2016 Toyfair Australia: New Pictures of Transformers Robots in Disguise and Titans Return

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Grffin, the main site admin of Ozformers, has posted images from the 2016 Australia Toyfair, along with a Q & A with Hasbro Australia.

A quick rundown of what is new to see will be presented first, along with the Q&A, and then you will get the deluge of photos.

Here is the back of Scourge's box

New RID products (I think they are remote control cars)

The back of the minicon weapons packaging which shows compatibility with all classes

Also, the playability of the power surge toys

Here is the Q&A, which is specific to the Australian market.

Q - What upcoming store exclusives for Australia that are allowed to be made public?
A -Note, Retailer details are subject to changes from now until they are released.

Platinum Edition Planet of Junk Clash (Wreck-Gar, Autobot Hot Rod, Scrapheap) - NO
Platinum Edition One Shall Stand, One Shall Fall (Optimus Prime, Megatron) - Myer
Platinum Edition Armada of Cyclonus (Cyclonus, Scourge, Sweep) - NO
Platinum Edition RID Bumblebee & Grimlock - NO
Chinese New Year - Year of the Goat Optimus Primal - NO
Superion (Gen2 deco) boxset - ToysRUs & Target
Menasor (Gen2 deco) boxset - ToysRUs & Target
Bruticus (Gen2 deco) boxset - Target (only)
Victorion boxset - BigW, ToysRUs & BigW
Japanese Masterpiece imports - on hold for a while. Tracks should be the last one for a while.

Q – Any more Hasbro Masterpiece toys this year?
A - There is one coming, but it hasn't been officially revealed yet.

Q - Any chance of getting more of the HK bonus coins and their other freebie items here?
A - Possibly, as the Ultra Magnus coins did well.

Q - RID Happy Meal toys coming here?
A - Should be Early 2017.

Q - Any planned Transformers exhibitions or promotional displays planned for here that you know of (like at Conventions)?
A - Some things are being planned for this year, but nothing has been locked in yet, so nothing can be announced until it is.

Q - Any chance for the Cyber Commander Toys & Cyber Battalion toys here?
A - No

Credit(s): Griffin of Ozformers

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Re: 2016 Toyfair Australia: New Pictures of Transformers Robots in Disguise and Titans Return (1774467)
Posted by Hellscream9999 on March 21st, 2016 @ 11:49am CDT

So what? Fort Max has no heels either, or ankles for that matter, I was about to say that it was getting hard to resist Fort Max, but if going the way metro did of barely being able to hold a stable pose, guess I'm out >:oP

Re: 2016 Toyfair Australia: New Pictures of Transformers Robots in Disguise and Titans Return (1774482)
Posted by Randomhero on March 21st, 2016 @ 11:58am CDT

Hellscream9999 wrote:So what? Fort Max has no heels either, or ankles for that matter, I was about to say that it was getting hard to resist Fort Max, but if going the way metro did of barely being able to hold a stable pose, guess I'm out

Those are metroplex'S legs. What did you expect? There's not really a way to give him ankle articulation with the amount of weight he has for any kind of stability.

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Posted by Hellscream9999 on March 21st, 2016 @ 12:04pm CDT

Randomhero wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:So what? Fort Max has no heels either, or ankles for that matter, I was about to say that it was getting hard to resist Fort Max, but if going the way metro did of barely being able to hold a stable pose, guess I'm out

Those are metroplex'S legs. What did you expect? There's not really a way to give him ankle articulation with the amount of weight he has for any kind of stability.

I mean, I figured they were, but that doesn't mean that they couldn't have given him fold out heels - especially as he doesn't do anything with metros' leg transformation now...

Re: 2016 Toyfair Australia: New Pictures of Transformers Robots in Disguise and Titans Return (1774494)
Posted by Optimizzy on March 21st, 2016 @ 12:06pm CDT

WAVE ONE.....BOUGHT!!!

I really like everything so far.

Re: 2016 Toyfair Australia: New Pictures of Transformers Robots in Disguise and Titans Return (1774505)
Posted by leokearon on March 21st, 2016 @ 12:17pm CDT

Hard to make out given the angle, but can Fort actually connect with Blaster and co's base modes?

Re: 2016 Toyfair Australia: New Pictures of Transformers Robots in Disguise and Titans Return (1774507)
Posted by Sabrblade on March 21st, 2016 @ 12:20pm CDT

I don't like the gray that was used for PM Prime's trailer/guns and Blaster's legs. It looks too drab.

Though, anyone else seeing the conspicuous red cross symbol on the front of Prime's trailer?

