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News Credits: 3 · Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:33 am

Stop posting as if this is true!

News Credits: 62 · Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:37 am

This should be taken as a RUMOR until we get official confirmation from Hasbro.

News Credits: 7 · Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:54 am

Given how:
- Beast Hunters stuff was all seemingly the last waves (which typically get "cancelled"/near impossible to find)
- the Data Discs shelfwarmed preventing the Legends from showing up (I myself have never seen ANY of them)
- Cosmos and Swerve were supposed to be released in October
- the cancellations of 1st Edition and last waves of DotM were announced about this time a few years ago
I'm willing to bet the figures listed here are as good as gone.

News Credits: 8 · Sat Feb 15, 2014 2:31 am

i have a feeling low sales are more of a reason for any cancellation than the new line coming out, yes im sure the movie is part of it (it usually is) but all those lines arent selling well & havent sold well in a while. I do hope its not true cause there are a few in there that i would like to get but if they dont see the light of day ill just go and buy some more stuff from neca, their new alien & predator stuff is killer & far more worth the money than TFs.

News Credits: 11 · Sat Feb 15, 2014 5:38 am

These are only canceled for the US market. The Generations Legends should still be available in Europe. Cosmos and Swerve were/are available at EU online retailers, and Tailgate and Shrapnel should be available soon.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Feb 15, 2014 6:38 am

Got to be bullshit. Haven't some of these figures already been released, if only at a minor level?

News Credits: 16 · Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:00 am

Without evidence this isn't even a rumor, it's just paranoid fan fiction.

What is this on the front page for? Seibertron.com team, I expect so much more from you. You have trusted sources for rumors. Please use them.

Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:55 am

If the rumor is true, all of you can blame hasbro. Blame hasbro when your local walmart is flooded with AOE constrctobots and fast action battlers. Maybe someone in china will do the right thing and KO the crap out of cosmos and swerve. Would you guys buy it to protest hasbros poor marketing decisions ?

Sat Feb 15, 2014 9:48 am

Sat Feb 15, 2014 10:02 am

Damn....

Was looking forward to these upcoming Legend waves more so than some Voyager and Deluxe waves.

Was even gonna troop build figures like Scrapnell and Gnaw (if he was who I thought he was)

This puts a huge black eye on the whole Thrilling 30 year celebration IMO.

So no need to delay this quote any further.....

"Well Hasbro, ya screwed us again!"

News Credits: 402 · Updated Oct 21, 2022

Rated X wrote:If the rumor is true, all of you can blame hasbro. Blame hasbro when your local walmart is flooded with AOE constrctobots and fast action battlers. Maybe someone in china will do the right thing and KO the crap out of cosmos and swerve. Would you guys buy it to protest hasbros poor marketing decisions ?

I blame Hasbro for starting the Legends line off with weak characters that no one wanted in Legends scale, thereby clogging the shelves far too long and creating the appearance that no one wanted the Legends figures.

News Credits: 14 · Sat Feb 15, 2014 10:45 am

Why are there not MORE people upset about Shrapnel?!?!?!?

Damn it, the problem here is that they designed a line aimed at collectors.... BUT THEY STARTED THE LINE WITH ANOTHER OPTIMUS AND BUMBLEBEE.

Bee. Is. A. Shelf. Warmer.

Sat Feb 15, 2014 11:04 am

mooncake623 wrote:just searched EBay and 6 were sold in the last hour for $65.99

procyon wrote:Just bought Asian Swerve and Cosmos off ebay.

Blurrz wrote:In contrast, now we have this rumor on the front page, bunch of fans are going crazy and scalpers are getting fed money online @ ebay. Good stuff.

btskillet wrote:Yeah I just bit the bullet and brought both on ebay for 65.99 including shipping because I really want these figures...

You seriously could get a much higher quality 3rd party Swerve cheaper than that...

Well this is just a rumor, but I figured something like this would happen anyway. Shame about Tail Gate and Cosmos.

News Credits: 104 · Sat Feb 15, 2014 12:15 pm

Funny thing is I ordered a swerve the day before this rumor broke from a ebay guy in Taiwan too..

If I hear from Ryan or any other staff member I will post, unless they wish to do so once they find out.

News Credits: 5 · Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:03 pm

BWTF Ben Yee Twitter:
There will be more Swerves and Cosmos made folks! #transformers #ToyFair2014 #hasbro

https://twitter.com/BWTF_Ben/status/434744195874820096

News Credits: 62 · Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:28 pm

Got word that the Transformers Legends line is on Hiatus currently and will return later this year after the movies. Legends Cosmos , Swerve and others will be released then. They were pushed back from release of October 2013. My apologies but the news was half true as they have only been pushed back now. Legends Gears will be unveiled today!

News Credits: 104 · Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:34 pm

REMINATOR wrote:BWTF Ben Yee Twitter:
There will be more Swerves and Cosmos made folks! #transformers #ToyFair2014 #hasbro

https://twitter.com/BWTF_Ben/status/434744195874820096

Thanks, I was about to post this.

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... ary/29426/

Thanks to Seibertron himself, currently at the Hasbro press event at the New York Toy Fair, we get a very quick look at the contents of the presentation. This is only a textual summary so far, as no pictures are allowed - but fear not! You're about to get blasted with the full force of the Seibertron.com visual coverage too, so stay tuned for more updates as the day goes on.

