Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes

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The lead designer on Transformers Age of the Primes toys, Marc Maher, has been posting images of the uocoming 13 Primes. His latest post is for Alchemist Prime and there’s lots of fun photos to share. We also included the previous post on Onyx Prime. Enjoy!

Let me introduce a powerful yet humble member of the 13 primes, Alchemist Prime is ready to grace your shelf with his divine and handsome presence! Move over and make some room, this guy exudes clear the path vibes even though he’d probably be the most enjoyable of the primes to just hang out with.
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Tomo san really flexed his creative muscles on the transformation sequence of the mighty McAdams. Not to mention this guys proportions are incredibly unique and a rarity amongst many TF toys.
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All the more reason to pour yourself a chalice of energon and lets get into the deets. I utilized the main inspiration for this guy from the McAdams,hmm I mean @toygrind appearance in cyberverse. I sprinkled in the covenant unique Prime esk shape designs but all the while thinking of the comic bartender apperance. The mustache and head sculpt might be my favorite aspect but the colors hit hard in hand, not to mention the easter eggs riddled all over his awesome artifact The Lenses! Which we increased the scale and made them split to become daggers, the idea here is that he would be able to utilize his mystical powers of the elements to change the weapons into any heated metal or even iced out adamantium or whatever and wherever your imagination takes you.
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I always imagined his vehicle mode to be somewhat of a cybertronian all terrain vehicle. You can extend out his feetsies to urilize the 5 mm ports for a lil high speed action.
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What I wouldn’t give to sit at a cybertronian pub and drink an energon pint and listen to wonderful stories of early cybertron and Alchemists outlook on life. Lets here the modules tune in their optics to sound off the details they see in the Lenses down below”

“At last, Onyx Prime has decided to grace your presence with his divinne beast kingdom glory! All behold the Triptych Mask artifact that has unique powers and will be welded to defeat any who oppose him. It is my great pleasure to bring this prime to your Age of the Primes toy generations collection at none other than leader scale at that!
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As always, huge shouts out to Shu san from Takara Tomy, my beast wars brethren who always turns it up on these out of the box characters.
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I really seasoned this spicy character with all sorts of cooking love. Shout out to @ken_christiansen_art and @aaronarcherofficial for putting the early look of this dude together. I even got a lil love from @marcelomatere on how techno-organic should I go on his tail…which did I mention, I made it a cool bow and the mask has been upgraded to a wicked spear/arrow! Went wild beast mode on the sculpt, threw in eagle references, horse references, gargoyle references all sorts of spikes, horns, and angular cybertronian angles, WOOF ! Colors were a challenge but I feel I dialed in the tones enough to get that good contrast, the metallic hits hard in hand!
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The multitude of abilites on this guy, phew…really just bewildered by this beast, lemme see if I can give ya the quick Marky shake down. The front hoofs in centaur mode can be cascaded around his beefy shoulders, you have a wide array of versatility in between centaur and beast mode, his head can be transformed into a more beasty look for centaur mode but can be left upward to showcase his wide array of optics in robot mode. His spear has many different places for all sorts of cool poses and storage, his wings have a great range of articulation which I tried to showcase here.
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I’m just very proud that I could help bring these 13 primes to life. Alchemist Prime, pass me a cool glass of energon and lets talk over some tings!”

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Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2189951)
Posted by Bazillatron on April 13th, 2025 @ 12:36am CDT

On look! Onyx Prime comes with Shockwave mode!

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2189962)
Posted by Emerje on April 13th, 2025 @ 11:57pm CDT

So Deluxe wave 2 has shown up at Canadian Walmarts... supposedly BBTS will have them available soon, too.

Emerje

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2189964)
Posted by Nemesis Primal on April 14th, 2025 @ 4:04am CDT

Got a JTPrime17 leak update that's slightly more coherent that the nonsense I just threw together in the Studio Series thread, here we go:
-The Deluxe Swindle from this year got shunted to next year, he is STILL a Deluxe in spite of Brawl's Voyager status (which does help Bruticus sneak into the designer's stated "complete combiner in a year" window)
-We are only missing a single Deluxe, a single Leader, and the Titan, no missing Voyagers
-Allegedly last JT saw, Vector Prime was stated to get "a new retailer exclusive variant", but this also directly contradicts Evan from the design team saying that all 13 Primes would get mainline releases within AotP's two-year span, unless there's gonna be two different back-to-back Vector Prime releases (and also somehow Vector is a Leader now in order to actually fit in either the mainline holes or this year's Cybertron capsule?)

