SDCC Transformers GENERATIONS & EXCLUSIVES News and reveals

[Hursticon]

So...

Anyone for Hasbro Giftsets? - Generation 2 Giftsets!?!
(Courtesy of TFW2005.com )

How about some Victorion!?

[griffin]

Beat me to it... but nice mirroring of images.

I think this is a new feature this year for Hasbro at SDCC - a Breakfast preview... in addition to the Dinner preview the night before. The SDCC is certainly becoming a huge promotional medium now, being padded out as much as possible.

As noted at TFW (who kept spelling the fan-vote toy as Victorian... so I guess it is Australian after all ), these two combiners will be boxsets, and not likely to be exclusive to any retailer. (they are probably going to be like Quickslinger and Brakeneck, and be an online exclusive to whomever wants them)

The Victorian weapons are from the Cosmic Rust episode in Generation 1 and combine.

The molds being used for Victorian are: Hot Spot (new head sculpt)
Alpha Bravo x 2 (new molded arms)
Dead End (new head sculpt)
Breakdown (new head sculpt)
Groover (legends mold)


The G2 Superion set will include all five original team members plus Powerglide!

We can also expect more news about more possible G2 combiners this weekend.


The molds being used for Superion should be no surprise:
Silverbolt
Air Raid
Fireflight (Firefly)
Skydive
Slingshot (Quickslinger)

I think it is great that they are using the Quickslinger mould for the G2 Slingshot.

The colours on the Gen2 Superion look great for being very reminiscent of the original toys.
However the colours on Victorion were giving me a headache after looking at all the TFW photos. I think the final version will be a little duller, but the green/red colours clash way too much.

I guess it was a result of the fan-vote, but I don't like there being two Alpha Bravo moulds in the set. It ruins the variety, and is probably the worst of the Combiner Deluxes so far in terms of alt-mode appearance and engineering (in my mind).

Love the Supererion set... not so much for Victorion.
(and excited for the suggestion that there could be more Gen2 deco sets to come... as a Gen2 Defensor and Menasor would be a dream come true for all the fans who could never have the originals)

[griffin]

The two presentations are scheduled for..
Transformers Generations Panel – Thursday July 9 @ 11:00am (4am Friday Eastern Australia time)

Transformers: Robots in Disguise Panel – Thursday July 9 @ 3:00pm (8am Friday Eastern Australia time)

So by the time most of you get up in the morning, we should have a heap of new product reveals and Display Booth photos... hopefully.

[Sinnertwin]

they should just bite the bullet and make a combiner with alpha bravo as all of the limbs and weapon. Feet and hands too

[griffin]

Looks like TFW has completely crashed from the peak of people in America who were logging in to see what was on display at SDCC.
About an hour ago there were about 4000 people on there and it was already showing some database errors... so I might have to post up some Seibertron links as well as a backup.

(remember when BotCon used to cause internet meltdown like this, for all the news being revealed at that convention... before FunPub ruined its reputation)

[griffin]

Some Transformers Pez dispensers were given to people at the Breakfast event, which should be released soon, if not already... but probably only in America.

[TAAUBlaster]

The Superion G2 set is pure love

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

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MP Starscream re-release confirmed - yay!
New cartoon - yay!

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No Technobot limbs?
No Predacons or Terrorcons?
No DJD? Kind of expected, but still a shame.
Victorion's colour scheme is...well, terrible. Red makes for a good base colour, but doesn't really work with turquoise. Nice weapon and new hands though.

No news on that long-rumoured Legends Sharkticon and Kickback I take it?

[UltimateGalvatron]

Victorian sounded so good, a fem-bot combiner....
and Hasbro ruined it Her colours are SOOOOOO bad. Hopefully they are only pre-production models and the actual ones will look better.

G2 Superion however, looks good. I will get Scattor/Scattershot, although I don't know who he will combine with though.
Yay another MP release for people like me who only just got into the hobby.

Also...

No Predaking.

EDIT: Victorian does look a bit better combined then as individual bots. I like the hands and sword and the feet.

[CBratron]

Victorian sounded so good, a fem-bot combiner....
and Hasbro ruined it Her colours are SOOOOOO bad. Hopefully they are only pre-production models and the actual ones will look better.

EDIT: Victorian does look a bit better combined then as individual bots. I like the hands and sword and the feet.

Actually not quite Hasbro's fault. The fans voted on colour scheme.
but yes , it is eye bleedingly vibrant.