Just got back from the TFCC Panel, highlights below.

2 things for the end of the year, one cover for the magazine involves Derrick Wyatt

Animated Tech Specs – more planned, 5 at the end of year


Shattered Glass Quintesson Aquarius – Space Hippy, faces look like the Beatles
Shatteredverse Computron

2010 still being worked out

4 more Shattered stories

Blitzwing Bop
Transhuman
Ultimate Salvation
Bonus end of year story

Club exclusives announced tomorrow

2010 toy not ready yet but is being worked on, solid idea.

Not making any more Shatteredverse characters for now – definitely not Omega Doom for now.
Movie toys off limits for exclusives.
Got to see what happens with Animated to see if they can use the toys. Not any time soon.

Heatwave – won’t get a lot of screentime in the comic.
Nexus Maximus – a few names didn’t clear legal, one had Nexus, one had Maximus, Hasbro suggested Nexus Maximus. They ran with it. Didn’t Google it. Ooopssss…
One of the 13, no specific alignment, predates the war.

The 13 are unique over all continuities – there is only one per continuity. Unicron stays evil wherever he is.

Story ideas – not usually a problem.
Names – bit trickier to avoid infringing a mark.

Club board software getting an upgrade.
Might get a fan fiction section.

Can’t touch continuity specific characters like Drift or Mikaela.

Will be a collected edition of the year 3-4-5 comics (if Pete can talk Brian into it)

Razorclaw & Elira-1 were done as a way of covering those characters.
Didn’t want to use the Leo Prime head, didn’t know and was glad about it.

Go-Bots 5 pack – other things they’d want to do first that would sell better

Seacons story would have tied up a loose end from the Marvel comic, still hope at some point of doing it as Part 4 (1 – Crossing Over, 2 – Games of Deception, 3 – Cheap Shots, 4 - ???)

Shattered Glass – idea started as a Mirrorverse GI Joe set, threw around idea for a while, didn’t work for Joe but worked for TF


Comics

Diamond edition split cover old Kup to the left, young to the right, pretty fun looking pencils.

Holligan not Sunstorm (fooled me) but Gaihawk was correct

Sweeps planned for 2 years

Skyquake upgraded from UK bio from Super Evil to Super Evil Super Scientist

Continuity not meant to be certain, just an ambiguous continuity, made sense to leave it open. Future plans for the Elite Guard.

Leozak was originally going to speak in Japanese, way more over the top originally. Compromised with an over the top font instead of having him subtitled.

Pete is extremely happy with how the club comic came out. Look forward to the Diamond Edition content.

Landshark – homage to Steve Martin and Chevy Chase. Cow catcher burrows through the earth.

Sharkticon mold – want to use it, hard to fit it in.

 

Heh, just Googled it meself to see why. And yep, MASSIVE oops.  

 

Just looked up Nexus Maximus on the internet. Man that is so ordered.

 

  @ Nexus Maximus.

 

I Have a MISB Nexus Maximus on Ebay if any one wants it.. its case fresh....

I'm kinda happy to see their keeping the Shattered glass thing going. since frankly IMO its awesome to see every character have a Bizzaro self I just hope they don't drop the ball and make some more accessible toys for us unlucky guys (I'm not saying re-release the botcon set I'm thinking just make some new figures)

 

epic lulz at Nexus Maximus  

 

Yeah man totally don't use it for that guy who has Shark in his name already.

 

Thanks for all the panel news, Sol Fury!

 

Thanks, Sol!

I think I'll refer to my Club combiner as "Nexus Prime" from now on.  

 

*wonders if there will be a "accessory pack" for "nexus maximus" * 

 

Word.

frankly swapping in the shark toy and up sizing another character would of really helped sell this set to me

 

WOW!! Totally glad I read the google listings. I would have opened something completely NSFW!

Big flub on the Nexus Maximus  

 

Some interesting stuff right there. I'm more interested to see whom the new club figures are going to be and if they'll be worth my rejoining. Right now... the magazine just doesn't do it for me... especially with the main reason I was interested (the club comic) having shifted to a continuity that I couldn't give a rat's behind about. Oh well... maybe next year it'll be better and I'll rejoin.

 

...which version?  

 

This is great, looking forward to the new exclusives

 

You know, I always found the whole "translucent Energon combiners" thing lackluster and the toys boring (Energon combiners are not the best ones TF lore had) - but I always said, to each his own, they don't bother me.

However - now they are officially one of the 13, meaning Furman has to encompass them into his tale, which is already under preparation... I bet it's not only me who's irked by this, but Simon too.

And now Cybertron Soundblaster is a 13 too? WTF?

 

????

When was it stated that Cybertron/Galaxy Force Soundblaster was one f the 13?

 

Just looked up nexus maximus myself   a hilarious flub in naming

 

Japanese prose story, "Beast Wars Reborn," had Vector Prime recognise him as "Logos Prime", an "ancient" like him. Whether "Ancient"="Thirteen" could be debated, of course.