New Studio Series Deluxe Toys Found at Target in US

Just a guess, but coronation Scream first surfaced at Greenwood, IN Target and that qualifies as S of Indy. Or it could be Southport. I wonder if this is coming through that FedEx facility in Greenwood?

this line looks really good.

Time to start watching walmarts when I get groceries then

I guess it's time to swing by Target today. Ratchet, Wheeljack and Brawn are on my list to get.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Time to start watching walmarts when I get groceries then

But this is at Target.

william-james88 wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Time to start watching walmarts when I get groceries then

But this is at Target.

Literally does not matter. I almost always see things at walmart first. showing up first at one retailer doesn't make a difference for where I commonly find things

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Arcee's face looks a bit weird in hand, it looks like a ventriloquist dummy. That's the one thing I don't like about the Bee movie Autobots: cliff, ironhide, ratchet, and Arcee have faces that look pretty weird and I'm not a big fan

You hit the nail on the head with Arcee, I could never quite put my finger on it.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Arcee's face looks a bit weird in hand, it looks like a ventriloquist dummy. That's the one thing I don't like about the Bee movie Autobots: cliff, ironhide, ratchet, and Arcee have faces that look pretty weird and I'm not a big fan

You hit the nail on the head with Arcee, I could never quite put my finger on it.

But you like the drooling Shrapnel Geiger faces from the Bayverse right?

The ethestics of G1 faces versus Bay/Knight faces comes to just being different eras of design and thought about science fiction. G1 stuff comes from a visual school (and a time period) where that smooth, almost masquerade mask look was what made sense and Bay/Knight is ok what if we took that but thought about what humanoid alien robots look like and err towards something "stranger"

They both have their place, one isn't wrong or right for liking either

Back on topic, I'm eagerly keeping an eye out for Brawn and Wheeljack, going to pass on Ratchet until Ironhide hits the scene. So far the Cores have shown up around here so the rest can't be far behind

SkyFire Prime wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Arcee's face looks a bit weird in hand, it looks like a ventriloquist dummy. That's the one thing I don't like about the Bee movie Autobots: cliff, ironhide, ratchet, and Arcee have faces that look pretty weird and I'm not a big fan

You hit the nail on the head with Arcee, I could never quite put my finger on it.

But you like the drooling Shrapnel Geiger faces from the Bayverse right?

The "drooling shrapnel Geiger faces" works because they are pure alien. The "human" like faces of the Bee Movie bots strike that uncanny valley feeling.

SkyFire Prime wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Arcee's face looks a bit weird in hand, it looks like a ventriloquist dummy. That's the one thing I don't like about the Bee movie Autobots: cliff, ironhide, ratchet, and Arcee have faces that look pretty weird and I'm not a big fan

You hit the nail on the head with Arcee, I could never quite put my finger on it.

But you like the drooling Shrapnel Geiger faces from the Bayverse right?

Absolutely not. There's very few if any Bayverse bots that I like the look of.

I got charged by Amazon for the Bumblebee Movie deluxe figures. Should be here on March 3rd while Perceptor should be here on Sunday.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I got charged by Amazon for the Bumblebee Movie deluxe figures. Should be here on March 3rd while Perceptor should be here on Sunday.

Same for the BB movie figures including Soundwave. Order still says arriving April 5 even though the product pages say shipping March 1. Was also hoping the price would come down at least temporarily since I ordered it in December for a good price match, but none of them did.

Emerje

SkyFire Prime wrote:
But you like the drooling Shrapnel Geiger faces from the Bayverse right?

I wasn’t as much of a fan of the AOE/TLK face designs that are more humanoid, but the designs from the first 3 movies are what I’d consider perfection.

But hey, Studio Series covers the Bay movies and BB (and G1), so everyone’s happy!

With wave 1 at retail and wave 2 revealed, I can’t wait for wave 3 reveals, likely in a couple months!

. . . If they reveal them at all, I guess xD

Emerje wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I got charged by Amazon for the Bumblebee Movie deluxe figures. Should be here on March 3rd while Perceptor should be here on Sunday.

Same for the BB movie figures including Soundwave. Order still says arriving April 5 even though the product pages say shipping March 1. Was also hoping the price would come down at least temporarily since I ordered it in December for a good price match, but none of them did.

Emerje

Ratchet at least may still price match. He was down to $19.99 while Brawn and Wheeljack were still regular price. Amazon typically doesn't lower the price until they actually charge and ship, so we may still get a slight savings when they ship.

