What is to be expected by now, we have word from none other than our sponsor BigBadToyStore that Takara Tomy will be releasing a next Transformers Masterpiece as the MP-49 Black Convoy / Nemesis Prime figure that is expected to be a recolor of the MP-44 Convoy / Optimus Prime. If they are following the MP-10 playbook at all, this could be offered without the trailer and or accessories at a much lower price.

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Entertainment Earth has posted new listings for Cyberverse products due to ship in January of 2020! Among them are a few names new to the line's toy releases, along with a name that's not familiar to us at all: Hammerbyte. Newcomer Hammerbyte is in the Warrior assortments along with Soundwave, Bumblebee, Megatron, Starscream, and what we presume to be a new deco of Hot Rod with a prefix of "Stealth Force.

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Here are my opinions on this Walgreens exclusive

3rd Party Legends Plus Hot Rod. I compare it to other smaller figures.

Loopaza on Facebook has scans up for the Transformers-relevant pages from this month's issue of Figure King Magazine. The highlight of this month's pages is a two page spread showing most of the first wave worth of Earthrise toys. We've patched together pages 102 and 103 to recreate the original presentation, so you can see the whole group together, minus a small empty space where a bit of the image didn't make it on to the printed pages.

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Ultra Class Prowl is a fun figure with a cool gimmick that makes for a fun play feature. Prowl would make for a fun desk/fiddle toy which can be said for most of the Cybervese line. Remember to support creators!

This review is coming in very late, but I wanted to get one out there for this fun little set!

Siege Apeface feels like he's from a different toyline entirely.

Thanks to TonTon Review on Youtube, we have our first video review of Earthrise Optimus Prime. This main thing we get out of this is confirmation of what the production deco looks like, and the blue hands are here to stay! They're shown to share a glossy, metallic finish with the back half of the robot's head, which suggests either that both of these elements had to end up on a separate, different blue plastic tree together for reasons we cannot currently fathom, or it means both elements ended up on a different color sprue and have been comprehensively painted.

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