Flight stand

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"Flight stand" is a common term for objects designed to display items off the "ground" to make them appear suspended in mid-air. They can range from simple one-piece pillars that plug into the bottom of an object, to complicated multi-jointed armatures with wide, detailed bases.

As the nickname implies, the most common use is to make something look like it's flying, but depending on the stand and what it's supporting, they can also be used for dynamic action snapshots. With posable figures, a "flight stand" can sturdily support poses for leaping, swimming, running, lunging, being blown back by impacts or explosions, etc. Many stands are simple colorless-clear plastic, but they can come in a variety of colors and styles, even being designed to look like jet exhaust, flames, energy beams, background elements, and the like. Many are customizable, coming with multiple attachments to support different items, such as flat support beds, cradles for specific joint areas (notably [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Gundam|{{#if:||Gundam}}]] under-the-armor-skirt hip joints), pegs designed for specific support points, gripper claws (typically for around the waists of action figures), and so on.

While the general concept has been around more or less forever, "flight stands" have become such a staple of the Japanese mecha model kit hobby scene that certain standards for pegs sizes and the like have become nigh-universal. Many Western companies have begun to take advantage of this, either designing toys to be compatible with these standards, making their own display stands, or both.

As far as Transformers is concerned, they've gone the "both" route; some toys come with flight/support stands included, and most any modern Transformers toy will have a hexagonal/circular flight stand port fitted to the standardized 3mm flight stand joint somewhere on them (if not multiple somewheres). The flight stand you buy at the hobby shop may be labeled for Bandai's Gundam franchise, but the included attachment peg will (or at least should) work perfectly with your Legacy Needlenose.

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Official Transformers flight stands

• Transformers Masterpiece Jetron Display Base (2006)

First included with Masterpiece MP-3 Starscream, this display stand can be configured in two different ways to support the Seeker in both vehicle and robot modes, to do so, just remove & position it's removable "arm". It was included afterwards for every Seeker repaint of this mold. It wasn't available when the figure and most of these redecoes were retooled into the MP-11 mold.

• Transformers Hybrid Style Display Stand (2006)

Packaged with Hybrid Style Convoy and all of his redecoes, this stand has the pedestal of it shaped as the Autobot symbol and the arm of the stand plugs into the top of the insignia. While the first release in normal Optimus Prime colors, the logo is chromed in red, his exclusives black redecoes has it in silver chrome.

• Transformers Age of Extinction Figure Stand (2014)

This colorless translucent display stand was given away by Toys"R"Us Singapore with any purchase over $30 Singapore Dollars. It included a base embossed with the Age of Extinction logo, and two arms with claws.

• Transformers Exclusive Display Stand (2015)

Shown in the picture on top of this page, this display stand was sold by TakaraTomy Mall and marketed as attachable to the Transformers Masterpiece Series, Movie Advanced Series, and Legends Series. Made of colorless translucent plastic, it consists of a base with the Autobot logo, and a triple-jointed arm with a 3mm-peg to insert into flight stand ports.

• Transformers Masterpiece Display Stand (2015)

This display stand was a re-deco of the "Exclusive Display Stand" above, and was provided as an accessory with Masterpiece Tracks and Loudpedal, in solid black and translucent purple, respectively.

• Transformers Masterpiece & MPG TF Power Base (2018)

The third type of Masterpiece display stand, called TF Power Base (TFパワーベース) as it's inspired by the Diaclone Power Base toys, with their serrated square-shaped bases, made so that they can be connected from all directions to expand it's base (as long as you buy other toys including it) and when placed vertically, they act as walls. First convinced to be included with Dinobot, following that, it was included in numerous Masterpiece offerings. These being Blackwidow, Starscream Ver.2.0, Skywarp Ver.2.0, Thundercracker Ver.2.0 and Skyfire - with the base being recolored each time to better match the character's faction. It was included as a optional tier for the crowdfunded Lunar Cruiser Prime. The same stand was also made available in MPG for the "Raiden gift set" version of Kaen and the "God Ginrai gift set" of Godbomber.

• Studio Series Revenge of the Fallen Soundwave (2020)

The Revenge of The Fallen Studio Series Soundwave includes a translucent 3mm-peg stand to support Soundwave's satellite mode, as depicted in the film.

• War For Cybertron Trilogy Unicron Display Stand (2021)

Two display stands are included with HasLab Unicron, a large black display stand that can be used in both modes, and a smaller translucent display stand for the head and some of the tiny accessories. To make it easier to manipulate such a massive toy, he can remain attached to the larger display stand during transformation, and his planetary rings/wings can be detached, but transformation is possible without removing any parts. Beneath the main display stand is a compartment to store whichever faceplate and chin piece aren't in use.

