War for Cybertron Kingdom officially announced

[Paulbot]

Not long after an image appeared on social media, the official Netflix social media platforms have announced that the third part of the Transformers War for Cybertron Trilogy will be called Kingdom.

https://twitter.com/NXOnNetflix/status/1283960126613774338


@NXOnNetflix:
Did you crack the code? We're excited to reveal the title for the third chapter: KINGDOM.
<Gorilla emoji> Get ready to go ape and get your claws out for KINGDOM! <T-Rex emoji>
Till then, the war continues.

As Griffin posted yesterday the image floating around social media and fan site is this:

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/blog/f670.jpg

And it's from this facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3054440734662912&set=a.184124965027851&type=3), who is in South America, so unless they know someone at their local Hasbro office, it's a bit of an unusual source for a leak like this.

[nalops]

Someone on Twitter's saying the word Kingdom in the Netflix reveal is the same in the leaked promo art so it seems highly likely that it's the real deal.

Looks like I'll finally have some figures with beast modes.

[Gehirn]

I love how random it is that Scorponok is featured.
Excited for what comes in the toyline.

[Deano85]

We haven't even finished Earthrise and they are dropping Beast Wars characters. I'd probably only get Optimus Primal if he ends up being a fun toy.

[Bidoofdude]

I’m super pumped for this line. A big array of beasts, as well as Bumblebee and a potentially good Galvatron figure? Count me in.

[griffin]

Just expanding on what Paulbot has in the first post.

The "animated" (moving) promo images from the last two weeks (images mirrored here from the tweeted video (https://news.tfw2005.com/2020/07/17/war-for-cybertron-third-chapter-title-confirmed-kingdom-414898)) of Jetfire, Bumblebee, Ultra Magnus, Optimus, Megatron, Elita-1 and Starscream, each had a Cybertronian letter hidden somewhere in the picture (some were obvious, some weren't)... and the letters spelled out KINGDOM, if you had them in the right order.

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2020/071710.jpg

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2020/071711.jpg

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2020/071712.jpg

It's one of those type of cryptic messages that no one is expected to figure out (if anyone did, it didn't make the news), but is obvious when it is officially revealed... which had to happen once the image in the first post here was leaked on facebook (it is probably why those promo images had a letter embedded into each of them, to sit there unnoticed until it was needed in a hurry, to refer back to if some other site was about to steal their thunder with leaked info or image).
If anyone actually noticed some of the Cybertronian letters on each of the character promo images, it wouldn't have made much sense, and even if you assumed that there must be a letter hidden on all of them and managed to find all 7 (Optimus and Ultra Magnus weren't obvious, and Megatron's is easy to miss), you'd still have a jumble of letters. And if by chance after all that you then came up with the word "Kingdom" from those 7 letters, it still wouldn't seem like the the right word, because it's not a name or concept used in TFs before.
And even if someone thought that it referred to Animal Kingdom and must relate to Beast Wars, it still wouldn't make much sense to reveal the name of the third chapter within promo images for the first chapter.

[nalops]

I saw someone mention it on Twitter 4 days ago with it spelt out in an image:-

https://twitter.com/Protoman/status/1282405305859612672?s=19

But searching through Twitter I found a Spanish tweet from 4th of July that had decided the message as Kingdom:-

https://twitter.com/novoide/status/1279122680164364288?s=19

Although there's also some articles about a Weibo member sharing their analysis of the poster on the 5th:-

https://twitter.com/TFormers/status/1279422604231622657?s=19

Although yea, bit weird they teased it like that through the Netflix posters unless something happens during the actual show in Season 1 that directly points to Kingdom/ Beast Wars

[griffin]

That's interesting. So a couple of people were perceptive enough to see the lettering and figure out the correct word, and speculated what it could mean. It didn't seem to make the news pages of any of the major fansites though, as it wasn't obvious that it was referring to the 3rd chapter.

[nalops]

That's interesting. So a couple of people were perceptive enough to see the lettering and figure out the correct word, and speculated what it could mean. It didn't seem to make the news pages of any of the major fansites though, as it wasn't obvious that it was referring to the 3rd chapter.

No one seems to have made that connection at all yea. Have to admit, I do find the Dog Mink tweets kind of funny.

[griffin]

No one seems to have made that connection at all yea. Have to admit, I do find the Dog Mink tweets kind of funny.

Going back over the TFW topic with the motion promo pics, it is interesting to see that the letters were indeed noticed from the first three released around July 2nd (https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/transformers-war-for-cybertron-trilogy-siege-trailers.1189165/page-59#post-18045267), and after a few guesses with each set of reveals, the word "Kingdom" was one of the guesses when 6 and 7 were revealed (not that people knew that there would only be 7 promo pics at the time).

