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Absolutely love this one. I've been looking forward to Mark's post on this so we could get a good look at him (Amalgamous, not Mark.) This looks to be one of the most fun new toys in a while.

Love this. I've been a fan of the Modulators since they started, but I didn't realize that Amalgamous would be one of them. Love that he comes apart into the Diaclone-esque mini vehicles. Very different, original, and ALIEN look to him.

I do miss Botbots. They were a lot of fun. When I suggested a pig Minicon to go with Battersea, I wondered it there had been a piggy-bank Botbot, but I don't think there was.

It is 100% a Botbots name, isn't it? I just looked it up, and there was Batter Splatter, the stand mixer, so we were close.

No, that's already the name of the robot that turns into one of those pancake making machines that they have at hotel breakfast buffets.

I've already imprinted on Concept Art Shockwhale as my mother.

Not necessarily. The arms and chest make up the back end of the whale, the legs are the lower jaw and tum-tum. Only a relatively thin portion of the whale's upper head and back form the robot backpack, and it looks like that could condense pretty well.

But that likely IS the problem. Not that they can't use the name Battersea because it's trademarked, but rather that they want to be able to trademark the name of the pretend robot, but they can't if it's just named after the public-domain-type name of the thing it turns into.

Bat-Tersea.

Yeah, I'm sure that it needs a new name for trademark / copyright reasons, but honestly I love the name Battersea.

I would buy the hell out of a Titan-class Transformer that actually turned into the Battersea station. If it didn't come with a little pig Minicon, though, it would be a wasted opportunity.

I actually love it. I like robot beasts, and a whale is something we've never had in non-organic flavor. I love the cannon mouth, the Shockwave mono-eye, the scuba-esque details on the robot head. I'm a big fan.

I had to look. I wish I hadn't. Some things man was just not meant to see.

Yes, but I fell into the trap of thinking he was pretty mediocre until I learned how to use him properly. I can see how a lot of people got that same bad first impression.

I think a big part of that is the posing. There are a lot of joints, and if you don't pose them well, you end up with this: Instead of this:

I have a KO Device Label, and it's my main Ravage. It's a joy to transform and to pose. But yeah, Masterpiece is the only version that transforms from good-looking tape to good-looking jaguar. I understand that it'd be too fiddley and delicate if shrunk down, but it would be a good starting...

Similar ideas, but different execution, it looks like. Ravage here has additional leg articulation, which is nice.

I noticed that! Bet it's driving someone at Hasbro nuts.

Like a lot of SS 86 figures, it's better than my current Soundwave, but not THAT much better. Ravage is a mixed bag. 90% of him is a HUGE improvement over the existing recent molds, but the little hump on his butt with with the missiles is a bit of a letdown. Curious if that's built into him...

Nune over at TFW2005 has posted the first pictures of Studio Series 86 Soundwave along with Buzzsaw, Laserbeak, and Ravage mini-cassettes. All are brand-new molds as opposed to remolds/repaints of the existing figures. See the gallery below for images of all four figures in both modes...