Category:Cartoon News Posted by:william-james88 Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 138,538
The Transformers Cyberworld series comes to Youtube in a month and a half. Below is the trailer and description from Hasbro.
Welcome to CYBERWORLD the Brand New Series Launching July 12th on Transformers Official!
Join Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Elita-1, Megatron, Grimlock, and more as they’re hurled into the hostile and unknown landscapes of CYBERWORLD. Stranded, disoriented and with no memory of how they got there, they must face a gauntlet of extreme, game-like challenges designed to test their strength, skill and level up as they are pushed to their limit.
Categories:Cartoon News, Toy News Posted by:Emerje | Credit(s): Takara Tomy on X Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 164,624
Another teaser from Takara Tomy went out on X last night, this time for a mysterious new use of the Inferno mold, which has already been used for Grapple and Artfire, in the MPG line. The most obvious guess would be Hauler, the (sometimes) green version of Grapple which hasn't seen a Masterpiece release yet. What we can tell so far is that it features the alternate gun/nozzle hand, the chromed realistic truck front and a new flatter truck front we haven't seen before. What's really intriguing is the head sculpt, not just the face, but the entire head area, appears to be new and there's no sign of a crane or ladder on the back of the truck.
This guy is a real mystery, feel free to post your own theories in the Energon Pub forums!
Categories:Cartoon News, Toy News Posted by:Emerje | Credit(s): Takara Tomy on X Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 164,039
"OK, Reflector, let's see what you can see." It was a scene that only lasted a few seconds in the first ever episode of the G1 Transformers cartoon, "More Than Meets The Eye, Part 1", but for many of us the image of a giant jet robot peering through a rather normal looking camera will forever be burned into our memories. And it's that image that Takara Tomy is looking to bring to our shelves with their latest and perhaps most ambitious Dramatic Capture set yet. And by ambitious I mean we're getting four figures this time instead of three, even if three of these figures are the same figure. There won't be any mold changes as we should be used to by now, so expect all the same heavy greeble of the original figure. At the very least we can hope for the parts from the "Refraktor Reconnaissance Team 3-Pack" and a small Reflector accessory for Thundercracker to hold. And that's not to downplay the significance of getting a new shot at Earthrise Thundercracker (though with a new deco) who we haven't seen since he was packed with Skywarp in hard to find Target exclusive way back in 2020!
More news when we get it. In the meantime let us know if you're looking forward to a new chance at a complete Reflector in G1 cartoon colors in the Energon Pub Forums!
Category:Toy News Posted by:william-james88 Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 149,944
Thanks to Amazon Japan, Takara Tomy and Telemaga, we now have loads of images of the third wave for the Transformers Wild King line. This one has redecos of the central bots, with Optimus being Nemesis Prime, as well as a stand alone limb, Abyssrain.
There is no indication that western retailers will be stocking these so your best bet if you want them is to order directly from Amazon Japan.
Categories:Cartoon News, Movie News, Toy News Posted by:Emerje | Credit(s): Takara Tomy on X Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 171,713
Over on X Takara Tomy has given us our first real look at the highly anticipated Studio Series Transformers the Movie (SS86) Megatron as well as the last two Constructicons Scavenger and Mix Master, and Transformers One Starscream and Elita-1. They didn't say when the full reveals would be coming, just that they'd be "soon", but hopefully we can look forward to a full reveal next week!
Big thanks to our own Seibertronian, Sabrblade for posting this in our own Energon Pub forums where you can let us know what you think of this teaser.
Category:Toy News Posted by:william-james88 Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 128,884
Takara has a second wave of limb bots (and a backpack) for their Wild King line. As with the previous limbs, most share the same parts and have identical transformations, except for the Pteranodon, called WKB-08 Thunderbeak. The others are WKB-05 Ignite Leo, WKB-06 Spirituan and WKB-07 Drillnohorn (rhino). The images come from Telamaga. These were made for Japanese children and not adult collectors, making it a bit tricky for collectors outside Japan to order.
