Comic-Con International: San Diego begins in just two weeks and by annual tradition, we have your first look at the daily program schedule. Thursday’s schedule includes the following trio of Transformers-related panels:
Comic-Con 2018: Transformers: Unicron and Beyond
Thursday, July 19 • 10:00am – 11:00am Room 29AB
The planet-eater Unicron has arrived, and nothing will be spared! IDW editor-in-chief John Barber, associate publisher David Hedgecock, editor David Mariotte, Hasbro’s director of global publishing Michael Kelly, and creators behind the blockbuster event of the summer fill you in on what’s in store for the Autobots and offer a hint at what comes next.
Comic-Con 2018: Hasbro Transformers
Thursday, July 19 • 11:00am – 12:00pm Room 29AB
Be the first to hear about new Transformers toys and products that have yet to hit store shelves straight from the design and marketing teams at Hasbro. There is a lot of buzz for Bumblebee: The Movie hitting theaters in December. Roll in to get a glimpse at the Transformers products inspired by the film, including new figures in the Generations Studio Series collection. Then, get your cyber-goggles ready for a look at the first reveals from the highly anticipated upcoming Generations War for Cybertron trilogy line. Set sights on Cyberverse, the exciting new animated show is full of new characters and familiar stories. Fly in to sneak a peek at the series and several of the new toys not yet revealed. Many new Transformers initiatives from some trusted partners will be shared, as well as the induction of the 2018 Transformers Hall of Fame members.
Comic-Con 2018: Writing Great Dialogue
Thursday, July 19 • 6:00pm – 7:00pm Room 9
Short. Meaningful. Memorable. How do you write great dialogue? What works and what doesn’t work? Writers from animation and comics, including Nicole Dubuc (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Transformers: Rescue Bots), Marsha Griffin (Guardians of the Galaxy, Miles from Tomorrowland), Craig Miller (Curious George, Beast Wars), Eugene Son (Avengers: Secret Wars, Saint Seiya), and Matt Wayne (Justice League Unlimited, Cannon Busters) talk about how to craft a great line.
What are your burning questions for these panels? Are you attending the convention? Stay tuned for more Transformers-related updates from Comic-Con as the Friday, Saturday and Sunday program schedules are released in the next three days and join the discussion on the 2005 boards!
lonewolf96
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Ethan personaff
There's also Deluxes under the codenames Hornet, Red light, and Cougar.
lonewolf96
In all honesty for studio series Here's what will probably happen.
Wave 3
Ironhide – official reveal
Ratchet v2
Beetlebee
Blue light
New exclusive like thundercracker possibility ?
That leaves these as a Mabey
Starscream v2
Mercenary / raider
Ksi sentry
I honestly think that optimus v2 and Bonecrusher are the start of a 5th wave and wolnt be revealed until nycc in October
Lazerwave
Other than Ironhide and ROTF Starscream, I hope they reveal another Voyager. The last one just seems so uncreative.
Ethan personaff
The deluxe Beetle BB is gonna happen. Don't worry about it.
GoldDeadEnd
Yep, I had the limbs for Computron as a kid, so I was feeling pretty picky!
ca12nag3
I agree, Computron holds special meaning to me. My grandfather bought Scattershot for me on my birthday when I was a little boy. The others my parents got for me to complete the set. The near red Afterburner really has the cartoon colours. Same goes for the rest. As for the Hasbro set it really goes too cheap. The head for Computron sets me off, it is a straight up Superion head. As for nosecone too lazy.
I think Hasbro actually learned. The Terrorcons look amazing. No cutting corners there. Even with Cutthroat. He is distinctly enough different from Strafe. Where as many earlier figures like Wheeljack from Sunstreaker or Deadend with Breakneck are straight up repaints with a different head.
While sharing transformation schemes enough parts are remoulded, same goes for Snarl and Sinnertwin.
I just hope we get more out of POTP or the next line in terms of combiners.
GoldDeadEnd
Agreed. And I usually domestic, but that UW Computron was worth every penny over what I would have paid for the CW one. Except I do prefer orange Afterburner and did buy a Scrounge separately.
ca12nag3
I don't think trains is the issue. The 4 limbs can easily be 2 remolds of each. Like how UW superion ans meanasor have a redeco in their set.
The biggest issue is obscurity of the characters.
Though Leokaiser suffers from the same issue Hasbro still made it. With no big success. I find the set horrible. And it suffers greatly from mold degradation. The Skylynx reuse is no fun. And the jets as well as the brawl remolding suffer.