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Posted by william-james88 on March 21st, 2016 @ 12:22pm CDT

leokearon wrote:Hard to make out given the angle, but can Fort actually connect with Blaster and co's base modes?

Yes. there is a ramp in the front and on the sides.

Re: 2016 Toyfair Australia: New Pictures of Transformers Robots in Disguise and Titans Return (1774513)
Posted by o.supreme on March 21st, 2016 @ 12:25pm CDT

I know we've observed this a lot, but it's sad that the individuals who set up these displays have no pride in their work. The G2 CW Combiners look awful.(how they are displayed, not the toys themselves) For a second I thought Powerglide was humping Superion's leg, until I realized they just left his arm down instead of trying to pose it in some dignified way.

And apparently they are sexist also, believing that just because Victorion is a female, she cant even lift up her own sword.

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Posted by william-james88 on March 21st, 2016 @ 12:28pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:I don't like the gray that was used for PM Prime's trailer/guns and Blaster's legs. It looks too drab.

Though, anyone else seeing the conspicuous red cross symbol on the front of Prime's trailer?

the red cross isnt intentional. Its the shae of the grey plastic against the red arms that is mirrored onto both sides, creating the cross.

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Posted by Hellscream9999 on March 21st, 2016 @ 12:32pm CDT

william-james88 wrote:
leokearon wrote:Hard to make out given the angle, but can Fort actually connect with Blaster and co's base modes?

Yes. there is a ramp in the front and on the sides.

All leader class figures can connect to one another as well as Fort Max :-D

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Posted by Triptykon on March 21st, 2016 @ 12:33pm CDT

So hyped for Titans return. Loving just about every mold. Blaster and Galvatron are must haves, with scourge and blurr right behind them. Can't wait!!

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Posted by Hellscream9999 on March 21st, 2016 @ 12:35pm CDT

And can I just ask: What the he|| is up with the deluxe neck joints?!? Blurr's looking down and to the side! Are the heads ball jointed, or is the connector port on the body able to rock???? I seriously have to know the answers to this, like immediately [-(

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Posted by RevTibe on March 21st, 2016 @ 1:08pm CDT

Hellscream9999 wrote:And can I just ask: What the he|| is up with the deluxe neck joints?!? Blurr's looking down and to the side! Are the heads ball jointed, or is the connector port on the body able to rock???? I seriously have to know the answers to this, like immediately

Same trick the recent Voyager Brainstorm used - the Titanmaster partner's head is on a balljoint; since the lil' guy's head is the part that pegs into the main body, this balljoint can also be used for the headmode neck.

There were some reports that Voyager Brainstorm's head pegged in too snugly and the balljoint would pop off when you tried to removed the head; I'd imagine HasTak have had the chance to smooth that out for the Titanmasters.

Re: 2016 Toyfair Australia: New Pictures of Transformers Robots in Disguise and Titans Return (1774529)
Posted by Hellscream9999 on March 21st, 2016 @ 1:10pm CDT

RevTibe wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:And can I just ask: What the he|| is up with the deluxe neck joints?!? Blurr's looking down and to the side! Are the heads ball jointed, or is the connector port on the body able to rock???? I seriously have to know the answers to this, like immediately
Same trick the recent Voyager Brainstorm used - the Titanmaster partner's head is on a balljoint; since the lil' guy's head is the part that pegs into the main body, this balljoint can also be used for the headmode neck.

There were some reports that Voyager Brainstorm's head pegged in too snugly and the balljoint would pop off when you tried to removed the head; I'd imagine HasTak have had the chance to smooth that out for the Titanmasters.

I wanna believe you , but we haven't seen any indication of this, guess we need to wait for in-hand images. Don't get me wrong, I really wanna believe you, in fact I kinda do, but the renders at least don't show them as having that kind of clearance :-?

Re: 2016 Toyfair Australia: New Pictures of Transformers Robots in Disguise and Titans Return (1774545)
Posted by RevTibe on March 21st, 2016 @ 1:40pm CDT

Hellscream9999 wrote:
RevTibe wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:And can I just ask: What the he|| is up with the deluxe neck joints?!? Blurr's looking down and to the side! Are the heads ball jointed, or is the connector port on the body able to rock???? I seriously have to know the answers to this, like immediately
Same trick the recent Voyager Brainstorm used - the Titanmaster partner's head is on a balljoint; since the lil' guy's head is the part that pegs into the main body, this balljoint can also be used for the headmode neck.

There were some reports that Voyager Brainstorm's head pegged in too snugly and the balljoint would pop off when you tried to removed the head; I'd imagine HasTak have had the chance to smooth that out for the Titanmasters.

