SG Cybertron Convention coverage

[swoop]

And nothing confirmed but TT is looking into it is MP Soundwave and Shockwave.

And its only the second day. Any other good news valkyrie?

[fatbot]

It's been confirmed that the next MP will be Sideswipe, then maybe Soundwave. They are also looking into reissuing Fort Max

[gamblor916]

It's been confirmed that the next MP will be Sideswipe, then maybe Soundwave. They are also looking into reissuing Fort Max

A red Lamborghini and giant tape deck? Please let it be so

[SharkyMcShark]

I don't have words for how excited I'd be for a red Lamborghini done in the Masterpiece style.

Hoping they're doing a more recent one like a Murcielago or Aventador but I'd settle for a Countach.

[Quickstrike]

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transf...on-2012-a.html

loads of cool sort of new asia exclusive stuff!

Some of this stuff is so weird! There's some potentially cool stuff there though. Wheelie could be great. He looks cool in my mind anyway.

[Paulbot]

MP Sideswipe isn't a Movie Masterpiece I hope!?! I'll be all over a MP Sideswipe that's cartoon accurate. I'll even buy a yellow repaint with a new head and no other changes if needed. I love the brothers.

And the possibility of a reissue of Fort Max?! This convention just keeps giving. Who needs BotCon I'm going to Singapore next year.

[kup]

From Big daddy number 1 boss Roller!.

Day 1 report for Cybertron Con Sentosa


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8XkSPb1jEQ


I woke up at 5am and got down to the Resorts World building on Sentosa island. Even though it was early, there were about 10 other fans waiting there. I met ran into a fan I had met yesterday while toy hunting at the China town square. A Phillipino fan named Allen.

About and hour later we all got into a line and waited and waited. We all wanted to be the first 100 so we could get the specially numbered optimus toys.

After more waiting a lot more people began to arrive. Then the media showed up and I was interviewed by 4 different media outlets. Since im a crazy mofo the various cameramen kept getting shots of me looking like a madman and I kept getting my new mates around me to cheer as well.

I then met up with Valkyrie, he came later as he wanted to sleep in. He had to wait for the general admission.



The Kreon mascots began walking around, with very sexy ladies in matching colours on their arms. I can forgive Optimus for leaving Elita 1 if he had that Chinese gal



The official opening began with a couple of cadets doing a ceremonial gun swinging exercise, they were throwing them in the air and spinning them. To really stupid girly music I might add. Then the bloke who runs Resorts world and some deputy of Universal studios spoke, very boring corporate stuff, a very basic mention of the franchise. After the speeches, an allSpark cube rose from the podium, very cool!

Then the first 20 in line were ushered in, we were led down down down into the depths of the building. The con is held in a basement level. We were told to wait in a corridor, 1 malay told the staff off, we had been waiting since the early hours of the morn and the bloke reasoned we needed a toilet break. So the staff said yes. Man the toilets are nice at Resorts world! What you would expect of a 5 star place. They even have a coolie in the sink area to clean up.

Bit of a stuff up on the organizers part. The VIPs were told to come forward and get there Kreo special and lanyards. Then instead of being let in, we had to rejoin the que. I just jumped back in my spot, I was no.12 in line and wasn’t going to the back.



We were finally let into the Con, as you enter there are walls with the TF timeline on them , short facts about each era, and cabinets of toys.





I ran past them all to the Merchandise zone, I got my Singapore Optimus and the media asked me to open mine on camera. Im a media whore My optimus is number 91, they were all randomly numbered, so even if you were first in line, you may not get no.1





I then looked at the merch. Surprisingly there was a lot of old toys. Beast Wars through to the contemporary line. And Henkeis for fifty dollars AuD.

I bought some stickers and keychains. I don’t have the cargo room to lug back a cheap Ehobby Gadep or Takara Unicorn I did see a see through BW Optimus that was cool.



Then lined up to the autograph signing by Yoketron hideyaki, youknow, the takara jap designer guy.