Edit: Damn, he's back to full price, so nevermind.

Edit to the Edit: I just checked my order and Amazon did give me Ratchet at $19.99. Who-hoo!

I don't see how they're making an entire toy line based on a 5 minute scene in a movie.

Asepticon wrote:I don't see how they're making an entire toy line based on a 5 minute scene in a movie.

Simple, it is the closest the live action movies have come to G1 character representations, so the current design team was naturally drawn to it.

TF-fan kev777 wrote:

Emerje wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:I got charged by Amazon for the Bumblebee Movie deluxe figures. Should be here on March 3rd while Perceptor should be here on Sunday.

Same for the BB movie figures including Soundwave. Order still says arriving April 5 even though the product pages say shipping March 1. Was also hoping the price would come down at least temporarily since I ordered it in December for a good price match, but none of them did.

Emerje

Ratchet at least may still price match. He was down to $19.99 while Brawn and Wheeljack were still regular price. Amazon typically doesn't lower the price until they actually charge and ship, so we may still get a slight savings when they ship.

Edit: Damn, he's back to full price, so nevermind.

Edit to the Edit: I just checked my order and Amazon did give me Ratchet at $19.99. Who-hoo!

My Ratchet too. I don't understand why one figure was lowered and the other two from the SAME wave and SAME case aren't. Amazon has been like this for a few years now and I hate that I still give them my business.

Asepticon wrote:I don't see how they're making an entire toy line based on a 5 minute scene in a movie.

It's not an entire line just part of a subline. Toy companies have been making much from little for years. Look at all the Batman figures that get made for a movie line.

So with Bee Movie Arcee getting SS 85, what are they going to do for wave 3 this year? Will either DOTM Bee or Sideways be regular SS 86, or will they skip to SS 87? Will they stop numbering altogether?

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Edit to the Edit: I just checked my order and Amazon did give me Ratchet at $19.99. Who-hoo!

Yep, my Ratchet also came down to $19.99 and my three Deluxes are due to arrive Thursday so that's good news. Soundwave is still showing April, I suspect Amazon will be giving me a refund on him if he doesn't ship soon until he's finally ready to go.

My SS86 Perceptor is also ready to ship for next week!

chuckdawg1999 wrote:My Ratchet too. I don't understand why one figure was lowered and the other two from the SAME wave and SAME case aren't. Amazon has been like this for a few years now and I hate that I still give them my business.

Amazon is pretty quick to reduce the prices on figures that aren't selling as well as they'd like until the sales catch back up with the rest of the wave. Walmart and Target occasionally do the same thing with other figures, though Walmart will also crank up the prices of their own exclusives that are selling well. What I'm trying to say is all the big companies do weird things with prices to maximize sales.

Emerje

TF-fan kev777 wrote:So with Bee Movie Arcee getting SS 85, what are they going to do for wave 3 this year? Will either DOTM Bee or Sideways be regular SS 86, or will they skip to SS 87? Will they stop numbering altogether?

My guess is that they’ll skip to 87, but we’ll see!

They can still use SS 86 in the regular line. It's not the same as SS86, and besides, the latter has the smaller numbers attached to it. That also makes it different.

Emerje wrote:

TF-fan kev777 wrote:Edit to the Edit: I just checked my order and Amazon did give me Ratchet at $19.99. Who-hoo!

Yep, my Ratchet also came down to $19.99 and my three Deluxes are due to arrive Thursday so that's good news. Soundwave is still showing April, I suspect Amazon will be giving me a refund on him if he doesn't ship soon until he's finally ready to go.

My SS86 Perceptor is also ready to ship for next week!

chuckdawg1999 wrote:My Ratchet too. I don't understand why one figure was lowered and the other two from the SAME wave and SAME case aren't. Amazon has been like this for a few years now and I hate that I still give them my business.

Amazon is pretty quick to reduce the prices on figures that aren't selling as well as they'd like until the sales catch back up with the rest of the wave. Walmart and Target occasionally do the same thing with other figures, though Walmart will also crank up the prices of their own exclusives that are selling well. What I'm trying to say is all the big companies do weird things with prices to maximize sales.

Emerje

Algorithims, it's all algorithims.

Asepticon wrote:I don't see how they're making an entire toy line based on a 5 minute scene in a movie.

