#HASCON Transformers Brand Panel Video: Dinobots, Optimus Prime, Volcanicus and More

Man, all that stadium seating accommodating thousands... only for the panel turn out to be about 50-150 people. Ouch.

Especially considering how that's a fraction of the turn out at Hasbro toy reveal panels of the past several BotCons.

So, I love pretenders. I love that the shells are getting modern versions and uses, even if not based on the exact original source material. But I will buy every single one of them.

Legends slash looks cool. If she combines, Volcanicus will be the 3rd CoEd combiner in a year!! (as in male and females in 1 combined mode. RiD Ultra Bee and Galvatronus are the other 2)

Prime looks cool. I didn't really want to buy him, but he looks like he can be my definitive "G1" Prime, seeing as how every other one I have is G2, Japanese-more based, or combined.

I love dinobots, so all these images excite me. Volcanicus looks alright, though the name is killer, and the head, to quote a friend, is "Like Grimlock's head crossed with a demon" so I am down with that. Just the torso looks a bit... odd. Maybe slash will form chest armor. Or a bombass sword

It looks like Optimus takes advantage of the Power-Master gimmick; whereby Orion Pax folds up like Jinrai and merges with the trailer to become Optimus...definitely a buy . Oh, and I agree with everyone else about the whole Sludge being a deluxe thing, that's sooo messed up. On a side note, I have attached a couple spoiler links that show off more of the line-up-some you've seen others maybe not.

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/attachmen ... .27684594/
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http://news.tfw2005.com/wp-content/uplo ... imus-2.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DFijW5mXoAMlEBn.jpg
http://news.tfw2005.com/wp-content/uplo ... s-Jazz.jpg
http://news.tfw2005.com/wp-content/uplo ... adwind.jpg

I have to say, I am excited about the whole Abominus/Predaking thing. Enjoy

Sabrblade wrote:Man, all that stadium seating accommodating thousands... only for the panel turn out to be about 50-150 people. Ouch.

Especially considering how that's a fraction of the turn out at Hasbro toy reveal panels of the past several BotCons.

Sometimes they do that because it was cheaper to rent or fly everyone to. It also happens with WWE events even though it looks bad it does't mean anything really.

Slash is a fembot? (Fist pump) Yes! I always hoped if they made a female dinobot it'd be a raptor.

RustedCross wrote: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.

Hopefully Hasbro lets US put the stickers on, because I love applying stickers. Always did as a kid.

Ebonyleopard wrote:Slash is a fembot? (Fist pump) Yes! I always hoped if they made a female dinobot it'd be a raptor.

Yes, that was announced today. I thought how did I miss that? But it turns out that Slash is indeed a lady. (Even though I always think of the guitarist from Guns n Roses)

hoping they make a 2 foot tall scorponok.

griftimus prime wrote:hoping they make a 2 foot tall scorponok.

... Combiner sized?

I'm personally wanting a Leader-class Scorponok. For many reasons...

Kurona wrote:

griftimus prime wrote:hoping they make a 2 foot tall scorponok.

... Combiner sized?

I'm personally wanting a Leader-class Scorponok. For many reasons...

plex,max and tryp sized.

griftimus prime wrote:

Kurona wrote:

griftimus prime wrote:hoping they make a 2 foot tall scorponok.

... Combiner sized?

I'm personally wanting a Leader-class Scorponok. For many reasons...

plex,max and tryp sized.

Oh yeah, they will at some point.

Sigma Magnus wrote:Is this all there's gonna be for Power of the Primes reveals, or might there be more today or tomorrow?

I wouldnt put my hopes up, though I surely wouldnt mind seeing more

Optimum Supreme wrote:Make a T-rex a bigger class than a brotosaurus?

We are still discussing scale?



Joking aside, Grimlock towered over sludge in their G1 beast modes, so it fits

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Maybe slash will form chest armor. Or a bombass sword

I don't think she's part of Volcanicus at all, unfortunately. The back of her card just shows that she can carry around Prime Masters.

