Join us with our coverage of Hascon 2017. You are now joining live from the Hascon Main Stage for the ‘More Than Meets The Eye’ discussion panel, where the Hasbro Transformers Brand Team will reveal their plans for 2018.
Panel Description:
Get a glimpse behind the scenes of the Transformers toy line, sneak a peek at never-released development process imagery, meet the team behind the magic, and be the first to get a glimpse of the future toy range. Hosted by the Transformers brand team
We are expected to hear toy details from Generations: Power Of The Primes, Transformers: Cyberverse, Transformers Live Action Movies, Transformers: Robots In Disguise and Rescue Bots.
Revealed toys:
- Generations Power Of The Primes Dinobot Combiner Volcanicus
- Generations Power Of The Primes Leader Class Optimus Prime
- Generations Power Of The Primes Micronus
- Convention Exclusives
- Transformers: Robots In Disguise and The Last Knight toys (nothing new)
Check out the panel coverage including images, after the jump.
Panel Status: Concluded.
Last Update Time: 12:38pm (EDT)
Panel started!
Kids Toylines
- Each panelist stated their favorite Transformers toy.
Transformers Movie Line for kids
- Discussing movies toys. Showcasing Allspark Tech.
- Behind the scenes of Movie line.
- Discussing the Transformers: The Last Knight toys now.
- Hasbro worked with Takara Tomy on the TLK toys for the Armor Up Turbo Changers line.
Transformers: Robots In Disguise
- Discussing Robots In Disguise toys now. We’ll update if there’s anything new that will pop up.
- Explaining Combiner Force. Inspiration came from designers love for combiners and the Generations revival of the feature was the key.
- Lots of thought process went into RID Combiner Force. a looooong explanation.
Generations
- Prime Wars Trilogy info now.
- Micronus goes into Cloudburst decoy armor.
- New art of Optimus Primal being shown
- Lots of artwork show. We’ll upload them all.
- Dinobot Slash, Female, Legends Scale
- Deluxe Slug – G1 Accurate.
- Voyage Grimlock
- All the Dinobots look great. [Awesome!]
- History of the Dinobots.
- Dinobot Combiner name – Volcanicus
- Will have rocker ankles, New technology incorporated
- New combiner technology with better joints.
- Leader Optimus Prime now.
- Orion Pax into G1 prime. Very much like Hot Rod to Rodimus (as seen during SDCC)
- Prime’s trailer is part of bot mode now, not just cab.
Hascon 2017 Exclusives
- Talking about Hascon 2017 Exclusives now.
- Arcee first.
- Predaking teaser shown. NYTF exclusive reveal.
Panel Over!!!
Q&A Time
- There will be Dinobot variants / Repaints down the line.
soundwaverulls
Can't really agree there. AOE Bee and OP are really different looking. If nothing else, I think people would notice Bee lost his vehicle chest and door wings and gained weird circular things on his back. Likewise, Optimus lost his window chests and gained a more human chest and a knight motif.
Negativedark
Even so all the Bee's are still virtually identical robots who turn into yellow with black racing stripes and all the Optimus except for Evasion Mode are long nose red and blue cabs that form pretty much the same looking robot. Especially if you aren't looking closely. Now look at the four looks Optimus Primal and Cheetor sported. All were differently colored and looked massively different. Same thing with the Armada/Energon/Cybertron trilogy. You couldn't just sub in an Armada Prime and not really tell the difference.
Looks like it'll be blue. While I do prefer the blue, I'd hope you can get the red if you really want it. I suspect that not only show accuracy, but also changing up the colors in the wave played a part in the decision.
Toker
Was there a picture of Grimlock's sword and gun? I don't remember seeing it.
Purple Heart
The only weapons missing were Starscream's feet-guns and Swoop's sword, but you can see them in each figures packaging. So fret not. Everyone else included their accessories with the exception of Dreadwind and Darkwing, and Jazz not having their hand/armor out but you can see it in Jazz's packaging and we know they all come with one.
Toker
Does that include weapons and accessories? Because there were a lot missing.
Lazerwave
@SilverOptimus
Weren't there Hascon Q&A coming?
Purple Heart
They said they would get repainted. Not a running change in a re-packed wave.
The Dinobots will most likely get repainted into the G2 colors for a giftset, or get retooled into Dinoking/Monstructor.
stad
They also said the Dinobots would see repaint rerelease…
Wh33l JcK
Hopefully not Final Final… Grimlock is missing his Red underoo's in the display case.
Purple Heart
All of the figure on display where final production prototypes. They were shipped to the convention in finished packaging, so Swoop will have a blue chest.
Wh33l JcK
What is official word on Swoop? Will he be Red or Blue chest? I'm hoping for Red myself …
But the fact that they blacked-out the slide and made him blue in the display case, makes me think they changed their mind?
I hope I don't have to jump through major hoops to get the G1 Toy deco Swoop.
NGW
I have been mostly negative in this thread, what can I say…I was really excited to see more about those leaked movie figures, that was right when I got back into collecting (prior to that I'd only really bought some random figures here and there after getting out of the hobby right around the original RID, I grew up on Beast Wars) and it is both sentimental to me and I just think the movie gave us some of the best designs in the series and seeing them done again properly made my heart tingle. Especially the prospect of stuff like voyager Bonecrusher, leader Blackout, etc. The only thing better to me would be a revival of Transformers Animated.
That out of the way. Seeing the Terrorcons, even though we did technically already see them (thanks leaks!) was just so good. I have loved Abominus ever since I was a kid, and while I never owned the original, he's always been my favorite G1 combiner. The last time Hasbro tried to do him, well..I'm glad I skipped out on that mess. This time he's getting the treatment he deserves and he looks great, cannot wait to see the finished combiner.
Also the dinobots are cool enough, glad they finally are doing the whole team again.
And Primal looks great.
soundwaverulls
Yeah, although at least POTP's giving us an Optimal Optimus and the new movie trilogy gave us at least one new Optimus. Bee too, until they went back to the old one.
Actar
When Barricade is voted as the Fan Favorite Movie Character but there is no sight of MPM-5.
NGW
Right on man.
Negativedark
Which reminds me of another point I was going to make. BW made sure to give us new looks for even the mainstay characters. Optimus went through original gorilla, transmetal and Optimal for example. But whenever we see a generations Beast it's always the season one version. Except Sky-Byte for obvious reasons. Meanwhile movie optimus and Bee keep nearly identicale looks every year.
But I suspect this is suits being concerned with "branding" and "character recognition" causing this.
Lazerwave
At this point, if we can get something like, "For movie collectors, stay tuned" I'd be fine.
Seth Sunthay
Let's think about something, the bee movie as far as i know is scheluded for december and in the movie leaks there are at least two characyers under the TF6 code, wich can means that the movie line won't be announced soon, even at the NYTF.
MnemonicSyntax
I hope that smile is some good news.
SilverOptimus
We did got an interview. The team will post it as soon as we can.