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NYCC 2016 Gallery: Titans Return Brawn, Kickback, Voyager Optimus Prime, Titan Masters Repugnus, Shuffler and more

Date: Wednesday, October 5th 2016 9:05pm CDT
Categories: Site News, Toy News, Event News
Posted by: Bronzewolf

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Seibertronians, New York Comic-Con 2016 has delivered many surprises and expanded many people's want-lists tenfold, and it hasn't even officially started yet! Check out a detailed look at some of the Titans Return reveals from the Hasbro Press Night below, courtesy of Seibertron himself! We'll be taking a look at upcoming Titan Masters Repugnus, Shuffler, and Ptero, as well as upcoming Legends Class Brawn and Kickback and Voyager Class "Laser Rod" Optimus Prime figures displayed tonight. Check out a selection of images below, and click HERE for the full galleries!











And, as always, keep your optics and audio sensors tuned to Seibertron.com for all the latest and greatest news from New York Comic-Con!

NYCC 2016 Gallery: Robots in Disguise Combiner Force

Date: Wednesday, October 5th 2016 8:37pm CDT
Categories: Site News, Toy News, Event News
Posted by: D-Maximal_Primal

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Continuing on with the Seibertron galleries of the reveals from New York Comic Con, we bring to you the latest gallery: Robots in Disguise Combiner Force! Combiner Force revolves around Energon-styled 2-bot combiners that include previously seen characters such as Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, but also includes some new characters. Also included in Combiner Force are duos where a smaller minicon like figure unlocks the alternate mode of the larger bot, much like Stealth Force but with an extra character. Also thrown in are some new Warriors that include Stormshot, Blastwave, and an IDW colored Drift. You can check out a preview of the gallery below, and you can find the whole gallery HERE.

NYCC 2016 Gallery: Titans Return Perceptor, Hot Rod, Triggerhappy, Twinferno, and Breakaway

Date: Wednesday, October 5th 2016 8:29pm CDT
Categories: Site News, Toy News, Event News
Posted by: D-Maximal_Primal

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Trucking right along with the new galleries from tonight's New York Comic Con displays, we come to the upcoming deluxes of the line. The deluxes shown off tonight included the already teased Wave 3 of Hot Rod, Breakaway, Twinferno, and Triggerhappy along with the new deluxe in town: Perceptor! You can check out the full gallery HERE and a little preview of the gallery below!

NYCC 2016 Images of Titans Return Sky Shadow and Broadside from Hasbro Preview Night

Date: Wednesday, October 5th 2016 8:28pm CDT
Categories: Site News, Toy News, Event News
Posted by: william-james88

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Seibertron has uploaded extensive galleries of all the images taken on Hasbro's Preview Night at New York Comic-Con 2016. Here is the gallery for Transformers Titans Return Leader Class Sky Shadow and Voyager Class Broadside, two of the hottest reveals at the show. Sky Shadow will be remolded into the highly anticipated Overlord, and Broadside is remolded from Alpha Trion (and also includes some very tiny mini-Aerialbots). You can see some of the images below or click here for more.

NYCC 2016 Gallery: Titans Return Leader Class Sixshot

Date: Wednesday, October 5th 2016 8:23pm CDT
Categories: Site News, Toy News, Event News
Posted by: D-Maximal_Primal

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With the major reveals now shown off for tonight, it is time to get some galleries up! Seibertron.com is proud to bring to you our latest gallery, that of Titans Return Leader Class Sixshot on display! Sixshot, one of the Decepticon Phase Sixers, is an all new mold based on his original G1 toy with updated articulation and a upsidedown gun Submarine alternate mode for his 6th mode. Check out the full gallery HERE and check out a preview for the gallery down below!

