Whoa Hasbro! That’s two days with two reveals… Oh yes, you read the title… here’s the story from your favorite Transformers Website:
Hasbro has applied for a brand-new Trademark (at the United States Patent & Trademark Office) under 2 categories:
Toyline: toy action figures, toy vehicles and toy robots convertible into other visual toy forms.
Cartoon Series: entertainment services, namely, an on-going animated television series for children.
And the Trademark is… Beast Hunters.
Fans of the Beast Era would immediately recognize the new trademark as the original working title for Beast Machines.
We don’t know how this will eventually turn-out to be… but we do know that there are thousands of TFW2005 Beast Era fans dancing at the moment. Party tonight, people?
Autovolt 127
Oh that guy….I think he may be Slender Man's cousin.
daitarn red
autobots as maxmials
decepticons as dinocons
like in beast war 2
420bot
I can't say b/c it's insider information and said source could get in trouble.
I am quite serious, so please just wait and see… and then come tell me thanks for the solid info. later.
Don't shoot the messenger on this one, and it's okay if you don't believe me.
Just don't berate me for getting the info out, again please just wait and see.
Josh
Confirmed by Mr. H.E. Tellme perhaps?
bossprime
His "sources"…
timcourtois
Confirmed how?
TFW10
^^ It could happen. ^^
420bot
Okay nerds… here's the rundown:
Beast Hunters is very much a TF: Prime subtitle.
It will eventually lead to the introduction of the Dinobots on Prime.
This is now confirmed.
Merry X-Mas…. don't believe me… just wait and see.
Torque
^ Transmetals was one of my favorite aspects of Beast Wars.
Thenames9
I like the mixture of Transmetal/Realistic beast forms. It adds more to the fun and then the characters getting upgrades through time. That was one of the fun things from the original BW.
Autovolt 127
Perhaps? I'd love to see Vangelus to voice the Transtech Shockwave in the show. after all he is morally ambiguous.
Ideally though for me i'd have Transmetal.
Omnius
Hasbro usually Photoshop stock images together for things like this, so the above image isn't a huge surprise.
Ravenxl7
To me it does, as I've never seen Hasbro use the phrasing for anything outside of Transformers.
It fits with their usual presentations like that one. Which to me always look like they were thrown together quick and haphazardly. Though it's understandable, as they are made as purely informative for their meetings and such.
caitlindevi
"toy robots convertible into other visual toy forms. "
Does not necessarily automatically mean the transformers licence.
But the picture is new to me.
It does look a bit like a cheapo photoshop bash, but then someone at hasbro could have been having a lazy day
Ravenxl7
Well, there's this:
…and there's also this:
…so yeah, it's Transformers.
caitlindevi
Just a thought but has it actually been confirmed that this is a transformers related licence?
Thing thats got me wondering is that Takara Tomy is also developing the Beast Saga line…which used to be Battle Beasts way back when.
It could be Hasbro is going to launch this under the name Beast Hunters with a series and toy line.
Transformers aren't the only toy line to have transforming robots and I find it odd the application has action figures, vehicles and transforming robots all as separate elements.
Stygimoloch
This actually makes sense. Introduce a lot of old or discarded elements with fresh takes as well as keeping everything about TFs that people identify with. If this is the direction they decide to go I can completely get behind it.
Starfire22
You might have a point there.
Flexx Ark
If it's not connected to Prime then I hope it's connected to Beast Machines.
Transbot90210
Anyone think they are going back to Transtech?
I remember seeing concept art back in the day when I knew the group responsible for the concept designs for the series.
It would make sense because it incorperates everything TF's has done since 84. IIRC the show was to be the introduction to Minicons (which we know HasTak and parents love), smaller Beasts bots that had an amalgimated beast/vehicle mode and large bot Decepticons.
I think where we are now as a franchise the timing for Transtech is better now than it was as a follow up to Beast Machines.
The real question is, will our new beasts be full out animals with robo insides or techorganic like Thundertron (or every other Beast since BW)?