Hasbro has applied for Elita-1 trademark at the United States Patent And Trademark Office last week.
The trademark is filed under the usual category in which all Transformers trademarks fall under:
“Toy action figures, toy vehicles and toy robots convertible into other visual toy forms”
At the same time, the Pseudo Mark of ‘Elita One‘ is also included with the filing. Strangely enough, Elita-1 trademark applied for Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen is still in ‘Live‘ status. However, the Elita-1 trademark applied during Transformers: Animated days is now ‘Dead‘.
We currently do not know for which toyline the new trademark will fall under. Hasbro’s most recent trademark applications fell under Robots In Disguise and Generations lines.
NanakoPreame
TR runs until the end of 2017, right? So, how long does it take for a new mold to be made? Because if Elita comes out at the tail end, then it's gonna be frouzel to find her in the wild.
spikebuster
And besides she was killed in ROTF by the Bonecrusher lookalike.
Autovolt 127
Already been confirmed no new fembots in TF5.
Maybe in the future but not now.
autobot prowl
Watch her be for the new movie instead
cutestprincess
We've also got Greenlight and Lancer in the idw comics as well, as a couple and as guards for Elita One no less! Though as much as I'd love to add some ladies to the Gay contingent of my transformers collection, I'm not gonna hold my breathe on either of them getting figures anytime soon, especially before firestar or moonracer. But hey, maybe they'll show up in some con exclusive thing or some new subscription service if that ends up happening?
Mirimus
I hope she's delayed until Prime Wars (or whatever the next iteration is called)…I've got most of the original headmasters from Titans Return, but I'm seriously over every character being made into a headmaster.
NanakoPreame
If Elita comes out in titans returns would her titan master be called Ariel?
jamarmiller
I personally hate IDWs transformers books, however I do credit them for helping a lot in getting a lot of these Japanese and never before toy characters finally getting made.
Autovolt 127
We got Chromia so far.
Firestar and Moonracer have appeared in IDW, perhaps they will get their due at some point.
jamarmiller
me too, really really hope they do
Robogeek28
I just hope this opens the floodgates for some of the other original fembots to be made as well.
BumblebeeFan71
They're doing something with her?! My wish is actually coming true?! I… I need to sit down for a sec. Holly crap I've been having crazy luck with the predictions this year concerning Transformers.
No question about it, Elita will be a day one purchase for me. She'll make a great addition to the collection.
You know with all my Transformers wishes coming true, I wonder if this means I might get that Starscream and Steeljaw team up I've been wanting.
Optimus Prime23
I wonder what her Earth mode would've been?
NanakoPreame
I'd laugh my butt off if her toy came out on the same date Search for Alpha Trion aired.
Autovolt 127
Oh My God.
Please do this Hasbro or Takara! This would be perfect.
Jetfire37
"Prime needs his Woman" ? WTF for?
Prime puts on some Barry White, lights a few plasma ion candles, prepares a romantic energon cube dinner, and then….Dammit we lack the proper equipment! That's why they are so intense in combat… frustration!
I have Generations Arcee, Chromia, and Windblade + rid ver. and they are nice figures but introducing genders to robots has always seemed been a bit silly IMO. I do find the explanation of genders being a Jhiaxus science experiment to be quite interesting and acceptable. I digress though, atleast they aren't adding marriage to the equation….That would be beyond stupidity.
BScorpinok75
Firestar should be a retool of TR Kup…
Yep, she pretty much should be a pre-tool of Override…
Thundershot
She's gonna be an extreme remold of Energon Ironhide! I'm calling it now!
Yeah, I'm less concerned with a NEW Prime/Convoy and more concerned with getting updated toys for Nitro Convoy/Override, Flame Convoy/Scourge, Live Convoy/Evac, and Megalo Convoy/Metroplex.
cutestprincess
I'm so hype about this! After she showed up in idw I've been wanting a toy for get more and more. Personally I don't care what her alt mode is, as long as it isn't a motorcycle. She's a big character who needs a beefy alt mode to match. Relatedly, I really hope she is a voyager class.
Hey, maybe they'll pretool one as the other and we'll get a new Override too! She would certainly fit into the whole "power of the primes" subline if they're basing it on characters who have primes/convoys/leaders since she's been all of the above in various continuities. It'd be one of the few situations where I'd definitely buy both versions of the mold just to have both characters.
Zylly103
I've actually thought RiD Strongarm would make a great Firestar.
Either way, we need Firestar and Moonracer, if we're getting Elita to go with Chromia.