And to be honest it was lazy. It was nowhere near what was done by Takara with Computron. Which at that moment was the best set released by both Takara and Hasbro.
I feel Takara would have knocked both a Raisen and Leokaiser out of the park.
GoldDeadEnd
It's the trains that are killing the possibility of Raiden, not that he's Japanese. Liokaiser was tanks and jets and aggro American stuff that could work off of retools.
RotorstormNZ
Super excited for this. Would be nice if there were a livestream, otherwise my wife might think me strange for getting up at 3am to watch for Hasbro panel news…
ca12nag3
I actually hope they do a Beastwars II version of the Seacons. They had far more character. Also, the White/silver/gold deco would look mindblowing. And to boot "Tentakill who is Scylla" in Beastwars II is a female Decepticon.
I really think we will get a redeco of the dinobots as Dinoking. Since Snarl was shown with that piece on his head, as well as Cutthroat with the other head. Which was a 1 on 1. I have little doubt it isn't down the pipeline. Also sales on the Terrorcons and Dinobots are high. They will probably stick to it. Bring them in their new War for or on Cybertron Line? is it? We see a lot of crossovers anyways, Blast-off and Wreckgar, before that there was legends Buzzsaw who was pre-released in CW. Nothing is set in stone as to being exclusive to a line. Also see the rehash of all the parts and transformation schematics in POTP.
To me it seems like POTP is CW 2.0. while adding some odd stuff like posts for "titan masters" Yes rehashed as Primes who don't form heads but funny icons. It is a gimmick aimed at kids…I guess? But still, it is a bit redundant. If they tossed in HFG it would have been fine as well. The legends line didn't even change from Titans Return. Still, a seated vehicle turning into a robot.
All in all, I think we will not have seen the last of combiners. Seacons, Dinoking and Raiden are still left. Honestly, it would be surprising if they didn't even think of Raiden. Since Hasbro did Leokaiser which is a more Japanese character/group than international.
kaijuguy19
Same here. It'd be a cool way to set Monstructor and Dinoking apart since they're technically different characters despite being the same molds with the same idea of Pretender tech in the G1 toyline.
Mindwipe009
Hoping for a look at Studio Series Bonecrusher. That\'d the only thing I need.
VortexPrime
The thing I'm interested the most is Studio Series as they have been amazing figures until now; kind of curious about War for Cybertron stuff but I'm a little worried because PotP left a bad taste in my mouth and cybertronian vehicle modes are possible opportunities to be lazy and unoriginal, I hope it won't be the case.
GoldDeadEnd
They got better with PotP. To the point I don't mind the parts reuse. After That Damn Helicopter and Slingoff the new combined feel like a triumph.
ca12nag3
Takara Liokaiser indeed.
The line really made a awkward bend with scattershot and the Hasbro Liokaiser set. Almost like They pulled the plug on the CW project.
Most likely due to CW fatigue among fans.
A hastily put together boxset by hasbro both for Computron and Liokaiser. Seeing that they might not make their buck from seperate releases for Computron.
Also how Hun Gurr is straight up reuse of the Silverbolt torso transformation. Basic reuse of the same transformation scheme we now see in POTP. They just needed a break from CW. Titans Return really delivered that break. Though everything having the same headmaster gimmick does leave me wondering if thry didn't go the easy way. Since the original line had some headmasters who were more obscure now left out. Like Hosehead and Minerva. Having more popular characters getting another remold. Like Optimus Prime Megatron and Hotshot. Who never were headmasters.
Same said for the dinobots getting lazy pre-molds for the terrorcons. I can't call it anything else. Simply to save bucks on sprews and designer effort.
If you look at which figures sell out and are more desired its not the reused ones. But the unique ones. Snarl being more distinct as well as Swoop.
I hope we get the seacons at least but I despise the reuse practices by Hasbro.
Starfire22
Neko-bot77
is there a donation box somewhere where we can start a collection to send all the writers at Machinima to the "writing great dialogue" panel?
GoldDeadEnd
I saw the Snarl gun. I know a lot of people don't like Pretender shell/robot mixes but I'm cool with Dinobot Dinoking and a more traditional Monstructor.
Yeah, the brand unity deal really shot my hopes for Raiden down. Of course I was thinking Takara would do Liokaiser with all new molds for Leozack, Jallguar, and all six breast partners back when the CW one was released…