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Toy Fair 2016 Transformers Robots In Disguise Display Video Coverage #HasbroToyFair #TFNY

Date: Saturday, February 13th 2016 7:34pm CST
Categories: Toy News, Event News
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Fellow Seibertronians, hot on the heels of the product galleries, site owner Seibertron has uploaded a video of coverage of the Robots in Disguise product display from the Toy Fair to the site's YouTube account. Check it out, and leave your comments below.

Toy Fair 2016: Official Images of Platinum Robots in Disguise and Cyclonus and Sweeps Sets #HasbroToyFair #TFNY

Date: Saturday, February 13th 2016 6:05pm CST
Categories: Toy News, Event News
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The platinum line was well represented today at the New York Toy Fair with even a surprise or two. For instance, there will actually be a Transformers Platinum Robots in Disguise set. Better than that it will include the previously Takara Exclusive Battle Grimlock which was a heavy retool of FOC Grimlock. It also includes the standard Bumblebee deluxe toy which sports a different deco than the Hasbro retail version. You can see live images of them on the showroom floor here.

The other platinum set shown was the Cyclonus, Scourge and Sweep set made up of the Universe/Gnerations molds. Cyclonus seems to have a new gun rather than his target master. All three have parts made up of clear plastic. Let us know what you think of the official images below!

Toy Fair 2016 Transformers Titans Return Photogallery #HasbroToyFair #TFNY

Date: Saturday, February 13th 2016 5:35pm CST
Categories: Toy News, Event News
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Fellow Seibertronians, courtesy of site owner Seibertron, we have the Titans Return Photogallery for your viewing pleasure

New Titans Return products were on display including the massive Fortress Maximus, Mindwipe, Wheelie, Rumble, Soundwave, Powermaster Optimus Prime, Blurr, Combiner Wars Victorion and plenty more!

We've posted some of the pictures below, and you can check out the galleries Here, and you can see the Titans Return Official Products Photogallery also. Let us know what you think of these new editions to the Titans Return line in the comments below.

Toy Fair 2016 Transformers Robots In Disguise Products Photogallery #HasbroToyFair #TFNY

Date: Saturday, February 13th 2016 5:30pm CST
Categories: Toy News, Event News
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Fellow Seibertronians, courtesy of site owner Seibertron, we have the Robots In Disguise Products Photogallery for your viewing pleasure

Hasbro's new Robots In Disguise products including a new Warrior Class Windblade figure, Power Surge Optimus Prime, Platinum Edition Voyager Grimlock and more!

We've posted some of the pictures below, and you can check out the galleries Here, and you can see the Robots In Disguise Official Image Photogallery also. Let us know what you think of these newest editions to the RID line in the comments below.

Toy Fair 2016 Official Images of Transformers Titans Return Fortress Maximus and more #HasbroToyFair #TFNY

Date: Saturday, February 13th 2016 5:21pm CST
Categories: Toy News, Event News
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Hasbro has released official images (3-D renders) of the new Titans Return toys revealed today at Toy Fair. While Fortress Maximus was already seen in the investors presentation, as well as on Instagram, we now have a slew of images showcasing all his modes and heads: Cerebros and Emissary.

Fortress Maximus is indeed a retool of Metroplex and it shows most in vehicle mold since it is not the city most were hoping, but rather a very flat area with little elevation. Also, the legs and groin area turns out to be the reverse of that same area of Metroplex (where the back is now the front). He is not shown with a sword, meaning that the sword edition will be limited.

We also have the Legends class figures, Laserbeak using the Buzzsaw mold, Rumble using the Rewind mold, and Wheelie who is a totally new mold.

Lastly for now, since we do not have the voyagers yet, we have the deluxes who are:

Blurr with Hyperfire
Scourge and Fracas
Chromedome comes with Stylor
Mindwipe and Vorath, Vorath hangs upside down inside of Mindwipe

That Chromedome mold looks a lot like the Dead End mold at the arms section yet everything else looks very different. Let us know if it looks like a totally new mold to you or a heavy retool instead. The entire gallery can be found here.





























