We just got out of the two-hour Hasbro Product Panel and Audience Q&A session and I’m now able to file our TFW2005 report. We have information on the 2008 as-yet-unseen Animated toys, the 2008 Universe releases, a preview of Universe toys for 2009’s twenty-five year anniversary of Transformers and much more! Hit the discuss link to start digesting this massive glut of news!
Update 6:40 PM – Hasbro put out samples of some of the newly revealed toys in their display case! Check out images of SDCC Skywarp, the new exclusive Movie Packs, as well as Universe Silverbolt, Ironhide and previously unrevealed Transformers Universe Bluestreak (in G1 cartoon accurate deco) and Universe Legends Hound!
Laser_Optimus
That would be awesome. Personally, I'm hoping for a G2 Megatron update (better than that crappy deluxe version we got as a part of the Classics two-pack).
Fort Max
Perhaps those guys will get deluxes later on, Hound is getting both after all.
Abrogate
And to the "Brawn is dead" comment, so are Prowl and Ironhide, but they're getting new deluxes
Runamuck
Brawn should definitely be a Deluxe. At least that.
Silent_Magnus
I hope we get at least legends class Gears and Windcharger also.
Thundershot
I purposefully left that out. Besides, all of those guys that were brought back died in the same issue… off panel, in most cases.
Chris
Laser_Optimus
Yeah, but Bumblebee got a deluxe class figure in Classics well before the Movie line came out.
Don't forget about 'The Last Autobot' resurrecting everyone in Primus-like fashion in the final issue (horrible).
Silent_Magnus
I'm glad Brawn is getting an update at all.
Unless you count X-brawn he hasn't really had anything since G1.
Thundershot
Brawn died in the cartoon. The comic… well… all of the old guys died, but got better. Either a Pretender shell or Nucleon, they're pretty much all alive by the end of the G1 comic.
Chris
The Asp
Because of the movie, people know who bumblebee is.
Plus brawn is dead.
DJW107PRIME
I wish they had bumped brawn up too Deluxe size he was one of the toughest bots right up there with Iornhide, Prime & Grimlock (well mabye not as tough ass Grimlock) I mean if Bumblebee's tiny little a$$ did it why can't he?
Laser_Optimus
Yeah, I'm not sure they really understand what's going on with the figure considering that they probably had nothing to do with the design. Mini-SD Cards work fine for one and, like everyone has said, they totally missed the point of the question. I'm really not sure what the chipset problem would be if they gutted the darned figure.
Oh well… could be one of those issues where they just haven't given it any thought and were caught off guard.
Beastbot X
He's actually mostly black, purple is a secondary color. He also has some yellow-green accents.
G.B. Blackrock
Besides missing the point, I'm still trying to figure out what the problem would have been anyway. Lots of us use imported MP3 Soundwaves out here. The "foreign chipset" hasn't caused us any problems that I'm aware of.
artiepants
it's really disappointing they totally lost the plot on this question…
chuckcjc
Good idea, they should stop making deluxe sized cars and trucks, voyager sized semi trucks, and planes while they are at it. Too many of those as well.
Logic. Not present.
Fort Max
Yeah I caught that but I haven't seen the specfic flash back episode yet.
Also, I wouldn't thave thought that "trying out" entitled them to bear the full insignia.
Thanks for the answer though Kickback.
KA
ooh, now i get it.
Kickback
The episode in the past. Bumblebee and Bulkhead once tried out for Elite Guard. Don't you remember the "He doesn't remember us?" quote from one of the two in the "Elite Guard" episode?
Thundershot
I hope to see Takara's Powerglide before the Hasbro one comes out. If it's red, it'll be the first Takara Classic that I buy instead of the Hasbro…
Chris