just happened, by pure chance, to fit inside the officially released shells?
As long as the shells didn\'t cost ludicrous amounts of money, I\'d say it would be win-win.
Scarlet knight
CHUG figure of this design when?
CobraKai
Same here. I’ve been using the Hunt for the Decepticons version. Still badass after all these years.
And Lockdown. I thought he woulda been great for Seige but perfect for Earthrise considering his bounty hunter status, hunting robots in disguise.
WishfulThinking
?Por que?
Hopefully they don't make too many of these because I just don't see too many people buying…
analogue
Nice, but what I really would like to see is a new Bludgeon figure for WFC. He's ready for an update.
Sammael
Way too beefy for my taste.
But, then, again, I am not a customer for statues. I prefer transforming Transformers.
CobraKai
His head and upper frame makes him look like the Spino Charge Megazord.
Operative294
AzureSea Studio
Gray model of Bludgeon