We’re at Botcon 2016 and we bring you lots and lots of images of Hasbro’s Titans Return display. Taking over from Combiner Wars, Titans Return is bringing back the era of the Headmasters in a big way – and a very big way, thanks to the inclusion of a Titan class Fortress Maximus in the line!
Check out this post for oodles of images, covering everything from the Leader class Powermaster Optimus Prime, to Deluxe class figures like Mindwipe and Blurr, to the smaller guys like Wheelie. My favourite pic from the display so far is a wonderfully posed shot of Chromedome and Rewind. They’ve also gotten creative with some of the posing, with Max ripping Astrotrain apart and the Sweep blasting Chromedome to smithereens. Check them out and many, many more images after the break!
Oh, and a few more things. The backs of the boxes in this display also give us our very first glimpses at Titans Return Deluxe class Wolfwire (Weirdwolf) and Highbrow! We also get another look at Voyager class Alpha Trion. In addition there’s some new Titanmasters, specifically Apeface as reported earlier, and also an all-new one, Clobber… who seems to heavily resemble Grimlock’s head. And interestingly enough, it’s been pointed out that Chromedome’s boxart Titanmaster head looks suspiciously similar that of Getaway’s. Could these be possible hints at future figures? Check out the pics and decide for yourselves! And stay tuned, as we may be getting better looks at these guys tomorrow at the Hasbro panel…
Autovolt 127
It's weird how the SDCC Brainstorm artwork has him in a different deco than what the toy in the pack had at the show.
also the individual artwork has some black decos on him.
OriginalFire
Sometimes you have to, I didn't want to but I just had to know. All these headmasters look awesome and the guy in the other thread gave a different response than you but similar, thanks though
Richard McBeef
Has there ever been a figure in Transformers history that has ever been released just once? Are you people insane? Or have you not just been paying attention at all?
Bountyan
There probably will be an individual Brainstorm. There are two separate artworks of him, one for the boxset and one presumably for the single release.
psychography2
The Hasbro guys at Botcon were adamant that he wouldn't be released on his own. Doesn't mean Takara won't release a Headmasters-anime-accurate version, but in the states, SDCC is it.
BattleUpSaber
So far he's only exclusive to the SDCC pack, but you can bet that he's being planned for an individual release soon enough. Hasbro wouldn't spend money to do a retool and then make it an exclusive.
Edit: You don't have to post the same question in more than one thread. Just saying.
OriginalFire
Does anybody know how the new version of Brainstorm will be released. Will he be released individually or in a pack
Rob
I think for better or worse you will have to look for a celebration of Beast and IDW within Generations. I don't think they will dedicate a year of a line to either. With that said I think their is potential through repaints and retools.
Lord Dcast
I'm way more into having Pretenders converted into new designs without the shells, like Bludgeon.
goobahead1
i really want pretenders… please hasbro give us pretenders that are not exclusives!
shellformer
Well, there's always pretenders, haha. Smaller robots duking it out over bio-suits is kinda similar to titan masters, though, so maybe they'll bring back real mini-cons. They make for a great blend of micromasters, targetmasters and powermasters and they continue the TM theme of the larger robot being a sort of playset for the smaller robot. There are certainly worse things for the 2017-18 line to be than Armada 2.0.
Bob Schoonover
I think Hasbro has always said "Fall 2016" – it's been a general fandom translation of that into summer appearances. Part of it is that the third wave of CW showed up last year in April or May last year and TR wave 1 would be the third 2016 wave. Part of it is that a listed date is usually the "shelves will be populated by" date.
AzT
Interesting – that Fall 2016 tag might explain this ->
https://www.facebook.com/toydojo/posts/1088977837832371
We have just received word from our distributor of a Fortress Maximus scheduled for release Q4 2016 with an MSRP of $149.99! This should be the Titans Return Headmaster figure! We have put up pre-orders on the site: Toy Dojo – Not Found
NOTE: We've been kindly asked to remove the listing from our site. We were misinformed by our distributor as it should not have gone up yet. We're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. If you have concerns about any orders placed, please contact us at [email protected].
Blitzwing21
I'm confused. Earlier this year (I believe at NYTF), the release date for Titans Return was listed as "Summer 2016" and I think that July might have even been thrown out as the release date. Online retailers are taking pre-orders with a July estimated ship date. Now, at Botcon, ALL of the figures are shown with a Fall 2016 release date.
When they say Fall 2016, I would assume that they are talking about Wave 2, with Wave 1 scheduled for release in the summer. Or have they pushed back the release of the entire line to allow for the last of the CW figures to be released and then have TR on the shelves in time for Christmas 2016….?
Can anyone shed some light on this for me….?
JazzIsBack
I never owned the classics Prime and Megatron, plus the platinum colors just look so g1. Going to be watching for this one.
Smitty.1981
It could work with the deluxe price point being a transformers with a small thing, and legends staying as is. Then voyagers and up are bigger things that interact some how, kind of how cyberverse was.
BombSquad
I'd like to see the return of Micromasters. The current Titan Masters are pretty close and Hasbro's bringing back Micronauts, so it'd make sense.
MaskSeeker
I was kinda hoping that WeirdWolf would be turned into a Horrorcon from Alpha Trion. Yet a New mold is welcomed just as much.
As for HighBrow I'm loving the bot mode and can't wait for the Alt to come out. Yet I gotta express a slight smidge of disappointment and amazement when it comes to Gort since I figured the head would reflect on the G1 toy while Takara did the screen accurate version as with Skullcruncher and Hardhead. Its not anything that detracts from the figure itself though. Its more of an oddity when it comes to where screen accuracy normally account more on those details. Also because personally I wanted the G1 toy Gort version since he barely had a role compared to Hardhead, Brainstorm, or Chromedome, so just repurpose or whatever with a new head.
So the Original 5 Autobot Headmasters toys are ready along with Blurr and a few new additions. While the 3 regular Beastformer Decepticons are there with an updated Deluxe Scourge, Voyager Astrotrain and Galvatron too.
Also here's hoping that Grimlock gets a New Leader Class mold, which would size him better against Prime and Magnus, that matches MP Awesome. As well as Toy or anime accurate alternate heads for who we do have up.
Ironkarim9
No, the chugs mold looks gross to me, I was referring to the headmaster hot rod chainclaw mentioned