Buzzworthy Bumblebee Studio Series SS-102 Rise Of The Beasts Voyager Optimus Prime Turnaround Videos & Comments By Hasbro Designer Sam Smith

hilmanmakhluf

Do you guys think this is possible to do? SS102 upper body with SS38 lower body
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Unfortunately not, but I wish it was.

For SS38, if the tires is not fold in the body..

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Can't wait to get SS102
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octobotimus

Optimus according to the director is the main transformer of the movie. And that has been known for a very long time. I have absolutely no clue how they didn’t think of making him part of the main SS line up much less allocate him to be a partial.

Sounds like they lined this up really early in production, he wasn't much different than his BB-Movie incarnation, so they pushed him out of the main Studio Series lineup to make room for newly-tooled figures.

As the movie production progressed and the design evolved, they eventually settled on giving him the Override treatment. But his exclusivity status was already locked.

SideSwipe154

I totally understand that there are high standards for Studio series figures (bc they've had a fairly good run at it so far) but it's honestly kinda hilarious when peoples' biggest gripe with SS38 were the "horrendous legs that can't stay together" and when they fixed it for SS102, people still complain. The kibble hangs off the cab because keeping it a single solid piece makes it more sturdy, otherwise, it'll just be flimsy like SS38, thus, no "fold in to conceal" part of transformation.
Considering the high expectations set, its understandable, but its also ridiculous for ridiculing them for trying their best to fix the issue while trying to keep within the budget (a thing ppl tend to forget when designing the figures, limitations keeps these things from being perfection). Criticizing will hopefully bring about better figures in the future, yes, but man ppl can be rough sometimes.

That being said,
I feel like we should be this angry about the fact that that there's no trailer hitch? or the fact that truck bed is very uniquely designed, but this figure does not seem to take advantage of at all? It doesn't need to look like a normal truck (like SS38 successfully does), it just needed to look like the movie's truck. I'm not a huge truck guy but i've never seen this look on a truck anywhere else.

back to the whole high expectations thing, I think I'm just mostly upset it doesn't something look like this (I know, this is an unfair comparison, one is a transforming toy, the other is a diecast model replica but you get what I mean):

Honestly my most nitpicky thing (aside from like half the torso being painted blue plastic "cleverly constructed" my behind) is the lack back double tires, cause like 98% of Optimus toys miss this and on ROTB especially cause they're the most prominent in this movie they've every been.

Astrus Prime

Is anybody weirded out by how they seem to almost patholically refuse to show any shots of his guy with his regular right first instead of the gun? Especially then the trailers all have it on his *left*? If I didn\'t know better I\'d just assume he didn\'t actually have a right hand.

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I think the only thing keeping this from being amazing is the truck bed transformation.

The Bumblebee movie Optimus had amazing leg transformation that made the truck hitch area look like an actual truck's. I wish they could a found a way to do that again while maintaining the proper robo mode proportions.

Shoot maybe it's because they had less frames.or whatever they're called to make this one?

Anyway, it looks near perfect and I can't wait to make it mine

(Edit) I see my concern was already addressed lmao well that actually makes me feel better knowing the designers want it as accurate as we do. Still, I can't wait to get my hands on this one

Fafnir72

Already being solicited so start scrounging online for one now or of course risk it with the store exclusivity. That's the bane/bane of our hobby now.

Already sold out at pulse!

Looks pretty good but Hasbro dropped the ball making him exclusive. This is the first time that the Movie Prime is that hard to get.

It’s going to be a nightmare for many people to get him. In many countries, the freaking Buzzworthy line is not even available.

The excuse of Hasbro was just pathetic, King dollar talked, this is a business and we don’t need pathetic excuses to justify an agreement with Target. Don’t be surprised if the Leader Prime is boxed in a SS box in other countries, just like the other ROTB characters but “we didn’t know if Prime could be included in the SS, even Airazor was included but we didn’t know about the main character”

I know this guy had budget cuts, I know they didn\'t want to make the shins floppy, that doesn\'t mean that excuses it and it doesn\'t make me wrong for just not feeling it. Net personally, I don\'t understand why hasbro would make this an exclusive and chip at its budget. But the back of the cab, the way the feet fold away, and the shins just chudding off the back, they should\'ve just left the shins on the legs at that point. The feet on the mainline is obnoxious but not to this level. I\'m sorry but hasbro keeps raising the price at least a dollar a year if not more at this point so justifying why the main version of Optimus prime from the newest live action film is an exclusive with budget cuts that are so big we need to be reminded so we give the thing slack. I\'m proud of what the engineers did with the resources given, but this just doesn\'t cut it I\'m sorry. 

Sam: we can further improve the design with a leader budget if they ever give him a trailer

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