SDCC Transformers GENERATIONS & EXCLUSIVES News and reveals

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So...

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

How about some Victorion!?

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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)

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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.

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

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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)

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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.

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One announcement at SDCC is that there will be some sort of animation being done for Combiner Wars by a company called Machinima... but it is rather vague as to what format it will take, or how/where it will be broadcast. (and the details of what the company does was rather confusing, as they seem to do a wide variety of things)

“The Transformers are coming to Machinima.
Hasbro, the toy company-now-play brand, has partnered with the online gamer and video platform to produce a new animated series based on its Transformers: Combiner Wars line.
Combiner Wars is a storyline that has been playing out across Hasbro’s toys and IDW comic books for the past year and the upcoming Activision video game Transformers: Devastation.
Insiders say it’s the first time these many synergistic elements have been combined by Hasbro to tell an overall story.
Additionally, Habsro is giving something a segment of its large Transformers audience has been demanding for years, namely an animated series aimed at an older audience.
“Our audiences are huge fans of the toy, comics, movies and video games, and for us to continue the legend with the Combiner War is a unique story-telling opportunity,” said CCA Daniel Tibbets.
Said Hasbro’s senior vp of the Transformers franchise, Tom Warner: “(Machinima is) the perfect partner to help launch a totally new kind of Transformers animation—one that, for the first time ever, is specifically designed for the teen and adult fans who’ve grown up loving the Transformers brand.”
Without going to deep into the complexities of the Transformers universe, Combiner Wars saw groups of Transformers be able to combine into one giant robot, known as a Combiner. Superion and Menasor were among the new robots that held the fate of the Transformers’ homeworld Cybertron in their hands.”

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We also get a closer look at the new feet for Victorion, and it sounds like they will be used on other combiners as well.

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The Hasbro Generations presentation has now occurred, and photos from the presentation can be seen here, along with a new trailer for the Devastation game, featuring Grimlock, Shockwave, Blitzwing and Insecticons.

Some of the more interesting items that weren't revealed at BotCon a couple weeks ago...

A Gen2 Menasor confirmed, to go with Superion that was revealed a couple hours beforehand.

The names of Victorion's team members - Dustup (Deadend car), Jumpstream (Breakdown car), Stormclash (mostly red helicopter), Skyburst (mostly green helicopter), Pyra Magna (firetruck), Rust Dust (motorcycle).
Victorion will be released "sometime next year".

2016 wave 1 Voyager (to be released with Onslaught) is Scattorshot, who forms Betatron (not Computrton) with existing Deluxes (the slide shows the Autobot cars from 2015 wave 4). It is another heavy remould of the Silverbolt toy.
There was a blacked out square on Voyager Onslaught's slide at BotCon, so now we know who it was being released with him for wave 1 next year.

Masterpiece Starscream being re-released in October in America... and no mention of Sideswipe, so maybe it has been cancelled. (it was noted at BotCon 2014 that it would be out this year with Bluestreak)

Platinum Edition Trypticon and Blaster/Perceptor will be Target exclusives in America in August.

(that looks to be it)

The RID presentation is in another three hours.

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From the same link as above...

A Q&A session followed:
No plans for Dinobots Combiner
No plans for Predaking, or beast combiners in general.
Cannot conform MP-28 is Hound
The reason for the differences between Hasbro and Takara’s Devastators was basically cost.
The reason for not doing Prowlastator was because Hasbro wanted to give fans a G1 version of Devastator.
No plans to make toys of the Decepticon Justice Division.