Studio Series

From L'Oreal

First revealed at Toy Fair 2018, Studio Series, underneath the Generations banner, acts as a celebration of over ten years of live-action movies, with characters from nearly every movie represented. It also coincides with Bumblebee, the sixth film in Michael Bay's live-action film series.

Each toy is numbered, with an indication of their movie of origin. All figures also come with a cardboard backdrop depicting a notable scene from their respective movie. Backdrops from separate figures representing the same scene are designed to be displayed side-by-side.

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; Deluxe Jazz is shorter than Deluxe Bumblebee, who is in turn shorter than Deluxe Ratchet.

Toys

Deluxe Class

Wave 1 01 Bumblebee 02 Decepticon Stinger 03 Crowbar 04 Autobot Ratchet

Wave 2 10 Autobot Jazz 11 Lockdown 04 Autobot Ratchet

Future waves Trax Lockdown Autobot Ratchet (Dark of the Moon)

Deluxe Class Crowbar

Voyager Class

Wave 1 05 Optimus Prime 06 Starscream

Wave 2 12 Decepticon Brawl 13 Megatron

Wave 3 14 Autobot Ironhide

Future waves 21 Starscream (Revenge of the Fallen)

Voyager Class Megatron

Leader Class

Wave 1 07 Grimlock 08 Decepticon Blackout

Leader Class Blackout

Multipacks

24 and 25 Bumblebee multipack 24 1987 Volkswagen Beetle Bumblebee 25 2016 Concept Camaro Bumblebee

Exclusives

Toys"R"Us

Voyager Class 09 Thundercracker

File:Studio-Series-MV3-09-Thundercracker.jpg Toys"R"Us exclusive Thundercracker

Due to coinciding with the closure of the United States division of Toys"R"Us, Thundercracker was only briefly available in some stores, and was never added to the Toys"R"Us online store before the latter ceased operations. He was later made available via several US-based online retailers. In Canada, he was released as a Toys"R"Us exclusive both online and in stores. In the Philippines and Malaysia, he was released as a Toys"R"Us exclusive in stores.

San Diego Comic-Con/Hasbro Toy Shop

19 Bumblebee Vol. 1 Retro Rock Garage (2018) Bumblebee Dairu Uruaz

Bumblebee Vol. 1 Retro Pop Highway (2018) Bumblebee Featuring your favorite movie characters, Bumblebee and.... who now? Studio Series (TakaraTomy) Similar to Power of the Primes, in Takara's Studio Series (スタジオシリーズ) 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 slightly differs after number 8 compared to the Hasbro release, since Thundercracker is not yet released in Japan. Wave 1 (28-04-2018) SS-01 Bumblebee SS-02 Decepticon Stinger SS-03 Crowbar SS-04 Autobot Ratchet SS-05 Optimus Prime SS-06 Starscream SS-07 Grimlock SS-08 Decepticon Blackout Wave 2 (28-07-2018) SS-09 Autobot Jazz SS-10 Lockdown SS-11 Megatron SS-12 Brawl Quad Barrel Shotgun promotional item Promotional campaigns Quad Barrel Shotgun (buy 4000 yen from select stores starting April 21st) 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 Wonderfest 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 of 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": Optimus Prime was "Radar", Bumblebee was "Stryker", and Megatron was "Fox". Other characters with code names ("Blue Light", "Mercenary", "Sentry", and possibly "Destroyer") have not been identified yet, whereas the code names for Jazz, Ratchet, Stinger, Lockdown, Starscream, Brawl, Grimlock, Blackout, and Ironhide are still unknown, as those toys have consistently been listed under their actual characters' names.