NYCC 2016 Hasbro Transformers Panel #NYCCLive - 1:15 to 1:45 pm ET

Even across countries and timezones, the Hasbro Transformers panel is still a thing that we can attend, thanks to the livestream from New York Comic Con 2016 - and here is a summary of what went down during the robotic half hour in NYC!

- Showing off the Transformers: The Last Knight Optimus Prime voice changing helmet just revealed by Hollywood Reporter, with some of the voice clips, and some talk about Optimus in general.

- Talked about the process from movie to toy, what appeals to newer generations (with mentions to the 1986 animated movie, and the new Shout! Factory remastering).

- Dipping into the Machinima Combiner Wars animated series to segway into Prime Wars trilogy as a toy-first element (pretty much) Combiner Wars, Titans Return. Driving into Deluxe Twinferno, Perceptor (who is a working microscope!) - and finally, Sixshot.

- Sixshot: compared with G1 version, showing off the poseability, Phase Sixers name-dropped, Black Shadow brought out for comparison too. Shown how it splits in half for tank + jet sections, and Titan Master.

- Trypticon revealed! Well, his leg anyway (with ratcheted ankle tilts). Release is Fall 2017.

- More movies coming as we know.

Well Trypticon's leg is better than nothing.

are they going to do any more new reveals

I wish the foot had a bit more claw, but it's really nice and detailed.

Microraptor wrote:I wish the foot had a bit more claw, but it's really nice and detailed.

Well, it is just a prototype, so there could be a little more that is to be added? If not, still looks nifty.

Trypticon looks good.

Ohh, Hello Overlord...

Trypticon's Leg is a thing on its own. Trypty is gonna be quite quite large.

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I guess it can be said that Trypticon isn't ready to stand up to scrutiny...!

This is why I don't have friends and am single.

One thing I've noted about prototype images, they often wind up being very representative of the final product. Regardless, whether he's got toe claws or not - I gots to have mah Trypticonz......

Looking at the side-by-side comparison between G1 Sixshot and TR Sixshot, I think I'll wait and see what Takara does for their version. I really liked the version of Sixshot from The headmasters cartoon and this new TR version has some things about it that, not necessarily in a cartoon-accuracy sense but in a general sense, look a little off to me.

please Please PLEASE show some last knight stuff. (not voice changing helmets, actual figures) And PLEASE let them be regular figures, not one step or flip-n-change crap. Hopefully this movie's line will be better than AOE's, because AOE's were mostly shellformers, and the new one step stuff. Hope they go back to the actually creative and innovative designs of the first three films.

I notice in the last photo that they added the little connect-a-ramp to the leg so it can interconnect with other Leader class Titans Return basebots.

If you think Six Shot looks funny imagine what the Quickswitch version is going to look like.

Though why they'd want to make Quickswitch out of that Mould without HUGE changes I have no idea.

I like his Beast mode - It would be interesting to stitch Hexatron into the comparisons too.

Broadside's jet mode does look kinda hokey, but I'm still just happy they're doing him at all. He always seemed like one that was going to fall through the cracks.

After seeing some stills from the Hasbro Twitch presentation, we are now able to bring you a video of the full event! Seibertron.com was able to get up to the second row from the designers themselves as they spoke about Transformers and what is to be coming soon. Unfortunately the room was loud and the microphones were not working fully, so the audio might be a bit tricky to hear, but you should be able to get all the important stuff you need from the video. Check it out below, and let us know what you think in the comments section below!

6shot's head opens. So is that where the headmaster figure is kept during warrior

Can't wait to see the rest of Trypticon!

Quantum Surge wrote:Can't wait to see the rest of Trypticon!

you know its gonna be good when everybody gets excited for the leg

If everyone goes crazy with the reveal of one leg whats gonna happen when the other leg is revealed?


Will the universe be destroyed be the sheer mind blowns of this fandom?

Deadput wrote:If everyone goes crazy with the reveal of one leg whats gonna happen when the other leg is revealed?


Will the universe be destroyed be the sheer mind blowns of this fandom?

total domination.

what happens when the color choice will be revealed or one of the pins

Mindmaster wrote:I guess it can be said that Trypticon isn't ready to stand up to scrutiny...!

This is why I don't have friends and am single.

They are just trying to get a leg up on the competition.

Relic0037 wrote:

Mindmaster wrote:I guess it can be said that Trypticon isn't ready to stand up to scrutiny...!

This is why I don't have friends and am single.

They are just trying to get a leg up on the competition.

Thank goodness they didn't waist our time with this reveal, it is a really nice piece to show off

What surprised me most was that they knew Hasbro Asia was rereleasing MP Soundwave. The US Brand team is usually not super aware of the activities of the subgroup but it seems thats not the case here. With Montano saying "we" it seems the MP Soudwave reissue is seen as a corporate wide reissue, meaning that this is Hasbro corporates strategy to let fans have another chance to get the mold and it wouldnt be rereleased in northamerica instead.

I'm unimpressed.

