Hasbro’s Transformers Brand Team just wrapped their first Fan First Friday livestream for 2022. Inside we saw Studio Series Wave 2 and multiple store exclusive pieces. Read on to check the caps and a notes breakdown!
Update – two future Walmart exclusives will be going up at Hasbro Pulse in limited quantities today. Check the links below to snag em.
Transformers RED G1 Ultra Magnus
Quick Notes:
Wave 2 Studio Series
Bumblebee Movie Arcee – Stock Photos, toy shown
Sam – Heels of the bot form able to flip over and become built-in skates
Bumblebee Movie Ironhide – Stock Photos, toy shown
86 14 Voyager – Junkyard – Digital Renders, colored physical prototype in vehicle mode (engineering pilot 1) shown
Partial retool from Wreck-Gar
Has the side panels from the original movie concept design
86 Leader Sludge – Digital Render – Digital Renders, colored physical prototypes in bot and vehicle modes shown (engineering pilots)
ratcheting joint in the neck, can turn around
Sludge Packaging shown
86 Core Exo Suit Spike Witwicky – Physical toy shown
Lever on the back to rotate his head in the canopy helmet
back of arms has 3mm ports, comes with flame effects
Legacy Sandstorm – Stock diorama art and physical toy, bot and beast modes shown (bot mode diorama shows him “coming through the portal” to the multiverse to join the fight)
Mutant head
Legacy Deluxe Night Prowler – stock diorama art and physical toy, bot and beast modes shown
Did have unreleased beast wars toy prototype
Lime green eyes – unusual for Transformers
Packaging shown
Legacy Deluxe Buzzsaw – stock diorama art and physical toy, bot and beast modes shown
New head, has light piping
New gradient overspray from the knees down
Packaging shown
Walmart Vintage Scorponok – stock diorama art, bot and beast modes shown, with boxed sample.
Does have original molds and toy features
Updated colors
Darker metallic to better match the animation
Cyber bee, stinger gimmick, claw rockets, mutant head shown off
Kept “blueish sparkly metallic” claws
Walmart Vintage Tigatron – stock diorama art, bot and beast modes shown, with boxed sample.
Colors based on Takaratomy release
Gave up on full transformation (arm popped off)
All Walmart exclusives will be available later this spring
RED Prime Knockout – 360 video of Knockout, mist stock art, physical toy shown
Rolling wheels on the feet and back
Knockout being medic has swappable drill arm, saws, and full set of alternate hands
RED G1 Ultra Magnus – retool of RED Optimus Prime
Available today in limited quantities – 1pm on Hasbro Pulse
Buzzworthy Bumblebee B-127 – warmer color pallet
Buzzworthy Kup – redeco of studio series, painted windshield, no translucent parts
Autobot city backdrop
Discussion on painted opaque vs tinted translucent parts ensues…
Buzzworthy Cliffjumper – Painted windows
More animation-accurate
Thundershot
So glad to see fellow Trek fans here.
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Oniconvoy
Yes
geekatron prime
And be only 1 inch thick?
Thundershot
But can it hold two whales and the water to keep them in?
Oniconvoy
We do! It’s called Aluminium oxynitride.
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allew
If only we actually had transparent aluminum (from the Star Trek 4 movie) that would have solved this problem
PlanckEpoch
Apparently you forgot that LeBron is a celeb, and it became a TikTok fad.
Transformers are not celebrities, and they won't be a TikTok fad.
Thus this is literally brainless thinking.
RacerCheetor
Banannixx
I don't know, maybe because there are huge gaping holes in all the deluxe and voyager boxes.
Rodimus Prime
If it's sealed, then why worry?
Fenrys
That literally has nothing to do with my post you quoted
T-Hybrid
And shitty people have been stealing BAF parts from Marvel Legends figures for years and those are windowed.
So what's your point?
I was shopping this afternoon and holy shit you'd be amazed how many toys are open package when you actually step back and look at it.
Oniconvoy
Sure. Show me the headless Kickbacks.
Banannixx
Apparently you forgot about all those people who thought is was absolutely hilarious to steal the heads off of Space Jam LeBron James figures and others.
Shitty people do shitty things.
Fenrys
Just because collectors enjoy Generations figures doesn't mean they aren't also for children. The box does say for ages 8+ after all, indicating that they are indeed intended for children as well as adult collectors.
RacerCheetor
That was already known before when they officially revealed the figures.
Rather, the complaint was when it was revealed that the regular Legacy line lacked those windows, since they are at risk of missing parts due to the manipulation of unwanted people in stores.
A serious mistake by Hasbro, since we are talking about figures for collectors, and not for children like Rescue Bots or Cyberverse.
daimchoc
Japan release?
EDIT: Seems the Buzzsaw, Nightprowler, and Sandstorm ones does have the plastic on the box. The other wave 1 Legacy figures still are open..
Legacy Buzzsaw, Nightprowler and Sandstorm found in Philippines
JS_Prime
I might've been looking in the wrong places, but discussion about the windows here never made much traction. I even pointed it out in this very thread
NemiMonkey
Yeah not sure where to put this or if it's already known but Legacy Shadowpanther, Sandstorm, and Buzzsaw apparently have the plastic on their packaging vs the open face of the rest of Legacy Wave 1.
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Posted by Ishikawa_Sunday on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ishikawa_sunday/status/1512598365351071751
Quicky Google translate:
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And for some reason, the transparent windows of the three Legacy Beast boxes are back.
What do you want to do"