You voted, and Hasbro listened!
The 2018 Transformers fan vote winners have been announced. Hasbro’s Transformers Facebook page has been updated with the results of the vote, and the winner was: Impactor vs Mirage.
Check out the video announcing the result here: Transformers on Facebook.
This year’s fan vote was to determine a VS pairing of characters to be featured in the opening chapter of the next trilogy of Transformers Generations, the War for Cybertron trilogy. Set in the early era of the Transformers’ war, this series promises to reveal previously untold stories about the characters, while also delivering some Cybertronian alternate modes for classic characters – for example, one of the other fan vote options was a Wheeljack in his Cybertronian alternate mode from More than Meets the Eye, Part 1.
In the video, we get a bit more of a glimpse of what this series and specifically the Impactor vs Mirage pairing will involve. The story given for the set is that Impactor is the leader of a team of mercenaries, the Wreckers – and it is up to Mirage to bring them into the Autobot fold.
Stay tuned for more news on this successor to the current Generations line, Power of the Primes. The War for Cybertron trilogy is not related to the videogame by High Moon Studios of the same name, although they share thematic elements concerning the early days of Cybertron.
Purple Heart
“Heya Prime man, wadda mean I didn’t win the poll?”
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Thundermania
I think they've got some text scrawls and some loose fiction. I remember the box sets had full-blown stories surrounding them.
Convoy
I forgot about that garbage!
Is that the official plot (and I use the word loosely in this case) for the toyline??
Thundermania
The shitty Machinma cartoons.
G.B. Blackrock
This question seems to be coming up a lot lately. My understanding is that the "reboot" will occur at the conclusion of a story arc that doesn't begin until the Free Comic Book Day Unicron issue comes out. That conclusion's still likely a ways off yet.
Whether it's to be "based" on this new toyline… I haven't heard anything in that vein yet, but since Hasbro and IDW seem to be continuing to work together, it seems likely enough, but even so, I'm not sure how much to make of that fact.
I don't even think we know if it's going to be a hard or a soft reboot….
Thundermania
Hope not, I'd just be happy with good Voyagers. No torso modes and no inappropriate third modes.
Darth Gonzo
So the IDW comics are going to be getting rebooted and based on this line right?
drmick
Wil Voaygers remain as triple changers of some sort I wonder?
drmick
I am itching to see any design for this line. The signs point to it being a cheaper line for them to make- which means at least one of less plastic, less parts, and less paint.
G.B. Blackrock
You say "in this case" as though that's already obvious. I contend that it very much is NOT, specifically because of how the PotP toyline is playing out.
Convoy
Sorry by 'the war' I meant going back to square one so G1 era, not the WFC games
You're right about the Matrix. 'The bot chosen as Prime becomes the bearer of the Matrix of Leadership, a legendary artifact that carries great power. The Matrix of Leadership contains the knowledge and wisdom of each Prime that has carried it, stretching back millions of years.'
Is there a story connected to the POTP (or any of the Prime wars trilogy) toyline? like how Primal becomes matrix leader or why Rodimus goes Unicron?
T-Hybrid
The Matrix in this case refers to specifically the Matrix of Leadership. The one which identifies the 13th Prime.
The other Matrix would presumably be the one Rodimus Unicronus carries, which symbolizes Unicron's corruption.
Thundermania
Nope, there are a few out there, Matrix of Malice, Matrix of Conquest, Decepticon Matrix and the weird movie Matrix.
CybertronianFan
If this alone isn't reason enough why Hasbro should have thought better when naming this event, I don't know what is
Add confusion and it giving false hope to those that like FoC/WfC.
I see what you failed to do here
The problem is that they went with naming this exactly the same as a series they previously had and contains a theme which is heavily used throughout this event and the FoC/WfC series: Cybertronian forms, which is why many ask if this is related to the FoC/WfC franchise. Had they named this "That War for Cybertron" or officially added another word to the title, it would have made it distinct enough to suffice.
This part I am fuzzy with. Aren't there two matrices? The Matrix of Leadership (in all of its different forms and appearances it has made within the comics, games, and cartoon) and the Dark Spark?
G.B. Blackrock
Isn't this canonically untrue nowadays? I mean, whenever *I* use the term "Matrix," I tend to mean some form of the Matrix of Leadership from the animated movie, but there ARE several other "Matrixes" (matrices?) that have been introduced to the mythos in the past decade or so….
Darth Gonzo
And this new toyline is really all for the animated Transformers movie.
T-Hybrid
It's loose enough where it could well be a war for Cybertron even if it's not *the* war for Cybertron. We'll have to see as time goes on.
There is only one Matrix. The 13 Primes are the 12 plus the one carrying the Matrix. Going off the animation Prime has been wounded and Rodimus is evil now, so Primal is stepping in to assume ownership of the Matrix.
All three *come* with a Matrix because that's the gimmick for the toyline. But there is only one.
Convoy
'War for Cybertron is an up-close, gritty, three-part look at the battle for the fate of Cybertron. These are beloved and familiar events from Transformers lore told through the eyes of the heroes and villains in a story of conflict and consequence, where in order to gain what you want, you must be willing to lose everything you have.'
'beloved and familiar events' makes me think we're going back to the war
As far as Primal as a Matrix Bearer my understanding of POTP (let me know if I'm wrong, I'd love to be wrong) is that he has A matrix not THE matrix. So all the leader class toys are Matrix leaders. Basically we voted for a toy, not any canon fiction (which was what I thought)
T-Hybrid
Honest Question: When Hasbro announced "War for Cybertron" at Toy Fair, did they say it was *that* War for Cybertron? The only coverage I've been able to revisit speculates that it'd mean pre-Earth forms.
What if it's "War for Cybertron" in the sense that we've got a new Matrix Bearer in Primal and the chaos that brings leads to war between the factions again.
Darth Gonzo
I think we should call this WfC and Not WFC just so not to confuse this one with the game.