New Authentics product -- Mini Bot Racers, masks, Cyber Battlers
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The Soundwave (and I'm assuming Optimus Primal, although I didn't see him personally) Titan Changers are showing up at Dollar General as part of their big holiday toy reset.
Oh yeah, the Cybertron Battlers are also showing up at DG, in case you missed them last year at Five Below.
MIKE
engledogg
Oh yeah, the Cybertron Battlers are also showing up at DG, in case you missed them last year at Five Below.
MIKE
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A new Authentics toy...and it's NOT one the same half dozen characters? BLASPHEMY!
Chefatron got his hands on a new Bravo (aka, the big ones) Class Authentic Mirage figure. Sporting an F1 sports car mode, the figure transforms into our first look of his Evergreen robot design.
Also notable is that the packaging features the same info/detail icons we first saw on The Fallen's packaging. This new packaging style will probably apply to all "new for 2025" products.
Chefatron got his hands on a new Bravo (aka, the big ones) Class Authentic Mirage figure. Sporting an F1 sports car mode, the figure transforms into our first look of his Evergreen robot design.
Also notable is that the packaging features the same info/detail icons we first saw on The Fallen's packaging. This new packaging style will probably apply to all "new for 2025" products.
And because I don't know where else to put these and don't know if many will care any more about these than Authentics, in general, here are Hydropods.
Hydropods are a new Gacha/Surprise product that Hasbro is introducing to its IP range. In addition to Transformers, there will reportedly be Marvel and Star Wars offerings
Hydropods are a new Gacha/Surprise product that Hasbro is introducing to its IP range. In addition to Transformers, there will reportedly be Marvel and Star Wars offerings
Transformers Hydro Pods Optimus Prime and Megatron Aqua Armor Action Figures Official Images & Details
Hasbro gets in on the head games with these new Transformers Hydro Pods collectible battle toy figures. These things are made to setup your own head-to-head battles with the Megatron Aqua Armor. The .
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Those are so bizarre, but I kind of love them? Something about the heads floating in water tanks mounted into robot suits just hits in a very 1950's B-movie monster way that I find very appealing.And because I don't know where else to put these and don't know if many will care any more about these than Authentics, in general, here are Hydropods.
Hydropods are a new Gacha/Surprise product that Hasbro is introducing to its IP range. In addition to Transformers, there will reportedly be Marvel and Star Wars offerings
Transformers Hydro Pods Optimus Prime and Megatron Aqua Armor Action Figures Official Images & Details
Hasbro gets in on the head games with these new Transformers Hydro Pods collectible battle toy figures. These things are made to setup your own head-to-head battles with the Megatron Aqua Armor. The .tformers.com
Two thoughts on these:
1) They are totally missing the boat if they don't do a Straxus. A character who canonically spent a good portion of time as a head in a jar of goo.
2) I just now realized how these work after taking another look at the packaging. When you knock off the target/plug at the top, the water....evacuates out of the robots bottoms, dropping down the head. So not only do their heads disappear, but they also wet themselves.
1) They are totally missing the boat if they don't do a Straxus. A character who canonically spent a good portion of time as a head in a jar of goo.
2) I just now realized how these work after taking another look at the packaging. When you knock off the target/plug at the top, the water....evacuates out of the robots bottoms, dropping down the head. So not only do their heads disappear, but they also wet themselves.
After a couple of beasts to tie into Rise of the Beasts, Authentic Titan Changers are seeing a new evergreen release in Shockwave. Transforms from an imposing 11" robot to a "spaceship" in 6 steps that would make an Action Master Elite proud!
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Transformers Authentics Titan Changer Shockwave First Look
Via the official Hasbro Shop website, we have our first official images of the new Transformers Authentics Titan Changer Shockwave. This is an unexpected new Shockwave mold for the 11-inch easy-to-transform Authentics Titan Changers line. As we can see from the images, the figure got a nice...
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Between Hydro Pods and Swapticons, I'm reminded of that mid 2010s stretch when a bunch of side lines (Bot Shots, those Battle Masters rock em sock em type things, and Hero Mashers -- which is also back) littered the landscape.
And, huh. Here we are also mid-decade, a decade later.
I'd trade all of it to just have Botbots back, but that was a moment in time I know won't be the same. (Maybe we'll get another shot later this decade.)
And, huh. Here we are also mid-decade, a decade later.
I'd trade all of it to just have Botbots back, but that was a moment in time I know won't be the same. (Maybe we'll get another shot later this decade.)
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Hasbro has released official info on the next set of Authentics discount figures:
In Alpha (the big ones), Hasbro officially sent out details on Mirage. But on the Hasbro Shop site, Hasbro revealed a new Bravo (the small ones), Elita-1
Still feels like it might have started as an Arcee, IMO.
In Alpha (the big ones), Hasbro officially sent out details on Mirage. But on the Hasbro Shop site, Hasbro revealed a new Bravo (the small ones), Elita-1
Still feels like it might have started as an Arcee, IMO.
Interestingly, there WAS a Bravo class Arcee, with iirc an entirely different mold and transformation.
And looks about 5x better then this does.
Between WfC, Earthspark, Transformers One and now this, Elita seems to have fully graduated to being the current second defacto female character of the franchise.
Somewhere Windblade is quietly crying in a corner. She flew so high, like Icarus..
Somewhere Windblade is quietly crying in a corner. She flew so high, like Icarus..
The role seems to switch around every few years. During Prime it was Arcee, then Strongarm during RID 2015, then Windblade during the Prime Wars Trilogy and Cyberverse, and now Elita with all the ones you've listed above.
Strongarm only really got a spotlight in RiD so I wouldn't count her a defacto character. Windblade did hold the title for awhile, but as I said, she's been usurped by Elita-1.
Arcee, however, is the primary defacto female character that the others are secondary to. She even got an authentics figure before Elita-1.
Arcee, however, is the primary defacto female character that the others are secondary to. She even got an authentics figure before Elita-1.