NY Toyfair images and info

Pretty much drooling. I'm all for this new type of retooling. Gone seems to be the exchange of heads. We may be getting Sandstorm-esque retools for a while now. :)

I had to look up this mini robot for Ultra Magnus, but ignoring that I am in love with UM. Will be so great to have him in the CHUG collection even if he may be a tad larger than some of the other characters already around him

Devy looks better in each shot and has moved into a "i'll get him" position, even though he will need to be carefully positioned in a collection as I still think he is far too large (46cm vs 34cm for Superion)

Loving the individual robots for Defensor, but not Defensor himself at the moment. Not sure why.

RID toys have me worried that we will again not see many Decepticons - only Steeljaw so far in the Warrior class assortment. As much as I like some, not following the cartoon for toys annoys.

Love the Kreo Battle Changers, how I wish they were sold locally

So sold on those Protectobots. Would have liked an actual ambulance alt-mode for First Aid, but the robot mode looks good enough I can let it go. Groove looks great.
And yeah, credit to Hasbro for good retooling.

Looks very much like Hot Spot will be retooled into an Onslaught at some point as people have been predicting, though looking at the way they've done the head for Defensor I'm curious how they'll be able to make a Bruticus out of it if they keep the G1-esque cannons/'missile truck' alt-mode.
Really hoping Brawl will get a tank alt-mode, rather than being an APC retool of Rook.

Want to like Cyclonus, but just not feeling it. The head, the same blocky undercarriage, the square shoulders...I'm quite a fan of Cyclonus and this is just a few steps short.

Magnus is brilliant, especially the Ambus figure. I'm still happy with my Classics/City Commander version, but it's nice to see Hasbro putting stuff like this out there, especially so soon after MP Magnus.

Same thing as many of us with the Constructicons - pleasantly surprised at how well they turned out, but they're just too big for my collection. Again, I'm glad Hasbro are doing it, but it's a pass for me.

Thanks for the links Griffin

It's all too much to consume. So much win. What a year.

That Ultra Magnus makes me feel funny. I can't believe I've wanted a character so badly that I've never cared for before!

My thoughts:


Hot Spot - Excellent in both modes! :D

First Aid - Like the alt mode, really like the robot mode! :D

Streetwise - Excellent looking body, interesting the colour scheme is kinda like the Asia Kids day Streetsmart on the alt mode

Rook - nice but not particularly excited

Blades - what we were all expecting. Why cant Blades ever have some swords as weapons :confused:? His names is Blades and he loves hand to hand combat!

Groove - nice alt mode, kinda looks like the hoverbikes Prowl and Chromedome used to ride. Not a fan of the robot mode but still better than G1 - gone from no legs to too leggy :rolleyes: I really love that they found a way to have him a part of Defensor though.

Cyclonus - I didn't even realise this was a retool of Silverbolt until I noticed his gun. That alt-mode is damn sexy, though Im not a massive fan of the bot head.

Ultra Magnus - very cool, but I'd have been more excited if I hadn't just gotten MP Magnus

Warpath - I love Warpath so glad to see him, though I think he has had some better and more accurate figures based on him in the last decade

Viper - meh, dont really care

Constructicons - just fan-f'ing-tastic! I have some very minor quibbles with Bonecrushers and Long Hauld bot modes and Mixmasters alt mode but they are very minor. They are all just great and Devestator just looks so damn good! :D

RID & Rescuebots: With all the combiner wars toys I don't really care about these ones at the moment. The big RID Optimus is kinda cool as I'm a sucker for an Optimus with a trailer.

More official images have been posted up since my post earlier this morning...

(some of the official images and info from Toyfair can have their own news topics - and some already do... I've just been posting all these together to make it easier for me, and anyone else, to find all the info later)


RID Warrior Wave 3 - Autobot Jazz, Sideswipe

RID Minicon single pack - Autobots Slipstream, Akita, Buzzsaw, and Beast Box, and Decepticons Sliver, Dragonus, Ratbat and Scorpion.

RID One-Step Wave 3 - Drift, Fracture, Thunderhoof.