So with that in mind, we're now here:

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Emerje wrote:So Deluxe wave 2 has shown up at Canadian Walmarts... supposedly BBTS will have them available soon, too.

Emerje

And here I am with no retail AotP sightings and only Solus in hand yet, that's some crazy early momentum.

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2189965)
Posted by Emerje on April 14th, 2025 @ 9:33am CDT

Feels like Maximo would more likely be the Leader, but what if it actually is Vector and they pull a Thundertron and add a Safeguard and, I don't know, maybe a Core class Kronoform.

Emerje

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2189966)
Posted by #1 Signal Lancer fan on April 14th, 2025 @ 9:38am CDT

Nemesis Primal wrote:-We are only missing a single Deluxe, a single Leader, and the Titan, no missing Voyagers
-Allegedly last JT saw, Vector Prime was stated to get "a new retailer exclusive variant", but this also directly contradicts Evan from the design team saying that all 13 Primes would get mainline releases within AotP's two-year span, unless there's gonna be two different back-to-back Vector Prime releases (and also somehow Vector is a Leader now in order to actually fit in either the mainline holes or this year's Cybertron capsule?)

I'm guessing Vector Prime's Legacy release is the "mainline release", even though it's not within AotP's two-year span. Perhaps Evan was intending to communicate that all remaining 13 Primes would be released within the two-year span?

Regarding the remaining releases, I'm guessing that Liege Maximo is the leader (Though its possible that he's the titan)

Personally, I would hope for Animated Omega Supreme as the Titan, though Primus may be more fitting with it being both a 13-Primes themed line and the 20th anniversary of Transformers: Cybertron.

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2189967)
Posted by DeathReviews on April 14th, 2025 @ 9:51am CDT

Wave 2 of the AotP figures are being found on shelf in some markets already. Good for them, but it's kind of an insult to the people who pre-ordered on Pulse. The Pulse website is still saying that we won't see our pre-ordered and reserved copies of Vortex for another six MONTHS. Hasbro has a wonky distribution system, combined with Pulse having perhaps THE worst 'early access' in existence.

I experienced similarly with Leader Megatronus, and the Aerialbot deluxes. Pulse was saying I wouldn't see them until at least July. The minions stumbled across them on shelves two weeks ago. Having to cancel all those pre-orders, because Hasbro can't get their act together, would make me roll my eyes in their sockets if I had any soft tissue...

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2189969)
Posted by Till-all-R1 on April 14th, 2025 @ 10:50am CDT

I consider preorders as simply safety nets anyway, to make sure I get it in case I never come across anything I'm after in stores. Which tends to be 85% of the time, or I've already got it in the main before I see it on shelf.

But in a way that can't be good for Pulse in general if they keep getting cancelations as it might affect how much they order. Especially if they have to sell too much stock during their liquidation sales.

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2189970)
Posted by #1 Signal Lancer fan on April 14th, 2025 @ 11:03am CDT

Till-all-R1 wrote:I consider preorders as simply safety nets anyway, to make sure I get it in case I never come across anything I'm after in stores

Yeah I always thought this was the idea behind pre-orders. You're ordering in advance to make sure you get it, not getting early access to it.

When you pre-order a video game, for example, you generally get it at the same time as everybody else, you're just ensuring that one is available for you/doesn't sell out.

It's just a win-win arrangement between the company and consumer. The company is guaranteed sales prior to release, and the consumer is guaranteed to get the product. Insurance on both ends.

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2189983)
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on April 14th, 2025 @ 4:22pm CDT

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Posted by Sowndwave76 on April 14th, 2025 @ 8:08pm CDT

With the newly leaked image on the instruction pamphlet for Vortex, I'm very anxious to get a better look at this new version of Bruticus. While I'm fine with the new combining system of making the torso bot a Commander Class figure with addition parts, I'm specifically curious about a couple of the design aspects-- will the chestplate be a gray, generic shape, or will it be the cartoon accurate one that shares Blast-off's colors? Will the feet be mustard and green to appear to be parts of Swindle and Brawl, or will those be generic-looking gray parts?