NYCC 2016 Titans Return Reveals on Hasbro Preview Night Updated with Broadside's Mini Aerialbots

Date: Wednesday, October 5th 2016 7:04pm CDT
Categories: Site News, Toy News, Event News
Posted by: william-james88

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New York Comiccon is upon us again and Seibertron is there to bring you the latest reveals. Here is what we have found on the show floor in Hasbro's preview event on wednesday night for the Generations Titans Return line. Below you can see images of

- Leader Blackshadow: Appears to share the same mold as Overlord since his alt modes match the previous tease from Hasbro. He also appears to come with 2 titan masters.
-Leader Sixshot and all his six modes
- Voyager Broadside who comes with tiny jets on a sprue for the aircraft carrier mode.
- Voyager Optimus Prime
- Legends Brawn and Kickback
- Titan Master Repugnus and Fangry
- Deluxe Triggerhappy, Hotrod, Twinferno and Getaway

UPDATE: Megatronus, who was there on site had this to say about the small jets that come with Braodside:

you'll notice Broadside has 5 tiny jets - these are separate pieces that will come on a sprue, and peg right onto Broadside. John Warden just said they took the original CAD designs of the Aerialbots and scaled them down

We will keep updating this news post with more images so stay tuned.

NYCC 2016 Robots in Disguise Combiner Force Reveals on Hasbro Preview Night

Date: Wednesday, October 5th 2016 6:43pm CDT
Categories: Site News, Toy News, Event News
Posted by: william-james88

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New York Comiccon is upon us again and Seibertron is there to bring you the latest reveals. Here is what we have found on the show floor in Hasbro's preview event on wednesday night for the Robots in Disguise line. Below you can see images of:

Combiner Force Stormshot
Combiner Force Drift
Combiner Force Optimus and Strongarm
Combiner Force Sideswipe and Great Byte
Warrior Bludgeon as a redeco/retool of Warrior Megatronus
A red and white redeco of Warrior Drift

New Galleries: Transformers Legends LG-01 Rattrap and LG-02 Optimus Primal

Date: Tuesday, October 4th 2016 8:57am CDT
Categories: Site News, Toy News
Posted by: william-james88

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With the Transformers Legends line as the home for Takara Tomy’s version of Japanese Titans Return toys, we now look back at the very first two toys of that line which were actually Beast Wars related rather than G1. This fits perfectly with our continuing Beast Wars Tuesday galleries, looking back on Beast Wars toys old and new and this pair of toys is a nice mixture of both. We now have images for Transformers Legends LG-01 Rattrap and LG-02 Optimus Primal.

LG-01 Rattrap was a new mold for the fan favourite Beast Wars character, and the most accurate interpretation of how the character appeared on the show, especially in robot mode since this Takara Tomy version has the show accurate red eyes on the rat face chest.

LG-02 Optimus Primal is a retool of the original 1996 Ultra toy with a new gorilla face/robot chest and robot head, more akin to how he looked like on the show in robot mode. This is not even the first time we have this retool since it was previously released in 2006 under Beast Wars Reborn. This LG-02 Optimus Primal uses darker colours for the fur than the previous release and while there wasn’t much different in terms of deco, this was another opportunity to own the sought after retool. The gallery has both version of the retool side by side, let us know which one you find more accurate to the animation model’s colours.

These two toys also came with the very first chapters of the ongoing Legends Comic, which has the line's first released figure, Rattrap, as the mascot and connects to the Japanese G1 continuity.

Transformers Legends Beast Convoy (150 images) - Ultra Class












Transformers Legends Rattrap (137 images) - Deluxe Class

New Galleries: Transformers Adventure Micronshooter TAV24 Fracture and TAV27 Drift Sets

Date: Tuesday, October 4th 2016 12:43am CDT
Categories: Site News, Toy News
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We have another update to the Seibertron.com toy galleries, focusing on the Takara Tomy Transformers Adventure line, and more specifically the Micron Shooter subline, with its Decepticon Fracture and Autobot Drift figures!

TAV24 Fracture is the Japanese counterpart to the Robots in Disguise Deployer figure from Hasbro - which you can see here - and alongside a tweaked colour palette (with the lighter lilac purple so very prominent) we also get two Micron figures, scorpion-like Sandsting and bullet-kid Airazor. On the other hand, TAV27 Drift - as opposed to the Hasbro Drift set seen here - comes with his regulars Slipstream and Jetstorm. All Microns include the clear plastic armour pieces too, and you can check out the whole set of images below, by clicking on any of the included images!

