Looking for Chopter here, last one until Bee Movie comes out. Sucks that the shipping's more than the item, which is why I've been hesitant to take up an offer from a TFW member just outside convenient travel distance from me.  

Am I the only one who hopes Ragescream turns out to be Skywarp deco just like Bluescream was 'Cracker? I have a spare Cybertat Screamer I was gonna repaint, but if the new one is Warpy I may repaint it into '07 F-22 camo instead.

 

When will the main Bumblebee movie toyline be released. In summer?

 

August

 

Actually, I believe Mirage was what Hasbro named the character, but Mattel objected, making the name change in the movie necessary. You see, Mattel have the license for producing Ferrari toys and they didn't want the name of the character that turned into one to have the name of a pre-established Hasbro character like Mirage. Of course, for this very reason a Ferrari should never have been included in the Autobot cast but whatever.

 

This thread is about Series 3 (Bumblebee Movie).

Series 2 threads are here, here, here, here and here.

 

I thought it was Ferrari themselves who wanted the name change? Dino was also originally supposed to have guns but Ferrari didn't want him to carry anything that shoots.

 

Possibly it was Ferrari because of Mattel holding the license, but it was nothing to do with guns IIRC.

It's all ridiculous. If Ferrari were making demands and it mean't theu couldn't even make a TOY of the character in a goddamn Transformers movie they shouldn't have used the Ferrari. Hell, they could've cut the charavter entirely without effecting the movie in literally any way (and they even did it to the Twins in the same movie).

 

Reading the tea leaves:

Bee and 'Cade: I hope these are new sculpts reflecting their "old" altmodes.

Pattern is probably gonna be eight new sculpts/4 reissues or redecoes, going by Wave 2. We know Ragescream and Silver Knight Optimus are redecoes, probably Evac too, and if I were them I'd just reissue Drift straight-across from Series 2 My bet is PS Lockdown is a Wave 1 redeco, making a 7/5 split. If Hasbro's gonna continue the "Getting Cheap on Us" that cost them the Jurassic Park/World license, I'd expect one of the "new" listed below to be a repop as well. Could Ironhide be done as just Berserker with the lightbar ground off?

This would leave new sculpts for Retro Barricade, Sentinel Prime, Ratchet, Retro Bumblebee, Ironhide, Dino/Mirage, and Slug.

 

Wave 3's sighted on shelf in the Seattle, Washington area! (Got my set.)

 

Sorry, this was at Target. I'm not going to pin down exact location, but if mine's getting 'em the others should be soon if they haven't already since out here in the foothills we usually only get Sloppy Seconds.