[nalops]

Wait, Netflix drops all the episodes at once right? I'm almost certain now that there's something Kingdom related in the final episodes most likely to do with the rumoured time travel plot. It's possibly why they decided to reveal it early since it was going to be known soon anyway taking into account that the release was delayed. Presumably we would've known a month ago if there had been no pandemic.

[Paulbot]

Wait, Netflix drops all the episodes at once right? I'm almost certain now that there's something Kingdom related in the final episodes most likely to do with the rumoured time travel plot. It's possibly why they decided to reveal it early since it was going to be known soon anyway taking into account that the release was delayed. Presumably we would've known a month ago if there had been no pandemic.

For all we know, the 90s Beast Wars cartoon might actually be in Netflix War For Cybertron Continuity.

There's nothing in the Beast Wars cartoon that clashes with anything we've seen in the Netflix previews, and in fact there's more evidence that Beast Wars is not in the 80s Cartoon or 80s Comic continuity.

[Trent]

It would appear that according to his twitter account, after Kingdom John Warden is moving on to Power Rangers.

[griffin]

It would appear that according to his twitter account, after Kingdom John Warden is moving on to Power Rangers.

I saw that noted on Siebertron (https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/john-warden-moving-on-from-transformers-brand/45009/), but didn't know if anyone here would know who he was.
(taking over Power Rangers just as Hasbro is shaking things up (https://www.theilluminerdi.com/2020/07/08/hasbro-end-power-rangers/) to start fresh, and a new movie on the way)

[Trent]

I saw that noted on Siebertron (https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/john-warden-moving-on-from-transformers-brand/45009/), but didn't know if anyone here would know who he was.
(taking over Power Rangers just as Hasbro is shaking things up (https://www.theilluminerdi.com/2020/07/08/hasbro-end-power-rangers/) to start fresh, and a new movie on the way)

It will be interesting to see what direction generations takes after Kingdom.

[nalops]

It will be interesting to see what direction generations takes after Kingdom.

I'm hoping they'll hibernate G1 for a while. It'd be cool if we got reimagined RID 2001 or even Unicron Trilogy toys since they're 15-20 years old at this point.

[Tha_Phantom]

I'm hoping they'll hibernate G1 for a while. It'd be cool if we got reimagined RID 2001 or even Unicron Trilogy toys since they're 15-20 years old at this point.

Keen!

[Zommael]

Revisiting Armada with full articulation and the Mini-Con gimmick would be pretty great, and still have that cross-generation appeal as it largely consists of vehicles.

[dirge]

I'm hoping they'll hibernate G1 for a while. It'd be cool if we got reimagined RID 2001 or even Unicron Trilogy toys since they're 15-20 years old at this point.

I'm hoping to see Huffer & Pipes done properly. After that, I really don't mind them taking a break from G1.

I'd be down for Car Robots! Sure, I have Valdigus, but I'd love see more of that line revisited (:

[nalops]

I'd be down for pretty much any of the combining bots except most of the Energon ones unless they did them well. A new Rail Racer/JRX or Omege Prime or Jet Optimus!? Sign me up!

[griffin]

Six days away from the first official reveal of Kingdom toys at the online Pulse Con, Hasbro has released a "blueprint" of the Ark on the Pulse site (https://hasbropulse.com/blogs/unboxed/transformers-war-for-cybertron-ark-blueprint)... maybe a hint at something they will be revealing for Kingdom, as a number of leaks recently have suggested that it might be the Titan class toy next year (often when something leaks, Hasbro rush out an official reveal soon after, if it isn't too far ahead of their release timeline, so this might just be a teaser for next weekend).
A copy of the blueprint can be found here (https://news.tfw2005.com/2020/09/18/transformers-war-for-cybertron-ark-blueprint-419764) when it eventually disappears from the Hasbro site.

[Bidoofdude]

A lot of people over on TFW and the like are expecting a robot mode for the Ark, but I'm not sure. I'm leaning towards it being a playset with no robot, which I would be perfectly fine with.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

A lot of people over on TFW and the like are expecting a robot mode for the Ark, but I'm not sure. I'm leaning towards it being a playset with no robot, which I would be perfectly fine with.One reasonably solid/possible idea I read was the bulk of the Ark being a playset, likely for the little guys, with part of it (someone suggested Teletraan I) being a deluxe-sized transformer, possibly a modulator. Personally if they were going to go that route I'd prefer to see the mini-shuttle from the last episode of Beast Wars as the included-Transformer with the playset, so as to leave the Ark proper as a screen-accurate-ish playset (i.e. no 'oh look now there's no Teletraan 1 when we transform the actual transformer') and as a nod to Beast Wars for the Kingdom G1-BW connection.

[griffin]

One of the first TV toy commercials found for Kingdom, featuring Optimus Primal...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=489Ta9-Q1b8