2016 Toyfair Australia Transformers exhibit

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Wrapping up the 2016 Toyfair Australia coverage, from the Preview event, comes the photos from the Transformers display in the Toyfair, plus our
Q&A with Hasbro (mostly about product we will or wont see here).

On Saturday March 19th, at the 2016 Australian Toyfair in Melbourne, the Ozformers fansite was lucky enough to attend for the ninth year, to visit
the Hasbro exhibit. Once again we were allowed to take photos of their display and ask some questions about upcoming products.
Plus, this year we had a lunchtime fan preview event, with several local fans invited to personally meet up with one of the Australian Reps, and a
Hasbro employee from America who works with modelling and engineering at the Rhode Island office of various games and toys.
Hasbro America had authorised us to officially reveal the Titans Return Astrotrain and Ravage toys at the preview event, while the Hasbro
Australian rep brought with him for us to play with, the Voyager Galvatron toy and Crashbash Titanmaster, along with the Combiner Wars Gen2 Bruticus.


Following the lunch preview event, we headed into the Melbourne Convention Centre and straight into the Hasbro exhibit.
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Inside the main entrance to the Hasbro exhibit, this Transformers advertising was the first thing you see. It has the three release dates
along the bottom of the wall.


The Transformers display. Combiner Wars on the left, RID at the back and Titan Wars on the right and on the middle table. Rescue Bots were on the
other side of the Hasbro exhibit, with the other Playskool toys.


Now that Titans Returns has been made official, it looks like Hasbro are now able to use this "blueprint" wallpaper now. (which showed up at BotCon last year, and probably wasn't meant to be)


On the Combiner Wars side, there was nothing new as we know that the main retail line doesn't have any more figures to release, and we just have some boxsets to release here.








On the Titans Return side, a small selection of items... and no army of Titanmasters like at the New York Toyfair.


Legends & Titan Masters.


Leader class - Powermaster Optimus & Blaster.

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Deluxe and Voyager - (out of packaging) Hardhead, Blurr, Galvatron.

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Back of Scourge's card (most cards and boxes were pinned to the wall, so couldn't get photos of the packaging backs).

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Titan class - Fortress Maximus. I was surprised to see two of them on display.

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Later in the day, the robot-mode Fort Max was moved to the middle table, to get two of the modes next to each other (for the benefit of the retailers).


Leader Blaster was plugged into Fortress Maximus, by connecting ramps, while Astrotrain was on the table in all three modes.

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(continued in post #4)