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This week: Masterpiece Shouki's pre-order price dropped. Yay? Mold Layouts for HasLab Victory Saber, ephemeral Black Friday savings, and more!

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First Victory Saber Backer Update: Mold Layouts

This week: Shoes you can't buy, a soundtrack you don't want, and a toy you should not take out of the box.

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Selects Artfire hitting Gamestop

Transformers Jurassic Park Collaboration back on Amazon

Transformers x Adidas Optimus Prime and Megatron Running Shoes Revealed!

Transformers: Devastation soundtrack now available for streaming and digital download!

This week: We promise to catch up on Cyberverse by the end of the year, really. We also discuss the Bee Movie Studio Series Wave, the return of Toy Fair, vintage Tigatron, and more!

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Rise of The Beasts Delayed To Summer 2023

Hasbro to present at Toy Fair 2022 at the Javits Center

Transformers Tuesday: The Bee Movie Studio Series Wave

Vintage Tigatron Stock Photos

This week: Kingdom Blaster, and insights from the roundtable with the Transformers Legacy design team.

TFCon, Hasbro Pulsecon, Legacy, two new HasLab projects. No wonder it's a double-sized episode!

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*  RFC News Desk 153 – Pulsecon 2021 Recap

Pulsecon brought us our first look at wave 1 of Transformers Legacy, following the IGN preview of Skids and Bulkhead last week. Not all of the toys were shown, but the entire wave was teased during the course of the stream. Hasbro published the stock photos for the toy reveals, which include Transformers Prime Arcee, Kickback, Drag Strip (part 1 of 5 for the new Menasor), and Leader Laser Optimus Prime.

The poster style art shown during the stream hints at the remaining toys in wave 1, with Core Class Hot Rod, Thundercracker, and Iguanus (purple monster on the right) plus the G2 redeco of Core Class Megatron. Also shown is Blaster, who while technically now a Kingdom toy and due in Voyager wave 5, will reship alongside Bulkhead in Legacy wave 1.

Preorders for the revealed toys for this wave are open in the usual places, though Pulse had mostly or entirely sold out within the first hour. The ETA for the preorders currently is around July of next year. It feels unlikely that it will actually be that long before the new line starts, and this is probably just allowing for a safety margin against the current shipping crisis.

Nothing new was revealed for Kingdom or Studio Series, but an additional, Pulse Premium-only stream was subsequently scheduled for 10/27 with i...

This week: Transformers Legacy is here, almost! Part of it is, anyway. We should have more after Hasbro PulseCon!

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Official First Look At Transformers Generations Legacy Figures

It's our 22nd anniversary! Do you know what that means...? It means: Speculation on MPG Raiden's size! Info on reissue Tigatron! Sounds from Don's chair! Wow!

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Rumor: Possible Size Of Masterpiece Raiden Confirmed?  (TFW)

Overwhelming Victory Over Unicron

Reissue Beast Wars Tigatron Coming Soon (TFW)

Transformers Hall of Fame 2021 Voting Begins (Facebook)

This week: We get our first real look at Shouki, the Trainbot. And feelings are mixed. Also, Don is on fire this week. Not literally, he's just turbocharged on fast internet.

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Star Saber on HasLab

RFC News Desk 151 – Golden Disk Collection Terrorsaur

RFC News Desk 152 – Masterpiece Shouki First Look

Before the official opening of preorders, TAGhobby jumped the line a bit and released the first info and clean stock photos for Masterpiece Shouki, the first entry in the Trainbots team. Coming with a hurtful ¥18,000 list price, Shouki seems to favor a realistic, and almost impossibly clean-looking train mode, with some small sacrifice of substantial backpack on the otherwise very animation-inspired robot mode.

Shouki is the first representative of the MPG subline, which seems meant to give a home to combiners (G is for Gattai!) and large characters (G is for Giant!) which otherwise have gone unutilized in Masterpiece previously. As a team of six, the eventual Raiden looks due to cost solidly in the $1000 neighborhood once completed. (G is for Gah!) This cost mmay end up spread out over an extended period, as we've had no hint yet of Kaen or any of the other five Trainbots being in any advanced state of development yet. While $160 twice or maybe three times per year might not sound so bad, remember that with everything getting steadily more expensive, odds are the longer it takes to finish the team, the higher and higher that final total will go.

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