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Eh-...i may say this is like.. 18% done?

Idk, animating is hard but quite fun <3

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Remember R.E.D.?

Remember the R.E.D. line? I wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t, it’s been almost 2 years since the last figures came out. Started as a Transformers equivalent to Hasbro’s Marvel Legends and other analogous lines, the “Robot Enhanced Design” line was supposed to give us screen accurate and highly accurate figures that sacrificed a transformation for aesthetics, but the whole line fell flat and did so in its first year. Let’s go over why!

Starting in 2020 as a Walmart exclusive, Transformers R.E.D. came in with the heavy hitters of G1 Optimus, Megatron, and Soundwave, and just. Immediately dropped the ball with that alone. We were already well into the WFC Trilogy at that point, and thusly had plenty of G1 inspired Optimus Primes and Megatrons to pick from. There were the Siege molds, their classic animation redecos, which were also Walmart exclusives just a year prior, the Earthrise figures, and the dozen other repaints and repackages those all got or would get, a fair share of which were themselves, Walmart exclusives! Soundwave came off as a little more desirable, but that was mostly due to his highly sought after earth mode Netflix release being hard to come by. He did still have his regular Siege release the year prior, like the other two. Granted, none of these were anywhere near as animation accurate as R.E.D. but like. They transformed. They still fit the general aesthetic. But fine. It’s the first wave, and these are THE Transformers. You have to do them, I get that. You can chalk up the release to poor timing or whatever, but even ignoring that they were still less desirable because they just kind of sucked.

As the name implies, the Robot Enhanced Design figures put a greater focus on the robot modes, trading transformations for… what, exactly? They’re painted… okay, they have fine enough articulation, but not much beyond what most mainline figures offer, and they’re made of this soft, rubbery plastic that just feels bad. The only thing they had going for them was a large number of accessories. That’s it. They don’t scale well with much, either. They were all designed in the six-inch scale, which means most of them only really match with each other, leaving them in a weird, separate bubble. At least the character choice got better, right?

Alright. Fine. Wave 1 was The Big Ones because it had to be. Wave 2 featured Prime Arcee and Beast Wars Cheetor, and one of these has an actual case for being in the line. Arcee’s model in the Prime cartoon was thin and at the same time, impossibly big for her alt mode. While the Robots In Disguise (the Prime subline not the show. Not that one. The other one.) figure she received when the show was still airing was fairly accurate, it’s literally impossible for it to be “just the model from the show” considering a lack of room to put stuff, so R.E.D. makes sense! Plus, it had been a good while since the show came out, so those original toys were getting harder to get a hold of. Cheetor was a… less compelling case. We saw with his Masterpiece figure that it was very much possible to have “just the model from the show” in toy form, but the real killer for him came from Hasbro themselves. Again. Running at the same time as wave 2 of R.E.D. was the Kingdom line, which celebrated the 25th anniversary of Beast Wars, which in turn meant that Cheetor was a front runner for the line. He was kinda a big part of the cartoon y’know? So why bother with the non-transforming version of the character made out of worse plastic when you could just go and get the Kingdom figure? Which was on shelves at the same time? But, okay. The R.E.D. figure was visually closer to the cartoon, but then there was Netflix Cheetor! The Kingdom figure got repainted into a more Beast Wars (the cartoon) accurate deco, and was also a Walmart exclusive!!! So even if you did go to the store just for R.E.D. Cheetor, you’d have probably seen the Netflix figure on the shelf at the same time! For the same price!!! Rendering any devils advocate-ing utterly pointless. This is, by and large, a trend that continued through the line’s limited run time. Arcee was succeeded by her Legacy figure, as was Knockout. Some even came out after the mainline release of the character, such as Galvatron and Optimus Primal. They did have the excuse of closer matching the animation, and this is especially true for the Prime releases, but it still felt pretty pointless. The lower quality wasn’t doing them any favors, either. The only release that really made any sense was Reformatting Megatron, since there’s not much point in making that transform, I feel.

Now, I get it. You need your big names to sell toys. Every Transformers line released over the past three decades has had some form of Optimus and/or Megatron. Some designs aren’t very toy friendly. But if you’re going to do a line of non-transforming Transformers characters, could you at least do one character that doesn’t transform? Autobot X? An Action Master? If we’re doing Beast Wars, why not Transmutate? Why bother forcing an alt mode onto the G1 Quintessons in Earthrise when you could have put them in R.E.D.? There’s only so many Scrimblo Bimblos and Glup Shittos, I understand, but not even one? The line was fizzling out anyway why not say “fuck it”? They didn’t even finish the seeker trio, that’s how hard this line bombed.

[driver270]

My RED Prime Arcee's been drinking. 😅

[driver270]

Found out the hard way that RED Prime Arcee had a removable chest piece when I took her out of her packaging.😅

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Unboxing: Transformers R.E.D. Transformers: Prime Megatron

Unboxing: Transformers R.E.D. Transformers: Prime Megatron #transformers #transformersprime

Enhance your Transformers collection with Transformers R.E.D. [Robot Enhanced Design] figures. These 6-inch scale figures are inspired by iconic Transformers characters from throughout the Transformers universe, including G1, Transformers: Prime, Beast Wars: Transformers, and beyond. R.E.D. figures do not convert, allowing an enhanced robot mode with a sleek, “kibble-free” form. Highly poseable…

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Unboxing: Transformers R.E.D. G1 Thundercracker

Unboxing: Transformers R.E.D. G1 Thundercracker. It captures the classic figure #transformers #g1 #hasbro

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Unboxing: Transformers R.E.D. Transformers: Prime Optimus Prime

Unboxing: Transformers R.E.D. Transformers: Prime Optimus Prime. A pretty impressive figure with lots of detail #transformers #transformersprime

Enhance your Transformers collection with Transformers R.E.D. [Robot Enhanced Design] figures. These 6-inch scale figures are inspired by iconic Transformers characters from throughout the Transformers universe, including G1, Transformers: Prime, Beast Wars: Transformers, and beyond. R.E.D. figures do not convert, allowing an enhanced robot mode with a sleek, “kibble-free” form. Highly poseable…

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[thepariahcontinuum]

What are your thoughts on the transformers r.e.d. figures?

I honestly don't think about them.

A Transformer that doesn't transform is just an actionmaster.