Latest Round of Stock Photos and Pre-Orders for Age of the Primes

Can we take a moment to appreciate that they gave Smokescreen the phase shifter?

Also, I think Liege may be my most anticipated of the wave?

Nemesis Primal wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Bumblevivisector wrote:And of course the Liege Maximo needs his miniature-sun-left-arm-cannon; not faulting Hasbro for skipping that.

Out of every piece of published artwork depicting the Liege Maximo in his original G2 design, this is probably the one that give the most clear look at his arm cannon:

His product description actually says he has "a hand that rotates to become a blaster", I think that red chunk in his left arm is the cannon and it's just optional.

Ah yes, didn't notice that until the official pics. In the final G2 splash page, it does just look like a smoldering wrist socket, but Alignment gives the idea that it was a more elongated weapon. I wonder if Geoff Senior drew it pointed directly at the reader on purpose because Simon hadn't finalized that detail of L.M.'s design, using foreshortening to leave it ambiguous.

Well, some older fans will still want the non-canon-cannon, just like some newer ones will want his new Earthspark head and cloak/shroud...I haven't seen the end yet, so I'm trying to avoid spoilers within reason. I foresee much 3P love for him.

Overcracker wrote:

Three things (that haven't already been said) stood out to me in this video:

1. Liege Maximo was designed to be able to sit on the Decepticon throne that originally came with SS86 Starscream.

2. Mark confirms that he saw the Geoff Senior art of Liege Maximo from Alignment and misinterpreted the three ships flying around his hand as the Liegian Darts.

3. I've heard a lot of people mispronounce Jhiaxus's name before (it's a pun on "Gee, axe us"), but this is the first I've heard anyone (Mark, in this case) mispronounce it as "Unjaxus".

Sabrblade wrote:3. I've heard a lot of people mispronounce Jhiaxus's name before (it's a pun on "Gee, axe us"), but this is the first I've heard anyone (Mark, in this case) mispronounce it as "Unjaxus".

Happens to the best of us. I once mispronounced a lady's name. Her name was Letitia. Then there was this other lady Siobhan.

Back to Transformers, some of the Japanese Transformers names are mispronounced by Western folks.

Sabrblade wrote:

Overcracker wrote:

Three things (that haven't already been said) stood out to me in this video:

1. Liege Maximo was designed to be able to sit on the Decepticon throne that originally came with SS86 Starscream.

2. Mark confirms that he saw the Geoff Senior art of Liege Maximo from Alignment and misinterpreted the three ships flying around his hand as the Liegian Darts.

3. I've heard a lot of people mispronounce Jhiaxus's name before (it's a pun on "Gee, axe us"), but this is the first I've heard anyone (Mark, in this case) mispronounce it as "Unjaxus".

For me the biggest thing was them confirming they will be doing limbs for Nexus Prime, just not this year so they haven't been able to talk about them. I'm guessing the backlash and potential hit to sales got the higher ups to fast track that a bit.

Seibertron wrote:Thanks Emerje for posting the news about the pre-orders. I updated it to include the Amazon links that weren't available earlier today.

No problem, but I will complain that we need to enable more picture formats on the site. I spent hours downloading and converting every single one of those pictures to .jpg one at a time. Only being able to upload 10 at a time didn't help either. Between that and the links it was probably the most time I've spent on an article.

Emerje

The Transformers brand team of Evan, Mark and Nate produced a deep dive video for the Age of the Primes figures that went up for pre-order on Tuesday as well as giving hints at some of the figures coming in the future.

• Mark says he's looking forward to making a zombie Cliffjumper.
• Prime Smokescreen was done because he was a Prime candidate in the show.
• Smokescreen has "suicide doors" that open in car mode.
• Powerglide's face spins around giving a place for the mask to attach to.
• Powerglide's thermal rubsign is non-fuctioning, but Mark wanted to add it as a nod to the original figure.
• Apparently Mark (who has bee on the Transformers team since 2010) named the red Hoist redeco Lift-Ticket, though none of them could remember his name.
• Mark wants to repaint Swerve and replace the silver plastic with more white.
• Tease doing Throttlebots in the future based on the Mini Bots
• Show that Nexus can connect with Silverbolt's thruster in alt mode (a picture of him in combiner mode from Mark's Instagram video can be found at the bottom of his article)
  
• Confirm that Nexus will get proper limbs in 2027!
• Once again tease that the Prime artifacts are able to do something when you have them all.
• Considered doing Nexus as a Duocon (Duobot?) at one point.
• Seem to imply that the Vector Prime coming in the final wave isn't a straight repackage of the one from Legacy. Nate seems very confused by this at first, thinking Liege Maximo is the final Prime of the line.
• Maximo's entire set of large horns comes off his back and can be used as a weapon.
• Maximo is also made to be compatible with Studio Series Coronation Starscream's throne and the back horns can attach to the back of the throne to keep the silhouette.
• Our own Sabrblade points out that Maximo's darts are a misinterpretation of ships in the Aligned art panel and not the actual darts.
• Maximo's left hand has a canon mode.

