They'll probably go with Cybertronian Optimus, the only difference with Earth Optimus was the shoulders I believe - the scene lasted about a minute so I don't think it's worth making two versions of Optimus which are so similar. It would be cool if they could make the shoulders swappable so you can have both display options. Maybe down the line they'll release Camaro Bee and Cybertronian Bee, but that's probably not for a while, I honestly don't like the underlying trend of Bumblebee receiving the most figures at the cost of other characters - looking at you MPM-7.
Here's a clearer picture from the same TV spot compared directly to 2007. Definitely not at all the same design.
【内金確認後のご予約確定】【送料無料】ミュージアムマスターライン/ バンブルビー: ブリッツウィング スタチュー MMTFM-25/ トランスフォーマー/ プライム1スタジオ - 映画・アメコミ・ゲーム フィギュア・グッズ・Tシャツ通販 ミュージアムマスターライン バンブルビー ブリッツウィング EX版
Blitzwing preorder is 189.99 instead of 199.99, but I'm guessing that's BBTS's thing of making preorders cheaper.
Yeah, just noticing that US retailers are beginning to carry the pre-order for that price. Anyone have any suggestions who would be best to pre-order from....BBTS or TFSource? Never ordered from either, so I don’t know. Thanks in advance
I'll probably wait for Amazon Prime to list it. I'm getting Bumblebee there. Even with overnight shipping and sales tax it was the same cost as BBTS or TFS, plus vastly better customer service. I'll get it later, but that's just more time to save up for a laptop first.
It's only cheaper because they haven't taken into account for shipping. Ordering from 3A directly has free worldwide shipping included into the price and you get it sooner before any other retailer.
I'm not expert in production work, but I know that making mold for small parts are as expensive as bigger parts, if they do the more smaller ver of DLX, let's say half of DLX scale, the price won't be very cheap either, probably gonna cost close to DLX scale (maybe 80-85% of DLX price)
3A has made: Optimus -DOTM -AOE -TLK Bee -DOTM -TLK -BB (DLX) -BB (PRM) Megatron -DOTM -TLK Starscream -DOTM Blitzwing -BB (DLX) And after those polls the other month we may be getting a Jetpower and Jetwing Optimus. But you all want another Optimus on top of that instead of someone else? I can't express how much I hate how licensees only stick to the main 4 in this franchise.
Gimmie Soundwave, Shockwave, 3 seekers (you know who), Cliffjumper and Wheeljack! (Edit - from Bumblebee)
You forgot Squeaks! Also I've talked to some license holders at conventions over the years and most have to make OP, Megs, Bee etc before they can do other things. I think 3A now has the ability to touch on anything movie related starting with the DLX figures.