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First revealed at New York Toy Fair 2018, Transformers Generations: Studio Series (aka Transformers: Studio Series), acts as a celebration under the Generations banner of over ten years of live-action movies, with characters from every movie represented. It has to date also coincided with Bumblebee and Rise of the Beasts, the sixth and seventh films in the live-action film series.
Each figure from the Deluxe, Voyager, and Leader Class assortments is numbered, with an indication of their movie of origin. The same also applies to store exclusive figures and multi-packs. All figures also come with a cardboard backdrop–the eponymous "studio"<ref>{{#if: It's called "Studio Series" partly because Hasbro envisioned fans using the included backdrops as miniature "studios" when taking photos of the toys for social media. |"It's called "Studio Series" partly because Hasbro envisioned fans using the included backdrops as miniature "studios" when taking photos of the toys for social media."—|}}{{#if: https://twitter.com/tfwiki/status/1136078338706104320 |Transformers Wiki (Matthew Karpowich)|Transformers Wiki (Matthew Karpowich)}}{{#if: Twitter |, Twitter|}}{{#if: |, ""|}}{{#if: 2019 |, 2019{{#if: 06 |/{{#switch:{{#len:06}}|1=006|06}}{{#if: 05|/{{#switch:{{#len:05}}|1=005|05}}|}}}}|}}{{#if: https://twitter.com/tfwiki/status/1136078338706104320 ||}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://twitter.com/tfwiki/status/1136078338706104320%7C7%7C11}}%7Cweb.archive= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://twitter.com/tfwiki/status/1136078338706104320%7C8%7C11}}%7Cweb.archive= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://twitter.com/tfwiki/status/1136078338706104320%7C7%7C10}}%7Carchive.is= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://twitter.com/tfwiki/status/1136078338706104320%7C8%7C10}}%7Carchive.is= (archive link)|}}{{#if: | (dead link)}}</ref>–depicting a notable scene from their respective fictional appearance. In some instances, backdrops are repeated between separate figures representing the same scene. If those figures are released as part of different size classes, the backdrops are rescaled accordingly.
With rough robot mode scale as a line-wide goal, each figure is sized in relation to other toys, even in the same size class; 18 Deluxe Bumblebee is shorter than Jazz and 01 Bumblebee, who are in turn shorter than Ratchet and Lockdown.
The toyline boasts a greater accuracy than previous lines, due its focus on relative scale and its making use of CG models pulled from the films (or games) for reference (though this does fall short for early Bumblebee/Rise of the Beasts toys). Studio Series also explores toys for characters who had none before, or were left to a smaller size class.
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Hasbro Studio Series toyline
2018
Deluxe Class
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Voyager Class
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Wave 2
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Wave 3
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Wave 4
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Leader Class
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Exclusives
The earliest exclusives in Studio Series were hit hard by the bankruptcy of Toys"R"Us in several countries. Thundercracker was only available for a very short window at TRU, and only in store. Likewise, the Bumblebee/Charlie 2-pack was also intended for Toys"R"Us, but ultimately only released that way in Canada, which still had Toys"R"Us by the time it came out. Both releases were eventually made available through numerous online retailers such as BigBadToyStore, Entertainment Earth, ToyWiz, and TFSource.
The Bumblebee Then & Now Two-pack was exclusive to Target and BigBadToyStore in the United States and to Kmart in Australia; the Bumblebee Vol. 1 Retro Rock Garage set debuted at San Diego Comic-Con 2018 and was later also made available via Hasbro Toy Shop; and the Bumblebee Vol. 2 Retro Pop Highway set appears to have been an "online exclusive" shared between the same retailers that offered Thundercracker and Bumblebee/Charlie. We say "appear" because the Retro Pop Highway set was also available at GameStop stores in the United States, and both sets were also listed in Diamond Comic Distributors' Previews catalog, so really the only "exclusivity" for these appears to be that neither of them is available from Walmart or Target.
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Meanwhile, in Hasbro Asia markets: a special Bumblebee with battle damage deco was given away to customers who purchased at least 100 SGD of Studio Series and/or Power of the Primes products in Singaporean Toys"R"Us stores; and in China, the purchase of Studio Series products from Hasbro's official TaoBao online shop on May 15, 2018, entered buyers into a lucky draw with the chance of receiving one of 300 battle damaged Bumblebees or one of 88 Blackouts in camouflage deco.