Based on this reveal, I'd say that this Trypticon figure doesn't have a leg to stand on.

(I am of course kidding, it looks amazing so far.)

im all excited for trypticon he looks to be huge, but with this titans return line being centered around headmasters i wish we could also have scorponok as well, just sayin

Ultra Markus wrote:im all excited for trypticon he looks to be huge, but with this titans return line being centered around headmasters i wish we could also have scorponok as well, just sayin

Here's one looking at it how many scorponok figures have we had in past compare all of them to only generation one figure that deserves remade typticon it's fair by numbers perspective.,

I may have well watched this video on mute can't understand single word anyone is saying

dragons wrote:

Ultra Markus wrote:im all excited for trypticon he looks to be huge, but with this titans return line being centered around headmasters i wish we could also have scorponok as well, just sayin

Here's one looking at it how many scorponok figures have we had in past compare all of them to only generation one figure that deserves remade typticon it's fair by numbers perspective.,

I may have well watched this video on mute can't understand single word anyone is saying

trypticon could have been release during combiner wars because metroplex was back in 2013 so we have a 3 year gap between metroplex and fortmax and now we get trypticon a year later! i know trypticon was a fan choice presented to us a short time ago but they could have started the poll 2 years ago
so now we have a headmasters toy line without on of its biggest stars i know we need trypticon too
i just wish we didn't have to wait until now when scorponok would be more appropriate
oh well

I can't see any reason why scorpy can't be released in 2018 or 2019
and still be a Headmaster under Prime Wars 3.0.

Actually perhaps he can have a double headmaster or one of those titanmaster exo-frame like designs for the smaller head to pilot.

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I wouldn't mind to see MP Soundwave released without the Cassettes they are so easy to get and cheap there is barely any point including them all unless they make them a different paint type like gloss instead of metallic or metallic instead of gloss. I hear he's getting an overscale KO so I may just go with that.

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I wonder if Takara will skip Sixshot and go straight to Six Knight instead ?

Ultra Markus wrote:trypticon could have been release during combiner wars because metroplex was back in 2013 so we have a 3 year gap between metroplex and fortmax and now we get trypticon a year later!

2014 was the only year without its own Titan, as that was because Hasbro was then still needing to see how successful Metroplex would be before they could proceed with making more than one Titan, and then they started working on their second Titan, with their needing time to work on it requiring it to come out during 2015, which resulted in Devastator being the 2015 Titan. And now Fort Max is the 2016 Titan, and with Trypticon winning the poll to be the 2017 Titan.

Ultra Markus wrote:i know trypticon was a fan choice presented to us a short time ago but they could have started the poll 2 years ago

Except that two years ago was around the time when the brand team changed from Aaron Archer's team to John Warden's team. The team from back then likely had no involvement in the fan poll that was cooked up by the current team.

RAR wrote:I wonder if Takara will skip Sixshot and go straight to Six Knight instead ?

Why would they? Sixshot was an important character in The Headmasters cartoon, whose story ended on a note of his beginning a new starting point in his life. He's practically begging to have the next step in his life's story told, and Takara' Legends line would be the perfect opportunity for them to do just that.

By comparison, Sixknight, while cool in his own right, was more like a footnote when compared to Sixshot's prominence, as Sixknight only appeared in four episodes of Masterforce, with one of those being him appearing just so he could be brutally murdered by the Devil Zed-possessed BlackZarak.

I know it's a longshot, but I would love it if Trypticon also transformed into the Nemesis

truegrit wrote:I know it's a longshot, but I would love it if Trypticon also transformed into the Nemesis

Agreed. I would love this too, but I think they are going to keep him with a traditional base mode in this case. Would be nice if there was a way to fan-mode it after. I'd love something with the Nemesis, like a scale replica like they did with the Ark.

Tyrannacon wrote:

truegrit wrote:I know it's a longshot, but I would love it if Trypticon also transformed into the Nemesis

Agreed. I would love this too, but I think they are going to keep him with a traditional base mode in this case. Would be nice if there was a way to fan-mode it after. I'd love something with the Nemesis, like a scale replica like they did with the Ark.

Its a guarantee thats what they will do. That leg section transforms like the G1 version by splitting up. And along with what we have seen, this confirms to be an upscale of the G1 figure with modernized engineering.

william-james88 wrote:

Tyrannacon wrote:

truegrit wrote:I know it's a longshot, but I would love it if Trypticon also transformed into the Nemesis

Agreed. I would love this too, but I think they are going to keep him with a traditional base mode in this case. Would be nice if there was a way to fan-mode it after. I'd love something with the Nemesis, like a scale replica like they did with the Ark.

Its a guarantee thats what they will do. That leg section transforms like the G1 version by splitting up. And along with what we have seen, this confirms to be an upscale of the G1 figure with modernized engineering.