Doesn't matter, they did it.

Arcee and Ironhide are up on Amazon for anoyone looking.

https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Stu ... C87&sr=1-3?tag=seibertron07-20&

https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Stu ... C87&sr=1-4?tag=seibertron07-20&

william-james88 wrote:

Asepticon wrote:I don't see how they're making an entire toy line based on a 5 minute scene in a movie.

Doesn't matter, they did it.

And they're pretty good figures (the Deluxes anyway). I think Wheeljack is my favorite of this batch, his bot mode is solid and I love his car mode. Everything snaps together nicely and he's fun to transform. Ratchet would be my favorite, but his bot mode is super loose in the hips, elbows and shoulders. His transformation is absolutely ridiculous, it's far more complex than I could have imagined from pictures. Alt mode is pretty nice with no real gaps or open spaces, he'd be a great figure if it weren't for the floppy limbs. Brawn is the figure I was most looking forward to and he ended up being the biggest disappointment. Bot mode is OK, Transformation is really simple, and alt mode is not great. He has so many gaps in his alt mode that not only can you see straight through him from the side, but there's what can only be described as a hole right through the top of him that they could have easily have filled with his forearms. Looking back at stock photos they were clearly trying to hide all this. If they had just spent a little more time planning him he could have been great, but he feels rushed.

On the plus side I didn't have any parts fall off any of these guys, though only Ratchet really secures his gun in alt mode well using a 5mm peg while Wheeljack uses an odd shaped slot and Brawn only uses a tiny 3mm peg for some reason that barely holds.

Emerje

Just got Brawn, waiting for Wheeljack to get shipped from Amazon.

Got to say Brawn is really nice. The transformation is very unique.

Smooth rolling. The only nitpick is the Titan master pegs for the gun. In vehicle mode its not very secure. But I do love that rifle.

Brawn looks pretty good in those images. He is the one I am most excited for. Still waiting to see them in stores

For anyone who is really excited for the new Transformers Studio Series Bumblebee movie figures, we have some news for you. Amazon.com Currently has most of the new wave available in stock, including the deluxe class Brawn, Wheeljack, and Ratchet, as well as the core class Shockwave and Ravage. To make matters better, Ravage is currently on sale at $8.49, and Ratchet is on sale for $19.99.

While Soundwave is still a preorder, and Perceptor is out of stock, you can purchase the deluxes and core figures.

Check out the links below, and let us know if you pick any of these guys up and what you think of the, in the comments section below!

Ratchet: https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Stu ... 110&sr=8-3?tag=seibertron07-20&

Wheeljack: https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Stu ... 110&sr=8-6?tag=seibertron07-20&

Brawn: https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Stu ... 110&sr=8-5?tag=seibertron07-20&

Ravage: https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Stu ... C60&sr=8-1?tag=seibertron07-20&

Shockwave: https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-Stu ... C60&sr=8-3?tag=seibertron07-20&

Repaint that Brawn in burgundy and red and we got our next crossover figure: Juggernaut.

Rodimus Prime wrote:Repaint that Brawn in burgundy and red and we got our next crossover figure: Juggernaut.

He's a bit small for Juggy, but yes, he does look the part.






But he's so much fun.

As of now, he's a robot version of Man-at-Arms.

Sabrblade wrote:As of now, he's a robot version of Man-at-Arms.

That isn't a bad thing, I love that design

Sabrblade wrote:As of now, he's a robot version of Man-at-Arms.

Yup. Now I need to find him a mace.

Anyway, Amazon says Wheeljack is out for delivery. Can't wait.

One more Wheeljack to add my ever growing collection of Wheeljacks. The Transdimensional Wheeljack Corps. TWC for short.

Overcracker wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:As of now, he's a robot version of Man-at-Arms.

Yup. Now I need to find him a mace.

Anyway, Amazon says Wheeljack is out for delivery. Can't wait.

One more Wheeljack to add my ever growing collection of Wheeljacks. The Transdimensional Wheeljack Corps. TWC for short.

You should enjoy Wheeljack, I think he's the best of the wave, which is a really good wave by the way.

I’m going to disagree with that assesment.

Wheeljack is just O.K. I don’t particularly enjoy his transformation. Brawn on the other hand is fantastic.

I like the vehicle mode, but I still like Brawn’s more.

Getting smaller and smaller... Looks pretty good though.