• Legacy Victory Saber Flight Stand (2022)

When the HasLab crowd-funded Victory Saber project passed 17,000 backers, it unlocked the inclusion of a translucent blue flight stand featuring the Victory logo and the Autobot insignia. The stand features a removable "arm", which can attach to the base in two different ways to support Victory Saber in both vehicle and robot modes.

Now you too can wield the eldritch magic of anti-gravity, for the low price of $17.99!

• Anti-Gravity Pedestal Tenseg Base (2022)

A decidedly odd release, these uniquely branded flight stands stand out from the rest by featuring a tensegrity mechanism that makes the upper platform appear as if it is floating in midair. A silver base is included with a redeco of Kingdom Ultra Magnus' inner robot as Optimus Prime, and two alternately colored bases are sold separately; one in heroic Autobot red and the other in EVIL Decepticon purple.

• Legacy Deathsaurus Flight Stand (2023)

As with Victory Saber, HasLab's Deathsaurus crowd-fund included a posing stand that was unlocked after reaching 17,000 backers; its mounting arm could attach in different configurations for displaying the robot or monster mode. However, the base of the stand also serves as the base for Deathsaurus' throne, meaning the arm must be detached and set aside in order to attach the throne.

• Robosen AI Base (2023)
  • Accessories: Optimus Prime attachment parts, charger block for Optimus, charging cable

Robosen's AI Base is meant to pair with their Flagship and Elite Auto-Converting Optimus Primes, and includes replacement parts for Optimus's bottom to attach to the stand. The stand provides a constant power to the robot, allowing for display in robot mode (which otherwise droops when powered off). The support arm is extendable and the base features additional lights, sounds, and programmable actions though its own dedicated phone app.

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• Legacy Omega Prime Flight Stand (2025)

Once the HasLab Omega Prime campaign reached 16,000 backers, it unlocked the inclusion of a pair of display stands that can hold either Omega Prime or his individual components. The paired stands can also be clipped together to depict the roadway inside the Global Space Bridge.

• Legacy Liokaiser Display Base (2026)

As the final bonus tier for the HasLab Liokaiser project, once 18,000 backers made their preorders it unlocked a set of three display stands that can be configured together in multiple ways. In addition to suspending Liokaiser himself, a design goal was to allow owners to display all the component vehicles in the multi-level pattern shown at the start of the Victory opening credits.

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3mm flight stand compatible molds (pre-Prime Wars)

It is important to note that this is NOT a complete list of every toy with a 3mm flight stand port, as their inclusion had started to become fairly common by the mid-2010s. Kicking off with Age of Extinction and the opening Prime Wars Trilogy line Combiner Wars, the port became incredibly commonplace, a trend that has continued on to this day. Studio Series, the War for Cybertron Trilogy, Cyberverse, and so on and so on into the foreseeable future, just about any new normal-retail Transformers toy is likely going to be compatible with the 3 mm flight stand peg.

Thus, this list section will be limited to toys from before that time, or from lines where the overwhelming majority of toys lack flight stand peg compatibility. Otherwise we'd be listing nearly a decade's worth of toy releases here, and that'd be ridiculous.

Most flight stand compatible ports on robot-mode Transformers are found around the butt area. Get them giggles out right now, we'll wait.

Generations

Deluxe Arcee Autobot Skids / Crosscut

Armada Starscream / Jhiaxus Windblade

Voyager Roadbuster Sky-Byte

Age of Extinction

• Evasion Mode Optimus Prime
• High Octane Bumblebee

TBA

Movie Advanced Series

• Classic Optimus Prime
• Classic Bumblebee

TBA

Robots in Disguise (2015)

• Stormshot

Masterpiece

• Tracks / Road Rage / Loudpedal

TBA

The Last Knight

• Autobot Sqweeks (found in the undercarriage of both forms behind the kickstand)

Movie The Best

• Optimus Prime

Revoltech

This one may be cheating, hence the separate category. Certain Revoltech figures come with stands and extra holes for those stands. Those figures will be noted, but all Revoltech figures have 3mm peg holes in their feet to use the base instead should they include one.

Yamaguchi Series 19. Convoy 19fs. Ultra Magnus 25. Megatron

46. Starscream (figure stand included) 47. Hot Rodimus (figure stand included)

Sci-Fi Series 30. Optimus Prime 38. Bumblebee 40. Jet Wing Ver. Optimus Prime (figure stand included)

Legacy of Revoltech LR-008 Convoy LR-044 Jet Wing ver. Optimus Prime LR-049 Optimus Prime LR-050 Bumblebee

Legacy of Revoltech is a series of reissues of popular Revoltech toys, unchanged from their original releases.

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