Okay here I go again. I realize I'm slowing getting more and more into Transformers and its such an old franchise that everything looks familiar and alien to me all at once.

Can someone identify this particular Optimus Prime figure?

https://i.imgur.com/4YjW7d4.jpg

Took me a second because it turns out it's not even official! That's a third party Legends-scale Optimus figure from Generation Toy's GT-5 Mini Leaders set; packaged with a Megatron

https://news.tfw2005.com/2017/03/10/...egatron-335197

Ah no wonder! It looks so good, I almost thought it was a straight up action figure.

Thanks again!

I did actually look at the Revoltech and Hybrid style releases first because I thought the same thing! :lol

New Studio Series reveals of Bumblebee Movie Characters (with transformations we didn't see much of if at all)!

https://news.tfw2005.com/2021/11/09/...ockwave-444599

Given that they are releasing Core Class figures, I'm now fairly certain that this is indicative of an inevitable release of a Studio Series 86 Soundwave with Core Class Cassettes. They wouldn't do new Studio Series Core Class Packaging unless they had long-term plans for it, and it seems they will milk whatever they can from the movies, including the 86 Original!

Got to wonder how long it will be before we get Studio Series 86 Devastator?

Soundwave's alt mode is very Final Form Ride Hibiki

First Siege Soundwave and now this, they seriously can't be bothered designing a proper-looking non-radio altmode for Soundwave that isn't 'contorted yoga pose'?

Brawn and Ratchet look really cool. It's a shame that these figures have the hallowed legs in some areas. I bought some 3rd party filler parts and they make the toys look amazing, but then you think about the total cost for the figure and... :(

It's also super funny that this is the Ratchet that gets to be part of a normal retail wave rather than relegated to some Walgreens or Amazon exclusive when he's the one that turned up for maybe three seconds in them background. Like, great for him! He looks awesome! But man...

So, there's a pretty decent chance that there's going to be a Studio Series 86 Ratchet coming out at some point, since there's a Studio Series 86 Ironhide being teased. It's more than likely that Ratchet would be a retail release, since they haven't (to my memory) done any exclusives for Studio Series 86 yet. If you're okay with two degrees of speculation, get excited for 2022!

Also, I really like these Cybertronian designs. I don't go in for the live-action figures generally, but these are way more interesting looking to me. Might need to start a very focused Bumblebee Movie Cybertronian Mode collection!