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

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A PDF has surfaced online that contains what is likely Hasbro's slide presentation from the recent Australian Toy Fair. These images give us idea for what they have in store for the Transformers brand through 2017. As we already know the main focus for the remainder of 2014 will be Transformers: Age of Extinction, however the slides reveal an "Animated Stunt" scheduled for the fourth quarter. The slides go on to reveal years 2015 and 2016 are labeled "Animated" with some interesting new faction logos! The live action film franchise returns in 2017. The slides also include some nice concept and promo art from Transformers: Age of Extinction giving us some new looks at the upcoming film characters.

Transformers News: Australian Toy Fair Hasbro Slides: Animated in 2015 - 16?

Update:
From the same site, we've gotten a look at a wide variety of possible Transformers: Age of Extinction merchandise. Some of it is just at concept stage right now, but there are some pretty interesting possibilities here.

Keyboard:

Computer Mouses:

Speakers:

USB Hubs/Card Readers:

Variety of Character Themed Headphones:

Power Bank:

Key Covers:

Luggage/Bag tags

Credit(s): http://vilsco.com.au/aileen/Transformers%204/000_DATA/01.%201st%20Images/TF%20pics.pdf

This article was last modified on Sunday, April 6th, 2014 1:21pm CDT

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Re: Australian Toy Fair Hasbro Slides: Animated in 2015 - 16 Plus New Transformers: Age of Extinction Concept Art (1562823)
Posted by SlyTF1 on April 5th, 2014 @ 12:17am CDT

Those pictures of the TFs are so awesome.

Re: Australian Toy Fair Hasbro Slides: Animated in 2015 - 16 Plus New Transformers: Age of Extinction Concept Art (1562825)
Posted by welcometothedarksyde on April 5th, 2014 @ 12:23am CDT

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

Re: Australian Toy Fair Hasbro Slides: Animated in 2015 - 16 Plus New Transformers: Age of Extinction Concept Art (1562826)
Posted by Brakethrough on April 5th, 2014 @ 12:30am CDT

I'm definitely going to start referring to movie Hound as "Truck Dynasty".

Re: Australian Toy Fair Hasbro Slides: Animated in 2015 - 16 Plus New Transformers: Age of Extinction Concept Art (1562831)
Posted by Madeus Prime on April 5th, 2014 @ 1:33am CDT

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?

Re: Australian Toy Fair Hasbro Slides: Animated in 2015 - 16 Plus New Transformers: Age of Extinction Concept Art (1562833)
Posted by Sabrblade on April 5th, 2014 @ 1:50am CDT

That 2014 Q4 animated event news returns - http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... tes/28435/

Re: Australian Toy Fair Hasbro Slides: Animated in 2015 - 16 Plus New Transformers: Age of Extinction Concept Art (1562835)
Posted by Dead Metal on April 5th, 2014 @ 2:10am CDT

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

Pretty interesting indeed.

Re: Australian Toy Fair Hasbro Slides: Animated in 2015 - 16 Plus New Transformers: Age of Extinction Concept Art (1562843)
Posted by Bounti76 on April 5th, 2014 @ 2:41am CDT

I wonder if those faction logos are just placeholders. The second one, with the unicorn looking face, was the original Aligned-verse Predacon logo before they settled on the one that's on all the toys and Prime show items. There are test shots of Ripclaw and Sinnertwinstrike that show them with that logo.

Re: Australian Toy Fair Hasbro Slides: Animated in 2015 - 16 Plus New Transformers: Age of Extinction Concept Art (1562859)
Posted by dende5416 on April 5th, 2014 @ 6:53am CDT

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

Re: Australian Toy Fair Hasbro Slides: Animated in 2015 - 16 Plus New Transformers: Age of Extinction Concept Art (1562866)
Posted by griftimus prime on April 5th, 2014 @ 7:39am CDT

its a shame the hound toy looks nothing like that.

Re: Australian Toy Fair Hasbro Slides: Animated in 2015 - 16 Plus New Transformers: Age of Extinction Concept Art (1562873)
Posted by ishigoto on April 5th, 2014 @ 8:14am CDT

ANYONE ELSE SEEING IT?

Re: Australian Toy Fair Hasbro Slides: Animated in 2015 - 16 Plus New Transformers: Age of Extinction Concept Art (1562880)
Posted by Sabrblade on April 5th, 2014 @ 8:30am CDT

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.

Re: Australian Toy Fair Hasbro Slides: Animated in 2015 - 16 Plus New Transformers: Age of Extinction Concept Art (1562883)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on April 5th, 2014 @ 8:33am CDT

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.

Re: Australian Toy Fair Hasbro Slides: Animated in 2015 - 16 Plus New Transformers: Age of Extinction Concept Art (1562887)
Posted by Sabrblade on April 5th, 2014 @ 8:41am CDT

What if it's something entirely new and original that only happens to be another animal-related thing?

Re: Australian Toy Fair Hasbro Slides: Animated in 2015 - 16 Plus New Transformers: Age of Extinction Concept Art (1562889)
Posted by dreadwing95 on April 5th, 2014 @ 8:55am CDT

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

Re: Australian Toy Fair Hasbro Slides: Animated in 2015 - 16 Plus New Transformers: Age of Extinction Concept Art (1562890)
Posted by Sabrblade on April 5th, 2014 @ 8:57am CDT

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.

Re: Australian Toy Fair Hasbro Slides: Animated in 2015 - 16 Plus New Transformers: Age of Extinction Concept Art (1562896)
Posted by dreadwing95 on April 5th, 2014 @ 9:36am CDT

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.

Re: Australian Toy Fair Hasbro Slides: Animated in 2015 - 16 Plus New Transformers: Age of Extinction Concept Art (1562897)
Posted by Peridot on April 5th, 2014 @ 9:38am CDT

Sgt. Bulkhound kinda looks like Leadfoot in that concept art...
Incidentally, can anybody tell what it says underneath that IDW G1 Optimus? I think it says Legends, but I'm not quite sure.

Re: Australian Toy Fair Hasbro Slides: Animated in 2015 - 16 Plus New Transformers: Age of Extinction Concept Art (1562901)
Posted by Sabrblade on April 5th, 2014 @ 9:56am CDT

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".

Re: Australian Toy Fair Hasbro Slides: Animated in 2015 - 16 Plus New Transformers: Age of Extinction Concept Art (1562903)
Posted by Peridot on April 5th, 2014 @ 10:07am CDT

Ah, thanks.

Re: Australian Toy Fair Hasbro Slides: Animated in 2015 - 16 Plus New Transformers: Age of Extinction Concept Art (1562904)
Posted by UltraPrimal on April 5th, 2014 @ 10:18am CDT

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.

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