Hasbro Transformers Panel: Siege, Bumblebee, Reissues, Hall of Fame, Cyberverse #SDCC2018 #HasbroSDCC

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Also from the room 29AB at San Diego Comic Con 2018, we're covering the Hasbro Transformers panel presentation, with all of the Hasbro brand team present . including Sean Carmine Isabella, John 'Hasbro' Warden, Ben Montano, and more. Keep refreshing this story as we post updates as they come in!

Publishing, Studios, Generations, Design - and BUMBLEBEE.

Transformers News: Hasbro Transformers Panel: Siege, Bumblebee, Reissues, More #SDCC2018 #HasbroSDCC

BUMBLEBEE MOVIE

Marketing team presenting the #JoinTheBuzz hashtag, promoting new material and products, from personal photos and selfies from the convention floor, and the products themselves:

Razor scooter, Amazon merch t-shirts, Alpah dual sided bomber jacket with Generations theme too.

Consumer products in 2018, from Monopoly to Jada, Herocross, Super Cyborg etc

New retro 80s game Bumblebee Overdrive mobile game (with Budge) - brief video shown in panel

PUBLISHING for Bumblebee, see IDW Publishing panel here.

Actual products being shown, as seen in the Breakfast event story - Energon Igniters, DJ Bumblebee and Power Charge Bumblebee.

Going back to the 19080s with a recollection of G1 cartoon series and toys series. Introducing...

Reissue Series - exclusive to Walmart, due out in Fall 2018 - in G1 packaging, featuring Devastator, Hot Rod, Mini Bots, Starscream.

Target exclusive Soundwave remold with Titan Master Doombox and Bumblebee Showcase Helmet.

GENERATIONS LINE

War for Cybertron: SIEGE

Decepticons as revolutionaries, and Autobots as counter faction, taking over Cybertron - gritty, intense, taking the G1 characters like Hound, Chromia, Prowl, and add lots of firepower.

Close work with Takara Tomy on the line, still quite one sided for the Autobots. For images, see the Siege story from Breaksfast event here!

Hound, weapons specialist, wielding Battle Master Lionizer.
Firedrive Battlemaster with voyager Optimus Prime.
Micromasters confirmed as two packs, weaponized accesories as combination, plus articulation: Battle Patrol, Race Patrol, Rescue Patrol.

Deluxe - Sideswipe.
Removing the gimmick element Prime Wars moved into paying attention to the characters, in terms of posability, articulation and more in the engineering, as the weaponising element of Micro and Battle Masters allow for playability.

COG - Weaponizer: partsforming
Wave 2- Ironhide and Chromia

Voyager Optimus Prime, weapon turns into shield, too

Leader class Ultra Magnus - White Prime cab with armor! RID 2001 inspired vehicle mode.

STUDIO SERIES

VW Bumblebee
Shadow Raidoe, TF3 Ratchet, KSI Sentry, Dropkick from Bumblebee Movie

CYBERVERSE

Writers room containing all fans from multiple areas of the franchise: Bumblebee has lost his memory, Windblade helping him recover, over 90 bots designed for the first season alone.
Designs worked closely with Sean Carmine Isabella for look that pays homage to oriignal animated series.

Toys: new classes with Action Attack feature across all line, Ultimate class can do gimmick in both modes.
New: Windblade, Acid Storm, Slipstream, Shadow Striker.

EXCLUSIVES

BUMBLEBEE vol 2 Retro Pop Highway

HALL OF FAME

Favourite Character - BLACKARACHNIA
Toy of the Year - ROADTRAO AND BATTLESLASH
Hall of Fame inductee 2018 - JOHN BARBER

Credit(s): Hasbro

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Re: Hasbro Transformers Panel: Siege, Bumblebee, Reissues, Hall of Fame, Cyberverse #SDCC2018 #HasbroSDCC (1972383)
Posted by Sabrblade on July 19th, 2018 @ 1:29pm CDT

What's remolded about Soundwave?

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Posted by Victinoko on July 19th, 2018 @ 1:52pm CDT

Dropkick looks really nice!!!

