Hasbro Pulse/Shattered Glass: I Called It! #1

Just announced today is Hasbro's version of Shattered Glass Goldbug... and, while it follows the pattern by 'borrowing' heavily from the predominantly black paint job of the BotCon figure, they at least chose not to stoop to making him yet another reuse of the Sideswipe mold on homage to the original being Exilion/Hot Shot.

Unfortunately, rather than do one other predictable thing of making it more of a G1-style Shattered Glass Goldbug, by applying the BotCon SG paint job to the Earthrise Bumblebee mold, they went and did another, slightly different, yet still disappointingly predictable thing. Like Earthrise Bug Byte before him, he's a repaint of Earthrise Cliffjumper.

Well done, Hasbro. That's another Shattered Glass exclusive I am more than happy to live without. I may actually have bought it if they'd used the Bumblebee mold. That is among the many Earthrise toys I chose not to buy because I have the infinitely superior Classics version from the mid-2000s.

Of course, now there's only one more figure from the set still to be revealed, and my guess (hence the #1 in the post title) is that it'll probably be Soundwave. Optimus Prime would have been more likely had they not already made one using the Earthrise mold, but I still wouldn't put it past Hasbro to make a Siege version.

That said, there's always the chance they'll take the opportunity to repaint the new Commander class Kingdom Rodimus Prime, since it's unlikely to get any other repaint opportunities.