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That toy transforms, which is unacceptable for a modern Metroplex.

Could be Premium Finish Earthrise OP, but I thought I'd read that they were doing another Nemesis Prime release so it could be the Netflix toy.

I have to be honest, I am baffled why they've picked Cybertron Metroplex to make a new, bigger toy of. He wasn't even very popular at the time, this is less accurate than the existing toy and it'll be made with more hollow materials. The design is rubbish.

I wondered if they had at least tried to get VW to approve the Bee tooling instead and had been vague in the hope of being unobjectionable.

MP Thundercracker arrived today. He feels pretty good, a bit tight in places but Takara do seem to have put in some work to fix areas where people had reported issues on Starscream (didn't have any of those personally).

I would also assume that it's a similar situation to previous Haslabs and the Takara orders, or the Zavvi orders in Europe excluding the UK haven't been added yet. It's almost certainly over Tier 1 already.

Yep. I guess this is why that third party company rushed pre-orders for theirs out yesterday.

Kapow toys suggests that Tigatron (the regular one) will be an Amazon exclusive in the UK. Which would make me extremely grumpy, given Amazon UK's history of taking orders for Transformers, never shipping them, and then quietly cancelling them six months later when it's too late.

Draculus is out in the UK and mine arrived this morning. Cape might need an iron.

A few people have observed that the Wheeljack silhouette isn't right, and some people are speculating that it might be a retool for Cybertronian mode Wheeljack? That makes some sense I guess. It doesn't fit with the leaked listings, but the Glyph/Tapout pack was also dropped at the last minute.

Not a huge fan of Huffer and Pipes being fused together. Especially when Pipes is getting his own toy in this line! Could have used this opportunity to give an original character a bio. Looks nice otherwise.

It must be said Amazon and Google have both opened AAA game studios and failed despite unlimited money. This isn't easy to do and I'm not holding my breath to be honest.

BBTS still has pre-orders available, so not that worried, but I probably wouldn't hang around on it.

Well it was leaked with "people are going to be upset about this" so yeah. It must be said the other rumoured toys from it are not from Velocitron, save for Blurr, though some are a reasonable fit. I didn't mean to infer that a Stepper toy had been leaked, it hasn't, I just had my cynical hat...

I remain a bit puzzled that they're going to do another Prime Arcee toy but don't seem to have any plans to release Flamewar, who is featured in all kinds of fiction now but only has a toy that was a convention exclusive years ago (yes, okay, there was a legends class but that doesn't count).

Yeah, there's likely a royalty to Paramount for the SS toys, so Hasbro won't repaint them in non-movie lines if they don't have to, and you'd assume that it doesn't apply to SS '86. I did wonder if the SS'86 toys had a slightly different cost base which might have caused problems, but there is...

UK retailers are saying that Draculus has a shelf date of October 1st, and they are getting their deliveries this week so should be able to ship that day. Such shelf dates are fairly unusual from Hasbro UK for non-licensed toys, so that probably comes from some US retailer restriction, so maybe...

I still wouldn't be surprised if we get a Selects Stepper next year. I mean we're getting a blue Bluestreak soon despite that being last year's mold.

Scourge is pretty nice, but it must be said Cyclonus is probably the best toy since Earthrise Prime so you chose wisely.

Mirage/Grimlock arrived this morning (it's been a busy release week, my partner's tolerance is stretched). They're okay, Grimlock's head does look lovely, but both are slightly marred by weirdness (Grimlock's deco, Mirage's missile). Still, at least they're solid molds compared to Tracks and...