I don't think connectivity was shown for the likes of Groove back in Combiner Wars. I remember Shockwave's ability to connect to Onslaught's truck form was shown, but that's it.

Oh no! What am I gonna do?! G1 AGAIN? Why Hasbro?! Why?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hate to be that guy, but was there any word on when the exclusives will be available on Hasbro toy shop after the convention?

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Hate to be that guy, but was there any word on when the exclusives will be available on Hasbro toy shop after the convention?

no, none, sorry

I don't like the look of Sludge's robot mode, I hope it's Mis-transformed. The shoulder neck area just seems weird looking. I like all the rest for what they are, and you better believe my boys will be getting a set of dinobots.

I'm in for two sets myself, and the g2 and Diaclone sets. Wants me an official black torsoed Snarl. Blue Slag is cool too. Be fun if they do the concept g2 colors for some of these guys too.

I love seeing the dinobots, but I really want to see Terrorcons. Please Hasbro? You can't tease us like that and not share! I'm also with Chuck, I still need to grab skater-prime.

THEY ARE A GESTALT!

DINOBOT COMBINER!

woot!

william-james88 wrote:

Sigma Magnus wrote:Is this all there's gonna be for Power of the Primes reveals, or might there be more today or tomorrow?

I wouldnt put my hopes up, though I surely wouldnt mind seeing more

Optimum Supreme wrote:Make a T-rex a bigger class than a brotosaurus?

We are still discussing scale?

I love that picture. It may be my favorite Transformers image of all time.

Im stuck inside riding out this damn hurricane in Miami. Can someone at Hascon post a youtube video of the chewbacca mom pannel for s**t and giggles? I need a good laugh...

Congratulations to this year's winners on their Hall of Fame awards. Many of our readers will recognize Susan Blu as the voice of Arcee from Transformers G1. Lorenzo di Bonadventura has been producing Trasnsformers films for the past 10 years. We have taken some close up shots of the awards below so you can read what they say and admire the figures posed with them.

If you are an Arcee fan, have a look at this brand new Titans Return figure!

Congrats to Susan and Lorenzo! They've both contributed to this franchise so much that it's cool to have them stick with us for such a long time! And just to be on a tangent, grrr those mistransformed Masterpieces just make me want to steal them and Keep it together, Surge.

This year's fan favorites have been determined. The favorite Transformers character this year is Galvatron, while Barricade has won the Favorite Transformers Movie character category. Lastly, Trypticon has won the Toy of the Year award. It has been a good year for Decepticons!

Finally decpeticons get recognition glad it wasn't bumblebee and prime that won I didn't vote wasn't going to make account for voting

And the QC issue of the year goes to:

A. MP Hot Rod's peeling chrome

B. Wolfwire's broken cockpit

C. Trypticon's bad hips

And we have a winner !

Will that Arcee be available at retail or is it an exclusive?

Rodimus Prime wrote:Will that Arcee be available at retail or is it an exclusive?

It's early access at Hascon, but it will later see wider distribution... somehow somewhere.

Rated X wrote:And the QC issue of the year goes to:

A. MP Hot Rod's peeling chrome

But that was last year.

Rodimus Prime wrote:Will that Arcee be available at retail or is it an exclusive?

Not wide retail. It is said to later be available as a retailer exclusive, so just TRU, or BBTS, or maybe just HTS.

Behold... Galvatron!

william-james88 wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:Will that Arcee be available at retail or is it an exclusive?

Not wide retail. It is said to later be available as a retailer exclusive, so just TRU, or BBTS, or maybe just HTS.

Uhhhhhhg. And there goes my hope of getting it, at least at a price I'd be willing to pay . Ah well, best wishes to those that do get and enjoy it! It looks like a pretty nice piece of plastic, if I do say so myself.