That line took about 50 mins, so bloody long. The sexy journo lady who interviewed me earlier brought a chap from the Straits Times to interview me. Same questions, where you from? Why you here? What do you expect? How much are you going to spend?



I fibbed and said I was going to spend heaps. Gotta play the part eh?

A Singaporean fan 2 in front of me realized he had the no.1 Optimus. His name is Boon.

Got Yoketron sans ink on my toy box. Sort of got a snap with him.



Then at 11.37 the MC announced that of the first specially numbered optimus primes, only 6 were left. So I guess the 100 people in the line, some were just waiting with their kids or mates, as it was only 1 optimus per customer.

Met up with Valk, we had a sit down, our legs are dead! I then went back into the merch area and saw that a lot of the vintage stuff was flying off the shelves. So many people, litereally hundreds. So I grabbed Ehobby blue cassessttes for $70. Met an expat kid from Oz, he had lived in Singapore for 15 of his 22 yrs. Says its great for toy collectors.

Then Valk and I had a look at the Timeline walls near the entrance, very impressive artwork. Most of it DW but looks cool when big. We chatted with a Malaysian fan who knows about Heroic deception.

Valk and I then had a quick lunch of tacos. He bought a Classics dragstrip for $19 off some kid.

We looked over at the Merch zone, it was swamped. They were asking people to be careful. Staff kept restocking the place with newere toys and shirts.

We went to the Hasbro Brand and Developments product panel

The Hasbro reps were Jerry Jivoin and Aaron archer, the Takara team were Yoketron and some other bloke, and a woman named Rei Ikizawa, Im not sure if she was a translator or part of the marketing team.

Hasbro said in 2012 they will be expanding on Digital gaming forTfs, digital books, Virtual worlds and new tv shows ( I assume they mean Prime season 2)

In May the exclusive Evac toy will be sold only in Universal studios. Also exclusive Deluxe optimus and BB and deluxe truck movie megatron will be sold. I think these are asian exclusives, maybe just the packaging is exclusive.

2 New games will be released, 1 wasn’t named. Produced by Dragex and Net dragon.

The Net Dragon 1 will be called “TF evolution” with 4 characters to play as , multi platform and expected 2013.

The also showed the superbowl trailer. Also a trailer for ‘TF evolution’ in Chinese.

Tf rescue bots was touched on, the trailer looked good. I thought it funny how JJ kept referring to children as ‘younger consumers’ Talk about snaring them in young with yer brand recognition Hasbro.

For the Kreo Line, 7 new buildsets expected. A kreo devastator was shown, 2 different pics, 1 was of a pilot and 1 was of wat looked like an actual combined Devastator in kreo form. The stop motion trailer was the best !!! so funny! It features BB and sam at traffic lights , some homeboy with doof doof music rocks up and jacks his car, then bb transforms and dances ,funny as baz!

In regards to PRIME , JJ says he grew up with G1 but Prime is the “best transformers series that’s ever been created.” Thunderous applause.

Some new toys will be released called ‘Weaponisers’ a prime and BB were showm, basically cannons pop out from their shoulders.

Possibily a Canada and Asian exclusive is the ‘Entertainment pack’ it had a Prime starscream and some Autobot with 2 human army figures.

Also remote control BB and CJ, that the remote can transform will be released.

For CYBERVERSE line, expect a wheeljack with Starhammer toy, and a Driller ship, both can light up when you transform them.

Optimus Maximus was shown in box and it can carry 9 cyberverse figures. Likely release “Fall of 2012” according to JJ.

BOT SHOTs the Sentinel Prime figure will be a chase toy. Clear bumblebee will also be Chase in wave 2. Acid storm is another rare one as its only 1 per every 3 pack or something, not very clear, but its going to be rare. They showed online screenshots of a new Botshots online game.



For GENERATIONS the Fall of Cyberyton trailer was shown, lots of applause.



tiny legends toys will be recoloured and be asian exclusives. So hoist from the Trailcutter mould. Deadend from Breakdown and a new Deluxe wheelie prototype was shown, looks damn good.

It was all grey but nice.



