TFW 2005 team at Toy Fair 2020 treated us with images and information of the Hasbro Pulse Panel. The panel was presented by Ben Montano, John Warden, and Rachel Fleming, as well as a surprise appearance by Gregg Berger, voice actor for Grimlock in G1 and many other iterations. We got a good amount of information on the Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy: Siege Netflix animated series, Generations War for Cybertron Earthrise, Studio Series, and Transformers Cyberverse. Let’s dive right in (after the jump)!
Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy: Siege
- FJ De Santo from Rooster Teeth gave use some details on upcoming Netflix Animated series. He mentioned that the characters are based on their G1 iteration, but the show will challenge the viewers on what they know about these classic characters.
- The story will be set in the final hour of the Cybertronian civil war, where Megatron is trying take the Allspark off the planet.
- De Santo also mentioned that the character designs are derived from the CAD design files from the toy line, and their transformation in show will resemble the physical toy.
- The show is handled by Polygon Pictures Studio, who worked on Transformers Prime and Transformers RID
- A special Generations War for Cybertron line will be available through Walmart. Each Deluxe figure will come with one piece of Teletran 1. There are 10 in all, and you can complete Teletran 1 if you collect them all through out the year.
- There are 2 Voyager release, Megatron and Hotlink, each will come with 2 battle master size figures. John Warden mentioned HotLink comes with the Firetwins
- A Netflix special “Spoiler” box is announced. The box comes with one leader size figure, which contains spoilers from the show. John and Rachel caution from opening before watching the series, and joked about spoilers online.
- Mentioned about the stories being told through various upcoming IDW comics series
Transformer Generations, War for Cybertron: Earthrise
- Announced new factions that will be represented in this line, starting with the Mercenaries
- First off, Deluxe Runamuck. Figure is a brand new mold, announcement for Runabout will be later in the year
- Next up for Mercenaries, voyager class Snapdragon and leader class Doubledealer
- Snapdragon as a triple changer will have a robot, jet, and kaiju mode. Double Dealer will have a base mode that is compatible with the Modulator system
- The next faction represented are the Quintessons, including Quintesson Judge, Allicon, and Modulator Slither Fang
- Quintesson Judge will feature the faces of darkness, and Slither Fang was designed by John Warden himself
- Commander Class Sky Lynx is shown next, beside the traditional G1 modes, an extra mode that homages the Mircomaster Rocket Base is worked in. They also worked with NASA to work in details from space shuttles
- Final product shown for Earthrise is Titan class Scorponok. John Warden mentioned extra attention to get the base mode to look like G1
- New Generation Selects was announced. This time is a set of 4 Micromaster Spy Patrol. Two of them will be Skar and Knok that emulate the Powermasters that came with Double Dealer, as well as Rumble and Wingthing
Transformers Bumblebee Cyberverse Adventures
- A trailer for the upcoming season is shown, Bumblebee is called back to Cybertron by Optimus Prime
- Wave 2 of Cyberverse Deluxe is shown, featuring Grimlock, Hot Rod, Arcee, and Thunderhowl. Wave 2’s on sale date is 5/1/2020
Transformers Studio Series
- Deluxe Wave 3 is shown, including Soundwave (Satellite), Topspin, and Cliffjumper (from the Bumblebee movie).
- Voyager Class wave 2 is next, with Scrapper, Sentinel Prime, Blitzwing (from the Bumblebee movie), and Skipjack.
- Leader class Overload was shown next, which will part of the 8 bot combiner movie Devastator. The full combiner will be present in the showroom
For more image of any and all the figures mentioned, make sure to check out our on site coverage from New York Toy Fair!
New York Toy Fair 2020 – Transformers War For Cybertron: Earthrise Images
New York Toy Fair 2020 – Transformers Generations War For Cybertron Netflix Images
User_124141
Disappointed Sentinel doesn\'t come with a shield
Skillfulgram2003
They also did Confirm that they are continuing the Crossover collaboration line with Ghostbusters.
Max Tower
The voice acting and the reverb on megs voice isn\'t much cop, the animation is also very stilted. if it\'s not to late they should ditch the reverb or turn it down to something like 7% (pardon the irony) but it\'s dehumanising – they are not typical robots they are robotic appearing alien sentient beings – making them sound like that is misleading to a casual viewer.
Optimus sounds OK though and they actually have Elita 1 on the show – that is a surprise (I\'m sick to death of things with the Allspark in – though it\'s to Cybervere like and to Movie like and the thing is pretty much a made up excuse to avoid using Primus – who really should exist in that sub-Universe anyway).
I can put up with it if it wasn\'t a story issue – but I don\'t much care for it plot wise. The facial and character animation is a bit to stilted though. (also its not an anime)
The new/old toys look cool though especially Chromia, Sideswipe and Hotlink.
I\'ll comment more another time – that will do for the moment.
IgnikaMarcus
What else would it be?
Could be something else.
We won't know until the figures hit Walmart shelves or people get them in hand
Scarlet knight
Is teletran 1 cheap cardboard?
Mr. Chaos
Now I am imagining Soundwave in the post summoning his Stand, The Touch
Kaynowa
..Is that not a pretool?
IgnikaMarcus
He's not a pretool of anyone, but he'll most likely end up repainted with a new head a Cybertron Bumblebee.
Vector Oracle
Studio Series stuff:
Dude, Sentinel Prime looks NICE in both modes. Think I might get this guy.
It feels weird that there’s finally a movie-accurate Blitzwing that people can buy. If my memory’s right, all we need are Brawn, Wheeljack, Arcee (then again, we already have a bunch of Arcees this year), Shockwave, Soundwave and Ravage, and a handful of Seekers to have a complete Bumblebee movie cast.
Cliffjumper looks amazing. He reminds me of his WFC counterpart in vehicle mode (the video game, not the toyline). Tempted to buy this.
Soundwave: The head’s poking out in vehicle mode, but it did that on the original design. Might get this, especially if it comes with that stand (the accessory, not the JoJo character).
BenjaminXavier
ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ok I haven't looked a the SS stuff yet
Thundershot
It’s ok. I just hate to see threads derailed from that kind of stuff.
ZeroBG82
The assumption seems to be that a Cybertronian Bumblebee is a likely recolor/retool from it.
BenjaminXavier
What is all this talk of CJ being a pre-tool of someone else? Am I missing some of the pics? I dont see anything that looks like it was retooled from Cliffjumper…
Vector Oracle
My apologies if I offended anybody. I wasn’t thinking as I wrote and didn’t intend it that way. Edited.
BenjaminXavier
So the selects spy patrol, is that just at BBTS or do we expect that to hit amazon and other places too?
Thundershot
Really? Is that even necessary?
That definitely qualifies as baiting….
Vector Oracle
Slither Fang: So it’s a Quintesson. Interesting. Really digging that translucent purple.
Netflix WFC exclusives: Pass. Walmart exclusive distribution tends to be hit or miss, so unless I can get the ones I want online, I’m not going to bother.
Selects Spy Patrol: So @Bob Schoonover was right about the Knok and Skar prediction. Nice. Bought on sight.
MrSoundmeister
Man, the new F-Zero game is looking tight.
Oniconvoy
So…any Botbots coverage?
jamarmiller
any amazon USA links to things yet ?