Thanks to Type-R of the 2005 Boards, we have new images from the upcoming Transformers Generations 2016-2017 book. For those not familiar, Transformers Generations is a Japanese exclusive book published to show off the current year’s toy line, along with behind the scenes material such as sketches, interviews, etc. Included in these preview shots are:
Cover by Yuki Ohshima (of Kiss Players “fame”)
Transformers Legends poster with Legends series box art
G1 comic double feature
Live action movie 10th anniversary line feature
MP Megatron feature
Legends, Adventure and Unite Warriors feature
Beast Wars 20th anniversary feature
Read on to check the pics and join the discussion!
Neko-bot77
Anybody able to scan the comics? The video review is all over the place and it's pretty much impossible to get decent screen grabs of all the comic pages…
PoweredConvoy
In 2016, they started naming the books coming out at the end of the year, with the name of the upcoming year.
Inciteful
Yea they just renamed it 2017 “Volume 1” even though it covers 2016. So “technically” there isn’t a 2016 issue.
ChromeMagnus
So what happened to the 2016 book? The "2016-2017" book actually just says 2017 vol 1 on the cover.
PoweredConvoy
Renamed to Generations 2018.
ChromeMagnus
Is this really a 2016-2017 book? The front cover says 2017 vol. 1. Where is the 2017 vol. 2?
Thundershot
Nah, it's cool. I just didn't want to get your hopes up on an old post..
Omnondippy
sorry
SouthtownKid
Still, no one has translated or even posted the Headmasters vs. Masterforce comic.
Thundershot
There is no figure this time. You quoted a post I made from 3 months ago before we found out there was no exclusive figure.
Omnondippy
what is quote "the figure"
D307
I had some fun with the Google translations, somethings got lost but I got the main idea of what was being said. I hope I am not reading into too much here but, I translated the comic for this year and last year involving Shockwave and Hotrod. On the 2015 one on the last page in the center panel it said "Megatron corps will return". Again I don't want to start looking at something that may not be true, however I just found it funny that it was mentioned last year and this year blammo!
RichP
Me too! I think the reveal has to be a S1 character that's very popular so I'm leaning towards Jazz. With all the 3p versions of him it seems there's a little smoke and fire around the character. Personally, I'd love a toon accurate Mirage. One of my grails.
Who do you think it'll be?
Ejector369
I wonder who the big reveal will be…
I'm looking forward to this! What are your guesses?
Verno
Interesting. Those beastly Triple-Changers are Primal, Cheetor and Dinobot/Grimlock.
RichP
I know. lol. i spread it over a couple weeks. A bit every night.
Start with the designer sketches in the back of the book. That's where they talk about conceptual decisions like choosing to have details at a minimum. That's in the Megatron part. The red box on the Inferno design sketch page talks about the big character reveal at the end of 2017. Enjoy it!
D307
Will do. Got a lot of text to go through LOL.
RichP
Use the Google translate app on your smart phone. It's a bit crude but it will translate the images into English text. There's a lot of good info in the book. Oshima was mp36s designer according to it.
D307
Just got this book the other day (must have gotten caught up in the holiday mailing rush). The Megatron pictures are excellent as well as the design sketches at the end. Shame I don't know Japanese though as I'd love to know what was written.
Type-R
HD version video of the book review in Cantonese by Swerve's World.