Rated X I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say hope you're ok. I did something horrible folks, something you'll probably see the results of by the end of the week.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Rated X I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say hope you're ok. I did something horrible folks, something you'll probably see the results of by the end of the week.

So, you are the one responsible for sending Irma my way.

J/K

We've shown you the plaques and trophies for the Transformers Hall of Fame induction ceremonies for Susan Blu and Lorenzo di Bonaventura (see it here!) which took place at Hascon 2017 last night during the VIP dinner panel with Frank Welker and Peter Cullen - but why not pretend you were there in person, by taking a look at a video recording of the whole thing? Check it out below!

Yo Ryan,

Its your old pal X riding out hurricane Irma and boy is she wet lol! Since im trapped inside and can use some entertainment, maybe you can offer us some tibits about non Transformers stuff at Hascon for s**t and giggles...

Did Dude perfect splash the crowd with supersoakers?

Did chewbacca mom eat 10 hot dogs during her pannel?

Did you hear the crickets chirping at the duengons and dragons display?

And what horrifying things did fans engage in at the MLP extravaganza?

Post some videos, share some stories, make us laugh ! Enquiring minds want to know...

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

Yeah, that's pretty poor. I hope there was an audible sound of all the eyes rolling.

DMSL wrote:The Dinobots look good, but Deluxe class is too small for these, they should all be at least Voyager class.

Especially since the Predacons are said to be all voyagers.

Congratulations to Susan Blu indeed. Doesn't she do a lot of directing of voice actors on the more recent shows?

There's far too much positivity about these figures. Allow me to counter.

I know this is the only way we'll ever get The Thirteen from Hasbro, but I'm still disappointed they're only Titan Masters. I'm hoping a third party will have a shot at them, maybe incorporate a compartment for the official figures to keep to gimmick alive.

Optimus Prime's vehicle mode isn't great, but I like the figure overall, just not sure I have a desire for it.

As for the Dinobots; oh, dear. I get that the clear plastic armour is a homage to G1, but using it on Snarl and Sludge's back legs is poor. Perhaps Sludge references his fate in FoC, having lost his legs and so now he has ghost legs. Swoop's alright, but the rest look a little cheap. The combined mode doesn't excite me either. The proportions are giving me flashbacks to FoC Bruticus. That's not only killed it for me, but inspired me to get a third party Dino-combiner.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Rated X I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say hope you're ok. I did something horrible folks, something you'll probably see the results of by the end of the week.

Thanks Chuck. So far so good here. Just trying to maintain. A little minor fence damage so far. Cant wait to see what you did...lol

Sabrblade wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Rated X I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say hope you're ok. I did something horrible folks, something you'll probably see the results of by the end of the week.

So, you are the one responsible for sending Irma my way.

J/K

She didnt like me...

But seriously I hope you and everybody makes it through safe with no major damage.

Rated X wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Rated X I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say hope you're ok. I did something horrible folks, something you'll probably see the results of by the end of the week.

So, you are the one responsible for sending Irma my way.

J/K

She didnt like me...

But seriously I hope you and everybody makes it through safe with no major damage.

Thanks. We're prepared and just trying to wait it out at this point.

So at the Prime Wars trilogy panel Hasbro showed some early concept art for Leader Prima and Megatronus, both of which look like they're made from the Titan Return Overlord mould:

Here's a link to every picture shown: http://tformers.com/update-leader-prima ... /news.html

But it was said at the panel that neither figure will be happening at any point, because they were deemed "too obscure to release in the toyline by Hasbro".


......."Too obscure"..............


Even though Megatronus was a major villain in Robots in Disguise recently. And he was in one of the Michael Bay films (albeit under his old name). And the Generations toyline recently featured the incredibly obscure Lione and Shuffler. And Power of the Primes is a toyline centered around Primes....

Just so people are aware, we do have our own imagery of the same panel, just coming later.

Video recordings need uploading and rendering, and screencaps need to be made.

