Studio Series
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 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
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Wave 2
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Voyager Class
Wave 1
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Wave 2
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Wave 3 | Wave 4' |  |
Leader Class
Wave 1
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Multipacks
| Bumblebee Then & Now Multipack |
Exclusives
Toys"R"Us
| Voyager Class |
San Diego Comic-Con/Hasbro Toy Shop
| 19 Bumblebee Vol. 1 Retro Rock Garage (2018) | 20 Bumblebee Vol. 2 Retro Pop Highway (2018) |  |
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)
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Wave 2 (28-07-2018)
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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.
