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Hasbro showed off a bunch of new and forthcoming toys at their Megacon 2025 panel - details below!

The biggest reveal was HasLab Victory Liokaiser, already covered in a separate thread here. The grey prototype for Liokaiser was also on display, alongside a Devastator prototype.



(Image credit: TFW2005)

For the main Age of the Primes line, Hasbro showed off Sky-Byte and Rescue Bots Heatwave, both Voyager class, along with a two-pack of Long Haul and Hook as the next instalment of the Constructicons.




In other news, we finally got a reveal of the Optimus Prime and Starscream two-pack from the IDW Hearts of Steel mini-series - with a tease of HoS Megatron and Bumblebee to come!




Update: looks like the Megatron & Bumblebee figures were also on display! Cleaner pictures when I find them...

(Image credit: TFW2005)

Finally, there were teases for a number of forthcoming figures in various lines:

• Cybertron Excellion
• Cybertron Noisemaze
• G1 Sandstorm & G1 Slugslinger
• Ironfist & G1 Carnivac
• Transformers Devastation Decepticon Ground & Air Troopers
• Studio Series 86 Perceptor, Ratbat, and Ramhorn
• Hearts Of Steel Bumblebee & Megatron 2-Pack

TFW2005 has a gallery of snapshots from the presentation, and pre-orders for the new figures are already up at Hasbro Pulse.

LioKaiser looks really cool. Thankfully I have no attachment to him and no way to back the project soooo.....


Heatwave looks fine, pretty much what we all expected the it got leaked. Bulkhead retool. Pretty massive retool though.

Hearts of Steel looks pretty nice. That little Steam Engine Prime is just adorable. May pre-order that set and the Megs and Bee set.

Sky Byte is excellent. Everything you want in a cybernetic Shark.
Will likely be shorter than the OG though.

Definitely will want to pre-order Excellion

Might want to get Noisemaze. Never owned the original, but his jet mode always looked really cool to me.

Also, odd they called him Noisemaze and not Sideways. Noisemaze was his Japanese name.

Curious with G1 Sandstorm.Are we getting another run of the Autobot Triple changer in a 2 pack with Slugslinger. Or are they referring to the G2 Seeker they released for Earthrise? Kind of confusing.
Just saw the pic, and yes it's Triple Changer Sandstorm again for some reason and apparently a brand new Slug Slinger.

Oooh, Pretender Beasts and Lightformers making a triumphant return. Wonder if Ironfist will be a new mold or a retool of someone.

Perceptor and tapes. Not interested really.

I'm intrigued by the Ground and Air Troopers. Looks like they'll probably be just redecoes of some existing car guy(Blue Sideswipe?) and the Earth Rise Dirge mold with Optimus Primal's Swords.

Overcracker wrote:Also, odd they called him Noisemaze and not Sideways. Noisemaze was his Japanese name.

Easier trademark to keep, possibly? And will want to avoid confusion with other versions.

Overcracker wrote:Curious with G1 Sandstorm. Are we getting another run of the Autobot Triple changer in a 2 pack with Slugslinger. Or are they referring to the G2 Seeker they released for Earthrise? Kind of confusing.

Oooh, Pretender Beasts and Lightformers making a triumphant return. Wonder if Ironfist will be a new mold or a retool of someone.

The space bridge teaser image was G1 (cartoon) Sandstorm - I did see some speculation he might get the cartoon alternate head for this release. Similarly rumoured/speculated - TR Weirdwolf for Carnivac and Siege Hound for Ironfist.

Nothing to write home about from this, at least for me anyway. Nice to see official reveal of Hook & Long Haul but since I'd already seen images and known they were coming it's not a big surprise. Liokaiser was since I heard rumors of something totally different. lol Don't plan to get it though as it's not something I'm into.

The only thing I wanted to see what Ramhorn, I'm curiously eager to see how Hasbro handles this one being I felt Steeljaw was a blunder.

Glyph wrote:

Overcracker wrote:Also, odd they called him Noisemaze and not Sideways. Noisemaze was his Japanese name.

Easier trademark to keep, possibly? And will want to avoid confusion with other versions.

Overcracker wrote:Curious with G1 Sandstorm. Are we getting another run of the Autobot Triple changer in a 2 pack with Slugslinger. Or are they referring to the G2 Seeker they released for Earthrise? Kind of confusing.

Oooh, Pretender Beasts and Lightformers making a triumphant return. Wonder if Ironfist will be a new mold or a retool of someone.

The space bridge teaser image was G1 (cartoon) Sandstorm - I did see some speculation he might get the cartoon alternate head for this release. Similarly rumoured/speculated - TR Weirdwolf for Carnivac and Siege Hound for Ironfist.

Yeah just saw the pics. Probably a different head and slightly different deco.

Makes no sense for Ironist to be a retool of Hound. We already have a tan recolor of that mold in Detritus. Not sure how different Ironfist would be then. Also Ironfist transforms into a Hummer not a Jeep.

Hopefully there will be a Hearts of Steel Shockwave on the way as well.

Are all of the Hearts of Steel figures Deluxes? The image of "Bumblebee" and Megatron? (I've never been clear on if that design was meant to be Megatron or another fake) together makes me think so.

Man, I wish HoS "Prime" was darker, grittier looking. Bright blue and red doesn't match the tone of the comic at all, he looks like a baby toy. Even "Bumblebee" isn't bright yellow.



What's the relationship between Sandstorm and Slugslinger? Are they setting up Wreckers vs Mayhem? I'm guessing both will be in cartoon colors so Slugslinger wont look like his Titans Return figure in toy colors.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:What's the relationship between Sandstorm and Slugslinger? Are they setting up Wreckers vs Mayhem?

Something like that, yeah.

Overcracker wrote:I'm intrigued by the Ground and Air Troopers. Looks like they'll probably be just redecoes of some existing car guy(Blue Sideswipe?)

Should be the Runamuck mold, based on the kibble.

Overcracker wrote:Makes no sense for Ironist to be a retool of Hound. We already have a tan recolor of that mold in Detritus. Not sure how different Ironfist would be then. Also Ironfist transforms into a Hummer not a Jeep.

A tan version of the Earth mode tooling, yeah, but that version of the mold and the original Siege tooling look very different in alt mode, plus there's likely further retooling in play since everything else in this capsulse so far is just a repaint.

There's also a chance he won't even be tan and will use the light gray from his comic appearances, since they seem to have gone back to random Google images for the Spacebridge reveals and not the actual boxart.