Australian Toy Fair Hasbro Slides: Animated in 2015 - 16 Plus New Transformers: Age of Extinction Concept Art

I haven't been an enormous fan of many of the directions Transformers has taken as a brand since I started collecting in 2009. But I try to always keep an open mind, so this new direction could very well be cool

Honestly the new designs from AOE are growing on me. I'm liking the smoother appearance, less car parts and more "coated" armor.

This is curious:



I'm guessing that is a lion, but it really looks like a bat to me. Ratbat led Decepticons anybody?

Those "animated" things interest me greatly.
Could it be that we'll be getting the Beast Wars equivilant of the Alignedvers?

Pretty interesting indeed.

I have a feeling we're looking at, possibly, a new Beast Wars.

ANYONE ELSE SEEING IT?

Sabrblade wrote:I really hope it's not a Beast Wars type thing. That's what Beast Hunters was already a throwback to, and they specified that they made Beast Hunters be more unique because they wanted it to have its own identity and that doing something even closer to Beast Wars was the last thing they wanted to do.

How about... Battle Beasts? And I own a figure with the prototype Predacon symbol: EU 2-pack Predaking.

so galvatron and stinger arent classified as decepticons? seems to be no artwork for them

Sabrblade wrote:

dreadwing95 wrote:so galvatron and stinger arent classified as decepticons? seems to be no artwork for them

Well, technically, they aren't true Decepticons since they're both manmade bots. So, that could be the reason why.

true. i hope they go rogue at least.

Metro Prime wrote:Incidentally, can anybody tell what it says underneath that IDW G1 Optimus? I think it says Legends, but I'm not quite sure.

I'm not sure either, but I think it might say "Primacy", referring to the upcoming sequel to "Autocracy" and "Monstrosity".

That symbol with the red background is the prototype BH Predacon symbol that was seen on some early BH prototype/testshot figures. The other bat-like is really interesting. I immediately thought of Bat Optimus Primal and Sonar from BW and Nightscream from BM. All Maximals. So, kind of taking a bit of a leap here but, if they plan to use the prototype Predacon symbol as the new Predacon symbol for the next cartoon, maybe this bat one is the new Maximal symbol. Which would mean, Maximals vs Predacons! BEAST WARS! RAWR!

Another really interesting thing about that bat logo is that depending how you look at it, you can see different animals in it. Like the ears kinda look like lizards and the jaw looks like a bird. May be intentional, but just be a happy accident.