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2019
Falling on the tenth anniversary of Revenge of the Fallen, the 2019 product saw a return of the film's starring combiners, Jetwing Optimus Prime and a hugely ambitious Devastator, which necessitated a release over two years.
Deluxe Class
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Voyager Class
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Leader Class
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Exclusives
As with the previous year's Vol. 2 Retro Pop Highway, the Drift and Baby Dinobots set was available from multiple online retailers. Battle Damaged Megatron was first found stocked by Hong Kong shops, long before it was available both online and in store at Toys"R"Us in Canada and Target in the U.S.
"As Seen In Parks" Megatron was officially exclusive to Universal Studios, but was released (almost a year after he had been officially revealed) in Hasbro's Asian markets first. Due to the global [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}COVID-19 pandemic|{{#if:||COVID-19 pandemic}}]], the toy was only released exclusively to online retailers in the U.S.
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2020
Deluxe Class
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Wave 10
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Voyager Class
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Wave 9
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Wave 10
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Leader Class
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Wave 5
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Exclusives
2020 saw the release of Leadfoot at Target, the enormous Devastator box set at multiple retailers, and the beginnings of the Buzzworthy Bumblebee line in celebration of everybody's favourite little yellow Autobot. Toys in the latter line are earmarked by the addition of "BB" to their ID numbers.
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2021
For 2021's new product, Studio Series started to include characters from The Transformers: The Movie, in celebration of the film's 35th anniversary. These toys feature a separate numbering system in Hasbro markets that utilizes "86" before the number of the respective figure. The '86 figures follow the same style, scale and play pattern of those from the concurrent War for Cybertron Trilogy toylines, complete with Fire Blast effect compatibility and 5 mm ports that can support Weaponizers and Fossilizers.
Deluxe Class
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Wave 12
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Wave 13
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Wave 14
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Voyager Class
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Wave 12
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Leader Class
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Wave 7
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Target exclusives
The Buzzworthy Bumblebee line further expanded in 2021 to include multi-packs. Target also reissued Battle Damaged Megatron and the Then & Now Two-Pack.
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2022
In 2022, Studio Series adopted the Core Class price point that debuted in the Kingdom line, producing both characters too small for Deluxe Class as well as pocket-sized versions of the main cast like in days of yore. Notably, unlike the larger figures in the line, the toys in the Core Class are not numbered.
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Deluxe Class
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Voyager Class
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Wave 16
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Wave 17
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Wave 18
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Leader Class
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Wave 9
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Wave 10
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Exclusives
2022 saw a new assortment of Buzzworthy Bumblebee Deluxes from Target, the first in a line of exclusives themed around NEST in the online exclusive N.E.S.T. Bumblebee, as well as a special commemorative multi-pack of Autobots available at Amazon.
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Shared exclusive Deluxe Class
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Amazon Transformers 15th Anniversary (multi-pack)
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2023
Studio Series expanded in scope in 2023, not only with toys for Rise of the Beasts–the first new Transformers movie since the line's early days–but also into the world of the War for Cybertron video game. Toys from the latter imprint feature a separate numbering system that we've chosen to represent as beginning with a plus (+), though the actual toy packaging stylises the symbol as a little D-pad. Neat! It also introduced the Commander Class range of figures, starting with Ultra Magnus which was revealed at SDCC 2023.
Core Class
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Wave 6
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Wave 7
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Wave 8
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Deluxe Class
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Wave 22
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Voyager Class
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Wave 20
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Wave 21
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Wave 22
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Leader Class
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Wave 12
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Wave 13
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Commander Class
Wave 1
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Exclusives
There were further releases in Buzzworthy Bumblebee this year, some of which continued the range of NEST-themed redecoes, and none of which were released in waves or regular assortments.
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Buzzworthy Bumblebee Voyager Class
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2024
2024 marked another first for Studio Series with the introduction of figures marked as "Concept Art" releases–based on character designs created for films which ultimately did not appear in the finished product. Bumblebee, having left a variety of designs on the cutting room floor during its tumultuous post-production, was the primary source for this initial round of "Concept Art" releases. Studio Series also saw the addition of figures for Transformers One, the animated film released later in the year.
