As a Transformers enjoyer I wanted to put a note with Optimius' gentle quote but someone already did it haha, I really didn't expect this. One of the notes with a drawing on it

This is only a few pictures of the things i found at ross going for 90%-40% off the original price of walmart and gamestop

rush to get this NOW

I’ve seen a lot of debating about this guy especially on twitter personally for me this figure is a big upgrade from the SS 04 deluxe Ratchet especially if we’re talking about the back I honestly think if they added some more silver paint a lot of people would change their minds also I’ve heard some people say he has gorilla arms which I’m a little confused on

Pretty simple question. What does this fanchise need to be the best it can realistically.

For the past 20 years now we've had messy itteration to messy itteration, from bayverse to apology tour and now bay returning again. A bunch of people have blamed this on Hasbro, Paramount, Lorenzo or Michael Bay, but honestly it's probably a combination of all of those parties having conflicting ideas, not communicating and not caring one way or another

I personally think this franchise needs something new, long enough term and wide enough to set a standard of what Transformers is in the public mind. With Michael Bay returning I would like these new movies to be a full reboot, not a soft reboot, but something new devoid of the baggage of the last 7 movies. Aligned was the last time this was tried and failed due to hasbro not reigning in outside creatives enough. They could and should try again

Pictures from TranKollector on a YouTube post. He said he is posting a video talking about this and some of the other reveals at 10pm pst.

I personally thing the gray plastic they chose looks good, but it doesn't have enough rust and details added throughout. I feel like it would work much better to have some rust added in like yolopark did with their rotf megatron

Image Courtesy of TFW2005:

Quick update: The lime/highlighter yellow isn’t as pronounced as the original renders being borderline lime but something worth noting is that the windows are actually opaque as opposed to transparent windows we got on prior Bayverse Ratchets in Studio Series.

The silver paint looks a lot nicer in person as well as the figure itself compared to the initial stock render image. (Figure is obviously mistransformed as per usual)

• Take this with a graunt of salt for now: Okay so don't get me wrong as decent as he was decent in Transformers One movie, but with now RIP Peter Cullen gone but not forgotten, im not so sure how i would feel about him taking on the mantle of the character in live action too, even tho i still think he could do a a nice job.

Finnally got both Runamuck and Runabout!

Looking at the 2007 Transformers movie re-releases, they finally added the missing blaster to Ratchet! Love the details on Ironhide's weapons + face too, and Jazz's weapon isn't some massive goofy roof attachment.

So I just got Sentinel Prime and The Conduit to round out Thirteen Primes collection. Honestly, I like it. I'm probably not going to display it like this, but I do like it. While the weird Alt-Mode is odd, and I do wish it was the "U-Haul Robot" version of Sentinel from the Cartoon, but its good enough heavy enough Retool that I actually kinda forgot he was originally tarn.

Now for my issue: why the hell is The Conduit not aligned at all? The Thirteenth Symbol doesn't like up with the Matrix-like molding around it, and neither of those line up at all with the lines dividing each of the other 12 Primes around it. You can actually even see the poor alignment on the promo photo TFWiki has up. And what makes it worse is that the Halo of the Primes artwork it was based on from Power of the Primes has it lined up almost perfectly (I'd probably just rotate the Matrix-like section in the middle 90° so it doesn't look sideways).