Welcome to the SDCC 2017 Hasbro Product Panel! Our news crew is on the scene and will be relaying info to us throughout the panel. This post will be updated as we receive info from our team.
Start:
- Machinima on panel
- Megatron (voiced by Welker) interrupted video
- Sent Decepticons to buy SDCC toys etc.
- Decepticons (Megatron) taking over Transformers Twitter
- Soundwave live tweeting
TLK:
- Mega 1-step turbo changer Dragonstorm
- All turbo changers have hidden fire deco revealed by Dragonstorm’s light (like he’s breathing fire on them)
- Premiere TLK now
- Wave 2 Leader Dragonstorm being shown now
- Showing the development process
- Megatron interrupting again, whining about Starscream
- Showing Leader Megatron now
- Development process of Megatron
- Voyager Nitro Wave 3 being shown now
- Development process for Nitro shown off, CAD and gray models etc.
- Showing Deluxe Wave 4 Cogman now
- Cogman vehicle mode fits two titanmasters
- Wave 3 Bumblebee deluxe shown now (movie-accurate version)
- Showing development again
- Movie Masterpiece now
- Showing Optimus prime
- Diecast parts, articulated fingers
- Most accurate 2007 version ever created
- Showing development process now
- Onto Generations
Generations:
- 2018 last chapter of Prime Wars Trilogy
- Optimus Primal is promotional image on Power of the Primes
- Optimus Primal will be holder of Matrix of Leadership
- Talking about the story now
- 12 Primes
- Prime Masters hold power, even the spark, of original 12
- Liege Maximo comes with Dreadwind
- Cards come with each figure to expand on what each Prime Master’s power is
- “Prime cards” 12 to collect
- Pretenders are now Decoy suits
- Prime Masters hide in Decoy suits and they can transform
- Beachcomber legends class
- Deluxe Dreadwind
- Wave 2 Blackwing (Darkwing’s new name)
- Combine in jet form to form Dreadwing
- Deluxe Wave 1 Jazz
- Voyager Wave 1 Starscream
- G1 IDW mixed style
- Leader Wave 1 Rodimus Prime
- Figure is Hot Rod, then combines with trailer to become Rodimus Prime
- Prime Masters connect like mini-cons to all size classes
- Legends – they drive
- Deluxes/Voyagers – head
- Leader – matrix
- looks same as TR
- Onto Machinima
Machinima (Titans Return Series):
- In production
- Starts where CW left off
- First titan to show up on Cybertron to wreak havoc is Trypticon
- Optimus, Megatron, and Windblade have to resurrect ancient ally to help
- Demo reel now
- No new animation, just new voices and actors being like OMG
- Show premieres November
- 10 episodes, 11 minutes long each
- Megatron interrupts again
- Trypticon cereal joke
- Made it a poster (giveaway at booth!)
- Cereal poster folds into box
- Onto Hascon
Hascon:
- Winners of HOF announced Sept. 8th
- HOF polls open on social
- Now convention exclusives (recap of SDCC)
- Megatron interrupts AGAIN
- Q&A now
Q&A:
- MP Beast Wars? Stay tuned.
- Someone wants a Bludgeon toy. “Stay tuned”. Teasing as decoy suit.
- Decepticons in MP movie line? Stay tuned.
- Remaining combiners? We hear you. Stay tuned.
- No plans for new Nautica mold
- Plans for that new Starscream mold? “Next question” with laughs
- Siege on Cybertron set, more were ordered
- Hasbro aware of Trypticon hip issue, seems isolated, engineering looking into it
- Q&A and panel over
- All and maybe more shown off at booth soon
Thanks for tuning into TFW’s annual coverage of Hasbro’s SDCC panel!
