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New York Toy Fair 2018 Hasbro Transformers Panel Coverage

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TFW2005 team is at New York Toy Fair 2018, for the Hasbro Product Presentation where all the cool reveals take place.

We are going to update this news post periodically and the last update time is denoted below; so that you’ll know when to take a look after the jump. We’ll also attach images from the panel, as it goes on. No pics allowed at the panel, it seems.

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  • Panel Start Time: 1:37 PM ET
  • Panel Status: Concluded
  • Transformers Panel Status: Concluded
  • Last Update Time: 3:22 PM ET

Panel Highlights:

  • Transformers Cyberverse test animation shown.
  • New female Decepticon for Cyberverse: Shadow Striker
  • Power Of The Primes Female Combiner: Elita Infin1te
  • Optimus Primal shown.
  • Predaking = 5 Voyagers combined.
  • Next Generations trilogy is titled War For Cybertron (no, not related to the video game of the same name).
  • Transformers Movieverse Studio Series hitting shelves in April 2018.

You can check out detailed descriptions of the above and more, after the jump.

Start: 1:37 PM ET

Mighty Muggs

  • We are starting off with Mighty Muggs first.
  • Transformers, Marvel, Star Wars etc.
  • Starting off with Marvel.
  • You can check out the upcoming Transformers Mighty Muggs here.

Marvel toys and My Little Pony toys now. Transformers fans will have to wait a bit.

Power Rangers now.

Here we go…

Ben Montano and the brand team here.

Cyberverse

  • Showing test animation.
  • Bumblebee driving and transforming.
  • Looks like RID.
  • Smooth animation.
  • Toys are fresh takes on G1.
  • Scales: Scout Class through Ultimate Class.
  • Action Attackers gimmick: Last step of transformation triggers an action. Pop out gun etc.
  • Toyline: Decepticons: Megatron, Starscream, Shockwave. Autobots: Optimus, Windblade, Bumblebee, Grimlock.
  • Shadow Striker – A new Decepticon female character.

Generations

  • Music from The Transformers on vinyl – March 9th release date.
  • Prime Masters wave 3.
  • Legends wave 2: Battleslash + Roadtrap combination.
  • Bombburst, Bludgeon and Octopunch for Prime Masters
  • Terrorcons. Showing all 5. Combined mode shown as Abominus.
  • Uses Silverbolt tech but all new molds.
  • Female combiner: Elita Infinite.
  • Officially written as Elita Infin1te. Yes, there’s number 1 in the middle.
  • Elita-1, Moonracer, Novastar
  • PRIMAL!!!
  • Showing all 3 modes, Removable Matrix.
  • PREDAKING!!!
  • Way bigger than standard combiner.
  • Predaking is 5 Voyager Class figures unlike others.
  • Onyx Prime – Prime Master figure.
  • Prime Master Quintus Prime with Bludgeon Decoy Suit
  • Megatronus with Bomb Burst Decoy Suit
  • Solus Prime with Octopunch Decoy Suit
  • Next trilogy: War for Cybertron Trilogy
  • Not related to games, by the way.
  • Launches 2019. Part of the 35th Anniversary of G1
  • New stories, Cybertron based.
  • Fan vote next.
  • Needlenose vs Tracks
  • Spinister vs Wheeljack
  • Impactor vs Mirage.
  • Vote by hashtag on FB and Instagram.
  • Voting is on 02/20/2018

Studio Series

  • New tools, CAD file sources, Licensed vehicle modes
  • Stinger is incoming.
  • Wave 2 – Jazz, Transformers 4 Lockdown
  • Voyager Starscream
  • ROTF Optimus Prime and ROTF Megatron
  • Wave 2: Voyager Brawl
  • TRU Exclusive Thundercracker – TF5 Nitro Zeus Retool/Repaint.
  • Leader Class Grimlock and Blackout: All new molds.
  • Wave 1 Deluxes are now available right away via the official Transformers website.
  • Studio Series will hit shelves on April 2018.

Transformers info from the panel…. OVER!!

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bellafarfalla Avatar

Does anyone have more information on the vinyl record release? 

