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. [...]
We already reviewed one awesome Prowl figure in the Animated line, a figure that is probably the best ever transforming motorcycle ever made. But even one glance at the pictures of this figure demonstrates it was yet possible to top it. A substantial remold (head, forearms, waist, chest have all been redone at least) [...]
Drawing inspiration both in design and personality from Marvel UK’s Death’s Head, via a bit of Frankenstein, Lockdown is another example of the genius at work in the Animated toyline in turning the highly stylised and exaggerated proportions of the Animated characters into something accurate to both the robot and alt mode designs with [...]
Transformers Animated character designer and art director Derrick J. Wyatt shares concept art, jokes and behind the scenes info at his blog A Delightful Tedium.
Meanwhile more Transformers Animated concepts, and manga sketches, can be found at the blog of character designer Brianne Drouhard.
Update: Derrick Wyatt is interviewed over at http://www.coolshite.net/feature/2009/05/14/transformers-animated-interview-derrick-wyatt/ for more insights into the [...]
Just in, the robot mode for the silver Corvette previously revealed to be Sideswipe is shown in new pictures at Tformers.com. Toy pictures are expected by the end of the week.
Get this, he has wheels instead of feet (a bit like Bonecrusher)
via ROTF Sideswipe Figure Details and Headshots!
Update: The full figure is now revealed here!
Transforming motorbikes have always been tricky to pull off, and it’s hard to think of a design from Gobots Cykill to the recent Movie Arcee design that didn’t end up just sticking the wheels on the back somewhere. So it seems strange to discover that the solution was simple all along, or at least [...]
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