Ultimate Optimus Prime
This sounds promising, hopefully it’ll be an improvement of the excellent ROTF Leader Prime (or even the Buster Prime, fingers crossed) with a cool battle armour.. or it may be rubbish.
Leader Bumblebee
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There’s already been two large Bumblebee figures, both of which sucked compared to the Human Alliance and Battles Blades figures. If we’re [...]
The Deluxe Arcee and Chromia figures, weak and shelfwarming as they were, did promise a three way combination, with combination being a subtle theme of the ROTF range - Optimus/Jetfire, the Twins and Devastator of course. With the vaporware third unique mold replaced by a repaint, there’s really no reason to stick with the Deluxes. [...]
The sweet custom Desert Patrol Vehicle driven by the Sector 7 soldiers in the first movie was nicely embodied in the form of the allspark series Landmine figure. The same buggy gets another go as a Scout this time in the form of Dune Runner.
Substantially smaller than Landmine and thus quite out of scale in [...]
Lets get right down to business - when it comes to movie Megatrons, the Voyager is the one to get. It’s two out of two so far.
The alt mode here is the jet-tank mode seen in Megatron’s flight to see The Fallen. It’s the same tank mode, but there are little wings, that unfortunately [...]
While the Deluxe Chevy mode figures for the Twins seem superfluous in light of the similar but superior Human Alliance versions, this is the only way to get the funky ice cream van mode, and it’s a proper combining alt mode at that, all at Deluxe size.
The robot modes are surprisingly screen accurate considering [...]
What if you could have Alternators versions of your favourite movie designs? And what if those Alternators also came with a figure of that robot’s human buddy to ride inside? Say, Sam with Bumblebee or Lennox with Ironhide?
What if your movie was also so successful that it’s toy line was still filling shelves two years [...]
John Lewis in Oxford street has:
Wave 1 Scouts - Detour, Ransack, Knock Out,Dirt Boss
Wave 1 Legends - Prime, Jetfire, Bumblebee, Springer
Wave 1 Deluxes - Sideways, Rampage, Sideswipe, Breakaway plus non-preview packaging preview Bumblebee.
Wave 1 Robot Replicas - Ironhide, Starscream, Ratchet, possible others. They look even worse than the first movie ones.
Wave 1 Voyagers - repaint [...]
Despite appearing in the preview wave we’ve yet to see any movie footage or CGI rendering of how the final Soundwave will look like. Given that the first movie used protoform / reentry mode figures, it may even be the case that in the movie Soundwave is barely seen, or looks substantially different from the [...]
Concept Camaro Bumblebee was the very height of Deluxe quality in the last movie line, a figure that benefitted greatly from being a second attempt already at a Deluxe movie Bumblebee. Although the original figure didn’t get as wide a distribution as the preview and wave 1 figures, it was reused several times for [...]
Let’s face it, the designers of the first movie Starscream figure had an uphill battle making the movie’s highly intricate designs into toys and still have them transform let alone articulate or stand up unaided, and none more than Starscream who has to transform from insect-chicken-bot to sleek smooth state of the art fighter jet. [...]
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