Fenrys Avatar
pegasusprime

and the evergreen designs ? 4 is not little you know
we got g1 bumblebee
mp
gold mp
classics
reveal the shield
wfc
goldbog
thrilling 30
legend 1
legend 2
bigger legend 1
bigger legend 2

the international market version 1 and 2
evergreen 1 and 2
g1 reissues
ect
the action master and other action figures
like 20 of g1 bumblebee

Notice I said generations (ya know, the main line), seriously do you collect every figure from every line?

pegasusprime Avatar

and the evergreen designs ? 4 is not little you know
we got g1 bumblebee
mp
gold mp
classics
reveal the shield
wfc
goldbog
thrilling 30
legend 1
legend 2
bigger legend 1
bigger legend 2

the international market version 1 and 2
evergreen 1 and 2
g1 reissues
ect
the action master and other action figures
like 20 of g1 bumblebee

Fenrys Avatar
pegasusprime

can someone please ask next time when the f…. they would move from g1 to unicron trilogy, beast wars, original rid i am tire of g1 we already have 30 mp g1 optimus 3 molds and their infinite number of variants on classics we got
original voyaguer
original deluxe
legends
bigger legend
titan return voyaguer and leader
orion pax
the new potp leader
evergreen 1, 2, 3,4

i am not against new optimus primes but at least based on different incarnation they have rid, unicron trilogy, animated, prime, and they choose every year to give a new g1 prime pleas stop i am tire of that crap why i need another mp prime also stop bumblebee give him a rest and put hot shot some year, sideburn, roadbuster i dont care but stop doing the same incarnation all time

Bumblebee has had 3-4 generations figures since 2013, thrilling 30 legends, thrilling 30 deluxe, thrilling 30 goldfire and titans return legends. 3 of those released in 2013, they have actually not done a lot of bumblebee in generations lately

pegasusprime Avatar

Can someone please ask next time when the f…. they would move from g1 to unicron trilogy, beast wars, original rid i am tire of g1 .
We already have 30 mp g1 optimus 3 molds and their infinite number of variants on classics we got
original voyaguer
original deluxe
legends
bigger legend
titan return voyaguer and leader
orion pax
the new potp leader
evergreen 1, 2, 3,4

i am not against new optimus primes, but at least based on different incarnation they have rid, unicron trilogy, animated, prime, and they choose every year to give a new g1 prime please stop.Iam tire of that crap why i need another mp prime.
Also stop bumblebee give him a rest and put hot shot some year, sideburn, roadbuster i dont care but stop doing the same incarnation all time

Smitty.1981 Avatar
barry

TFW the only two members of the board you have on ignore, for being arguementative pedants, start tearing into each other. The 'show ignored content' button truly is a mixed blessing.

It has been confirmed that Power of the Primes is ending in 2018, with 'War for Cybertron' scheduled to start in 2019. As with PotP wave 1 we'll probably see this released around Christmas 2018. The full interview with John Warden and Ben Montano is now up on youtube, if want to hear it all from their own lips. Fast forward to 11:15 for the comments about the start of WfC/end of PotP.

This interview also confirms that, in the fan vote, we're voting for pairs of characters and it's not some sort of elimination where you're voting for Impactor OR Mirage to whittle it down to just one character.

The implications of this are that the Prime Masters that are unaccounted for (Nexus, Amalgamous, and Prima) are going to be released in more unusual ways, much like Oynx being released with Predaking. While it's not been explicitly spelt out, it seems reasonable to assume that War for Cybertron is likely to be Cybertron-centric. At first I was a wee bit uneasy about this, but after taking some photos of Titans Return figures last night, I realised that majority of moden Generations alt modes are Cybertronian alt modes.

The only source I've seen for this is some speculation right at the end of of a Seiberton news article.

Really is tricky to 'sight' your sources, right?

I really like how they give a brief answer to the sticker thing then shift our attention away.

Any plans to move away from stickers, or get better?

We hear the concern, but stickers will continue in Prime Wars. Next chapter will be approached with fan feedback in mind – though cannot reveal yet. War for Cybertron is a new take on things, moving a little further away from the callbacks and throwbacks in POTP too, though story can feel a little more familiar.