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Posted by EvasionModeBumblebee on July 19th, 2018 @ 1:56pm CDT

That was really disappointing. Only one SS figure that we haven’t already seen. Dropkick at least looks cool, but it’s weird that it’s not his car alt. mode.

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Posted by Manterax Prime on July 19th, 2018 @ 2:00pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:What's remolded about Soundwave?

In comparison to the TR release, his shins.

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Posted by Rodimus Knight on July 19th, 2018 @ 2:03pm CDT

I really wanted to see more fem bots for the Elita 1 combiner, but really could we have put the effort in at least 1 other mold to do the last two?

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Posted by Va'al on July 19th, 2018 @ 2:25pm CDT

Manterax Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:What's remolded about Soundwave?

In comparison to the TR release, his shins.

Yep, made to look more like an 80s boombox in alt mode!

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Posted by Agent 53 on July 19th, 2018 @ 2:26pm CDT

The description for the WFC Seige storyline DOES seem to hint at an IDW reboot, with the toyline coming from the time at the start of the war where the Autobots still represented the corrupt senate and the Decepticons were noble revolutionaries they were before they fell to their lust for power.

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Posted by Sabrblade on July 19th, 2018 @ 2:27pm CDT

Yay! Blackarachnia won the Hall of Fame! Hot dog! :APPLAUSE:

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Posted by autobot00 on July 19th, 2018 @ 2:45pm CDT

Ironhide is TR Kup retool. Look at the windshield and how the legs form and where the arms are. totally a Kup retool but with a typical transformation.

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Posted by Munkky on July 19th, 2018 @ 2:46pm CDT

There's nothing here that I badly want, I might buy Cog, Hound and a few Micromasters, but otherwise Siege isn't wowing me so far. I'm half tempted to army build the Studio Series KSI Sentry, but that would probably set me back an insane amount of money.

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Posted by Bonfireben on July 19th, 2018 @ 4:16pm CDT

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That looks like Red Alert carrying a wounded Hound. I’m guessing a Sideswipe Redeco for him in a later wave.

That ship is definitely an Ark, but there’s precedent for using that as an Omega Supreme from Transformers Animated.

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That looks like Ratchet in the background. That’d be an Ironhide redeco.

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Posted by Va'al on July 19th, 2018 @ 4:29pm CDT

autobot00 wrote:Ironhide is TR Kup retool. Look at the windshield and how the legs form and where the arms are. totally a Kup retool but with a typical transformation.

A9RFFCA.jpg

Yep, this was confirmed as such in the panel.

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Posted by Sabrblade on July 19th, 2018 @ 10:24pm CDT

Bonfireben wrote:
AF402D49-BDE7-462F-B327-F83E0D2A732D.png

That looks like Red Alert carrying a wounded Hound. I’m guessing a Sideswipe Redeco for him in a later wave.

Looks more to me like it's just Sideswipe carrying Hound.

Bonfireben wrote:That ship is definitely an Ark, but there’s precedent for using that as an Omega Supreme from Transformers Animated.

This current Hasbro brand team in unabashedly in love with G1 that if they were to do Omega Supreme, they'd most likely just give him his G1 altmode. The Ark is pictured to show how this Siege line takes place before the Ark blasts off from Cybertron into space.

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Posted by Emerje on July 19th, 2018 @ 11:26pm CDT

Va'al wrote:
autobot00 wrote:Ironhide is TR Kup retool. Look at the windshield and how the legs form and where the arms are. totally a Kup retool but with a typical transformation.

A9RFFCA.jpg

Yep, this was confirmed as such in the panel.

Looks like another case of "same transformation, different parts" like CW Silverbolt and PotP Hun-Gurrr.

Emerje

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Posted by william-james88 on July 20th, 2018 @ 1:32pm CDT

Did any of you wish to attend the Hasbro panel at SDCC? Well, now you can in a way thanks to Seibertron who videotaped the whole thing. You get to hear John Warden talk about th Seige line and see the Cyberverse footage, as if you were there.

We definitely get new tidbits like the combined mode of the micromasters who become targetmasters and we do hear confirmation that scale is a big factor in the Seige line. So this line is a fresh take and bos scale with one another in bot mode, like in the Studio Series line.

Enjoy the presentation and let us know other tidbits you gather!

