Final chapter of the Prime Wars trilogy. Combiner Wars, Titans Return - now going as big as they can get: Transformers Gods. Fan poll (Megatron skit interrupting again) was mentioned, as a candidate in the poll to Optimus Primal (some very cool art shown, including some from the Covenant of Primus). Each Prime has an ability and an artefact, but faded becoming legend - until now.
Mysterious characters called Prime Masters are spark bearers, connecting to others to bestow godlike powers.
Prime Masters
Skullgrin shown, as spark of Liege Maximo. Each comes with a collectable card, 12 in total. Cards are part of the story. Each Prime Master hides in a Decoy Suit (5$ price point), who turn into weapons.
Legends
Beachcomber shown, can hold Prime Masters in seat.
Deluxe
Dreadwind & Blackwing combine into superjet Dreadwing
Jazz
Voyager
Starscream - also has 'secret powers', as seen in previous gallery post.
Leader
Rodimus Prime - able to evolve from Hot Rod to Rodimus Prime, as G1/ 1986 accurate as possible, Matrix can worn inside the chest, can be interchanged with other Leader sparks.
(Megatronus, Amalgamous Prime from Aligned Continuity both mentioned)
Prime Masters are new across the line play system: ride Legends, worn on chest by Deluxes, worn on arms by Voyagers, Matrix by Leaders.
More will be shown at Hascon, but some packaging mock-ups of art shown leading into the Machinima series part of the panel.
Machinima Titans Return
125bln views for Combiner Wars
First new character seen and shown on show will be Trypticon. Nothing new to show yet, but they did reiterate a sizzle reel/teaser trailer from the new cast, as announced
here, featuring Jason David Frank, Wil Wheaton, Michael Dorn, MatPat, Peter Cullen, Nolan North, Judd Nelson, Jason Marnocha, Frank Todaro and more!
Ten episodes confirmed, then interrupted by Megatron spoof commercial for Trypticon's Titan Master Crunch, with exclusive poster available during the convention.
Hall of Fame
Favourite TF Character finalists
-Blackarachnia
-Galvatron
-Cyclonus
Favourite TF Movie Character finalists
-Barricade
-Hound
-Optimus Prime
Toy of the Year 2017 finalists
-Titans Return Deluxe Triggerhappy
-Titans Return Titan Class Trypticon
-Titans Return Deluxe Topspin
Winners will be announced at Hascon.
SDCC 2017 Exclusives
Primitive Skateboarding Optimus Prime with Shreddicus Maximus
The Last Knight Voyager Optimus Prime, plus official Western Star tire shard from movies (Megatron interrupts, seems happy to own a piece of Optimus Prime at least)
Q&A
Where is Titans Return Arcee? Hold tight, something might happen in Power of the Primes.
Will Masterpiece Dinobot see US release? Stay tuned.
Are we ever going to get a Bludgeon figure, in Decoy Suit style? Stay tuned.
Which is your favourite toy (kid question)? John: Cogman and Trypticon, I feed him every day. Ben: Leader Megatron.
Any plans for Decepticons in Masterpiece Movie Line? Great things in store, good reception of the line.
No plans for movie line exclusive repaints, like SDCC 2016 Dinobot set.
Any plans for classic Combiners, like Predaking, or IDW characters? Stay tuned, we know they're popular. No more plans for Nautica right now, we're aware of stories and interest.
What
is planned for that Power of the Primes Starscream mold? Many, many things in store.
Response to QA issues with Trypticon, and limited distribution of the Titans Return boxsets? May have been isolated incidents, but it has been reported and it is being looked into right now. Warden has been made to do the splits. Same is being done for latter, with possible reissues down the line, but nothing confirmed.