Below is a list of leaked figures we know are still coming in 2026 for Age of the Primes but have yet to be officially announced:

TRA GEN PRIME DLX JOYRIDE
Product Code G2013
TRA GEN PRIME DLX TAILGATE
Product Code: G2014
TRA GEN PRIME DLX POINTBLANK (Refresh)
Product Code: G2016
TRA GEN PRIME DLX FANGRY (Refresh)
Product Code: G2017
TRA GEN PRIME VOY VECTOR PRIME (Refresh? Retool?)
Product Code: G2003
TRA GEN PRIME LDR ARMADA MEGATRON (Refresh)
Product Code: G2783
TRA GEN PRIME LDR UNICRON SOLDIER
Product Number: G2784
TRA GEN PRIMES CMDR 2 (Armada Jetfire?)
Product Number: G1972
TRA GEN SELECTS COMBINER (Core Monstructor?)
Product Number: G2265
TRA GEN SELECTS MULTIPACK
Product Number: G2266
TRA GEN SKY
Product Number: G2270
TRA GEN SDCC 1
Product Number: G2271
TRA GEN AOTP SENTINEL ARTIFACT PACK
Product Number: G2931
TRA GEN DTC PRO PACK
Product Number: G3267
TRA GEN BW PREDACON MULTIPACK
Product Number: G3285
TRA GEN RED ALERT MINICON PACK
Product Number: G3288
TRA GEN AOTP ENERGON 4
Product Number: G3363

While I appreciate Nexus getting limbs next year, I do have thoughts on the whole thing:

For one, if Nexus himself is the core robot, does that mean the other bots will also be called Nexus, or have different names? If they have different names, shouldn't Nexus himself be Heatwave or something?

They say limbs, but will they include the skeleton somehow? Or are we stuck using a spare Silverbolt? Will it be a gift set with a new Nexus plus the skeleton and 4 limbs, and we end up with a standalone and combining Nexus, maybe with retooled heads?

If they were doing limbs, why not do the limbs this year and push Bruticus to next year? Seems odd to spread Nexus out over 2 years, especially since his limbs will come out in the next line, not "Age of the Primes".

D-Maximal_Primal wrote:While I appreciate Nexus getting limbs next year, I do have thoughts on the whole thing:

For one, if Nexus himself is the core robot, does that mean the other bots will also be called Nexus, or have different names? If they have different names, shouldn't Nexus himself be Heatwave or something?

They say limbs, but will they include the skeleton somehow? Or are we stuck using a spare Silverbolt? Will it be a gift set with a new Nexus plus the skeleton and 4 limbs, and we end up with a standalone and combining Nexus, maybe with retooled heads?

If they were doing limbs, why not do the limbs this year and push Bruticus to next year? Seems odd to spread Nexus out over 2 years, especially since his limbs will come out in the next line, not "Age of the Primes".

Calling it right now:
- Nexus Prime will stay main retail
- The limbs will be exclusives (On Pulse or Amazon more than likely)
- The limbs will include their dedicated skeleton part (flexible exclusive pricing)
- The limbs will be called Nexus something, and the combined form... Actually, scratch that.

ThunderThruster wrote:

megatran wrote:Then there was this other lady Siobhan.

A name that is spelt nothing like it sounds

The lass had politely told me I had totally misprounced her name. She was probably Irish...

megatran wrote:

Seibertron wrote:Love that Powerglide has the alien mask. It's always such an odd thing to include. Now he can join Masterpiece Sunstreaker for Halloween.

I'm in the minority but these accessories had a fleeting appearance in the cartoon. It's like Dr Bev Crusher in Star Trek TNG. She is prominent in the series yet the fans always bring up the ghost incident in the Sub Rosa(?) episode.

The alien masks are from the episode "Hoist Goes Hollywood", in which the Autobots Hoist, Powerglide, Sunstreaker, Tracks, and Warpath all joined the cast of a science fiction B-movie in which they played the roles of evil alien robots and wore silly looking alien masks for their roles.



It was one of the second season's sillier episodes (which is saying a lot considering just how many silly episodes that season had).