Transformers Adventures Drift (96 images) - Micronshooter










Transformers Adventures Slipstream (94 images) - Microns








Transformers Adventures Jetstorm (84 images) - Microns








Transformers Adventures Fracture (95 images) - Micronshooter










Transformers Adventures Sandsting (82 images) - Microns








Transformers Adventures Airazor (96 images) - Microns

Top 5 Best Original Transformers Comics Characters Who Have Toys

Date: Saturday, October 1st 2016 12:05pm CDT
Categories: Site News, Editorials, Top Lists
Posted by: Optimutt | Credit(s): Guest Writer Optimutt

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Every two weeks, Seibertron.com brings you a Top 5 list related to all things Transformers. These are the opinions of one or a few people (just like movie or game reviews hosted by sites are still just the opinion of one person) so what matters most is what you guys think of the topic or list, and I hope to see your own lists or comments on omissions and ranking. Let's have fun! All previous lists can be found here. This week's list is brought to us from fellow Seibertronian Optimutt who has already given us some awesome lists like the Top 10 Best G1 Episodes and a list of the top 5 comic only characters that did not have toys yet (at the time). This is a follow up to said list, so take it away Optimutt!


Top 5 Best Original Transformers Comics Characters Who Have Toys

In the process of creating my “Top Five Comics-Only” list, I realized that there have been a huge number of comic characters who have enjoyed a physical existence in the sake of an officially-licensed product or two. While the companion looked at Transformers who have only existed in comic form, this is a list of those lucky enough to have been given toy form as well. In fact, many of my original choices for the previous list were exempt because of their toy versions. Luckily, they now get a chance to shine in all their comic-origin glory in this list that is pretty much the same as "Best Transformers Characters Original to the Comics"! Please also keep in mind that by “toy” I mean officially-licensed Hasbro/Takara products. Third Party versions don’t count in regards to this list.


5. Straxus

In the original cartoon, Megatron left Cybertron in charge of Shockwave. In the comics, however, a number of Decepticon leaders came and went, leaving Straxus the victor. From his fortress of Darkmount, Straxus was a brutal overlord whose greatest pleasure was the liquefaction of his enemies in his smelting pool. He was such a nasty number that even after his apparent death at Blaster’s hands, Marvel UK chronicled how he was able to take over Megatron’s body and continue his rule over the Decepticons. Sadly, his time with IDW was abbreviated and as a soldier for Nova Prime, he was relegated to a cameo role in several of the publishing company’s earlier books. Both Takara and Hasbro did a Classics version of him (pictured below), and he even got a Shakespeare-inspired Shattered Glass version in 2014.

Alt Mode: Tanky cannon.








Transformers Convention & Club Exclusives The Bard of Darkmount (Shattered Glass Straxus) Gallery


4. Impactor

A creation of Simon Furman, the Wreckers were a group of Autobots who had toys but were never in the comics (or cartoon) for one reason or another (mostly legal). With an initial group composed of Whirl, Roadbuster, Topspin, Twin Twist, and the duobot- Rack’n’Ruin, the Wreckers were a lean, mean, tailpipe-kicking force to be wreckoned with. And at their helm was this javelin-fisted soldier utterly dedicated to that team. Sadly, his time in the Marvel UK series was short-lived, as he sacrificed himself to save the life of the Cybertronian Autobots’ leader, Emirate Xaaron. The good thing about that? His replacements were none other than the Autobot Triple Changers! Not a bad legacy there. In IDW’s time with the series, however, he had a pivotal role in the Last Stand of the Wreckers series where he maintained his legacy of a soldier with quite a capacity to Wreck and Rule. Taking inspiration from the ill-fated Rotorstorm’s page in Last Stand of the Wreckers, Impactor’s first toy served as the torso of the Ruination combiner toy that came out in 2012. In keeping with the comics-inspired concept, 2016’s TCC Impactor toy will also be able to combine.

