Million Publishing’s Hero X Twitter account has been sharing some artwork from the upcoming Generations 2018 book over the past few days, giving us a taste of what is in store in this latest entry into the Japanese Generations books.
First up is an image tweeted earlier today showing a preview of the comic that is accompanying the book. Many fans dislike Bumblebee for mainlining attention over the past decade; good news, Overlord shares your view.
Second is the artwork for the cover of this year’s volume, which shows Hot Rod, alone, facing Generation 2 Megatron, Misfire, Blitzwing, Sixshot, Savage, and a Sharkticon horde… with Trypticon stomping in to join the battle.
Generations 2018 is due to be released on 20 November 2017, less than three weeks from now. No hints have yet been dropped as to this year’s mail-in exclusive figure, if Hero-X intends to do one at all.
Markdelg
Just curious if anyone has scanned the comics and/or translated them yet?
transform75
so it is basically a cathalog of Legends – titan masters era year 2 + movie 5+ movie 4 + some MP and exclusives…
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 full-page screen grabs of all the comic pages… (Bumped the previous year's book thread by accident… "Somebody has a case of the 'Mondays'" lol…)
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2009 v1 Clear Henkei Mirage
2009 v2 Clear Henkei Starscream
2009 v3 Skids & Screech
2011 v1 United Stepper
2012 United Artfire
2013 Clear FOC Starscream
2014 Shouki (Thunder Arrow disguise) & Daniel PLUS Pick next Generations Book toy poll
2014 v2 Generations Go-Shooter
2015 Adventures Runamuck & Dogfight
The info has gaps on the wiki as to what's in what book Generations (disambiguation) – Transformers Wiki
I've got a list on the TMUK forum I really must write up for the wiki: Phil's Guide to the TF:Generations Japanese Book Series |
BWfan86
Interesting- what kind of figures have they had?
payres
Not for the earlier 2017 volume, but previous volumes have had
BWfan86
There was a mail away figure for the prior book? Which one?
Thundershot
I got my copy yesterday! So fun to flip through. Too bad there’s no mail away toy again..
BWfan86
Any interviews with G1 design team or interviews in the sunstreaker spread?
talyn
I know, but I was hoping for full page HD scans.
Neko-bot77
I would totally buy LG Overlord if the female headmaster (Giga or Mega? Don't remember who is who…) had blue painted lips…..
Can't wait for comic scans!! (And a summary of what is going on!)
Escargon
If anybody could scan that Kre-O comic, that would be greatly appreciated!
payres
The Sunstreaker and Dinobot images were posted last week
Masterpiece Sunstreaker new images including transformation – Transformers News – TFW2005
Takara Tomy MP-41 Masterpiece Dinobot Images From Transformers Generations Book 2018 – Transformers News – TFW2005
talyn
Could you please post any pics of upcoming Masterpieces? Thanks very much!
PoweredConvoy
Here's some info I have after looking through this book.
Some new pics of upcoming Masterpiece, Movie, and Legends figures. TR figures are included – shows them all except for Grotusque. Box set figures don’t list their heads names unlike the regular releases.
Ban Magami comic features:
Slugslinger
Octane
Hot Rod
Firebolt
Twintwist.
Kre-O comic by Hayato Sakamoto. There are a lot of characters / cameos in this 1 page comic. The ones I recognize are:
Kreon Megatron
Legends Trypticon
Legends SD Rattrap
Kreon Megaempress
Kreon Mysterious Villain from Japanese Animated opening
Kreon white and green Battle Beast Alligator guy
Kreon Quintessa (?)
Kreon Unicron
A gray Kreon with Soundwave’s head, a purple chest, and Seeker guns
Legends Minerva
Kreon purple and green Brazilian Gears
Kreon Nickel
Kreon Grand Galvatron Combiner
Mini Kreon Bugbite
Mini Kreon those two humans from the previous Generations Mook
Kreon that dolphin redeco of Airachnid
Kreon UW Grand Scourge
A sexy June Darby billboard
Kreon God Ginrai
Kreon Safety Prime
Mini Kreon GT Ai
Mini Kreon Cogman
Kreon G1 Optimus
Kreon Carrera
Kreon Elita 5
Kreon Shouki
Mini Kreon Shouki Daniel
Kreon SARA
Kreon G1 Black Rodimus
Kreon Skyfeather (?)
Kreon The Last Autobot
Kreon Thrustinator
The Naoto Tsushima comic has:
Overlord
Bumblebee
Spike
Mega (her Overlord form has blue lipstick)
Pounce
Wingspan
Giga
Blitzwing
Octane
Chip Chase
God Ginrai
Windblade
Fastlane
Cloudraker
Minerva
Ginrai (Human)
Perceptor
Slugslinger
Slipstream
Shockwave
G2 Megatron
Galvatron
Necro is referred to as Wipeout in the Trypticon design sketches.
Female and Male Type Overlord have different stats.
Both have six 10's and two 9's. Female has Strength and Endurance as 9's and Male has Speed and Skill as 9's.
G2 Megatron's dragon is called Noble.
The Repugnus beast is called Repug Armor.
Blitzwing's elephant is Big Fight.
Designs for TR / LG Hot Rod had his head named as Offshoot with G1 Firebolt's colors. Kup's is listed as Recoil.
Doublecross' head is called White Leo.
It's noted he's working with Doublecross to overcome the two dragon heads arguing about what action to take.
Mega and Giga are stated as having died but are reborn as Headmasters (in Overlord's product description).
Randy
SouthtownKid
Yeah, you can see a character yelling Spike's name in the bottom panel of the last image.
(also, Bumblebee calls Spike by name in the top image)
Markdelg
I'm pretty sure that's supposed to be Spike, not Daniel, per the Legends Bumblebee toy.
BWfan86
Is there any info (ex. from an interview) on the direction of the G1 line in this book?