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

Posted by Va'al Jul 27, 2018 at 3:23am CDT 32,590 views
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...









#HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages
#HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages
#HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages
#HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages
#HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages
#HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages
#HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages
#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 (view post)
Comment by Va'al Jul 27, 2018
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Alphabet key for those trying to decode themselves.
Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (view post)
Comment by WreckerJack Jul 27, 2018
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 (view post)
Comment by Qwan Jul 27, 2018
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 :-D :-D :-D

(I can't spoiler an image so hopefully nobody minds having this step done for them :oops: )
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Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (view post)
Comment by Va'al Jul 27, 2018
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 (view post)
Comment by Scottywan82 Jul 27, 2018
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 (view post)
Comment by Qwan Jul 27, 2018
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...

[b]Fair warning[/i], 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! :-D
Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (view post)
Comment by Va'al Jul 27, 2018
Hey, I never said the messages made sense, did I? :-P
Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (view post)
Comment by ZeroWolf Jul 27, 2018
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 (view post)
Comment by Qwan Jul 27, 2018
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!

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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 (view post)
Comment by Va'al Jul 27, 2018
Ooooh, you sir, are good.
Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (view post)
Comment by Qwan Jul 27, 2018
Oohh! Of course it's not Caesar (probably)! I think I know where to go from here, actually.... :-D

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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 (view post)
Comment by ZeroWolf Jul 27, 2018
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 (view post)
Comment by Va'al Jul 27, 2018
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 (view post)
Comment by SpikeyTigertron Jul 27, 2018
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 (view post)
Comment by Va'al Jul 27, 2018
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 (view post)
Comment by Qwan Jul 27, 2018
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. :-D
Re: #HasbroSDCC Poster for Transformers War for Cybertron: Siege Reveals Hidden Messages (view post)
Comment by Va'al Jul 27, 2018
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. :-D


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 (view post)
Comment by ZeroWolf Jul 27, 2018
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 (view post)
Comment by SpikeyTigertron Jul 27, 2018
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 (view post)
Comment by Qwan Jul 27, 2018
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! :D

...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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