CEO of threezero, Ken Kwok, is giving us an update on the status of their figures for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.
The figures were first announced more than a year ago along with other figures from the Transformers franchise.
Summary:
- Three DLX figures are planned.
- ROTB Bumblebee will be announced in June 2023.
- The second figure (Optimus Prime) is to be announced in mid to late June.
- Optimus Primal will be announced in early to mid July.
- The company highlights that future plans will include Mirage and Scourge.
- In addition to the above DLX figures, threezero will be developing a Premium Optimus Primal. Preorders will begin around September and October.
Product features for Bumblebee:
- Light up eyes – Blue color and Red color LEDs
- Two ion blasters with LED.
Product features for Optimus Prime:
- Silver effects on the body.
- Large ion blaster with LED lights.
Note: A prototype of ROTB Optimus Primal can be spotted on Mr. Kwok’s office desk (news post image).
You can check out the interview, after the jump.
Angry fan
Considering 3Z history of making movie characters with 3 secs of screentime just bcs they are iconic, what are the odds of 3Z making Cheetor and Rhinox? They are really iconic characters, I think this is enough to justify figures of them. What do you guys think?
Angry fan
But even then I'm sure rotf Optimus would have way more articulations than the tlk one
Napalm
Probably counting any part that articulates out of the way to accommodate range of movement.
Angry fan
I really wanted to know what criteria they use. They also said tlk Optimus had 72 points of articulation but I never understood why, he has more or less the same amount as rotf Optimus for example
VVa
If you mean in general, then I see his face's proportions are slightly different. And the armour under his pectorals are slightly different from the prototype. His "anterior serratus" area.
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And he has the proper foot plating now.
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Other than that, his sculpt is more defined. But that's to be expected!
er4smiths
How many changes do you notice ?
VVa
If that's the case, it is a bit odd to get the numbers incorrect. Who do they think they are, ShowZStore?
octobotimus
Assuming its true. More than likely the numbers before hand were just incorrect. That or they started counting the pistons as articulation points.
VVa
A more than worthy sacrifice.
er4smiths
Anyone notice he got shorter, but gained 14 points of articulation?
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Cybertrovenator
Primal's looking gorgeous~ LOVE that G1 face a lot, shame they didn't get to use that concept in the final film.
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Not sure if I'd be able to buy him with my limited space and funds (reserving my cash for MPMs and [a couple] Bayverse trilogy MLDXs, RIP wallet
Thanks! I hate it.
Collector20
It doesn’t look like beast machines primal.
Grimlockamus
Look at his face without the mask and tell me he doesn\'t look like beast machines primal
Collector20
Yeah, probably and I don’t get why. Transformers have pretty simple designs so why all of the indecisiveness? Just take their original designs and update them. Maybe you want to do something new like with Mirage but its not rocket science.
Napalm
Yeah, despite it being there in the control art concept art, promo material and various figures, the Season 1 mouthplate is the one that doesn't appear onscreen
C'est la vie.
octobotimus
Unfortunately this is one of those things that is 100% a director thing. As much as I enjoyed the movie, Caple jr from a VFX standpoint is probably a nightmare to deal with. You have to finalize designs before starting your movie’s post production yet he seemingly kept changing things and having VFX artists redoing models constantly. This sort of indecisiveness (along with an iffy VFX company) is what led to the CGI being of much lower quality.
Caple probably just couldn’t make up his mind on what models he wanted to be the final one.
Napalm
At the end of the day, it's a real step up that we're getting all three options and they've sorted the feet out.
Collector20
What was up with this movie’s designs? So many last minute changes for seemingly no reason. The exception is Pablo’s ears, we did that, brothers.
Gonkdroid
They really wanted the chainswords to be a thing huh?