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Transformers Titans Return Fortress Maximus Images #HasbroToyFair #TFNY

Date: Saturday, February 13th 2016 4:46pm CST
Categories: Toy News, Event News
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Fellow Seibertronians, courtesy of fellow user Cyberpath, we have been alerted to the reveal of Fortress Maximus that posted on the transformersofficial instagram account. While it is cleverly comprised of 12 separate images, Cyberpath also pointed us towards a collage that unites the entire image of Fort Max, which has been mirrored below. Check it out, and let us know what you think in the comments below.

Toy Fair 2016: Official Images of Transformers Robots in Disguise Warrior Class and Power Surge Primes

Date: Saturday, February 13th 2016 4:45pm CST
Categories: Toy News, Event News
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While we were already made aware of both a Warrior class and larger Power Surge Optimus toy, Hasbro has now revealed more images of these two along with official images of other new toys such as Warrior Class Windblade and Scorponok. Enjoy!

Transformers Product Reveals from Hasbro Fan Media Day - New York Toy Fair 2016 #HasbroToyFair #TFNY

Date: Saturday, February 13th 2016 1:43pm CST
Categories: Toy News, Event News
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Here's a rundown of what was discussed during Hasbro's Transformers Brand Panel during today's Toy Fair event. Enjoy and join our discussion on our forums!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fan Media Day - NYTF

Hasbro Pulse
Tasty Pre-NYTF Reveals
New Titans Return artwork reveals
My Little Pony Guardians of Harmony press release
X-Men Marvel Legends series 6 inch Deadpool revealed

Transformers Fan Media Day - NYTF
Transformers Brand Team
Ben Montano and John Warden

Titans Return Titans voting: Trypticon
Showed a Toy Fair 1986 throwback pictures
Showed a rough preview of him called a "breadboard", a little shorter than Metroplex but length wise makes up for it thanks to his tail

Transformers Robots In Disguise
Showed a Season 2 trailer this morning
Season 2 of Robots In Disguise begins February 20th
New version of Warrior Class Windblade revealed
New reveal of Warrior Scorponok
Power Surge Optimus Prime, comes with exclusive Mini-Con Aerobolt, combines with larger robot ("powers-up")
IDW RID Season 1 comic not canceled, series returning fall 2016
RID Platinum Edition with detailed RID Warrior Class Bumblebee and Generations Voyager Class Grimlock (Takara version basically)

Transformers Prime Wars Trilogy
Transformers Earth Wars Mobile Game from Space Ape, showed us a trailer of the game
Transformers Roll Out album discussion

Transformers Titans Return
Fall 2016 - 2017
Showed us a cool Titans Return promo
Fortress Maximus is tall, stands about as tall as Metroplex's shoulder guns in upright position
Has lights and sounds when Cerebros transforms, eyes light up
Nearly 2 feet tall
Leader class figures combiner with Fort Max in city mode
Blurr with Hyperfire
Scourge and Fracas
Deluxe Class Wave 2
Showed a Valentine's Day picture of Chromedome and Rewind from IDW comics
Chromedome comes with Stylor
Mindwipe and Vorath, Vorath hangs upside down inside of Mindwipe
Legends Wheelie LOOKS AMAZING, very G1 focused look in vehicle mode and head
Wave 2 Legends - Rumble (repaint of Rewind with Rewind's head - urgh), Laserbeak (repaint of Buzzsaw)
Cyclonus Platinum Edition Cyclonus with Scourge and Sweep, Cyclonus has a new gun?)

BotCon Louisville, KY April 7th - 10th

Transformers Robots in Disguise Warrior Class Power Surge Optimus Revealed #HasbroToyFair #TFNY

Date: Saturday, February 13th 2016 1:20pm CST
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While Hasbro revealed their version of Power Surge Optimus during the investor meeting slides, they also sent some promotional toy images, which were found on Business Wire. At first, it seemed like the picture below was just a picture of that same Optimus toy, just not a 3D render. However, after closer inspection, this is actually a completely different toy using the same theme. This reveals a new product which is a redeco/retool of the Warrior Optimus toy decked out in Power Surge colours (quite reminiscent of Thunderclash) with some clear blue swords. You can see this new picture below and compare it to the other version of Power Surge Prime.