I was pleasantly surprised with the look of AotP Superion, and I'm hoping that Bruticus is just as good.

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2189990)
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on April 14th, 2025 @ 8:10pm CDT

It looks like the actual toy of Vortex separates differently than the instructions show.

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Posted by Sowndwave76 on April 20th, 2025 @ 8:44pm CDT

In anticipation for the new combiners from both SS and AotP, I've been taking a little time to watch reviews of the limb bots, re-look at photos, etc.
While I'm still of the opinion that this new Superion will be better than my UW version, one thing that I'm surprised at is the missed opportunity with the front lower legs of the combined mode...
I'm not saying the blue paint apps were in the budget, or even how the red and black were distributed, but why those sections weren't designed/molded to match the cartoon model more closely... Both legs are identical. Both designs (which I know are representing the front of the torsos of the two leg bots) are symmetrical. How or why the cartoon design, or at least most of it, wasn't used is just baffling to me... Especially knowing that this new Superion is an attempt at cartoon accuracy. The designer(s) didn't need to invent anything new; even though the cartoon design in these areas maybe couldn't have been 100% replicated in toy-form, why not use the source material? They surely could have created something very, very close.

Then it's difficult to know if it would have been possible, but the two vertical black parts that run down each side of the forefoot... Really wish those could have been the same light gray color as the rest of the foot. That being broken-up just doesn't look good.

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190091)
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on April 21st, 2025 @ 2:37pm CDT

It almost looks like the leg doors are upside down compared to the animation model.

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190092)
Posted by Overcracker on April 21st, 2025 @ 3:08pm CDT

So where's the Pre-order for Onyx?

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190160)
Posted by Emerje on April 26th, 2025 @ 4:24am CDT

Overcracker wrote:So where's the Pre-order for Onyx?

He's wave 2, but his release lines up with wave 3 so it's going to be a while.

Emerje

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190236)
Posted by Till-all-R1 on April 30th, 2025 @ 3:06pm CDT

Just received Bone Crusher and Scrapper today and I was a bit shocked at their size. It doesn't help that the last time I owned a Constructicon was in the 80's and am used to the older version, but gee that was an eye opener for me. I'm now not sure I want to continue getting them all. lol
Simply for display space reasons, having six of these guys eats up a lot of room compared to the smaller ones. Not to mention having them all form Devestator, he's going to be ginormous compare to the G1 figure and I don't have very tall shelves in my cabinet. 13" height which is also why I passed on the Titans. I just barely fit Firestorm in there.

I was really looking forward to these guys too which kind of saddens me about this dilemma. I was already feeling the size realization with Air Raid that I received about a week ago and this revelation just added to that. I'm not saying that I didn't know they'd be larger, I expected them to be but it just wasn't a tangible thing I could see until now. If I do continue then I definitely cannot even consider other combiners in the future.

Onto the positive side, they do look good despite Bone Crusher appearing quite "chunky". I think I prefer the aesthetics on the Scrapper more in that regard, doesn't look as much like a burly hunk. And they green definitely stands out now on these more than it did on the originals. I don't know why or what it is that makes it seem that way, maybe the size combined with lighter color shade. At least with Scrapper the purple body helps break up that solid color. Air Raid too looks great.

Slingshot is reportedly on the way as is Megatronis which will pretty much bring me caught up with Preorders leaving only Solus Prime, and Hook/Long Haul.

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190237)
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on April 30th, 2025 @ 3:09pm CDT

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190248)
Posted by Emerje on April 30th, 2025 @ 8:53pm CDT

Till-all-R1 wrote:Just received Bone Crusher and Scrapper today and I was a bit shocked at their size.

Those guys are Studio Series 86, not Age of the Primes. Can't blame you with both lines having the exact same damn box. :BANG_HEAD:

Emerje

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190262)
Posted by ScottyP on May 1st, 2025 @ 7:56am CDT

Emerje wrote:
Till-all-R1 wrote:Just received Bone Crusher and Scrapper today and I was a bit shocked at their size.

Those guys are Studio Series 86, not Age of the Primes. Can't blame you with both lines having the exact same damn box.

Emerje

I didn't even question the post being in this thread. They're different lines in name only at this point. I could even make an argument for throwing the Aerialbots into SS86. A bad one, but an argument nonetheless.

