#Autobot hot rod movie

The fourth numbered figure in the Studio Series 86 range, the box gives you some fantastic artwork of Hot Rod open the Matrix, along with all the usual Hasbro, TakaraTomy and Transformers brand logos. You can however see all those wonderful accessories he's packaged with, so even before you begin to mess around with the engineering on this figure you know that you're getting more bang for your buck. Studio Series 86 Hot Rod's packaging gives you a good sense of how this figure is technically a deluxe sized Transformer rather than a true voyager class figure, since he's looking awfully small in that enlarged box.

#Autobot hot rod movie

Arguably he's the perfect character to get this sort of treatment in a Transformers: The Movie-centric line - he's the star of the movie and if any Autobot deserves to get the perfect toy in a line celebrating it's 35th anniversary, it's him. An excellent example of this release method is Studio Series 86 Hot Rod, a deluxe class figure that's been released at the voyager class price point. On the one hand it does unfortunately make some figures more expensive than they perhaps should be, but on the other it can lead to some pretty interesting releases and help maintain proper scale between figures. Take War for Cybertron: Siege Shockwave for example - a voyager class-sized figure at best, but comes with armoured parts to justify a leader class price point. The price of Transformers toys have been going up steadily for years now, but another tactic Hasbro have recently started to introduce is releasing smaller figures at higher price points and then making up for it with better engineering and/or accessories.