Toy Fair 2014

#hasbropreview

Hasbro Studios Presentation
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Started out talking about My Little Pony Equestria Girls

New Rainbow Rocks film later this fall

Highly focused on music aspect

Transformers Presentation
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Jerry Jivoin and Joshua Lamb

Hasbro loves Transformers fans!

Focus on pre-school, boys and fans/collectors

73 "Collector" figures for 2014 ... products that are fan focused

Beyond toys: digital, lifestyle and entertainment

Age of Extinction

Movie Generations Deluxe
Wave 1
High Octane Bumblebee (new tooling, classic camaro)
Crosshairs (green corvette)
Dinobot Slug (triceratops, all Dinobots are getting a toy)
Scorn (spinosaurus)

Wave 2
Drift
Dinobot Strafe (2 head pteradon?)
Slash (Velociraptor)

Movie Generations Voyager 1
Evasion Mode Optimus Prime (looks like movie version of G1 Optimus Prime)
Grimlock

Wave 2
Hound (comes with 7 weapons)
Galvatron (flat nose truck, black)

Leader Class
Optimus Prime (shown at NYCC)
Grimlock (vac metalized)

7 more "classified" figures coming down the pipes later

Generations
30th Anniversary
Working with IDW and DeNA
Focus on Dark Cybertron story
Legends Wave 3
Gears w/ Eclipse (Swerve remold)
(Jerry coined the term autogasm)
Acid Storm with Venin (Starscream repaint)

Deluxe class Nightbeat (retool of IDW Bumblebee)
Jhiaxus (new mold)
Windblade

Voyager Wave 3
Roadbuster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sky Byte (looks more like a Cybertronian Shark)

5 more "classified" figures coming down the pipes

New scale ... Leader Class
fall 2014 through 2015
Jetfire

News Credits: 62 · Sat Feb 15, 2014 2:21 pm

Were they able to confirm the fate of the Beast Hunters line is what I would like to know. Would be dope to get the Upscaled Abominus It could of been epic!

News Credits: 104 · Sat Feb 15, 2014 2:41 pm

Primeultimus wrote:Were they able to confirm the fate of the Beast Hunters line is what I would like to know. Would be dope to get the Upscaled Abominus It could of been epic!

No kidding.. I know some of the online reviewers have gotten the up scaled windrazor and I would love to have seen a full sized abominus..

News Credits: 668 · Sat Feb 15, 2014 2:43 pm

Well, seeing as how this was all bullshit, this is coming down. I would like to clarify some things for those of you questioning this move.

1.) A rumor of this size is not to be ignored. Especially when it's being plastered all over the various message boards and spreading like wildfire. It has to be addressed to some degree.

2.) We did make it clear that it was a rumor and that we would verify the info.

3.) The info has been verified as being false and we're addressing that now.

And here's food for thought, if we hadn't addressed it and it ended up being true, someone would've said "WTF, Seibertron?! This was on TFW and all of them for days now! Get with the program! Damn!" so we can't win one way or the other.

And with that, say goodbye to this news piece.

News Credits: 1452 · Sat Feb 15, 2014 3:16 pm

Since when did one news story make a difference in how Seibertron.com fairs against TFW2005.com. You beat them with quality and a good community, not a happy trigger finger on stories with shoddy sources.

I don't know why they wasn't more caution put into this. Just because a toy isn't coming out yet, does not induce the fact that it has been cancelled! That correlation is few and far between. Did you even look at PU's sources? Some toy store from Tampa? Joel from BBTS and Curt from TFsource said so? You guys can get Joel and Curt on the line faster than Obama can call Air Force One.

I'm not trying to antagonize the staff, but c'mon, this is a bit silly. It wasn't your actions that caused a boatload of people to feed ebay scalpers, but Seibertron.com's reputation for rumors is pretty good. To throw fuel on the fire like that. Not cool.

News Credits: 3 · Sat Feb 15, 2014 3:50 pm

Well, hopefully people will calm down about nightbeat knowing he's a bumblebee retool.

News Credits: 4 · Sat Feb 15, 2014 4:02 pm

so the riot is off?

News Credits: 62 · Sat Feb 15, 2014 4:23 pm

Some sites are saying my info posted yesterday is debunked. That is not True. The TF Legends line is still on hiatus and more importantly the Beast Hunters line is cancelled so I was more then right about everything I posted! So people need to still realize that BH is no more! Please contact Hasbro to confirm if possible.

I am sure they are no longer producing any figures from the Beast Hunters line.

News Credits: 62 · Sat Feb 15, 2014 4:28 pm

Blurrz wrote:Since when did one news story make a difference in how Seibertron.com fairs against TFW2005.com. You beat them with quality and a good community, not a happy trigger finger on stories with shoddy sources.

I don't know why they wasn't more caution put into this. Just because a toy isn't coming out yet, does not induce the fact that it has been cancelled! That correlation is few and far between. Did you even look at PU's sources? Some toy store from Tampa? Joel from BBTS and Curt from TFsource said so? You guys can get Joel and Curt on the line faster than Obama can call Air Force One.

I'm not trying to antagonize the staff, but c'mon, this is a bit silly. It wasn't your actions that caused a boatload of people to feed ebay scalpers, but Seibertron.com's reputation for rumors is pretty good. To throw fuel on the fire like that. Not cool.

Also I am not a toy store. That is my facebook name. I am a collector. And one with reliable sources. When Hasbro opens orders for the Legends stuff I will breathe a sign of relief.

Currently however the Beast Hunters line being cancelled has not been debunked with no further announcements of the continuation of the line.