The sort of said off hand that there will be a 2013 Cybertron Con, but im wondering if that will be in Universal studios America for their ride.



Some FOC toys that will be coming out will be a deluxe Starscream, Jazz. They said that this was the 1st time they revealed this cool news.

Then Q and A time

JJ kinda got pissed at some fans question about the possibility ofHasbro working with 3rd party groups. He said no and that 3rd party stuff was “sensitive to Hasbro”

The colours Of FOC Bruticus was sort of addressed. They said they might change the colours again before release. “Fine tuning and feedback from the boards” was something that JJ said that Hasbro had looked into.

As for unreleased toys from Movie and Animated, JJ said that Hasbro would keep tabs on unrealsided toys and see if that can get them out someday.

A question regarding G1 reissues was answered quickly, no immediate plans for G1 reissues from Hasbro, Takara team said nothing.

Some loud kid asked what was the best toy that Yoketron had ever made. He laughed and asked the kid what was his favorite toy. Then said that recently he liked the VEhicon from the PRIME line he said “Vehicon, really cool” it was funny, hes kinda like Mr Miyagi.

Hasbro said that the reason there is no DOTM Dino toy is cause Ferrarri rejected their contract.

Beast wars was brought up, some bloke asking of any plans for Beast wars toys in thefuture. Captain Jonathan Archer said that while the line was close to him, Hasbro was concentrating on trying to keep the variety in TFs, to try and keep all the different fans happy. So inconclusive answer.

A fan asked about Tf Victory, the possibility of any reissue toys. Ms Ikizawa said if lots of fans made it clear there was interest they would consider it.

We looked at some of the customizer displays and the timeline wall. I still haven’t seen it all, will do it another day.

Then we got our photo with the optimus statue, you take the photo ontop of scaffolding, as optimus is like 2 stories tall, officially 22feet tall. I wonder how many metres that is.



We then went home as we were exhausted, got a cheap leg massage grabbed some roti canai and burger king and hit the hay.

So a very exciting day, the place was buzzing, thousands of people at the Con, met some nice fans. For the space inside the con, they should have had more stuff going on. They only have 1 media area, for movies and shows etc. It doesn’t have enough seating. Also the Merch area is too small and badly organized. 1 cashier for toys and 1 for stickers etc, so stupid lah!

[fatbot]

MP Sideswipe isn't a Movie Masterpiece I hope!?! I'll be all over a MP Sideswipe that's cartoon accurate. I'll even buy a yellow repaint with a new head and no other changes if needed. I love the brothers.

And the possibility of a reissue of Fort Max?! This convention just keeps giving. Who needs BotCon I'm going to Singapore next year.

I can't put the link on as I'm posting from my phone, but it's been announced as Lambor, the movie characters all kept their Anglo names




EDIT

Robot kingdom just posted a photo on facebook, it is G1 sideswipe, I'll put the link up when I get home

[valkyrie_76]

And its only the second day. Any other good news valkyrie?

No nothing else and I dont think there will be anything else for the rest of the convention. I will be heading to the ride tomorrow at Universal Studios and seeing what else there is.

*snip*

And the possibility of a reissue of Fort Max?! This convention just keeps giving. Who needs BotCon I'm going to Singapore next year.

Rumour is the next convention might either be next year or the year after but in China. It might coincide with the next movie.

And with the reissude Fort Max, its still at least two years away and things could have change either for the good or bad but with the new movie coming out and the TF franchise going gangbusters we may get it. TakaraTomy did say that they do try and listen to what the fans want but sometimes costs and being able to make the moulds/toys can restrain what they want to give out.

On another point, I do like the weapon microns. I did take some better pics of the microns themselves and I also do like how they can combine and create new and larger weapons.


*edit*
Oh I forgot, during the TT panel, they also mentioned that they will release Breakdown but I forgot to bring the pics so Ill do that tomorrow. There was nothing from the Hasbro side for this.

[Sky Shadow]

A lot of clever redecos. The only one I know for sure I will buy is Power Dive (I'm guessing they couldn't get the rights for 'Ransack'.)