Category:Toy News Posted by:william-james88 Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 132,532
While a staple of the 80s and 90s, the glow in the dark gimmick has not been used much with Transformers. While there have been some examples, it's been sporadic and minimal to the point where Hasbro never released a glow in the dark Transformers figure outside of the crossover line. UNTIL NOW!
Yup, not only is the Earthspark toyline still around but it will be breaking new ground with the brand by giving us a Glow in the Dark Megatron toy. All we have is this image here below of Cyberglow Megatron. It is a glow in the dark version of the warrior Megatron toy, and the image comes to us from In Demand Toys.
Categories:Toy News, Reviews Posted by:william-james88 Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 117,019
We still have some new Earthspark toys coming out, like this set of Optimus Prime with trailer. Neither are fully new toys, though there are changes in deco to thr trailer and changes to tooling for Optimus. Fellow Seibertronian Chuckdawg has a review below showing all that this set entails for those curious.
chuckdawg1999 wrote:This fun toy is a throwback to the classic G1 Optimus Prime. I appreciate the new tooling on the Warrior Class figure, which gives us a cleaner vehicle mode.
Category:Toy News Posted by:william-james88 Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 120,232
We knew we were getting a Transformers themed color shifter in the 3rd mix of 2025's Color Shifters but we just didn't know which one it would be. There have only been 2 "new" castings for Transformers Hot Wheels so far, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee so we figured it could be one of those. But no. Instead, Hot Wheels has picked a previously available Corvette casting with a plastic body, often used for more gimmick related sets. It being a Corvette, they have turned it into Tracks, with a body that goes from Blue to Black. So from Tracks to Loudpedal, if you want to see it through a more fun lens.
Category:Toy News Posted by:william-james88 | Credit(s): Prime vs Prime and e-bay Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 132,860
Prime vs Prime has leader class Studio Series 86 Megatron in hand and while he is making his review, he is giving some descriptions of the toy online. Below is what he posted on the TFW2005 boards pertaining to the figure:
- SS86 Megatron in robot mode is EVERYTHING you would want from his G1 design
- He’s mostly all grey plastic with a very pale painted grey faceplate. The back is immaculate! If it wasn’t for some very vague tread detailing on the legs, you’d never even know he transformed into a tank.
- He includes the sword he used to slash prime with in the movie, his back gun barrel and himself as the Walther P38
- Red sides are present and [there is red] on the bicep too
- Hands articulate exactly the same as 86 Prime. Red sides are present!
- Completely brand new - nothing is the same compared to Megatronus
In other news, the upcoming SS86 Mixmaster has been showing up on E-bay. Now, we have a great look at the toy and how it compared to the previous Generations version from Combiner Ware. It basically looks night and day, especially since the truck mode was very different from the G1 version.
Categories:Site News, Twincasts Posted by:ScottyP Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 106,440
The Seibertron.com Twincast / Podcast is back and questioning each other, its own existence, and the latest news. Your host ScottyP is joined by Aaarnhide19, Counterpunch, and Megatronus to discuss all things Wild King, Evangelion Cross-overs, and the Shizuoka Hobby Show. Scotty also allows Counterpunch to interrogate the cast on burning questions that you will not want to miss. Get in the mech Shinji, it's going to be a wild king ride.
Episode #375 “20-ish Questions” is available directly and in our RSS Feed, and should appear on Apple Podcasts and many other Podcatcher sites within 24 to 48 hours of when you see this news post.
Here's what we discuss in this episode:
What do municipal service employees really think of the Takara Wild King line of Transformers? They don't know and neither do we.
Several new images from this year's Shizuoka Hobby Show take us all the way from Diaclone to Macross to Zoids and back again, as usual, to Hauler. Sure.
Counterpunch reclaims his rightful place as host, at least for a little while, to go inside the podcaster's studio and ask on-the-spot personal questions to the other cast members. Most of them are appropriate, too.
Bragging Rights conclude another episode, as is tradition.
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Categories:Toy News, Reviews Posted by:william-james88 Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 97,425
Amazon has released its new exclusive, the crash combiner set of Optimus Prime and Bumblebee. Chuckdawg1999 reviewed it so that we can now have as much info as possible about it. Here are his thoughts on the set below.
