Here is the very first look at the Voyager class Animated Bulkhead in and out of his box! Click here to check out the exclusive unicron.com web-album for some great high-res pics of this figure. Click on Slideshow to see full screen pics and make sure to check out the full review below!

Review:

Alt Mode: Nice looking alt mode. A little weird for a vehical concept, but hey, it's the future right. I totally love the new matte finish that this figure (and aparently the whole line) has. It particularly works with the very stylized look of this figure. The scale of Bulkhead is about right for the "mega" scale of the Beast Wars days, but seems a bit small in vehicle mode for a Voyager Scale figure. (more on that later)

Transformation: Fun transformation. Not terribly complicated/challenging, but there are some intricacies that make it really great, and down right interesting to transform. There are a couple sets of diagonal transformation hinges that make this figure both fun to transform and great to look at it robot mode. Bulkhead does sport about 1.5 automorph features. He head flips out automorph style while you make one of the major torso shifts in the Transformation. This is a very solid automorph feature which I like a lot. Also the shoulders are spring loaded. It's totally not necessary, but Hasbro threw it in there surely just to add some fun Transformation value to this figure. I'm not sure I would call it automorph exactly (hence the .5), but it is pretty cool and I'm glad they put it in there. At BotCon one Hasbro team member said something to the effect of "These figures won't have special gimmicks. They're Transformers. The play value is in the Transformation." You can tell that Hasbro was really designing this toy with that in mind. While Bulkhead does have a shooting-cannon-ball-hand and other gimmicky features, they by no means get in the way of its focal point feature: Transforming from a cool animated looking military truck, to a cool very animated looking robot.

Robot mode: Wow, this robot mode it totally unlike anything we've seen in Transformers to date. Even the toy has personality. At first glance Bulkhead's robot mode somehow doesn't really make you think Transformer; however, this mode is so smooth looking that I hope it soon will. After looking closer to find the silver Autobot symbol emblazoned on his chest, I find myself totally excited for all of the TF: Animated awesomeness that Hasbro has in store for us. To address the features of this figure directly, he (of course) has his shooting-cannon-ball-hand, and Automorph features, but he also has a right arm spring-loaded elbow punching action that is neither highlighted on the packaging nor in the directions. That's what the black button on his right bicep is for. My only complaint about this toy, which becomes glaringly apparent when placed next to any deluxe sized figure, is his size. He just seems too small in robot mode. In order to give him the wide bulky look in robot mode, they clearly needed to sacrifice hight. As seen in the gallery pictures of Bulkhead next to  movie Bumblebee and Jazz, this is one small Voyager robot mode. Hasbro has commented on their interest in keeping the Decepticons larger/taller than all of the Autobot figures. I for one am very glad that Hasbro is making a point to observe the scale considerations for show/toy accuracy, but it seems like they went a bit overboard with trying to keep this particular Autobot smaller. For Animated Bumblebee to be in scale, he'd have to be smaller than the average scout class (and he's not). Alone, this figure is totally awesome; however, I'm afraid he just won't look quite right in robot mode next to the rest of the team. He's the biggest Autobot on the team in the show, but he just may end up being the shortest (albeit widest) Autobot toy.

All in all: 8 out of 10   Bulkhead is a great figure. He's got some fun robot mode features that don't get in the way at all, and looks great in both modes. The freshness of style that the movie brought to the Transformers brand is perhaps even overstepped by how refreshingly different this figure is (and quite possibly, the TF:Animated line as a whole). Bulkhead's size is really this toy's only down side. Even looking a bit oddly small in his box, this figure really should be 1.5 times its size. However, despite his size, I still highly recommend buying this toy.