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Sol here! Just got back from the Hasbro tour. An immense amount of information for you, so I'll keep it to the highlights:

- Movie Pre-production table - lots and lots of stuff on show. You got to see the process where they started out from and what the went through in the evolution. Interesting note for some of you who like to collect the Movie cast - Arcee and Wreckage were originally in the Movie (Wreckage started life as Stryker)

- Larger Robot Heroes may be coming! Suggested may be a redone, larger Unicron and also a Devastator!

- Some new pre-production Movie toys were shown - A Blackout redeco in orange and white (tentatively named Evac) and a new mold Osprey (VERY cool). Also a new Legends toy was shown in vehicle mode - Ironhide.

- Alternators as a series started out in the US - it was initially developed as a concept by Hasbro then suggested to Takara as a possible line.

- Initially, the Movie TFs did not talk. Hasbro pushed for it. Same with the windows on Prime's chest and Cullen.

- There was a table of test shots shown showing the evolution of the process after the paint masters - Payload was there in vehicle mode, Leader Brawl in both modes, Recon Barricade final packaged sample.

- Masterpiece Starscream is a Wal Mart exclusive for release in fall. A prototype in mock up packacking (very early) was shown.

- Mockups for the Military Alternators were shown - never got any further than mockups made of spare parts.

- Titaniums (6 inch) are going on indefinate hiatus. The five named in the leaflet are still shipping (WW Prowl, Grimlock, etc) but Arcee, Cosmos, WW Bumblebee, WW Cliffjumper and Shockwave are not happening. Prototypes were shown though and they were very nice.

- Prototype of Porsche Alternator Jazz was shown.

- Foam prototype of a very different Energon Prime trailer was shown.

 

So awesome!

New Toy Info to start:
-Blackout redeco with remolded head, hands, and lifeboat/gun instead of Scorponok. Autobot. White, black, orange, and blue. Name is EVAC.

-New Decepticon Osprey voyager. No known name.

-Movie Legends Ironhide.

-6inch Titanium G1 Arcee, G1 Shockwave, Classics Cosmos, and another one (WW Bumblebee?) that are CANCELLED, along with the 6inch Titanium line. At least, that's what Eric said.

-Other things in the "never being released" cabinet included a MUCH larger Energon Prime trailer with a few more features (transforms into a cross-shaped base, could spring-fire the vehicles), halloween TM Terrorsaur (they didn't know what happened to it, it was before Eric's time started 5 years ago), A REAL-LIFE TOXITRON, RiD Defensor (the aborted OTFCC exclusive), short Alt Smokescreen, Porsche Alt Jazz, and some kitbash-mockups of a tank Alt and jet Alt (with GI Joe's for scale).

-Tons of movie design pics, including Arcee redesigns, Ratchet's old design (with twin swords!), buckethelmet-y Megatron, WRECKAGE, many Prime head and body designs.

-Some behind-the-scenes footage for the movie, with a ton of animatics.

-A bigass room full of toys from throughout the years from various lines, along with several Ultimate Bumblebees and a neat Leader MoviePrime/Award display.

-Free Pepsi product and Lay's.  

And lots more I can't recall right at the moment. XD I loved it. And I won a TFTM '07 beachball!

 

On the reason behind that wave not being put out:

Eric basically said that no retailers wanted it. That more or less was the biggest reason.

 

Oh!! At the prototype table, there was also redeco Barricade and what appeared to be a DELUXE MEGATRON in red plastic.

*edit*

nevermind, it was the FAB.