Toy Fair 2020 toy reveals.

[reillyd]

To be honest... I'm just waiting for Hubcap since BBTS shipped my Cliffjumpers today (:

Bet you're going to see it at retail before the mailman delivers ;p

I will probably buy Arcee as a completist, but I'm very happy with my 30th anniversary one and Titans Return Arcee. Both are really fun toys to transform, and accomplished it without shellforming. I'm more curious about what the Cyberverse Wave 2 Arcee looks like to be honest. This time tomorrow I'll probably know.

Likewise I was VERY happy with Combiner Wars Sky Lynx. But the base mode is something new and original we've never had before in a Sky Lynx, and might work well with Omega Spreem too. I'm hoping they show the two sets side-by-side at Toy Fair

[Bidoofdude]

Sky Lynx is so amazing, my CW one is going to the IDW reject shelf I guess. Couldn’t be happier with all the modes, plus the Nasa and Magnificence details on the shuttle. I’m glad they decided to do something with the big blue block from the lynx and make a launch bay/base.

Arcee’s robot form looks pretty nice, but the “hoverboard” is just plain unacceptable at this point. I know Arcee is virtually impossible to pull off with both modes together, but they didn’t even try. I’ll be sticking to my Legends deluxe, which did a pretty decent job.

While I think Scorponok is super cool, he’s a pass for me. I’ve skipped Headmasters-onwards characters up to now and didn’t get Fort Max, so he would be out of place alone.

[Omega Metro]

Definately keen for Sky-Lynx. Will have to see reviews first for Arcee. Scorponok not overly bothered.

[dirge]

Bet you're going to see it at retail before the mailman delivers ;p

I'm sure it'll turn up at the independents like Toyworld & Mr Toys before my parcel turns up. Of course, Sydney has few Toyworlds and none in my part of town... so I probably wont see him before the parcel comes. It's all Myer, K-Mart etc. And Fraser's Cycles who order new Transformers once a year...

Either way, I don't mind. If for whatever reason we don't get wave 1, I'm good. If we do, I'll probably grab myself a Wheeljack whom I wasn't keen enough on to pre-order (I did also pre-order Hoist).

[DELTAprime]

More actual non-retailer leak reveals today from Hasbro. Another Ramp Master, some Micromasters that have already been leaked, an Airwave based on the Airport playset the G1 Airwave was packaged with, another Datsun mould and another Megatron.

https://www.seibertron.com/transform...ir-2020/44529/

Directly revealed by Hasbro, Computer Renders of Earthrise....

Battlemaster - WFC-E39 - Decepticon Doublecrosser (another ramp alt-mode - a 2-headed bot like the Gen1 Autobot Doublecross) - October 1st
Micromaster 2-pack - WFC-E16 - Astro Squad (Fuzer (front) & Autobot Blast Master (rear) - space shuttle) - August 1st
(the Gen1 toys had the front bot called Phaser)
Micromaster 2-pack - WFC-E15 - Race Track Patrol (Decepticon Ground Hog (blue) & Roller Force (purple) - race cars) - August 1st
(the rendering colours could be off, as the car modes are the same as their Gen1 versions, but Gen1 Ground Hog was purple, and Roller Force was hot pink)
Deluxe - WFC-E20 - Smokescreen - August 1st
Deluxe - WFC-E18 - Airwave Modulator (a Decepticon, homaging the Gen1 Micromaster base that came with Airwave - same colours, just a lot brighter) - August 1st
Voyager - WFC-E38 - Megatron (tank, with a sword that homages the original Japanese Gen1 Megatron sword, but looks like it plugs into something else) - October 1st

[SMHFConvoy]

Loving that Airwave modulator, the most undecepticon colour scheme I've seen in some time.

[griffin]

Was there no preview dinner/breakfast this year?
Usually we have the chosen few American website owners invited to the NY Toyfair to join the Hasbro people at a pre-Toyfair event that shows off some of the items that will be on display inside the Fair... but I haven't seen anything yet.
The event starts today (it's currently 2am in New York), and they have already had the investor presentation (which you can see here - it doesn't reveal anything new for Transformers, as it talks more about the future of the Hasbro Corporation, and what Brands and performance to expect from them in the next 12 months).

So far all I can find is one person tweeting out a heap of photos of different exhibits (eight photos so far of the Transformer display - here for Generations/Studio Series and here for Cyberverse), from 14 hours ago, up to 5 hours ago (keeping in mind what time it is now in New York).

[DELTAprime]

Was there no preview dinner/breakfast this year?
Usually we have the chosen few American website owners invited to the NY Toyfair to join the Hasbro people at a pre-Toyfair event that shows off some of the items that will be on display inside the Fair... but I haven't seen anything yet.
The event starts today (it's currently 2am in New York), and they have already had the investor presentation (which you can see here - it doesn't reveal anything new for Transformers, as it talks more about the future of the Hasbro Corporation, and what Brands and performance to expect from them in the next 12 months).

So far all I can find is one person tweeting out a heap of photos of different exhibits (eight photos so far of the Transformer display - here for Generations/Studio Series and here for Cyberverse), from 14 hours ago, up to 5 hours ago (keeping in mind what time it is now in New York).

Maybe people's paranoia about the coronavirus has put off Hasbro from doing some of its normal events?

Next weekend is PAX East in Boston. People are pulling out of that sighting the coronavirus despite no real threat to America.

[llamatron]

Prepare to feel the sting of scorponok!

[griffin]

Still going through the Investor presentation...

The Netflix WFC cartoon will start showing in June (which I'm guessing would be accessible here as well if we get the same Netflix content here).
They were shown a trailer for the new cartoon, but it was not made public yet, so nothing was noted of its contents.

A new games console game was announced (it's been several years since the last one), called Doom of Cybertron, that may be part of Cyberverse. It will be released on the Nintendo Switch gaming console.
A Virtual Reality game was also announced as being in production, but no name or details were given.

Something I found interesting is that over the last ten years, Hasbro has sent over US$4 Billion of its profits to shareholders as dividends and buybacks. What a waste. They could have been investing it into their products (to make better quality toys), or keeping it as part of their warchest to buy up assets or brands, or even buy out rivals to make them too big of a target for takeover (and to have more assets and cash on hand if a sudden financial speedbump suddenly hit them).
Obviously this being an investor presentation, Hasbro are wanting to make their business sound even more profitable to their share-holders, to make sure that they keep their shares and don't suddenly sell off a large amount, driving down the share price (which would look like the business is losing value, despite nothing actually changing with its sales and profit numbers). It is also meant to appeal to potential investors, so that they fight over the shrinking number of shares to drive up their price (for the benefit of people like the boss of Hasbro who would have a lot of shares given to him as part of his salary).

One thing I found surprising was this slide, that admits how much Hasbro America makes on their toys when they sell them to retailers - 61.7%.
That means that the total cost of producing a toy and having it in their American warehouse to ship off to a retailer is just 38.3% of the wholesale price... the other 61.7% is profit that pays their American staff (including designers), American office expenses (including the buildings), product development, marketing, taxes, shareholder payments and warchest profits.
So if a retailer was to buy a (large) item for $100 (which they would then sell for about $150 at the usual markup rate of RRPs), that $150 retail toy only cost Hasbro a total of $38.30 to manufacture it and have it arrive at their warehouse from Asia. Just take a look at the percentage cost of "Resins" which is the plastics in the toys, just 5.1% of the wholesale cost of a toy (on average), which is less than the cost of the packaging and instructions (6.8%).
Obviously, toys sold outside of America have different cost, like no product development and limited additional marketing, offsetting the commission that get paid back to America for selling their products in other countries.