RID Hyper Change (3-step) - Steeljaw. (I guess Hasbro have gone back to calling this size class as Three-Step Changers... which was what they labelled it in the beginning, then used Hyper Change later.)

RID Super 3-Step - Bumblebee


I was just noticing the release dates on some of these, from the press release in the first post. The Minicons, Minicon Deployers, Super One-Step and Mega One-Step are all listed as "Fall", which often means any time from mid-year... depending on the demand from Retailers and their production rates to keep up or get ahead.

Same with the Generations Devastator, and Rescue Bots High Tide.

Woke up in bed to the news and was too busy drooling over the display pics on my phone..

So, no elbow for Scrapper confirmed:( I get it that his arms have to be able to support half of the combiner weight but considering these are going for a standard voyager price each, and with that kind of budget I don't see why they couldn't have engineered a way around it.

I'd still be getting the set though. Devastator was the only complete combiner I had when I was a kid and my dad went out of the way to track down each individual one for me. Looking at the stock photos just brings me back in time: they remind of the old g1 package art. They just ooze geewuness.

It's a good time to be a Transformer fan.

The Tformers gallery with the entire display at one link/location (130 photos).

Also, this looks like a freebie item Hasbro were giving out to Retailers (and maybe non-retailer attendees)... a "Winter" edition of Kreon of Optimus with skis and snow-gear paint apps.


I'm a little surprised that they only revealed the next wave for Generations (and RID), but not the remaining few, including the ones that we already know about, like Legends Skywarp, Legends Rodimus, Voyager Optimus Maximus (the white redeco), and Onslaught.

And if we are getting Onlsaught (from Hot Spot), should that also mean Combaticons as well... and if so, that would mean more than the numbers that were announced at NYCC, which may have been their original plans if the line wasn't more popular than originally estimated. (Armada was underestimated by Hasbro - which ended up having delays to produce more stock, and extra redecos were added at the end just to meet the unexpected demand).


The Constructicons have some odd proportions, but considering the triple-changer nature of the toys, plus adding in articulation for both individual and combined modes (over the original figure) and keeping all modes resembling the originals, I think that's about as balanced as they will be able to get it. Mixmaster is probably the odd one out in vehicle mode... while Long Haul looks a bit stocky in robot mode.

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Originally Posted by griffin

Colour me impressed... really impressed. Some of these reworked Generations moulds are more than just a head-swap of old... we have extensive panel replacements on some, to look like a whole new toy for collectors and non-collectors.
Silverbolt into Cyclonus... here I was thinking that would look so stupid with just a new head and purple plastic, but Cyclonus has all new panelling on the top of the plane mode (nose, tail, wings), and a completely new robot chest front to go with the new head. The only things kept are elements that collectors wouldn't even notice (arms and legs, and the internal engineering to transform it).
Deadend into Streetwise... not just a new head and roof lights, but other extra panels swapped out as well. Same with Offroad into First Aid. Above and beyond their minimum requirements before when recycling moulds to do "redecos".... which would cheapen it for the dedicated collectors.
Even Leader Thundercracker had more swapped out parts than I was expecting.
These sorts of changes will make collectors want to buy them in addition to the original versions, and make non-collectors see them both at the store and probably not even realise that both packs have the same "core" toy inside.
When you ignore the Legends class, which is probably harder to swap out parts when doing a forced redeco (Optimus into Hound, Megatron into Warpath), the way they have reused the moulds in the larger size classes to almost look like new toys, it is not only respecting the dedicated collectors who might be a fan of certain characters to want a proper homage toy, but also provides the Retailers with something that looks like new product, without creating a new product from scratch.
(I guess if you think about it, GEN Jhiaxus and Chromia were probably a test to see how effective it was swapping out a massive amount of parts and panels, to make a toy that looked different enough from the original to look like a whole new toy, but still work as a toy for that character.)

Very nicely done.

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This trend of extensive retooling is brilliant. As a collector I appreciate the effort. Thought may be the cost of retooling an existing mold has gone down to be economically viable to do on a regular basis. When Sandstorm happened, I really thought it was a well planned out one-time sort of thing.