Might as well give a bit of an Update on my situation. I somehow haven't seen a single studio series figure in the past few months. No sign of scourge and I'm not willing to pay upwards of $40 for him.
On the bright side, the Pit of judgement box set finally shipped and arrived last month, Somehow the cardboard ended up being dented INSIDE the box on mine which sucks because I'm aiming to keep the thing after I open it. I've somehow not gotten around to opening it, though I aim to. It kinda sucks they downscaled the prosecutor and kranix to non-posable figures, but it's kinda a nice touch when you take into account they're clearly supposed to be used as display pieces with the Judge's prison mode.
I also managed to find one of those quintesson faction ironhides made to tie into the netflix series. Despite the fact that figure's supposed to represent a faceless jobber, and is actually inaccurate to the netflix animation model for said jobber's colorscheme, it's the most elaborate paintwork i think I'm ever going to see on a transformers figure aside from maybe the poopsmear barricade zombie and maybe those upcoming takara premium finish figures. I didn't notice this at first but the dot splotching on him actually goes onto his windshield, and it's not a paint defect like it'd be on other figures. Faceless background goon and they give him the world and more in terms of love and care compared to their main characters, it's some pretty funny shit. I ended up giving him impactor's gun as a shoulder cannon since it had a weird colormatch thing going on with the shade of silver plastic. Would 100% recommend this figure. Just be careful because the joints on mine are loose, and I think that's just how the mold is given how my shattered glass ratchet has a similar issue.
Welp I guess we're maybe getting Generation Selects Tigertron, because holy shit look who supposedly got a new figure.
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No known retailer is listed yet and this is right out of left field. He comes with g1 Ravage.
Holy shit that's really fucking close to the animation model. I guess this explains why cheetors arms were weirdly wide-set.
Unfortunately he lacks the dark grey face, yellow eyes and his forehead crest will be purple, specifically the same shade as his biceps. The cannon does however have sparkles molded into the plastic. Thoughts?
Personally speaking I’m a Marvelfag so this is a must-buy, a light bit of paint will be required for that face and personally I would’ve liked a “manic” headsculpt, like those pictured below.
I think the weird colors on the stickerless head (face included) are meant to be a nod/reference to Energon galvatron, more specifically the one that was called Megatron in the Hasbro release. That's really the only other time I've seen galvatron with a color-scheme lke that on his head. It feels like one of those"triple reference" kinda releases where it's coloration is based on a mix of the comic, the original toy, and a later significant homage to the original toy. Marvel galvatron had silver shoulder pylons, the pylons here are colored like the red shoulderpads of the toy but are still pylons instead of pads.
This also kinda reminds me of how they claimed Regal cobra commander was meant to be a reference to the gi joe cartoon when he was actually colored like Marvel comics Commander instead.
On the facesculpt thing, That's a really missed opportunity. I'm still kicking myself in the ass for not getting the G2 sideswipe masterpiece figure when it was on discount. That thing was a very rare instance of them making a headsculpt based on the Marvel comics transformers, weirdly realistic teeth and all.
Then there's that weird Beast megatron variant where a couple of batches ended up with a much more expressive face, makes me wonder if that figure was originally intended to have swappable heads or something since that head never showed up again, even for T wrecks...
