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Pre-Toy Fair we have your first look at Hasbro's Transformers Prime toys!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. It's not every day you're asked by Hasbro if you want to premiere a new line of Transformers toys, so sight unseen I said yes. Sure, I was thinking more big boy toys in my brain, but still... I had a ton of Hasbro toys as a kid, so it's still cool to be able to debut some new toy images as Toy Fair looms.
The figures are from Transformers Prime, the new Transformers cartoon. More specifically they're from an Entertainment Pack that contains an assortment of figures from the show, including the human characters, Optimus and Megatron. Hope you guys enjoy the images!
Thanks to Joe Moscone at Hasbro for the images!
-Quint
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The one with the purple shirt should transform into a Packer player. I mean, seriously, did you SEE their sideline jerseys? Purple/Lavender shirts and YELLOW pants? Who was the team color palette designer for that one, scooby-doo? Seriously.
And this kid should transform into one of them. -
There's nothing like hot Megatron-on-human female action!!!
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What the fuck is that?
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But that's because of my horrible childhood experience where I was left alone with a mouthless "little person". It was awful. I had to use it's eyesocket for things unmentionable since it had no mouth. And when I say "unmentionable" I mean you'll have to see it on the big screen in a room full of people so it can "transform" you the way it "transformed" me.
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for a while, toys available in department stores were looking pretty good. the mcFarlane toys made designers really compete (and many actually topped mcfarlane stuff).
then something happened and i'm not sure when but toy designers stopped giving a shit again.
i understand these are based off of the cartoon, but they're horrible. megatron looks okay in robot form, optimus does not.
but movie figures take the cake for suckiness, awkward poses, figs of horrible lesser characters and grotesque likenesses lately. -
good effort, that could have been something special
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Seriously, Quint?! Slow news day. Who gives a fuck!!!!!
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Its like these toys are for kids or something.
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I like how AICN doesn't have one blip on the new series, but they promote the toys. Ugh!
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Feb 07, 2011 6:54:11 PM CST
This crap looks like the action figures from the "Real Ghostbusters"
by unicorndick
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they gave me a nice gig designing the zombie themed Cuponk cup...i'm probably shooting myself in the foot for future freelance by saying thes transformers prime toys are lacking, my complaint is more about department store toy lines in general.
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Why the fuck would AICN review toys??? For toy fans, these have been seen on Transformers toy sites for the past couple of months, so it's rather OLD news. For non-toy fans, this is just shit.
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There is nothing to see here. Move along.
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metal and rubber!
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Feb 07, 2011 8:51:45 PM CST
Why the hell did they go with the same line-up as the LAST Transformers show?
by prestigeworldwide
Optimus, Rachet, Bumblebee, Bulkhead, and a motorcycle character that used to be another vehicle, like Prowl used to be a police car and Arcee, the last memeber of T: Prime Autobots has been a couple of different vehicles.
I just watched the very first Transformers EVER on Hub last week, and OH MY FREAKING GOD were there a TON of Transformers!
Seriously, once the characters got to Earth, every other scene debuted a new Transformer that we hadn't seen before up until that point in the multi-ep premiere of Generation 1. It actually may have been TOO many introduced at once, and it was hard to give any of them adequate time for proper characterazation save for Prime, Megatron, and Starscream.
I was they had a few more Autobots as part of this original team. What really pisses me off is that Cliffjumper was last final member, AND HE WAS VOICED BY THE FRIGGIN ROCK, but they killed him off in the FIRST EPISODE! WTF?!? -
Feb 07, 2011 8:53:23 PM CST
Way to go HASBRO! What you get from this posting is A LOT OF FANBOYS FLAMING YOUR PRODUCT!!!
by prestigeworldwide
Really great marketing campaign!
No wonder you lost the JLU line-up! -
would want to buy figures of children from a Transformers toyline? You buy transformers to play with robots that turn into shit, not to get horrible, anime looking kid figures.