With the exception of the Deluxes, the first wave was made available early alongside Legacy United products at Cybertron Fest 2023.
Core Class
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Wave 11
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Deluxe Class
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Wave 24
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Wave 25
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Future Waves
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Voyager Class
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Leader Class
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Exclusives
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Cancelled releases
Target exclusives
In late 2022, a second wave of that year's Buzzworthy Bumblebee Deluxe Class assortment was briefly listed by the wholesaler NDA Toys, revealing the existence, and robot-mode images, of Studio Series toys for The Transformers: The Movie Hound and Dark of the Moon Hatchet. While there are a pair of conspicuous gaps in the Studio Series numbering system that would seem to imply the figures were originally intended as late 2022 releases, Hasbro has yet to officially acknowledge the toys' existence since the wholesale listing's brief appearance and disappearance, leaving it unclear when, or if, they will ultimately see release. As of January 2024, it has been reported that Target opted to cancel their release of Hound and Hatchet due to poor sales of their previous 2022 assortment of Buzzworthy Deluxe Class figures, leaving Hasbro with no other place available to release the pair at the time.<ref>"Original Plans for Individual Releases of Hatchet and Earth Mode Hound were Cancelled" at Seibertron.</ref> Notably, tooling from Hound subsequently surfaced in multiple 2023 Legacy releases, with Detritus being an entire redeco of the figure, while just the weapon accessories were also included to supplement G2 Universe Autobot Jazz.
Hound himself eventually resurfaced in a Generations Selects 5-pack exclusive, while Hatchet is planned to be released as part of the mainline in 2025.
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TakaraTomy Studio Series toyline
Similar to Power of the Primes, in Takara's Transformers Studio Series (トランスフォーマー スタジオシリーズ Toransufōmā Sutajio Shirīzu) line, all figures are identical to their Hasbro counterparts, forgoing Takara's past practice of using more movie-accurate paint jobs. This is most likely due to the line being an official collaboration between Hasbro and TakaraTomy, much like the Masterpiece Movie Series line. ID numbering differs after number 8 compared to the Hasbro release, since some of the exclusives are not released in Japan. Introduced to the line in 2021, Takara includes characters from The Transformers: The Movie in its pre-existing Studio Series numbering system, whereas Hasbro assigns them ID numbers prefixed by "86". Takara also assigns ID numbers to Core Class figures, which go unnumbered in Hasbro markets. From wave 4 through wave 12, the packages featured the franchise's 35th anniversary logo.
In 2021, Takara decided to go back to its old ways and launched the exclusive Premium Finish toyline, featuring rereleases of some Studio Series figures with much more movie-accurate decoes.
Regular retail
Wave 1 (Apr 24, 2018)
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Wave 2 (Jul 21, 2018)
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Wave 3 (Sep 15, 2018)
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Wave 5 (Jan 26, 2019)
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Wave 6 (Mar 23, 2019)
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Wave 7 (Apr 27, 2019)
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Wave 8 (Jul 27, 2019)
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Wave 10 (Jan 25, 2020)
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Wave 11 (Feb 29, 2020)
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Wave 12 (Mar 28, 2020)
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Wave 13 (Apr 25, 2020)
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Wave 15.5 (Aug 1, 2020)
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Wave 16 (Aug 29, 2020)
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Wave 17 (Sep 26, 2020) | Wave 18 (Oct 23, 2020)
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Wave 22 (Jun 26, 2021)
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Wave 24 (Aug 7, 2021)
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Wave 25 (Nov 27, 2021)
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Wave 26 (Feb 26, 2022) | Wave 27 (Apr 30, 2022)
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Wave 29 (June 25, 2022)
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Wave 30 (August 27, 2022)
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Wave 31 (October 29, 2022) | Wave 32 (November 26, 2022)
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Wave 34 (March 25, 2023)
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Wave 35 (April 29, 2023)
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Wave 36 (June, 2023)
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Wave 39 (September, 2023)
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Wave 40 (October, 2023)
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Wave 41 (November, 2023)
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Wave 42 (December, 2023)
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Wave 44 (February, 2024)
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Wave 45 (March, 2024)
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Wave 46 (April, 2024)
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Wave 47 (May, 2024) | Wave 48 (August, 2024)
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Wave 49 (September, 2024)
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Wave 1 (October 30, 2021)
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Wave 2 (November 27, 2021)
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Wave 3 (December 29, 2021)
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Wave 5 (July 30, 2022)
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Exclusives
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Notes
- In July 2017, photos of a computer screen taken during an internal Hasbro presentation were leaked to the public that revealed, among other things, the very existence of the Studio Series general retail line-up, though not the actual title "Studio Series" yet (which was later revealed through separate leaks). The fact that the slides incorrectly featured projected release dates for "2017" instead of 2018 (which included dates predating the leak) led some fans to assume that the still unannounced line-up had long since been canceled. It wouldn't be until several leaks later that Hasbro finally acknowledged the existence of the Studio Series line, and revealed the first few waves during New York Toy Fair 2018, even offering a limited quantity of the first wave of Deluxe Class figures as an early release through the Hasbro Toy Shop website. Simultaneously, TakaraTomy revealed their version of the line at Wonder Festival Winter 2018.
