Following the flow of official updates, Hasbro designer Sam “King Samlock” Smith is treating us with some great in-hand images of the Transformers Studio Series reveals, this time via his Instagram stories.
This time we can share for your amazing pictures under natural light of the new Studio Series The Last Knight Deluxe Class SS-92 Crosshairs and Hot Rod. Crosshairs is showing off an impressive level of poseability even with his movie-accurate coat pieces. Talking about the coat, Sam is giving us a tip about it. The back kibble in robot mode is removable (mounted in a ball joint socket) so you can get a sleeker robot mode with rear weapon storage. Hot Rod is also showing how dynamic he is for the camera and how compact he is in alt mode.
Not much left to say, so see all the mirrored images attached to this news post and then let us know your impressions on the 2005 Boards!
GPTF01
i have stopped trying to find them local
i still have empty shelves that use to have wave 3 kingdom
BIGGUY007
Wish I were that lucky. In my neck of the woods, it seems like I see wave 3 hit the shelves near me while other places are getting wave 5.
GPTF01
These are ones made to test the factory at production level and to test the machine qc not the figure qc. Material would be suspect. In the past final coloring was different from retail versions of figures.
Even though it could be a failed figure qc we will never know for sure but it's why I rarely watch early reviews too many unknowns of the figure
octobotimus
Thing is these aren’t the throwaway test ones that use different plastics, these are usually finalized ones. They’re 99% identical to the release.
troglodyteman217
Not wrong but I wouldn't expect an early sample to have the same plastic as the final product as it's still in testing phase. I just think it's still expected for early copies as they more often than not a massive gamble.
octobotimus
I mean plastic quality and QC are two different things. A QC reject could have defective molding, lost joints, or paint, but more often than not it’s still the same exact plastic and quality of plastic you’ll get on release. It’s not like the plastic somehow going to be more dense.
troglodyteman217
Forgot to post this here:
Not something we haven't seen but it's good to have.
I find it dumb how he complains about plastic quality when the figure is a failed QC sample. Of course he cannot admit it but yeesh
John TheDestroyer
Ah that's a bummer. Thanks for checking though
f-primusunicron
well thats disappointing
still want it but that really was going to change the figure from a maybe to a must
PrimeVsPrime
so in short, I don’t think it’s possible sorry! The bumper plate is too damn big and the hinges wont go over it. The only way it can be kinda done, would be to pop off the kibble at the back & then flip the bumper but even then it’s a clearance issue and doesn’t look great
LZSchneider
Oh that's good nobody argued.
JonzyYT
Not that there was a 5 page long argument about it
LZSchneider
I'm not sure if anyone's noticed but this figure seems a bit thin when viewed from the side.
John TheDestroyer
@PrimeVsPrime I have this question also! Here is a simple visual, the best I can do lol. Can these panels fold out at the circled hinges to have the car sides form the sides of his trench coat? And pics of it possibly?
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skunkobot
Sideswipe wasn’t more paint, it was a reverse application. One was light paint on dark plastic, the other was the opposite. Pros and cons. For Crosshairs the equivalent would be molding him in blacks and grays, and then adding green paint… which could look dope… but might require too much paint. Sideswipe only needs one color for altmode mode, to crosshairs two.
troglodyteman217
definitely think that when the aoe version happens he will get more paint similarly to what happened to sideswipe
Shadow25
I definitely feel comfortable adding *most* of the robot mode details myself… except the black striping across his legs and shoulders. I hope Reprolabels will step up for that.
mx-01 archon
Same problem that's plagued Crosshairs from the beginning (outside of the Autobots United five-pack version). That car deco sucks up all the paint budget, leaving nothing behind for the robot mode detailing.
Bayverse4ever
Thats little caesars
night18mare
Does anyone know someone we can ask or message primevsprime to take pictures of that in action?