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Hiya, I’m a bit confused by all the series of toys at the moment. Can someone explain? Sorry I know this is a silly question.

Masterpieces- have they stopped making these?

Studio series- is this just a new collectible range? And does it cover all sorts of films and TV series? Ie some are movie 86, others are from games and stuff

Primes - is this a new TV show with the 13 primes?

I’m confused lol it seems like Studio is the new masterpiece but less expensive and with more fun toy like transformation. Which I think is the way forward. Madsterpieces I love but they do feel too fragile and complicated to transform. Which kinda takes away the fun from the whole point of Transformers.

Masterpiece is still around, it got incorporated into the MPG line (the Trainbot line) and both are just MPG. It also now includes some new stuff like the upcoming original Optimus Prime figure. It rarely sees physical retail release, but they can be found easy enough online.

Studio Series launched in 2018 and was originally a line devoted to the live action movies, then it got expanded to the 86 animated movie, video games, and soon comic books.

Age of the Primes is not a new animated series, it's just the latest main line, preceded by the Legacy trilogy, the War for Cybertron Trilogy, Prime Wars Trilogy and so on.

The most recent animated series is Earthspark, the upcoming one is Cyberworlds.

Hope that helps. Any other questions just ask!

Emerje

Ah brilliant, thank you @emerje - I didn't realise with MPG, I didn't think I needed any more Optimus bug that upcoming one looks pretty amazing.

So is Studio series an umbrella, with the Age of the Primes and everything in it too?

Thanks for explaining, I guess it doesn't matter that much but I've been confused about how the lines work and the differences.

Emerje wrote:Masterpiece is still around, it got incorporated into the MPG line (the Trainbot line) and both are just MPG. It also now includes some new stuff like the upcoming original Optimus Prime figure. It rarely sees physical retail release, but they can be found easy enough online.

Studio Series launched in 2018 and was originally a line devoted to the live action movies, then it got expanded to the 86 animated movie, video games, and soon comic books.

Age of the Primes is not a new animated series, it's just the latest main line, preceded by the Legacy trilogy, the War for Cybertron Trilogy, Prime Wars Trilogy and so on.

The most recent animated series is Earthspark, the upcoming one is Cyberworlds.

Hope that helps. Any other questions just ask!

Emerje

That's great, thanks for explaining - I've wondered for ages how it all works. So basically most stuff is going through the Studio Series, but there are different categories within that, like the 86 Movie and Age of Primes?

I love the look of the the new MPG Optimus, I didn't think I needed any more Optimus figures but that one looks particularly cool.

Thanks Scotty, it's not doing the 'collection' part of my brain any good haha I always want to compartmentalise things into collections and try to get the whole set. But that doesn't seem to work with Transformers.

But I think that all makes sense, thank you for explaining.