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190264)
Posted by Emerje on May 1st, 2025 @ 9:27am CDT

ScottyP wrote:
Emerje wrote:
Till-all-R1 wrote:Just received Bone Crusher and Scrapper today and I was a bit shocked at their size.

Those guys are Studio Series 86, not Age of the Primes. Can't blame you with both lines having the exact same damn box.

Emerje
I didn't even question the post being in this thread. They're different lines in name only at this point. I could even make an argument for throwing the Aerialbots into SS86. A bad one, but an argument nonetheless.

And then Hasbro wonders why everyone is so upset when wave 3 of 2025 SS is nowhere to be seen because everything is AOTP wave 1 and A Level mixed up on all the pegs. They did not think this through. If fans can't tell the difference how are non-fans stocking shelves? As it is I had to take a peg's worth of Star Wars figures off the AOTP peg at Walmart the other day.

Emerje

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190324)
Posted by o.supreme on May 4th, 2025 @ 5:22pm CDT

Speaking of which...My apologies if this quesiton seems a bit absurd, but I havent purchased a TF at standard retail in a while. Since SS and AotP share the same packaging now...are they being shipped together? The reason I ask is I've experienced a similar situation at 3 different walmarts in my area. Each of the 3 had about 8 of the TF One BB's, 8 of the Devastation Primes,and One AotP Wasp. No Aerialbits or Solus at all.

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190335)
Posted by Emerje on May 5th, 2025 @ 9:25am CDT

o.supreme wrote:Speaking of which...My apologies if this quesiton seems a bit absurd, but I havent purchased a TF at standard retail in a while. Since SS and AotP share the same packaging now...are they being shipped together? The reason I ask is I've experienced a similar situation at 3 different walmarts in my area. Each of the 3 had about 8 of the TF One BB's, 8 of the Devastation Primes,and One AotP Wasp. No Aerialbits or Solus at all.

Prime and Bee are in solid cases of their own, that's why you're seeing so many of each of them. They're the 2025 A Level releases like TFOne Prime and SS86 Bumblebee last year. You'll be seeing them on shelves all year. Wasp just isn't as popular as the rest of the PotP figures so he's usually the last to go.

Emerje

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190336)
Posted by o.supreme on May 5th, 2025 @ 10:36am CDT

^Thank you. Makes sense. I just didnt know if with the new reduced amount of product hasbro is putting out if they are shipping sublines together now?

With there being 4 deluxes is the case breakdown just 2 of each (4x2=8) or is there 3 of one, and one short packed?

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190342)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on May 5th, 2025 @ 2:14pm CDT

I finally got Solus Prime and Prima Prime. Both are great in bot mode, but their vehicle mode looks incomplete with gaps exposed limbs. Plus, both of their transformations were quite fiddly. Let's hope the other Primes will be better.

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Posted by TF-fan kev777 on May 5th, 2025 @ 4:22pm CDT

-Kanrabat- wrote:I finally got Solus Prime and Prima Prime. Both are great in bot mode, but their vehicle mode looks incomplete with gaps exposed limbs. Plus, both of their transformations were quite fiddly. Let's hope the other Primes will be better.

I found them both a little fiddly the first time around but also found them much easier the second time through one I already know where everything was supposed to end up.

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190402)
Posted by Emerje on May 7th, 2025 @ 9:13am CDT

o.supreme wrote:^Thank you. Makes sense. I just didnt know if with the new reduced amount of product hasbro is putting out if they are shipping sublines together now?

With there being 4 deluxes is the case breakdown just 2 of each (4x2=8) or is there 3 of one, and one short packed?

They're each in their own solid case.

Emerje

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190403)
Posted by TF-fan kev777 on May 7th, 2025 @ 9:39am CDT

Emerje wrote:
o.supreme wrote:^Thank you. Makes sense. I just didnt know if with the new reduced amount of product hasbro is putting out if they are shipping sublines together now?

With there being 4 deluxes is the case breakdown just 2 of each (4x2=8) or is there 3 of one, and one short packed?

They're each in their own solid case.

Emerje

I think o.supreme was asking about the AotP deluxes (Slingshot, Air Raid, Wasp and Solus Prime), which are an even 2x per case with nobody shortpacked. Devastation Prime and TF One Bee are solid cases themselves.

