I regret that I have only one thumb up to give this message. It so deserves an avalanche of thumbs up.

 

probably the MPM-07's prototype was showcased.

 

hopefully we find out soon!

 

I'm sure he will.

I can't believe the first wave of studio series just released and I'm already impatient for what's coming next in the line.

 

Yeah I feel the same way. Still I am trying to make some decisions on collecting, wether to dip back into the TLK line at all, what's coming may help advise my decision. So far I am of the opinion that other than TLK Voyager SDCC optimus, MB01 Evasion Optimus, and Takara age of extinction classic bee, I won't be needing any past figures for my movie collection. I can just rely on Studio series for the future, it's amazing so far.

 

Agreed, I'm a completionist so this entire line will be a must have for me lol.

Hopefully wave 2 starts hitting US stores soon.

 

Still no news about any toys?

 

So, anyone hear how many different variants of BB they are gonna pump out?

 

Some of those costumes are creepy.

Anywho, curious to see the toys. Perhaps I may finally find the right Bumblebee for my collection.

 

Is it bad that I'm a thousand times more curious/excited about the presence of the GXMG Godzilla suit?

 

with that said I'm willing to bet they didn't show off anything from the generations lines...just the gimmicky bumblebee movie stuff.

 

If he's a VW beetle then I'll buy ALL OF THEM!

 

It all well and good Hasbro designing Neo-WFC toys (something I don't think anyone actually especially wants when it's nothing to do with the games and it's just non-earth mode stuff of no specific theme) but there is the distinct likelyhood that the retailers terrible habit of ignoring anything that has no (significant) media backing on one hand and on the other hand they have this really poor habit of never ordering more that 2 waves of a line based on a movie these days.

So Bumblebee is getting around that to some degree by partly being integrated into the studio series - but that also means it's going to either be seen as a Movie line and the orders will stop or not a movie line so the orders won't happen in the 1st place.

If we are lucky then Neo-WFC is going to be as sparce as POTP distribution is/was and if we are very unlucky they will get so little interest wave one will go straight to TJ Maxx, Kohls, and Ross stores and then get cancelled. Either way It seems pretty unlikely to have any serious impact.

Hasbro's (main lines) are no longer main lines they are niche collector lines that get mostly ignored by retailers.
I've even questioned retailers about this and the ones that bother to answer confirm this - they will buy media backed stuff for a short time and then drop it.

So the way you used to get a line last years like in the 1990's is simply not possible now - even Marvel 4" figures have had the same issues and they are super collectable. The larger ones seem to have basically got relegated to collector line status and are not easy to find.

Poor Hasbro - I suspect a lot of their troubles all date back to brand fragmentation and over pushing Star Wars toys that people didn't really want as much as Hasbro thought they did.