I'm expecting my wave of Bee movie deluxes to hopefully ship this week. Ordered them Thursday when Ratchet was on a flash sale at $15.99, made it worth it to go that route instead of wait for the Walmart find (deluxes there are still $18.84).

Most looking forward to Brawn.

I also got the Buzzworthy B-127. Still a mediocre mold at best, but the new colors and head are pretty nice, an improvement over the original

Primevsprime put up a review of ss86 Sludge already
Looks absolutely fantastic
Transformation is awesome too

Just wondering, is it well known that core class Shockwave instructions are terribly wrong for the back half of the alt mode? Because I had not heard of it till I bought the toy today.

william-james88 wrote:Just wondering, is it well known that core class Shockwave instructions are terribly wrong for the back half of the alt mode? Because I had not heard of it till I bought the toy today.

Don't have him, but I found Perceptor's instructions to have a lot of strange issues. To go into tank mode step one shows the microscope mode flattened out and legs highlighted with 180 degree arrow off the right side, but it doesn't say what is being moved 180 degrees (easy to figure out if you've handled a G1 figure, probably confusing if you've never touched a Perceptor before). They tried to cut down three steps into two or at least combined the wrong two steps. But that's not the strangest part. The last section shows where to peg the gun in for storage in both modes, but both pictures have a 90 degree arrow to the left and right sides even though there's nothing being turned let alone two things.

Emerje

So I noticed something odd but nice on Brawn, Wheeljack and Ratchet. All 3 have 5mm ports in the bottom of their feet like nearly all WFC and SS86 figures have. I believe they are the first Studio Series non-SS86 figures to have this. B-127 and Cliffjumper have a spot that will hold a 5mm post, but it looks more like a happy accident than on purpose. I did a random check of other recent SS but non-SS86 figures and didn't find any with 5mm ports.

Got my brawn ratchet and wheeljack yesterday, they're all pretty fun, ratchet is a disaster, every joint on him is incredibly loose, can't even hold his arm up whilst holding his gun.

For anyone that has wheeljack, are his ankles fused on your copy? I can't move the ball joints on mine making him pretty difficult to pose.

Hellscream9999 wrote:Got my brawn ratchet and wheeljack yesterday, they're all pretty fun, ratchet is a disaster, every joint on him is incredibly loose, can't even hold his arm up whilst holding his gun.

For anyone that has wheeljack, are his ankles fused on your copy? I can't move the ball joints on mine making him pretty difficult to pose.

On mine they aren’t fused, but are very tight specially the right one. Also, they don’t have that much range of movement anyway since they are blocked by the leg panel on one side, and the ankle hinge on the other. Ankle tilt is minimal.

Overcracker wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:Got my brawn ratchet and wheeljack yesterday, they're all pretty fun, ratchet is a disaster, every joint on him is incredibly loose, can't even hold his arm up whilst holding his gun.

For anyone that has wheeljack, are his ankles fused on your copy? I can't move the ball joints on mine making him pretty difficult to pose.

On mine they aren’t fused, but are very tight specially the right one. Also, they don’t have that much range of movement anyway since they are blocked by the leg panel on one side, and the ankle hinge on the other. Ankle tilt is minimal.

Well if they aren't fused in place, then mine are so tight they feel like they are cemented in place.

got my Brawn, Wheeljack, and Ratchet.

All 3 are pretty good. Brawn was as predicted my favorite. There is so much love put into this sour little strong man. I wish the arms could pose a bit better with the bicep swivel and that his head could rotate more, but he is a lot of fun. Definitely my favorite.

Wheeljack is 2nd favorite. some parts of him feel a bit too tight for comfort, but he is solid. Love the frumpy design, and the head rocks.

Ratchet comes in 3rd. he's good, just the other 2 are better. Really enjoy his transformation, very involved and quite fun.

Wheeljack could have used some more ankle movement, but he is pretty great. I love the headsculpt a lot.

Figuring out SS Bee Movie Ratchet's transformation was quite the challenge but very fun. He really compress down to a cute little thing that looks VERY Cybertronian while still having that minivan vibes. I like it! When Ironhide gets out, I'll buy him as well. For once, both characters will be MAINLINE without one, the other, or both being exclusive bullshiit.

I have not decided If I want Ratchet yet. I have pre-ordered Ironhide simply because I like the color scheme. If Ratchet goes on sale I may just pick him up too.

Still, Brawn is still the best so far of these deluxes.