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190405)
Posted by Emerje on May 7th, 2025 @ 9:50am CDT

TF-fan kev777 wrote:
Emerje wrote:
o.supreme wrote:^Thank you. Makes sense. I just didnt know if with the new reduced amount of product hasbro is putting out if they are shipping sublines together now?

With there being 4 deluxes is the case breakdown just 2 of each (4x2=8) or is there 3 of one, and one short packed?

They're each in their own solid case.

Emerje

I think o.supreme was asking about the AotP deluxes (Slingshot, Air Raid, Wasp and Solus Prime), which are an even 2x per case with nobody shortpacked. Devastation Prime and TF One Bee are solid cases themselves.

Oh, that makes more sense. I misread and thought he was asking if Prime and Bee were 4 each in a case together.

Emerje

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Posted by chuckdawg1999 on May 7th, 2025 @ 2:29pm CDT

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Posted by -Kanrabat- on May 7th, 2025 @ 6:32pm CDT

I'm too lazy for a picture, but Megatronus A.K.A The Fallen may be one of the best leader I got in a while.

He's not huge, but he's massive and dense with no hollow parts. The transformation is smooth and he feel solid in all modes. The shoulder flames are not the most secure, but this may be the whole figure's only flaw. I'm looking forward to Onyx.

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190442)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on May 8th, 2025 @ 3:53pm CDT

The Primes are coming along nicely. I even have the impostor. Also, Nova Prime got promoted to Commander Class with the DNA Design upgrade kit. I just miss for the Reprolabels update for him, and the repros for the rest.

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Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190535)
Posted by o.supreme on May 12th, 2025 @ 11:25am CDT

Correct me if I am mistaken, but of the 13 primes, there are only 4 we haven't seen any design for (other than the AoP poster art):

Liege Maximo, Quintus Prime, Amalgamous Prime, & Nexus Prime

I was just thinking about this last night. It is great we are getting proper toys of the 13, but the only one that really interests me is Nexus because of the Combiner aspect. I was thinking he might be revealed as a Commander Class toy for 2026. He could be designed in the same way as Legacy MM or AoP Silverbolt. basically to be a skeleton for an all new combiner. But in some way (kind of like Combiner Wars), he could mix-and-match different combiner parts to make his own combiner. Obviously because of the design used since Legacy there would be limitations: legs could only be legs, and arms could only be arms, but his design would have the freedom to incorporate whichever ones someone wanted.

I think it would be kind of cool. Hasbro I'm sure wants to try to make at least one Prime at every Price Point, and this seems to fit.

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190536)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 12th, 2025 @ 11:29am CDT

o.supreme wrote:Correct me if I am mistaken, but of the 13 primes, there are only 4 we haven't seen any design for (other than the AoP poster art):

Liege Maximo, Quintus Prime, Amalgamous Prime, & Nexus Prime

I was just thinking about this last night. It is great we are getting proper toys of the 13, but the only one that really interests me is Nexus because of the Combiner aspect. I was thinking he might be revealed as a Commander Class toy for 2026. He could be designed in the same way as Legacy MM or AoP Silverbolt. basically to be a skeleton for an all new combiner. But in some way (kind of like Combiner Wars), he could mix-and-match different combiner parts to make his own combiner. Obviously because of the design used since Legacy there would be limitations: legs could only be legs, and arms could only be arms, but his design would have the freedom to incorporate whichever ones someone wanted.

I think it would be kind of cool. Hasbro I'm sure wants to try to make at least one Prime at every Price Point, and this seems to fit.

Nexus is a Voyager.

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190537)
Posted by o.supreme on May 12th, 2025 @ 11:48am CDT

^Well that's unfortunate. Unless his combiner gimmick is going to harken back to CW/UW/Potp, which I seriously doubt. Would be kind of odd that the Prime of Combiners wouldn't be combining with anything. I guess another option is, as a voyager he could be just a parts-former ala Trashmaster.

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Posted by #1 Signal Lancer fan on May 12th, 2025 @ 2:23pm CDT

o.supreme wrote:Correct me if I am mistaken, but of the 13 primes, there are only 4 we haven't seen any design for (other than the AoP poster art):

Liege Maximo, Quintus Prime, Amalgamous Prime, & Nexus Prime

Have we seen Alpha Trion?

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190545)
Posted by o.supreme on May 12th, 2025 @ 3:03pm CDT

^I thought it was just to be a repaint of the Legacy (SS Scourge Retool) version.