Toy Fair New York 2016 Coverage - Hasbro Webcast

Date: Saturday, February 13th 2016 1:10pm CST
Categories: Toy News, Event News, Company News, Digital Media News
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While Seibertron.com was on its way to New York and the Javits Centre (and something slipped in the internet cracks), Toy Fair 2016 has already started for Hasbro and the Transformers brand! Tuning in to the investors webcast, we have collated below all of the relevant information for fans of the giant robot franchise, including all the relevant images from the presentation shown during the event.

Note: Opinions and statements expressed during webcast may not result in actual results. Photography not allowed.

First speaker is Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner, repeating some of the information covered in the interview given in the past couple of days. Overall, good franchise revenues, despite Transformers decline.

Hasbro is intent on building on digital gaming - venturing for the first time into mobile gaming with Backflip’s Transformers: Earth Wars. More below.

Paramount: Michael Bay and Mark Wahlberg are confirmed as returning for Transformers 5, which is set to be released on June 23rd 2017. No images, but more on all this below.
Multi-brand universe with Allspark Pictures: Micronauts, G.I. Joe, ROM the SpaceKnight, M.A.S.K., Visionaries.



Deb Thomas CFO - General investor and economy information.

John Frascotti - Hasbro Brands
The biggest share is among 12-17 year olds, but Hasbro also dedicated to special collections in the form of Star Wars Black Series, Marvel Legends, Transformers Generations, with the intention of connecting multiple generations of fans.
China Transformers Live show mentioned (more later)
Big focus was placed on the ‘modern fan survey’: identifying consumers from casual fan to superfan. Entertainment and storytelling are recognised as being crucial to the brands, fandom is not just about collecting the action figures.



Fans want to meaningfully participate - they feel a sense of ownership, loyalty, willingness to co-create, give feedback, participate in fan votes
Machinima Combiner Wars series mentioned, ‘short form entertainment’.



Digital Gaming - As above, big focus for future Hasbro strategies.
Social Reward trend driving gaming (2bn gamers in the world!)
Gaming, competing, sharing - particularly excited for the new Backflip partnership: Transformers Earth Wars.



Transformers - Tom Warner and Jared Wade
Rich history of the brand, ‘but we’re just getting started’.
Fans are acknowledged and recognised as crucial to the brand (30% of all consumers), and they make no distinction between movie year or non-movie year: 2015 proved that.
Trypticon, the fan-vote poll winner, will be featuring in comic series, digital series, and of course, as a toy.
Transformers are expanding online presence to Instagram, Snapchat, Weibo - and we can expect more convention presence from Hasbro around the world.
Entertainment expansion: Live show in Las Vegas, Roll Out album, IDW Publishing (150+ stories planned for 2016 already).
A brief segment on trend and licensed apparel, fashion week, more clothing and accessories to be seen.
Hasbro is meaning to expand global reach, with a specific focus on China in 2016, as they establish a new blueprint - which includes the CybertronCon presence and the live show.

Entertainment focusing on multiple age brackets (yet somehow still insisting on it being all just for male fans):
Rescue Bots: Season 4 (longest running animated show for Transformers!), new theme (Race to the Rescue), new Rescue Bot Quickshadow.
Robots in Disguise: Season 2 airs in March on Cartoon Network - re-introducing the Mini-COn Weaponizers theme and gimmick. They show Power Surge Optimus Prime and NAME, which has four modes of play, automorph with minicon interaction.
Older fans: Machinima animated series, 8 episodes, 7 minutes each - Windblade’s perspective, Starscream has Enigma of Combination, fan-built first female combiner Victorion (as overwhelmingly requested by fans) will also appear in series. It sounds like the story is very close to the IDW version.
Backflip - Transformers: Earth Wars is the first part of Prime Wars trilogy.
In Fall 2016, we will have Titans Return, the second part of Prime Wars trilogy, that starts where the story of Earth Wars ends, but with a specific toy line. They point out that Titan Masters figures are compatible across entire line, and Fort Max is in showroom at Toy Fair.
[Video shown in room, not via link]

As for the cinematic universe, they reiterate the importance of the writers’ room at Paramount, and confirm Transformers 5 release on 23rd June 2017. They also revealed a Bumblebee spin-off movie for 2018, and the next movie in the main series to appear in 2019. Deadline seem to be confused about this. I’d rather trust Hasbro on that matter.






That’s all for now! Stay tuned to Seibertron.com as we bring you updates throughout the whole weekend, including in person galleries, thoughts and more!