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Posted by Sabrblade on July 20th, 2018 @ 1:44pm CDT

I before E except for C.

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Posted by william-james88 on July 20th, 2018 @ 2:22pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:I before E except for C.

What if you're an atheist? Or if you're ageist?

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Posted by Sabrblade on July 20th, 2018 @ 2:29pm CDT

william-james88 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:I before E except for C.

What if you're an atheist? Or if you're ageist?

At least it's not "Rouge One".

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Posted by william-james88 on July 20th, 2018 @ 2:47pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:
william-james88 wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:I before E except for C.

What if you're an atheist? Or if you're ageist?
At least it's not "Rouge One".

Is that the film where Nicole Kidman plays Jyn Erso?

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Posted by First-Aid on July 20th, 2018 @ 7:19pm CDT

That Ultra Magnus looks awesome. Do I detect a small RID1 homage there in that figure?

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Posted by Va'al on July 20th, 2018 @ 9:37pm CDT

First-Aid wrote:That Ultra Magnus looks awesome. Do I detect a small RID1 homage there in that figure?

That was explicit in the design process, yes!

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Posted by NTESHFT on July 21st, 2018 @ 4:05am CDT

Did anyone get a reason to as why the Siege line up was so one sided?.....

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Posted by First-Aid on July 21st, 2018 @ 7:07am CDT

NTESHFT wrote:Did anyone get a reason to as why the Siege line up was so one sided?.....

I noticed that too. No Cons at all. Siege should be over quickly with those numbers... :HEADHURTS:

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Posted by Brokebot on July 21st, 2018 @ 2:08pm CDT

This may be a money saving year for me. Siege looks interesting, but I'm not seeing enough to get me excited about it yet. The rest of it has all the appeal of a dental cleaning.

Has anyone explained the meaning of the title "Cyberverse" yet?

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Posted by Sabrblade on July 21st, 2018 @ 5:01pm CDT

Brokebot wrote:Has anyone explained the meaning of the title "Cyberverse" yet?

There probably isn't supposed to be any actual meaning behind it besides "it sounds cool" and "it's a name Hasbro already owns and can reuse again".

As best can be assumed, it probably just means "a universe with Cybertronians in it".

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Posted by NTESHFT on July 22nd, 2018 @ 4:18am CDT

First-Aid wrote:
NTESHFT wrote:Did anyone get a reason to as why the Siege line up was so one sided?.....

I noticed that too. No Cons at all. Siege should be over quickly with those numbers...

I heard there will be a leader class shockwave......I'm just wondering what Megatron and the seekersc will look like..

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Posted by Sabrblade on July 22nd, 2018 @ 9:19pm CDT

John Warden talks the Beast Wars 25th Anniversary at SDCC, at the 13:05 mark:

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Posted by Emerje on July 23rd, 2018 @ 7:22am CDT

"And I'm certainly a big fan of Beast Wars series."

You sure act like it, Warden, you sure act like it. I'll believe him if the next trilogy after WfC, which starts on the Beast Wars 25th anniversary in 2022, is BW heavy.

Emerje

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Posted by AlexisSkrull on July 23rd, 2018 @ 7:36am CDT

Emerje wrote:"And I'm certainly a big fan of Beast Wars series."

You sure act like it, Warden, you sure act like it. I'll believe him if the next trilogy after WfC, which starts on the Beast Wars 25th anniversary in 2022, is BW heavy.

Emerje

Yeah I was thinking the same thing when he said that. As a big Beast Wars fan (though it started when I was an adult, I hope we do get a true anniversary.

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Posted by Va'al on July 23rd, 2018 @ 12:02pm CDT

AlexisSkrull wrote:
Emerje wrote:"And I'm certainly a big fan of Beast Wars series."

You sure act like it, Warden, you sure act like it. I'll believe him if the next trilogy after WfC, which starts on the Beast Wars 25th anniversary in 2022, is BW heavy.

Emerje

Yeah I was thinking the same thing when he said that. As a big Beast Wars fan (though it started when I was an adult, I hope we do get a true anniversary.