I wanna believe you , but we haven't seen any indication of this, guess we need to wait for in-hand images. Don't get me wrong, I really wanna believe you, in fact I kinda do, but the renders at least don't show them as having that kind of clearance

Looked over photos for evidence, and it might just be a rotational joint? The clearest show I've found of a Titanmaster's "neck" in action is the little Megatron/Nucleon guy being transformed in the Titanmaster's facebook video, worth a look.

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Posted by Hellscream9999 on March 21st, 2016 @ 1:42pm CDT

RevTibe wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:
RevTibe wrote:
Hellscream9999 wrote:And can I just ask: What the he|| is up with the deluxe neck joints?!? Blurr's looking down and to the side! Are the heads ball jointed, or is the connector port on the body able to rock???? I seriously have to know the answers to this, like immediately
Same trick the recent Voyager Brainstorm used - the Titanmaster partner's head is on a balljoint; since the lil' guy's head is the part that pegs into the main body, this balljoint can also be used for the headmode neck.

There were some reports that Voyager Brainstorm's head pegged in too snugly and the balljoint would pop off when you tried to removed the head; I'd imagine HasTak have had the chance to smooth that out for the Titanmasters.

I wanna believe you , but we haven't seen any indication of this, guess we need to wait for in-hand images. Don't get me wrong, I really wanna believe you, in fact I kinda do, but the renders at least don't show them as having that kind of clearance
Looked over photos for evidence, and it might just be a rotational joint? The clearest show I've found of a Titanmaster's "neck" in action is the little Megatron/Nucleon guy being transformed in the Titanmaster's facebook video, worth a look.

Yeah, I've seen it, I think it may just have room to rock but not enough to be a full fledged ball joint; still, if this is true, it's enough to make me reconsider not getting a lot of the deluxe's...

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Posted by steals_your_goats on March 21st, 2016 @ 1:44pm CDT

Triptykon wrote:So hyped for Titans return. Loving just about every mold. Blaster and Galvatron are must haves, with scourge and blurr right behind them. Can't wait!!

Glad to see some more blurr and scourge love. I'm surprised no one's talked about sentinel primes color scheme. Unless I'm behind on this it looks like he has quite a few new colors that the initial render didn't have.

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Posted by Hellscream9999 on March 21st, 2016 @ 1:48pm CDT

steals_your_goats wrote:
Triptykon wrote:So hyped for Titans return. Loving just about every mold. Blaster and Galvatron are must haves, with scourge and blurr right behind them. Can't wait!!

Glad to see some more blurr and scourge love. I'm surprised no one's talked about sentinel primes color scheme. Unless I'm behind on this it looks like he has quite a few new colors that the initial render didn't have.

Not really, they're just different and kinda blend together, you know, in the worst possible way :HEADHURTS:

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Posted by Segor on March 21st, 2016 @ 2:39pm CDT

Does Fortress Maximus come with a gun/weapon like Metroplex did??

I see that in the box art it shoes a blue one, but haven't seen the one that comes with the figure itself.

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Posted by RiddlerJ on March 21st, 2016 @ 2:43pm CDT

I keep thinking Fort Max is mistransformed. His boots look like they should open out in some way, but they aren't here or on the box. Metroplex's opened.

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Posted by ZeroWolf on March 21st, 2016 @ 2:45pm CDT

What's the items at the bottom of the titan returns display? Namely the yellow looking one with the g2 type front. But everything is looking good here, can't wait till they hit the shelves.

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Posted by o.supreme on March 21st, 2016 @ 2:56pm CDT

Well the cover appears to be an homage to Marvel Comics TF issue #12, and what looks like a couple of Kreon mini figures?? (although I thought Kre-O was done? at least in North America) - what the other two window box type items are, I have no clue, it appears to show more comics underneath however.

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Posted by Wolfman Jake on March 21st, 2016 @ 2:59pm CDT

Glad to see Hasbro's Galvatron won't have that horrendous shade of purple seen in the promotional video last week. Looks like he's back on the table for purchase when I spot him in a store!

Scourge looks interesting, but plain with his almost entirely blue robot mode. I can't get over his overly square head either. The headmaster gimmick is working against him in this case. I think I'll stick with the Generations figure. I don't mind the updated alt mode, and the figure overall just looks much more interesting.

Victorian looks a LOT better with her colors adjusted to be more muted.

Astrotrain is looking good, but I'll wait for Takara's inevitable screen accurate color scheme.

That Wheelie looks pretty good too. It may just replace my Universe 2008/Henkei version.

Blurr looks interesting too, but again, I might wait to see how Takara does the colors. All the blues look way too close in shade to one another on the Hasbro version.

