#HASCON Mini-Comic from Official Guide, featuring Transformers, GI Joe, MLP and More, Plus Hasbro Promo Clip

Finally, MLP joins the IDW Hasbroverse.

YES!!! MY BOY ROM IS IN THERE!

and Frank Welker is still quite new to attending conventions right? wasn't BotCon 2015 his first ever Convention?

I love this for the simple Bruce Sato appearance.

Can't wait to see the legends Peter and Frank together!

There will still be some time before any actual content appears from Hascon in Rhode Island - the first multifranchise event directly organised by Hasbro in their on back yard - but some members of staff and press did get an early preview of the show area if nothing else, and posted the images on social media. The most relevant to us come from Magic The Gathering's Head Designer Mark Rosewater, which not only shows more of the Hascon exclusives (including the early access Arcee/Ultra Magnus set seen here), but also the Transformers area for the show, featuring some Allspark Tech and heavy The Last Knight merchandise and props. Take a look below!

Woah, Prime's got smaller hands than the president.

They're really doubling down on the movie stuff!

Hey look, it's that statue of the Optimus Prime from that one cartoon that ended 3-4 years ago.

Sabrblade wrote:Hey look, it's that statue of the Optimus Prime from that one cartoon that ended 3-4 years ago.

Compared to an optimus from a cartoon that ended 30 years ago?

LE0KING wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Hey look, it's that statue of the Optimus Prime from that one cartoon that ended 3-4 years ago.

Compared to an optimus from a cartoon that ended 30 years ago?

You mean the one that most consider timeless and refuse to let die?

Sabrblade wrote:

LE0KING wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Hey look, it's that statue of the Optimus Prime from that one cartoon that ended 3-4 years ago.

Compared to an optimus from a cartoon that ended 30 years ago?

You mean the one that most consider timeless and refuse to let die?

Point stands. Some of us love the prime show the way others love g1.

LE0KING wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

LE0KING wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Hey look, it's that statue of the Optimus Prime from that one cartoon that ended 3-4 years ago.

Compared to an optimus from a cartoon that ended 30 years ago?

You mean the one that most consider timeless and refuse to let die?

Point stands. Some of us love the prime show the way others love g1.

Agreed.

Now where's my statue of Primal?!

Hascon is currently in full swing, having just fully opened moments ago, featuring displays and booths for all of your favorite Hasbro properties. One of the most exciting parts of the Transformers display is the Optimus Prime truck from the live action films! The truck is currently on loan from Hendrick Motorsports, who have now posted a gallery of the truck, as well as the following statement:

After saving the world alongside the Nos. 48 and 88 Chevys in "Transformers: The Last Knight," the truck of Optimus Prime came to rest at Hendrick Motorsports. This weekend only (Sept. 8-10), in Providence, Rhode Island, it will be open for everyone to see at the Transformers’ display as part of Hasbro’s first annual HASCON event.

To see the gallery, please check out Hendrick Motorsports' webpage, here, and stay tuned to Seibertron.com for all the latest breaking Transformers news out of Hascon!

The official social media channels for Hasbro are currently kicking off the first ever HASCON event, over in Rhode Island! As the convention takes under its mantle several Hasbro properties, we are tuned it to follow all event Transformers (with some inevitable sides of GI Joe and the other characters in the shared universe such as Rom, MASK, and more).



And we're in the panel room with Seibertron.com as the Transformers brand team runs through the various members of both Hasbro and Takara Tomy personnel present for the talk! Three Japanese designers have joined the Hasbro team for the event too: Shogo Hasui, Takashi Kunihiro, and Hall of Fame inductee Hideaki Yoke, plus interpreter Daizo Uehara.


The Last Knight

The first product presented and discussed has to do with the concept of Story, and Transformers: The Last Knight - the team shows a clip introducing the Allspark Tech line (which you can see covered here, too).

