#HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages

Friday, July 27th, 2018 3:23am CDT

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We've been apparently sitting on some interesting tidbit of news from the San Diego Comic Con 2018 War for Cybertron: Siege section of new Transformers reveals. During the convention, on day 1 in fact, Hasbro did a giveaway of a new poster featuring new art for the toyline, with the possibility of having it signed by Design Manager John Warden and toy designer Shogo Hasui.

The poster itself features the Autobot line-up, with Optimus Prime, Prowl, Red Alert, Sideswipe, Hound, Ironhide, and Chromia, plus three Tetrajets in the sky behind them, on a background of a burning Cybertron at war. What you might spot in the bottom left corner, however, is a message in Cybertronian (Ancient Autobot script), which we have decoded into 'Light the Darkest Hour' - a clue as to what to next do with the poster itself. Try picking up something to indeed light in the dark, and you'll find another scroll of words, which you can see in the images below - all of which were provided by fellow Seibertronian REX-203!

As we do not want to spoil the fun for those trying at home, we'll be posting the solution in the first comment of this thread covered by spoiler tags! What the solution does suggest however, is that something else is coming...

Transformers News: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages

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Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (1974404)
Posted by Va'al on July 27th, 2018 @ 3:43am CDT

Alphabet key for those trying to decode themselves.

Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (1974407)
Posted by WreckerJack on July 27th, 2018 @ 3:48am CDT

The first one was fairly easy to solve (Except the letters for hour were crammed together and I couldn't figure it out until Quan explained it. I thought it was 3 letters and not four and the spacing made the symbols look different.)

I can pick out some of the letters for the second one but it is very difficult to read. I would recommend that those who wish to solve it use a program like MS paint to flip it sideways so you can read it without messing up your neck!

Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (1974409)
Posted by Qwan on July 27th, 2018 @ 4:00am CDT

WreckerJack wrote:The first one was fairly easy to solve (Except the letters for hour were crammed together and I couldn't figure it out until Quan explained it. I thought it was 3 letters and not four and the spacing made the symbols look different.)

I can pick out some of the letters for the second one but it is very difficult to read. I would recommend that those who wish to solve it use a program like MS paint to flip it sideways so you can read it without messing up your neck!

Hahah, I mean it was pretty obvious what it was meant to say at that point. I just sort of reverse-engineered the only letter(s) that made sense, everyone else did the heavy lifting!

That said, I am doing this right now, other obligations be damned. I swear I will solve this puzzle!

UPDATE: This is as far as I've gotten so far! Cybertronian letters amateurishly traced to make them easier to read. (The bit in white brackets I'm not completely sure on, but hopefully context should help make those letter clearer.) Now to translate!! Hahaha I love stuff like this

(I can't spoiler an image so hopefully nobody minds having this step done for them

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Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (1974411)
Posted by Va'al on July 27th, 2018 @ 4:16am CDT

I'm waiting for some more people to chime in before posting the spoiler keys, so it doesn't show up on the news story in the comments! (As spoiler tags don't work on there.)

Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (1974412)
Posted by Scottywan82 on July 27th, 2018 @ 4:18am CDT

I am stumped. I can spot a few letters (I thought) but I am getting gibberish. Much appreciation for the traced letters, though. That helped keep me from questioning my sanity.

It looks like that last word is GEYXR? Or I suck at this game, which is more likely.

Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (1974414)
Posted by Qwan on July 27th, 2018 @ 4:25am CDT

Scottywan82 wrote:I am stumped. I can spot a few letters (I thought) but I am getting gibberish. Much appreciation for the traced letters, though. That helped keep me from questioning my sanity.

It looks like that last word is GEYXR? Or I suck at this game, which is more likely.

I'm getting some weird letter combinations too, right now! It almost looks like the first word starts with "NPG", which doesn't seem right...

Fair warning, I missed some lines and serifs etc. on my trace! It's not perfect. On the other hand, the bit I wasn't sure if I traced correctly has some of the letters that translate most easily - so it seems I was right on those at least.

I'm having so much fun right now! Thanks for not ruining our game Va'al!

Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (1974415)
Posted by Va'al on July 27th, 2018 @ 4:29am CDT

Hey, I never said the messages made sense, did I?

Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (1974416)
Posted by ZeroWolf on July 27th, 2018 @ 4:30am CDT

I'm in the same boat as some of the letters are quite easily identifiable...others are not...I need to get some pen and paper...

Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (1974417)
Posted by Qwan on July 27th, 2018 @ 4:32am CDT

Let's boost this post count!

I'm betting it uses some form of encryption, since I'm also getting GEYXR for the last word! I'm betting something simple like Caesar. I would say, "this had better be worth it", but just the experience it worth it in itself!

For those wanting what I have so far, here's a link to my Twitter with my current progress, so I don't have to worry about the image showing up here: https://twitter.com/Qwanami/status/1022777295008722945

Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (1974418)
Posted by Va'al on July 27th, 2018 @ 4:33am CDT

Ooooh, you sir, are good.

Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (1974420)
Posted by Qwan on July 27th, 2018 @ 4:40am CDT

Oohh! Of course it's not Caesar (probably)! I think I know where to go from here, actually....

EDIT: This post is wrong! I thought I was very clever, but I merely didn't have the whole puzzle yet.

Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (1974421)
Posted by ZeroWolf on July 27th, 2018 @ 4:43am CDT

The question would be what key would we then use to unscramble it?

Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (1974422)
Posted by Va'al on July 27th, 2018 @ 4:46am CDT

We're off the first page of comments! So here's a hint towards the solution:

EDIT: WE WERE NOT.

Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (1974423)
Posted by SpikeyTigertron on July 27th, 2018 @ 4:47am CDT

Man.... thus would be hard enough WITHOUT the stylized Cybertronian. I swear over half these marks aren’t in that key

Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (1974424)
Posted by Va'al on July 27th, 2018 @ 4:49am CDT

SpikeyTigertron wrote:Man.... thus would be hard enough WITHOUT the stylized Cybertronian. I swear over half these marks aren’t in that key

They are, believe me! They're just a bit smudgier, but once you get the knack of direction of the squiggle and composition, they correspond (almost entirely) perfectly.

Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (1974425)
Posted by Qwan on July 27th, 2018 @ 4:50am CDT

Va'al wrote:We're off the first page of comments! So here's a hint towards the solution:

EDIT: WE WERE NOT.

Thanks though, Va'al! While that was up, the correct decoding of the Cybertronian script was all I needed to work it out. (You're right, my tracing skills are a little off!)

Also, disregard my last comment. I simply didn't have the full thing to decode properly yet...

Now this is interesting.

Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (1974426)
Posted by Va'al on July 27th, 2018 @ 4:54am CDT

Qwan wrote:
Va'al wrote:We're off the first page of comments! So here's a hint towards the solution:

EDIT: WE WERE NOT.

Thanks though, Va'al! While that was up, the correct decoding of the Cybertronian script was all I needed to work it out. (You're right, my tracing skills are a little off!)

Also, disregard my last comment. I simply didn't have the full thing to decode properly yet...

Now this is interesting.

Also, isn't it interesting how this new G1 which is not G1 but a new 'first generation' for newer generations is still using that particular cipher?

Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (1974427)
Posted by ZeroWolf on July 27th, 2018 @ 4:55am CDT

Good interesting? Or is the text simply "sideswipe was here?" Or maybe even "Starscream Windblade 2020"

I can generally work out which letter is supposed to be which now but it still needs cracking

Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (1974429)
Posted by SpikeyTigertron on July 27th, 2018 @ 5:01am CDT

So it has to be run through a cypher? Because i’m Getting gribberish

Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (1974430)
Posted by Qwan on July 27th, 2018 @ 5:01am CDT

ZeroWolf wrote:Good interesting? Or is the text simply "sideswipe was here?" Or maybe even "Starscream Windblade 2020"

"Ominous and cool, but I'm not entirely sure what it means just yet and probably need to brush up on my Transformers lore" kind of interesting.

I can generally work out which letter is supposed to be which now but it still needs cracking

Once you have all the letters (and have them all correct), brute force is probably your best bet to crack it!

...Well, that or... let's just say there's a fairly significant number in Transformers, which is the key to solving it. A number of practically religious importance, you might say.

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