I'm not a fan of the muddy brownish gray used for Powermaster Prime and Blaster. It's the same off shade they used on the recent G1 Blaster reissues over the past decade.

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Posted by Hellscream9999 on March 21st, 2016 @ 3:06pm CDT

Wolfman Jake wrote:Glad to see Hasbro's Galvatron won't have that horrendous shade of purple seen in the promotional video last week. Looks like he's back on the table for purchase when I spot him in a store!

Scourge looks interesting, but plain with his almost entirely blue robot mode. I can't get over his overly square head either. The headmaster gimmick is working against him in this case. I think I'll stick with the Generations figure. I don't mind the updated alt mode, and the figure overall just looks much more interesting.

Victorian looks a LOT better with her colors adjusted to be more muted.

Astrotrain is looking good, but I'll wait for Takara's inevitable screen accurate color scheme.

That Wheelie looks pretty good too. It may just replace my Universe 2008/Henkei version.

Blurr looks interesting too, but again, I might wait to see how Takara does the colors. All the blues look way too close in shade to one another on the Hasbro version.

I'm not a fan of the muddy brownish gray used for Powermaster Prime and Blaster. It's the same off shade they used on the recent G1 Blaster reissues over the past decade.

Yeah, there must've been a sale on that color, cuz they are using it on everyone :HEADHURTS:

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Posted by Amelie on March 21st, 2016 @ 3:10pm CDT

Third parties are going to have an absolute field day with this line - target masters, head-masters, plus Hasbro releasing heads with no bodies, so hopefully we'll see companies releasing bodies with no heads...

madness.

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Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on March 21st, 2016 @ 4:17pm CDT

I wants so many of these :KREMZEEK:

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Posted by fenrir72 on March 21st, 2016 @ 7:48pm CDT

UNGA BUNGA!!!!!!!!!! :shock:

and this one

and this!!!!!

my poor wallet! :BOWDOWN:

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Posted by ausbot on March 22nd, 2016 @ 5:15am CDT

I thought they were coming with collector cards, I cannot seem to see them in thier packets.

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Posted by william-james88 on March 22nd, 2016 @ 6:18am CDT

Australia Toyfair was preceded by a small event between two Hasbro employees and some senior members of Ozformers. Here are all the images from that small hands on event, which give us the best look yet at some of these upcoming figures in hand. Griffin, the site owner, added comments which can be read in his post for those interested.

The figures found in the pictures below are:

G2 Bruticus
Crashbash
Astrotrain
Ravage
Galvatron

Enjoy!

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Posted by Nemesis Destron on March 22nd, 2016 @ 6:27am CDT

I'm not digging the downsize of Nightbeat in this line. I would definitley make it a counterpart for deluxe Nightbeat I think.

I'm hoping that Takara can help in the paint apps for poor OP and Ravage. :VEHI:

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Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on March 22nd, 2016 @ 8:35am CDT

Poor Nucleon. even a bit of silver would have helped so much :MAXIMAL:

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Posted by Munkky on March 22nd, 2016 @ 12:23pm CDT

william-james88 wrote:

Ravage's plane mode kind of looks like a penguin when stood up like that. I do hope you can move the wings forward and jet nose down to get an unofficial penguin mode.

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Posted by King Kuuga on March 23rd, 2016 @ 3:33am CDT

william-james88 wrote:

Arms are a mess, Brawl and Vortex's HFGs are switched.... who poses these?

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Posted by Amelie on March 23rd, 2016 @ 4:33am CDT

That Bot wrote:who poses these?

Someone paid less than they're worth who has to stand on their feet for 12 hours a day and really couldn't care less about the toys. :-P

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Posted by Rainmaker on March 28th, 2016 @ 2:08am CDT

So many toys I wish I could have...

:MAXIMAL:

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Posted by RAR on March 30th, 2016 @ 3:48pm CDT

Working with the public should require hazard pay (grin).

I am a little concerned that the Legion Class RID has Vanished - possibly superseeded by the Simba Toy cars (hotwheels / RPM like toys)

I wonder what they are called brand segment wise ?

I was expecting some Brown Repaints for the Legions - and there is a real gap in the market for more small Decepticons too.

I can see people squeeing like a 6 year old girl at a Disney Princess party at the prospect of a Legion Springload in particular.

Not to mention that the same would likely be almost as true for some of the others too making them in the anniversary year of Beast Wars even makes a crazy kind of additional sense perhaps because of their Animal nature.

Some of the designs would be more suited to the smaller size too.
Like that Shark one for example.

I hope they have not killed the segment off early that would be as big a shame as the lack of Legion Class Armada toys is to me.

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Posted by william-james88 on March 30th, 2016 @ 4:05pm CDT