The team is particularly excited about the story-driven features of the new toy line, from the electronics to the voice clips included in each of the figures.

Next is more The Last Knight coverage, with the Knight Armour line of toys (as previously seen here, for example). Hasbro actually collaborated with Takara on the design for this line, and the helmet designs for the various figures are inspired by actual military wear from across the world.


Robots in Disguise Combiner Force

Swiftly moving on to the Robots in Disguise toy line, with discussion of the collaboration with the animation studios and the creation and design of the combiners from the show (such as Ultra Bee and Menasor). Discussing how the concept had to adhere to the idea of the multiple modes being compatible with each other, while also appealing to the multiple toys in one all in one box.

After the major combiners, the team discusses the Crash Combiners instead, showing Strongarm and Optimus Prime as examples.


Generations - Power of the Primes
Discussing the idea of reveals, and how the Prime Wars trilogy. Prime Masters being reintroduced along with the confirmation of Optimus Primal as new Prime after fan vote.

Dinobot Slash - first female Dinobot, collaborated with Takara Tomy to create the Legends scale new character.
Dinobot Slug
Dinobot Swoop
Dinobot Snarl
Dinobot Sludge







Voyager class Grimlock - poseable, interacts with Prime Masters.
Yoke-san actually talking about the Dinobots' history and how it influenced current designs

All new Dinobot combiner announced: Volcanicus!
Sludge is leg, Snarl is other leg, Swoop and Slug is arms, Grimlock is torso.
Ankle tilts!
Had to think about the joints system for the combiners, in order to hold up the whole figure. Right amount of friction was hard to get.






Leader class reveal - Optimus Prime. Evolving Deluxe Orion Pax into the Autobot Leader.
Some design topics talking about getting the right space and friction for the Deluxe to fit.
Discussing the interactive and play pattern for the Matrix and the other Prime-help crystals, blending old stories with new toyline.






Exclusives

Titans Return Arcee and Titans Return Ultra Magnus, as seen before.

Optimus Prime Power Bank also seen before.

A final teaser was the silhouette for Predaking, as per the mockup seen recently.


Q&A
A question about a new Shockwave, which 'will be taken into consideration'.

So leader Prime is deluxe Orion Pax (cab) with the trailer attached?

And I like the Dinobots individually, but that combined mode? Ehh.

Looks like they have the packaging at least from that Power Bank Optimus coming out.

Kyleor wrote:Looks like they have the packaging at least from that Power Bank Optimus coming out.

All exclusives are available at the show.

Reminder: "combining Dinobots" has never been a good idea. It is still not a good idea

Leader OP looks incredible though. Amazing to see those great triumphs at the same time as hilarious stumbles like deluxe Sludge.

Edit: Also, I guess RiD is done? Seemed that way but this maybe sealed it. If so, they should feel really bad about how they handled it for the past year after it got off to a pretty solid start.

"Volcanicus"? As names go, it could have been worse...

ScottyP wrote:Reminder: "combining Dinobots" has never been a good idea. It is still not a good idea

Leader OP looks incredible though. Amazing to see those great triumphs at the same time as hilarious stumbles like deluxe Sludge.

Edit: Also, I guess RiD is done? Seemed that way but this maybe sealed it. If so, they should feel really bad about how they handled it for the past year after it got off to a pretty solid start.

Right there with you on RID, they could have at least said something about it being done or now. Instead they talked about older gimicks and toys we saw before, why I have no clue. The lack of attention given to that line is always puzzling, especially considering its one of their big sellers. We dont even know if that last wave (the one found in practically every other country) is ever coming to US stores.

Anyways, about that Leader OP, what I like best is how solid it looked in its full combined mode. The guy was handling it like any other leader figure without having to make sure anything would untab.

Thanks to Cyberpath for fixed images!

william-james88 wrote:

LE0KING wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

LE0KING wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Hey look, it's that statue of the Optimus Prime from that one cartoon that ended 3-4 years ago.

