Transformers Studio Series Exclusive Deluxe Drift with Baby Dinobots Revealed and Up for Preorder

william-james88 wrote:Entertainment Earth has just updated their site with the a preorder for Studio Series Drift. This is an Entertainment Earth exclusive figure priced at $26.99 and will be out in February. It is the same mold as Transformers The Last Knight deluxe Drift, for the most part, with a premium paint job. He comes with the three baby dinobots that were hanging out with him in the junk yard, and they are called Sharp-T, Pterry, and Tops.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Aww. Ok I love the deco on Drift and those mini-Dinobots are something I been kinda hoping they'd make (and yeah i been using Tiny Turbos Grimlock in the meantime). I thought he might only come with one though and other figures include the other dinos. So I'm confused as to the cost or release availibility of this Drift set.

william-james88 wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Aww. Ok I love the deco on Drift and those mini-Dinobots are something I been kinda hoping they'd make (and yeah i been using Tiny Turbos Grimlock in the meantime). I thought he might only come with one though and other figures include the other dinos. So I'm confused as to the cost or release availibility of this Drift set.

Am I the only one wondering why I think he is missing red? I remember him being far more red in the film.

Nickster563 wrote:Anybody know what the free gift is?

itscramtastic wrote:I just want the box, and the dinos, and the big sword. I'll stick with my deco

carytheone wrote:

itscramtastic wrote:I just want the box, and the dinos, and the big sword. I'll stick with my deco

$5 = win

I do wonder if you could sell just the new bot for enough to justify keeping the extras

Personally I feel the TLK Premier was too red and the SS is too black, but the superior product.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:I absolutely love his black and red colour scheme. Makes the figure look far better than it did in TLK toyline. And a nice wide backdrop to pose other figures with too. I like.

Number 36. I've still a lot of catching up to do.

Munkky wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote:I absolutely love his black and red colour scheme. Makes the figure look far better than it did in TLK toyline. And a nice wide backdrop to pose other figures with too. I like.

Number 36. I've still a lot of catching up to do.

From what I can tell, numbers 15, 19, 20, 24 and 25 are just Bumblebees. Numbers 31 to 35 don't seem to have been revealed yet, I'm guessing we'll see them at London Comic-Con later this month.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Ugh, the EE pre-order will not go through! It will not let me move past the address area. And it's gonna come to $35 after shipping and before tax. Damn.

I might just give up and pass on this, unless it comes in stock February and they don't sell out on Pre-orders

Nemesis Primal wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:Ugh, the EE pre-order will not go through! It will not let me move past the address area. And it's gonna come to $35 after shipping and before tax. Damn.

I might just give up and pass on this, unless it comes in stock February and they don't sell out on Pre-orders

Psst, TFSource sent me an email saying they have preorders for it too, if your issue is the EE site. It is currently priced at $28.99 over EE's $26.99, though, so I can't tell you what it'll be after shipping.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Meanwhile, my local TrU went straight to the New Bee wave, never ever restocking Locknown nor Jazz, nor Megatron, nor Brawl.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Meanwhile, my local TrU went straight to the New Bee wave, never ever restocking Locknown nor Jazz, nor Megatron, nor Brawl.

Well that's lame cos those wave 2 figures are all pretty darn good. Well I don't have Brawl yet but I really bloody should at some point.

Va'al wrote:Much like we've previously seen for the Transformers Movie Masterpiece MPM-7 Volkswagen Bumblebee here, the official Italian Facebook page for the Transformers brand has shared a stop motion video review for the Studio Series Blackout figure (Italy is a little behind on releases, we know, though the clip is from August).

You can check out the full clip embedded below, created by Ditoni, and let us know what you think of this new approach to marketing that the international brand teams are doing for the toys!

or not, as I choose not to news this after all - still cool though!

ZeroWolf wrote:That's not a bad price for drift, while on holiday in Scarborough, I came across a toy shop selling tlk drift for £22.99...sp compared to that its not bad at all

Va'al wrote:...[vid]stop motion clip[/vid]...

carytheone wrote:

Va'al wrote:...[vid]stop motion clip[/vid]...

Well someone's been watching Jobby the Hong (and others)

I dug it (I think there was supposed to be a light-hearted sense of humor to the clip?). I wish Hasbro US wouldn't take themselves so damn seriously. Jeez, they are toys after all.

Also, who knew Scorponok was so full of love. Them Decepticons are so misunderstood

-Kanrabat- wrote:

carytheone wrote:

Va'al wrote:...[vid]stop motion clip[/vid]...

Well someone's been watching Jobby the Hong (and others)

I dug it (I think there was supposed to be a light-hearted sense of humor to the clip?). I wish Hasbro US wouldn't take themselves so damn seriously. Jeez, they are toys after all.

Also, who knew Scorponok was so full of love. Them Decepticons are so misunderstood

Jobby, Italia edition!
I dig it.
I even understood like... 10% of it just because Italian is a language in the same family as French, like Spanish.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Meanwhile, my local TrU went straight to the New Bee wave, never ever restocking Locknown nor Jazz, nor Megatron, nor Brawl.

william-james88 wrote:
We are still unaware of who will get Drift in Canada or that Bumblebee set in the UK but at least we know these exclusives are being found outside the US.

ZeroWolf wrote:What are you going to do? Try and resell the one that arrived by the slowest mailing service in history?

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:I've had SS VW Bee for a little while now, and I think he's really good! It's kinda finicky getting him into vehicle mode, but after a couple transformations it's not so bad. I don't think it dethrones SS Camaro Bee as my favorite deluxe Bumblebee, but I'm liking it even more than I thought I would!

I hope Studio Series continues for a long time, It's easily my favorite Transformers line ever

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:What are you going to do? Try and resell the one that arrived by the slowest mailing service in history?

Gonna sell it... still hope to get my money back or at least a partial refund for just how misleading and slow the delivery was. Have to wait til my eBay dispute I opened last friday is closed. Can't sell it for full amount I paid obviously cos I ordered it before it was properly released and so I paid more but will see what happens.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:What are you going to do? Try and resell the one that arrived by the slowest mailing service in history?

Gonna sell it... still hope to get my money back or at least a partial refund for just how misleading and slow the delivery was. Have to wait til my eBay dispute I opened last friday is closed. Can't sell it for full amount I paid obviously cos I ordered it before it was properly released and so I paid more but will see what happens.

Um. So. Ebay refunded my full amount because like me, they got no response from the seller at all. Which means I got the very late toy, and the money i originally paid for it. So I got a freebie (free-Bee)? I dunno how I feel about that. I just wanted my money back and the seller did do a lot of things wrong but I didn't want them out of pocket. I just wanted it to be like the sale never happened. Now I ended up with both and so if I sell the originally ordered Bee I would then have profited which makes me feel kinda bad I guess. I dunno.

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I've learned with those Chinese sellers, time is extremely inconsistent. I got that MPM Barricade (which ended up being a KO and wasn't advertised as such) in about a week and a half, but Cogman took almost 2 full months.

So what will you do with the leftover Bee?

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:I've learned with those Chinese sellers, time is extremely inconsistent. I got that MPM Barricade (which ended up being a KO and wasn't advertised as such) in about a week and a half, but Cogman took almost 2 full months.

Did you get refund on Barricade? Were you able to prove to eBay it was a KO? I seem to remember reading something about this a while back if that was you.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

So what will you do with the leftover Bee?

Probably resell, I guess. I haven't any need for a duplicate one as it's a very specific mold I can't really repaint into any necessary characters (no, not a fanon Cliffjumper) and I'm pretty happy with the one I already have.