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I’m really liking Bumblebee, tbh I was more impressed by him than Springer. Not taking anything away for Springer, but he didn’t look too different from the Siege release

I thought they said the deception grunt was a partial of barricade?

Take two of those rotor swords and you have animated megatron

Straxus and Springer are the two must-haves for me. Straxus in particular, I’ve wanted a big figure of him for a while, resorting to “kinda there” substitutes to fill the gap. To finally see him as a leader class with a good amount of retooling from galvatron makes me very happy

One guy comes to mind with the gold hand is Jhiaxus; he is a significant comic character in the transformers run. It’s possible they will do a comic accurate repaint to reuse the mold a second time.

Since the moment they revealed Galvatron back during Kingdom, I've been waiting for them to retool it into Straxus. I need that figure more than I need air

Regarding the last comic character, so far, each figure has been a character that has appeared on the cover of a Marvel Comic from the 80s. That said, I looked through the various Marvel Comics from the era, and only two issues have a character on the cover with an orange arm and red hand. In Issue #43:we have Rodimus Prime fighting Galvatron. That seems like an obvious choice here. But if they wanted to get really obscure, they would go with issue #33. A one-off issue, this was actually a Marvel UK Transformers comic (with great art inside, btw!) set in the Middle Ages with an autobot simply named the "Man of Iron." It's a really different issue and may be what was alluded to in discussions for the final comic character!

Bumblebee is up on BBTS but I haven’t seen it on Pulse or Amazon yet

They teased Devasator with that artillery shell

Also for Bumblebee in all the shots in the movie his chest is always a square it's never rounded and robot accuracy is always the priority

Maybe Blaster with 2 or 3 cassettes to bump him into Leader class? If this is limited to, let's say American Transformer comics prior to the Headmaster's limited series (since that was the time in the spotlight for most of the other characters in this line) and assuming an Autobot, the most prominent individual 'Bots or those with standalone stories are Prime, Bumblebee, Ratchet, Skids, Omega Supreme, Goldbug, and Blaster. Perceptor was the leader of the Cybertronian Autobots, but that Return to Cybertron story was about Blaster... And Scrounge. Maybe Blaster with Scrounge?

Finally!a modern Bumper and Glyph

Springer had a his earth mode and I hope they make studio series 86 repaint Bumblebee Cliffjumper

I hope they’ll do more comic decos in the future. I will buy them all

Literally pre ordered steeljaw like a minute after the pre orders were available reason: I have the G1 toy and I love blaster and his mini cassettes.

03:26. But they are going to release ANOTHER speaker with the rhino cassette.

Starting a new round of the mini car bot mold before they finished rounding out the last one is the most Hasbro thing Hasbro can do...

Mystery character could be Marvel Comics Sentinel Prime

So happy to finally see Straxus get an accurate figure after so many years. Springer looks great, but I would have rather lost some weapons accessories to get some paint apps on the missile and his wrist gun - disappointing to see some screen accuracy sacrificied there, especially for the leader price point.

I love the GE Trooper, very nice green. Pretty sure it is a heavy retool of Barricade. Ramhorn will hopefully come with a 2nd Speaker, or a repaint of Steeljaw will. I don't want to buy him twice. Springer is probably something I will get on sale,.if it shelfwatms like Coronation Starscream. 86 Bee is okay, though the gap in the window bugs me more than it having non blue windows. Will likely wait for a reapian, Bumper Glyph or Tap-Out. Straxus is interesting, not sure I need it. Appreciate their efforts.

that bumblebee steeljaw amd springer are amazing. skywarp is neat. i have them all preordred on gamestop

I'm hoping they repaint the Decepticon Trooper into the more Vehicon Blacks and Purples eventually because that'd look amazing.

Really like a lot of these especially 86 Bumblebee and Steeljaw.

I wonder if the eventual Ramhorn will be a new mold or a retool of Steeljaw? Im sure he’ll be the one to come with the other accessory.

I think they’ll probably release another cassette (Ramhorn?) with another speaker accessory, so I’m only buying one Steeljaw

Preorders for Bumblebee and Springer have sold out. It didn’t take long.

My guess for the mold is going to be a repainted double dealer due to the missle on the right hand side of the figure and it being a leader class price point.

Honestly, if they're going to keep doing the cassettes as cores, I think I would prefer they just go all out on the figures themselves and make them really great as opposed to just making a meh figure and stuffing the rest with extra plastic and crap you'll end up throw in a drawer and forgetting.

The other comic character I think maybe Percepter or Blaster, I say Percepter.

I hope we'll get 86 Cliffjumper soon.

I hope we get Bumper, Tap-Out and Glyph from this new Bumblebee but I fs hope that the gold hand on the Straxus box is Xarron fs I’d love to have him

I do like the 86 Springer. I don’t have a Spinger so, I might pick him up. Very subtle retooling but I kinda wanna see a size comparison to the older models. I was honestly pleasantly surprised my the Bumblebee. Genuinely like it better than the Netflix bumblebee.

I have a 3p set of speakers for Blaster, but ab extra set the other versions is cool.

My guess is that it’s a comic book based blaster

I'm so hoping it's Megadeath. I want a Megadeath if we got Straxus.

I think the 4th comic version is Death's Head

I will order steeljaw 86 bumblebee 86 springer and I will go see this weekend the special transformer screening

I want more figures of the marvel comic designs that would be awesome

Great more awesome figures that may or not show up in store shelves. Also justified the price, have you see how much those two pack of cassette transformers go for online.

Pretty sure the deception soldier IS a partial from that barricade mold, I think they even said that on stream if I remember correctly

What if the 4th comic based figure is Scrounge? Just a guess since there is a gold hand

Disappointed with the Springer. The alt modes aren't anything like the animation and the robot doesn't look any more screen accurate than the siege. Think I'd rather have the siege for cheaper price point and no pointless accessory filler.

Thew's gotta get that Skywarp

Super happy !!! 😭

My money is on the comic edition straxus and legacy slipstream

I think it could be Deathhead that would be obscure

it flame he a retool SSGE Megatron

I'm way less likely to buy any cassette characters when it's one for 11 bucks, the accessories don't offset that. Lol. Buy 2 for the accessories, jesus.

Siege Spinger and 86 are the same size

I already have Straxus on preorder.

Springer

I got 2 😂

While this Transformers character is G1, he was released during Regeneration One. I can only find, however, that G1 Over-Run is the best color match to the tease art that was shown.

Steel jaw looks cheap but I'll be getting, it's G1. Springer I'll pass, happy with the one I got. Bumblebee is a no, glad I got the Netflix one. Straxxus is awesome.

man bee's alt mode is hideous i havent been this disappointed in a while

Please be xaaron

I believe Evan also hinted at a Devastator release with that comment?

They definitely shouldn't have cheaped out on VW with bumble bee

The Netflix Bumblebee looks better than the 86.

bet you $90 the commander class optimus is just gonna be a recolor of the earthise one with the shitty accessories from the centurion drone pack

Bleh, Bumblebee presales all seem gone?

Oh ok so they just oversized siege springer and gave him a couple new accessories yaay wtfe hasbro that's just lazy

Bumblebee is a huge disappointment to me. It looks like they just did a small retool of the legacy that just came out. For 40 years of TF they had a chance to knock it out the park but instead they let us down. Same with Springer.... I'm starting to wonder about who is in charge of development cause they either aren't true fans like they claim they are or if they are just idiots.