Alt Mode: Tank








3. Jhiaxus

In the early 1990’s, Marvel pulled the plug on the Transformers comics because of dwindling sales and the announcement from Hasbro that the toy line would cease. However, only a few years later, Hasbro relaunched the line, to be dubbed Generation 2. With this, Marvel also relaunched the Transformers series with former TF scribe Simon Furman at the helm. To maintain the idea of “new generation,” Furman created a third faction for the Autobots and Decepticons to battle, a group of Cybertronian colonizers whose goal was the creation of a universe of mini-Cybertrons. Despite being happy to be writing Transformers again, Furman was left a little dubious about the chances for G2’s longevity. This came across in the name of the new race’s leader, Jhiaxus, pronounced “Gee, axe us” (why doncha?). Since then, Jhiaxus has become a staple in TF fiction and has had the honor of having two distinct oddly-pumpkinized recolors of pre-existing TF toys!

Alt Mode: Jet






2. Drift

Yes. He does count! When Shane McCarthy was putting together his All Hail Megatron comic, he was in the market to balance off Sunstreaker and Hunter O’Nion’s betrayal of the Autobots. He did so with a Decepticon murderer who decided he had had enough and then switched sides. This disillusionment of a dedicated soldier was something that was pretty thoroughly explored in the series, but none were quite as spearheading of this as Drift. The coolest thing about this three sword-wielding drift racer was the fact that concurrently with his comics’ origin, Hasbro was in discussion with artist Guido Guidi and the IDW editorial team about the production of his toy! This was pretty much the first time that a comic and toy had similar timeliness in their origins. He has since become so popular that he beat out hundreds of other Autobots to land a role in TF 4, and his legacy continues in the Robots in Disguise cartoon. It is thanks to this name and image recognition that he barely ekes out ahead of Jhiaxus.

Alt Mode: Drift racer




Transformers: Robots In Disguise (2015) Drift Gallery


1. Primus

When Primus first appeared in Marvel’s TF 61, Octopunch shot him right between the eyes, waking him up from an eon-long slumber. He handled it pretty well, screaming loudly enough for his spark-brother, Unicron, to figure out where he was. It turns out that Primus was the heart and soul of Cybertron and – more importantly – the creator of the Cybertronian races! Over the next fifteen issues, we saw him come to life as a mildly-ineffectual protector of the Cybertronian race, only to be killed by Unicron. Prior to Primus’ appearance, the closest thing we had to a Transformers deity was the Creation Matrix, which was a mystical object that could give life. Fast forward a bit and the really cool toy of him that they made in his honor for the TF: Cybertron line became an even cooler repaint from Takara in 2010. Why is he at the top of this list? Can a mere mortal ever hope to compete with a god? Yeah, no way.

Alt mode: Cyber-freaking-tron. Yes. The planet.








Honorable Mention

Minimus Ambus

When the first Ultra Magnus toy came out in 1986, he was a recolored Optimus Prime toy with a car carrier trailer that turned into battle armor. In both comics and the cartoon, he was always depicted in battle armor, as a stalwart defender of what he could handle. Fast forward to Dreamwave’s run of the comics and minds were blown when the armor was destroyed to reveal Optimus Prime’s batch brother in shiny white glory. IDW took this concept to another level and created Ultra Magnus as the ultimate secret: he was a legendary soldier who, upon his corporeal death had his image resurrected by Chief Justice Tyrest as a battle armor given to special Point One Percenters who could carry the load of this special armor. The most recent of these to wear the Magnus armor is Minimus Ambus, a soldier who impressed Tyrest with his sense of duty, order, and punctuational adherence to the laws of the Tyrest Accords. The reason for his HM? Technically, he’s not an OC. I mean, he is, but he’s Magnus and everyone knows Ultra Magnus. So it would be cheating if we said he was completely OC. Hasbro brought him majestically to pearly life in 2015 in their Combiner Wars toy line.

Alt Mode: Anti-gravitational mine-sweeper (self), car-carrier (Magnus armor)




Transformers Generations Combiner Wars Minimus Ambus Gallery