He has the Bayverse-style insect retro-extended lower legs. Ew. Why? Make it stop...

 

Not even then, it's just a consequence of how the system is done.

 

Spoiler

Rumor has it that the intended origin of the Terrorcons is that they're Bayverse transformers recruited by Unicron, which is why their designs look so much more Bayverse than the Autobots

 

Yeah, that doesn't make it better.

 

That rumor was only started because people thought Lorenzo+Long nose truck + Unicron= bayverse cast.
No actual leak even suggested such a rumor, it was all speculation.

 

Not to worry, his knee is just bent in this one pic.


Plus, the little we've seen of his backside shows he doesn't have digitigrade legs in the movie either. So not to worry.

 

It's honestly hard for me to gauge the quality of this toy because it just looks like RotF Lockdown cosplaying as DotM Megatron.  

 

It hasn't been disproven either. The only thing for certain is that the Terrorcons and Maximals have co-existed for some time since Scourge has Maximal badges on his person.

You and maybe 50% of everybody who sees this design.

 

Is Scourge, Black Convoy/Nemesis Prime or is he a brand new character not related to any previous incarnation of those characters that just so happens to share the name?

 

I cant STAND bay-verse designs and this guy looks amazing! not understanding the hate going on here..... its like a Mad Max x Transformers War Rig.....

 

I am comparing this to the BBM which had (FINALLY!) nailed the live action aesthetic… and now a boxy truck turns into a squid handed robot. XD

Covid must have had a massive impact on the design team and communication.

 

Adding on: the same leak said that the Unicron we'll hopefully see is also the same one from TLK, which if this is a different universe than bayverse, then it's weird they're deciding to bring back the whole Interdimensional Unicron concept since FunPub or IDW shut that idea down iirc

 

New character.

 

The leaker may not have known the whole 'multiversal singularity' thing officially got written out, since the only instance of that happening is in the supplementary materials most people don't even know exist.

This is the first time Studio Series has actually been around at the same time as a live action film where it wasn't used as the mainline outright, as what happened with the BBM figures. So there's really no telling how things are going. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it was some kind of strange hybridized system that semi-treated Studio Series as the mainline in addition to the actual 'mainline' figures since it's wildly inconsistent with who is getting what and when.

 

Which is exactly why the design is based.

 

I wish this guy had lights and sound.

 

the robot still looks good despite the silly neck but.... daaaaamn is that truck mode terrible.

 

Yeah, it is pretty crazy that that leak is still being believed and spread around when it never had anything substantive behind it to begin with.

 

Thanks to someone else in our discord, we have identified the IDW Wreckers logo on the top right.

Mercenary has been suggested for the top left, but I’m wondering if there is something out there that is closer.

Even though the Terrorcon logo seems to be pointing towards Unicron, the bottom right appears to have Unicron horns, but also looks similar to the top of Tantrum’s insignia.

I mean no one is really surprised that Paramount and Hasbro were desperately going to jump on the multiverse fad, right?

 

There’s no mainline scourge coming. We know all the mainline figure listings because they were meant for release last year and got held back. There was no plan to keep making inaccurate figures based on concept art past the movie’s release when studio series was meant to take that spot.

He’s also not the only one getting shafted mainline figure wise, arcee isn’t getting one either.