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Here's something new. It seems like Amazon wanted another exclusive set of Transformers, and Hasbro responded with the return of Crash Combiners. If you remember RID 2015 Combiner Force, you remember these fun figures, the definition of a fidget toy. There's not much articulation, it's all gimmick, and the gimmick is fun!
Categories:Toy News, Reviews Posted by:william-james88 Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 85,314
Some Transformers Cyberworld toys are coming in early, like the Chomp & Battle Grimlock. Chuckdawg1999 got his hands on one so we have a review for you below. It should be said though that this is a figure meant to interact with other figures, like the configuration with Optimus Prime. So since the other figures are not out, that whole aspect isn't shown.
chuckdawg1999 wrote:This is a fun figure, but I wish some of the other figures were released at the same time to really take advantage of all the features.
Categories:Toy News, Collectibles Posted by:william-james88 Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 77,882
Not to put salt in the wound, but we now have new images of a completed Blokees Devastator, and while the individual alt modes will be available in the US (in blind boxes), the combining kit won't be. It can still be imported though the Show Z store though, read this article for more details on that. The images are from Weibo User Mangangwan.
We also have some unfortunate news to share, Blokees will be raising the prices on their site on May 19th. As you can read in their announcement below, they say the cost increases are a bullet they just cannot judge. Blokees was very strong in the price front, offering a fun model kit at a very reasonable price, so it's understandable that this hurts them since it gnaws at their price leader advantage, in terms of Porter’s classic competitive strategies. The good news though is that the situation they are referring to is tariffs and they could be temporary, meaning the price increase could be temporary as well.
Categories:Toy News, Collectibles Posted by:william-james88 Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 89,406
There's lots going on with the Blokees line. Did you know for instance that all those Constructicon alt mode toys are made to combine into Devastator? They do need an extra kit of combining bits though, G1 style, and that will be a problem for Americans since the US distribution arm of the Blokkes company has confirmed to fans that the add on kit will not be distributed to the US. They cite a licensing issue. You can, however, order it from the Show Z Store, along with the complete sets of Blokees needed to complete Blokees Devastator. They are absorbing the extra costs of tariffs too, so you don't pay extra once the toys land in the US (so they say). All links are below.
That Chapter 3 also has lots of new charcters we didn't have yet, which are all revealed in this video below and they include:
Shattered Glass Optimus Prime
Jazz
Hot Rod
Grimlock
Soundwave
Skywarp
Golden Megatron
Transparent Shockwave
Long Haul (alt mode for Devastator)
Scrapper (alt mode for Devastator)
Mixmaster (alt mode for Devastator)
Shattered Glass Optimus Prime in vehicle mode
Chase figures are Metallic Grimlock, Metallic Soundwave 6 Ravage, Special Galaxy Type Grimlock, Special Galaxy Type Soundwave
And lastly, we have official images for their Galaxy Version Wave 7 Transformers One set that they revealed on Twitter. This set includes:
B-127 Cogged
D-16
Alpha Trion
Elita-1
Orion Pax Cogged
Starscream
Soundwave
Shockwave
Silver Tracker
Megatron Final Form (with a Metallic deco version as the chase figure)
Categories:Toy News, Company News Posted by:william-james88 | Credit(s): Investing.com Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 73,551
A lot can change over a week-end these days. The CFO and COO of Hasbro, Gina Gedder, was answering questions at the JP Morgan conference and bank analysists did not waste anytime asking about the impact on tariffs. This is when we learnt that Hasbro had many plans and strategies and one involved simply no longer distributing product in the US. While Transformers are made in Vietnam (which currently has a 10% import tax), a huge bulk of Hasbro product is still made in China (Marvel Legends, for instance) and that had an import tax of 145%. At that rate, it's basically a ban for Hasbro since that means more than double of costs. Even redistributing the added cost among other products (including Transformers) was untenable and it was revealed that they were thinking of just not distributing to the US, or just not make it. And if they were to continue making the product, it would only be sold outside the US.
