Toys Long Ago in a Distant Land...Transformers Timelines Feudal Japan Optimus/Starscream Revealed!

From the NYCC Transformers Panel (pictures by TFW2005) as well as Screenrant, Hasbro has revealed the next set of Timelines figures, this time taking us back to Feudal-era Japan with samurai-themed versions of Starscream and Optimus Prime (see the gallery below). Optimus transformers into an ox-cart complete with robotic ox, while Starscream now converts into a robotic falcon. Samurai themed versions of Megatron and Bumblebee are said to be coming as well, but no pictures were yet available.

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[CoffeeHorse]

+1 just for the title.

Starscream is every bird transformer ever, and doesn't interest me in the slightest. That Prime though. For something so bonkers, that is a remarkably slick transformation.

 

[Platypus Prime]

"Autobots! Transform and ROLL OUT!"
(Optimus turns into an Ox Cart and slowly begins to plod towards the battlefield. He arrives two weeks late.)

Meanwhile:
Megatron: "You've betrayed me for the last time, Starscream!"
(He carefully places a tanto, some paper, and a pen in front of Starscream, and then sits to wait quietly. It was, indeed, the last time.)

 

[Steadfast]

Optimus kind of reminds me of the transforming Woody from Toy Story who turned into a covered wagon, but a lot leas cheaty.

 

[Platypus Prime]

HAH! I just realized Starscream's arm cannon are now matchlock arquebuses!

 

[The Predaking]

I like the Optimus! That Starscream seems a bit small, but can't get one without the other. I will probably pass on this set due to Space issues and it's probably $80.

 

[GodSentinelOmega]

While the robot modes look pretty good. Optimus more than Starscream, as he ends looking way to spindly. The Ox and Cart mode just… doesn’t work in my brain. I love the idea of feudal era Transformers. But the execution just doesn’t sell it to me. I mean, they aren’t bad, just not for me.

Platypus’s quote says it all.