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Posted by #1 Signal Lancer fan on May 12th, 2025 @ 3:54pm CDT

o.supreme wrote:^I thought it was just to be a repaint of the Legacy (SS Scourge Retool) version.

It was confirmed by Evan Brooks that all thirteen Primes other than Vector Prime will get a new mold in the AotP line, with Vector getting a re-release (or potentially even repaint) of his Legacy figure

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Posted by Overcracker on May 12th, 2025 @ 4:18pm CDT

#1 Signal Lancer fan wrote:
o.supreme wrote:Correct me if I am mistaken, but of the 13 primes, there are only 4 we haven't seen any design for (other than the AoP poster art):

Liege Maximo, Quintus Prime, Amalgamous Prime, & Nexus Prime

Have we seen Alpha Trion?

We have not seen the actual toy. but the Chinese Taobao store posted an Age of Primes poster which apparently features a shot of Alpha Trion's alt mode artwork, top left.

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Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190548)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 12th, 2025 @ 5:30pm CDT

I'm getting "purple Vector Prime" vibes from that poster art.

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Posted by Glyph on May 12th, 2025 @ 5:57pm CDT

Casey Coller raised an eyebrow on Bluesky at the similarity between the Taobao poster and the alt mode he'd designed for IDW, from which I guess he wasn't involved the actual toy design or promo art.

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Kind of surprised they didn't follow up the beast mode from TF:One, to be honest.

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Posted by Emerje on May 12th, 2025 @ 8:57pm CDT

o.supreme wrote:^Well that's unfortunate. Unless his combiner gimmick is going to harken back to CW/UW/Potp, which I seriously doubt. Would be kind of odd that the Prime of Combiners wouldn't be combining with anything. I guess another option is, as a voyager he could be just a parts-former ala Trashmaster.

I think he'll be different little vehicles that combine without individual robot modes. If you look closely at the statue picture he isn't symmetrical and has random wheels.

Emerje

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Posted by #1 Signal Lancer fan on May 13th, 2025 @ 8:48am CDT

Glyph wrote:Kind of surprised they didn't follow up the beast mode from TF:One, to be honest.

I'm guessing that they did this to keep Onyx as the "beast Prime" for this line

Sabrblade wrote:I'm getting "purple Vector Prime" vibes from that poster art.

They do look similar, but from what Evan said, each of the Primes (other than Vector himself) is slated to be a new mold.

Though this wouldn't be the first time that Alpha Trion was a remold of Vector, so it could happen.

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Posted by Sabrblade on May 13th, 2025 @ 8:58am CDT

#1 Signal Lancer fan wrote:Though this wouldn't be the first time that Alpha Trion was a remold of Vector, so it could happen.

Of course, the first time it happened turned out to be the SG version of the character as a surprise twist reveal, and it only happened that first time because BotCon at the time was limited to using pre-existing molds repainted with or without new heads, unlike Hasbro proper who can create all the new molds that they want.

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190562)
Posted by #1 Signal Lancer fan on May 13th, 2025 @ 9:10am CDT

Sabrblade wrote:Of course, the first time it happened turned out to be the SG version of the character as a surprise twist reveal, and it only happened that first time because BotCon at the time was limited to using pre-existing molds repainted with or without new heads, unlike Hasbro proper who can create all the new molds that they want.

This got me looking over Alpha Trion's entry on Tfwiki. I had no idea that the first widely-available G1 Alpha Trion toy was the Legacy toy in 2022, almost 40 years after the character debuted.

Of course, this is excluding the legends toys that barely resemble the character that came with Sovereign and Ultra Magnus

Beyond that, the first widely-available Alpha Trion toy G1 or otherwise only released three years earlier in 2019 with the Cyberverse line

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190563)
Posted by Glyph on May 13th, 2025 @ 9:12am CDT

#1 Signal Lancer fan wrote:
Glyph wrote:Kind of surprised they didn't follow up the beast mode from TF:One, to be honest.

I'm guessing that they did this to keep Onyx as the "beast Prime" for this line.

True, and it does make sense because that being his unique gimmick is Onyx's whole thing (convoluted Shockwave lore aside). Just kind of weird to me from a synergy standpoint since AT has much more name recognition than Onyx and is currently most known as a lion-ish beast rather than a rather nondescript hovercraft... boat... thing from an old comic. Especially since he's also had that kind of beast mode a couple of times before in other toylines.