We were leveraging all of the different levers in our P and L to offset the tariff. Where pricing made sense and we thought it was tenable, we were planning to take it. And again it wasn’t like one product got everyone got the same rate. There were some products that maybe got a little and then there were some products that were getting more. There were some products that we just chose no, we’re not gonna actually produce anymore because it doesn’t make sense with that cost infrastructure to produce it and ship it into The US. Interestingly, some of the new complexity we added was some of the portfolio was only going to be for the international markets. Like we hadn’t really ever taken that approach before where you’re tailoring the product line by market, but it was something that we were prepared to do at the [145% tariff] scenario.
While Ms Gedder states that Hasbro never took that approach of catering to different markets like that before, this is something we saw with the Transformers brand in the G1 era where some product was only sold outside the US. But now that the import tax is lowered to 30%, for now, they can work out different pricing strategies to continue US distribution for their products, though it may include raising prices. If they would though, it would probably just be increases in the US since it has been confirmed, from a Canadian retailer Toysnowman, that the MSRP in Canada is not increasing for any Hasbro product. And they order months in advance so that means people outside the US probably wouldn't see a price increase.
This is extremely telling for the future of the Transformers brand though since it confirms that Hasbro, as a company, will not simply keep distributing toys if it isn't financially viable. While it sounds obvious, it does mean that if demand lowers due to increased prices, Hasbro is far more likely to just cease production/distribution rather than bring prices down. Basically, they answer to their shareholders and not to the consumers.
The presentation also focused on what they find to be the future of the brand in terms of growth, which is games. And that includes board games and card games (Wizards of the Coast) as well as their in house video game development. Transformers did not come up in the discussion on growth.
Categories:Toy News, Events Posted by:william-james88 | Credit(s): see article for sources Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 72,782
The Shizuoka Hobby Show 2025 has been going on since the beginning of the week and Takara, along with other Japanese toy brands, were showing their wares. Below we have images of the following products:
- Adamas Machina AMT-01EX Rodimus Lost Light Ver (non transforming, licensed)
- Adamas Machina AMT-02 Predaking (non transforming, licensed)
- Takara Masterpiece MPG-17 Optimus Prime Style Gen
- Takara MPG-18 Masterpiece Hauler
- Transformers x Evangelion Collaboration silhouette image
- Missing Link Anime Bumblebee and Cliffjumper in the C-09 Cybertron 2 pack Hero Set
- Takara tripe crossover Optimus Prime figure for Tomy Zoids/Diaclone/Transformers called Shield D Prime
- Macross 7 Transformers crossover figure, Basara Convoy
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Category:Toy News Posted by:william-james88 | Credit(s): Gamestop Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 67,401
The US and China have confirmed the tariff rate of 30% for the next 3 months for US imports from China. And now Gamestop has unveiled their latest prices on preorders, which are around 30% higher than the previous MSRP (still visible on Hasbro Pulse's site).
Here are the current prices on preorders:
Deluxes: 31.99 (28% increase from MSRP)
Commanders 119.99 (33% increase from MSRP)
Titan Star Optimus Prime 209.99 (40% increase from MSRP)
At the moment of writing, Entertainment Earth still has the 10% prices increase as opposed to the full 30% while Hasbro Pulse has all their preorders as unavailable.
Also, it is important to note that the 30% tariffs only apply to businesses. Individuals ordering from China now have an additional tax rate of 54% for imports (with a max of $100)
Categories:Toy News, Reviews Posted by:william-james88 Topic Options: View Discussion · Views: 62,065
Many fans were curious about Takara's Transformers Wild King line and we have some video reviews to share with you. This will give you the best idea of what this line entails.
chuckdawg1999 wrote:Wild King is an entertaining line thus far. The transformation is simple, but still fun, and I appreciate the stock transformations for the limbs.
chuckdawg1999 wrote:If I'm honest, overall, I like Volca and Leafback more than Longlight and Hydrophant. Prime is a simpler transformation that's more fun, but Megatron is the overall better figure.
Images of the second wave popped up last week on Amazon Japan and you can see them below.
These will all release on June 28, 2025.
WKB-05 Ignite Leo
WKB-06 Spirituan
WKB-07 Drill No Horn
WKB-08 Thunderbeak
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