Munkky wrote:But it was said at the panel that neither figure will be happening at any point, because they were deemed "too obscure to release in the toyline by Hasbro".


......."Too obscure"..............


Even though Megatronus was a major villain in Robots in Disguise recently. And he was in one of the Michael Bay films (albeit under his old name). And the Generations toyline recently featured the incredibly obscure Lione and Shuffler. And Power of the Primes is a toyline centered around Primes....

And let's not forget that the mold shown here was itself originally used for friggin' Sky Shadow

Kurona wrote:

Munkky wrote:But it was said at the panel that neither figure will be happening at any point, because they were deemed "too obscure to release in the toyline by Hasbro".


......."Too obscure"..............


Even though Megatronus was a major villain in Robots in Disguise recently. And he was in one of the Michael Bay films (albeit under his old name). And the Generations toyline recently featured the incredibly obscure Lione and Shuffler. And Power of the Primes is a toyline centered around Primes....

And let's not forget that the mold shown here was itself originally used for friggin' Sky Shadow

Not to mention the recent releases of Sawback/Lione, Shuffler, and an Optimus Prime colored like Star Convoy.

Ah, but see; those I could actually understand. Whether it's an obscure version of Optimus Prime or not; it's still an Optimus Prime toy and easily recognisable as him, so instant seller. Lione and Shuffler are incredibly obscure, no doubt about that; but they're small pocket money toys so you don't exactly need a lot of star power behind them.

But as the price point increases, you need more justification to buy the product. And one of the best ways is to attach a popular name like Megatron, Starscream or Soundwave to it. So that's why I could understand this applying to a Leader and not a Legends or Titan Master... except, again, friggin' Sky Shadow

Va'al wrote:You saw the coverage of the Transformers brand panel at Hascon, now you can check in for yourselves with more artwork, more comments, more points raised by the speakers and audience in the recording of the whole thing on on the Seibertron.com YouTube channel! Check out the clip embedded below, featuring Dinobots (including Slash and the combined Volcanicus), Allspark Tech, a new Optimus Prime and insight from both Takara and Hasbro designers.

seeing as were there, I'm surprised that no one asked them why their Trypticon is no different to the version

Big juicy gallery of Hascon Arcee

Stuartmaximus wrote:

Va'al wrote:You saw the coverage of the Transformers brand panel at Hascon, now you can check in for yourselves with more artwork, more comments, more points raised by the speakers and audience in the recording of the whole thing on on the Seibertron.com YouTube channel! Check out the clip embedded below, featuring Dinobots (including Slash and the combined Volcanicus), Allspark Tech, a new Optimus Prime and insight from both Takara and Hasbro designers.

seeing as were there, I'm surprised that no one asked them why their Trypticon is no different to the version

I know I'm not Takara, but if I had to guess, it's probably because it didn't need to be. I agree that it seems like a bad business-move to release the exact same thing at a higher price, but what could we possibly (reasonably) have asked for that Hasbro didn't already do? In this particular instance, I think it's more a case of Hasbro being really incredibly on the ball rather than Takara falling off of it.

People were trying to use the glossy wall's reflection to sneak a peak at the back of Starscream's box, so Hasbro later put a sheet of paper behind the box to stop that.

One really cool bonus of having a Transformers convention right near Hasbro's head office is that Hasbro can treat fans to lots of behind the scenes tidbits we wouldn't have elsewhere. In this particular case, Hasbro stocked Hascon full of Transformers grey models (finished prototypes) of various Transformers toys across many different lines. Plus, there were even some unreleased figures present like a movie Blaster from Dark of the Moon deluxe Soundwave as well as Prime Scraplets.

We have a whole gallery dedicated to these and you can click here or on any image below to get to it.

I'm assuming the yellow/grey plastic on Max is to show which parts are borrowed from metroplex? (It's normally either that or different materials eg softer plastic, which I don't believe max has). That's actually really neat to see!

Also, why is that scraplet alarmingly adorable