Hey, never lose hope, right? even if it means just fan voting BW characters year after year for everything votable :-P

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Posted by Nemesis Primal on July 23rd, 2018 @ 1:57pm CDT

Va'al wrote:
AlexisSkrull wrote:
Emerje wrote:"And I'm certainly a big fan of Beast Wars series."

You sure act like it, Warden, you sure act like it. I'll believe him if the next trilogy after WfC, which starts on the Beast Wars 25th anniversary in 2022, is BW heavy.

Emerje

Yeah I was thinking the same thing when he said that. As a big Beast Wars fan (though it started when I was an adult, I hope we do get a true anniversary.

Hey, never lose hope, right? even if it means just fan voting BW characters year after year for everything votable

Hasbro: "Alright guys, it's time for the fan vote for the next Titan class fig-"
Fans: "DINOBOT!"

....seriously though, why is the line called Generations again? The Prime Wars have been great, don't get me wrong, but I feel I'm starting to forget why they named it that in the first place...

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Posted by william-james88 on July 23rd, 2018 @ 2:09pm CDT

Nemesis Primal wrote:
Va'al wrote:
AlexisSkrull wrote:
Emerje wrote:"And I'm certainly a big fan of Beast Wars series."

You sure act like it, Warden, you sure act like it. I'll believe him if the next trilogy after WfC, which starts on the Beast Wars 25th anniversary in 2022, is BW heavy.

Emerje

Yeah I was thinking the same thing when he said that. As a big Beast Wars fan (though it started when I was an adult, I hope we do get a true anniversary.

Hey, never lose hope, right? even if it means just fan voting BW characters year after year for everything votable

Hasbro: "Alright guys, it's time for the fan vote for the next Titan class fig-"
Fans: "DINOBOT!"

....seriously though, why is the line called Generations again? The Prime Wars have been great, don't get me wrong, but I feel I'm starting to forget why they named it that in the first place...

Its so that you can itroduce G1 to the next generations of fans :-D

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Posted by Nemesis Primal on July 23rd, 2018 @ 2:22pm CDT

william-james88 wrote:Its so that you can introduce G1 to the next generations of fans

I was born in 1998. My first figures were RID Prowl, Armada Delxue Prime, the RID Build Team, and Armada Powerlinx Cyclonus. The first TF show I saw was assorted episodes of the Unicron Trilogy shows, and my favorite TF show is a close struggle between Beast Wars and Animated. Technically, I'm part of the the next generation of fans, or at least the generation that would need to be introduced to G1. And yet, despite sitting here with Bruticus, Overlord, and Perceptor next to me, I'm already getting tired of Generations being almost exclusively G1, even when a good majority of the figures were characters I'd never owned a version of before, because it feels like it's all the design team wants to make right now.

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Posted by First-Aid on July 23rd, 2018 @ 3:02pm CDT

Nemesis Primal wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Its so that you can introduce G1 to the next generations of fans

I was born in 1998. My first figures were RID Prowl, Armada Delxue Prime, the RID Build Team, and Armada Powerlinx Cyclonus. The first TF show I saw was assorted episodes of the Unicron Trilogy shows, and my favorite TF show is a close struggle between Beast Wars and Animated. Technically, I'm part of the the next generation of fans, or at least the generation that would need to be introduced to G1. And yet, despite sitting here with Bruticus, Overlord, and Perceptor next to me, I'm already getting tired of Generations being almost exclusively G1, even when a good majority of the figures were characters I'd never owned a version of before, because it feels like it's all the design team wants to make right now.

This. Wholeheartedly. I want to see some new characters or completely new takes and drastic redesigns. Bring on Transtech!

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Posted by Emerje on July 23rd, 2018 @ 4:33pm CDT

As much as I love core G1 I'm really ready to move on. I'm actually OK with them diving into a pre-G1 story, but they're still just recycling characters again, there's no originality. The current Hasbro team can make nice figures, but they sure can't write an original story worth telling. They need to go back to 1984, not for story inspiration, but to realize it's OK to outsource your stories. Like how the Hasbro of old got Marvel to do all of their writing they need to get IDW to start coming up with something new. It doesn't even have to be non-G1, just move ahead in the continuity already. How about finally filling the gap between G1/G2 and Beast Wars, there's a story there that still hasn't been totally and officially fleshed out and worth telling.

Emerje