On the second day of SDCC there was the IDW panel (yet to be posted), and the Women of Transformers panel (which continues the recent theme in the regular media of the heavy Female element in Transformers this year)

Panelists: Mairghread Scott (writer on Windblade, Combiner Wars, Combiner Hunters, Prime, and Robots in Disguise), Corin Howell (artist on Windblade and Combiner Wars), Georgia Ball (writer on Robots in Disguise), Sarah Carrol (Hasbro Transformers Global Brand Marketing), Sara Pitre-Durocher (artist on Combiner Hunters), moderated by Roaslind Morehead
• Windblade Volume 2 is ending with issue #7
• New ongoing series announcement! - TRANSFORMERS TILL ALL ARE ONE - Coming March 2016
• Written by Mairghread Scott, Art by Sara Pitre-Durocher
• Will still feature Windblade
• Takes place on Cybertron, Some characters will return, Will be set in an iconic city
• Panelists were introduced to Transformes by watching/reading the older fiction
• Windblade was intended to be a “gateway series” for newer fans
• Character designs are intended to reflect who they are as a character and where they come from
• Victorion – they see it as an opportunity to expand the universe - will feature in different things
• Windblade series was focused on Windblade herself, didn’t have time to feature the rest of the cast that much
• Emphasis on gender in the franchise is to help the audience relate to the characters
• Talking about the gender debate in the fandom, and the use of pronouns. Again, they’re used to help the audience relate to the characters
• A new female Decepticon will be introduced in the future
• Fans requesting the gender to be female – happened with Windblade and now Victorion, fathers have been asking for more female Transformers to appeal to their daughters
• Victorion is a big, strong bot with many sides to her personality
• Says it’s a challenge to get diversity into the brand, but the TF franchise in its current state has a lot more diversity compared to other franchises
• Says Barber took a chance putting the ladies on the comics
• Beast Wars issue/designs by Howell – Cheetor, Dinobot, Manta Ray, Sonar, Airazor, Tigatron, possibly Blackarachnia (might be part of a faction if she appears), will also be water buffalo/dragonfly beastformers
• Talking about relationships – Ironhide/Chromia, Tigatron/Airazor
• May be partly inspired by Jurassic World, as Howell saw the movie before working on the script
• Alien planet, so the beast modes may look a bit different
And a couple of the licensed products news...

3A statues.

Loyal Subjects.