Thanks! Hopefully I won't disappoint.

Sorry... some say he doesn't scale very well... does that help?

More pictures anyone?

Spoiler: Group shots

Family photo.

Group fighting shot!
Here's a comparison with HftD Deluxe Ironhide. I think Studio Series looks better.

Spoiler: TRANSFORMATION GIF

It's not as smooth as I wanted, but still works.

 

Fuuuck me, waiting for this guy is gonna be a nightmare. Seriously he just looks perfect. Now if only we could get a SS Hound to be his gun buddy.

 

Hope you didn't share these on Twitter.  

 

Sweet! I already have ROTF Brawn, Scattorshot (dark grey variant), Mindwipe, and Sky Stalker. Want to add Arcee, like I said. Also want to pick up Incinerator, specifically the black version, mainly because that one comes with an Allspark cube. Might consider getting ROTF Breakaway and/or his Thrust repaint. Thought about ROTF Dirge. Want the HFTD black repaint of Landmine, maybe multiples of him!   Skyhammer so I can touch up his paint scheme (if I learn to custom paint) and make him into a Movieverse Vortex. HFTD Lockdown, but that's for the CHUG shelf as that toy was repurposed officially as the IDW version of Lockdown. Might slightly repaint my Mindwipe (or not, IDK) and rename him Blast-Off. If I could build up some customizing skills, I'd consider making Movieverse Combaticons and find a way to make them combine into Bruticus.

You got ROTF Jolt or the DOTM one? Takara Lost Age DOTM Jolt is the better version, IMO.

I almost want a store exclusive version of Ironhide (Wal-Mart or Target or something) that is slightly repainted and comes with all of his guns from DOTM.  

 

Oh yes I did.  
I am just waiting to see if 'you know who' will just rampantly nick the pics to score merit points here. LOL

 

I have the lost age one, sure it isn't THAT good but it's the first takara figure that I've gotten and I didn't bought it that long ago, I would feel kind of stupid if they release the SS version any time soon (which they probably will since they're almost done with the first movie's cast)

 

Woof, that sounds like a lot of work. I've already got quite a few of those guys, but they don't really scale well with my other figures so I keep them out of the main collection.

Calling Dr. Wu, we need Heavy Iron 1 and 2!

 

Nice set of pics dude!. Love your dark background.

 

Nice front roll

Nice pics, can’t wait to see them again  

 

Anyone who has them, may be able to get a picture of the studio series autobots but with the Battle Blades Voyager prime? I may have to rethink my autobots setup haha. Been using BB Prime, SS Bumblebee, and deluxe ratchet and Ironhide... I know SS Ironhide is still out of scale with optimus, but maybe the added height of the battle blades may make it better?

 

Actually SS Optimus (and Ratchet to) is/are out of scale with Bee, Jazz and Ironhide (and Ss Stinger of course)

Battleblades Optimus fits better with them, but he is not in scale eighter,

he is 1:43 scale while bee,Jazz and Stinger are 1:39 scale..
Fun fact is that DOTM Ironhide and HFTD Ratchet (the horrible kibbly one) both are 1:39 scale to.. so the hope is that some Ko company is willing to scale up SS prime and Ratchet..

Ill buy it.

-= Edit now with pictures! =-

Here is BB prime with SS Jazz and Bumblebee (and Ratchet witch is way to small in vehicle mode so he remains a robot)
I also included my WIP DOTM Voyager ironhide since he does scale perfectly with Jazz and Bumblebee.


Please don't mind Ironhide's gaps, he has just been clearcoated and I don't want to put to much stress on a fresh paintcoat, he fits together quite well actually

 

So it turns out you can rotate Brawl's turret fully if you turn him into a Gerwalk.


This only deepens my depression.

 

BRAVO! BRAVO!

 

How is SS Ironhide out of scale when he was designed to be in scale?

 

Does anyone have any vehicle mode comparisons of Studio Series Ironhide?

 

I never sais SS Ironhide was out of scale, I don't have him yet..(definatly will get him I think)
What I said is that Optimus and Ratchet from the Studio Series are out of scale, they are to small compared with Bumblebee and Jazz.
they might scale ok in robot mode but in the vehicle department they are way to small!
(somewhere around 1:50 in scale while Bee, Jazz and Stinger are 1:39)
That is what I showed with my pictures somewhere in this tread before.

 

Think the main issue is that robot mode scale was prioritized over vehicle mode scale (not really an issue, I think that was the right call to make). So Ratchet's Hummer is pretty shrimpy next to sports cars, and Ironhide's Topkick, while in reality a pretty huge truck, shouldn't appear to be bigger in vehicle mode than Optimus' semi-truck.

Optimus is still a bit too small in robot mode (Ironhide shouldn't be coming up to his shoulder) but in general the scale works.

 

Most of the scale sure does, I am just nitpicky and want them in scale in both modes, And except for a good Optimus, I believe I have them all matching up nicely.
Still looking for a good Hound and then I hope they make more Deluxe size Bots like the Twins, Sideswipe,Jolt,Wheeljack/que, Dino,Crosshairs,Drift (the Bugatti of course) Soundwave,Barricade and especially Hooligan and so on.. (LOVED that they used a VW van as altmode for the guy!)