- Among the figures whose existence was revealed through the aforementioned July 2017 leak that were not officially unveiled at Toy Fair was Voyager Class Ironhide, who made his worldwide debut at retail in Singapore in June 2018. Subsequently, Hasbro announced the redeco of Voyager Class Starscream (based on his appearance in Revenge of the Fallen), the final figure revealed through the July 2017 leak, via their "Hasbro Pulse" Instagram account a few days before San Diego Comic-Con, even though they still hadn't officially acknowledged the existence of Ironhide by that point.
- Like with previous movie-based lines, Studio Series also assigned code names to at least some of its characters. This time, the "theme" for those code names was "Australian race horses":
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- Bumblebee: "Stryker"
- Dropkick: "Blue Lightning" or "Blue Light"
- Megatron: "Fox"
- Optimus Prime: "Radar"
- KSI Sentry: "Sentry"
- Shadow Raider: "Mercenary"
- Shatter: "Red Lightning" or "Red Light"
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- The code names of many of the other figures, assuming they even had code names, are still unknown, as those toys have (thus far) consistently been listed under their actual characters' names. Meanwhile, a listing for a supposed Voyager Class figure using the code name "Destroyer" later turned out to be a mislabeled Energon Igniters Speed Series Barricade from the Bumblebee movie toy line, with which the Studio Series shares its code names.
- A few of the Voyagers and Deluxes of the previous two movie toylines scale fairly well with Studio Series figures. The latter of the two toylines, The Last Knight, seems to have a greater tie-in to the Studio Series lineup, as a few molds were also redecoed in this toyline as well as a few retools. Furthermore, the static figurine of Quintessa scales perfectly among these molds and also seems to serve as an inspiration for later pack-in figurines like Wheelie, Brains and the Mini Dinobots.
- One of the biggest misconceptions surrounding the Studio Series toyline is that there is a subline called "Studio Series 86". This came about from leaked listings on Walmart's website where the number "86" was misinterpreted as part of the toyline's title, rather than the ID numbers of those toys. While the toys based on characters from the 1986 movie do feature a separate numbering system, the line itself doesn't acknowledge them as being any different from the live-action movie toys they are sold alongside.
- While it has never been confirmed, the move to include 1986 characters in the Studio Series toyline after three years of continuous focus on the live-action films, was likely done to allow Hasbro and TakaraTomy to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the film, without stepping on the toes of the Beast Wars 25th anniversary, which was celebrated as a part of the War for Cybertron Trilogy. Evidence suggesting this is the inclusion of some of the film's main characters (Cyclonus, Rodimus Prime and Galvatron) being sold in the concurrently-ran Kingdom toyline and the shared design aesthetics of the toys between both lines.
- Despite Studio Series' prominently featured numbering system, there are several numbers missing from the line, as of writing these being: 86-18 and 94. Additionally, 79, 86-13, 86-20, 86-24, 95, 96, and 102 are missing, but are assigned to the Buzzworthy Bumblebee version of the line, though it is unclear if there are any plans for them to be released in the regular Studio Series line as well. 74 Revenge of the Fallen Bumblebee is the only set so far to be re-released in the regular line after debuting in Buzzworthy Bumblebee.
- TakaraTomy's version of the line has skipped over "72" for unknown reasons.
- Junkion Scrapheap and Buzzworthy Bumblebee Ironhide both use the 86-24 number, the first time the same number has been used for different characters between the two lines.