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Just in time for Toy Fair: What if Optimus Prime had a crush on... well, see for yourself.
http://someguyonthenet.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-kind-of-cool.html
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Feb 07, 2011 10:46:54 PM CST
Oh, I guess this site too good to show the Kings Speech action figures?
by mst3kpimp
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It actually IS news. This is the first time images of these have shown up.
Thanks for sharing Quint. -
is that these actually look like they legitimately transform into something. Rather than being a big mess of swirling, spikey, twisting, implausible scrap metal.
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Feb 08, 2011 3:04:49 AM CST
How can a child possibly enjoy a flameless Optimus Prime?
by doctor_strangepork
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http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.arcadeflyers.com/flyers_video/stern/44135901.jpg&imgrefurl=http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php%3Ft%3D33498&usg=__3GP3e4AyBcFr_zJjQbrSJXSUuTg=&h=1110&w=850&sz=295&hl=en&start=0&zoom=0&tbnid=LkkTj2ujOQ9uaM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=96&ei=kRFRTbDNMZK6sQORyeiRBw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmoon%2Bwar%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D981%26bih%3D661%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C188&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=507&vpy=386&dur=6289&hovh=150&hovw=115&tx=128&ty=222&oei=gBFRTfnQPILEsAPB9uDWBg&esq=4&page=1&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:18,s:0&biw=981&bih=661
I don't know if you're able to link to this mess. But if you can then you know the best ad in history. Imagine if this was a forced setup on all arcade machines imposed by the state. You cannot play unless the machine is as pictured. And it is unlawful to remove the ass planted in front of the machine. -
Feb 08, 2011 5:09:30 AM CST
"I guess this site too good to show the Kings Speech action figures?"
by scratchmonkey
It has to be said, the George VI figure with authentic profane stuttering (ages 5+) is FUCKING BADASS!!
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I was hoping figures for the show would get made before long. I'm glad that they took the time to make these toys actually look like the characters from TF Prime, which, by the 5 episode mini they did, is shaping up to be the best TF show since Beast Wars. I was hoping they'd have some Soundwave and Starscream images on here, but alas. There are way too many haters on this board.
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It was easier in the 80s to introduce new transformers every episode. All they had to do was draw them. For a 3D show that has the kind of quality that TF Prime has (aside from lipsyncing issues), I'm willing to bet it gets expensive to voice, model, texture, rig, animate, and render each transformer they have on there already.
Sure, the roster is a bit light in the new show, and I hope they change that, but they're doing a good job so far, especially for being born out of the writers of the 2nd movie (which I really didn't like). -
Megatron has been ruined since second 1 in the movies. This toys also look incredibly cheap.
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Feb 08, 2011 11:09:50 AM CST
Actual Transformers look better than Bay's clusterfucks of shiny shit!
by the_choppah
Agree the human look like lumps of lazy anime crap.
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mech toy and sentinel toys that sold for $20? Easily the biggest and most detailed toys ever sold at that price point.
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Eight-year-old me would be gushing all over that thing (Figuratively speaking. Didn't really start gushing until a few years later...)
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and not just the screws. Those were the best Transformers. Too bad you have to spend 100 bucks nowadays for the Masterpiece series. Toys have gone done the tubes.
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They had parts that were vacuum-metallized plastic.
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I bought several of those - Starscream, Bumblebee, Jazz. Even some oldies like Thunderwing. These new designs are horrible.
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I stand corrected. You are right, these are new images. I got confused with the Transformers RTS toy line, where Optimus was revealed a few weeks ago.
Oh well. -
but only the bootleggers make Sari et al from Transformers: Animated? Sad how much attention the Bay garbage gets, though Prime and Megatron don't look as horrible as their overly busy movie counterparts do. To add insult to injury, the past few years of Bayformer figures knocked the Universe Classic releases off the shelves, forcing us to go to the highway robbery ebay sellers. And we never got Wheeljack. The crappy G.I. Joe movie also foisted the terrible movie figures on us for a few years, ending the much loved and unfinish Anniversary line. The execs in charge at Hasbro are out of their minds; though, whoever greenlit War for Cybertron should be promoted to CEO. At the very least, for our troubles, they could give us another series set in the TF: Animated-verse...
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