That doesn't make it terrible though. I mean it'll be nice to see a large-scale version of that with the modern engineering behind it. I just worry about price point at that. Take Hasbro's AT-ACT walker from Star Wars Rogue One being like MSRP: $300.00 or so. I hope Trypticon is not that much as the after market will probably be like if you bought a nice used car.

truegrit wrote:I know it's a longshot, but I would love it if Trypticon also transformed into the Nemesis

In Beast Wars: Uprising, Trypticon instead got reconfigured into the Dinosaur, with his city mode given the name "Dinosaur City".

Tyrannacon wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Tyrannacon wrote:

truegrit wrote:I know it's a longshot, but I would love it if Trypticon also transformed into the Nemesis

Agreed. I would love this too, but I think they are going to keep him with a traditional base mode in this case. Would be nice if there was a way to fan-mode it after. I'd love something with the Nemesis, like a scale replica like they did with the Ark.

Its a guarantee thats what they will do. That leg section transforms like the G1 version by splitting up. And along with what we have seen, this confirms to be an upscale of the G1 figure with modernized engineering.

That doesn't make it terrible though. I mean it'll be nice to see a large-scale version of that with the modern engineering behind it. I just worry about price point at that. Take Hasbro's AT-ACT walker from Star Wars Rogue One being like MSRP: $300.00 or so. I hope Trypticon is not that much as the after market will probably be like if you bought a nice used car.

Part of the strategy of Hasbro recouping their costs is to actually sell them, so the price cant be outrageous. I highly doubt it will be anywhere near 200$. I would say more along the lines of 150-170.

Sabrblade wrote:

Ultra Markus wrote:trypticon could have been release during combiner wars because metroplex was back in 2013 so we have a 3 year gap between metroplex and fortmax and now we get trypticon a year later!

2014 was the only year without its own Titan, as that was because Hasbro was then still needing to see how successful Metroplex would be before they could proceed with making more than one Titan, and then they started working on their second Titan, with their needing time to work on it requiring it to come out during 2015, which resulted in Devastator being the 2015 Titan. And now Fort Max is the 2016 Titan, and with Trypticon winning the poll to be the 2017 Titan.

Ultra Markus wrote:i know trypticon was a fan choice presented to us a short time ago but they could have started the poll 2 years ago

Except that two years ago was around the time when the brand team changed from Aaron Archer's team to John Warden's team. The team from back then likely had no involvement in the fan poll that was cooked up by the current team.

Having this fan poll to begin with was a mistake. Maybe if we were still in that weird grab bag of everything that we were in a few years ago it would've been fine but we're not. We have themes for each year now. We're in a headmaster themed year and I don't see how Trypticon fits in with that. If the rumors of the next theme being beast themed are true then this was a huge screw up. We could've gotten Scorponok, a beast AND headmaster the year before as a transition instead of Trypticon, a beast and not much else, in a headmaster centric line. Pretty much the only thing Trypticon has to do with the current line is he's compatible with the titan master. Big whoop. I'd rather had another fan poll character made up for this line than them trust us with picking the character most fit for titans return year 2. We literally pick the least fit character for it. Omega Supreme would've been better cause at least he was a headmaster at one point. Don't get me wrong, I wanted a titan class Trypticon as much as anyone else, but not at the cost of Scorponok.

End of rant.

if we get scorponok at some in in the future it would better than nothing i just hope they dont skip it altogether i think many transformers fans would be greatly disappointed

Here I have a rather silly thought: what if they limit the Titan Master to whatever partner (Brunt or Full-Tilt) Trypticon comes with?

Or even better: just don't do the gimmick at all? I highly doubt Trypticon would have been part of the poll for a Titan Wars themed Titan if they didn't already have thrown ideas around for Titan Master integration. Besides, didn't the poll just say "Next Titan" without any mention of the gimmick?

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Here I have a rather silly thought: what if they limit the Titan Master to whatever partner (Brunt or Full-Tilt) Trypticon comes with?

Or even better: just don't do the gimmick at all? I highly doubt Trypticon would have been part of the poll for a Titan Wars themed Titan if they didn't already have thrown ideas around for Titan Master integration. Besides, didn't the poll just say "Next Titan" without any mention of the gimmick?

I thought the way the gimmick integrated was not with the titan being a headmaster but rather the fact that the base mold can acomodate titan masters and have interaction points with them. That seems to be what the heads of the brand were saying at their nycc panel.

william-james88 wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Here I have a rather silly thought: what if they limit the Titan Master to whatever partner (Brunt or Full-Tilt) Trypticon comes with?

Or even better: just don't do the gimmick at all? I highly doubt Trypticon would have been part of the poll for a Titan Wars themed Titan if they didn't already have thrown ideas around for Titan Master integration. Besides, didn't the poll just say "Next Titan" without any mention of the gimmick?

I thought the way the gimmick integrated was not with the titan being a headmaster but rather the fact that the base mold can acomodate titan masters and have interaction points with them. That seems to be what the heads of the brand were saying at their nycc panel.

what if they dont include either brunt or fultilt at all, all we got with metroplex was scamper and one big red gun no slammer or sixgun and fortmax with no grommit and gasket i think its possible they wont include but maybe one extra