Although that is some interesting info.

jamarmiller Avatar
Thundershot

Thanks. That sucks. I hope WFC gives us a couple more female Autobots for the combiner as well as the rest of the missing Headmasters…

yeah me to, really wanting greenlight and lancer and Minerva.

Thundershot Avatar
Bountyan

POTP is 12 months long and WFC starts January 2019. POTP only goes up to wave 3-4 depending on size class. This was all confirmed by Warden in the RFC interview.

Prime135

We’ve seen all the LC stuff for POTP. There’s another wave of each size class below that, and a few exclusives, otherwise, yeah, that’s it.

Thanks. That sucks. I hope WFC gives us a couple more female Autobots for the combiner as well as the rest of the missing Headmasters…

Prime135 Avatar
Thundershot

I’m seeing conflicting information.

Is POTP roughly 18 months like practically all of the other lines? WFC part one would be summer 2019. People on Facebook are saying we’ve seen everything for POTP and WFC starts next January..

We’ve seen all the LC stuff for POTP. There’s another wave of each size class below that, and a few exclusives, otherwise, yeah, that’s it.

Bountyan Avatar
Thundershot

I’m seeing conflicting information.

Is POTP roughly 18 months like practically all of the other lines? WFC part one would be summer 2019. People on Facebook are saying we’ve seen everything for POTP and WFC starts next January..

POTP is 12 months long and WFC starts January 2019. POTP only goes up to wave 3-4 depending on size class. This was all confirmed by Warden in the RFC interview.

HeroicC300 Avatar

So did TFW2005 ever get interviews with the Hasbro staff at the TF booth and I missed that or did they not ask question?s

Thundershot Avatar

I’m seeing conflicting information.

Is POTP roughly 18 months like practically all of the other lines? WFC part one would be summer 2019. People on Facebook are saying we’ve seen everything for POTP and WFC starts next January..

Robogeek28 Avatar

Blackout has ankle tilts?

I somehow missed that. :lol 

Fenrys Avatar
YoungPrime

And my point was that if Hasbro expand's the amount of the "Generations" figures next year (Be it POTP or WFC) to compensate not releasing new Movie-verse figures, then it could benefit those who don't buy Movie-verse crap in the first place….Which many others can relate to.

Last year I spent close to $1K on TR, Takara and POTP figures. This year I'm skipping all the POTP leader class, Titan Predaking and most of the Voyager's. So I probably won't even break $300 due to low quality and a lack of Generation's figures.

Next year could be as great as 2017 was if not better which would be in Hasbro's best interest since movie fans won't really be opening up their wallets next year.

the amount of titans return was reduced compared to combiner wars and its looking like power of the primes is again going to be smaller than titans return. if theyre going to a 12 month cycle for their generations sublines then its not very logical to assume theyll be increasing the amount of generations product they put out

thedicemaster Avatar

starscream looks like mechtech deluxe starscream with a weijiang treatment.
same transformation, but with a few small improvements.
I see some improved joints, a new paint job, and a pair of gap-filling flaps, but the rest seems to be the same.

shamanking282 Avatar

Damn, if I gave a crap about movie toys, I'd be so freaking excited for these. Happy for the fans who are probably going nuts over Studio Series right now.

Cyclonus79 Avatar

I think the best thing that came out of this weekend wasn’t even a transformer. The return of the star wars vintage line is back , and the 4 foot long Jabba sail barge ! There goes my bank account .

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Smitty.1981

There is, admittedly, a part of me that wants to vote Impactor vs. Mirage simply due to the fact that Impactor only has two official toys, one that is not very true to the source and one that is extremely rear. So voting for them is good for others. I thing the lack of any good and easy to acquire Impactor is going to swing the vote that way, but we could make the same case for Needlenose and Spinister.

The fact that Impactor doesn't have any good official toys is precisely the reason I don't want to waste another iteration of him on a Deluxe figure. If they make this figure, they'll probably never do him in voyager or bigger.

I've been using Energon Landmine as a stand-in for now. He's got good size, a shoulder canon, and some other elements that make it work. Also I think his power-up armor is very fitting of a "Wreckers" feel.

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