I think everything is going to be on hold for a while because of the movie. That being said I think there is still a good possibility we will get new announcement about a couple more Generations Voyagers and Deluxes for the Late Fall/ Winter. At least that's what I'm hoping for.
Was he officially announced at Toyfair? I know he was in the "leaked listings", but that was all I thought. Roadbuster/Skybyte might be all still coming until the movie line winds down, but when it does there's almost sure to be more Generations... Voyager, Deluxe, Legends ....and Leader.
I believe so, but searching "Toyfair" in news and rumours doesn't give me a single thread pertaining to this year's toyfair. Because the search engine kind of is not good. But Brainstorm's coming, as well as another wave of leaders and Deluxes etc. Sky-Byte and Roadbuster are not the last wave for sure.
Toy Fair 2014 Generations Voyagers Sky-Byte and Roadbuster Official Images - Transformers News - TFW2005 Google FTW.
There's no Voyager Astrotrain planned. It was listed on robotkingdom site but it was revealed to be Blitzwing instead.
Good to see that confirmation on Brainstorm! Astrotrain was listed over a year ago and was evidently just a placeholder name for Blitzwing.
Actually, I have a tangentially related question. With the movie deluxes and voyagers being released under the generations umbrella, is there a good source to indicate what wave of deluxe's and voyagers will be delayed and how long? I want to say it'd be Rattrap's first wave, and the Roadbuster/Skybyte wave and they'd be released in fall, but that's just me talking. I wish they'd get released alongside the movie toys, because this would mean that Windblade won't be out for a while, like what, winter, or even next year? But that's all speculation on my end, and if anyone knows better, I'd love to know too.
Technically speaking, we will be getting plenty of "Generations" voyagers since half of the AOE line is being released under that banner. The more pertinent question is are we going to see any classics style voyagers. Aside from Brainstorm, I don't know of any that are confirmed. I find it really strange that they've melded the movie line into Generations, but it could theoretically mean that the classics style figures wont be delayed. Since both styles are technically the same line, Hasbro could possibly mix the case assortments to include both styles of figures and thus avoid the movie-overload that has shunted Generations in the past. Still, that is for the certified geniuses ( ) at Hasbro to decide.
At Toy Fair, Hasbro seemed to reclassify "Generations" as not only the "Classics" line, but as a general style of figure (the brand now has "Robots in Disguise" figures, aimed at younger kids with simpler engineering and "Generations" figures, aimed for older consumers and collectors with more complex engineering). But more importantly: Movie Generations and Classic Generations are NOT the same line, from a marketing standpoint. Movie figures are NOT shipping with Classic figures, they don't share cases or SKU numbers. In that sense, the only reasons for "delays" would be on the actual retailers' end (ie, not ordering enough, prioritizing restock of movie stuff over classic, etc). From the online listings, Hasbro themselves really don't look like they are planning a huge delay in releasing product (not like Generations 2011, which didn't see a wave released in over 6 months). Hasbro PLANS to release Roadbuster/Skybyte this summer (June by BBTS), when you see it at Walmart will depend on Walmart. Edit: As far as releases, we're currently on track to get about the same amount of product in "Classics" as we did last year (about 16 deluxes, 7 Voyagers), and assuming we end up this year with about the same amount of product...we've basically seen/know the entire year's product, short of Arcee, Chromia and Brainstorm (which I'm expecting to see at Botcon or SDCC). I don't think one need to worry about finding stuff: Last year, the early release Voyagers were NOT easy to find, but the last release was Sandstorm in late summer, and retailers spent the next 3-4 months selling back inventory and stocking revision cases that got older figures back onto shelves. I'm fully expecting a repeat of that this year.
I haven't really been keeping track of release schedule stuff, but all I know is, I distinctly remember a Hasbro employee saying Windblade would be out at the end of 2014. Not sure if that's 100% true, and/or if plans may have changed. But that's the last I recall on the subject of her release.
Generations Classics: Everything but movie toys. Aimed at collectors. Previously referred to as simply 'Generations' Generations AOE: The collectors oriented brand of AOE toys (AKA. harder transformations, better molds, etc.)