And yeah, I know this line is about 'lore' versions of characters for long-time fans/collectors rather than being aimed at pulling in newcomers. Still.

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190564)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 13th, 2025 @ 9:12am CDT

#1 Signal Lancer fan wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:Of course, the first time it happened turned out to be the SG version of the character as a surprise twist reveal, and it only happened that first time because BotCon at the time was limited to using pre-existing molds repainted with or without new heads, unlike Hasbro proper who can create all the new molds that they want.

This got me looking over Alpha Trion's entry on Tfwiki. I had no idea that the first widely-available G1 Alpha Trion toy was the Legacy toy in 2022, almost 40 years after the character debuted.

Of course, this is excluding the legends toys that barely resemble the character that came with Sovereign and Ultra Magnus

Beyond that, the first widely-available Alpha Trion toy G1 or otherwise only released three years earlier in 2019 with the Cyberverse line

What about the Titans Return toy?

Also, the Legacy toy was a PulseCon 2022 exclusive 2-pack with Orion Pax.

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190566)
Posted by #1 Signal Lancer fan on May 13th, 2025 @ 9:30am CDT

Sabrblade wrote:
#1 Signal Lancer fan wrote:Of course, this is excluding the legends toys that barely resemble the character that came with Sovereign and Ultra Magnus
What about the Titans Return toy?

Ah, I misread the Tfwiki page. Its listed as 'Autobot Sovereign & Alpha Trion', so without looking too closely at the image, I assumed Sovereign was the big bot and Alpha Trion was a small toy, like with Legends Ultra Magnus.

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190567)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 13th, 2025 @ 9:32am CDT

#1 Signal Lancer fan wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
#1 Signal Lancer fan wrote:Of course, this is excluding the legends toys that barely resemble the character that came with Sovereign and Ultra Magnus
What about the Titans Return toy?

Ah, I misread the Tfwiki page. Its listed as 'Autobot Sovereign & Alpha Trion', so without looking too closely at the image, I assumed Sovereign was the big bot and Alpha Trion was a small toy, like with Legends Ultra Magnus.

Yeah, for some reason, every single toy in Titans Return had the little Titan Master's name listed first on the packaging.

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190569)
Posted by Rodimus Prime on May 13th, 2025 @ 11:36am CDT

Sabrblade wrote:
#1 Signal Lancer fan wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
#1 Signal Lancer fan wrote:Of course, this is excluding the legends toys that barely resemble the character that came with Sovereign and Ultra Magnus
What about the Titans Return toy?

Ah, I misread the Tfwiki page. Its listed as 'Autobot Sovereign & Alpha Trion', so without looking too closely at the image, I assumed Sovereign was the big bot and Alpha Trion was a small toy, like with Legends Ultra Magnus.
Yeah, for some reason, every single toy in Titans Return had the little Titan Master's name listed first on the packaging.

Wasn't it because in canon technically the Titan Master was the living character and the larger bot was considered just a vehicle, much like in the Japanese Headmasters and Masterforce? IIRC that's how IDW handled Sentinel in fiction.

Re: Latest Designer Posts and Images for Transformers Age of the Primes (2190570)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 13th, 2025 @ 11:41am CDT

Rodimus Prime wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
#1 Signal Lancer fan wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:
#1 Signal Lancer fan wrote:Of course, this is excluding the legends toys that barely resemble the character that came with Sovereign and Ultra Magnus
What about the Titans Return toy?

Ah, I misread the Tfwiki page. Its listed as 'Autobot Sovereign & Alpha Trion', so without looking too closely at the image, I assumed Sovereign was the big bot and Alpha Trion was a small toy, like with Legends Ultra Magnus.
Yeah, for some reason, every single toy in Titans Return had the little Titan Master's name listed first on the packaging.
Wasn't it because in canon technically the Titan Master was the living character and the larger bot was considered just a vehicle, much like in the Japanese Headmasters and Masterforce? IIRC that's how IDW handled Sentinel in fiction.

IDW did do that with Sentinel, yes, but Hasbro proper stuck to the notion of the body and head being partners who were both alive, which was reflected in the Titans Return marketing material and also seen in the Machinima Titans Return cartoon in which Fortress Maximus and the Titan Master Emissary were separate living individuals who could function independently from each other.

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