Thanks to the events of Cybertron Con this past week, we've already seen and heard a lot about what to expect from the forthcoming Transformers: Age of the Primes line.
Nevertheless, Mark from the Transformers team is here with Hasbro Pulse to make it official... er. Join him as he takes you on a tour of the 2025-2026 portion of the subline, and if nothing else, enjoy the turnarounds of the figures and their boxes.
Now, all this isn't to say that there wasn't any new or interesting info to be had. Far from it!
Here are my notes from the presentation, stuff I didn't know or catch or just wasn't sure if it had been made official before going in:
- Boxes show which Prime each of the non-13 Transformers descend from
- Fugitive Waspinator is a descendant of Micronus Prime, so apparently you don't have to be a Micromaster/Mini-Con or the like for that. Just small, I guess?
- Solus Prime's Forge has a grenade on the bottom
- Her toy combines the appearance she had in Machinima's series with other sources
- Slingshot descends from Alpha Trion, and they were going for cartoon accuracy
- Air Raid follows his cartoon appearance as well
- Says he turns into F16, but the comments section said F15
- Slingshot and Air Raid each have Landing gear and two blasters
- Red Alert has storage for all weaponry
- Repeatedly refers to Prima Prime's Matrix as the "Creator" Matrix; not sure if that's a new term or just an error (probably the latter, but in this franchise, who knows? Things are always changing...)
- Prima Prime's paint apps on side/back fenders are incomplete on the sample here
- Confirms Wheelie's G2 color scheme as coming from "Wild Boy of Quintesson"
- Grimlock has G2 symbols on the backs of his legs
- Hopes to do all G2 Dinobots, but doesn't elaborate on whether that includes unreleased Sludge and Swoop from the original line
- Pantheon image on box top with entire pantheon of 13 Primes around the Well
- Refers to Star Optimus Prime as "The god Prime of the 13"
- Star Optimus comes with Zodiac orb, calls it the "miracle artifact that rebirthed Optimus to life in the Japanese continuity," but no mention of how/if there's any English lore for it here
- For the first time ever, he has a removable Energon bullet in his ion blaster
- Hot Rod's gun turret in the base mode does swivel
- Calls the base mode a "battle station for 13 Primes"
- Tread unit (aka Roller) is removable, snaps together, and rolls, but isn't motorized
- Comes with "a hilt of a Matrix that is basically extended to create a hilt for the blast effects here that are all on 5mm ports" and shows other blast effects attaching to make different swords "build an Energon saber for battle"
- Star Optimus Prime measures in at 15 inches tall
- Wingtail and Blue Booster are both Autobots (I guess they could have wound up being Maximals)
- The icon in the Item Box for Sonic -- er, Blue Booster spins; invincibility is on one side, Autobot symbol on other
- Blue Booster was, of course, inspired by Speed Star from the various recent Sonic racing games, such as Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing
- Ring is also an Energon shield
- The 2-pack is a Target exclusive, except for limited quantities at Hasbro Pulse on Transformer Tuesday... which was yesterday, and went up was shortly after this aired, which means screw you and screw me and probably screw Canada now. Contact your local scalper, I guess
- Age of Primes: 22 figures in 2025 alone
- All Aerialbots in one year
- Everything besides the Target-exclusive Sonic thing will be available everywhere toys are sold
Tell us what raised or dashed your hopes from this in the comments, or elsewhere. Sure, the Sonic news bites, but we won't.
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