NY Toyfair images and info

[GoktimusPrime]

Devastator is beautiful; especially the individual Constructicons. Makes me want to display them as individual robots, but I know I'll display them combined simply due to space restrictions. Ultra Magnus looks pretty awesome too. Adding Minimus Ambus is just excellent!

Cyclonus -- robot looks rather chunky, but jet looks great. Doesn't personally interest me as I have both Universe and RtS Cycloni.
Warpath -- nice retool, but as I already have Generations Deluxe Warpath, I'll pass.

As freaking awesome as Viper looks, I'll be skipping him, since I have no place for him.

Next to Energon Snowcat?

[Trent]

Wow. That Ultra Magnus is so dreamy

Wow.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Holy freaking hell!


Oh man, I am going to be so freaking broke this year! For the first time I ever I've decided to buy doubles as I am loving the individual combiner wars figures as well as the gestalts. I NEEDS ME THAT Defensor and Devestator!


While it would be nice for Devestator to be in scale with the rest - I'm sure as hell not complaining that he is nice and huge! Plus the individual Constructicons as Voyager size makes sense compared to the rest of the line. In that sense its perfectly logical for the likes of Long Haul to be twice the size of First Aid. Groove becoming chest armor is a fanstastic idea!

Magnus looks brilliant, but I'm really excited for that Cyclonus - he look sexy as!

Massive props to you Hasbro - you've done very fricken well!

[M-bot]

Loving loving loving those reveals, especially Defensor/Protectobots. So very happy.

[AJ_Prime]

But "scrapper itself is bigger than g1 devs"... Why couldn't they make them smaller!

Let's call it mass shifting

I'm excited for Magnus with Ambus, that's a very nice touch and will fit beautifully into my IDW display.

Not that excited for anything else thankfully. The last year was full of budgetary negotiations with the wife... It'll be nice to have a small break from all that.

Still, there is a lot of nice product and it's great to see fans catered for in this next round of offerings. Thanks Hasbro for listening!

[Pipesqueak]

Ultra Magnus is the undisputed start of this show as far as I'm concerned.

Some of the Protectobots are very nice too, especially Streetwise, but Hot Spot and Blades are great too. Nothing against Rook, as he looks like a good figure, but the lack of a deluxe Groove is a big disappointment. The vehicle mode of First Aid as a rugged emergency vehicle instead of a traditional ambulance is fine, but the robot mode has an ugly backpack.

Cyclonus works in every respect expect the head design.

I'm reserving judgment on Devy. As has been mentioned, some of them have very suspect-looking elbows for such big figures. Long Haul's elbow joints appears to move sideways instead of up and down, for heaven's sake. Wish his head was black too. Not sure that size-wise there is a spot in my collection for these Constructicons.

As for RID, I know I'll be caving and getting a few of the deluxes including Jazz, Sideswipe and drift. Reckon I'll be combining Prime and RID collections and pretending they are one line.

[Gofigure]

It's.....it's like we are living in 1985. But an alternate version were transformers toys look just like the ones on the TV on Saturday mornings

Seriously though this is all outstanding. I give lots and lots of respect to hasbro for all of it. The amount of G1 product to choose from is actually quite incredible. My boys love the G1 DVDs so this has been met with a lot of excitement on viewing the pics on the ipad. Orders are going in for birthdays and Christmas as we speak.

Do we have any knowledge if most will hit Australian retail shelves?

[Paulbot]

Do we have any knowledge if most will hit Australian retail shelves?

The Australian toy fair is in a few weeks so we'll know more then.

But we could still end up with lots of wave 1 (already on shelves here) and 2 and few of the late waves per usual trend.

[GoktimusPrime]

I keep throwing money at my monitor, but nothing's happening!

[griffin]

No one posting any links? ... or just too busy drooling over your computer/device and shorting it out.


For links to the photos and info from the Hasbro exhibit and public presentation (in case they add more galleries later).

Presentation transcript details.

Generations Display - Legends - Deluxe - Voyager - Leader - Titan

RID Display

Kreo Display

Hero Mashers display



And official images, sent to some fansites.

Generations Constructicons/Devastator - Hook, Long Haul, Bonecrusher, Scavenger, Scrapper and Mixmaster (all the original names again!)

Generations Deluxe wave 3 (Protectobots) - Blades (redeco Alpha Bravo, new head), Streetwise (major reworked Deadend), First Aid (major reworked Offroad), Rook (new). (Streetwise name returning)

Generations Leader Wave 3 Ultra Magnus w/ Minimus Ambus

Generations Legends Wave 3 - Groove (new), Viper (redeco Powerglide to look like a GIJoe Rattler), Warpath (redeco Megatron)

Generations Voyager Wave 3 - Hot Spot (new - forms Defensor), Cyclonus (massively reworked Silverbolt - forms Galvatronus)


RID Legion Class wave 3 - Fixit, Underbite.

RID Mega One-Step Optimus Prime

RID Deployer w/ Minicon - Autobot Drift w/ Jetstorm, Fracture w/ Airazor.


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.