Compared to an optimus from a cartoon that ended 30 years ago?

You mean the one that most consider timeless and refuse to let die?

Point stands. Some of us love the prime show the way others love g1.

Agreed.

Now where's my statue of Primal?!

As for the statue, it's been around since SDCC 2010 (saw it in person at Botcon 2011)...at this point, I think its safe to assume that Hasbro uses it to represent Optimus Prime as a character overall, they don't see it as Prime from TF : Prime, they just see it as Optimus Prime period....and plus they probably paid a lot so you are going to see it for many years to come .

I'm surprised they didn't show Hun-Gurrr, unless there's going to be more reveals as the event goes on. As hilarious as it would have been for Volcanicus to look like the Beast just to see how people reacted, he still looks decent and I'm definitely going to get every Dinobot.
Slash is cute, but it doesn't look like she combines with Volcanicus (unless I'm just not seeing it). It would be a shame if she was another Wreck-Gar situation, where she's initially marketed as being part of a Combiner but actually isn't.

Slash is fan-TASTIC.

Well,hopefully this can finally end the agony of not knowing whether PotP Starscream is going to be a combiner torso, since we "didn't know" this because Hasbro didn't officially state it, even though it was obvious from the SDCC pictures, and even the pictures shown at the prepanel today. I know the suspense had been killing me.

they really out did themselves this time. EVOLVING as a transformation feature?

I'm sure there will be other reveals, they would not have teased images of the Terrorcons without showing them at some point. Also...I too am hoping for legends class integration as either a weapon or that actually fits on the combiner somehow. Still...there's fan modes even if Hasbro doesn't come up with something officially.

Munkky wrote:Slash is cute, but it doesn't look like she combines with Volcanicus (unless I'm just not seeing it). It would be a shame if she was another Wreck-Gar situation, where she's initially marketed as being part of a Combiner but actually isn't.

then expect there to be shame

I'd find it very odd if they specifically made a new Dinobot - with a new mold no less - to go along with the Dinobot combiner... and there was no integration. Either way, I'm not complaining -- I love her and I'm getting her nonetheless!

I'm guessing that Slash will transform into a weapon.
Maybe a sword or hammer type thing.

I just noticed this from looking at the images, but the Prime masters or whatever they're being called, the Pretenders...they're basically this as the Titanmaster figures now, right? It looks like the same thing, only with a dedicated robot form, whereas some of the Titanmaster things are dinosaurs or some other type of vehicle. I don't own any of the Titanmaster ones, but I'm thinking of Apeface, whose little vehicle thing is a jet and an ape. These new things are essentially the same thing, right?

And the little guys turn into heads still? I know they're probably supposed to be something else, but that's clearly a headmaster mode....

Dagon wrote:I just noticed this from looking at the images, but the Prime masters or whatever they're being called, the Pretenders...they're basically this as the Titanmaster figures now, right? It looks like the same thing, only with a dedicated robot form, whereas some of the Titanmaster things are dinosaurs or some other type of vehicle. I don't own any of the Titanmaster ones, but I'm thinking of Apeface, whose little vehicle thing is a jet and an ape. These new things are essentially the same thing, right?

And the little guys turn into heads still? I know they're probably supposed to be something else, but that's clearly a headmaster mode....

The Prime Masters are the replacement for the Titan Master class, yeah. Functionally these Prime Masters work the exact same as Titan Masters -- same connectivity and everything. The thing replacing the head mode though is supposed to be some sort of engine or power source, so if it helps think of these like the new Powermasters.

Kurona wrote:I'd find it very odd if they specifically made a new Dinobot - with a new mold no less - to go along with the Dinobot combiner... and there was no integration. Either way, I'm not complaining -- I love her and I'm getting her nonetheless!

Well, that mold could have been done for cindersaur since we know he uses the very same mold.

