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News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:00 pm

Thanks again to Seibertron we have a better look at the slideshow used during the panel at SDCC. And courtesy of Hasbro, we get a better look at the product images used in the presentation: these include Construct-Bots, Generations, Masterpiece and the Thrilling 30 grouping, and can all be found here. Or you can click on any of the images below for the full galleries!

UPDATE: You can now watch the embedded video below to view the panel's slideshow gallery instead, all courtesy of Seibertron himself.

SDCC Hasbro Panel Gallery

Hasbro Official Product Images Gallery

by **RAcast** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:15 pm

By the ALLSPARK!

It's a MINCON COMBINER! :grin:

http://www.seibertron.com/events/fullsize.php?event_id=316&size=1&image=44

by **Gearslide** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:17 pm

Uh oh!

Minicons!

Minicons that don't require assembly!

Minicons that combine into a deluxe sized figure!

News Credits: 25 · by **SW's SilverHammer** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:19 pm

Those min-cons are pretty badass, it's almost like a miniture TF-GO set up

by **Gearslide** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:21 pm

SW's SilverHammer wrote:it's almost like a miniture TF-GO set up

Please don't insult the Minicons!

by **RAcast** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:22 pm

Who is is supposed to be? I'm assuming it's some IDW character(s)?

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:24 pm

"may make your head explode" why cause the prices are so high or is it because the quality is so low

News Credits: 25 · by **SW's SilverHammer** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:25 pm

Gearslide wrote:
SW's SilverHammer wrote:it's almost like a miniture TF-GO set up

Please don't insult the Minicons!

I said set up not the same :roll:

, the figures are arranged in a similar way as the triple combiner, one for head and shoulders, one body, and one for lower body and legs.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:30 pm

RAcast wrote:Who is is supposed to be? I'm assuming it's some IDW character(s)?

Who? The Mini-Con combiner? It's a new character.

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:31 pm

Much better quality images than I could find.

Armada Starscream's reveal was a pretty nice early birthday gift. I may consider preordering a figure for the very first time. :-?

Like I usually say, many of the Generations figures are on my "To Get" list. Some of the Construct-Bots as well, oddly enough.

Whoa, Mini-Cons?! Where'd they come from? I don't remember there being anything about Mini-Cons! And they combine?! :BOOM:

pzfksfioejmcsdfgv;afnjna;ffweafj.... Sorry, I was wiping blood off my keyboard. :oops:

So how will they be sold? The traditional three-pack? And how big will they and their combined mode be?

The entirety of the Generations line: Legends, Deluxes, Voyagers, and now the sudden addition of kickass Mini-Cons...

by **RAcast** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:36 pm

Mindmaster wrote:Much better quality images than I could find.

Armada Starscream's reveal was a pretty nice early birthday gift. I may consider preordering a figure for the very first time.

Like I usually say, many of the Generations figures are on my "To Get" list. Some of the Construct-Bots as well, oddly enough.

Whoa, Mini-Cons?! Where'd they come from? I don't remember there being anything about Mini-Cons! And they combine?!

pzfksfioejmcsdfgv;afnjna;ffweafj.... Sorry, I was wiping blood off my keyboard.

So how will they be sold? The traditional three-pack? And how big will they and their combined mode be?

The entirety of the Generations line: Legends, Deluxes, Voyagers, and now the sudden addition of kickass Mini-Cons...

I would guess a traditional three-pack at a deluxe price-point.

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 5:56 pm

Mindmaster wrote:Much better quality images than I could find.

Why do you doubt the power of the Seibertron news team?

Gearslide wrote:Uh oh!

Minicons!

Minicons that don't require assembly!

Minicons that combine into a deluxe sized figure!

With a Minicon emblem! :MINI:

by **MINDVVIPE** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:01 pm

Minicons? really? Those things are ugly and terrible... GENERATIONS SKYWARP! There's the awesomeness. Shrapnel looks beautiful too. The rest are pretty meh, with the exception for Whirl who I like despite the awkwardly posed Robot mode.

Website · by **Fires_Of_Inferno** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:05 pm

Minicon combiner?
Shrapnel with Reflector?
Generations Skids and Whirl?

Gimme dat.

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:09 pm

MINDVVIPE wrote:Minicons? really? Those things are ugly and terrible...

But they're tiny and therefore adorable! And they combine! And they're green!

EDIT: AND THE TANK HAS A MONOCLE! :shock:

I'm in love.

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:15 pm

Va'al wrote:
MINDVVIPE wrote:Minicons? really? Those things are ugly and terrible...

But they're tiny and therefore adorable! And they combine! And they're green!

EDIT: AND THE TANK HAS A MONOCLE! I'm in love.

Not to mention they're military vehicles. I love me some military vehicles!

by **RAcast** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:17 pm

It's even well articulated! GATTAIIII! :michaelbay:

by **Handels-Messerschmitt** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:18 pm

So are these the first minicons that have their own guns?

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:19 pm

Looking at them again, they have a bit of an Insecticon vibe to them. :-?

Shrapnel as the helicopter, Bombshell as the tank and Kickback the jet.
Does no one else see it?

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:19 pm

RAcast wrote:It's even well articulated! GATTAIIII!

And thus, I repeat myself:

by **MINDVVIPE** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:21 pm

"I gota pee!"

"Don't watch me pee!"

"I'm peeing"

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:21 pm

Va'al wrote:Looking at them again, they have a bit of an Insecticon vibe to them.

Shrapnel as the helicopter, Bombshell as the tank and Kickback the jet.
Does no one else see it?

I don't really see it, to be honest. If someone could do a mock-up, digibash, whatever, of these guys in Insecticon colors, then we'll see. :-?

You know what I do see, though? Megatron as the tank, Starscream as the jet, and Soundwave as the helicopter. :michaelbay:

News Credits: 25 · by **SW's SilverHammer** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:23 pm

Va'al wrote:Looking at them again, they have a bit of an Insecticon vibe to them.

Shrapnel as the helicopter, Bombshell as the tank and Kickback the jet.
Does no one else see it?

I kinda see it with the little tank, it molding has kinda similar to bombshells mouthpiece, but it's under the "chin" and at the collar, rather than a mouthplate

by **TimothyR** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:28 pm

While the minicon combiners don't look bad.. Why the hell can't we just get good looking updates of classic combiners? I just don't get it.. How long are we going to have to wait for a really nice combiner of devastator.. Or superion..

Maybe hasbro just can't make it happen.

I can't remember an SDCC that has been less exciting than this one.

There isn't a single thing that I'm super thrilled about.

I'm not saying that I don't like anything.. I was just expecting a little more.

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:30 pm

SW's SilverHammer wrote:
Va'al wrote:Looking at them again, they have a bit of an Insecticon vibe to them.

Shrapnel as the helicopter, Bombshell as the tank and Kickback the jet.
Does no one else see it?

I kinda see it with the little tank, it molding has kinda similar to bombshells mouthpiece, but it's under the "chin" and at the collar, rather than a mouthplat

It's more wishful thinking than anything, but yeah!