Saturday, July 26, 2008

Hasbro SDCC Panel

Hasbro conducted its Transformers panel and sadly no movies news or footage was shown. What was shown though was the next 6 months or so of toy line plans for Transformers: Animated, Universe and the 25th Anniversary line which celebrates the various "eras" of Transformers. No movie related toys where presented. TFormers has a gallery of the presentation here.

Transformers: Animated
- Next wave will start coming out in Sepember and another will follow in December.
- September wave is Deluxe Sentinel Prime, Deluxe Swoop, Elite Guard Bumblebee, Leader Ultra Magnus, Acitvator Cliffjumper (BB repaint), and Deluxe Blurr
- December was includes Deluxe Swindle, Voyager Longarm, Voyager Shockwave and Leader Shadow Blade Megatron

Transformers Classic / Universe
- More re-designs of G1 characters, new ones will start hitting shelves in the fall
- Includes Deluxe Ironhide, Deluxe Sideswipe, Ultra Silverbolt, Ultra Storm Cloud, Legends Megatron, Legends Jazz
- Also have Robot Heroes G1 assortment of Megatron/Silverbolt, Ironhide/Kickback, and Thrust/Blaster

Transformers Titanium 6''- Three more toys for the line, exclusive to Toys R Us
- War Within Skywarp, War Within Prowl, and War Within Grimlock

Transformers 25th Anniversary 1984-2009
- Re-lease of G1 Optimus Prime with Marvel's Transformers #1 and "More then Meets the Eye" DVD which was the first story arc of the '84 cartoon series.
- Line includes what really is more Classics type toys with Hound & Ravage (alt mode a cassette), Deluxe Cyclonus & Nightstick Target Master, Legends Brawn, Legends Beachcomber, Voyager Inferno, Legends Bumblebee, and Legends Cosmos.
- Beast Wars represented with re-issue of Deluxe Cheetor


Update: Via TFW2005, is the below YouTube video of the panel.

4 comments:

  1. Those 25th anniversary figs seem new to me... are they new molds? Totally kewl... Hound and Ravage xD

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  2. All of the 25th anniversary toys are new molds not reissues.

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  3. Animated Blur is december release, not September. =)

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  4. gay. No video TF 2 content whatsoever... Once again I doubt they realized how many people they disappointed

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