Kurona wrote:

Dagon wrote:I just noticed this from looking at the images, but the Prime masters or whatever they're being called, the Pretenders...they're basically this as the Titanmaster figures now, right? It looks like the same thing, only with a dedicated robot form, whereas some of the Titanmaster things are dinosaurs or some other type of vehicle. I don't own any of the Titanmaster ones, but I'm thinking of Apeface, whose little vehicle thing is a jet and an ape. These new things are essentially the same thing, right?

And the little guys turn into heads still? I know they're probably supposed to be something else, but that's clearly a headmaster mode....

The Prime Masters are the replacement for the Titan Master class, yeah. Functionally these Prime Masters work the exact same as Titan Masters -- same connectivity and everything. The thing replacing the head mode though is supposed to be some sort of engine or power source, so if it helps think of these like the new Powermasters.

Rad. I know that this is old news, but I skipped the tiny guys in Titans Return, so I didn't pay much attention to these.
Thanks!

william-james88 wrote:

Kurona wrote:I'd find it very odd if they specifically made a new Dinobot - with a new mold no less - to go along with the Dinobot combiner... and there was no integration. Either way, I'm not complaining -- I love her and I'm getting her nonetheless!

Well, that mold could have been done for cindersaur since we know he uses the very same mold.

If it was though, it would have looked like Cindersaur. Zero details on this toy match up with the G1 Firecon - and in fact it has a lot of details characteristic of the Dinobot group, especially in the head - so this isn't a pretool situation like TR Sentinel Prime and Astrotrain, this is more like T30 Optimus to CW Huffer.

Grimlock and slash look great. Volcanicus looks fine. Does anyone else see slash as the dinobots equivalent to nickel of the DJD. Optimus looks awesome reminds me of mp Prime.

That leader Optimus prime looks dope af!!

Honestly, I totally agree with you Micromaster -- aside from the chest, this guy's a shoe-in for MP-10. And even then there's something vaguely IDW-esque about it I can't quite pin down... either way, he's totally going with Leader Soundwave, Leader Jetfire and Leader Thundercracker for the ex-RiD display

With reveals for Power of the Primes coming from every angle today, Hasbro have posted new renders of some of those reveals to their Facebook today -- namely, those of Leader-Class Optimus Prime; Voyager-Class Grimlock; Deluxe-Class Swoop, Slug, Sludge and Snarl; Legends-Class new character Slash; and Prime Master-class Cloudburst. Check the renders out below, keep an eye out for more Hascon and Power of the Primes news on Seibertron later today; and tell us what you think of the new Dinobots in the forums!

Red swoop here?

Takara will probably do an anime accurate version.

Sludge being smaller than Grimlock doesn't ring right to me but everything else here is neat.

The change of Swoop's chest from red to blue must have been a last-minute one, explaining why his stock render was kept hidden at the panel.

Seriously loving the dinobots. I can't believe we are getting new dinobots that look like the originals, apparently transform roughly the same as the originals, and have the added capability of combining. That's just awesome.

My only complaint is the fear of stickers. I hate stickers, and I see a few there. Hopefully Takara fixes that issue, if it actually is one when the final product hits the shelves.

Judging by Orion Pax's legs the rear of the cab mode will look like a joke...but then even MP-10's trailer hitch looks a little funky

bluecatcinema wrote:"Volcanicus"? As names go, it could have been worse...

Always thought Barbaricus would be a good Dino Combiner name.

We have had a Combiner made from dinosaur Transformers from the not-to-distant-past that went by a similar name...

Everything looks fantastic you've really knocked it out of the park. I want everything so bad.

So far, so good. Dinobots look rad (if not simplistic). While they look a little too similar to their G1 toys, but given that we barely get the other four members, I'll let that slide. Optimus looks alright, but the altmode looks pretty unfinished to me; still hope to get it for an MP-10 substitute.

I find it a little sad that the first question asked at the panel's Q&A was about the Brave Series.